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Omnicell, Inc. (OMCL)

Q3 2016 Earnings Call· Sat, Oct 29, 2016

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Operator

Operator

Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. My name is Karen, and I will be your conference operator today. At this time I would like to welcome everyone to the Omnicell Third Quarter Earnings Call. [Operator Instructions] I would now like to turn today's call over to Mr. Peter Kuipers, Chief Financial Officer. Please go ahead, sir.

Peter Kuipers

Analyst

Thank you. Good afternoon and welcome to the Omnicell third quarter results conference call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. Later we will conduct a question-and-answer session, and instructions will follow at that time. Joining me today is Randall Lipps, Omnicell Founder, Chairman, President, and CEO. This call will include forward-looking statements subject to risks, uncertainties, and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied. For a more detailed description of the risks that impact these forward-looking statements, please refer to the information in our press release today; in the Omnicell annual report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC on February 26, 2016; and in other more recent reports filed with the SEC. Please be aware that you should not place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements made today. The day of this conference call is October 27, 2016, and all forward-looking statements made on this call are made based on the beliefs of Omnicell as of this date only. Future events or simply the passage of time may cause these beliefs to change. Finally, this conference call is the property of Omnicell, Inc., and any taping, audio duplication, or rebroadcast without the express written consent of Omnicell, Inc., is prohibited. Randall will first cover an update on our business. Then I will cover our results for the third quarter of 2016. Following our prepared remarks, we will take your questions. Our third quarter financial results are, as usual, included in our earnings announcement, which was released earlier today and it's also posted in the investor relations section of our website at omnicell.com. Our prepared remarks will also be posted in the same section. Let me turn the call over to Randall.

Randall Lipps

Analyst

Thanks, Peter, and good afternoon, everyone. We are pleased to discuss our third quarter results. I'm very proud of the performance, which continues on our consistent track record over the past several years. I am pleased to report record quarterly non-GAAP revenue of $179 million for the third quarter of 2016, representing a 2% sequential and a 43% year-over-year growth. Our top-line results are in the middle of the revenue guidance that we provided for the quarter. Together with good gross margin, operating expense, and integration execution, this revenue strength resulted in non-GAAP EPS of $0.40 for the quarter. Bookings momentum for new and competitive conversions continues to be strong, driven by our award-winning, differentiated products. As mentioned on our prior earnings call, with the acquisition of Aesynt, Omnicell has gained an additional 10% of the automation and analytics market. On a combined basis, new and competitive conversions accounted for approximately 34% of year-to-date automation and analytics bookings. We believe that the year-to-date new account strength and our strong combined installed customer base gives us a robust platform for future growth, driven by expansion, replacement, and upgrade sales, as well as cross-selling opportunities across our product portfolio. Our integration of Aesynt has been progressing very well. In the second quarter, we integrated the sales and field teams in North America to provide one face and contact to the customer. And later in that quarter, we realigned other functions. As part of this integration, we had a modest reduction in headcount in early April. We have now moved our integration efforts to focus on process integration as well as the development of a combined product roadmap. We are confident that the combined product development teams will continue to bring industrial leading and award-winning products to market to best serve our customers.…

Peter Kuipers

Analyst

Thank you, Randall. I will discuss a summary of our third quarter financial results and our guidance for the full year. Our third quarter 2016 GAAP revenue of $177 million was up 41% from the same quarter last year and up 2% sequentially. The strength in revenue is driven by both expansion and upgrades at existing customers as well as by new and competitive conversion customers. We continue to see particular strength of the combined product portfolio to enable strategic, tailored, and scalable solutions for customers. Earnings per share in accordance with GAAP were $0.05, which is down from $0.22 of earnings per share in the third quarter of 2015. GAAP gross margin was at 46% for the quarter. In addition to GAAP financial results, we reported our results on a non-GAAP basis, which excludes stock compensation expense and amortization of intangible assets associated with acquisitions. It also excludes one-time acquisition-related expenses and the acquisition accounting impacts related to deferred revenue and inventory fair value adjustments. We use non-GAAP financial statements in addition to GAAP financial statements because we believe it's useful for investors to understand acquisition amortization-related costs and non-cash stock compensation expenses that are components of our reported results, as well as one-time events, such as the gain on the Avantec investment in 2015 and the one-time acquisition related expenses. A full reconciliation of our GAAP to non-GAAP results is included in our third quarter earnings press release and is posted on our website. Our third quarter 2016 non-GAAP revenues of $179 million were up 43% from the same quarter last year and up 2% sequentially. On a non-GAAP basis, earnings per share were $0.40 in the third quarter 2016, up $0.04 or up 12% from the same quarter last year and up $0.02 sequentially. Non-GAAP gross margin…

Operator

Operator

[Operator Instructions] Your first question comes from the line of Mohan Naidu of Oppenheimer.

