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The Cooper Companies Announces Third Quarter 2015 Results

September 3, 2015 4:01 PM

PLEASANTON, Calif., Sept. 3, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Cooper Companies, Inc. (NYSE: COO) today announced financial results for the fiscal third quarter ended July 31, 2015.

Commenting on the results, Robert S. Weiss, Cooper's president and chief executive officer said, "I am pleased to report another strong quarter. CooperVision gained significant market share and we made a lot of progress with our family of daily silicone hydrogel products. The remainder of the year looks solid and we should enter fiscal 2016 with strong momentum."

Third Quarter GAAP Operating Highlights

Third Quarter CooperVision (CVI) GAAP Operating Highlights

(In millions) 3Q15 % of CVI Revenue 3Q15 %chg y/y Pro forma %chg y/y
Toric $ 114.2 30% 2% 7%
Multifocal 42.6 11% 11% 12%
Single-use sphere 93.7 24% 27% 12%
Non single-use sphere, other 135.0 35% 8% 3%
Total $ 385.5 100% 10% 7%
(In millions) 3Q15 % of CVI Revenue 3Q15 %chg y/y Pro forma %chg y/y
Americas $ 157.4 41% 5% 4%
EMEA 163.0 42% 22% 9%
Asia Pacific 65.1 17% -2% 12%
Total $ 385.5 100% 10% 7%

Third Quarter CooperSurgical (CSI) GAAP Operating Highlights

(In millions) 3Q15 % of CSI Revenue 3Q15 %chg y/y Constant Currency %chg y/y
Office and surgical procedures $ 51.2 67% -6% -6%
Fertility 25.0 33% -11% 1%
Total $ 76.2 100% -8% -4%

Fiscal Year 2015 Guidance

The Company updated its fiscal 2015 guidance. The guidance for reported results is based on recent foreign exchange rates and is summarized as follows:

Other

Reconciliation of GAAP to Non-GAAP Results

To supplement our financial results and guidance presented on a GAAP basis, we use non-GAAP measures that we believe are helpful in understanding our results. The non-GAAP measures exclude costs which we generally would not have otherwise incurred in the periods presented as a part of our continuing operations. These include costs related to acquisitions and integration activities, severance and restructuring costs; costs associated with the start-up of new manufacturing facilities; as well as certain legal costs described below. Our non-GAAP financial results and guidance are not meant to be considered in isolation or as a substitute for comparable GAAP measures and should be read only in conjunction with our consolidated financial statements prepared in accordance with GAAP. Management uses supplemental non-GAAP financial measures internally to understand, manage and evaluate our business and make operating decisions. These non-GAAP measures are among the factors management uses in planning and forecasting for future periods. We believe it is useful for investors to understand the effects of these items on our consolidated operating results. Our non-GAAP financial measures include the following adjustments, along with the related income tax effects and changes in income attributable to noncontrolling interests:

Guidance for earnings per share is provided on a non-GAAP basis due to the inherent difficulty in forecasting acquisition-related, integration and restructuring charges and expenses. We are not able to provide a reconciliation of these non-GAAP items to expected reported GAAP earnings per share due to the unknown effect, timing and potential significance of such charges and expenses. Management does not consider the excluded items as part of our continuing operations.

We also report revenue growth using the non-GAAP financial measure of pro forma which includes constant currency revenue. Management presents and refers to constant currency information so that revenue results may be evaluated excluding the effect of foreign currency rate fluctuations. To present this information, current period revenue for entities reporting in currencies other than the United States dollar are converted into United States dollars at the average foreign exchange rates for the corresponding period in the prior year. To report pro forma revenue growth including Sauflon, we included $49.3 million of revenue in our fiscal third quarter of 2014, and $140.4 million in the fiscal nine month period ended July 31, 2014 for the periods when we did not own Sauflon.

We define the non-GAAP measure of free cash flow as cash provided by operating activities less capital expenditures. We believe free cash flow is useful for investors as an additional measure of liquidity because it represents cash flows that are available for repayment of debt, repurchases of our common stock or to fund our strategic initiatives. Management uses free cash flow internally to understand, manage, make operating decisions and evaluate our business. In addition, we use free cash flow to help plan and forecast future periods.

