Lantheus Holdings, Inc. Reports Third Quarter 2018 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 third quarter ended September 30, 2018.

 
 

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 third quarter ended September 30, 2018.

The Company’s worldwide revenues for the third quarter of 2018 totaled $88.9 million, compared with $79.9 million for the third quarter of 2017. Net income for the third quarter of 2018 totaled $9.3 million, or $0.24 per diluted share, compared with $8.5 million, or $0.22 per diluted share, for the third quarter of 2017. The Company’s third quarter 2018 EBITDA was $20.0 million, or 22.5% of revenues, and its Adjusted EBITDA was $26.1 million, or 29.4% of revenues, as compared with 21.2%, and 28.3% of revenues for the third quarter of 2017, respectively.

“We delivered double-digit growth in both DEFINITY and TechneLite in the third quarter,” said Mary Anne Heino, President and CEO of Lantheus. “We continue to leverage our portfolio of products and capabilities to optimize growth and ensure the flexibility to respond to opportunities. As we consider investment strategies to expand and diversify our business, this robust financial performance further strengthens our balance sheet and ability to execute on initiatives.”

Outlook

The Company reaffirms its full-year 2018 worldwide revenue guidance range of $337 million to $342 million. The Company has increased its full-year 2018 guidance range for Adjusted EBITDA, as described in the GAAP to non-GAAP reconciliation provided later in this release, to $90 million to $93 million from previous guidance of $85 million to $90 million, a margin of 26.3% to 27.6% of anticipated worldwide revenues.

The Company’s guidance for worldwide revenues and Adjusted EBITDA are forward-looking statements. They are subject to various risks and uncertainties that could cause the Company’s actual results to differ materially from guidance. Forward-looking statements are not predictions of the Company’s actual performance. See the cautionary information about forward-looking statements in the “Safe-Harbor Statement” section of this press release.

Internet Posting of Information

The Company routinely posts information that may be important to investors in the “Investors” section of its website at http://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 starting at 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time today. 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 8386986. 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; TechneLite® (Technetium Tc99m Generator), a technetium-based generator that provides the essential medical isotope used in nuclear medicine procedures; and Xenon (Xenon Xe 133 Gas), an inhaled radiopharmaceutical imaging agent used to evaluate pulmonary function and for imaging the lungs. 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 revenues excluding the impact of foreign currency; adjusted operating income; adjusted net income and its line components; EBITDA; Adjusted EBITDA; adjusted net income per share - 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. The measures may exclude such items which may be highly variable, difficult to predict and of a size that could have substantial impact on the Company’s reported results of operations for a 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 2018 Adjusted EBITDA. No reconciliation of this forward-looking non-GAAP guidance was included in this press release because, due to the high variability and difficulty in making accurate forecasts and projections of some of the excluded information 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 2018 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 are 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
September 30,
  Nine Months Ended
September 30,
    2018   2017   2018   2017
Revenues   $ 88,900     $ 79,941     $ 257,103     $ 250,137  
Cost of goods sold   44,015     41,414     126,063     125,901  
Gross profit   44,885     38,527     131,040     124,236  
Operating expenses                
Sales and marketing   10,478     10,075     33,248     31,892  
General and administrative   13,609     12,076     37,727     35,549  
Research and development   4,316     3,554     12,520     14,149  
Total operating expenses   28,403     25,705     83,495     81,590  
Operating income   16,482     12,822     47,545     42,646  
Interest expense   4,446     4,442     12,794     14,147  
Loss on extinguishment of debt               2,161  
Other income   (799 )   (908 )   (2,055 )   (2,037 )
Income before income taxes   12,835     9,288     36,806     28,375  
Income tax expense   3,566     762     9,581     2,116  
Net income   $ 9,269     $ 8,526     $ 27,225     $ 26,259  
Net income per common share:                
Basic   $ 0.24     $ 0.23     $ 0.71     $ 0.71  
Diluted   $ 0.24     $ 0.22     $ 0.69     $ 0.67  
Weighted-average common shares outstanding:                
Basic   38,342     37,393     38,155     37,174  
Diluted   39,402     39,121     39,467     38,971  
                         
 

Lantheus Holdings, Inc.