Mohan Naidu

Analyst

Thanks for taking my questions. Randy, on the market share gains that you talked about, can you update us on where you are in terms of market share in the automation segment in the U.S.?

Randall Lipps

Analyst

I believe in most recent survey that was done independently by the Association of Hospital Pharmacists, it showed us at right at 40%. Obviously, we have a lot of customers in backlog who have it installed who are not represented in that number. So we think it's north of 40%.

Peter Kuipers

Analyst

Yes. Similar to what we have said previously and that still holds as we look at the data. So we were 30% of the market before the Aesynt acquisition, then Aesynt was 10%, gets to 40%. And looking at our competitive conversions and competitive wins, we are on track this year to gain about 2% market share. And we are tracking to that trend. So by the end of the year, we should be roughly around to 42% market share.

Mohan Naidu

Analyst

Got it, got it. And if you look at the U.S. market right now, how do you see as the market that is prime for upgrading to G4 or the latest version, either from you guys or from your competitor? In other words, I'm looking at what kind of a mix of hospitals are going to look to replace their automated medication management solutions in the next 3 to 5 years?

Randall Lipps

Analyst

I think every hospital system is on its own path of upgrade if you will. And obviously Omnicell has a great reputation of getting the best value of our products by allowing our customers to keep the majority of their systems in place in doing the G4 console upgrade. But as we move forward, we think that when you combine that with the Aesynt base and our product roadmap into the future which frankly we're going to discuss more in detail at our December major tradeshow at ASHP, we are really going to be able to give customers a lot of choice on the avenues that they can take. And we've really been able to, in some ways, accelerate some of the choices that we can give customers beyond what we've originally thought. So it really puts us in a great position with our entire customer base to move them along to more technologically advanced systems, with more technologically advanced backend systems that connect to the Performance Center. So we've got a lot of very exciting things going on, and we look forward to sharing it with everybody in December.

Mohan Naidu

Analyst

That sounds great. Thank you very much for taking my questions.

Peter Kuipers

Analyst

Thank you, Mohan.

Operator

Operator

Your next question comes from the line of Sean Wieland, Piper Jaffray.

Sean Wieland

Analyst

So you ended the call talking about some 2016 items and one of them was $10 million of integration expense. So do I hear you correctly that that's $10 million of expenses that we can essentially take out of the model for 2017?

Peter Kuipers

Analyst

No. So we have talked in earlier earnings calls that we expect the integration to be two years. And we expect to have a similar amount of integration cost that we do not adjust for in non-GAAP also next year. The composition or the nature of the components of that cost is a little bit different in the second year. It will mostly focus on the IT systems implementations that I've talked about.

Sean Wieland

Analyst

Okay. And then it goes away in 2018?

Peter Kuipers

Analyst

Yes, so we're trying to get to the run rate again of 15% in non-GAAP operating margin as we end 2017.

Sean Wieland

Analyst

Okay. Thanks. And so in the automation and analytics segment, I know you guys hate to do this, but we have to ask. Can you talk about what the organic growth is from both the core business as well as the organic growth within Aesynt? And then maybe the third category is what's the – what kind of juice are you getting from the combination of the two? And what kind of organic growth could we expect going forward in that segment?

Peter Kuipers

Analyst

So a couple of questions there. So next week we will file our – or two weeks maybe file our 10-Q. And one of the footnotes there in the quarterly report is the organic revenue calculation, if you will. And you can look at the 10-Q from last quarter and the quarter before that, the one that we will file in the coming weeks will show a 6% organic growth rate on an apples-to-apples basis when comparing 2016 to 2015. So when you talk about organic growth rates, of course, G4, the console upgrade – we are roughly at an 85% upgrade percentage of the installed base. So that creates a little bit of headwind, if you will, as we are more to the tail end of kind of the natural cycle of that product, if you will. From an organic growth rate perspective, one of the reasons for the acquisition besides getting to a combined product roadmap with the best products in the industry was really also the existing account base. At a sense, that has a fairly aged average installed equipment base.

