Ron Casciano
Analyst · Broadview Capital Management. Your line is open
Thank you, Chris. Good morning everyone. As always we appreciate your participation today. This call will focus on our third quarter results and our announcement today that we have sold our hotel, technology business PAR Springer-Miller systems. After my formal remarks on our performance in the quarter and the divesture by Bartusek our CFO will provide more extensive review of our third quarter financial performance. To begin after a lengthy and thorough review of strategic, options of our company to unlock shareholder value. This morning we announced that we had divested PAR Springer-Miller systems Inc to an affiliate of constellation software for $16.6 million with a possible addition of $1.5 million at certain financial targets are achieved. Although we have seen progress in new product development that was a prevailing sense and evidence in the lack of market demand by hotels of our cloud based property management technology. We’ve come to the conclusion that our company means to focus upon our core businesses to be successful for the long term. By sharpening our efforts on our strength and retail restaurants and government businesses, PAR is better positioned to introduce new value-added solutions and deliver higher operating margins. We are excited about this opportunity to focus on our core strength and drive profitable growth. The sale also provides a company with the financial flexibility to address future requirements and opportunities involving both segments and will immediately strengthen our balance sheet. Now turning to our results for the quarter, this morning we announced that the company reported third quarter revenues from continuing operations of $58.1 million compared to $52.6 million in the third quarter last year a 10.3% increase. On a non-GAAP basis PAR reported net income from continuing operations of $1.7 million or a $0.11 earnings per diluted share in the quarter. This compares a non-GAAP net income from continuing operations of $1.1 million and $0.07 earnings per diluted share in Q3 last year. We recorded GAAP net income from continuing operations is $1.3 million and earnings per diluted share of $0.08 in the quarter versus GAAP net income from continuing operations of 700,000 or earnings per diluted share of $0.04 last year. On a year-to-date basis, non-GAAP EPS from continuing operations doubled to $0.26 per diluted share in 2015 versus $0.13 in 2014. I’m pleased to report that our restaurant retail technology business produce another strong quarter and grew revenues 11% over the prior year period. Brink POS our cloud data solution for restaurants continues to exceed our initial expectations. Since we acquired Brink we have more than doubled the number of restaurants installed with our cloud solution. In regards to our point of diversification strategy in restaurants, we are winning new deals in non-traditional customers as evidenced with the signing of Pita Pit, a 500 plus store fast casual chain and also Pancho's a 65-plus store burrito chain in the quarter. In addition, our sales pipeline is extremely strong with additional opportunities for Brink and we have high confidence that the win rate for this Cloud solution will continue to fast track. Our new customers and the industry as a whole truly believes that the PAR Brink Solution is a game changer for restaurants and they feel strongly that PAR is a software innovator and technology leader. Our Tier 1 customer business also had a strong quarter, large new customer was over 3,400 stores is currently deploying PAR systems. Continued demand for McDonald's and M brands for our solutions in life cycle support also contributed to the revenue growth in the quarter. In line with our leadership position and innovation this past quarter, we introduced the EverServ 8000 Series platform, the company eighth generation point of sale terminal. The hardware platform uses innovative industrial design and latest Intel processor technology to maximize performance and improve guest experience. The 8000 delivers enhanced performance to reduce customer wait times and increase throughput of orders. PAR SureCheck Solutions it did made significant progress in the quarter and we delivered software enhancements to Walmart and in turn upgraded all 5000 domestic stores to the most recent version of the SureCheck platform. This customer’s commitment to our technology is steadfast both here and abroad Walmart International continues to rollout SureCheck including stores in Canada, U.K., China, Chile and Mexico. The expansion of SureCheck internationally is expected to continue well into 2016 and beyond. With the strong and growing pipeline SureCheck is a key element in our overall strategy of growing recurring revenues with software sales and software related services. Now turning to our government business, our government segment also delivered a solid quarter, we continue to see strength in this segment as non-GAAP income from operations grew 23% and revenue increased 9.5% from the prior year’s third quarter. The company won contracts with the ceiling value of nearly $90 million in the quarter, the industry practice regarding indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity booked only $46 million of that in the quarter, the backlog at the end of Q3 grew to $98.1 million from $73.5 million in Q2, the growth is being driven by both our business lines Intel Solutions and Mission Systems. Driving the increase in Intel Solutions is the expanded task orders with the ATAC program and sustained success in our extended business development efforts in the Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. On the Mission Systems side, we have been successful in retaining, expanding and modifying several existing contracts. We’re growing this business by providing value to PAR’s operational excellence targeting improved margins on sharing customer satisfaction. I would now like to turn the call over to Mike Bartusek to review our financials in further detail. Mike?