Consolidated Segment Revenues Analysis

(in thousands – unaudited)

 
    Three Months Ended
September 30,
  Nine Months Ended
September 30,
   

2018

  2017  

Change
%

  2018   2017   Change
%

United States

                       
DEFINITY   $ 42,472     $ 36,901     15.1 %   $ 131,081     $ 113,035     16.0 %
TechneLite   19,374     22,621     (14.4 )%   56,780     69,150     (17.9 )%
Xenon   7,239     7,726     (6.3 )%   22,805     23,709     (3.8 )%
Other   1,170     2,331     (49.8 )%   5,163     12,812     (59.7 )%
Total United States   70,255     69,579     1.0 %   215,829     218,706     (1.3 )%

International

                       
DEFINITY   1,283     828     55.0 %   3,427     2,534     35.2 %
TechneLite   11,244     3,735     201.0 %   18,711     10,750     74.1 %
Xenon           %       4     (100.0 )%
Other   6,118     5,799     5.5 %   19,136     18,143     5.5 %
Total International   18,645     10,362     79.9 %   41,274     31,431     31.3 %

Worldwide

                       
DEFINITY   43,755     37,729     16.0 %   134,508     115,569     16.4 %
TechneLite   30,618     26,356     16.2 %   75,491     79,900     (5.5 )%
Xenon   7,239     7,726     (6.3 )%   22,805     23,713     (3.8 )%
Other   7,288     8,130     (10.4 )%   24,299     30,955     (21.5 )%
Total Revenues   $ 88,900     $ 79,941     11.2 %   $ 257,103     $ 250,137     2.8 %
                                             
 

Lantheus Holdings, Inc.

Reconciliation of GAAP to Non-GAAP Financial Measures

(in thousands – unaudited)

 
    Three Months Ended
September 30,
  Nine Months Ended
September 30,
    2018   2017   2018   2017
Operating income   $ 16,482     $ 12,822     $ 47,545     $ 42,646  
Campus consolidation costs including depreciation   84     797     1,154     5,779  
Offering and other costs       73         602  
Non-recurring refinancing related fees               1,721  
Adjusted operating income   $ 16,566     $ 13,692     $ 48,699     $ 50,748  
Adjusted operating income, as a percentage of revenues   18.6 %   17.1 %   18.9 %   20.3 %
                         
 

Lantheus Holdings, Inc.

Reconciliation of GAAP to Non-GAAP Financial Measures

(in thousands, except per share data – unaudited)

 
    Three Months Ended
September 30,
  Nine Months Ended
September 30,
    2018   2017   2018   2017
Net income   $ 9,269     $ 8,526     $ 27,225     $ 26,259  
Reconciling items impacting operating income:                
Campus consolidation costs including depreciation   84     797     1,154     5,779  
Offering and other costs       73         602  
Non-recurring refinancing related fees               1,721  
Reconciling items impacting non-operating expenses and income taxes:                
Loss on debt extinguishment and retirement costs               2,161  
Income tax effect of non-GAAP adjustments(a) (b)   (21 )   (220 )   (291 )   (2,591 )
Adjusted net income   $ 9,332     $ 9,176     $ 28,088     $ 33,931  
Adjusted net income, as a percentage of revenues   10.5 %   11.5 %   10.9 %   13.6 %
         
         
    Three Months Ended
September 30,
  Nine Months Ended
September 30,
    2018   2017   2018   2017
Net income per share - diluted   $ 0.24     $ 0.22     $ 0.69     $ 0.67  
Reconciling items impacting operating income:                
Campus consolidation costs including depreciation       0.02     0.03     0.15  
Offering and other costs               0.02  
Non-recurring refinancing related fees               0.04  
Reconciling items impacting non-operating expenses and income taxes:                
Loss on debt extinguishment and retirement costs               0.06  
Tax effect of non-GAAP adjustments(a) (b)       (0.01 )   (0.01 )   (0.07 )
Adjusted net income per share - diluted   $ 0.24     $ 0.23     $ 0.71     $ 0.87  
Weighted-average common shares outstanding - diluted   39,402     39,121     39,467     38,971  
                         

(a) 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.

