Accelrys Announces Second Quarter 2013 Results

Accelrys Announces Second Quarter 2013 Results

SAN DIEGO--(July 31, 2013)-- Accelrys, Inc. (NASDAQ: ACCL) today reported financial results for the fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2013. Non-GAAP revenue for the quarter ended June 30, 2013 increased $0.3 million to $41.8 million from $41.6 million for the same quarter of the previous year, or an increase of one percent. Non-GAAP revenue for the six months ended June 30, 2013 increased $2.4 million to $85.8 million from $83.3 million for the same period of the previous year, or an increase of three percent.

Non-GAAP net income was $3.7 million, or $0.07 per diluted share, for the quarter ended June 30, 2013 compared to non-GAAP net income of $4.1 million, or $0.07 per diluted share, for the same quarter of the previous year. Non-GAAP net income was $7.3 million, or $0.13 per diluted share, for the six months ended June 30, 2013 compared to non-GAAP net income of $8.7 million, or $0.15 per diluted share, for the same period of the previous year.

GAAP revenue for the quarter ended June 30, 2013 increased $0.6 million to $39.0 million from $38.4 million for the same quarter of the previous year, or an increase of two percent. GAAP revenue for the six months ended June 30, 2013 increased $3.3 million to $81.2 million from $77.8 million for the same period of the previous year, or an increase of four percent.

GAAP net income was $19.8 million, or $0.35 per diluted share, for the quarter ended June 30, 2013 compared to GAAP net loss of $(0.5) million, or $(0.01) per diluted share, for the same quarter of the previous year. GAAP net income was $14.1 million, or $0.25 per diluted share, for the six months ended June 30, 2013 compared to GAAP net loss of $(2.8) million, or $(0.05) per diluted share, for the same period of the previous year. GAAP net income for the three and six months ended June 30, 2013 included a one-time gain of $25.9 million, or $0.45 per diluted share for both periods, recognized upon the payoff of the promissory note receivable from Intermolecular, Inc. ("Intermolecular") in May 2013.

"The implementation of our market segment strategy and field coverage model continued to take hold during the quarter and our execution improved across the business producing positive results overall. Orders performance for the second quarter improved from Q1 2013 and represented solid growth over the second quarter of 2012," said Max Carnecchia, President and Chief Executive Officer of Accelrys. "The teams are gaining momentum and we have added additional talent to the organization. Overall the market dynamics appear to be improving; and we remain confident that we are uniquely positioned to create a growing world-class software company and capitalize on the scientific innovation lifecycle management market opportunity. The restructuring announced today further strengthens our financial position and aligns our resources with the significant growth opportunity of our business."

Recent Business Highlights:

  • On July 25, 2013 we strengthened the board of directors through the addition of a new independent director, Heidi Melin, currently the chief marketing officer of Plex Systems, Inc., a cloud Enterprise Resource Planning ("ERP") technology company that delivers plant floor-focused ERP to manufacturers. Ms. Melin brings to Accelrys more than 20 years of experience in marketing in the high technology industry.

Specific business highlights from the quarter ended June 30, 2013 include the release of new products such as:

  • The Experiment Knowledge Base, the first informatics system for R&D that gives scientists the ability to search and mine experimentation data from almost any source
  • The enhanced Accelrys Process Management and Compliance Suite with Discoverant 4.3, providing new enterprise manufacturing process intelligence capabilities
  • The Accelrys Enterprise Platform 9.0, which has expansive capabilities for managing Big Data and the challenges associated with externalization
  • A cloud-based Externalized Collaboration Suite, which addresses the needs of life sciences organizations engaged in collaborative network research

In addition, Accelrys continued to enhance its relationships with partners, by:

  • Expanding our relationship with BT through the release of our industry-leading research and collaboration workspace, HEOS, on the BT Life Sciences R&D Cloud; and
  • Further strengthening our partnership with BT through the development of innovative data mining strategies using Accelrys Enterprise Platform to handle large sets of structured and unstructured data, such as BT's collations of public health data, which have previously proven difficult, if not impossible, to manage with other technologies

Realignment of Company Operations:

Separately today the Company announced the restructuring of approximately 80 employees, or about 12% of its total workforce, and the abandonment of a portion of one of its facilities in San Ramon, California. These actions are intended to reduce costs and to realign the Company's operations to focus on growth opportunities within the Company's market segments. Approximately 40 positions will be filled in different capacities or locations to rebalance the skillset as part of this realignment.

