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OSI Systems, Inc. (OSIS)

Q3 2015 Earnings Call· Mon, Apr 27, 2015

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Operator

Operator

Good day, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Q3 2015 OSI Systems' Earnings Conference Call. My name is Whitley, and I'll be your operator for today. [Operator Instructions] As a reminder, this call 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, sir.

Alan Edrick

Analyst

Thank you. 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' third 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 in our Web site, located at www.osi-systems.com, for at least two weeks. Earlier today, we issued a press release announcing our third quarter fiscal year 2015 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…

Deepak Chopra

Analyst

Thank you, Alan, and again, good morning and welcome to the OSI Systems' earnings conference for the third quarter of fiscal 2015. Through the first three quarters of this fiscal year, as Alan has mentioned, OSI achieved year-to-date revenue growth of 7%, and adjusted EBITDA growth of 16%. We look to finishing the year as we build further momentum for fiscal '16. In quarter three, our revenues were $215 million, 6% higher than the prior year, and we delivered an operating margin of 10%, excluding the impact of restructuring and other charges. During the quarter, we kept our focus and managed to work through challenging international markets marked with significant local currency fluctuations. We continued our efforts to seek out new customers for profitable revenue growth, and to leverage our technologies and expand our global presence in each business segment; all the while, we maintain our momentum to drive essential improvement initiatives throughout our organization. Now let's review the highlights for the quarter for each division, starting with our security division, Rapiscan. Quarter three sales were $99 million, or about 4% higher than the prior year. Historically, Rapiscan's Q3 has been a tough quarter for top line growth, however the Q3 non-turnkey book-to-bill ratio of one-to-one coupled with recently announced deals after the quarter ending, and a robust pipeline of opportunities provide optimism for the future. Here are the highlights for the quarter for Rapiscan; our traction with our new RTT real-time tomography product offering continues to grow as we announced during the quarter an international order for approximately $11 million, and after the quarter is closed another $27 million order, the largest RTT to-date for Rome's -- Italy's primary airport. Both of these orders are for the RTT110, the large tunnel explosive detection system. We see the overall momentum…

Alan Edrick

Analyst

Thank you, Deepak. We continue to strive for revenue and earnings growth and capitalizing on operational efficiencies. Let's review the financial results for the third quarter of the fiscal year in greater detail. Our revenues in the third quarter of fiscal '15 increased 6% over Q3 of fiscal '14. Excluding the impact of FX, primarily due to the strengthening dollar on our Euro and British Pound-denominated sales, the growth rate was 8%. This was primarily due to a 14% increase in sales of our healthcare division, driven by stronger organic growth, and additional revenues generated by the cardiology business we acquired in our first quarter. Healthcare sales in the emerging markets continue to be strong, and we saw a top line growth in North America, while European markets were softer than anticipated. Based upon our backlog and opportunity pipeline, we are poised for further growth in Q4 in the healthcare division, compared to the prior year. Sales in our security division increased 4%, driven by deliveries on the Iraq FMS contracts, which was partially offset by the timing of bookings and deliveries of other cargo opportunities. And as expected, our Opto division revenues, while down 2%, were stronger than our first half performance, with greatly improved operating margin, which we will discuss in more detail later. Our Q3 gross margin came in at 33.7%, compared to 34.6% in Q3 of the prior year. Gross margin expansion in our Opto division, as a result of operational improvements and a favorable product mix were offset to a greater extent by a less favorable sales mix in the security and healthcare divisions. As mentioned on previous calls, the margin will fluctuate from period-to-period based on the revenue mix, among other items. Moving to OpEx. In Q3 of fiscal '15 SG&A as a percentage…

Operator

Operator

[Operator Instructions] Our first question comes from the line of Brian Ruttenbur with Sterne Agee. Please proceed.

Brian Ruttenbur

Analyst

Yes thank you very much. A couple of quick questions; on the RTT certification, can you talk a little bit about the market and what's going on with the U.S. federal market, now that you have gone through the very difficult certification process? And the competition out there, who's already certified, and a high-speed machine, maybe lay that out for us?

Deepak Chopra

Analyst

Thanks, Brian. Yes, you said it; it's taken us a long time. Basically, our focus -- and we said in the last conference call also, the big focus is there is a big demand in Europe for the 2020 that all new procurement between now and the future, the airports must buy the newest standard ECAC for any new procurement. There are active tenders out there as we speak, lot of airports are now getting into that mode for buying. As we said that the Rome airport was a big success, it's a great big win for us and gives us an anchor. As you know, we won Oslo a year and half ago. And we believe that the continued momentum for the next 2015-2016 is in the international sector. Not to ignore the U.S. side, we are happy that we got the RTT 80 certification; it's taken longer than we all expected, and I know that all of you were asking on the call [ph] -- on every conference call. And we've gone back and focused ourselves that now that we've got the technology validation that we are putting in this calendar year the 110 big size machine into TSA for also getting certification. Over the next '15, '16, the focus and demand is bigger and more driven towards the international sector than U.S. Regarding competition, the Rome was an international hub competition, we are very proud that we got selected. We are very, very confident that we are a great product, and especially their airports demand high throughput and seamless integration in their present HBS systems, we have an edge [ph] on it.

