COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., April 23, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Spectranetics Corporation (Nasdaq:SPNC) today reported financial results for the three months ended March 31, 2014, which are in-line with preliminary results announced on April 7, 2014. Highlights of the quarter, all compared with the three months ended March 31, 2013 include:
- Revenue of $39.6 million, up 5%
- Vascular Intervention revenue grew 16%, led by U.S. peripheral atherectomy revenue growth of 29%
- Lead Management revenue decreased 4% (5% constant currency1)
- Laser, Service & Other revenue decreased 5% (6% constant currency)
- U.S. revenue grew 3% to $31.8 million; International revenue grew 14% (11% constant currency) to $7.8 million
- Gross margin of 73.9%, an increase from 72.6%
"In the first quarter, we continued our track record of strong performance in the Vascular Intervention business, highlighted by U.S. peripheral atherectomy growth of 29%. We are taking immediate action to return Lead Management to growth in the second half of 2014, driven by a return to double digit growth in the fourth quarter. We are confident in the long-term strength of this business, due to the ramp up of our newly hired sales teammates, launch of mechanical tools and improved commercial execution. Traction in our Vascular business is steadfast. Early success with the EXCITE In-Stent Restenosis trial and the submission of our 510(k) filing for the ISR indication are critical steps to accelerating top line growth, expanding gross margins and achieving meaningful operating leverage," said Spectranetics President and Chief Executive Officer, Scott Drake.
1Constant currency is a non-GAAP financial measure. See "Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Financial Measures" later in this release.
Revenue for the three months ended March 31, 2014 increased 5% to $39.6 million, from $37.7 million in the 2013 period. Vascular Intervention revenue increased 16% to $20.0 million; Lead Management revenue decreased 4% (5% constant currency) to $14.5 million and Laser System, Service and Other revenue decreased 5% (6% constant currency) to $5.1 million.
Geographically, revenue in the United States was $31.8 million, an increase of 3% from the three months ended March 31, 2013. International revenue totaled $7.8 million, an increase of 14% as reported (11% constant currency), from the three months ended March 31, 2013.
Net loss for the three months ended March 31, 2014 was $5.7 million, or $0.14 per share, compared with a net loss of $959,000, or $0.03 per share, for the three months ended March 31, 2013. These net loss results are consistent with our expectations and reflect our investment in the field sales team expansion and seasonally higher operating expenses that are typical in the first quarter of the year. Adjusted EBITDA2 was negative $2.9 million for the three months ended March 31, 2014 compared with $1.3 million for the three months ended March 31, 2013. Adjusted EBITDA provides for comparability between periods and represents an additional measure of the operating performance of the business.
2014 Outlook
Spectranetics management projects revenue for 2014 to be in the range of $171.5 million to $174.0 million, an increase of 8% to 10% over 2013. No revenue is included in our outlook for mechanical tools or the ISR indication.
Net loss for 2014 is projected to be in the range of $7.5 - $9.5 million, or $0.18 - $0.23 per share. Adjusted EBITDA is anticipated to be in the range of $3.5 - $5.5 million, compared with Adjusted EBITDA of $11.2 million in 2013. The medical device tax is included in both periods.
Conference Call
Management will host an investment community conference call today beginning at 2:30 p.m. MT / 4:30 p.m. ET. Individuals interested in listening to the conference call may dial (877) 561-2747 for domestic callers or (973) 409-9689 for international callers, or access the webcast on the investor relations section of the Company's Web site at: www.spectranetics.com. The webcast will be available on the Company's Web site for 14 days following the completion of the call.
2Adjusted EBITDA is a non-GAAP financial measure. See "Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Financial Measures" later in this release.
About Spectranetics
Spectranetics develops, manufactures, markets and distributes single-use medical devices used in minimally invasive procedures within the cardiovascular system. The Company's products are sold in over 40 countries and are used to treat arterial blockages in the heart and legs, and to remove pacemaker and defibrillator leads.
The Company's Vascular Intervention (VI) products include a range of laser catheters for ablation of blockages in arteries above and below the knee. The Company also markets support catheters to facilitate crossing of peripheral and coronary arterial blockages, and retrograde access and guidewire retrieval devices used in the treatment of peripheral arterial blockages, including chronic total occlusions. The Company markets aspiration and cardiac laser catheters to treat blockages in the heart.
