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OSI Systems, Inc. (OSIS)

Q2 2015 Earnings Call· Mon, Jan 26, 2015

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Operator

Operator

Good day, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Second Quarter 2015 OSI Systems' Earnings Conference Call. My name is Tahisha, and I'll be your operator for today. [Operator Instructions]. As a reminder this conference is being recorded for replay purposes. I would now like to turn the conference over to your host for today, Mr. Alan Edrick, Chief Financial Officer. Please proceed.

Alan Edrick

Analyst

Good morning and thank you for joining us. I'm Alan Edrick, Executive Vice President and CFO of OSI Systems and I am here today with Deepak Chopra, our President and CEO. Welcome to the OSI Systems' second quarter fiscal 2015 conference call. We'd like to extend a special welcome to anyone who is a first-time participant on our conference calls. Please note that this presentation is being webcast and is expected to remain on our website, located at www.osi-systems.com, for at least two weeks. Earlier today we issued a press release announcing our second quarter fiscal year '15 financial results. Before we discuss our financial and our 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 during this call that may be deemed to be forward-looking statements under the Act. Forward-looking statements relate to the company's current expectations, beliefs, projections and similar expressions and are not guarantees of future performance or outcomes. Forward-looking statements involve uncertainties, risks, assumptions and contingencies, many of which are outside the company's control that may cause actual results or outcomes to differ materially from those described in or implied by any forward-looking statement. Such statements include, without limitation, information provided regarding expected revenues and earnings in fiscal 2015 and statements regarding the expected overall financial and operational performance of the company and its operating divisions. The company wishes to caution participants on this call that numerous factors could cause actual results to differ materially from these forward-looking statements. These factors include the risk factors set forth in the company's last annual report on Form 10-K and other risks described in documents subsequently filed by the…

Deepak Chopra

Analyst

Thank you, Alan. And again good morning, and welcome to the OSI Systems' earnings conference call for the second quarter of fiscal 2015. We are now halfway through our fiscal year and are pleased to announce that we have delivered record revenue and earnings for the first half. The security division continues to lead the way delivering excellent revenue growth and higher profitability. Alan will go into the financials of each division in more detail, but first I like to discuss a few of the second quarter highlights by the division. Let’s start with the security division. During the quarter, as Alan has mentioned, we continued to execute well on the Department of Defense Foreign Military Sales contract where we provide security inspection equipment to Iraq. These FMS deliveries contributed to the security division achieving revenues of $137 million, representing a growth of 29% for the quarter. We continue to make headway with the real-time tomography or advanced CT hold baggage solution. Shortly after the quarter end, we announced a $5 million order from an international customer to provide multiple RTT110 units, which are certified under the European Union Standard III requirements for hold baggage screening. We see a growing pipeline of potential RTT customers internationally and expect to continue capturing wins going forward. We are at present actively involved in multiple international hold baggage screening tenders. As you may know from listening to previous calls. The RTT is in certification process at the DSA, though our book-to-bill ratio was a little soft for the quarter, we are very optimistic and confident about our near-term opportunities. The international sales pipeline for our broad product offering continues to grow in all regions. In turnkey services, which as you know, had a long sales cycle, we are in discussions with several customers…

Alan Edrick

Analyst

Thank you, Deepak. Our ongoing effort to deliver meaningful revenue and earnings growth through higher margin growth initiatives and operating improvements continues to prove successful. Let's review in greater detail the financial results for the second quarter of this fiscal year before discussing our updated fiscal 2015 guidance. Our revenue in the second quarter of fiscal '15 increased 9% over Q2 of last year. This was primarily due to 29% revenue growth in the quarter at our security division resulting from deliveries on the FMS contract entered into in June of 201, the strength in our equipment services business and new product introductions. Revenue on our healthcare division increased 10%, resulting as Deepak described, primarily from the acquisition of a cardiology business in our first quarter. Sales in the emerging markets were quite strong. While sales in the higher margin North America and European markets were lighter than anticipated. Based upon our backlog in our opportunity funnel, we head into Q3 in the healthcare division in the stronger position than in past years. And as expected, our Opto division’s revenue decreased 14%, as a result of lower contract manufacturing sales given a tough comp due to factors that Deepak just discussed. Our Q2 gross margin came in at 34.6%, an increase of 40 basis points as compared to Q2 in the prior year. This improvement was driven by a number of factors, most notably the impact of operational improvements in the Opto division coupled with a decrease in revenue in this division which typically carries the lowest gross margin of the company's three divisions. These improvements were partially offset by the adverse impact of product and sales channel mix within our healthcare division. As mentioned on previous calls, the margin will fluctuate from period-to-period based upon revenue mix amongst other…

Operator

Operator

Thank you. [Operator Instructions]. Your first question will come from the line of Tim Quillin from Stephens, Inc. Please proceed.