Brian Ruttenbur

Analyst

Yes. So who is the competition out there? There's Smiths, Leidos, who else is certified with the CT machine? And do they have a high-speed machine?

Deepak Chopra

Analyst

Well, all the same players. You said Leidos, yes; Smiths, yes; Morpho Detection, yes; L3, yes. Some of them have also high-speed of what we call the half-a-meter per second machine at 18 [ph] bags an hour. And some of them have slightly lower speed. Only the machine that we know of that is high-speed certified to the same speed as we have it that we know of is the Smiths.

Brian Ruttenbur

Analyst

Okay. Thank you. Just moving on to a couple other questions; on the cash flow side, Alan, can you talk about -- you've generated, I believe, it was $173 million in the first nine months. What are you projecting in your estimates to be cash from ops for fiscal '15?

Alan Edrick

Analyst

Yes, thanks, Brian. Cash flow from operations for our first nine months was $87 million. Our free cash flow was about $77 million. We don't provide guidance on cash flow, but we are very pleased with our cash flow throughout the fiscal year.

Brian Ruttenbur

Analyst

Okay. And then turnkey, I can't let that one go. What's the status of new wins? Is everything delayed out there? And is it still kind of South America, and Middle East, and Eastern Europe that still are looking at this?

Deepak Chopra

Analyst

Well, Brian, I won't use the word "delay." We've always said that, that it's a long cycle and we are actively perusing multiple potentials both in Latin America, Middle East, and even in Europe. When they will consummate is a little unpredictable, but these things tend to be that you start working early, like I said before, and I'll again repeat it, the cargo sales versus a turnkey go hand-in-hand, and we continue to monitor that, and we still feel very good about it. We have a focused team working on it, and we believe that we will succeed.

Brian Ruttenbur

Analyst

Great. Last question, just on the Healthcare side; are you still looking for long-term growth in low to mid-single digits? And is this going to be driven by anesthesia, or is this going to be driven by patient monitoring?

Deepak Chopra

Analyst

Well, we are definitely looking for growth, and we are not limiting our sights to a single-digit. We are limiting our sights to double-digit. And, yes, anaesthesia is a focus, so is the defibrillator product line, international, and our patient monitoring continues to it. And as we have said, as the U.S. markets shifts over from the electronic medical records, last year December 31, money spent on it, now, big hospitals are focused on these extra patients that have entered the pool that they have to now provide extra CapEx to get more beds ready for these more people who are entering the insurance pool.

Brian Ruttenbur

Analyst

Great. Thank you.

Operator

Operator

Your next question comes from the line of Josephine Millward, The Benchmark Company, please proceed.

Josephine Millward

Analyst

Good morning, guys.

Deepak Chopra

Analyst

Good morning.

Josephine Millward

Analyst

First of all, Deepak, congratulations on the RTT. It's great news.

Deepak Chopra

Analyst

Thank you.

Josephine Millward

Analyst

I was wondering if you can give us more color on your guidance, the $25 million range for Q4. Is it very much driven by security? Should we -- are we more likely to hit the low-end or the high-end? Can you give us more color?

Alan Edrick

Analyst

Sure, Josephine, this is Alan. We believe the $25 million range based on what we know today is an appropriate range. Typically, what would draw us to the higher end of that range or lower end of that range would be revenues from both our security division and our healthcare division, and the Opto tends to be a bit more predictable. So it's difficult for us to say whether we'll be at high end of the range or the low end of the range, but we feel very confident that we should be somewhere within that range.

Josephine Millward

Analyst

Do we expect growth in Security in Q4, given that you have shipped most of your Iraq order?

Alan Edrick

Analyst

Our security in Q4 had an outstanding Q4 last year, as you know, providing a difficult comp. So we believe that a good portion of the revenue growth in Q4 of this year will be driven by our healthcare division.

Josephine Millward

Analyst

That's helpful. Alan, can you give us a more detailed breakdown of your backlog? I'm trying to reconcile your security book-to-bill ratio of one, versus the $600 million backlog compared to $700 million last quarter.

Alan Edrick

Analyst

Yes, so each of those numbers as you've described are rounded numbers, our total backlog at the end of last quarter was about $660 million, and our total backlog at the end of this quarter is about $630 million. So when you exclude turnkey and take rounding into consideration, the book-to-bill ratio is about 1.0. So I think maybe that helps with your numbers a little bit.

Josephine Millward

Analyst

Thank you. And a follow-on on RTT opportunities; Deepak, can you talk about what the opportunities look like in Asia and the Middle East, now that you have U.S. TSA certification? Does it significantly help your competitive positioning there?

Deepak Chopra

Analyst

The answer is yes, Josephine, but keep in mind that we have said that the big requirement, what I call "priority one," is Europe. Because of the deadline of 2020, and the size of the airports, and the replacement cycle, we are focusing that the number one priority for us, and I am not sure the competitors feel the same way, is the European sector for the HBS replacement cycle. The answer to your other question, yes, Middle East and Asia, and even Latin America do have requirements. And most of the focus that we want to make on and we want to emphasize is, though we have certification for the RTT80 from the TSA. Our feeling is that, given the choice and the price difference being insignificant, the RTT110 will be a preferred product than the RTT80, and also if our volume is more towards the RTT110 we think that product, in our opinion, is the one that we will capitalize on, compared to the RTT80.

