Deepak Chopra
Analyst · ROTH Capital Partners. Your line is now open
Thank you, Alan. And again good afternoon and welcome to the OSI Systems earnings conference call for the second quarter of fiscal 2016. With the global macroeconomic dynamics that have affected most industries to various degrees, our security and healthcare divisions' performance was also adversely affected to some extent by these conditions. On the other hand, our optoelectronics division again delivered increased adjusted operating income and margins. Alan Edrick will discuss the financials of each division in more detail later on. Jumping right into the review of the Q2 divisional performance, we will share our view of the market and the changes we are making to improve the performance of the Company. We will begin with the security division. During the quarter revenues in securities were 94 million, increase of 32% from the prior year. As Alan has mentioned in prior calls, we anticipated a tough comparison due to significant FMS revenues in Q2 last year. This quarter's security revenues however were lower than our expectations. There were a couple of reasons for this which were largely beyond our control. The primary factor was a delay in the customer schedules of certain cargo screening systems as well as our recently launched Rapiscan RTT whole baggage screening systems. Certain shipments were scheduled for second quarter but installations and customer acceptance were delayed by the customer due to the own readiness, nothing to do with the Rapiscan products. In addition, we see customers taking longer to make marketing decisions on some book and ship tenders primary in our small baggage and inspection product lines in the international locations. Together these factors led to security sales being 5% lower than the prior year excluding the FMS contracts from last year. In Q2 this year, security bookings were $67 million and for the first half were 249 million, which is more than three times the amount we booked in the first half of last year in our security division. We believe that the global market swings that we have all seen has had an impact on our customers. That said, we are confident that security and safety needs will continue to be a priority. In the high growth aviation check baggage market, we are going very well with our Rapiscan RTT whole baggage screening system. As the regulatory requirements forced airports to upgrade airport baggage infrastructure to screen for explosives, we expect significant opportunities to compete on airport procurement bids throughout the European Union as the region prepares to meet the regulatory deadline of 2020 to upgrade their aging check baggage systems. Our win rate on these procurement bids to-date has been outstanding, notable wins included Paris, Rome, Oslo among others. Consequently, we are ramping up our production capabilities ASAP. As with any production build up to significantly higher levels, we expect some inefficiencies and thus the contribution margins on sales to be lighter during the initial period of the build-up. We have successful in developing a high quality whole baggage screening product that has quickly achieved customer acceptance and is so far being preferred above competing alternatives. Though we are excited about the RTT product, in the short term it adds some variability to our financial results and projections as the acceptance dates are open at the behest of the customer and subject to change for a variety of reasons such as completion of airport terminal construction and/or the integration into the baggage handling systems. We have already seen this in the early days with changes in customer schedules that has pushed out some RTT revenue expected in fiscal 2016 to fiscal 2017. While RTT is expected to be a big sales growth driver, the cargo business has numerous opportunities as well. We are currently working to fulfill several large orders from our backlog that were announced last summer that based on current schedules are now expected to be delivered in Q4 of this year and fiscal 2017. As a matter of fact, the raw materials and finished goods related to these cargo orders is one of the reasons for the higher level of inventory on the Q2 balance sheet. We believe the global market for cargo will continue to be strong. Much of the demand for cargo however comes from countries dependent on oil revenues or in regions of instability, which have been a factor in government procurement delays. So changes in customer timing and requirements are a primarily reason for the delays in revenue recognition and thus a contributor to the reduction in our current year guidance. On a positive note, protecting infrastructure continues to be an objective of many of our customers. Also notwithstanding the marketing challenges discussed it is worth noting that we have not seen any loss of significant orders. On the contrary, the funnel is looking very robust north of $1 billion and with each month the clarity especially for the RTT is becoming clearer with well-defined airport needs to fulfill the 2020 deadline especially in the European Union. In turnkey services and other major growth opportunity for us with a long sales cycle we continue to see a strong pipeline. We are optimistic of landing new turnkey deals and have added additional resources to support these opportunities. However, the timing of these deals has been and will continue to be influenced by the macro economic factors discussed earlier. Our most recent turnkey contract in Albania is performing well and we expect to be fully operational within this quarter. In addition, our other turnkey programs continue to perform well. We are well situated for growth in products and services including turnkey programs and have a strong balance sheet that can easily absorb the capital requirements from longer lead time builds or turnkey opportunities that often require a significant initial capital outlay. In summary, we have high quality innovative product and servicing offerings in security, short term market gyrations and revenue recognition delays due to project time line among other factors have resulted in a disappointing quarter. We are taking appropriate actions for cost reduction in security to improve the operating margin and will continue to review the organization further and make the necessary changes to build a stronger foundation. The strength in our backlog and bookings trend and continued strength in foreseeable demand for our products globally gives us confidence in the second half in delivering of very strong Q4 in security. Moving on to the healthcare division, Spacelabs’ revenue were $55 million, a decrease of 20% from the prior year. The results were highly unsatisfactory. There were two key factors that led to these results. First, global uncertainty mentioned earlier had an impact. U.S. sales were down a little but we witnessed a significant drop in the international sales. And second, the Spacelabs’ teams encountered some challenges with new product rollouts which resulted in some sales delays and a few lost opportunities in the quarter. The team understands the nature of the operational difficulties and has taken actions to resolve them going forward. As you known we have introduced multiple new products in patient monitoring, cardiology and anesthesia over the past four years in Spacelabs. The team has done a commendable job of developing multiple products. Nicholas Ong, the President of SpaceLabs has led the team during this product improvement cycle; however, we both recognized it is time for a leadership change to take SpaceLabs through the next stage and we’ll be announcing a new leader to serve in this role shortly. Nicholas Ong is staying on through the transition period. Given that our healthcare division is a book and ship business with the vast majority of revenues booked and shipped in the same quarter. We believe that we can recover in a timely fashion to improve our performance in the second half. We are committed to resolving the problems that are within our control and effect top and bottom line performance improvement. Moving to our optoelectronic division, we are very pleased with the continued growth in adjusted operating income in the division despite a reduction in revenues from the prior year. Since we have retooled this division over the last year to shift the revenue base to a higher profit product mix, we expected a reduction in sales this quarter. Going forward, we intend to pursue growth opportunities that are consistent with our product mix objective, accomplishing this organically as well as through strategic acquisitions. Overall second-quarter has been a very challenging quarter. We believe the results were an anomaly. All of our businesses operate in key markets which strong long-term growth prospects. We anticipate that overtime the long-term fundamentals that have historically driven the growth in our business will continue to do so. I would like to thank our employees, customers and shareholders for their continued support. With that, I am going to turn the call back over to Alan to talk in detail about our financial performance before opening the call for questions. Thank you.