Deepak Chopra
Analyst · CJS Securities. Your line is open. Please go ahead
Thank you, Alan, and welcome to the OSI Systems earnings call for the third quarter of fiscal 2024. We are very pleased with our fiscal third quarter performance in which revenues grew 34% to a record $405 million. We had a book to bill of exceeding one and finished the quarter with a healthy backlog of about 1.8 billion. Our reserves were primarily driven by our Security division, which continues to perform well. I will now discuss some key highlights from our third quarter performance across each division before handing it back to Alan for a further discussion of our financial results. Beginning with the Security division where year over year revenues grew 60% in Q3, the division's bookings were approximately 300 million plus achieving a book to build exceeding one. During the quarter, we continued to deliver on the two major programs, the approximately $500 million contract with SEDENA, which is Mexico's Department of National Defense for cargo and vehicle inspection systems and related services, and a 200 plus million cargo program with another international customer. Our cargo and solutions team has been relentless in its efforts and both programs are progressing well. In March, we announced a new a $100 contract for various cargo and vehicle inspection systems. As you may recall, we previously announced the receipt of a large award of $59 million at the end of Q2 for cargo and vehicle inspection systems from another international customer. These significant recent awards, in addition to the combined 7 million of contracts discussed earlier, provide great confidence and sustainable growth worldwide for cargo, as a market leadership breadth of product and solutions portfolio and our ability to deliver are being recognized and awarded going into Q4 and into fiscal 2025. We are spending a fair amount of time here talking about the programs and market traction, but let me take a moment to provide an example here to illustrate how we affect everyday life and wellbeing with our cargo security products. We learned during the quarter that U.S. Customs and Border Protection CBP Officers at the Camino Real International Bridge on the Texas U.S. Mexico border performed a secondary inspection on a suspicious truck manifesting a shipment of chemicals, designated for agricultural use. The scans utilizing our company's Z Portal cargo scanners revealed anomalies in the cargo and CBP officers subsequently discovered 6.5 tons of methamphetamine, which had a street value of $117 million. The largest ever met seizure in the U.S. Port of Entry. We are proud to support the US CBP and their critical homeland security mission in stopping illegal drugs and other contraband and entering our nation. Moving on to the aviation and checkpoints, business continues to perform well with strong revenues and bookings. During Q3, we announced $21 million award from an international airport for checkpoint security infrastructure solutions, including our 920CT computerized tomography screening systems with automated tray return system, along with a multi-year service and support. We also announced a $27 million award from a leading European airport to provide the Itemiser 5x explosive trace detection ETD systems for secondary screening of passengers and carry-on baggage. As a side comment, the Itemiser 5x in addition to recurring service revenue like other products also has an ongoing revenue -- recurring revenue of consumables, which has a very healthy margin. And finally, we announced a $4 million award from a leading global air cargo logistics customer to provide various screening systems including the RTT 110 CT-based explosive detection system, the Orion 927DX and the 937DX for large package screening and the 920CX for smaller packages. As you can see from the different products mentioned, it helps to have a broad portfolio, which we are proud to say that we have the broadest portfolio compared to our competitors and utilizing this features and technology variations to provide optimized solutions for customers. We have seen over the last few quarters that airports and air cargo customers are making significant security infrastructure investments, and our business has benefit, and we believe that this trend will continue into fiscal ‘25 and beyond. Our turnkey projects in Albania, Periodico, Guatemala, and the European airport have been performing as anticipated. In addition, we are also gearing up to begin our latest turnkey Uruguay -- turnkey, which we expect to commence sometime in summer. In security, we look to finish the year strong, recent bookings activity and a significant opportunity pipeline suggests continued strong growth demand for 2025 and beyond. Moving to our Optoelectronics and Manufacturing division, where it was an uncharacteristic softer quarter, which we think is a one-off. We continue to work with several major customers to sync with their inventory demand forecast, which has impacted revenues in the short term as we had anticipated. The Opto Division achieved a book to bill exceeding one for the quarter, which bodes well for the business going forward. We announced a couple of Optos key wins, including a $15 million order from a healthcare OEM to provide critical subassemblies that are used in its innovative and specialized solutions. We also announced a $3 million award from major defense electronics OEM to provide sensors for advanced missile systems. During Q3, we began introducing prospective customers to a new operation in Mexico, Tecate, which has given us a significant capacity to help customers aspiring to shift work from Asia to nearshore. Looking ahead, we expect Opto to return to form in Q4 and believe the division is well positioned for fiscal ‘25 as the inventory rightsizing winds down with many of our customers. Finally, moving on to the Healthcare division, where revenues were approximately 6% lower than in the prior year’s Q3. This division continues to work through a challenging hospital CapEx environment despite that healthcare had an active booking score just before quarter end, we won a $6 million order from a U.S.-based hospital for our patient monitoring systems, including exhibit central stations, expression patient monitors, and queue patient monitors, which we expect to begin delivering in Q4. Our patient monitoring solutions allow customers to enhance their services by integrating features like the SafeNSound digital health platform and mobile app. This addition enables real time patient monitoring services. Additionally, customers can leverage the Rothman Predictive Health Analytics software to access advanced health analytics further augmenting our comprehensive monitoring offerings. We continue to invest heavily in developing new products, primarily in our next-generation platform for patient monitoring products and solutions. Overall, we are excited about a strong finish in fiscal ‘24 and continuing our momentum into the next fiscal year and beyond. As always, I would like to thank our employees, customers, and stockholders for their continued support. With that, I will turn the call back over to Alan to discuss her financial results and guidance in more detail before we open for questions.