Alan I. Edrick
Analyst · Stephens Inc
Good morning, and thank you for joining us. I'm Alan Edrick, Executive Vice President and CFO of OSI Systems. And I'm here today with Deepak Chopra, our President and CEO; Ajay Mehra, President of our Security division, Rapiscan Systems; and Victor Sze, our General Counsel. Welcome to the OSI Systems Third Quarter Fiscal 2013 Conference Call. We'd like to extend a special welcome to anyone who is a first-time participant on our conference calls. Earlier today, we issued a press release announcing our third quarter fiscal 2013 financial results. Before we discuss our financial and operational highlights, I'd like to read the following statement. In connection with this conference call, the company wishes to take advantage of the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, with respect to statements that may be deemed to be forward-looking statements under the act. Such forward-looking statements could include general or specific comments by company officers on this call about future company performance, as well as certain responses by company officers to questions posed about future operating matters. The company wishes to caution participants on this call that numerous factors could cause actual results to differ materially from any forward-looking statements made by the company or its officers. These factors include the risk factors set forth in the company's last annual report on Form 10-K and other SEC filings. Any forward-looking statements made on this call speak only as of the date of this call, and the company undertakes no obligation to revise or to update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, subsequent events, future results or otherwise. During today's call, we may refer to both GAAP and non-GAAP financial measures of the company's operating and financial results. For information regarding non-GAAP measures and comparable GAAP measures and a quantitative reconciliation of those figures, please refer to today's press release, which has been furnished to the SEC as an exhibit to a current report on Form 8-K. Before turning the call over to Deepak to discuss the business in more detail, I will provide a high-level overview of our financial performance. We will again touch on several themes that we discussed during past conference calls. Highlights for our third quarter of fiscal '13 are as follows: First, despite a challenging macro environment, we again reported record Q3 earnings, as we experienced significant expansion of our gross and our operating margins, leading to earnings per diluted share of $0.74 excluding restructuring and other charges. This marks the 15th consecutive quarter in which we have generated double-digit year-over-year non-GAAP EPS growth. Second, the record earnings were especially noteworthy given that Q3 sales were down. Strong operating margins from our Security business, including turnkey screening services and diligent cost management, which has been a hallmark of our financial management, again paved the way to significant earnings growth. From a top line point of view, we had an extremely difficult comp. Last year's Q3 sales growth of 19% was driven in large part by $42 million in sales from our $98 million U.S. Army entry control point systems integration contract. As a result, we saw an 11% decrease in sales in Security in Q3. However, excluding the impact from this large contract, OSI sales increased 18% over last quarter, and our Security division grew 41% in Q3 of fiscal '13. Our opto division continued the strong revenue momentum it has displayed throughout this year, posting 10% growth. The Healthcare division results were again less than expected. You will recall that in our December quarter, Healthcare sales were down 5% due primarily to a significant decrease in EMEA sales. We believe last quarter's EMEA sales were an anomaly, and that seems to have been the case as they increased slightly in Q3 year-over-year. However, we experienced softness in North America and the emerging markets, which led to a 9% overall decrease in revenues. We will speak more to this later in the call. Third, our bookings were very strong in both opto and Security. Our backlog is over $1 billion, which is comparable to the amount as of December 31, 2012, and provides very good visibility for both divisions over the next year. And finally, our multi-year Mexico turnkey program continues to ramp up nicely, and we remain on track to meet the timelines discussed on our last call. We are very pleased with how the turnkey strategy has unfolded, and with the large majority of the project CapEx investment behind us, we expect our current business can generate significant free cash flow over the next 12 months and beyond. Although the top line was challenging in Q3, we are pleased to report another strong quarter of bottom line performance, and we remain very enthusiastic about our future. Over the past 5 years, we've been focused on expanding our operating margins, and the results of fiscal '13 to date again show strong growth on this goal. I will provide additional financial details and will discuss our fourth quarter guidance, but first, let me turn the call over to Deepak.