Rovi Corporation Reports Third Quarter Financial Performance


SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 28, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Rovi Corporation (Nasdaq:ROVI) announced today that it had third quarter 2010 revenues of $138.0 million, compared to $114.5 million for the third quarter of 2009. Third quarter 2010 GAAP net income was $36.4 million, compared to a GAAP net loss of $11.9 million for the third quarter of 2009.

On a non-GAAP Adjusted Pro Forma basis, Adjusted Pro Forma Income was $59.0 million in the third quarter of 2010, compared to $34.4 million in the third quarter of 2009. Adjusted Pro Forma Income Per Common Share for the third quarter of 2010 was $0.55, compared to $0.33 for the third quarter of 2009. Adjusted Pro Forma Income and Adjusted Pro Forma Income Per Common Share are defined below, in the section entitled Non-GAAP or Adjusted Pro Forma Information. Reconciliations between GAAP pro forma and Adjusted Pro Forma results from operations are provided in the tables below.

"We completed another excellent quarter, growing revenue by 21% in Q3 2010, when compared to Q3 2009, and growing our profit measures by even more during the same period," said Fred Amoroso, President and CEO of Rovi. "In addition, we achieved a number of important business objectives, including expanding business for TotalGuide, expanding our licensing program, growing advertising revenues, and for the first time since the Gemstar acquisition, cash and investments net of debt is positive."

"Given the strength of our performance in the first nine months of 2010, we are raising and narrowing our revenue and earnings estimates for the remainder of 2010," added James Budge, Chief Financial Officer of Rovi. "We now expect our 2010 revenue estimates to range between $530 and $540 million and our 2010 Adjusted Pro Forma Income Per Common Share to be in a range between $2.00 and $2.10."

Non-GAAP or Adjusted Pro Forma Information

Rovi Corporation provides non-GAAP or Adjusted Pro Forma information. References to Adjusted Pro Forma information are non-GAAP pro forma measures. The Company provides Adjusted Pro Forma financial information to assist investors in assessing its current and future operations in the way that its management evaluates those operations. Adjusted Pro Forma Revenue, Adjusted Pro Forma Income and Adjusted Pro Forma Income Per Common Share are supplemental measures of the Company's performance that are not required by, and are not presented in accordance with GAAP. The Adjusted Pro Forma information does not substitute for any performance measure derived in accordance with GAAP, including, but not limited to, GAAP basis pro forma information. 

Adjusted Pro Forma Income is defined as pro forma income (loss) from continuing operations, net of tax, adding back non-cash items such as equity-based compensation, amortization of intangibles, amortization or write-off of note issuance costs, non-cash interest expense recorded on convertible debt under Accounting Standards Codification ("ASC") 470-20 (formerly known as FSP APB 14-1), mark-to-market fair value adjustments for interest rate swaps and caps, and the reversals of discrete tax items including reserves; as well as items which impact comparability that are required to be recorded under GAAP, but that the Company believes are not indicative of its core operating results such as transaction, transition and integration costs, restructuring and asset impairment charges, payments to note holders and for expenses in connection with the early redemption of debt, court awarded fees, gains on sale of strategic investments, the loss on exiting the Guideworks Joint Venture, and expenses related to certain Gemstar pre-acquisition indemnification and other matters in excess of reserves established in purchase accounting. While depreciation expense is a non-cash item, it is included in Adjusted Pro Forma Income as a reasonable proxy for capital expenditures.

Management has been using Adjusted Pro Forma measures since the acquisition of Gemstar-TV Guide International ("Gemstar"). Management did so, in part, because it believes that including Gemstar's operating results only for the period since its acquisition on May 2, 2008 diminishes the comparative value of results from the prior year. Adjusted Pro Forma financial information assumes all acquisitions occurring prior to March 31, 2009 (including the Gemstar acquisition) and all divestitures (including Software, Games, eMeta, Norpak, TV Guide Magazine, TVG Network, TV Guide Network and TV Guide Online), as well as any discontinued operations and product lines were effective on January 1, 2007. Additionally, the TVG Network, TV Guide Network and TV Guide Online businesses are assumed to have been sold for aggregate proceeds of $275 million which is assumed to have reduced the debt issued in conjunction with the acquisition of Gemstar.  

