VASCO Reports Results for Third Quarter and First Nine Months of 2009
Revenue for the third quarter 2009 was $22.1 million, a decrease of 44% compared to the third quarter 2008; Operating income for the third quarter 2009 was $2.0 million, a decrease of 83% compared to the third quarter 2008. Financial results for the period ended September 30, 2009 to be discussed on conference call today at 10:00 a.m. E.D.T.
OAKBROOK TERRACE, IL, and ZURICH, Switzerland, October 27, 2009 - VASCO Data Security International, Inc. (Nasdaq: VDSI) (www.vasco.com), today reported financial results for the third quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2009.
Revenue for the third quarter of 2009 decreased 44% to $22.1 million from $39.7 million in the third quarter of 2008, and for the first nine months of 2009, decreased 33% to $69.8 from $104.0 million for the first nine months of 2008.
Net income for the third quarter of 2009 was $1.5 million, or $0.04 per diluted share, a decrease of $7.6 million, or 83%, from $9.1 million, or $0.24 per diluted share, for the third quarter of 2008. Net income for the first nine months of 2009 was $7.0 million, or $0.18 per diluted share, a decrease of $14.5 million, or 67%, from $21.5 million, or $0.56 per diluted share, for the comparable period in 2008.
- Gross profit was $15.4 million and 48.8 million for the third quarter and first nine months of 2009, respectively, both 70% of revenue, for their respective periods. Gross profit was $27.8 million or 70% of revenue for the third quarter of 2008 and $73.3 million, or 70% of revenue, for the first nine months of 2008.
- Operating expenses for the third quarter and first nine months of 2009 were $13.4 million and $40.8 million, respectively, a decrease of 18% from $16.4 million reported for the third quarter of 2008 and a decrease of 13% from $47.0 million reported for the first nine months of 2008. Operating expenses for the third quarter of 2009 included $0.5 million of expenses related to stock-based incentives. For the first nine months of 2009, operating expenses reflected a benefit of $0.8 million related to stock-based incentives, including the reversal in the first quarter of 2009 of $2.0 million of long-term performance-based incentive award reserves that had been accrued at 12/31/08. Operating expenses for the third quarter and first nine months of 2008 included $0.8 million and $2.3 million, respectively, of expense related to stock-based incentives.
- Operating income for the third quarter and first nine months of 2009 was $2.0 million and $8.0 million, respectively, a decrease of $9.5 million, or 83%, from $11.4 million reported for the third quarter of 2008 and a decrease of $18.3 million, or 70%, from $26.3 million reported for the first nine months of 2008. Operating income, as a percentage of revenue, for the third quarter and first nine months of 2009 was 9% and 12%, respectively, compared to 29% and 25% for the comparable periods in 2008.
- Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) was $3.3 million and $11.9 million for the third quarter and first nine months of 2009, respectively, a decrease of 71% from $11.5 million reported for the third quarter of 2008 and a decrease of 58% from $28.4 million reported for the first nine months of 2008.
- Net cash balances, cash balances less borrowing under VASCO’s line of credit, at September 30, 2009 totaled $71.2 million compared to $67.6 million and $57.7 million at June 30, 2009 and December 31, 2008, respectively.
- VASCO won 350 new customers in Q3 2009 (56 new banks and 294 new enterprise security customers). For the first nine months of 2009, VASCO won 1,057 new customers (151 banks and 906 enterprise security customers). Although management considers the number of new customers as an indicator of the momentum of our business and effectiveness of our distribution channel, the number of new customers is not indicative of future revenue.
- VASCO’s PKI-based DIGIPASS CertiID and DIGIPASS Key 1 become IdenTrust compliant.
- VASCO launches a new version of aXsGUARD Identifier with LAPD synchronization allowing the aXsGUARD Identifier user database to be synchronized with multiple LDAP directories.
- VASCO expands its consulting services offering to support a growing demand for expertise and sharing of best practices in implementing strong authentication in e-banking and beyond.
“The results for the third quarter of 2009 reflected the current challenging economic environment and the lower levels of activity that are due to the normal seasonal trends, including the holiday schedules in Europe,” stated T. Kendall Hunt, Chairman & CEO. “As expected, our revenues from both the banking and enterprise and application security markets were lower than in the third quarter of 2008, which incidentally, was the best quarter in our history. Also, as expected, we were able to remain profitable while maintaining our previous investments in infrastructure that are needed to support future growth. Looking forward, we believe that the financial, economic and regulatory environments that have had a large negative affect on our banking customers is improving. As always, we will continue to focus on our most productive markets, be selective in making new investments and maintain our focus on containing our costs and, as a result, expect to be profitable throughout 2009.”
"The results for the third quarter continued the trends that we have seen since the middle of the fourth quarter of 2008 with our banking customers continuing to order small quantities to meet their short-term needs. We are, however, seeing an increase in activity from customers in the banking market and expect the volume of orders to increase in the fourth quarter," said Jan Valcke, VASCO's President and COO. "While the banks are still not placing large, twelve-month purchase orders, it does appear that they are developing and implementing longer-term plans. We also continue to be encouraged by the progress being made in the enterprise and application security markets and, with the expected improvement in the banking market, we are planning to increase our investment in sales and marketing to ensure that prospective customers are aware of our strong product offering."
Cliff Bown, Executive Vice President and CFO added, “During the third quarter of 2009, our cash and working capital balances increased 5% and 4%, respectively, from our balances at June 30, 2009. At September 30, 2009 our net cash balance was $71.2 million and we had $83.3 million of working capital. Days sales outstanding in net accounts receivable at September 30, 2009 increased to 85 days from 65 days at June 30, 2009 and 79 days at December 31, 2008.
In conjunction with this announcement, VASCO Data Security International, Inc. will host a conference call today, October 27, 2009, at 10:00 a.m. EDT - 15:00h CET. During the Conference Call, Mr. Ken Hunt, CEO, Mr. Jan Valcke, President and COO, and Mr. Cliff Bown, CFO, will discuss VASCO’s Results for the Third Quarter and First Nine Months Ended September 30, 2009.
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