Alan I. Edrick
Analyst · CRT Capital
Thank you, Deepak. Our continued focus on driving growth initiatives has succeeded in delivering significant revenues and earnings. I'll speak to our updated fiscal '14 guidance shortly, but first, let me review in more detail the financial results for the second quarter of the fiscal year. As I said earlier, our net revenues in the second quarter of fiscal '14 increased 22% versus Q2 last year. Sales from our Security division increased 16% over the same quarter last year, led by the year-over-year growth in turnkey services revenue. Our Opto Division continued its strong top line momentum, with 33% year-over-year sales growth for the quarter as a result of continued success in broadening our customer base, both organically and by way of acquisition. Opto Division's organic sales growth in the quarter was 24% over the second quarter in the previous fiscal year. Opto also benefited in Q2 from the demand of certain large customers, which was unusually high. And following a few tougher quarters, our Healthcare Division bounced back, growing 12% over the same period in the previous fiscal year, driven by sales increases in the U.S. and Europe. We scaled up manufacturing for our new anesthesia delivery system, Arkon, in the quarter, recognized some revenues and expect Arkon sales to accelerate over the remainder of fiscal '14. The Q2 gross margin of 34.2% represents a sequential increase from Q1 that was below the same quarter last year. As sales in our lowest gross margin division, Opto, increased 33%, this placed pressure on our consolidated margins. I will also speak later to our Opto operating margins. Moving to OpEx. Q2 SG&A as a percentage of sales increased slightly year-over-year. As you know from our past conference calls, we are typically able to leverage our sales growth to result in SG&A growing at a slower rate than sales. However, this quarter included higher professional fees, including legal and consulting, and higher bad debt expense in our Opto Division. All of our divisions remain committed to increasing efficiencies and managing the cost structure. We continued to invest significant resources in R&D to enhance both our Security and Healthcare product offerings. Our R&D spending of approximately $11 million was roughly at the same level as our first quarter of fiscal '14. We focus our efforts on innovative products and technologies to add value to our product offerings and to enhance future growth. We are seeing the results of these efforts in a number of new products that have been and are being released. Restructuring and other charges were $2.2 million in the quarter, primarily related to costs incurred in our Security division stemming from issues related to the TSA that Deepak discussed earlier and charges associated with an Opto facility consolidation. These charges are excluded from our non-GAAP EPS. Our effective tax rate for Q2 remained at 29%. Our provision for income taxes is dependent on the mix of income from U.S. and foreign locations due to tax rate differences amongst countries, as well as the impact of permanent taxable differences, tax elections and valuation allowances, among other items. The result of the items just discussed were record Q2 non-GAAP EPS per diluted share of $0.78 as compared to $0.70 in the comparable prior year period, excluding impairment, restructuring and other charges. Our GAAP EPS was $0.71. Let's move to a view of our operating margin, excluding impairment, restructuring and other charges. The overall OSI operating margin improved sequentially but was down year-over-year. This was primarily due to increased depreciation, as adjusted EBITDA margins increased over the prior year. Our Security division reported an operating margin of 15.8% for the second fiscal quarter compared to 12.3% for the same period a year ago, or an increase of 350 basis points. This margin performance was driven by overall strong year-over-year sales growth and significantly higher turnkey sales as Mexico was ramping up. Our Healthcare Division also experienced operating margin expansion as margins increased 220 basis points to 14.6%. This was a result of leveraging our cost structure on 12% sales growth. Finally, while our Opto Division experienced outstanding sales growth, the bottom line was challenged. Factors impacting Opto's operating income included an increase of approximately 800k in bad debt expense, additional costs as we integrate the 2 acquisitions completed in Q1 and certain customer sales coming in at a much lower profitability level than the division expected. The lower operating margin was also impacted by the product mix. Specifically, a significantly higher proportion of sales occurred in the contract manufacturing side of the division, which carries lower gross margins than the core Optoelectronics business. We have taken steps to improve efficiencies in the Opto Division, and we expect this to result in improvements in the future. Moving to cash flow. As we mentioned on past quarterly calls, we expected to see volatility in cash flow, primarily as a result of the Mexico turnkey program. While cash flow was light in our first quarter, it was strong in our second quarter. Cash flow from operations in Q2 was $69 million, our second-highest operating cash flow quarter ever. Capital expenditures were $34 million for the quarter and consisted primarily of the continued ramp-up in our Mexico turnkey program, the build for our new Albania program and the acquisition and expansion of our cargo manufacturing facility. Depreciation and amortization totaled $13.5 million, which is an increase of approximately $7.6 million from the second quarter of 2013, which is primarily related to the ramp-up of our Mexico turnkey program. A few balance sheet changes and cash flow items that are worthy of mention include our days sales outstanding, or more commonly referred to as DSO. As mentioned on our last call, we anticipated a reduction in DSO at the end of Q2. We achieved this, as DSO was 63 days compared to 91 days at the end of Q1 and 83 days at the end of our past fiscal year. This change was in large part due to the strong collections in our Mexico program. Our unbilled receivables declined from $45 million at September 30 to $3 million at December 31. Our level of DSO will fluctuate from period to period. Our inventory balances decreased in the quarter as the focus on improving turns paid dividends, though this metric, too, can fluctuate significantly from period to period. Customer advances. As you will recall, we received a $100 million customer advance associated with the Mexico turnkey program. This advance amortizes over 4 years and is currently expected to decrease approximately $25 million per year from fiscal '14 through fiscal '17. There is no P&L impact associated with this amortization. Our deferred revenue increased approximately $31 million in Q2 due to strong receipts in advance of revenue recognition. And we also reduced our revolver borrowings by $19 million in the quarter. Our balance sheet is strong, and our leverage ratio is well below 1. Our attractively priced credit facility provides great flexibility to execute on our business plans. And finally, turning to our fiscal 2014 guidance. With the strength of our Q2 sales, we are increasing our revenue guidance for fiscal '14 to $890 million to $920 million, representing 11% to 15% year-over-year growth. We generally provide overall company guidance rather than guidance by division or program. We currently believe the sales guidance reflects reasonable estimates. However, actual sales could vary from this range because of the risks and uncertainties applicable to our business and industry, including the timing of certain awards and the outcome of the issues relating to TSA that Deepak discussed earlier. And subject to this, we're also currently expect to achieve fiscal 2014 non-GAAP diluted earnings per share of $3.10 to $3.39, excluding impairment, restructuring and other charges and the impact of tax elections, which reflects increased professional fees and the increased costs in Opto, both of which we discussed earlier on the call. This would represent 12% to 23% growth on a non-GAAP basis over fiscal 2013. However, as with the sales guidance, actual non-GAAP diluted EPS could vary from this range because of the risks and uncertainties applicable to our business and industry, including the timing of certain awards and the outcome of the issues relating to TSA. During the past few years, we have consistently delivered a strong bottom line. The investments we have made enabled us to be a leader in turnkey screening solutions and to continue to innovate to bring new products and services to market. 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.