We also provide the metric of adjusted free cash flow that we believe represents our operations ability to generate cash by adjusting cash flow from operations for capital expenditures that are part of our ongoing operations and for acquisition related and integration costs and the legal settlement discussed above that are not part of our ongoing operations. We believe adjusted free cash flow is useful to investors as an additional measure of performance because it reports elements of our operating activities and excludes cash flow elements that we do not consider to be related to our ability to generate cash. As discussed above, we incur significant acquisition related and integration costs primarily related to the acquisition of Sauflon that will diminish over time; and the JJVC legal settlement is not part of our ongoing operations; and we believe it is useful to investors to understand the effects of these costs on our adjusted free cash flow.

THE COOPER COMPANIES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Reconciliation of Selected GAAP Results to Non-GAAP Results
(In thousands, except per share amounts)
(Unaudited)
Three Months Ended July 31,
2015 GAAP Adjustment 2015 Non-GAAP 2014 GAAP Adjustment 2014 Non-GAAP
Cost of sales $ 188,791 $(15,275) A $ 173,516 $ 151,892 $ (427) A $ 151,465
Selling, general and administrative expense $ 191,783 $(26,075) B $ 165,708 $ 161,203 $ (4,711) B $ 156,492
Research and development expense $ 18,298 $ (1,944) C $ 16,354 $ 16,070 $ -- $ 16,070
Amortization of intangibles $ 12,495 $(12,495) D $ -- $ 6,752 $ (6,752) D $ --
(Benefit from) provision for income taxes $ (642) $ 3,751 E $ 3,109 $ 5,711 $ 2,030 E $ 7,741
Diluted earnings per share attributable to Cooper stockholders $ 0.91 $ 1.06 $ 1.97 $ 1.80 $ 0.20 $ 2.00
A Our GAAP cost of sales includes $13.0 million of charges primarily for product and equipment rationalization, arising from the acquisition of Sauflon, and $2.1 million of facility start-up costs in CooperVision; and $0.2 million of severance costs in our CooperSurgical fertility business. The CooperVision charges are based on our review of products, materials and manufacturing processes of Sauflon. Our fiscal 2014 GAAP cost of sales included $0.4 million of severance costs.
B Our fiscal 2015 GAAP selling, general and administrative expense includes $7.8 million in costs for CooperVision's integration and restructuring activities related to the acquisition of Sauflon and acquisition and severance costs in our CooperSurgical fertility business. Our fiscal 2015 GAAP selling, general and administrative expense also includes $18.3 million for the litigation settlement and legal costs, described above. Our fiscal 2014 GAAP selling, general and administrative expense included $4.7 million of acquisition and severance costs.
(In millions) CooperVision CooperSurgical Total
Restructuring and related costs $ (2.3) $ 0.1 $ (2.2)
Acquisition and integration costs 9.3 0.7 10.0
$ 7.0 $ 0.8 $ 7.8
C Our GAAP research and development expense includes $1.9 million for equipment rationalization related to integration and restructuring activities.
D Amortization expense for our fiscal third quarter of 2015 was $12.5 million.
E These amounts represent the increases in the provision for income taxes that arises from the impact of the above adjustments.
THE COOPER COMPANIES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Reconciliation of Selected GAAP Results to Non-GAAP Results
Free Cash Flow and Adjusted Free Cash Flow
(In thousands)
(Unaudited)
Three Months Ended July 31,
2015
Cash flow from operations $ 95,968
Capital expenditures (66,348)
Free cash flow $ 29,620
Items not included in adjusted free cash flow:
Integration costs and other 12,874
Litigation settlement 17,000
Adjusted Free cash flow $ 59,494

Conference Call and Webcast

The Company will host a conference call today at 5:00 PM ET to discuss its fiscal third quarter 2015 financial results and current corporate developments. The live dial-in number for the call is 855-643-4430 (U.S.) / 707-294-1332 (International). The participant passcode for the call is "Cooper". A recording of the call will be available beginning at 8:00 PM ET on September 3, 2015 through September 10, 2015. To hear this recording, dial 855-859-2056 (U.S.) / 404-537-3406 (International) and enter code 266737 (Cooper). A simultaneous webcast of the call will be available through the "Investor Relations" section of The Cooper Companies' website at http://investor.coopercos.com and a transcript of the call will be archived on this site for a minimum of 12 months.