Calendar Year 2013 Outlook

For the year ending December 31, 2013, the Company expects non-GAAP revenue to be between $176 and $179 million, and non-GAAP diluted earnings per share to be between $0.32 and $0.34 per diluted share on fully diluted weighted average shares outstanding of 57 million and using an effective tax rate of 40 percent.

Non-GAAP Financial Measures:

This press release describes financial measures for non-GAAP revenue, operating income, net income, net income per diluted share and free cash flow that exclude deferred revenue fair value adjustments, acquisition-related cost of revenue, business consolidation, transaction and headquarter-relocation costs, stock-based compensation expense, purchased intangible asset amortization, royalty income fair value adjustments, amortization of note receivable discount, gain on sale of real estate, gain on sale of intellectual property, write-off of lease related assets and other non-operating expense. Additionally, our non-GAAP net income reflects an effective pro-forma tax rate of 40 percent. These financial measures are not calculated in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) and are not based on any comprehensive set of accounting rules or principles.

Management believes these non-GAAP financial measures provide a useful measure of the Company's operating results, a meaningful comparison with historical results and with the results of other companies, and insight into the Company's ongoing operating performance. Further, management and the Board of Directors utilize these measures, in addition to GAAP measures, when evaluating and comparing the Company's operating performance against internal financial forecasts and budgets. These non-GAAP financial measures should not be considered as a substitute for, or superior to, measures of financial performance prepared in accordance with GAAP. In addition, these non-GAAP financial measures may be different from non-GAAP financial measures used by other companies.

For additional information on the items excluded by the Company from its non-GAAP financial measures please refer to the Form 8-K regarding this release that was furnished today to the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The following table contains a reconciliation of the non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures (unaudited, amounts in thousands, except per share amounts, including footnotes):

         
   

Three Months Ended

  Six Months Ended
    June 30,   June 30,
    2013   2012   2013   2012
GAAP revenue   $ 39,036     $ 38,394     $ 81,174     $ 77,833  
Deferred revenue fair value adjustment1   2,808     3,158     4,576     5,515  
Non-GAAP revenue   $ 41,844     $ 41,552     $ 85,750     $ 83,348  
                 
GAAP operating loss   $ (7,414 )   $ (3,721 )   $ (13,876 )   $ (6,909 )
Deferred revenue fair value adjustment1   2,808     3,158     4,576     5,515  
Acquisition-related cost of revenue2       (482 )   (124 )   (705 )
Business consolidation, transaction and headquarter-relocation costs3   2,058     (35 )   4,212     604  
Stock-based compensation expense4   2,119     1,848     4,539     3,639  
Purchased intangible asset amortization5   4,624     4,192     9,273     8,368  
Non-GAAP operating income   $ 4,195     $ 4,960     $ 8,600     $ 10,512  
Depreciation expense   904     798     1,780     1,602  
Cash received for interest and royalty income   2,188     1,881     4,716     5,171  
Cash paid for income taxes, net of refunds received   (173 )   (880 )   (1,287 )   (2,044 )
Capital expenditures   (6,294 )   (1,520 )   (8,547 )   (2,291 )
Non-GAAP free cash flow   $ 820     $ 5,239     $ 5,262     $ 12,950  
                 