Adjusted Pro Forma Income Per Common Share is calculated using Adjusted Pro Forma Income and taking into account the benefit of the convertible debt call option when it allows the Company to purchase shares of its own stock at a price below what those shares could be purchased for in the open market. 

The Company's management evaluates and makes operating decisions about its business operations primarily based upon Adjusted Pro Forma Revenue, Adjusted Pro Forma Income and Adjusted Pro Forma Income Per Common Share. Management uses Adjusted Pro Forma Income and Adjusted Pro Forma Income Per Common Share as measures as they exclude items management does not consider to be "core costs" or "core proceeds" when making business decisions. Therefore, management presents these Adjusted Pro Forma financial measures along with GAAP measures.  For each such Adjusted Pro Forma financial measure, the adjustment provides management with information about the Company's underlying operating performance that enables a more meaningful comparison of its financial results in different reporting periods. For example, since Rovi Corporation does not acquire businesses on a predictable cycle, management excludes amortization of intangibles from acquisitions, transaction costs and transition and integration costs in order to make more consistent and meaningful evaluations of the Company's operating expenses. Management also excludes the effect of restructuring and asset impairment charges, insurance settlements, losses on debt redemption, court awarded fees, the loss on exiting the Guideworks Joint Venture, expenses related to certain Gemstar pre-acquisition indemnification and other matters in excess of reserves established in purchase accounting and gains on sale of strategic investments for the same reason. Management excludes discontinued product lines as it believes this exclusion is as meaningful for comparability purposes as excluding the results from a business that meets the criteria to be classified as discontinued operations on a GAAP basis. Management excludes the impact of equity-based compensation to help it compare current period operating expenses against the operating expenses for prior periods and to eliminate the effects of this non-cash item, which, because it is based upon estimates on the grant dates, may bear little resemblance to the actual values realized upon the future exercise, expiration, termination or forfeiture of the equity-based compensation, and which, as it relates to stock options and stock purchase plan shares, is required for GAAP purposes to be estimated under valuation models, including the Black-Scholes model used by Rovi Corporation.  Management excludes non-cash interest expense recorded on convertible debt under ASC 470-20, mark-to-market fair value adjustments for interest rate swaps and caps, and the reversals of discrete tax items including reserves as they are non-cash items and not considered "core costs" or meaningful when management evaluates the Company's operating expenses. Management reclassifies the current period benefit of the interest rate swaps from other income or expense to interest expense in order for interest expense to reflect the swap rates, as these instruments were entered into to convert, from fixed to floating, the interest rate the Company pays on its convertible debt.  Management includes the benefit of the convertible debt call option, which allows the Company to purchase up to 5.4 million shares of its own stock at approximately $28.28, and is excluded from GAAP EPS calculation as it is anti-dilutive, because the pragmatic reality is management would exercise this option rather than allow this dilution to occur.

Management uses these Adjusted Pro Forma measures to help it make budgeting decisions, including decisions that affect operating expenses and operating margin. Further, Adjusted Pro Forma financial information helps management track actual performance relative to financial targets. Making Adjusted Pro Forma financial information available to investors, in addition to GAAP financial information, may also help investors compare the Company's performance with the performance of other companies in our industry, which may use similar financial measures to supplement their GAAP financial information.

Management recognizes that the use of Adjusted Pro Forma measures has limitations, including the fact that management must exercise judgment in determining which types of charges should be excluded from the Adjusted Pro Forma financial information. Because other companies, including companies similar to Rovi Corporation, may calculate their non-GAAP financial measures differently than the Company calculates its Adjusted Pro Forma measures, these Adjusted Pro Forma measures may have limited usefulness in comparing companies. Management believes, however, that providing this Adjusted Pro Forma financial information, in addition to the GAAP financial information, facilitates consistent comparison of the Company's financial performance over time. The Company has provided Adjusted Pro Forma financial information to the investment community, not as an alternative, but as an important supplement to GAAP financial information; to enable investors to evaluate the Company's core operating performance in the same way that management does. Reconciliations between pro forma and Adjusted Pro Forma results of operations are provided in the tables below.