The Lead Management (LM) product line includes excimer laser sheaths,mechanical sheaths and accessories for the removal of pacemaker and defibrillator cardiac leads.
For more information, visit www.spectranetics.com
Safe Harbor Statement
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Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures
To supplement our condensed consolidated financial statements prepared in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), we use certain non-GAAP financial measures in this release. Reconciliations of the non-GAAP financial measures used in this release to the most directly comparable GAAP measures for the respective periods, and an explanation of our use of these non-GAAP measures, can be found in "Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Financial Measures" immediately following the financial tables. Non-GAAP financial measures have limitations as analytical tools and should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for our financial results prepared in accordance with GAAP.
-Financial tables follow-
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| Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations | ||
| (in thousands, except per share data and percentages) | ||
| (unaudited) | ||
| Three Months Ended March 31, | ||
| 2014 | 2013 | |
| Revenue | $ 39,614 | $ 37,675 |
| Cost of products sold | 10,334 | 10,319 |
| Gross profit | 29,280 | 27,356 |
| Gross margin % | 74% | 73% |
| Operating expenses: | ||
| Selling, general and administrative | 27,869 | 22,801 |
| Research, development and other technology | 6,229 | 5,172 |
| Medical device excise tax | 525 | 522 |
| Acquisition-related intangible asset amortization | 137 | 164 |
| Contingent consideration expense | 38 | 202 |
| Total operating expenses | 34,798 | 28,861 |
| Operating loss | (5,518) | (1,505) |
| Other income (expense), net | 4 | (29) |
| Loss before taxes | (5,514) | (1,534) |
| Income tax expense (benefit) | 147 | (575) |
| Net loss | $ (5,661) | $ (959) |
| Net loss per common share: | ||
| Basic and diluted | $ (0.14) | $ (0.03) |
| Weighted average shares outstanding: | ||
| Basic and diluted | 41,354 | 34,960 |
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| Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets | ||
| (in thousands) | ||
| (unaudited) | ||
| December 31, | ||
| March 31, 2014 | 2013 | |
| ASSETS | ||
| Current assets: | ||
| Cash and cash equivalents | $ 120,866 | $ 128,395 |
| Accounts receivable, net | 27,652 | 26,766 |
| Inventories, net | 9,828 | 9,476 |
| Deferred income taxes, current portion, net | 445 | 445 |
| Other current assets | 3,489 | 2,748 |
| Total current assets | 162,280 | 167,830 |
| Property and equipment, net | 28,747 | 28,281 |
| Goodwill and intangible assets | 20,318 | 20,455 |
| Other assets | 612 | 591 |
| Total assets | $ 211,957 | $ 217,157 |
| LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY | ||
| Current liabilities | $ 19,809 | $ 23,225 |
| Non-current liabilities | 4,001 | 3,932 |
| Stockholders' equity | 188,147 | 190,000 |
| Total liabilities and stockholders' equity | $ 211,957 | $ 217,157 |
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| Supplemental Financial Information | |||||
| (Unaudited) | |||||
| Financial Summary | 2013 | 2014 | |||
| (000's, except laser sales and installed base amounts) | 1st Qtr | 2nd Qtr | 3rd Qtr | 4th Qtr | 1st Qtr |
| Disposable products revenue: | |||||
| Vascular Intervention revenue | $ 17,193 | $ 18,897 | $ 18,956 | $ 20,555 | $ 20,021 |
| Lead Management revenue | 15,079 | 15,078 | 16,075 | 16,286 | 14,470 |
| Total disposable products revenue | 32,272 | 33,975 | 35,031 | 36,841 | 34,491 |
| Service and other revenue | 2,878 | 2,888 | 2,851 | 2,795 | 2,769 |
| Laser revenue: | |||||
| Equipment sales | 1,381 | 1,395 | 906 | 1,153 | 1,530 |
| Rental fees | 1,144 | 1,195 | 975 | 1,131 | 824 |
| Total laser revenue | 2,525 | 2,590 | 1,881 | 2,284 | 2,354 |
| Total revenue | 37,675 | 39,453 | 39,763 | 41,920 | 39,614 |
| Net income (loss) | (959) | (728) | 434 | 883 | (5,661) |
| Adjusted EBITDA (1) | 1,290 | 2,147 | 3,784 | 3,984 | (2,881) |
| Cash flow generated by (used in) operating activities | (6,377) | 2,048 | 3,513 | 5,029 | (8,359) |