(b) During the fourth quarter of 2017, we released the valuation allowance previously recorded against our domestic net deferred tax assets. As a result, we included the tax effect of non-GAAP adjustments starting in the fourth quarter of 2017. Presentation of 2017 Adjusted Net Income has been modified to allow better go-forward comparability by including the tax effect of non-GAAP reconciling items.

 

Lantheus Holdings, Inc.

Reconciliation of GAAP to Non-GAAP Financial Measures

(in thousands – unaudited)

 
    Three Months Ended
September 30,
  Nine Months Ended
September 30,
    2018   2017   2018   2017
Net income   $ 9,269     $ 8,526     $ 27,225     $ 26,259  
Interest expense, net   4,428     4,437     12,761     14,134  
Income tax expense(a)   2,875     272     7,361     646  
Depreciation   1,805     2,102     5,533     10,066  
Amortization of intangible assets   1,650     1,646     5,011     4,953  
EBITDA   20,027     16,983     57,891     56,058  
Stock and incentive plan compensation   2,639     1,933     7,015     4,735  
Asset write-off (b)   1,254     911     3,273     2,184  
Severance and recruiting costs (c)   1,776     666     2,227     1,033  
Offering and other costs (d)       73         602  
Campus consolidation costs   84     408     1,154     1,101  
Debt refinancing costs               1,721  
Extinguishment of debt and debt retirement costs               2,161  
New manufacturer costs (e)   334     1,639     1,301     3,616  
Adjusted EBITDA   $ 26,114     $ 22,613     $ 72,861     $ 73,211  
Adjusted EBITDA, as a percentage of revenues   29.4 %   28.3 %   28.3 %   29.3 %
                         

(a) Represents income tax expense, less tax indemnification income associated with Bristol-Myers Squibb.

(b) Represents non-cash losses incurred associated with inventory and other write-offs of long-lived assets.

(c) The amounts consist of severance and recruitment costs related to employees, executives and directors.

(d) Represents offering costs incurred on behalf of certain shareholders pursuant to a registration rights agreement and other non-recurring costs.

(e) Represents internal and external costs associated with establishing new manufacturing sources for our commercial and clinical candidate products.

 

Lantheus Holdings, Inc.

Reconciliation of Free Cash Flow

(in thousands – unaudited)

 
    Three Months Ended
September 30,
  Nine Months Ended
September 30,
    2018   2017   2018   2017
Net cash provided by operating activities   $ 24,277     $ 15,600     $ 43,887     $ 41,691  
Capital expenditures   (5,005 )   (3,288 )   (12,766 )   (11,589 )
Free cash flow   $ 19,272     $ 12,312     $ 31,121     $ 30,102  
                                 
 

Lantheus Holdings, Inc.

Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets

(in thousands – unaudited)

 
    September 30,
2018
  December 31,
2017
Assets        
Current assets        
Cash and cash equivalents   $ 104,584     $ 76,290
Accounts receivable, net   47,135     40,259
Inventory   34,572     26,080
Other current assets   4,669     5,221
Total current assets   190,960     147,850
Property, plant & equipment, net   99,407     92,999
Intangibles, net   9,727     11,798
Goodwill   15,714     15,714
Deferred tax assets, net   79,358     87,010
Other long-term assets   29,652     28,487
Total assets   $ 424,818     $ 383,858
Liabilities and stockholders’ equity        
Current liabilities        
Current portion of long-term debt   $ 2,750     $ 2,750
Revolving line of credit      
Accounts payable   20,363     17,464
Accrued expenses and other liabilities   31,464     26,536
Total current liabilities   54,577     46,750
Asset retirement obligations   11,282     10,412
Long-term debt, net   264,130     265,393
Other long-term liabilities   39,321     38,012
Total liabilities   369,310     360,567
Total stockholders’ equity   55,508     23,291
Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity   $ 424,818     $ 383,858

 

Contacts

Lantheus Holdings, Inc.
Meara Murphy, 978-671-8508
Director, Investor Relations and Corporate Communications

 
 

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