Jeff Buchanan
Analyst · Northland Securities
Thanks, James. Please note that this is only a discussion of our continuing operations. Therefore, when I refer to net income, this is only net income from our continuing operations. And when I reference EPS, I'm referring to earnings per diluted share from continuing operations. For the results of our discontinued operations, the sale of which was completed this quarter, please refer to our 10-Q which field this afternoon. Revenue for the quarter was a record $136 million. This is an increase of $44.3 million or 48.3% over the prior year. We exceeded our revenue expectations by bringing forward capacity increases and working with our suppliers. Our gross margins were 37.7%, nearly nine full percentage points higher than the first quarter of fiscal 2012. Gross margin was helped by a favorable production mix that included increased volumes of our strategically important M&P line, resulting in our corresponding improvement in manufacturing absorption. We also saw some one-time benefits in manufacturing and purchasing variances, including euro exchange rate benefits. Even without those one-time benefits, however, we have solid margin gains as a result of our focus on cost-saving efforts and manufacturing efficiencies. Therefore, we now expect that our gross margins will be above 34% for the rest of the year. Our operating expenses in the quarter totaled $20 million or 14.7% of revenue versus $21 million or 22.9% of revenue last year. Thus, even though we had greater profit sharing and incentive expenses, actual SG&A costs were lower because of company-wide cost-saving efforts, as well as the timing and phasing of the selling and marketing expenses. As we focus on increasing market share, however, we do expect to see future increases on our selling and marketing expense. Our operating income percentage for the quarter was 23% versus 6% last year. Net income in Q1 was a record $18.9 million or an EPS of $0.28, compared with net income of $2.3 million or an EPS of $0.04 last year, a seven-fold increase. Our trailing six-month EPS is now $0.55. Adjusted EBITDA was a record $36.1 million compared with $12.2 million last year. Our trailing six-month adjusted EBITDA is $67.3 million and our trailing 12-month adjusted EBITDA is $92.3 million. The reconciliation of non-GAAP adjusted EBITDA to GAAP net income can be found on our SEC filings in our updated Investor Presentation which has been posted on our website. And for reference, our six-month-trailing net income from continuing operations was $36.7 million and our 12-month trailing net income was $43 million. Now I will discuss a few balance sheet items. At the end of the quarter, we had $118.4 million in working capital, sequential quarterly increase of over $11 million. We had no borrowings under our credit facility, and free cash flow for the quarter was $3 million, not including the $5.5 million in cash we received from the sale of our discontinued operations. Our cash balance at the end of the quarter was $60.5 million. Capital expenditures were $6.3 million and were focused primarily on capacity expansion. CapEx in this fiscal year will include capacity expansion investments as well as significant investments in the maintenance and health of our infrastructure and systems, particularly in operations and IT. We expect to further intensify our efforts on capacity expansion and we believe capital expenditures in fiscal 2013 will be in the range of $30 million to $35 million. As I noted on our last call, we went into the bond market at the beginning of this quarter to purchase our 9.5% bond. Although the market in our bond is very thin, we did manage to acquire $6.4 million worth. We will continue to look for more opportunities to purchase our bonds, but of course we'll always evaluate the best use of cash based on relevant circumstances at any particular time. Based on our cash balance of $60.5 million and our long-term bond obligation of $43.6 million, we have a net cash position that is the highest in our history as a public company. As we continue to grow, however, we do expect that working capital needs will increase. And with that, I'll turn the call back over on to James for a discussion of our operational results.