Dial-in Information

Rovi Corporation will hold an investor conference call at 4:30 p.m. Eastern time on October 28, 2010. Investors and analysts interested in participating in the conference are welcome to call 877-941-6010 (or international +1 480-629-9770) and reference the Rovi call.

The conference call can also be accessed via live webcast at www.rovicorp.com on October 28, 2010 at 4:30 p.m. Eastern time. The on-demand audio webcast of the earnings conference call will be made available as soon as practicable after the live webcast ends.

A replay of the conference call will be available through November 1, 2010 and can be accessed by calling 800-406-7325 (or international +1 303-590-3030) and entering passcode 4369244#. A replay of the audio webcast will be available on Rovi Corporation's website approximately 1-2 hours after the live webcast ends and will remain on Rovi Corporation's website until our next quarterly earnings call.

About Rovi Corporation

Rovi Corporation is focused on revolutionizing the digital entertainment landscape by delivering solutions that enable consumers to intuitively discover new entertainment from many sources and locations. The company also provides extensive entertainment discovery solutions for television, movies, music and photos to its customers in the consumer electronics, cable and satellite, entertainment and online distribution markets. These solutions, complemented by a leading collection of entertainment data, create the connections between people and technology, and enable them to discover and manage entertainment in an enjoyable form.

Rovi holds over 4,700 issued or pending patents worldwide and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with numerous offices across the United States and around the world including Japan, Hong Kong, Luxembourg, and the United Kingdom. More information about Rovi can be found at www.rovicorp.com.

The Rovi Corporation logo is available at http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/prs/?pkgid=6482

All statements contained herein, including the quotations attributed to Mr. Amoroso and Mr. Budge, that are not statements of historical fact, including statements that use the words "will," "believes," "anticipates," "estimates," "expects," "intends" or "looking to the future" or similar words that describe the Company's or its management's future plans, objectives, or goals, are "forward-looking statements" and are made pursuant to the Safe-Harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, the Company's estimates of future revenues and earnings, business strategies, and future opportunities for product, market or customer expansion.

Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause the actual results of the Company to be materially different from the historical results and/or from any future results or outcomes expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such factors include, among others, the Company's ability to successfully execute on its strategic plan and customer demand for and industry acceptance of the Company's technologies and integrated solutions. Such factors are further addressed in the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended September 30, 2010 and such other documents as are filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission from time to time (available at www.sec.gov). The Company assumes no obligation, except as required by law, to update any forward-looking statements in order to reflect events or circumstances that may arise after the date of this release. 

ROVI CORPORATION        
GAAP CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS        
(IN THOUSANDS, EXCEPT PER SHARE DATA)        
(UNAUDITED)        
         
  Three Months Ended Nine Months Ended
  September 30, September 30,
  2010 2009 2010 2009
         
Revenues  $ 138,028  $ 114,514  $ 401,306  $ 343,350
         
Costs and expenses:        
Cost of revenues  24,462  14,788  81,844  44,862
Research and development  23,440  23,080  71,390  67,863
Selling, general and administrative  33,642  34,077  101,556  98,302
Depreciation  4,771  4,543  14,163  13,519
Amortization of intangible assets  19,820  20,635  60,572  61,297
Restructuring and asset impairment charges  --   --   --   53,619
Total costs and expenses  106,135  97,123  329,525  339,462
         
Operating income from continuing operations  31,893  17,391  71,781  3,888
Interest expense  (10,542)  (10,266)  (32,391)  (41,433)
Interest income and other, net  1,624  948  1,749  3,801
Gain on interest rate swaps and caps, net  16,411  --   29,100  -- 
Loss on debt redemption  --   (8,687)  (15,970)  (8,687)
Gain on sale of strategic investment  5,895  --   5,895  -- 
Income (loss) from continuing operations before income taxes  45,281  (614)  60,164  (42,431)
Income tax expense (benefit)  7,657  11,150  (98,464)  (23,428)
Income (loss) from continuing operations, net of tax  37,624  (11,764)  158,628  (19,003)
Discontinued operations, net of tax  (1,206)  (157)  (12,929)  (36,575)
Net income (loss)  $ 36,418  $ (11,921)  $ 145,699  $ (55,578)
         
