Deepak Chopra
Analyst · Benchmark Company, your line is now open
Thank you, Alan. And again good afternoon and welcome to the OSI Systems earnings conference call for the third quarter of fiscal 2016. During the quarter, we focused on meeting the challenges in the global markets while continuing to drive ongoing improvement initiatives throughout our organization. For example, in security, we reduced our cost base and are in the midst of improving certain manufacturing process to enhance efficiency and lower product cost. In opto division, we effectively completed efforts to shift the business mix to a more profitable revenue base. In healthcare, we recently brought a new leader, which I will talk about a bit later in my presentation. With the backlog of approximately $661 million and a strong pipeline of sales opportunities, we believe that we are well positioned with our customers over the longer term. Let's review the highlights for the quarter for each division, starting with the security division Rapiscan. Q3 sales were $111 million or about 11% higher than the prior year. We are pleased with this revenue growth given that Q3 comp was made tougher with the prior quarter as it contained about $16 million in the FMS revenues that Alan mentioned. Our bookings during the quarter were approximately $73 million or about 9% higher than the level achieved in Q3 of the prior year, and about 10% higher sequentially from Q2, representing a non-turnkey book to bill ratio of just under 1. Few business highlights. Momentum with our new Rapiscan real time topography offering continues as we see a number of RFPs in this space as European airports continue to upgrade their baggage screening infrastructure to meet the latest standards by 2020. Manufacturing capacity for this product line has improved and the ramp up will continue over fiscal 2017. Although, we still have some manufacturing inefficiencies that come to any new introduction, and in the short term affects the product margins that are ultimately achievable. As we mentioned in our last conference call, a push out in an ongoing project in the Middle East, which delay the revenues in Q2 is now progressing well and generated approximately $23 million in revenues in Q3. Further revenues from this project are anticipated in Q4 and the first half of fiscal 2017. During Q3 we continued our expansion in emerging markets, with significant wins in Asia for both cargo and conventional products. We believe that our wide range of products for screening people, baggage and cargo, combined with our ability to offer global maintenance service and support provides a compelling value for our customers globally. To that end we also had notable successes closer to home where we were awarded multiple contracts from both government and commercial entities in Canada, for security initiatives for Canadian land and sea borders utilizing our cargo inspection system Eagle G60 and our check point baggage inspection systems Model 620 and 628 Blue Wheels. On the turn-key services front Mexico, Puerto Rico and Albania turn-key screening service contracts continue to perform well and we continue to add new opportunities to the turn-key pipeline. We are pleased that the ramp up in Albania went as expected and by quarter end all sites are fully operational. We are working actively on multiple other turn-key opportunities but as you know given the size and the complexity of these projects and geographic locations the timing of such awards is difficult to predict. Our overall long term pipeline the Rapiscan products and screening services continues to be strong but global economic uncertainties in various regions have definitely affected near term timing and visibility in several instances. We believe that long term upgrade cycles at airports, government responses to recent events in Europe continuing security threats across the Middle East and a strong desire by nations to minimize contraband flow across borders will remain our growth drivers. At Rapiscan we are continuing our efforts to upgrade technology so we can be well positioned to capitalize on long term growth opportunities. Over the next few months we will implement initiatives aimed at further reducing the cost to improve this divisions operating performance as we deal with any resulting delays in customer orders and manufacturing inefficiencies. Moving to the healthcare division, Spacelab revenues declined in the third quarter to 49 million which was disappointing. As you know hospital spending has been generous over the last couple of years and we saw even less activity in Q3. In addition to market dynamics the division's operational execution and performance contributed to the disappointing results. I should note here that we had a very tough fourth quarter comp in healthcare as we had 79 million in revenues in the fourth quarter of the prior year. A record quarter that included large wins for major hospital networks that we do not expect to repeat this quarter. We recently hired a new president of Spacelabs Mr. Sujit Kumar who is an industry veteran having served in various global leadership capacities at GE Healthcare, Philips Healthcare, Healtheon Group and Roper Technologies. We are excited to have Sujit on board earlier this week and he will initially address the division's execution gaps and help renew the team's focus o customers, quality and dedication to meeting all commitments. Moving to our Opto Electronics and manufacturing division in Q3 profits were again up despite revenues declining by about 6% year-over-year. Operating margin was approximately 9.6% excluding impairment, restructuring and other charges making it the ninth consecutive quarter of operating margin expansion at Opto. The Opto team also completed two small acquisitions during the quarter which were both accretive to the margin. The first acquisition was an electronics manufacturing service provider based in the United Kingdom, this acquisition increases our manufacturing footprint and customer base in a region we consider to be strategic for growth. The second acquisition was an engineering services provider based in northern California to expand our technical capabilities for the OEMs. These acquisitions demonstrate our commitment to growing our capabilities and increasing win strategy with OEMs in growth market involving technology to industry leaders. At Opto a couple of years ago we embarked on improving the sales mix and focusing on identifying opportunities for margin expansion. We have been able to shed unprofitable or low margin contracts and drive improved profits even as sales decline during this transition. In fiscal 2017 and beyond we expect to return to growth in our Opto division with a full impact from the acquisitions and a customer and revenue base that we can build upon and summary other than in healthcare Q3 performed in line with our expectations. Now let’s discuss Q4 and the future. As you know, we reduced full year guidance midway through the year to account for some shortfalls in healthcare and timing of security revenues. Unfortunately, the healthcare challenges have continued and the timing of certain security awards was further out than expected. As a result, we are reducing our revenue and earnings estimate for Q4. Alan will go into this in more detail. But let me now provide a few thoughts on the low revenue and earnings guidance. The primary factors for lowering our revenue guidance are as follows. First, delayed timing of security orders has made it difficult to achieve the corresponding product deliveries in Q4. These order delayed are due in part to lower government budgets as a result of government revenue shortfalls stemming from oil prices, global economic weakness and various other macro economic factors. With higher Q4 revenue contribution from RTT and cargo, we will also experience a shift to a less favorable mix that will adversely affect margins. As we have mentioned, RTT is still in an early ramp up phase for production and we expect that margins will improve for this product over time. Second, the reorganization efforts taking place in the healthcare division to improve sales, operational and leadership issues will take time to positive impact results. We have started these efforts in earnest and think it will take another quarter or so to see the positive impacts from these efforts. So, we would consider Q4 to be a transition quarter where sales are expected to be up sequentially but down substantially from Q4 of the prior year, against the tough comp as mentioned earlier, which would have an impact both on revenues and EPS. And the third is general global market uncertainty. As we’ve all seen in recent months, global concerns about, both across industries and regions, have risen and in short term these have effective buyer behavior in the healthcare and security divisions and to a lesser extent in the industrial markets which opto serves. We are confident of the future, however, as the overall bookings are being solid. Heading into fiscal 2017, we believe the Company is in a good position in its core markets as our products, services and global support capabilities stand out in the marketplace. We have demonstrated innovation, and also demonstrated in the past, the ability to successfully address internal and external challenges, while continually improving our organization. We look forward to build the momentum heading into next year. As always, I would like to thank our employees, customers and stockholders for their continued support. With that I am going to turn the call back to Alan to talk in detail about our financial results before opening the call for questions. Thank you.