Randall Lipps

Analyst

So there is a lot of opportunity there. I would also say that, well, the organic growth rate is a little bit below what we like to run at. The bookings rate in our guidance is double digits.

Peter Kuipers

Analyst

Strong, strong double digits.

Randall Lipps

Analyst

Strong double digits. I'd say – well, we're double digits. I don't know exactly if it's 12, 15. So we are feeling like we are getting great value out of having both companies together, having both product lines, having a broader product line to take a larger customer base. And we are just getting into doing a lot better job at cross-selling as we've gotten in toward the end of the year here.

Sean Wieland

Analyst

That's great. Thank you very much.

Randall Lipps

Analyst

Thank you.

Operator

Operator

Your next question comes from the line of Jamie Stockton of Wells Fargo.

Jamie Stockton

Analyst

Thanks for taking my question. I guess, Randy, the Performance Center that you talked about launching recently, it sounds like that is a platform to try to drive deeper penetration of your analytical solutions with some of your customers. I guess maybe, first, is that the right way to think about it? And then secondly, can you help us understand in a quantitative way how penetrated are your various analytical solutions? Any feel for what the opportunity is with the average customer? Any metrics like that will be great.

Randall Lipps

Analyst

This goes way beyond analytics. This goes to the point of not running the systems for customers, but standing behind them to make sure that we don't – nothing big gets missed. And this has really come out of my personal frustration and going into the current customer account has been with us for five or 10 years and not having some of the best features turned on that provide the highest amount of safety, or highest cost return, or better regulatory compliance. And generally over time what happens in hospitals as these systems have gotten more complicated, they just got more difficult to run because of turnover of people, or the lack of training, or the difficulty of keeping the customer engaged. So this is a whole new process. Only less than four or five customers in the country have actually had this system turned on. Every single customer we have is available for this new service. And it's not – and I purposely did not use I don't really like the word analytics, because it doesn't really – everybody's got a lot of reports and a lot of data and so we want performance. We want the systems running at top performance. We want operations at pharmacies running at top performance. So we will have people backing up the systems, most likely in a remote location, monitoring systems to keeping everything running at the highest level and saving money every day in a real-time basis.

Jamie Stockton

Analyst

Is there any way to quantify how much you guys feel like you could do with a typical client facility-wise?

Randall Lipps

Analyst

I think we'll talk about that in December a little bit more as we talk about kind of where we see the evolution of the product. But we think it's a powerful enough thing that it's not – it is not like a reporting package, where you're getting $50,000 to $100,000. It's more significant than that. More on the SaaS model.

Peter Kuipers

Analyst

Multiyear, multimillion dollar contracts.

Randall Lipps

Analyst

Yes.

Jamie Stockton

Analyst

Okay, that's great. Thank you.

Operator

Operator

[Operator Instructions] Your next question comes from the line of Matt Hewitt of Craig-Hallum Capital.

Charlie Haff

Analyst

Hey, this is Charlie on for Matt. I just wanted to ask a little bit about the health of hospital spending right now as you see it in the market place.

Randall Lipps

Analyst

Yes, I think it changes pretty slowly. I think it's the smaller standalones are – I think probably smaller hospitals or standalone hospitals struggle a little more. I think you see the power of the larger, integrated systems, their ability to funnel more patients and treat them across the continuum of care, which is very important with value-based pricing coming out. And they are positioned fairly well. But I think they're all – everyone is still cautious. There's some changing – there's a lot of changes being proposed, and CMS and some of the Affordable Care Act pieces have still to come in place. And so I would just say people are cautious about the go-forward. But interesting enough, one of the biggest topics in hospital discussions – in fact I'm at a conference as we speak, and the main topic is medication spend: how they manage it, how to get control, about what to do in Washington, outpatient versus inpatient. This is just not a cost center anymore; this is the strategic area where hospitals need to manage in order to – or providers need to manage in order to be successful. And so it really helps us to bring solutions that can really drive real dollars to the bottom line for these groups.