Basic income (loss) per share:        
Basic income (loss) per share from continuing operations  $ 0.36  $ (0.12)  $ 1.54  $ (0.19)
Basic loss per share from discontinued operations  $ (0.01)  $ (0.00)  $ (0.12)  $ (0.36)
Basic net income (loss) per share  $ 0.35  $ (0.12)  $ 1.42  $ (0.55)
         
Shares used in computing basic net earnings per share  102,730  101,084  102,200  100,511
         
Diluted income (loss) per share:        
Diluted income (loss) per share from continuing operations  $ 0.34  $ (0.12)  $ 1.46  $ (0.19)
Diluted loss per share from discontinued operations  $ (0.01)  $ (0.00)  $ (0.11)  $ (0.36)
Diluted net income (loss) per share  $ 0.33  $ (0.12)  $ 1.35  $ (0.55)
         
Shares used in computing diluted net earnings per share  108,917  101,084  107,760  100,511
 
See notes to the unaudited GAAP Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements in our Form 10-Q.
ROVI CORPORATION    
GAAP CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS    
(IN THOUSANDS)    
(UNAUDITED)    
ASSETS
  September 30, December 31,
  2010 2009
Current assets:    
Cash and cash equivalents  $ 281,997  $ 165,410
Short-term investments  280,672  107,362
Restricted cash  --  36,838
Trade accounts receivable, net  83,467  71,875
Taxes receivable  4,032  6,363
Deferred tax assets, net  18,690  7,844
Prepaid expenses and other current assets  12,602  10,661
Total current assets  681,460  406,353
Long-term marketable securities  93,092  26,674
Property and equipment, net  39,026  43,124
Finite-lived intangible assets, net  721,988  779,371
Long-term deferred tax assets, net  --  13,691
Other assets  44,499  27,861
Goodwill  857,048  854,065
Total assets  $ 2,437,113  $ 2,151,139
     
LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY
Current liabilities:    
Accounts payable and accrued expenses  $ 55,683  $ 81,369
Deferred revenue  17,652  16,536
Current portion of long-term debt   156,223  18,486
Total current liabilities  229,558  116,391
Taxes payable, less current portion  84,655  80,675
Long-term debt, less current portion  373,904  411,551
Deferred revenue, less current portion  3,741  4,919
Long-term, deferred tax liabilities, net  45,406  --
Other non current liabilities  19,303  17,334
Total liabilities  756,567  630,870
Redeemable equity component of convertible debt  6,473  --
Stockholders' equity:    
Common stock  110  106
Treasury stock  (134,931)  (25,068)
Additional paid-in capital  1,774,999  1,657,888
Accumulated other comprehensive loss  (1,225)  (2,078)
Retained earnings (deficit)  35,120  (110,579)
Total stockholders' equity  1,674,073  1,520,269
Total liabilities and stockholders' equity  $ 2,437,113  $ 2,151,139
     
