BURLINGTON, ONTARIO — (Marketwired) — 12/02/15 — Attention Business/Financial Editors:
Evertz Technologies Limited (TSX: ET), the leader in Software Defined Video Network (“SDVN”) technology, today reported its results for the second quarter ended October 31, 2015.
Quarterly Highlights
Revenue
For the quarter ended October 31, 2015, revenues were $100.6 million compared to revenues of $82.9 million for the quarter ended October 31, 2014. For the quarter, revenues in the United States/Canada region were $61.2 million compared to $45.4 million in the same quarter last year. The International region had revenues of $39.3 million compared to $37.5 million in the same quarter last year.
Gross Margin
For the quarter ended October 31, 2015 gross margin was $57.5 million compared to $46.6 million in the same quarter last year. Gross margin percentage was approximately 57.2% compared to 56.2% in the quarter ended October 31, 2014.
Earnings
For the quarter ended October 31, 2015 net earnings were $19.6 million, compared to $14.3 million in the corresponding period last year.
For the quarter ended October 31, 2015, earnings per share on a fully-diluted basis were $0.26 compared to $0.19 in the corresponding period last year.
Operating Expenses
For the quarter ended October 31, 2015 selling and administrative expenses were $14.8 million compared to $15.1 million for the quarter ended October 31, 2014.
For the quarter ended October 31, 2015 gross research and development expenses increased by $1.0 million or 7% as compared to the corresponding period in 2014. Gross research and development expenses represented approximately 16% of revenue for the quarter ended October 31, 2015.
Liquidity and Capital Resources
The Company–s working capital as at October 31, 2015 was $305.8 million as compared to $294.9 million on April 30, 2015.
Cash and cash equivalents were $97.5 million as at October 31, 2015 as compared to $100.7 million on April 30, 2015.
Cash generated from operations was $23.7 million for the quarter ended October 31, 2015 as compared to cash used of $0.7 million for the quarter ended October 31, 2014. Before taking into account taxes and the changes in non-cash working capital and current taxes, the Company generated $22.2 million from operations for the quarter ended October 31, 2015 compared to $17.5 million for the same period last year.
For the quarter, the Company used $1.1 million in investing activities largely a result of purchases in capital assets.
For the quarter ended, the Company used cash in financing activities of $21.6 million which was principally a result of the payment of dividends of $14.0 million and the repurchase of Capital Stock costing $7.5 million.
Shipments and Backlog
At the end of November 2015, purchase order backlog was in excess of $66 million and shipments during the month of November 2015 were $30 million.
Dividend Declared
Evertz–s Board of Directors declared a regular quarterly dividend on December 2, 2015 of $0.18 per share.
The dividend is payable to shareholders of record on December 11, 2015 and will be paid on or about December 18, 2015.
Forward-Looking Statements
The report contains forward-looking statements reflecting Evertz–s objectives, estimates and expectations. Such forward looking statements use words such as “may”, “will”, “expect”, “believe”, “anticipate”, “plan”, “intend”, “project”, “continue” and other similar terminology of a forward-looking nature or negatives of those terms.
Although management of the Company believes that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are reasonable, all forward-looking statements address matters that involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors. Accordingly, there are or will be a number of significant factors which could cause the Company–s actual results, performance or achievements, or industry results to be materially different from any future results performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements.
Conference Call
The Company will hold a conference call with financial analysts to discuss the results on December 2, 2015 at 5:00 p.m. (EDT). Media and other interested parties are invited to join the conference call in listen-only mode. The conference call may be accessed by dialing 416-849- 1967 or toll-free (North America) 1-866-253-4709.
For those unable to listen to the live call, a rebroadcast will also be available until January 2, 2016. The rebroadcast can be accessed at 416-915-1035 or toll-free 1-866-245-6755. The pass code for the rebroadcast is 299199.
About Evertz
Evertz Technologies Limited (TSX: ET) designs, manufactures and markets video and audio infrastructure solutions for the television, telecommunications and new-media industries. The Company–s solutions are purchased by content creators, broadcasters, specialty channels and television service providers to support their increasingly complex multi-channel digital and high definition television (“HDTV”) and next generation high bandwidth low latency IP network environments and by telecommunications and new-media companies. The Company–s products allow its customers to generate additional revenue while reducing costs through the more efficient signal routing, distribution, monitoring and management of content as well as the automation of previously manual processes.
Contacts:
Evertz Technologies Limited
Anthony Gridley
Chief Financial Officer
(905) 335-7580
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