PARSIPPANY, N.J., Aug. 08, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Embecta Corp. (“embecta” or the "Company") (Nasdaq: EMBC), a global diabetes care company, today reported financial results for the three- and nine-month periods ended June 30, 2023.

"Having completed nearly a year and a half as an independent, publicly-traded company, we continue to make significant progress in building an organization well-positioned to advance our mission to develop and provide solutions that make life better for people living with diabetes," said Devdatt (Dev) Kurdikar, Chief Executive Officer of embecta. "We remain steadfast in our focus on three strategic priorities: strengthening our base business, separating and standing up embecta as an independent company, and investing for growth. While executing against initiatives in each of these areas, we continued to deliver quarterly financial results that exceeded our expectations. With strong year-to-date performance, we are tightening and raising our fiscal 2023 outlook for our key financial metrics."

embecta spun off from Becton, Dickinson and Company ("BD") on April 1, 2022 (the "Separation Date"). Financial results during the pre-spin period were presented on the carve-out basis of accounting and do not purport to reflect what embecta’s financial results would have been had embecta operated as a standalone public company. Therefore, financial results for the nine-month periods ended June 30, 2023 and June 30, 2022 are not meaningfully comparable.

Third Quarter Fiscal Year 2023 Financial Highlights:

• Revenues of $286.1 million, down 1.7% on a reported basis; down 0.3% on a constant currency basis
  • U.S. revenues decreased 2.6% on both a reported and constant currency basis
  • International revenues decreased 0.7% on a reported basis, and increased 2.4% on a constant currency basis
• Gross profit and margin of $189.5 million and 66.2%, compared to $202.9 million and 69.7% in the prior year period
• Adjusted gross profit and margin of $189.6 million and 66.3%
• Operating income and margin of $51.3 million and 17.9%, compared to $97.1 million and 33.4% in the prior year period
• Adjusted operating income and margin of $79.8 million and 27.9%
• Net income and earnings per diluted share of $15.2 million and $0.26, compared to $62.4 million and $1.07 in the prior year period
• Adjusted net income and adjusted earnings per diluted share of $39.8 million and $0.69
• Adjusted EBITDA and margin of $92.2 million and 32.2%, compared to $118.1 million and 40.6% in the prior year period
• Announced a dividend of $0.15 per share

Nine Months Ended June 30 2023 Financial Highlights:

• Revenues of $838.9 million, down 1.9% on a reported basis; up 1.4% on a constant currency basis
  • U.S. revenues decreased 0.2% on both a reported and constant currency basis
  • International revenues decreased 3.8% on a reported basis, and increased 3.2% on a constant currency basis
• Gross profit and margin of $568.1 million and 67.7%, compared to $598.0 million and 69.9% in the prior year period
• Adjusted gross profit and margin of $568.6 million and 67.8%
• Operating income and margin of $195.7 million and 23.3%, compared to $312.6 million and 36.6% in the prior year period
• Adjusted operating income and margin of $266.3 million and 31.7%
• Net income and earnings per diluted share of $64.4 million and $1.12, compared to $240.8 million and $4.14 in the prior year period
• Adjusted net income and adjusted earnings per diluted share of $138.5 million and $2.40
• Adjusted EBITDA and margin of $299.1 million and 35.7%, compared to $373.7 million and 43.7% in the prior year period

Strategic Highlights:

• Strengthen the base business
  • Launched BD Finer gauge (34G extra thin wall x 4mm) pen needle with Nano PRO hub design in Japan providing an alternate offering to people injecting insulin
• Separate and stand-up
  • Exited several transition service agreements with BD
  • Initiated demerger process to transfer Suzhou, China manufacturing entity from BD to embecta
• Invest for growth
  • Continued making progress on the development of a type 2 closed loop insulin delivery system utilizing embecta’s proprietary patch pump system, which carries Breakthrough Device Designation from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA)
  • Actively collaborating with Tidepool and have commenced engineering work to integrate the insulin dosing algorithm with our embecta patch pump for the development of an automated insulin delivery closed loop system. Additionally, initiated a small observational study in partnership with JCHR (Jaeb Center for Health Research) to analyze adults with type 2 diabetes currently using Tidepool’s algorithm

Third Quarter Fiscal Year 2023 Results:

Revenues by geographic region are as follows:

Our revenues decreased by $5.0 million, or 1.7%, to $286.1 million for the three months ended June 30, 2023 as compared to revenues of $291.1 million for the three months ended June 30, 2022. Changes in our revenues are driven by the volume of goods that we sell, the prices we negotiate with customers and changes in foreign exchange rates. The decrease in revenues was driven by $4.1 million associated with the negative impact of foreign currency translation primarily due to the strengthening of the U.S. dollar, a $2.3 million decrease in contract manufacturing and sales of non-diabetes products within the U.S. to BD, and $1.8 million of unfavorable changes in price and volume in the U.S. This was partially offset by increases in revenues driven by $3.2 million of favorable changes in price and volume in our International operations.

Nine Months Ended June 30, 2023 Results:

Revenues by geographic region are as follows:

Our revenues decreased by $16.0 million, or 1.9%, to $838.9 million for the nine months ended June 30, 2023 as compared to revenues of $854.9 million for the nine months ended June 30, 2022. The decrease in revenues was primarily driven by $28.1 million associated with the negative impact of foreign currency translation primarily due to the strengthening of the U.S. dollar and $6.2 million of unfavorable changes in price and volume in the U.S. This was partially offset by increases in revenues driven by $12.9 million of favorable changes in price and volume in our International operations and a $5.4 million increase in contract manufacturing and sales of non-diabetes products within the U.S. to BD.