Charlie Haff

Analyst

Sure. And as you guys are providing value for your customers, is MACRA being finalized in the last couple of weeks here – is that something that your sales force is going to market with, and kind of presenting, like, hey, we can help you along those lines? Or are we kind of waiting for it to develop?

Peter Kuipers

Analyst

I think we always have, Charlie.

Charlie Haff

Analyst

Sure.

Peter Kuipers

Analyst

And our products really help with that, of course, and it helps also drive efficiency and controlling our drug spend.

Randall Lipps

Analyst

Yes. Well, it's really interesting and I think a lot of people have derived value over it. But with the Performance Center, we see people getting maybe 50%, 60% of the value of our systems in the data they have and we can double it with the Performance Center. And that's a real – we think it's a competitive differentiator and we just think it's the right thing to partner with hospitals. It's really what resonates with the C-suite and it's the one thing that always works in healthware, which is how to lower the cost. We are not going to win unless we lower the cost. And medication management is in some ways out of control. And bringing in the Performance Center will move mountains for these facilities. So we are excited about it.

Charlie Haff

Analyst

Okay, thank you.

Operator

Operator

And your last question comes from the line of Mitra Ramgopal of Sidoti.

Mitra Ramgopal

Analyst

Good afternoon. First, I was wondering if you are seeing customers sort of delaying getting onto G4, thinking they might as well wait for G5, since it's probably going to be coming out over the next year or two?

Randall Lipps

Analyst

I'd say that we have started having the bigger long-term discussion about the long-term product roadmap with customers. And that definitely has given them broader choices to make. And I would just say that they are excited about the roadmap. I think they are encouraged by the roadmap, that we are not going to suddenly stop supporting them or force them to do something without giving them a little time. But we have started having those discussions, and we are already seeing an impact – a slight impact on the way purchasing habits and the way customers are going to do their strategic buys with us in the future. So a lot of this has to do with the fact that we have actually probably accelerated some of our development faster than we thought we could. And it's really opened up a large opportunity for us to really go to some of the largest customers and give them great opportunities to step up.

Mitra Ramgopal

Analyst

Okay, thanks. And then quickly, I know you mentioned you expect to continue to take market share in the U.S. I was wondering if you would give a sense in terms of what you're seeing on the international front. I know it's obviously a number of regions or different countries, but any overall thoughts in terms of your ability to win business there?

Randall Lipps

Analyst

Yes, I think we are definitely continuing to win business, particularly in the UK. I think with Brexit there, that that's kind of frozen some of the decision-making. I don't think we will lose the deals or we won't get them, but definitely we have seen a little weakness there. But we think that as things fill out that those choices, those orders will continue to come through. I think in the Middle East, we still see strength there. France has never been fast, but it's been pretty steady and we continue to see orders from there. But you know, on the med adherence side of the business, we've been working very hard on some new products there as well. We've already launched the software-only packaging product that allows pharmacists to use software to help them manage the packaging of our SureMed cards. We are working on a series of products starting to small footprint, medium footprint and I can't believe anybody didn't ask me a question about the M5000, and the M5000 at the high end. And we will probably be showing but not launching an actual product in December on the small footprint side. So a lot of activities there. And I think with – we just have a lot of product coming into the marketplace that just – it's going to give us a great opportunity as we move into 2017.

Mitra Ramgopal

Analyst

Okay, thanks again.

Operator

Operator

There are no further questions at this time.

Randall Lipps

Analyst

Well, I just want to thank everybody for joining us today. As you can tell, a lot of things are going on at Omnicell and we've got a lot of great things to talk about in the coming months. I'm really extremely proud of the team on the Aesynt acquisition has just – it's gone really above our expectations, and it really is hats off to the folks who worked so hard to make it happen. And even our ability to invest and fund, and accelerate R&D is fun to watch because we are able to make a difference for our customers. And as you can tell, I'm excited about the Performance Center. So I hope to see a lot of the investors or at least all the analysts at ASHP so that we can tell you more about it. Thanks for joining with us today.

Peter Kuipers

Analyst

Thanks, everyone.

Operator

Operator

This does conclude today's conference call. All participants may now disconnect.