Josephine Millward

Analyst

When are you expecting a TSA certification for RTT110?

Deepak Chopra

Analyst

We are submitting the RTT110 platform before this calendar year is over, and obviously we have learnt a lot and feel better for it, and hopefully you're one of the ones who have been asking for many, many quarters, this will be a faster than the RTT80.

Josephine Millward

Analyst

Great. Thank you very much.

Operator

Operator

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

Jeff Martin

Analyst · ROTH Capital Partners. Please proceed.

Thanks. Good morning, Deepak and Alan.

Deepak Chopra

Analyst · ROTH Capital Partners. Please proceed.

Good morning.

Jeff Martin

Analyst · ROTH Capital Partners. Please proceed.

Deepak, could you give us a sense of how much of the international market is on the RTT side, is CT-based, based on your best guess? In other words, how much of the replacement cycle is completed and compliant to this point?

Deepak Chopra

Analyst · ROTH Capital Partners. Please proceed.

Jeff, on the different base to answer it, let me understand it what you're asking. Just the European sector, the replacement for the HBS to the new requirement are more than 1,000 machines. And then you add on to the international, it can be Latin America, in Asia Pacific, and the ex-Soviet block, you can and another 500, 600, 700 machines or more. By the term -- the way will talk about it the total market worldwide is more than 3,000 machines. So it's a huge market, and then you're going to -- you can look at it, the replacement cycle is not going to happen at the same time all over the world. But Europe is the focus that we're looking at it, because they have a finite deadline, and a finite requirement of the ECAC-certified machines to be bought.

Jeff Martin

Analyst · ROTH Capital Partners. Please proceed.

Okay. That makes sense. You mentioned a lot of RFP activity. How do you feel that you're positioned on an RFP versus your competitors?

Deepak Chopra

Analyst · ROTH Capital Partners. Please proceed.

Well, we are feeling good after the big successful win at this large airport in Rome. There are other large tenders out there actively being pursued. Anything more than that, as you know is the company policy, we won't say it, but we think we are well positioned. And people like our product. We have some unique improvements over it. We burn less power. Our footprint makes less noise. And it has no moving parts. So we have some very positive things to offer to the customer.

Jeff Martin

Analyst · ROTH Capital Partners. Please proceed.

Okay, great. And then, Alan, could you quantify the currency impact both on a revenue and an operating income basis for the quarter?

Alan Edrick

Analyst · ROTH Capital Partners. Please proceed.

Yes, the revenue impact, Jeff, for the quarter was approximately 2%, $45 million from the FX in Q3. On the bottom line, we actually had a slight benefit due to FX, as a lot of our costs are based in those same currencies.

Jeff Martin

Analyst · ROTH Capital Partners. Please proceed.

Okay. And in your 2014 10-K, it mentions under the currency section a 10% strengthening of the dollar would benefit operating income about $12 million. Does that same relationship apply in today's mix of business?

Alan Edrick

Analyst · ROTH Capital Partners. Please proceed.

Yes, it certainly changes a little bit based on today's mix, as you're mentioning. But at the end of the day, when the dollar strengthens, we do benefit on the bottom line, and we have some headwinds on the top line. In Q4, we're expecting an even further escalation on the top line, which is partly embedded in the new guidance where our continued sales, in particularly in the Pound and the Euro, but also in other currencies as well where the dollar has strengthened against has some adverse headwinds.

Jeff Martin

Analyst · ROTH Capital Partners. Please proceed.

Okay. And then to switch gears to Healthcare, you mentioned some record revenue on Arkon. I was just curious what your expectations for anesthesia for the next several quarters are, if you're expecting that to really ramp up, and if you could give some insight into the dynamic of how that is playing out in the market?

Deepak Chopra

Analyst · ROTH Capital Partners. Please proceed.

Well, as you know that we don't break it down. Basically what we're saying is that as a percentage of the total revenue of the Healthcare, we are quite confident that the Arkon products line is just well-settled, and people like it, and it will continue to gain momentum.

Jeff Martin

Analyst · ROTH Capital Partners. Please proceed.

So if you were to break down the things you're most enthusiastic about for Healthcare, where -- how would those rank out?

Deepak Chopra

Analyst · ROTH Capital Partners. Please proceed.

I think the patient monitoring and the new product introduction, the AriaTele, and some of the other products, and the Arkon are the primary drivers. And then, we also feel that as we assimilate the AED product line into an international distribution channel we should start seeing some more positive growth.

Jeff Martin

Analyst · ROTH Capital Partners. Please proceed.

Okay, great. Thanks for taking my questions.

Operator

Operator

There are no further questions in the queue at this time.

Deepak Chopra

Analyst

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you once again for attending our conference call. We look forward to speaking with you all once again in August for our Q4 and year end. Thank you.