Tim Quillin

Analyst

Hi, good morning. Alan as much as I appreciate the backlog in billions of dollars, would you be able to provide the backlog numbers in millions of dollars for this quarter and last quarter if you have that information available?

Alan Edrick

Analyst

Tim as we've been reporting over the last several quarters or last several years actually we've been reporting in billions. I don't have the actual amounts. The number didn't in fact around to $700 million from a rounding perspective. I believe the number was just shy of that.

Tim Quillin

Analyst

Okay, so I guess what I would hope to get out at this that the last quarter was $0.8 billion. This quarter was $0.7 billion, was there really a full $100 million reduction in backlog quarter-over-quarter.

Alan Edrick

Analyst

Sure yeah. Tim, the change in backlog predominantly was a result of the normal recognition of revenue on the Mexico contract. The FMS contract with which we recognized significant revenues. And then as Deepak described, our bookings were little bit soft in this past quarter, Rapiscan though the outlook looks extremely strong for the second half.

Tim Quillin

Analyst

Okay and what were the bookings for Rapiscan for the quarter.

Alan Edrick

Analyst

The non-turnkey book-to-bill ratio was a little bit north of 0.5.

Tim Quillin

Analyst

Little north of 0.5, okay. And then what was the FMS deliveries during the quarter, the revenue contribution from the FMS order?

Alan Edrick

Analyst

The FMS revenues were strong this quarter; they were a little bit more than double than they were last quarter. I believe last quarter 17 million on equipment, the equipment deliveries were a little bit north of double at this quarter.

Tim Quillin

Analyst

Little north of 34, okay. And then what is the expected timing of a potential follow-on order from Iraq?

Deepak Chopra

Analyst

Tim as you know that we are in discussions and normally never make a comment of the timing but we are hopeful that we will have some good results in the next quarter or so.

Tim Quillin

Analyst

And I know this is a little bit hard to do but when you think about that opportunity, is it something that’s relatively certain where that follow-on is necessarily, necessary to complete the project they have started or is it relatively uncertain?

Deepak Chopra

Analyst

Well you know that we as a company we never comment on it. Nothing is written in stone till it happens. We are working with the government both with the U.S. side and the Iraqi government. They are happy and once they start a program obviously we have an advantage and the units are well received. We are installing the units and deploying them as we speak.

Tim Quillin

Analyst

Okay. And then what was the contribution from the Defibrillator acquisition in the quarter?

Alan Edrick

Analyst

Tim, the December quarter is typically the strongest in this business as we understand it, very new in our portfolio but the contribution was north of 6 million.

Tim Quillin

Analyst

Got it. And then just last question or I’ve actually two questions, but one question is around the EPS guidance which I don’t think you’ve narrowed the range yet so far this year so there’s a fairly wide range on the EPS guidance where does that variability come from and then last question is around your CapEx plans for the year, I think you’ve only had 6.5 million year-to-date is that kind of the run rate we should think about for the rest of the year? Thank you.

Alan Edrick

Analyst

Sure Tim, its Alan. I’ll answer both of those questions in inverse order. On the CapEx side of the equation, CapEx has been a little bit lighter in the first half of the year. We do expect CapEx to pick up a bit in the second half of the year. Certainly it’s well down from the past couple of years as we've rolled out FMS, FMS -- as we have rolled out Mexico which was a highly capital intensive project. Of course we hope to win new turnkeys which could kick up that CapEx again in the future, but we do anticipate the number to increase in the second half. From earnings per share perspective we have a range of $0.22 and when you equate that into dollars and cents, it’s not as wide of a range as that sounds. So it’s a lot of the variability that can take place in all three of our divisions but namely in security and healthcare we think that’s a prudent range and based on various factors we’ll see how it ends up turning out.

