Matthew M. Mannelly
Analyst · Oppenheimer
Good morning. Thank you, Dean, and thank you, everyone, for joining us this morning. We appreciate your time. Ron Lombardi, our CFO, is with me, and the agenda is on Page 3 of the presentation that Dean referenced earlier. I will start out and give some comments in terms of overall performance highlights. Ron will then take you through the financials. And then I will close it with some more closing comments, and we'll open it up for some Q&A from there. So with that, if you would turn to Slide 4. I believe you've seen this before, but just really to start out every presentation, we talk a little bit about our strategy and the key drivers for the company and how we create and deliver value today in moving forward for our shareholders. And for us, the strategies remain the same. The initiatives under the strategies may change, but the strategies remain the same over a long period of time. And our strategies have been, and will continue to be, to drive our core OTC growth, to leverage our financial profile, which Ron is going to talk to you a little bit about today, which really, we had an exceptional quarter as it relates to that, and to continue our aggressive and disciplined approach to M&A, and with that focus being exclusive in the OTC market. So with that, if you will turn to Slide 5, I'll talk a little bit about the highlights of the quarter, and I'd say, for starters, we're quite pleased and we feel we had an excellent financial performance for the quarter. Among the key measures include the fact that our third quarter revenue of $160 million is up over 50% from prior year. I think -- also, our adjusted earnings per share, which Ron will talk about, of $0.37, which is up 48% over last year. And then I think the numbers that are really outstanding, our record cash flow from operations of over $40 million for the quarter, you combine that with cash that we had on hand, as well as the sale of Phazyme, we paid down $83 million in debt this quarter, which is really quite a record for Prestige. As a result, our leverage ratio, our debt-to-EBITDA, which was 5.25 11 months ago when we purchased the GSK North America brands, is already down to 4.35, which is really exceptional. Other key highlights. From a brand-building standpoint, we continue to focus on our core OTC brands, and you can see our consumption growth continues to be very strong. And for our core OTC brands, our consumption growth for the latest quarter, the latest 12 weeks, is up 6.9%, and the categories in which those brands compete is up 3.2%. So we're almost 2x-ing category growth. Our core OTC organic revenue growth, when you combine the second and third quarters, it's up 4.8%, you're going to see cough/cold in terms of a shift in shipments to second quarter, and we'll go through that in the next couple of pages. The GSK brands, what I would say there is we have been very successful in terms of integrating the brands in this year. And at this point, we're really focusing our efforts around consumer efforts and some of the learning and preparing to set up for FY '14 investments on those brands, which we're very excited about. And then finally, as a result of the excellent performance for the quarter, we're going to take our full year adjusted EPS guidance up from $1.37 to $1.42, which we had raised last quarter, and we're going to take it up to $1.45 to $1.48 for the year. So we're quite pleased with that. So with that, if you'd move to Page 6. I think you've seen this page before. I'm going to talk first about shipments and then I'm going to talk about consumption. And you can see on a quarterly basis, and if you recall last quarter, questions were asked, your core OTC is up 11.3% for the quarter, and we said, "Well, it's never neat. It's always a timing type of thing." And you can see for the third quarter, our core OTC, the legacy brands, not the GSK brands year-over-year, but the legacy brands were down 1.2%. And that really is a result of, if you split it out into cough/cold and non-cough/cold. So I'll take you through that. You can see in the second quarter, our cough/cold brands were up 16.7% and our non-cough/cold were up 7.8% to get to a blended 11.3%. What that says is the trade was taking in inventory in preparation for the cough/cold season. So they did it in the second quarter. So you can see our non-cough/cold brands in the third quarter continue to be up 4.4%, while our cough/cold, after coming off at 16.7% quarter, was down 6.2%. So again, for a long enough time period, you can see second and third quarter combined when you look at cough/cold season, you'll see cough/cold brands up 3.2% and non-cough/cold up 6.3% for a 4.8% aggregate. So from a shipment standpoint, that shows, you in terms of cough/cold and non-cough/cold, what happens with the trade. If you turn to Page 7, you'll see the numbers that I just quoted on the left-hand side, in terms of cough/cold for second quarter, cough/cold for third quarter and then combined, as importantly, probably more importantly are the numbers on the right-hand side. So these are consumption numbers. This is what pulled off the shelf in each quarter. So on the second quarter, cough/cold brands you'll see listed there, from a consumption standpoint, were up 14.9%. In the third quarter, consumption was up 8.5%. So when you look at those 2 quarters combined, from a consumption standpoint, it's up 10.9%, and that's ultimately how we measure ourselves in terms of our consumers pulling our brands off the shelf. So with that, if you turn to Page 8, you'll see again the story that we've shown in the past that shows the total company, it shows our total over-the-counter business and it shows our core OTC business. Total company revenue, and again this is consumption, it's a consumption of all of our products, up 3% for the latest quarter, while the category is up 1.1%. Our over-the-counter brands up 3.8%, and the categories in which they compete up only 1.3%. And as I said previously, our core OTC up 6.9%, while the category is only growing 3.2%. So we are quite pleased in terms of the brand-building efforts and the marketing efforts continue to impact in terms of how the brands are being pulled off the shelf at retail. And Page 9 shows that as well in a different format. You can see what it means, how far we're outgrowing the category, the latest quarter, plus 3.7 points. And you can see that we're gaining market share in each quarter, and the latest quarter, 0.3 point in terms of market share gain. We're doing that among a number of brands, and on Slide 10, we show you Efferdent. And I think the key things I would point out are: It starts with bringing innovative product to the marketplace. And the new Efferdent Crystals product that had a very strong claim of kills 10x more odor-causing bacteria was a very powerful claim, so we decided to take that claim and put it on TV, and there had not been advertising in this category for a number of years. So we put significant television dollars behind the brand. We've also done things like displays in terms of a trial size units display that's now at retail. And you can see the results for the category and for our brand. The category, over the last quarter, is down 2.4%, while the Efferdent brand is up 3%. So we're clearly outdistancing the category again by over 2x. And you can see on the next Slide 11, how much of that Efferdent Crystals business has been incremental. So the red line is the base business, which is basically steady over the last year, all right? And over the last 9 months, since we introduced Efferdent Crystals. And you can see the Efferdent Crystals product has really been almost completely incremental to the brand. So that's what innovation does for you is bring incremental revenue to the brand. So we're quite pleased with the performance of Efferdent Crystals. Page 12 talks about -- on 13, talks about our Gaviscon product, which we have in our brand, a powerful brand for us in Canada. And as we said at the time of the acquisition, our Canadian business has doubled in size, and Gaviscon is our biggest brand in Canada. The brand has quite a bit of momentum. It's #1 in the category. You can see its consumption growth over the latest 52-week period, right? We don't get data as often in Canada as we do in the United States, but the latest data that we do have shows that consumption is up 8% and it's gained 8/10 of a share -- 0.8 points of market share over that time period. The next slide shows why. And the reasons are, we continue to put strong marketing support behind our lead brands. And in Canada, Gaviscon is one of our lead brands. So it can -- very compelling TV campaign in terms of for heartburn. Professional sampling. We're doing digital marketing and we have very strong performance in terms of merchandising at retail for the Gaviscon brand as well. With that, I'll turn it over to Ron who will take you through the financial highlights. And then we'll come back and wrap it up with a few comments and go to Q&A. Ron?