FARO's Strong Sales Performance Drives Earnings Growth of 142% to
29 Cents Per Share in Q2 2004 Vs. 12 Cents in Q2 2003 LAKE MARY,
Fla., Aug. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- FARO Technologies, Inc.
(NASDAQ:FARO) today reported a 156 % increase in net income in the
second quarter of 2004 to $4.1 million, or 29 cents per diluted
share, from $1.6 million, or 12 cents per diluted share in the
second quarter of 2003. Sales for the quarter increased $7.9
million, or 48.8 % to $24.1 million, from $16.2 million in the
second quarter of 2003. New orders in the second quarter increased
$5.7 million, or 35.2% to $21.9 million, compared to $16.2 million
in the second quarter of 2003. Gross margin increased 1.3
percentage points to 63.2% in the quarter, from 61.9% in the second
quarter of 2003. Selling, general and administrative ("SG&A")
expenses decreased as a percentage of sales from 41.7 % in the
second quarter of 2003 to 36.8% in the second quarter of 2004.
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Income from operations increased $3.0 million from $1.6 million in
the second quarter of 2003 to $4.6 million in the second quarter of
2004. This increase was primarily a result of an increase in gross
profit of $5.1 million, offset by a $2.1 million increase in
SG&A expenses. On a sequential quarter basis, operating margin
improved to 19.2% in the second quarter of 2004, compared to 15.9%
in the first quarter of 2004. Income tax expense in the second
quarter of 2004 was $760,000 or 15.6% of income before taxes,
compared to $240,000 or 13.3% in the year-ago quarter. Income tax
expense as a percentage of taxable income was lower than the
Company's 20%-25% forecast because the Company was able to realize
additional tax loss carry-forwards in its European operations. The
Company expects to realize additional tax loss carry-forwards
through the balance of 2004, resulting in an estimated income tax
rate of 15%-20% in the second half of 2004. Regionally, sales in
the Americas increased 27.2% in the second quarter to $10.3
million, from $8.1 million in the second quarter of 2003. Sales in
the Europe/Africa region increased 56.5% to $10.8 million, from
$6.9 million in 2003. Sales in the Asia/Pacific region grew 130.8%
to $3.0 million, from $1.3 million in 2003. The Company also
announced that it would add direct sales offices in South Korea and
India to its Asia/Pacific group in the second half of 2004. "The
second quarter results bring our trailing twelve month's earnings
per share to $0.97, and we are now approaching the target financial
model that we set as a goal several years ago," said Simon Raab,
President and CEO. "To solidify our market leading position and
continue our growth momentum, we are going to ramp up research and
development spending to 6%-7% of sales, open more direct sales
offices in Asia/Pacific, and add approximately 20 application
engineers to our worldwide sales organization, to provide
additional customer support for our newer Laser Tracker and Faro
Gage products. We will continue to manage our costs vigilantly, but
we expect to incur approximately $500,000 in professional fees in
the second half of this year to assist FARO in its Sarbanes Oxley
Section 404 compliance activities. These additional costs may be
offset by higher sales in Asia/Pacific contingent on ramping our
capabilities and activities in this market. As such we have
tempered our revised earnings estimates for 2004." Outlook for the
remainder of 2004. We expect sales in the third and fourth quarters
to reflect the seasonality apparent in our 5- year experience prior
to 2003, rather than the linear growth seen in 2003. We expect new
orders in the second half of 2004 to be approximately $45-$47
million, compared to $41 million in the first half. Since we have
improved our production metrics, we have brought our backlog down
to a customer-acceptable 2-3 weeks of sales, and we expect sales to
track the new order rate, or the book to bill ratio to be
approximately one. Therefore we are maintaining our forecast for
2004 sales at $90-$93 million. Given our first half earnings, and
the expected impact of the second half costs mentioned above, we
are raising our earlier forecast for net income of $0.71-$0.86 per
diluted share, to $0.85-$1.00 per diluted share in 2004. A
conference call reviewing the second quarter of 2004 will be held
Wednesday, August 4, 2004 beginning at 11:00 AM (Eastern)/ 8:00 AM
(Pacific). To participate please dial 800.795.1259 five minutes
prior to start time. International callers should dial
785.832.0326. The Conference ID is "FARO". A recording of the call
will be available until November 4, 2004 by dialing 800.934.8367.
