Jon Snodgres
Analyst · First Analysis. Your line is open
Thank you, Tony, and good morning, everyone. Today, we are reporting our financial results for the second quarter of 2017, as well as updating our financial guidance for the year. As a reminder, unless otherwise mentioned, all 2017 financial measures discussed will be adjusted non-GAAP. Now, moving to our financial results. We are reporting second quarter of 2017 revenue of $32.5 million, an increase of approximately 11% as reported and 14% at constant currency compared to the second quarter of 2016. We experienced the 2.4% headwind in sales due to foreign currency fluctuation, most significantly in our proteins business, driven by weakness in both the British pound and Swedish krona versus the U.S. dollar. As Tony mentioned, our strong second quarter of 2017 revenue performance was driven by growth in our filtration business where we delivered strong double digit growth with our XCell ATF product line and where our TangenX business continues perform well, and is on track to hit our deal model in 2017. We were also pleased with the performance of our Proteins business, where we reported high single-digit organic growth in the quarter, and with our OPUS line of pre-packed columns that continued to drive the performance of our chromatography business. Our adjusted gross profit for the second quarter was $18.7 million, an increase of $2 million or 12% over the second quarter of 2016. And our adjusted gross margin was 57.5% for the quarter, a 30 basis point increase over the comparable 2016 period. Key drivers of our year-over-year gross margin increase, include a positive impact from improved product mix, driven by sales growth and contributions from our filtration and protein product lines. Now, moving to operating expenses. Research and development expenses for the second quarter of 2017 were $1.9 million, consistent with the comparable 2016 period, as we continue to invest in our single use ATF platform another important product line expansions and development. Adjusted SG&A for the second quarter of 2017 was $8.2 million compared to $7 million for the second quarter of 2016, reflecting an increase of $1.2 million or 16%. Approximately 40% of this year-over-year increase is related to expenses from our TangenX acquisition in December of 2016, which were not included in our prior year comparable figures, and approximately 60% of the increase is related to investments in our commercial organization where we had 15 direct sales reps and four field application specialist attending to our customers. Please note that adjusted SG&A in the 2017 quarter excludes a combined $3 million of acquisition cost and intangible amortization expenses compared to $1.1 million in the 2016 quarter. Now, moving to adjusted earnings and EPS. For the second quarter 2017, our adjusted operating margin was 26.6%. Our adjusted operating income grew to $8.6 million, an increase of $0.9 million or 11% compared to the second quarter of 2016. The year-over-year increase was driven by margin pull through from sales growth and gross margin expansion, partially offset by investments and operations, and commercial teams to support current and future growth. Adjusted net income for the second quarter of 2017 was $6.8 million compared to $6 million for the same period in 2016. And adjusted EPS for the second quarter of 2017 was $0.20 per fully diluted share, a 10% increase from $0.18 per share for the second quarter of 2016. In addition to delivering strong operating income in the second quarter, the Company also benefited from improved tax rate position related to our U.S. entity becoming profitable, following an internal asset transfer from the U.S. to Sweden, which drove a reduction in our year-to-date global tax rate. Adjusted EBITDA for the second quarter of 2017 was $9.2 million, a 7% increase from $8.6 million for the same period in 2016. Our cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities at June 30, 2017 were $145 million compared to $141 million at the end of the first quarter. Note that the $120 million cash component of our Spectrum acquisition is not reflected in this figure, nor are the net proceeds of $129 million of cash received from our recent equity financing, as both of these transactions were finalized after the second quarter close. Now, moving to 2017 full year guidance. As we move into our financial guidance section, please consider that we closed on the acquisition of Spectrum Inc. on August 1, 2017, and that our full year 2017 guidance now incorporates the financial impacts of Spectrum for the period of August 1 through December 31, 2017. Effective as of our Q3 earnings release plan for November and as considered in today's 2017 financial guidance, we will be excluding non-cash inventory step-up charges from our adjusted financials as we believe this change enables us to more appropriately reflect the true operating performance of our Company. Our GAAP to non-GAAP reconciliations of net income and EPS for 2017 financial guidance, including the adjustment for non-cash inventory step-up charges, are included in the reconciliation tables in today's earnings press release. As previously mentioned, all 2017 financial guidance discussed will be adjusted non-GAAP. Please also keep in mind that our 2017 guidance may be impacted by fluctuations in foreign exchange rates beyond our projected headwind of 1% on sales, and does not include the potential impact of new acquisitions beyond Spectrum. Today, we are increasing our 2017 full year revenue guidance to $138 million to $144 million, reflecting growth in the range of 32% to 38% as reported or 33% to 39% on a constant currency basis. This projection includes $17 million to $18 million of revenue expected from Spectrum. We are maintaining our adjusted gross margin guidance of 55.5% to 56.5% for the year inclusive of the acquired Spectrum business. We are increasing our 2017 adjusted operating income guidance to $30 million to $32 million, and maintaining our adjusted operating margin guidance of greater than 20% of revenue. This increase from our prior guidance of $27 million to $29 million incorporates approximately $3 million of adjusted operating income expected from Spectrum. We continue to guide to full year cash interest expense of $2.4 million related to our convertible debt financing. We are updating our guidance for 2017 adjusted income tax expense to approximately $5 million, down from our previous guidance of $5.5 million to $6 million with the expectation of a reduced U.S. income tax rate triggered by effects related to valuation allowance reversals associated with an internal product line transfer from the U.S. to Sweden, as well as from the Spectrum acquisition. As a result of our increased adjusted operating income from the acquisition of Spectrum, plus the expected benefit of lower income tax expenses, we are increasing our guidance for adjusted net income by $4 million to a range of $22.5 million to $24.5 million for the year, and raising our adjusted EPS guidance by $0.02 to a range of $0.57 to $0.62 per fully diluted share. We are also increasing our guidance for adjusted EBITDA by $3 million to a range of $34 million to $36 million for full year 2017 with depreciation expenses expected to be in the range of $5 million to $5.5 million, and intangible amortization expenses expected to be approximately $6.2 million, both including Spectrum. In terms of share count, we would like to remind investors of the importance of considering the following share count increases in the second half of 2017; first, the issuance of 6.154 million shares associated with the acquisition of Spectrum, effective August 1st; second is the issuance of 3.288 million shares, resulting from our equity financing, which closed in July; and third is the additional share count implication of our convertible debt, which accounted for 560,000 of unissued shares for Q2 on the basis of the average share price premium above the $32.07 conversion price. We’re expecting the full year weighted average, number of fully diluted shares to be 39.3 million or an additional 4.2 million of shares compared to the quarterly average fully diluted share count at June 30, 2017. We are pleased that the impact on adjusted EPS of share dilution related to both the Spectrum acquisition and our equity financing, are expected to be fully offset by Spectrum adjusted net income and EPS, during our five months of ownership in 2017. Inclusive of the equity financing, the completion of the Spectrum acquisition and the ongoing business of Spectrum, the Company expects to spend $8 million to $9 million for capital expenditures to support maintenance and continued factory expansion. And we now expect 2017 year-end cash, cash equivalents in marketable securities to be in the range of $152 million to $155 million. This completes our financial report. And I will now turn the call back to the operator to open the lines for questions.