Tim Quillin

Analyst

All right. Thank you.

Operator

Operator

Your next question will come from the line of Brian Ruttenbur from CRT Capital. Please proceed.

Brian Ruttenbur

Analyst

Yes thank you very much. I did not catch the book-to-bill even though you said it twice, what was the book-to-bill ex-Iraq FMS?

Alan Edrick

Analyst

We gave a book-to-bill ex-turnkey which was a little bit north of 0.5. If we exclude FMS, the number would be significantly higher.

Brian Ruttenbur

Analyst

Okay. And you expect the book to bill to get back up to one on a year, the fiscal year?

Deepak Chopra

Analyst

Well Brian, this is Deepak here. Our pipeline is very, very robust and strong both in the cargo and the RTT area and we expect the bookings to be up much stronger in the second half.

Alan Edrick

Analyst

And Brian this must revenue for Rapiscan not OSI overall.

Brian Ruttenbur

Analyst

Great. And then next question I had was a buyback, did you have any buybacks in the quarter?

Alan Edrick

Analyst

We did Brian we bought back little bit under $5 million of buyback activity.

Brian Ruttenbur

Analyst

What was the average price?

Alan Edrick

Analyst

It would have been in the, the average price would have been in the high 60's I believe.

Brian Ruttenbur

Analyst

Okay. And your plan for additional buybacks is I think you still have what $46 million authorized?

Alan Edrick

Analyst

Yeah Brian we have actually our number authorizes is a bit above that and we certainly look at it from time to time with competing priorities.

Brian Ruttenbur

Analyst

Okay do you know how much you have authorized still?

Alan Edrick

Analyst

I'd want you to ask -- if you have any other questions I’ll get to that answer.

Brian Ruttenbur

Analyst

Okay yeah I’ll keep asking other questions you can look that up and if you don’t have it right off we can just circle around later. The reason for the weakness in the bookings and in the period was there anything seasonal involved?

Deepak Chopra

Analyst

Well Brian it’s always is. Basically you’re chasing cargo and the RTT tenders and some of them get delayed. We haven’t lost any. Our pipeline continues to be very strong and it always has been, basically it goes from the quarter to the next quarter.

Alan Edrick

Analyst

Brian its Alan. So your earlier question on the buyback we have 880,000 shares authorized still which would equate to roughly $60 million.

Brian Ruttenbur

Analyst

Okay. And then can you give us -- always the same question somebody has to ask it, status of the RTT certification?

Deepak Chopra

Analyst

Yes, well I did say it in my opening that we are still at the third certification testing at DSA and keep in mind that we do have certification ECAC in Europe and most of the activity that we have talked about and addressing it and the strong pipeline and the active tenders that we are involved in are all ECAC European based certification.

Brian Ruttenbur

Analyst

Okay. And then last question in terms of cash flow on the year, core to your guidance as I back into it you should generate north of $100 million of free cash flows, does that seem reasonable still?

Alan Edrick

Analyst

That certainly seems in the ballpark depending upon how things play out for working capital requirements, CapEx requirements, but that's not a bad proxy.

Brian Ruttenbur

Analyst

Okay, thank you.

Operator

Operator

And your next question will come from the line of Josephine Millward from Benchmark Company. Please proceed.

Josephine Millward

Analyst

Hi Deepak, hi Alan.

Deepak Chopra

Analyst

Hi Josephine.

Josephine Millward

Analyst

Deepak can you expand on what droves your guidance increase it seems like you are more confident on healthcare, you did better macros or the new TPO relationship, can you just talk about that?

Deepak Chopra

Analyst

Would you repeat the question again Josephine I am sorry I didn’t understand it.

Josephine Millward

Analyst

Sure just trying to get a better sense of what drove the guidance increase. It seems like you are more confident on healthcare, if you can talk about why the higher confidence in healthcare is it macros, the new TPO or anesthesia or all of the above?

Deepak Chopra

Analyst

All of the above, but keep in mind that we are also very optimistic about the continued strength in our security business, if we are also feeling a little bit more comfortable as the economy improves in the Optoelectronics business in the Opto side where we see the defense and the aerospace sector and the healthcare sector in our OEM business also looking positive, but primary our guidance, confidence of increasing is to do with the healthcare, but lot of various things we are pursuing in the RTT and the cargo area.

