Alan I. Edrick
Analyst · Roth Capital Partners
Thank you, Deepak. Our continued focus on driving higher margin growth initiatives and operating improvements has succeeded in delivering significant earnings. I'll speak to our fiscal '14 guidance shortly, but first, let me review in more detail the financial results for the first quarter of this fiscal year. Our net revenues in the quarter, the first quarter of fiscal '14, increased 14% versus Q1 last year. Sales from our Security division increased 17% over the same quarter last year as revenues from our Mexico turnkey contract replaced last year's significant contribution in Q1 from the London Olympics. Our Opto division continued its strong top line momentum with 25% year-over-year sales growth as a result of continued success in broadening our customer base, both organically and by way of acquisition. Opto division's organic sales in the quarter was approximately 12% over the first quarter in the previous fiscal year. The strength in our Security and Opto offset the disappointing revenues in the Healthcare division, which as Deepak described, are down 11% from the same period in the previous fiscal year. The Q1 gross margin of 32.9% was slightly below the same quarter last year. This reflects the change in the revenue mix where our highest gross margin division, Healthcare, saw sales contraction, and there was significant sales growth in our lowest gross margin division, Opto. The combination of these 2 factors places pressure on the overall consolidated gross margin. Moving to OpEx. We leveraged the strong sales growth as Q1 SG&A as a percentage of sales decreased 1.5% year-over-year, though in absolute dollars, these expenses increased $2.3 million to support the 14% sales growth. All of our divisions continue to work to increase efficiencies and manage the cost structure. We continue to invest significant resources in R&D to enhance our security and healthcare product offerings. Our R&D spending of approximately $11 million was roughly the same as the prior year quarter. We focus our efforts on innovative products and technologies to add value to both our security and healthcare product offerings and to enhance future growth. We are seeing the results of these efforts in a number of new products that are being released. Restructuring and other charges were $4.2 million in the quarter, primarily related to the move of our Healthcare division and its new headquarters, which as Deepak mentioned, not only should facilitate growth but is expected to result in substantial cost savings over many years. The move was completed in 2 phases. The first of which occurred in our fourth quarter of fiscal '13, and the second of which was completed in Q1 of this fiscal year. In addition, we incurred charges associated with an Opto facility consolidation and in our Security divisions. These charges are excluded from our non-GAAP EPS. Our effective tax rate for Q1 was 29%. Our provision for income taxes is dependent on the mix of income from U.S. and foreign locations due to tax rate differences among countries, as well as the impact of permanent taxable differences, tax elections and valuation allowances, amongst other items. Sales growth and margin expansion led to non-GAAP EPS per diluted share for the quarter of $0.46, excluding restructuring and other charges, as compared to $0.31 in the comparable prior year period, which represents a 48% increase. The GAAP EPS, including these restructuring and other charges, was $0.31. Moving to the view of our operating margin by division, excluding restructuring and other charges. Our Security division reported an operating margin of 13.6% for the first fiscal quarter compared to 5.4% for the same period a year ago driven by strong year-over-year sales growth and significantly stronger turnkey sales as Mexico was ramping up. While the operating margin was sequentially down, this was primarily due to increased depreciation as adjusted EBITDA margins improved over both Q3 and Q4 of the prior year. In Opto, we experienced increasing operating profits. So a lower operating margin due to the product mix, specifically a significantly higher proportion of sales occurring in the contract manufacturing side of the division, which carries lower gross margins than the core Optoelectronics business. Further, there was little bottom line contribution from the businesses acquired in Q1, which are expected to be nicely accretive as they are integrated during this fiscal year. Finally, in Healthcare, we went from a 7.5% operating margin, excluding restructuring and other charges, to essentially 0%. This change is almost entirely a function of the top line. As you may recall, this is our highest contribution margin business, and thus, the bottom line is extremely sensitive to revenue increases and decreases. Let's move to cash flow. As we mentioned on past quarterly calls, we expected to see significant volatility in cash flow primarily as a result of the Mexico turnkey program. Our cash flow from operations in the first quarter of this year was $6 million. Capital expenditures were $8 million for the quarter. Depreciation and amortization totaled $12.9 million, which is an increase of approximately $8 million from the first fiscal quarter of 2013, which is primarily related to the ramp-up of our Mexico turnkey program. We expect the current business could generate significant cash flow in the future with most of the initial CapEx spending on Mexico behind us by the end of this fiscal year. A few balance sheet changes and cash flow items that we think are worthy of mention include our days sales outstanding, or our DSO. They increased over the prior year primarily due to an increasing portion of our sales occurring outside the U.S. Our experience has been that international customers typically take longer to pay. Partially offsetting the rise in DSO was an increase in days payable outstanding. This metric may fluctuate significantly from period to period. Included in our AR were unbilled receivables of $47 million as of September 30. This amount was billed and fully collected in October, subsequent to quarter end. As a result, we anticipate a reduction in DSO as of the end of Q2. Our inventory balances increased, supporting the anticipated sales growth. Included within our prepaid expenses and other current assets is approximately $20 million of receivables for VAT, or value-added tax. Though this amount will fluctuate from period to period, we expect it to reduce substantially in fiscal '14, and therefore, represent a source of additional cash flow this year. Customer advances. As you will recall, we received $100 million customer advance associated with the Mexico turnkey program. This advance amortizes ratably over 4 years. There is no P&L impact associated with this amortization. Customer advances associated with this contract are expected to decrease approximately $25 million a year beginning in '14, fiscal '14. And we repurchased approximately $9 million in stock in the quarter, including net settlements. Our attractively priced credit facility provides great flexibility to execute our business plans. Finally, turning to our fiscal '14 guidance. With the strength in our Opto and Security businesses, along with the small recently completed acquisitions, we are increasing our revenue guidance for fiscal 2014 to $875 million to $905 million, representing 9% to 13% year-over-year growth. We generally provide overall company guidance rather than guidance by division or program. We anticipate our non-GAAP diluted earnings per share to be $3.24 to $3.39 per share, excluding impairment, restructuring and other charges for fiscal '14, representing 17% to 23% growth on a non-GAAP basis over fiscal '13. During the past several years, we have transformed our company, and as a result, we have consistently delivered a strong bottom line. The investments we have made have enabled us to be the leader in turnkey screening solutions and to continue to innovate to bring new products and services to market. We believe we are well positioned for continued strong growth in the coming years, and we look forward to sharing our progress on upcoming calls. Thank you for listening to this conference call. And at this time, we would like to open the call to questions.