June
9 , 1999
Quality
Systems Inc. Announces Fiscal 1999 Year-End Results
Q-4 and FY-99 revenues reach record $9.8 million and $33.8 million,
respectively
Recurring maintenance revenues grew 39% in Q-4 1999 vs.
Q-4 1998
Q-4 1999 EPS increases to $0.12 vs. $0.06 for Q-3 1999
Quality Systems Inc. (Nasdaq:QSII - news) Wednesday announced
the results of operations for the fiscal year ended March 31,
1999.
Revenues
for the fiscal 1999 fourth quarter increased 9 percent to a record
$9,833,000, compared with revenues of $9,014,000 for the fiscal
1998 fourth quarter. Income from operations for the fiscal 1999
fourth quarter was $1,113,000 and net income reached $755,000,
or 12 cents per share.
This
compares with a loss from operations of $4,209,000, and a net
loss of $2,462,000, or 41 cents per share, in last year's fourth
quarter. The 1998 fourth quarter included a charge of $5,480,000
for purchased in-process research and development. For the year
ended March 31, 1999, revenues increased 8 percent to a record
$33,816,000 resulting in net income of $584,000, or 9 cents per
share. This compares with revenues in fiscal 1998 of $31,216,000,
and a net loss of $4,616,000, or 77 cents per share. The fiscal
1998 results of operations include a charge of $10.2 million for
purchased in-process research and development.
Sheldon
Razin, chairman and CEO of Quality Systems, said: "We are encouraged
by the much-improved performance of the company in the last half,
and particularly in the fourth quarter, of the fiscal year. Current
fourth-quarter revenues grew 11 percent over the prior improved
third quarter. Also, our gross profit margin increased almost
200 basis points, and earnings per share doubled in the current
fourth quarter over the previous third quarter.
"We
experienced particularly strong growth in recurring maintenance
and other services, which increased 39 percent to $4,296,000,
or 44 percent of total revenues in the current fourth quarter,
compared with $3,095,000 and 34 percent of total revenues in the
fiscal 1998 fourth quarter.
"This
improvement was primarily the result of the steady expansion of
our client base, including the growing revenue base from our MicroMed
Healthcare Information Systems Division. Another important revenue
contribution came from our growing electronic data interchange
services.
"During
the quarter, we completed the integration of our MicroMed and
Clinitec subsidiaries' sales forces into one team. One important
result of this integration has been an acceleration in the number
of cross-sold electronic medical records systems with our practice
management products. In the fourth quarter alone, we contracted
to sell 7 integrated practice management and clinical systems
compared to 5 in the third quarter, and 3 in the fiscal 1998 fourth
quarter.
"Consolidation
in our dental market continues to benefit Quality Systems. Today
we are the practice management system vendor to over 50 percent
of the identified consolidator market. During the quarter, we
were pleased to announce being appointed the exclusive vendor
of choice for practice management systems and electronic data
interchange services for InterDent Inc., the largest provider
of dental management services in the U.S. We believe this consolidation
trend will continue into the future, and will remain a focus of
our company.
"Our
financial condition continues to remain strong with cash and short-term
investments of $14.4 million and shareholders' equity of $29.7
million, or $4.77 per share," said Razin.
Quality
Systems is one of the leading developers and providers of computer-based
practice management and medical records systems for medical and
dental group practices, with a customer base of approximately
500 clients in 45 states, Canada and Saudi Arabia.
This
news release contains forward-looking statements, including those
related to revenue and net income that involve a number of risks
and uncertainties. Among the important factors that could cause
actual results to differ materially from those indicated by such
forward-looking statements are volume and timing of systems sales
and installations; length of sales cycles and installation process;
seasonal patterns of sales and customer buying behavior; the development
by competitors of new or superior technologies; delays in product
development; undetected errors or bugs in software; product liability;
changing economic, political or regulatory influences on the health-care
industry; changes in product pricing policies; competitive pressures;
possible regulation of the company's software by the U.S. Food
and Drug Administration; general economic conditions; and the
risk factors detailed from time to time in Quality Systems' periodic
reports and registration statements filed with the Securities
and Exchange Commission as applied to the company as of the date
hereof.