Kevin Tansley
Analyst · Raymond James and Associates. Please go ahead
Thanks very much, Joe. Today, I will take you all through the results for quarter one 2017. Beginning with our revenues, total revenues for the quarter were $23.5 million, which is adversely identical to quarter one of 2016’s revenues. As you can see from our press release, point-of-care revenues increased by 23% whereas clinical laboratory revenue decreased by 4%. Ronan will provide more details on revenues for the quarter later in the call. So I’ll now move on to discuss the other aspects of the income statement. Our gross margin for this quarter was 42%. While this is a reduction on the 43.1% in quarter one last year, it is higher than the margin we reported in quarter four of 2016 of 40%. Reduction in gross margin compares to equivalent quarter last year is principally due to lower production levels due to the product cull in quarter four. Given these lower production volumes, this has resulted in a level of under-absorbed fixed cost namely product, labor and overheads. We are also seeing some carry over impact from the U.S. dollar strength on distributor pricing effect, which we’ve mentioned in the last couple of quarters. Moving on to our indirect costs, our R&D expenses increased from $1.1 million in quarter one 2016 to $1.3 million this quarter. The $1.3 million this quarter is consistent with the quarterly average spends throughout 2016. Meanwhile, our SG&A expenses remained at $7 million and had no change for quarter one 2016. Operating profit for the quarter was $1.3 million compared to $1.8 million in quarter one 2016. This reduction is largely attributable to the combined impact of lower gross margins and the slightly higher indirect costs, which I mentioned earlier. However, when compared to quarter four last year, we have seen a significant recovery in operating profits. In this case, we’ve seen growth from $600,000 to let's say $1.3 million this quarter, i. e more than 100% increase. Moving on to our financing costs which includes the impact of the Company's convertible notes. Our financial income for the quarter was $177,000 versus $220,000 in the comparison period, which reflects lower cash deposit post share buyback and slightly lower interest rates. Financial expenses for the quarter were $1.2 million, which is consistent with quarter one 2016, a vast majority of which relates to the cash interest element of the convertible notes. Similarly, the non-cash financial income of $1 million also relates entirely to our convertible notes with non-cash interest of $200,000 and a gain of $1.2 million recorded for the change in the fair value of the derivatives embedded in these notes. This compares to a non-cash financial expense of $2 million in quarter one 2016. You would have seen that we’ve also reviewed our presentation of our income statement slightly this quarter, so that the non-cash items have been separately disclosed at the bottom of the statement close to age comparability. Our tax charge for the quarter was just under $100,000, and this represents an effective raise of 7% after adjusting for the certain nominal items, which currently do not attract tax. And in previous quarters, we continue to receive the combined benefit of the very competitive Irish corporation tax rate and tax credits arising in a number of other jurisdictions. Net result for the quarter is a profit of $1.2 million; however, excluding non-cash items, the profit of the quarter is just over $200,000. The basic EPS is $0.056 per share, and the EPS adjusted for non-cash items is $0.01. Meanwhile fully diluted EPS is $0.05 and this comparative $0.064 in the equivalent period last year. Finally, on the income statement, earnings before interest, tax, deprecation amortization and share option expense for the quarter was $2.7 million. I’ll now move on and to talk about the significant balance sheet movements since the end of December 2016. Operating plans and equipments have increased by $800,000. This is due to additions of $1.2 million being offset by depreciation of $400,000. In the same period, our intangible assets increased by $1.7 million and in this case, this was made up of additions of $2.4 million offset by amortization of $0.7 million. Moving on inventories, you would see that these have increased very slightly by $0.1 million to $32.7 million; however, we can expect the modest increase in the next two quarters due to the line season and the growth of our Premier business. Meanwhile, trade and other receivables have increased by $100,000 to $22.7 million, cash collections from customers remained healthy and the increase is actually due to an increase in pre-payments due in this case to renewal of certain annual contracts such as insurance, IT support, et cetera which tend to occur at the beginning of the calendar year. Meanwhile, our trade and other payables, which is both current and non-current payables have decreased from $26 million to $21.8 million. Of this, $1.1 million is due to the payment of the annual HIV license fee. Just to remind you, this is the second and last of these payments we made, a further $900,000 is due to payments related to the closure of the Swedish cardiac relation, including redundancy payments of another plant closure costs. The remaining movement is due to the timing of raw material purchases and other vendor payments. Finally, I will discuss our cash flows for the quarter. Cash generated from operations for the quarter was just under $100,000 compared to cash generated and equivalents to quarter last year of $1.9 million. Here you’re seeing the impact of the timing of supplier payments that I alluded to earlier. Capital expenditure for the quarter was 3.6%, which is a significant reduction from the $5.4 million in quarter one last year and this is obviously due to the elimination of the Meritas expenditure. The other major cash movements in the quarter was share repurchases of $1.8 million and HIV two license payments of $1.1 million. The net result is that we had a decrease in cash for the quarter of approximately $7.3 million with the quarter end balance being $69.9 million. I’ll now hand over to Ronan.