GAAP net income (loss)   $ 19,787     $ (520 )   $ 14,061     $ (2,774 )
Deferred revenue fair value adjustment1   2,808     3,158     4,576     5,515  
Acquisition-related cost of revenue2       (482 )   (124 )   (705 )
Business consolidation, transaction and headquarter-relocation costs3   2,058     (35 )   4,212     604  
Stock-based compensation expense4   2,119     1,848     4,539     3,639  
Purchased intangible asset amortization5   5,029     4,616     10,083     9,215  
Royalty income fair value adjustment6       200         400  
Amortization of note receivable discount7   (481 )   (268 )   (685 )   (388 )
Gain on sale of real estate8       (2,744 )       (2,744 )
Gain on sale of intellectual property9   (25,821 )       (25,895 )    
Write-off of lease related assets10       670         670  
Other non-operating expense11   114         33      
Income tax12   (1,875 )   (2,330 )   (3,508 )   (4,707 )
Non-GAAP net income   $ 3,738     $ 4,113     $ 7,292     $ 8,725  
                 
GAAP diluted net income (loss) per share   $ 0.35     $ (0.01 )   $ 0.25     $ (0.05 )
Deferred revenue fair value adjustment1   0.05     0.06     0.08     0.10  
Acquisition-related cost of revenue2       (0.01 )       (0.01 )
Business consolidation, transaction and headquarter-relocation costs3   0.04         0.07     0.01  
Stock-based compensation expense4   0.04     0.03     0.08     0.06  
Purchased intangible asset amortization5   0.09     0.08     0.18     0.16  
Royalty income fair value adjustment6               0.01  
Amortization of note receivable discount7   (0.01 )       (0.01 )   (0.01 )
Gain on sale of real estate8       (0.05 )       (0.05 )
Gain on sale of intellectual property9   (0.45 )       (0.45 )    
Write-off of lease related assets10       0.01         0.01  
Other non-operating expense11                
Income tax12   (0.03 )   (0.04 )   (0.06 )   (0.08 )
Non-GAAP diluted net income per share13   $ 0.07     $ 0.07     $ 0.13     $ 0.15  
                 
Weighted average shares used to compute net income per share:                
Basic   55,707     55,596     55,694     55,690  
Diluted   56,874     56,456     56,964     56,484  
                         

1Deferred revenue fair value adjustment relates to our acquisitions of Vialis, Aegis, VelQuest and Contur and our merger with Symyx, and adds back the impact of writing down the acquired historical deferred revenue to fair value as required by purchase accounting guidance.
2Acquisition-related cost of revenue relates to our acquisition of VelQuest, and adds back the impact of writing down the acquired deferred cost of revenue as required by purchase accounting guidance.
3Business consolidation, transaction and headquarter-relocation costs consist of professional services, legal, litigation, employee-related and other costs incurred in connection with our acquisition and related integration activities, as well as lease obligation exit costs, severance and other costs incurred in connection with the various restructuring activities commenced by the Company. Also included are contingent compensation costs relating to the Vialis and the Contur acquisitions as well as costs associated with our headquarter relocation in July 2013, including professional services and additional rent expense during the transition to the new facility.
4Stock-based compensation expense is included in our consolidated statements of operations as follows:

         
    Three Months Ended   Six Months Ended
    June 30,   June 30,
    2013   2012   2013   2012
    (in thousands)
Cost of revenue   $ 149     $ 147     $ 384     $ 289
Product development   476     374     932     756
Sales and marketing   641     665     1,496     1,254
General and administrative   848     648     1,717     1,335
Business consolidation, transaction and headquarter-relocation costs   5     14     10     5
Total stock-based compensation expense   $ 2,119     $ 1,848     $ 4,539     $ 3,639
                               

5Purchased intangible asset amortization is included in our consolidated statements of operations as follows:

         
    Three Months Ended   Six Months Ended
    June 30,   June 30,
    2013   2012   2013   2012
    (in thousands)
Amortization of completed technology   $ 2,213     $ 2,074     $ 4,429     $ 4,155
Purchased intangible asset amortization   2,411     2,118     4,844     4,213
Royalty and other income, net   405     424     810     847
Total purchased intangible amortization expense   $ 5,029     $ 4,616     $ 10,083     $ 9,215
                               