| Total cash and cash equivalents at end of quarter | 25,228 | 119,356 | 123,570 | 128,395 | 120,866 |
| Laser sales summary: | |||||
| Laser sales from inventory | 8 | 9 | 9 | 5 | 9 |
| Laser sales from evaluation/rental units | 7 | 5 | — | 5 | 4 |
| Total laser sales | 15 | 14 | 9 | 10 | 13 |
| (1) Adjusted EBITDA is a non-GAAP financial measure. Please refer to the non-GAAP reconciliation tables following this table for the reconciliation to the most comparable GAAP measure. | |||||
| Worldwide Installed Base Summary: | |||||
| Laser sales from inventory | 8 | 9 | 9 | 5 | 9 |
| Rental placements | 20 | 28 | 27 | 29 | 20 |
| Evaluation placements | 11 | 11 | 4 | 9 | 8 |
| Laser placements during quarter | 39 | 48 | 40 | 43 | 37 |
| Buy-backs/returns during quarter | (25) | (23) | (26) | (18) | (17) |
| Net laser placements during quarter | 14 | 25 | 14 | 25 | 20 |
| Total lasers placed at end of quarter | 1,080 | 1,105 | 1,119 | 1,144 | 1,164 |
Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Financial Measures
To supplement our condensed consolidated financial statements prepared in accordance with GAAP, we use certain non-GAAP financial measures in this release. Reconciliations of these non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measures for the respective periods can be found in the tables below. An explanation of the manner in which our management uses these non-GAAP measures to conduct and evaluate our business and the reasons management believes these non-GAAP measures provide useful information to investors are provided following the reconciliation tables.
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| Reconciliation of revenue by geography to non-GAAP revenue by geography | ||||||
| on a constant currency basis | ||||||
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| Three Months Ended | ||||||
| March 31, 2014 | March 31, 2013 | Change | ||||
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| compared | constant | Constant | ||||
| Revenue, | to prior | currency | Revenue, as | currency | ||
| as reported | period | basis | reported | As reported | basis | |
| United States | $ 31,772 | $ — | $ 31,772 | $ 30,791 | 3% | 3% |
| International | 7,842 | (179) | 7,663 | 6,884 | 14% | 11% |
| Total revenue | $ 39,614 | $ (179) | $ 39,435 | $ 37,675 | 5% | 5% |
| Reconciliation of revenue by product line to non-GAAP revenue by product line | ||||||
| on a constant currency basis | ||||||
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| Three Months Ended | ||||||
| March 31, 2014 | March 31, 2013 | Change | ||||
| Foreign | ||||||
| exchange | Revenue | |||||
| impact as | on a | |||||
| compared | constant | Constant | ||||
| Revenue, | to prior | currency | Revenue, as | currency | ||
| as reported | period | basis | reported | As reported | basis | |
| Vascular Intervention | $ 20,021 | $ (54) | $ 19,967 | $ 17,193 | 16% | 16% |
| Lead Management | 14,470 | (86) | 14,384 | 15,079 | (4)% | (5)% |
| Laser System, Service & Other | 5,123 | (39) | 5,084 | 5,403 | (5)% | (6)% |
| Total revenue | $ 39,614 | $ (179) | $ 39,435 | $ 37,675 | 5% | 5% |
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| Reconciliation of Net Income (Loss) to EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA | |||||
| (in thousands) | |||||
| (unaudited) | |||||
| March 31, | June 30, | September | December | March 31, | |
| 2013 | 2013 | 30, 2013 | 31, 2013 | 2014 | |
| Net income (loss), as reported | $ (959) | $ (728) | $ 434 | $ 883 | $ (5,661) |
| Income tax expense (benefit) | (575) | 64 | 406 | 885 | 147 |
| Interest expense (income), net | 4 | (6) | 1 | (2) | (1) |
| Depreciation and amortization | 2,454 | 2,369 | 2,463 | 2,419 | 2,459 |
| Acquisition-related intangible asset amortization (1) | 164 | 246 | 246 | 245 | 137 |
| EBITDA | 1,088 | 1,945 | 3,550 | 4,430 | (2,919) |
| Contingent consideration expense (1) | 202 | 202 | 234 | 229 | 38 |
| Intangible asset impairment and change in contingent consideration liability, net (1) | — | — | — | (675) | — |
| Adjusted EBITDA (2) | $ 1,290 | $ 2,147 | $ 3,784 | $ 3,984 | $ (2,881) |