About The Cooper Companies

The Cooper Companies, Inc. ("Cooper") is a global medical device company publicly traded on the NYSE Euronext (NYSE: COO). Cooper is dedicated to being A Quality of Life Company™ with a focus on delivering shareholder value. Cooper operates through two business units, CooperVision and CooperSurgical. CooperVision brings a refreshing perspective on vision care with a commitment to developing a wide range of high-quality products for contact lens wearers and providing focused practitioner support. CooperSurgical focuses on supplying women's health clinicians with market leading products and treatment options to improve the delivery of healthcare to women. Headquartered in Pleasanton, CA, Cooper has approximately 10,000 employees with products sold in over 100 countries. For more information, please visit www.coopercos.com.

Forward-Looking Statements

This news release contains "forward-looking statements" as defined by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Statements relating to guidance, plans, prospects, goals, strategies, future actions, events or performance and other statements which are other than statements of historical fact, including our 2015 Guidance and all statements regarding the acquisition of Sauflon including Sauflon's financial position, market position, product development and business strategy, expected cost synergies, expected timing and benefits of the transaction, as well as estimates of our and Sauflon's future expenses, sales and earnings per share are forward looking. In addition, all statements regarding anticipated growth in our revenue, anticipated effects of any product recalls, anticipated market conditions, planned product launches and expected results of operations and integration of any acquisition are forward-looking. To identify these statements look for words like "believes," "expects," "may," "will," "should," "could," "seeks," "intends," "plans," "estimates" or "anticipates" and similar words or phrases. Forward-looking statements necessarily depend on assumptions, data or methods that may be incorrect or imprecise and are subject to risks and uncertainties.

Among the factors that could cause our actual results and future actions to differ materially from those described in forward-looking statements are: adverse changes in the global or regional general business, political and economic conditions, including the impact of continuing uncertainty and instability of certain European Union countries that could adversely affect our global markets; foreign currency exchange rate and interest rate fluctuations including the risk of fluctuations in the value of foreign currencies that would decrease our revenues and earnings; acquisition-related adverse effects including the failure to successfully obtain the anticipated revenues, margins and earnings benefits of acquisitions, including the Sauflon acquisition, integration delays or costs and the requirement to record significant adjustments to the preliminary fair value of assets acquired and liabilities assumed within the measurement period, required regulatory approvals for an acquisition not being obtained or being delayed or subject to conditions that are not anticipated, adverse impacts of changes to accounting controls and reporting procedures, contingent liabilities or indemnification obligations, increased leverage and lack of access to available financing (including financing for the acquisition or refinancing of debt owed by us on a timely basis and on reasonable terms); a major disruption in the operations of our manufacturing, research and development or distribution facilities, due to technological problems, including any related to our information systems maintenance or enhancements, integration of acquisitions, natural disasters or other causes; disruptions in supplies of raw materials, particularly components used to manufacture our silicone hydrogel lenses; compliance costs and potential liability in connection with U.S. and foreign healthcare regulations, including product recalls, warning letters, and potential losses resulting from sales of counterfeit and other infringing products; legal costs, insurance expenses, settlement costs and the risk of an adverse decision or settlement related to product liability, patent infringement or other litigation; changes in tax laws or their interpretation and changes in statutory tax rates; limitations on sales following product introductions due to poor market acceptance; new competitors, product innovations or technologies; reduced sales, loss of customers and costs and expenses related to recalls; new U.S. and foreign government laws and regulations, and changes in existing laws, regulations and enforcement guidance, which affect the medical device industry and the healthcare industry generally; failure to receive, or delays in receiving, U.S. or foreign regulatory approvals for products; failure to obtain adequate coverage and reimbursement from third party payors for our products; the requirement to provide for a significant liability or to write off, or accelerate depreciation on, a significant asset, including goodwill; the success of our research and development activities and other start-up projects; dilution to earnings per share from the Sauflon acquisition or other acquisitions or issuing stock; changes in accounting principles or estimates; environmental risks and other events described in our Securities and Exchange Commission filings, including the "Business" and "Risk Factors" sections in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended October 31, 2014, as such Risk Factors may be updated in quarterly filings.

