Deepak Chopra
Analyst · CRT Capital
Thank you, Alan. And again, welcome to OSI Systems' earning conference call from the fourth quarter and full year fiscal 2012. And for you people, I just want to let you know London weather is fantastic. It's bright sunshine and it's great to be here.
As Alan discussed, our results in the fourth quarter were quite impressive as revenues increased 28% over prior year, prior quarter. Revenues for the year were $793 million, a -- 21% higher than fiscal 2011. The strong growth in revenues throughout the fiscal year led to operating margin expansion while we continued our significant investment in R&D to advance our technology leadership and expand our sales and service network in our core markets globally.
Based on non-GAAP measures, our fiscal 2012 diluted EPS was $2.51, which increased by 36% over the prior year. We're excited about the future as we would continue to leverage our performance and focus on market share growth in our core markets and make our presence felt in new markets with innovative solution offerings.
I would like to spend some time to discuss each of our business segments in more detail. Let's start with our Security division, Rapiscan, where revenues increased 33% in fiscal 2012 to approximately $392 million with a year-end backlog of over $900 million, a level almost 5x the amount with which we entered fiscal 2012. This dramatic growth in the backlog is no small part as a result of the multi-year turnkey services contract from Mexico's tax and customs authority that we announced in Q3 and which we will talk about more later.
The financial crisis in Europe and continued turmoil in the Middle East both pushed some of the expected orders until fiscal '13. We are very confident that we haven't lost any and look to capture them in 2013. With a strong backlog going into the year, we are in a position to have a very strong fiscal 2013.
Let's go over a few highlights in Q4 in our areas of focus in fiscal '13 for Security. During the fourth quarter, the RTT, or the Real Time Tomography hold baggage screening system passed the European Civil Aviation Conference, ECAC, Standard 3 threat detection test, the highest standard set by ECAC for the detection of explosive threats in passenger baggage. RTT can effectively screen up to 1,800 bags per hour, and this high rate of screening baggage is equivalent to the processing rate of a typical airport standard baggage handling systems. This allows the RTT to be installed what we call in-line in airports' existing baggage handling systems with less costly integration.
We're in the process of TSA certification in the U.S. market, which presents the largest opportunity as the TSA begins a cycle to replace the CT machines that were installed after 9/11. Much of the installed base is nearing the end of equipment life cycle. Given RTT's performance advantages and lower life cycle cost when compared with other alternatives, we believe we are well-positioned to capture significant market share in the CT-based hold baggage screening globally.
During Q4, we completed a significant portion of the U.S. Army contract for Entry Control Point solutions that we received under the $248 million Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity order, which helped contribute to a new record Q4 revenue for Rapiscan. With our broad portfolio of ruggedized inspection solutions and our integration capabilities, we received the majority of orders that have been awarded to date.
We expect the cargo scanning market to be one of our fastest-growing segments in the coming years, and we continue to gain customers and identify new opportunities domestically and outside of the U.S., especially in the emerging regions. During the quarter, we received several orders for our Eagle series mobile and fixed inspections systems from international customers. These systems continue to be favored for their comprehensive detection of threats, rugged operation in harsh environments and, in the case of the trailer-mounted and truck versions, the ability to move the system to a new location, allowing the customer to optimize its usage to address the evolving landscape of threats. In the fourth quarter, we announced that we received the Queen's Award for Enterprise in Innovation 2012 in U.K. for these cargo systems.
Traditionally, Rapiscan has focused on providing a broad portfolio of detection systems as we strive to offer customers a one-stop shopping experience. To that end, we're excited about our initial success with new turnkey services offering in Puerto Rico and Mexico and are optimistic about our discussions that are in progress with several new potential customers worldwide.
Our third site in Puerto Rico came online in April and started generating revenue. We believe the final site, which there was a small site, will be turned over to us by the customer for operations sometime this year.
In Mexico, we really hit the ground running. Given the program's importance and magnitude, we are utilizing the top talent within OSI to design, plan and execute in all facets of the program. We are very happy to report that all phases of the program are on track, and we expect to begin realizing revenue later part of this fiscal year.
And finally, we are talking to you from London, host of the 2012 Olympic Games. We are proud to be the exclusive provider of inspection systems for this event, continuing a long-standing tradition of providing security infrastructure at venues of major sporting events.
We enter the fiscal 2013 with a fantastically strong backlog and a strong pipeline, both domestic and international opportunities. Our products and our strategy are well timed with the dynamics of the Security marketplace.
Moving on to the Healthcare division, Spacelabs achieved sales of $73 million, an 18% increase from the prior year, with an operating margin of over 15%. For the year, Spacelabs' sales grew 10%. In addition to the continued recovery in the U.S. market, several major factors contributed to the stellar performance. One, we revamped our senior management and sales leadership earlier in the year, and we believe that this had a reenergizing impact throughout the sales and product development teams. We focused on strengthening our relationship with health care group purchasing organizations or GPOs. U.S. hospitals are increasingly using GPOs to manage the bidding process for capital equipment purchases. Recently, we signed 2 contracts with large GPOs, MedAssets and HPG group, that have combined impact on over $60 billion of annual spending. These GPO relationships have already paid dividends and are expected to have a continuing strong impact in fiscal '13 and beyond.
Our new patient monitoring platform, the XPREZZON, has been very well received as it provides compelling features wrapped in an easy-to-use interface and delivers enhanced data communications with an open system architecture.
As I mentioned, U.S. hospitals have started to accelerate investments in upgrading and expanding this infrastructure. In addition to XPREZZON, our recently introduced products should have a global impact that are particularly well suited for the U.S. market with new offerings such as Arkon anesthesia delivery workstation and Sentinel Cardiology Information Management System. We are very optimistic about capturing market share with Arkon in anesthesia, which we intend to officially launch in Q2. As Spacelabs delivers the highest contribution margin of our 3 businesses with top line increase, we achieve significant operating leverage.
Moving to the Opto division. The fourth quarter, Optoelectronics generated revenues of $56 million, a slight increase from the prior year. For the full year 2012, revenues were $211 million or a 9% increase from fiscal 2011. We continue to gain new customers in the U.S. and globally who seek a proven OEM electronics provider that is flexible in handling product volume, has the global network for sourcing and manufacturing and can support them throughout the product life cycle. Though the sales growth in the quarter -- final quarter was slower than the previous quarters, we are very optimistic about strong sales growth in Opto for the fiscal 2013.
We ended fiscal 2012 with a backlog exceeding $1 billion, a 200% increase over the prior year and yet another Q4 record. Starting fiscal 2013, with a record backlog, recently introduced products in Security and Healthcare, great traction in turnkey services and a healthy opportunity pipeline across all our businesses, we look forward to delivering continued growth in revenues and profits in the coming year. With that, I'm going to hand the call back over to Alan to talk in detail about our financial performance and guidance before opening the call for questions. Thank you.