Lantheus Holdings, Inc. Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2019 Financial Results

Lantheus Holdings, Inc. (the “Company”) (NASDAQ: LNTH), parent company of Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc. (“LMI”), a global leader in the development, manufacture and commercialization of innovative diagnostic imaging agents and products, today reported financial results for its fourth quarter and full year 2019 ended December 31, 2019.

NORTH BILLERICA, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Lantheus Holdings, Inc. (the “Company”) (NASDAQ: LNTH), parent company of Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc. (“LMI”), a global leader in the development, manufacture and commercialization of innovative diagnostic imaging agents and products, today reported financial results for its fourth quarter and full year 2019 ended December 31, 2019.

The Company’s worldwide revenue for the fourth quarter of 2019 totaled $89.3 million, compared with $86.3 million for the fourth quarter of 2018, representing an increase of 3.6% over the prior year period. Full year 2019 worldwide revenues were $347.3 million, compared with $343.4 million for the full year 2018, representing an increase of 1.2% over the prior year period.

The Company’s fourth quarter 2019 net income was $10.5 million, or $0.26 per fully diluted share, as compared to $13.3 million, or $0.34 per fully diluted share for the fourth quarter of 2018, representing a decrease of 21.4% from the prior year period. Full year 2019 net income was $31.7 million, or $0.79 per fully diluted share, as compared to $40.5 million, or $1.03 per fully diluted share for the full year 2018, representing a decrease of 21.8% from the prior year period.

The Company’s fourth quarter 2019 adjusted fully diluted earnings per share were $0.34, as compared to $0.29 for the fourth quarter of 2018, representing an increase of 19.0% over the prior year period. The Company’s full year 2019 adjusted fully diluted earnings per share were $1.17, as compared to $1.13 for the full year 2018, representing an increase of 3.5% over the prior year period.

Lastly, net cash provided by operating activities was $22.4 million and $80.4 million for the fourth quarter and full year 2019. Free Cash Flow was $17.7 million for the fourth quarter of 2019, representing an increase of approximately $7.7 million, or 77.9% over the prior year period. Full year 2019 free cash flow was $58.3 million, as compared to $41.1 million for the full year 2018, representing an increase of approximately $17.3 million, or 42.0% over the prior year period.

“We finished 2019 with robust DEFINITY, earnings and free cash flow performance,” said Mary Anne Heino, President and CEO. “Throughout 2019, it was Lantheus team members from across the organization who drove these results. As we look to 2020 and beyond, we see exciting revenue and value creation opportunities for the Company as we add the Progenics’ team with their exciting oncology, precision diagnostic, and other products to our own portfolio.”

Outlook

The Company guidance for the first quarter and full year 2020 is as follows:

Guidance Issued February 25, 2020

Q1 FY 2020 Revenue Growth

2.9% - 5.2%

Q1 FY 2020 Revenue

$89 million - $91 million

Q1 FY 2020 Adjusted Fully Diluted EPS

$0.25 - $0.27

Guidance Issued February 25, 2020

FY 2020 Revenue Growth

10.6% - 12.3%

FY 2020 Revenue

$384 million - $390 million

FY 2020 Adjusted Fully Diluted EPS

$1.34 - $1.40

On a forward-looking basis, the Company does not provide GAAP income per common share guidance or a reconciliation of adjusted fully diluted EPS to GAAP income per common share because the Company is unable to predict with reasonable certainty business development and acquisition-related expenses, purchase accounting fair value adjustments, and any one-time, non-recurring charges. These items are uncertain, depend on various factors, and could be material to results computed in accordance with GAAP. As a result, it is the Company’s view that a quantitative reconciliation of adjusted fully diluted EPS on a forward-looking basis is not available without unreasonable effort.

Internet Posting of Information

The Company routinely posts information that may be important to investors in the “Investors” section of its website at www.lantheus.com. The Company encourages investors and potential investors to consult its website regularly for important information about the Company.

Conference Call and Webcast

As previously announced, the Company will host a conference call on Tuesday, February 25, 2020 at 8:00 a.m. ET. To access the live conference call via telephone, please dial 1-866-498-8390 (U.S. callers) or 1-678-509-7599 (international callers) and provide passcode 7953035. A live audio webcast of the call also will be available in the Investors section of the Company’s website at www.lantheus.com.

A replay of the audio webcast will be available in the Investors section of our website at www.lantheus.com approximately two hours after completion of the call and will be archived for 30 days.

The conference call will include a discussion of non-GAAP financial measures. Reference is made to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures, the reconciliation of the differences between the two financial measures, and the other information included in this press release, our Form 8-K filed with the SEC today, or otherwise available in the Investor Relations section of our website located at www.lantheus.com.

The conference call may include forward-looking statements. See the cautionary information about forward-looking statements in the safe-harbor section of this press release.

About Lantheus Holdings, Inc. and Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc.