We caution investors that forward-looking statements reflect our analysis only on their stated date. We disclaim any intent to update them except as required by law.

THE COOPER COMPANIES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Consolidated Condensed Balance Sheets
(In thousands)
(Unaudited)
July 31, 2015 October 31, 2014
ASSETS
Current assets:
Cash and cash equivalents $ 17,005 $ 25,222
Trade receivables, net 280,160 276,280
Inventories 405,966 381,474
Deferred tax assets 38,993 40,224
Other current assets 72,568 68,417
Total current assets 814,692 791,617
Property, plant and equipment, net 974,876 937,325
Goodwill 2,189,153 2,220,921
Other intangibles, net 402,286 453,605
Deferred tax assets 8,602 15,732
Other assets 33,073 39,140
$ 4,422,682 $ 4,458,340
LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY
Current liabilities:
Short-term debt $ 237,558 $ 101,518
Other current liabilities 292,029 340,664
Total current liabilities 529,587 442,182
Long-term debt 1,070,299 1,280,833
Deferred tax liabilities 67,922 69,525
Other liabilities 60,939 77,360
Total liabilities 1,728,747 1,869,900
Total Cooper stockholders' equity 2,687,572 2,569,878
Noncontrolling interests 6,363 18,562
Stockholders' equity 2,693,935 2,588,440
$ 4,422,682 $ 4,458,340
THE COOPER COMPANIES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Consolidated Statements of Income
(In thousands, except earnings per share amounts)
(Unaudited)
Three months ended July 31, Nine months ended July 31,
2015 2014 2015 2014
Net sales $ 461,678 $ 432,482 $1,341,524 $1,249,779
Cost of sales 188,791 151,892 524,570 437,761
Gross profit 272,887 280,590 816,954 812,018
Selling, general and administrative expense 191,783 161,203 532,901 475,095
Research and development expense 18,298 16,070 51,229 48,077
Amortization of intangibles 12,495 6,752 38,406 21,735
Operating income 50,311 96,565 194,418 267,111
Interest expense 4,690 1,499 13,323 4,713
Other expense, net 1,020 683 2,037 739
Income before income taxes 44,601 94,383 179,058 261,659
(Benefit from) provision for income tax (642) 5,711 10,929 21,087
Net income 45,243 88,672 168,129 240,572
Less: income attributable to noncontrolling interests 292 605 1,285 1,502
Net income attributable to Cooper stockholders $ 44,951 $ 88,067 $ 166,844 $ 239,070
Diluted earnings per share attributable to Cooper stockholders $ 0.91 $ 1.80 $ 3.39 $ 4.89
Number of shares used to compute earnings per share attributable to Cooper stockholders 49,244 48,922 49,157 48,901

Soft Contact Lens Revenue Update

Worldwide Manufacturers' Soft Contact Lens Revenue
(U.S. dollars in millions; constant currency; unaudited)
Calendar 2Q15 Trailing Twelve Months 2015
Market Market Change CVI Change Market Market Change CVI Change
Sales by Modality
Single-use $ 810 13% 16% $ 3,070 8% 14%
Other 1,020 (2%) 6% 4,055 (1%) 6%
WW Soft Contact Lenses $ 1,830 4% 9% $ 7,125 3% 8%
Sales by Geography
Americas $ 785 1% 8% $ 3,045 2% 8%
EMEA 530 2% 8% 2,060 5% 8%
Asia Pacific 515 11% 16% 2,020 1% 7%
WW Soft Contact Lenses $ 1,830 4% 9% $ 7,125 3% 8%
Source: Management estimates and independent market research

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CONTACT: Kim Duncan
         Vice President, Investor Relations
         [email protected]
         925-460-3663

Source: The Cooper Companies, Inc.

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