6Royalty income fair value adjustment relates to our merger with Symyx, and adds back the impact of writing down deferred royalty income to fair value as required by purchase accounting guidance.
7Amortization of note receivable discount adjusts the amortization of the discount on our promissory note receivable from Intermolecular in connection with the sale of intellectual property in November 2011.
8Gain on sale of real estate relates to the sale of real property, comprised of land and an office building located in Santa Clara, California, which we sold in June 2012. This property was acquired as a result of our merger with Symyx and was not utilized in our ongoing operations.
9Gain on sale of intellectual property to Intermolecular reflects the gain recognized upon the payoff of the promissory note receivable from Intermolecular in May 2013.
10Write-off of lease related assets relates to the write off in June 2012 of certain assets in connection with exiting the lease of a restructured facility.
11Other non-operating expense for the three months ended June 30, 2013 relates to loss on disposal of certain fixed assets as a result of the relocation of our corporate headquarters, offset by a reversal of gain on bargain purchase resulting from purchase accounting measurement period adjustments from our Vialis acquisition in January 2013. Other non-operating expense for the six months ended June 30, 2013 relates to loss on disposal of certain fixed assets as a result of the relocation of our corporate headquarters.
12Income tax adjustments relate to adjusting our non-GAAP operating results to reflect an effective tax rate of 40 percent that would be applied if the Company was in a taxable income position and was not able to utilize its net operating loss carryforwards. The income tax adjustment also excludes any impact of a release of our valuation allowance against deferred tax assets.
13Earnings per share amounts for the three and six months ended June 30, 2013 do not add due to rounding.

Conference Call Details:

At 5 p.m. ET, July 31, 2013, Accelrys will conduct a conference call to discuss its financial results. To participate, please dial (866) 309-0459 (+1 (937) 999-3232 outside the United States) and enter the access code, 93527059, approximately 15 minutes before the scheduled start of the call. The conference call will also be accessible live on the Investor Relations section of the Accelrys website at http://ir.accelrys.com/.

A replay of the conference call will be available online at www.accelrys.com and via telephone by dialing (855) 859-2056 (+1 (404) 537-3406 outside the United States) and entering access code, 93527059, beginning 8:00 p.m. ET on July 31, 2013 through 11:59 p.m. ET on August 31, 2013.

About Accelrys:

Accelrys (NASDAQ: ACCL), a leading provider of scientific innovation lifecycle management software, supports industries and organizations that rely on scientific innovation to differentiate themselves. The industry-leading Accelrys Enterprise Platform provides a broad, flexible scientific solution optimized to integrate the diversity of science, experimental processes and information requirements across the research, development, process scale-up and early manufacturing phases of product development. By incorporating capabilities in applications for modeling and simulation, enterprise lab management, workflow and automation, and data management and informatics, Accelrys enables scientific innovators to access, organize, analyze and share data in unprecedented ways, ultimately enhancing innovation, improving productivity and compliance, reducing costs and speeding time from lab to market.

Accelrys solutions are used by more than 1,300 customers in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, energy, chemicals, aerospace, consumer packaged goods and industrial products industries. Headquartered in San Diego, Calif., Accelrys employs more than 200 full-time PhD scientists. For more information about Accelrys, visit http://www.accelrys.com.

Forward-Looking Statements:

Statements contained in this press release relating to the Company's or management's intentions, hopes, beliefs, expectations or predictions of the future, including, but not limited to, statements relating to the Company's expected non-GAAP revenue and diluted earnings per share for the year ending December 31, 2013 and statements relating to the Company's long-term prospects and execution of its strategic growth initiatives, are forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, including, but not limited to, risks that the Company will not achieve its expected non-GAAP revenue or diluted earnings per share for the year ending December 31, 2013 and/or that the Company will not successfully execute its strategic growth initiatives, in each case due to, among other possibilities, an inability to withstand negative conditions in the global economy or a lack of demand for or market acceptance of the Company's products. Additional risks and uncertainties faced by the Company are contained from time to time in the Company's filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including, but not limited to, the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2012, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q and current reports on Form 8-K. Collectively, these risks and uncertainties could cause the Company's actual results to differ materially from those projected in its forward-looking statements, and the Company disclaims any intention or obligation to revise any forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

