Deepak Chopra
Analyst · Drexel Hamilton. Your line is open
Thank you, Alan, and again, good afternoon and welcome to the OSI Systems' earnings conference call for the second quarter of fiscal 2017. We had a good quarter achieving $243 million in revenue, driven primarily by the Security and the Optoelectronics Division. Reviewing Q2 performance for each division, beginning the Security. During the quarter, revenues in Security were $140 million, 49% higher from the prior year. This was the first full quarter of impact from the AS&E acquisition and as Alan mentioned, it contributed in a meaningful way. Excluding AS&E, the Security Division grew by about 18%, driven by strength in multiple product areas including RTT, our HBS system. Security bookings in Q2 were $110 million for non-key turnkey book-to-bill ratio of approximately 1.0 and for the first half year bookings were $225 million. In the aviation checked baggage market, we continue to gain traction with our Rapiscan RTT Whole baggage Screening System. As the regulatory requirements compel the European Union airports to upgrade the checked baggage infrastructure, we have been able to capitalize on opportunities in the marketplace with our innovative technology. We announced an order valued at approximately $7 million from a European airport customer to provide our RTT110 Whole Baggage Screening System. This order was in addition to other smaller awards during the quarter. Going forward, we continue to be -- to foresee increasing activity for our checked baggage HBS Systems, especially in the European Union as their regulatory deadline approaches towards the 2020. In the United States, we are now in the testing phase for TSS Notification for our RTT110 product and are targeting completing the testing phase in this calendar year. At U.S. airports, we are also working with the TSA and the airports on their innovation lane program and making progress with our integrated checkpoint solution utilizing our Rapiscan Inspection System and our recently acquired Automated Tray Return Systems Company. Over the past several quarters, we have been ramping up our RTT production capabilities and improving manufacturing efficiencies. We're seeing the benefits of these efforts with lower manufacturing cost, leading to improving contributing margin, which is expected to be realized fully in fiscal 2018. In Turnkey Services, our programs in Puerto Rico, Mexico, and Albania continue to perform well. Overall, we see the pipeline staying robust and we remain optimistic that OSI will capture new turnkey programs in the near future. The Cargo Product business remains strong and has now expanded to include the AS&E product portfolio and service offerings. As we mentioned in our previous call, we are taking an integrated sales approach to the cargo market by offering a range of alternatives that include potential turnkey service solutions that also now add in AS&E's cargo products integrated. As we integrate AS&E into our overall Security Division, we're well on our way to achieving our annualized cost synergies goal from the combined security operation. Alan will provide more detail on these efforts. We've also realigned our focus in our Security Division by organizing teams around the cargo market including the turnkey solutions and the aviation market which includes our air cargo, checkpoint, and checked baggage screening solutions. We believe this approach makes us even stronger in handling the unique requirements of these different product lines. Finally, as we move pass the U.S. elections, we believe that the new administration's view and initial policy positions towards infrastructure and security spending, bodes very well for our product offering in the marketplace as we have a broad range of solutions to protect airports, borders, and critical infrastructure. In summary, our expanded customer base, a sustained backlog, and a solid bookings provide a great backdrop to deliver good second half performance in Security Division. Moving onto the Health Care Division where revenues were $51 million, $4 million lower than the prior year. Compared to the second quarter of the prior year, we saw year-over-year growth in North America, while the EMEA and Asia regions continue to be challenging. The Spacelabs' team has worked very hard to address many of the operational issues that have hampered this division over the last year and has made significant progress. While these efforts are still in process, we believe that we are taking the necessary actions for the long-term growth in this division. We have further strengthened the management team with key hires in marketing and operations. Looking ahead, we anticipate that the second half performance will be better than the fast half. Moving to our Electro-Optical Division, our external revenues were $52 million in the quarter, 8% higher than the prior year. As mentioned in previous calls, we have been shifting the revenue base to a higher profit mix and have been pursuing new opportunities consistent with that strategy. These efforts have started to pay off as we saw growth in external revenues during the quarter with an improved gross margin. Intercompany sales though are down primarily due to our efforts to right-size the inventory as well as in directional alignment with the performance of the Health Care Division. With our flexible global manufacturing footprint, we also believe that we can quickly adapt to market dynamics. Our goal is to continue providing our customers with the best value sourcing alternatives and the flexibility to shift production to more favorable regions as the need may arise. Overall, Q2 was a good quarter. We started seeing some of the operating leverage through the higher sales and cost synergies in our Security Division. We are pleased with the way the Opto Division has returned to third-party revenue growth and expanded operating margins. And while not pleased with the current operating results of the Health Care Division, we see a strong management team that has demonstrated that they can take decisive actions on operational issues and strategic initiatives that are putting the division on a path to grow. I would like to thank our employees, customers, and shareholders for their continuing support. With that, I'm going to turn the call over to Alan to talk in detail about our financial performance before opening the call for questions. Thank you.