See notes to the unaudited GAAP Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements in our Form 10-Q.
ROVI CORPORATION            
ADJUSTED PRO FORMA RECONCILIATION
(IN THOUSANDS, EXCEPT PER SHARE AMOUNTS)
(UNAUDITED)
  Three Months Ended Three Months Ended
  September 30, 2010 September 30, 2009
Revenues: GAAP
Pro Forma (9)
Adjustments Adjusted
Pro Forma
GAAP
Pro Forma (9)
Adjustments Adjusted
 Pro Forma
 Service providers  $ 65,711  $ --   $ 65,711  $ 57,256  $ --   $ 57,256
 CE manufacturers   57,891  --   57,891  44,234  --   44,234
  Other  14,426  --   14,426  13,024  --   13,024
   138,028  --   138,028  114,514  --   114,514
Costs and expenses:            
 Cost of revenues (1)  24,462  (4,358)  20,104  14,788  (213)  14,575
 Research and development (2)  23,440  (1,726)  21,714  23,080  (1,153)  21,927
 Selling, general and administrative (3)  33,642  (6,637)  27,005  34,077  (4,843)  29,234
 Depreciation (4)  4,771  --   4,771  4,543  --   4,543
 Amortization of intangible assets  19,820  (19,820)  --   20,635  (20,635)  -- 
 Total costs and expenses  106,135  (32,541)  73,594  97,123  (26,844)  70,279
Operating income from continuing operations  31,893  32,541  64,434  17,391  26,844  44,235
Interest expense (5)  (10,542)  10,047  (495)  (10,266)  3,759  (6,507)
Interest income and other, net  1,624  --   1,624  948  --   948
Gain on interest rate swaps and caps, net (6)  16,411  (16,411)  --   --   --   -- 
Loss on debt redemption  --   --   --   (8,687)  8,687  -- 
Gain on sale of strategic investment  5,895  (5,895)  --   --   --   -- 
Income (loss) from continuing operations before income taxes  45,281  20,282  65,563  (614)  39,290  38,676
Income tax expense (benefit) (7)  7,657  (1,101)  6,556  11,150  (6,896)  4,254
Income (loss) from continuing operations, net of tax  $ 37,624  $ 21,383  $ 59,007  $ (11,764)  $ 46,186  $ 34,422
Diluted income (loss) per share from continuing operations  $ 0.34    $ 0.55  $ (0.12)    $ 0.33
Shares used in computing diluted net earnings per share (8)  108,917  (1,897)  107,020  101,084  1,795  102,879
             
(1) Adjustments to cost of revenues consist of the following:            
    2010 2009      
 Equity based compensation    $ (358)  $ (213)      
 Expenses related to certain Gemstar pre-acquisition indemnification and other          
 matters in excess of reserves established in purchase accounting  (4,000)  --       
 Total adjustment    $ (4,358)  $ (213)      
             
(2) Adjustments to research and development consist of $1.7 million and $1.2 million for equity based compensation in the three months ended September 30, 2010 and 2009, respectively. 
(3) Adjustments to selling, general and administrative consist of $6.6 million and $4.8 million for equity based compensation in the three months ended September 30, 2010 and 2009, respectively.
(4) While depreciation is a non-cash item, it is included in Adjusted Pro Forma Income From Continuing Operations as management considers it a proxy for capital expenditures.          
(5) Adjustments eliminate non-cash interest expense such as amortization of note issuance costs and the convertible note discount recorded under ASC 470-20 (formerly known as FSP APB 14-1) and reclass to include the impact of interest rate swaps on interest expense.
(6) Adjustment eliminates non-cash mark-to-market gain of $12.8 million related to interest rate swaps and caps and reclassifies the $3.6 million current period benefit from the interest rate swap to interest expense.
(7) Adjusts tax expense to the adjusted pro forma cash tax rate.            
(8) For the 2010 period, recognizes the benefit of convertible debt call option, which allows the Company to purchase up to 5.4 million shares of its own stock at approximately $28.28, which is excluded from GAAP EPS calculation as it is anti-dilutive. For the 2009 period, adjust to include dilutive potential common shares as adjustments to pro forma loss from continuing operations resulted in Adjusted Pro Forma Net Income.
(9) GAAP Pro Forma information is the same as our GAAP results. No adjustments have been made to the GAAP results since they are comparative with prior quarters' pro forma results.  
             