Josephine Millward

Analyst

Great. On RTT the $5 million order that you received recently, is that for Western European airport or is it outside of Europe?

Deepak Chopra

Analyst

Well, all I can tell you as you know that you already know the answer, it’s international.

Josephine Millward

Analyst

Okay. Can you give us an update on Albania if there is an update?

Deepak Chopra

Analyst

We are actively still pursuing our rights working with the government, and more than that we don’t want to talk about it hopefully it will be a positive conclusion.

Josephine Millward

Analyst

Great, thank you.

Operator

Operator

[Operator Instructions]. Your next question will come from the line of Jeff Martin from ROTH Capital Partners. Please proceed.

Jeff Martin

Analyst

Thanks, good morning.

Deepak Chopra

Analyst

Good morning, Jeff.

Jeff Martin

Analyst

Deepak could you characterize the cargo pipeline on a geographic basis I know you talked about Middle East in prior calls and does the decline in oil have any impact on the sales cycle with potential customers in the Middle East?

Deepak Chopra

Analyst

Our cargo pipeline continues to be robust in all geographies and we haven’t seen any impact on the oil side yet.

Jeff Martin

Analyst

Okay. And then could you characterize what kind of some of the swing factors are for next year in terms of growth I mean not asking you to quantify a growth rate for next year but obviously an FMS follow on order is a big swing factor what other areas do you see being impactful to supporting a growth year in the mid-single-digit to low double-digit revenue?

Deepak Chopra

Analyst

Jeff, this is Deepak here, not in the same priority, but just generally answering your question. We see a tremendous amount of opportunities in RTT in the HBS product line in cargo, in healthcare and in turnkey. And obviously we are optimistic about the FMS. But the focus, as I said that in my presentation before, we are actively involved in multiple multi-machine international tenders in RTT. As Europe moves towards the deadlines approaching for their requirement to go to the next technology, there is a lot more activity in the international sector for buying RTT HBS products. Cargo, we've also said to you is a huge pipeline for us and cargo and turnkey are next to each other, have turned together.

Jeff Martin

Analyst

Okay, great. And then can you help us understand, you get a $5 million order from two international customer for RTT, what kind of roll-out should we expect? Will that hit in one quarter and if so which quarter do you expect that?

Deepak Chopra

Analyst

We have other orders too in the backlog. We have started shipping RTT products and we'll continue to ship them in the second half though the big, big increase would be in next year and we have started ramping up production.

Jeff Martin

Analyst

Okay, great. And then with the GPO relationship with Premier. How should we think about the roll-out and impact of that too to healthcare in terms of timing and magnitude?

Deepak Chopra

Analyst

GPO's, we are in all the GPO's almost, now and they buy product as their partners, as their hospitals ask them to and they are basically consolidating their orders so that the average size of the order has become bigger for the same time the timing becomes a little bit more longer.

Jeff Martin

Analyst

Okay, great and then Alan, is there additional seasonality in the Defibrillator business that we should be aware of in terms of modeling out healthcare for the balance of the year?

Alan Edrick

Analyst

No, we don't believe so. What we've seen from looking at cash trends before we bought the company, was that the December quarter tended to be the highest but a little less seasonal in the March-June quarters.

Jeff Martin

Analyst

Okay.

Deepak Chopra

Analyst

Jeff, just to add on to it. We are not going to be talking about in the future as a separate product line. It is part of -- they are integrating it into a product line in healthcare. So the seasonality will be less meaningful and our real excitement is we plan to take that product and put it into Spacelabs' international distribution channel, so we can capture more business. So that it will not be reported as a separate because we don't break it up for competitive reasons after separation going forward.

Jeff Martin

Analyst

That's helpful. Thanks guys.

Operator

Operator

We have no more questions in the queue. I would like to turn the call back over to Mr. Deepak Chopra. You may proceed with final remarks.

Deepak Chopra

Analyst

Ladies and gentlemen, thanks once again for attending our conference call. We look forward to an exciting second half and speaking with you at the next earnings call. Thank you very much.