Gerry Haines
Analyst · Michael French from Drexel Hamilton. Your line is open
Thanks Andrew. Good afternoon everyone, and thank you for joining us. With me today is our President and Chief Executive Officer, Mark Aslett. If you have not received a copy of the earnings press release we issued earlier this afternoon, you can find it on our website at mrcy.com. We would like to remind you that remarks that we may make during this call about future expectations, trends, and plans for the company and its business constitute forward-looking statements as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. You can identify these statements by use of the words may, will, could, should, would, plans, expects, anticipates, continue, estimate, project, intend, likely, forecast, probable, potential, assumes and other similar expressions. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected or anticipated. Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to continued funding of defense programs; the timing of such funding, general economic and business conditions, including unforeseen weakness in the company’s markets; effects of geopolitical unrest and regional conflicts; competition; changes in technology and methods of marketing; delays in completing engineering and manufacturing programs; changes in customer order patterns; changes in product mix; continued success in technological advances and delivering technological innovations; changes in or in the U.S. government’s interpretation of federal procurement rules and regulations; market acceptance of the company’s products; shortages in components; production delays or unanticipated expenses due to performance quality issues with outsourced components; inability to fully realize the expected benefits from acquisitions and restructurings or delays in realizing such benefits; challenges in integrating acquired businesses and achieving anticipated synergies; changes to export regulations; increases in tax rates; changes to generally accepted accounting principles; difficulties in retaining key employees and customers; unanticipated costs under fixed price service or systems integration engagements and various other factors beyond our control. These risks and uncertainties also include such additional risk factors as are discussed in the company’s filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2015. The company cautions readers not to place undue reliance upon any such forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date made. The company undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statement to reflect events or circumstances arising after the date on which such statement is made. I would also like to mention that in addition to reporting financial results in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, or GAAP, during our call, we will also discuss several non-GAAP financial measures, specifically adjusted EBITDA, adjusted income from continuing operations, adjusted earnings per share or EPS, and free cash flow. We are including adjusted income from continuing operations and adjusted EPS because Mercury now uses these non-GAAP metrics for decision making purposes and as a means to make period-to-period comparisons and evaluate the financial results in this core business. They believe adjusted EPS provides meaningful supplemental information regarding the performance of our core business. Adjusted EPS excludes amortization of intangible assets, restructuring and other charges, impairment of long-lived assets, acquisition and financing costs, fair value adjustments from purchase accounting, litigation and settlement expenses, and stock-based compensation expense, as well as the tax impacted those items from GAAP income from continuing operations. This yields adjusted income for continuing operations, which is then expressed on a per share amount base - as a per share amount based on weighted average diluted shares outstanding. In addition to the exclusions for adjusted income from continuing operations, adjusted EBITDA also excludes depreciation, interest income and expense and income taxes. Free cash flow excludes capital expenditures from cash flows from operating activities. A reconciliation of adjusted EBITDA and adjusted income from continuing operations to GAAP income from continuing operations and adjusted EPS to GAAP EPS from continuing operations and finally free cash flow to GAAP cash flows from operation is included in the earnings press release we issued this afternoon. With that, I'll turn the call over to Mercury's President and CEO, Mark Aslett.