         
         
ACCELRYS, INC.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
(In thousands, except per share amounts)
(unaudited)
         
   

Three Months Ended June 30,

 

Six Months Ended June 30,

    2013   2012   2013   2012
Revenue:                
License and subscription revenue   $ 20,487     $ 21,399     $ 42,762     $ 43,096  
Maintenance on perpetual licenses   9,497     9,128     19,561     18,619  
Content   2,418     3,032     4,986     6,575  
Professional services and other   6,634     4,835     13,865     9,543  
Total revenue   39,036     38,394     81,174     77,833  
Cost of revenue:                
Cost of revenue   10,580     10,017     22,487     19,895  
Amortization of completed technology   2,213     2,074     4,429     4,155  
Total cost of revenue   12,793     12,091     26,916     24,050  
Gross profit   26,243     26,303     54,258     53,783  
Operating expenses:                
Product development   9,729     9,747     20,097     19,299  
Sales and marketing   15,356     13,813     30,489     27,678  
General and administrative   4,098     4,367     8,482     8,893  
Business consolidation, transaction and headquarter-relocation costs (recoveries)   2,063     (21 )   4,222     609  
Purchased intangible asset amortization   2,411     2,118     4,844     4,213  
Total operating expenses   33,657     30,024     68,134     60,692  
Operating loss   (7,414 )   (3,721 )   (13,876 )   (6,909 )
Gain on sale of intellectual property   25,821         25,895      
Royalty and other income, net   1,997     3,613     3,396     5,244  
Income (loss) before income taxes   20,404     (108 )   15,415     (1,665 )
Income tax expense   617     412     1,354     1,109  
Net income (loss)   $ 19,787     $ (520 )   $ 14,061     $ (2,774 )
                 
Net income (loss) per share amounts:                
Basic   $ 0.36     $ (0.01 )   $ 0.25     $ (0.05 )
Diluted   $ 0.35     $ (0.01 )   $ 0.25     $ (0.05 )
                 
Weighted average shares used to compute net income (loss) per share                
Basic   55,707     55,596     55,694     55,690  
Diluted   56,874     55,596     56,964     55,690  
                         
                         
ACCELRYS, INC.
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
(In thousands)
         
    June 30,
2013
  December 31,
2012
    (unaudited)   (audited)
Assets        
Cash, cash equivalents, and marketable securities1   $ 155,379     $ 115,646
Trade receivables, net   18,938     47,196
Notes receivable   8,979     34,796
Other assets, net2   204,496     208,204
Total assets   $ 387,792     $ 405,842
Liabilities and stockholders' equity        
Current liabilities, excluding deferred revenue   30,573     37,877
Deferred revenue, including current portion3   84,552     89,151
Deferred gain on sale of intellectual property       25,895
Non-current liabilities, excluding deferred revenue4   15,803     10,098
Total stockholders' equity   256,864     242,821
Total liabilities and stockholders' equity   $ 387,792     $ 405,842
               

1Cash, cash equivalents, and marketable securities consist of the following line items in our consolidated balance sheet: Cash and cash equivalents; Restricted cash; Marketable securities; Marketable securities, net of current portion; and Restricted cash, net of current portion.
2Other assets, net, consists of the following line items in our consolidated balance sheet: Prepaid expenses, deferred tax assets and other current assets; Property and equipment, net; Goodwill; Purchased intangible assets, net; and Other assets.
3Total deferred revenue consists of the following line items in our consolidated balance sheet: Current portion of deferred revenue; and Deferred revenue, net of current portion.
4Noncurrent liabilities, excluding deferred revenue consists of the following line items in our consolidated balance sheet: Accrued income tax; Accrued restructuring charges, net of current portion and Lease-related liabilities, net of current portion.

Accelrys, Inc.
Michael A. Piraino
Executive Vice President &
Chief Financial Officer
858-799-5200
or
Investor Relations
MKR Group
Todd Kehrli
323-468-2300
[email protected]

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