Fiscal Year 2023 Updated Financial Guidance:
For fiscal year 2023, the Company now expects:

(1) Previous guidance was issued on May 12, 2023.

We are unable to present a quantitative reconciliation of our expected adjusted gross margin, expected adjusted operating margin, expected adjusted earnings per diluted share, expected adjusted EBITDA and our expected adjusted EBITDA margin as we are unable to predict with reasonable certainty, and without unreasonable effort the impact and timing of any one-time items. The financial impact of these one-time items is uncertain and is dependent on various factors, including timing, and could be material to our Condensed Consolidated Statements of Income.

Balance sheet, Liquidity and Other Updates

As of June 30, 2023, the Company had approximately $317.4 million in cash and cash equivalents and $1.638 billion of debt principal outstanding, and no amount drawn on its $500 million Revolving Credit Facility.

The Company’s Board of Directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.15 for each issued and outstanding share of the Company’s common stock. The dividend is payable on September 13, 2023 to stockholders of record at the close of business on August 25, 2023.

Third Quarter of Fiscal Year 2023 Earnings Conference Call:

Management will host a conference call at 8:00 a.m. Eastern Time (ET) on August 8, 2023 to discuss the results of the quarter, provide an update on its business, and host a question and answer session. Those who would like to participate may access the live webcast here, or access the teleconference here. The live webcast can also be accessed via the company’s website at investors.embecta.com.

A webcast replay of the call will be available beginning at 11:00 a.m. ET on August 8, 2023, via the embecta investor relations website and archived on the website for one year.

(1) For periods prior to the separation from BD, this income statement line includes cost of products sold from related party inventory purchases. For the nine month period ended June 30, 2022, cost of products sold from related party inventory purchases were $22.1 million.

About Non-GAAP financial measures

In evaluating our operating performance, we supplement the reporting of our financial information determined under GAAP with certain non-GAAP financial measures including (i) earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (“EBITDA”), (ii) Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA Margin, (iii) Adjusted Gross Profit and Adjusted Gross Profit Margin, (iv) Constant Currency revenue growth, (v) Adjusted Operating Income and Adjusted Operating Income Margin (vi) Non-GAAP Pre-tax Income and, (vii) Adjusted Net Income and Adjusted earnings per diluted share. These non-GAAP financial measures are indicators of our performance that are not required by, or presented in accordance with, GAAP. They are presented with the intent of providing greater transparency to financial information used by us in our financial analysis and operational decision-making. We believe that these non-GAAP measures provide meaningful information to assist investors, stockholders and other readers of our consolidated financial statements in making comparisons to our historical operating results and analyzing the underlying performance of our results of operations. However, the presentation of these measures has limitations as an analytical tool and should not be considered in isolation, or as a substitute for the company’s results as reported under GAAP. Because not all companies use identical calculations, the presentations of these non-GAAP measures may not be comparable to other similarly titled measures of other companies. The Company uses non-GAAP financial measures in its operational and financial decision making, and believes that it is useful to exclude certain items in order to focus on what it regards to be a meaningful alternative representation of the underlying operating performance of the business.

For the three and nine month periods ended June 30, 2023 and 2022, the reconciliation of net income to EBITDA and adjusted EBITDA was as follows (unaudited, in millions)

For the three and nine month periods ended June 30, 2023, the reconciliations of (1) GAAP Gross Profit and Gross Margin to Adjusted Gross Profit and Adjusted Gross Margin, (2) GAAP Operating Income and Operating Margin to Adjusted Operating Income and Adjusted Operating Income Margin and (3) GAAP Net Income Per Diluted Share to Adjusted Net Income Per Diluted Share are as follows (unaudited in millions, except per share amounts):

Each reporting period, we face currency exposure that arises from translating the results of our worldwide operations to the U.S. dollar at exchange rates that fluctuate from the beginning of such period. A stronger U.S. dollar, compared to the prior-year period, resulted in an unfavorable foreign currency translation impact to our revenues as compared to the prior-year period. We evaluate our results of operations on both a reported and a Constant Currency basis, which excludes the impact of fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates by comparing results between periods as if exchange rates had remained constant period-over-period. As exchange rates are an important factor in understanding period-to-period comparisons, we believe the presentation of results on a Constant Currency basis in addition to reported results helps improve investors’ ability to understand our operating results and evaluate our performance in comparison to prior periods. We calculate Constant Currency percentages by converting our current-period local currency financial results using the prior-period foreign currency exchange rates and comparing these adjusted amounts to our current-period results. These results should be considered in addition to, not as a substitute for, results reported in accordance with GAAP. Results on a Constant Currency basis, as we present them, may not be comparable to similarly titled measures used by other companies and are not measures of performance presented in accordance with GAAP.

For the three and nine month periods ended June 30, 2023 and 2022, the reconciliation of revenue growth to Constant Currency was as follows:

About embecta
embecta is a global diabetes care company that is leveraging its nearly 100-year legacy in insulin delivery to empower people with diabetes to live their best life through innovative solutions, partnerships and the passion of approximately 2,000 employees around the globe. For more information, visit embecta.com or follow our social channels on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

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