| 1) Acquisition-related intangible asset amortization relates to intangible assets acquired from Upstream Peripheral Technologies Ltd. ("Upstream") in January 2013. Contingent consideration expense represents the accretion of the estimated contingent consideration liability related to amounts payable to Upstream in 2014, 2015 and 2016, primarily based on sales of the products acquired. At the acquisition date, we recorded a contingent consideration liability, representing the estimated fair value of the future contingent payments we expected to make at that time. As of December 31, 2013, based on our assessment that we are not likely to generate the level of revenues from sales of the Upstream products that we anticipated at the acquisition date, we remeasured the contingent consideration liability to its fair value and reduced it by approximately $5.2 million. As a result of lower projected revenues for these products, we reviewed the recoverability of the intangible assets acquired. This review resulted in an impairment charge of approximately $4.5 million related to those assets, based on their revised fair value using current cash flow assumptions. Although we have lowered our revenue expectations, we continue to expect these products to have a positive effect on future profitability. Further, we believe these products are important niche products that strategically complement and complete our crossing solutions chronic total occlusion (CTO) portfolio. | |||||
| 2) In 2014, we are not adding back the medical device excise tax to Adjusted EBITDA, as the tax was also included in 2013 results. Therefore, the 2013 quarterly Adjusted EBITDA numbers have been restated to include the medical device excise tax. | |||||
Management uses the non-GAAP financial measures as supplemental measures to analyze the underlying trends in our business, assess the performance of our core operations, establish operational goals and forecasts that are used in allocating resources and evaluate our performance period over period and in relation to our competitors' operating results.
The impact of foreign exchange rates is highly variable and difficult to predict. We use a constant currency basis to show the impact from foreign exchange rates on current period revenue compared to prior period revenue using the prior period's foreign exchange rates. In order to properly understand the underlying business trends and performance of our ongoing operations, we believe that investors may find it useful to consider the impact of excluding changes in foreign exchange rates from our revenue.
We believe presenting the non-GAAP financial measures used in this release provides investors greater transparency to the information used by our management for financial and operational decision-making and allows investors to see our results "through the eyes" of management. We also believe providing this information better enables our investors to understand our operating performance and evaluate the methodology used by management to evaluate and measure such performance.
Non-GAAP financial measures have limitations as analytical tools and should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for our financial results prepared in accordance with GAAP. Some limitations associated with using these non-GAAP financial measures are provided below:
- Management exercises judgment in determining which types of charges or other items should be excluded from the non-GAAP financial measures used.
- Depreciation and amortization expense, while not requiring cash settlement, are ongoing and recurring expenses and have a material impact on GAAP net income and reflect economic costs to us not reflected in Adjusted EBITDA. The intangible asset impairment, while not requiring cash settlement, reflects an economic cost to us not reflected in Adjusted EBITDA.
- Items such as the contingent consideration expense excluded from Adjusted EBITDA can have a material impact on cash flows and GAAP net income and reflect economic costs to us not reflected in Adjusted EBITDA.
- Revenue growth rates stated on a constant currency basis, by their nature, exclude the impact of changes in foreign currency exchange rates, which may have a material impact on GAAP revenue.
- Non-GAAP financial measures are not based on any comprehensive set of accounting rules or principles and therefore other companies may calculate similarly titled non-GAAP financial measures differently than we do, limiting the usefulness of those measures for comparative purposes.