BILLERICA, Mass., May 3, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Bruker Corporation (NASDAQ: BRKR) today reported financial results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2017.
Bruker’s revenues for the first quarter of 2017 were $384.9 million, an increase of 2.5% compared to the first quarter of 2016. Excluding a 5.3% positive effect from acquisitions and a 2.0% negative effect from changes in foreign currency rates, Bruker reported a year-over-year organic revenue decline of 0.8% in the first quarter of 2017.
First quarter 2017 GAAP earnings per diluted share (EPS) were $0.13, compared to $0.14 in the first quarter of 2016. First quarter 2017 non-GAAP EPS were $0.19, compared to $0.21 in the first quarter of 2016. A reconciliation of non-GAAP to GAAP financial measures is provided in the tables accompanying this press release.
Frank Laukien, President and CEO of Bruker, commented: “Despite the comparison with a good first quarter of 2016, we were pleased with our first quarter of 2017, as revenue and non-GAAP operating income exceeded our expectations. While academic market conditions remain a concern, we are encouraged by another quarter of positive year-over-year order growth in Europe, continued strength in China, further stabilization in our microbiology orders, and encouraging demand trends in certain areas of our industrial, applied and semiconductor metrology markets. We expect to return to organic revenue growth in 2017, and are on track to achieve our financial objectives.”
Fiscal Year 2017 Financial Outlook
For FY 2017, Bruker is maintaining its organic revenue growth, non-GAAP operating margin expansion and non-GAAP EPS outlook. Bruker is adjusting its reported revenue growth outlook to reflect recent changes in foreign currency translation rates. The Company now expects reported revenue growth of 2% to 3.5%, which continues to include organic revenue growth of 1% to 2%, and growth from acquisitions of 3.5% to 4%. Changes in foreign currency rates are now expected to have a negative impact on reported revenues of approximately 2.5%.
Bruker’s outlook for non-GAAP operating margin expansion and non-GAAP EPS remains unchanged. Including the effects of our 2016 and early 2017 acquisitions, the Company continues to project an increase in FY 2017 non-GAAP operating margin of 40 bps to 70 bps year-over-year. This includes an approximate 40 bps headwind in FY 2017 from recent acquisitions. For FY 2017, Bruker continues to expect non-GAAP EPS of $1.05 to $1.09.
For the Company’s outlook for FY 2017 non-GAAP operating margin and non-GAAP EPS, we are not able to provide without unreasonable effort the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures, or reconciliations to such GAAP financial measures on a forward-looking basis. Please see “Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures” below for a description of items excluded from our expected non-GAAP operating margin and non-GAAP EPS.
Quarterly Earnings Call
Bruker will host a conference call and webcast to discuss its financial results, business outlook, and related corporate and financial matters today at 4:45 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time. To listen to the webcast, investors can go to http://ir.bruker.com and click on the “Events & Presentations” hyperlink. A slide presentation that will be referenced during the webcast will be posted to the Company’s website shortly before the webcast begins. Investors can also listen to the earnings webcast via telephone by dialing 1-888-437-2685 (US toll free) or +1-412-317-6702 (international), and referencing “Bruker’s First Quarter 2017 Earnings Conference Call”. A telephone replay of the conference call will be available by dialing 1-877-344-7529 (US toll free) or +1-412-317-0088 (international) and entering conference number: 10105655. The replay will be available beginning one hour after the end of the conference through June 3, 2017.
About Bruker Corporation
For more than 55 years, Bruker has enabled scientists to make breakthrough discoveries and develop new applications that improve the quality of human life. Bruker’s high-performance scientific instruments and high-value analytical and diagnostic solutions enable scientists to explore life and materials at molecular, cellular and microscopic levels.
In close cooperation with our customers, Bruker is enabling innovation, productivity and customer success in life science molecular research, in applied and pharma applications, and in microscopy, nano-analysis and industrial applications. In recent years, Bruker has also become a provider of high-performance systems for cell biology, preclinical imaging, clinical phenomics and proteomics research, clinical microbiology, and for molecular pathology research. For more information, please visit: www.bruker.com.
Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures
To supplement our consolidated financial statements, which are prepared and presented in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), we use the following non-GAAP financial measures in this press release and in the earnings webcast: non-GAAP gross profit; non-GAAP gross profit margin; non-GAAP operating income; non-GAAP operating margin; non-GAAP profit before tax; non-GAAP tax rate; non-GAAP net income and non-GAAP earnings per share. These non-GAAP measures exclude costs related to restructuring actions, acquisition and related integration expenses, amortization of acquired intangible assets and other costs that are infrequent or non-recurring in nature.
We also refer to organic revenue growth and free cash flow in this press release and in the earnings webcast, which are also non-GAAP financial measures. We define the term organic revenue as GAAP revenue excluding the effect of foreign currency changes and the effect of acquisitions and divestitures, and believe it is a useful measure to evaluate our continuing business. We define free cash flow as net cash provided by operating activities less additions to property, plant, and equipment. We believe free cash flow is a useful measure to evaluate our business as it indicates the amount of cash generated after additions to property, plant, and equipment which is available for, among other things, acquisitions, investments in our business, repayment of debt and return of capital to shareholders.
The presentation of these non-GAAP financial measures is not intended to be a substitute for, or superior to, the financial information prepared and presented in accordance with GAAP and may be different from non-GAAP financial measures used by other companies, and therefore, may not be comparable among companies. We believe these non-GAAP financial measures provide meaningful supplemental information regarding our performance. Specifically, management believes that the non-GAAP measures mentioned above provide relevant and useful information which is widely used by analysts, investors and competitors in our industry, as well as by our management, in assessing both consolidated and business unit performance.
We use these non-GAAP financial measures to evaluate our period-over-period operating performance because our management believes this provides a more comparable measure of our continuing business as it adjusts for certain items that are not reflective of the underlying performance of our business. These measures may also be useful to investors in evaluating the underlying operating performance of our business and forecasting future results. We regularly use these non-GAAP financial measures internally to understand, manage, and evaluate our business results and make operating decisions. We also measure our employees and compensate them, in part, based on such non-GAAP measures and use this information for our planning and forecasting activities.
Additional information relating to these non-GAAP financial measures and reconciliations to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures is provided in the tables accompanying this press release following our GAAP financial statements.
With respect to the Company’s outlook for 2017 non-GAAP operating margin, non-GAAP EPS and non-GAAP tax rate, we are not providing the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures or corresponding reconciliations to such GAAP financial measures on a forward-looking basis, because we are unable to predict with reasonable certainty certain items that may affect such measures calculated and presented in accordance with GAAP without unreasonable effort. Our expected non-GAAP operating margin, tax rate and EPS ranges exclude primarily the future impact of restructuring actions, unusual gains and losses, acquisition-related expenses and purchase accounting fair value adjustments.
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