International callers should dial 402.220.6994. No access code is
needed for the replay. The call will be simultaneously broadcast
over the Internet at:
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call will be archived at the Company's website at
http://www.faro.com/. Financial Tables Follow This press release
contains forward-looking statements (within the meaning of the
Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995) that are subject
to risks and uncertainties, such as statements about our plans,
objectives, projections, expectations, assumptions, strategies, or
future events. Statements that are not historical facts or that
describe the Company's plans, objectives, projections,
expectations, assumptions, strategies, or goals are forward-looking
statements. In addition, words such as "may," "believes,"
"anticipates," "expects," "intends," "plans," "seeks," "estimates,"
"will," "should," "could," "projects," "forecast," and similar
expressions or discussions of our strategy or other intentions
identify forward-looking statements. Other written or oral
statements, which constitute forward-looking statements, also may
be made by the Company from time to time. Forward- looking
statements are not guarantees of future performance and are subject
to various known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other
factors that may cause actual results, performances, or
achievements to differ materially from future results,
performances, or achievements expressed or implied by such
forward-looking statements. Consequently, undue reliance should not
be placed on these forward-looking statements. Factors that could
cause actual results to differ materially from what is expressed or
forecasted in forward-looking statements include, but are not
limited to: - our inability to maintain historical or projected
sales growth rates; - our inability to maintain or reduce operating
expenses or maintain or increase our gross margin or operating
margin; - difficulties in ramping up sales in Asia; - increases in
expenses relating to our Asian expansion or our Swiss manufacturing
facility; - difficulties in recruiting research and development
engineers, and application engineers - our inability to further
penetrate our customer base; - development by others of new or
improved products, processes or technologies that make our products
obsolete or less competitive; - our inability to maintain our
technological advantage by developing new products and enhancing
our existing products; - the cyclical nature of the industries of
our customers and the financial condition of our customers; - the
inability to protect our patents and other proprietary rights in
the United States and foreign countries and the assertion of
infringement claims against us; - fluctuations in our annual and
quarterly operating results as a result of (i) the size and timing
of customer orders, (ii) the amount of time that it takes to
fulfill orders and ship our products, (iii) the length of our sales
cycle to new customers and the time and expense incurred in further
penetrating our existing customer base, (iv) increases in operating
expenses required for product development and new product
marketing, (v) costs associated with new product introductions,
such as assembly line start-up costs and low introductory period
production volumes, (vi) the timing and market acceptance of new
products and product enhancements, (vii) customer order deferrals
in anticipation of new products and product enhancements, (viii)
our success in expanding our sales and marketing programs, (ix)
start-up costs associated with opening new sales offices outside of
the United States, (x) fluctuations in revenue and without
proportionate adjustments in fixed costs, (xi) the efficiencies
achieved in managing inventories and fixed assets; and (xii)
adverse changes in the manufacturing industry and general economic
condition; - the inability of our products to displace traditional
measurement devices and attain broad market acceptance; - the
impact of competitive products and pricing in the CAM2 market and
the broad market for measurement and inspection devices; - risks
associated with expanding international operations, such as
fluctuations in currency exchange rates, difficulties in staffing
and managing foreign operations, political and economic
instability, and the burdens of complying with a wide variety of
foreign laws and labor practices; - the loss of our CEO or
Executive VP or other key personnel; - our inability to identify,
consummate, or achieve expected benefits from acquisitions; - the
failure to effectively manage our growth; - the loss of a key
supplier and the inability to find a sufficient alternative
supplier in a reasonable period or on commercially reasonable
terms; - the other risks detailed in the Company's Annual Report on
Form 10-K and other filings from time to time with the Securities
and Exchange Commission. Forward-looking statements in this release
represent the Company's judgment as of the date of this release.
The Company undertakes no obligation to update publicly any
forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information,
future events, or otherwise. FARO TECHNOLOGIES, INC. AND
SUBSIDIARIES SUMMARY FINANCIAL TABLE CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF
OPERATIONS (UNAUDITED) Three Months Ended Six Months Ended July 3,
June 28, July 3, June 28, 2004 2003 2004 2003 SALES $24,076,847
$16,243,469 $45,102,039 $29,647,734 COST OF SALES 8,848,915
6,183,034 16,410,272 12,082,614 Gross profit 15,227,932 10,060,435
28,691,767 17,565,120 OPERATING EXPENSES: Selling 6,233,296
4,484,859 11,795,991 8,272,298 General and administrative 2,621,353
2,297,315 5,150,736 4,047,880 Depreciation and amortization 537,936
538,991 1,094,695 1,127,645 Research and development 1,206,337
1,066,155 2,647,749 1,943,623 Employee stock options 11,364 108,290
48,841 149,738 Total Operating Expenses 10,610,286 8,495,610
20,738,012 15,541,184 INCOME (LOSS) FROM OPERATIONS 4,617,646
1,564,825 7,953,755 2,023,936 OTHER INCOME (EXPENSES) Interest
income 74,415 33,489 147,979 36,154 Other income, net 173,029
218,730 379,158 334,470 Interest expense (2,581) (18,661) (4,723)
(34,558) NET INCOME BEFORE INCOME TAX 4,862,509 1,798,383 8,476,169
2,360,002 INCOME TAX EXPENSE 759,918 240,334 1,525,170 312,589 NET
INCOME $4,102,591 $1,558,049 $6,950,999 $2,047,413 NET INCOME PER
SHARE - BASIC $0.30 $0.13 $0.51 $0.17 NET INCOME PER SHARE -
DILUTED $0.29 $0.12 $0.50 $0.16 Weighted average shares - Basic
13,766,588 11,936,466 13,565,132 11,903,112 Weighted average shares
- Diluted 14,154,243 12,721,397 14,039,826 12,471,833 SELECTED
CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEET DATA (UNAUDITED) July 3, 2004 Cash and
investments $32,866,039 Current assets $73,464,587 Total assets
$92,014,069 Current liabilities $11,235,895 Long-term debt $78,159
Total liabilities $11,947,115 Total shareholders' equity
$80,066,954 Total liabilities and shareholders' equity $92,014,069
SELECTED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS DATA (UNAUDITED) July
3, 2004 Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities
$254,698 Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities
$(5,629,198) Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities
$1,069,405 Effect of Exchange Rate Changes on Cash $(438,767) Cash
and Cash Equivalents, Beginning of Period $17,424,901 Cash and Cash
Equivalents, End of Period $12,681,039
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FARO Technologies, Inc. CONTACT: Greg Fraser, Executive Vice
President & CFO, FARO Technologies, Inc., +1-407-333-9911; or
Vic Allgeier, The TTC Group, +1-212-227-0997, for FARO
Technologies, Inc. Web site: http://www.faro.com/
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