ROVI CORPORATION            
ADJUSTED PRO FORMA RECONCILIATION            
(IN THOUSANDS, EXCEPT PER SHARE AMOUNTS)            
(UNAUDITED)            
  Nine Months Ended Nine Months Ended
  September 30, 2010 September 30, 2009
  GAAP   Adjusted GAAP   Adjusted 
Revenues: Pro Forma (11) Adjustments Pro Forma Pro Forma Adjustments Pro Forma
Service providers  $ 196,980  $ --   $ 196,980  $ 168,276  $ --   $ 168,276
CE manufacturers   164,171  --   164,171  138,658  --   138,658
 Other  40,155  --   40,155  36,416  --   36,416
   401,306  --   401,306  343,350  --   343,350
Costs and expenses:            
Cost of revenues (1)  81,844  (29,489)  52,355  44,862  (1,001)  43,861
Research and development (2)  71,390  (5,609)  65,781  67,863  (3,165)  64,698
Selling, general and administrative (3)  101,556  (19,091)  82,465  98,302  (14,027)  84,275
 Depreciation (4)  14,163  --   14,163  13,519  --   13,519
Amortization of intangible assets  60,572  (60,572)  --   61,297  (61,297)  -- 
Restructuring and asset impairment charges (5)  --   --   --   53,619  (53,619)  -- 
Total costs and expenses  329,525  (114,761)  214,764  339,462  (133,109)  206,353
Operating income from continuing operations  71,781  114,761  186,542  3,888  133,109  136,997
Interest expense (6)  (32,391)  26,291  (6,100)  (34,838)  11,641  (23,197)
Interest income and other, net (7)  1,749  992  2,741  3,801  --   3,801
Gain on interest rate swaps and caps, net (8)  29,100  (29,100)  --   --   --   -- 
Loss on debt redemption  (15,970)  15,970  --   (8,687)  8,687  -- 
Gain on sale of strategic investment  5,895  (5,895)  --   --   --   -- 
Income (loss) from continuing operations before income taxes  60,164  123,019  183,183  (35,836)  153,437  117,601
Income tax expense (benefit) (9)  (98,464)  116,782  18,318  (21,210)  34,146  12,936
Income (loss) from continuing operations, net of tax  $ 158,628  $ 6,237  $ 164,865  $ (14,626)  $ 119,291  $ 104,665
Diluted income (loss) per share from continuing operations  $ 1.46    $ 1.55  $ (0.15)    $ 1.03
Shares used in computing diluted net earnings per share (10)  107,760  (1,677)  106,083  100,511  769  101,280
             
(1) Adjustments to cost of revenues consist of the following:            
    2010 2009      
Equity based compensation    $ (1,005)  $ (504)      
Transition and integration costs    --   (497)      
Expenses related to certain Gemstar pre-acquisition indemnification and other matters in excess of reserves established in purchase accounting     (28,484)   --      
 Total adjustment    $ (29,489)  $ (1,001)      
             
(2) Adjustments to research and development consist of the following:            
    2010 2009      
Equity based compensation    $ (5,609)  $ (3,010)      
Transition and integration costs    --   (155)      
Total adjustment    $ (5,609)  $ (3,165)      
             
(3) Adjustments to selling, general and administrative consist of the following:            
    2010 2009      
Equity based compensation    $ (19,091)  $ (12,405)      
Transaction costs    --   (617)      
Transition and integration costs    --   (1,005)      
Total adjustment    $ (19,091)  $ (14,027)      
             
(4) While depreciation is a non-cash item, it is included in Adjusted Pro Forma Income From Continuing Operations as management considers it a proxy for capital expenditures.    
(5) For 2009, adjustment eliminates $44.7 million of non-cash asset impairment charges and $8.9 million of restructuring charges.        
(6) Adjustments eliminate non-cash interest expense such as amortization of note issuance costs and the convertible note discount recorded under ASC 470-20 (formerly known as FSP APB 14-1) and reclass to include the impact of interest rate swaps on interest expense.      
(7) Adjustment eliminates the $1.0 million loss related to exiting the Guideworks Joint Venture.            
(8) Adjustment eliminates non-cash mark-to-market gain of $22.4 million related to interest rate swaps and caps and reclassifies the $6.7 million current period benefit from the interest rate swap to interest expense.    
(9) For the 2010 period, the adjustments eliminate both the discrete income tax benefit due to the release of tax contingency reserves related to the net operating losses of the Company's former TV Guide Magazine business and the expense related to the valuation allowance established against the corresponding deferred tax assets, and adjusts tax expense to the adjusted pro forma cash tax rate. For 2009, adjusts tax expense to the adjusted pro forma tax rate.    
(10) For the 2010 period, recognizes the benefit of convertible debt call option, which allows the Company to purchase up to 5.4 million shares of its own stock at approximately $28.28, which is excluded from GAAP EPS calculation as it is anti-dilutive. For the 2009 period, adjust to include dilutive potential common shares as adjustments to pro forma loss from continuing operations resulted in Adjusted Pro Forma Net Income.    
(11) GAAP Pro Forma information for the 2010 period is the same as our GAAP results. No adjustments have been made to the GAAP results since they are comparative with prior quarters' pro forma results.    
             


            

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