Lantheus Holdings, Inc. is the parent company of LMI, a global leader in the development, manufacture and commercialization of innovative diagnostic imaging agents and products. LMI provides a broad portfolio of products, including the echocardiography contrast agent DEFINITY® Vial for (Perflutren Lipid Microsphere) Injectable Suspension and TechneLite® (Technetium Tc99m Generator), a technetium-based generator that provides the essential medical isotope used in nuclear medicine procedures. The Company is headquartered in North Billerica, Massachusetts with offices in Puerto Rico and Canada. For more information, visit www.lantheus.com.

Non-GAAP Financial Measures

The Company uses non-GAAP financial measures, such as adjusted net income and its line components; adjusted net income per share - fully diluted; and free cash flow. The Company’s management believes that the presentation of these measures provides useful information to investors. These measures may assist investors in evaluating the Company’s operations, period over period. However, these measures may exclude items that may be highly variable, difficult to predict and of a size that could have a substantial impact on the Company’s reported results of operations for a particular period. Management uses these and other non-GAAP measures internally for evaluation of the performance of the business, including the allocation of resources and the evaluation of results relative to employee performance compensation targets. Investors should consider these non-GAAP measures only as a supplement to, not as a substitute for or as superior to, measures of financial performance prepared in accordance with GAAP.

This press release includes forward-looking non-GAAP guidance for 2020 adjusted fully diluted EPS. No reconciliation of this forward-looking non-GAAP guidance is included in this press release because, due to the high variability and difficulty in making accurate forecasts and projections of some of the information that would be required to prepare such a reconciliation and the fact that some of the excluded information is not readily ascertainable or accessible, the Company is unable to quantify certain amounts that would be required to be included in the most directly comparable GAAP financial measure without unreasonable efforts.

Safe Harbor for Forward-Looking and Cautionary Statements

This press release contains “forward-looking statements” as defined under U.S. federal securities laws, including statements about our 2020 outlook. Forward-looking statements may be identified by their use of terms such as anticipate, believe, confident, could, estimate, expect, intend, may, plan, predict, project, target, will and other similar terms. Such forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to materially differ from those described in the forward-looking statements. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on the forward-looking statements contained herein, which speak only as of the date hereof. The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise, except as may be required by law. Risks and uncertainties that could cause our actual results to materially differ from those described in the forward-looking statements include our future operating results, our ability to complete our acquisition of Progenics Pharmaceuticals and realize the expected benefits on the anticipated timeline or at all, the outcome of our clinical programs, as well as the risk and uncertainties discussed in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (including those described in the Risk Factors section in our Annual Reports on Form 10-K and our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q).

Lantheus Holdings, Inc.

Consolidated Statements of Operations

(in thousands, except per share data – unaudited)

Three Months Ended
December 31,

Year Ended
December 31,

2019

2018

2019

2018

Revenues

$

89,346

$

86,271

$

347,337

$

343,374

Cost of goods sold

44,781

42,426

172,526

168,489

Gross profit

44,565

43,845

174,811

174,885

Operating expenses

Sales and marketing

10,392

9,911

41,888

43,159

General and administrative

17,301

12,440

61,244

50,167

Research and development

4,434

4,551

20,018

17,071

Total operating expenses

32,127

26,902

123,150

110,397

Operating income

12,438

16,943

51,661

64,488

Interest expense

2,126

4,611

13,617

17,405

Loss on extinguishment of debt

3,196

Other expense (income)

7,916

(410

)

6,221

(2,465

)

Income before income taxes

2,396

12,742

28,627

49,548

Income tax (benefit) expense

(8,054

)

(551

)

(3,040

)

9,030

Net income

$

10,450

$

13,293

$

31,667

$

40,518

Net income per common share:

Basic

$

0.27

$

0.35

$

0.81

$

1.06

Diluted

$

0.26

$

0.34

$

0.79

$

1.03

Weighted-average common shares outstanding:

Basic

39,246

38,465

38,988

38,233

Diluted

40,133

39,492

40,113

39,501

Lantheus Holdings, Inc.
Consolidated Segment Revenues Analysis

(in thousands – unaudited)

Three Months Ended
December 31,

Year Ended
December 31,

2019

2018

% Change

2019

2018

% Change

United States

DEFINITY

$

57,678

$

47,359

21.8

%

$

211,777

$

178,440

18.7

%

TechneLite

17,330

17,262

0.4

%

72,534

74,042

(2.0

)%

Other nuclear

8,225

11,651

(29.4

)%

36,231

48,935

(26.0

)%

Rebates and allowances

(4,518

)

(3,521

)

28.3

%

(16,553

)

(12,837

)

28.9

%

Total United States

78,715

72,751

8.2

%

303,989

288,580

5.3

%

International

DEFINITY

1,695

1,206

40.5

%

5,731

4,633

23.7

%

TechneLite

3,264

6,105

(46.5

)%

14,058

24,816

(43.4

)%

Other nuclear

5,673

6,211

(8.7

)%

23,574

25,349

(7.0

)%

Rebates and allowances

(1

)

(2

)

(50.0

)%

(15

)

(4

)

275.0

%

Total International

10,631

13,520

(21.4

)%

43,348

54,794

(20.9

)%

Worldwide

DEFINITY

59,373

48,565

22.3

%

217,508

183,073

18.8

%

TechneLite

20,594

23,367

(11.9

)%

86,592

98,858

(12.4

)%

Other nuclear

13,898

17,862

(22.2

)%

59,805

74,284

(19.5

)%

Rebates and allowances

(4,519

)

(3,523

)

28.3

%

(16,568

)

(12,841

)

29.0

%

Total Revenues

$

89,346

$

86,271

3.6

%

$

347,337

$

343,374

1.2

%

Lantheus Holdings, Inc.
Reconciliation of GAAP to Non-GAAP Financial Measures

(in thousands, except per share data – unaudited)

Three Months Ended
December 31,

Year Ended
December 31,

2019

2018

2019

2018

Net income

$

10,450

$

13,293

$

31,667

$

40,518

Stock and incentive plan compensation

2,991

2,481

12,571

9,496

Amortization of acquired intangible assets

451

581

1,804

2,648

Campus consolidation costs

3

1,157

Extinguishment of debt

3,196

Arbitration award

(3,453

)

(3,453

)

Strategic collaboration and license costs

300

Integration costs

1,488

1,488

Acquisition-related costs

2,834

8,010

Income tax benefit for release of valuation allowances

(3,969

)

(3,969

)

Income tax effect of non-GAAP adjustments(a)

(1,134

)

(1,123

)

(8,583

)

(5,126

)

Adjusted net income

$

13,627

$

11,266

$

47,000

$

44,724

Adjusted net income, as a percentage of revenues

15.3

%

13.1

%

13.5

%

13.0

%

Three Months Ended
December 31,

Year Ended
December 31,

2019

2018

2019

2018

Net income per share - diluted

$

0.26

$

0.34

$

0.79

$

1.03

Stock and incentive plan compensation

0.07

0.06

0.31

0.24

Amortization of acquired intangible assets

0.01

0.02

0.04

0.06

Campus consolidation costs

0.03

Extinguishment of debt

0.08

Arbitration award

(0.09

)

(0.09

)

Strategic collaboration and license costs

0.01

Integration costs

0.04

0.04

Acquisition-related costs

0.07

(0.10

)

0.20

Income tax benefit for release of valuation allowances

(0.10

)

Income tax effect of non-GAAP adjustments(a)

(0.02

)

(0.03

)

(0.21

)

(0.13

)

Adjusted net income per share - diluted

$

0.34

$

0.29

$

1.17

$

1.13

Weighted-average common shares outstanding - diluted

40,133

39,492

40,113

39,501

  1. The income tax effect of the adjustments between GAAP net income and non-GAAP adjusted net income takes into account the tax treatment and related tax rate that apply to each adjustment in the applicable tax jurisdiction.

Lantheus Holdings, Inc.
Reconciliation of Free Cash Flow

(in thousands – unaudited)

Three Months Ended
December 31,

Year Ended
December 31,

2019

2018

2019

2018

Net cash provided by operating activities

$

22,421

$

17,306

$

80,384

$

61,193

Capital expenditures

(4,741

)

(7,366

)

(22,061

)

(20,132

)

Free cash flow

$

17,680

$

9,940

$

58,323

$

41,061

Lantheus Holdings, Inc.
Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets

(in thousands – unaudited)

December 31,
2019

December 31,
2018

Assets

Current assets

Cash and cash equivalents

$

92,919

$

113,401

Accounts receivable, net

43,529

43,753

Inventory

29,180

33,019

Other current assets

7,283

5,242

Total current assets

172,911

195,415

Property, plant and equipment, net

116,497

107,888

Intangibles, net

7,336

9,133

Goodwill

15,714

15,714

Deferred tax assets, net

71,834

81,449

Other long-term assets

21,627

30,232

Total assets

$

405,919

$

439,831

Liabilities and stockholders’ equity

Current liabilities

Current portion of long-term debt and other borrowings

$

10,143

$

2,750

Accounts payable

18,608

17,955

Accrued expenses and other liabilities

37,360

32,050

Total current liabilities

66,111

52,755

Asset retirement obligations

12,883

11,572

Long-term debt, net and other borrowings

183,927

263,709

Other long-term liabilities

28,397

40,793

Total liabilities

291,318

368,829

Total stockholders’ equity

114,601

71,002

Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity

$

405,919

$

439,831

Contacts

Mark Kinarney
Director, Investor Relations
978-671-8842
ir@lantheus.com

Source: Lantheus Holdings, Inc.

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