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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
FORM 10-K
[X] ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d)
OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2004
OR
[ ] TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d)
OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
Commission File Number 0-26634
LeCROY CORPORATION
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
DELAWARE 13-2507777
(State or other jurisdiction (I.R.S. Employer
of incorporation or organization) Identification No.)
700 CHESTNUT RIDGE ROAD
CHESTNUT RIDGE, NEW YORK 10977
(Address of principal executive office) (Zip Code)
(845) 425-2000
(Registrant's telephone number, including area code)
Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:
None
Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act:
Common Stock, Par Value $.01 Per Share
(Title of Class)
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant: (1) has filed all reports to be
filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the
preceding twelve months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was
required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing
requirements for the past 90 days.
YES X NO
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Indicate by check mark if disclosure of delinquent filers pursuant to Item 405
of Regulation S-K is not contained herein, and will not be contained, to the
best of the registrant's knowledge, in definitive proxy or information
statements incorporated by reference in Part III of this Form 10-K or any
amendment to this Form 10-K. [ ]
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an accelerated filer (as
defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Act).
YES X NO
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The number of shares outstanding of the registrant's Common Stock, as of
August 18, 2004, was 11,977,004 shares. The aggregate market value of shares of
Common Stock held by non-affiliates as of the last business day of the
registrant's most recently completed second fiscal quarter was $154,797,533.
DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE
Portions of the Definitive Proxy Statement for the 2004 Annual Meeting of
Stockholders are incorporated by reference in Part III hereof.
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LeCROY CORPORATION
ANNUAL REPORT ON FORM 10-K
FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 2004
TABLE OF CONTENTS
FORM 10-K ITEM NUMBER: Page No.
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PART I
Item 1. Business................................................................................... 3
Item 2. Properties................................................................................. 13
Item 3. Legal Proceedings.......................................................................... 13
Item 4. Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders........................................ 13
PART II
Item 5. Market for Registrant's Common Equity and Related Stockholder Matters...................... 14
Item 6. Selected Consolidated Financial Data....................................................... 15
Item 7. Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations...... 17
Item 7A. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosure About Market Risk.................................. 37
Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data................................................ 38
Item 9. Changes in and Disagreements With Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure....... 66
Item 9A. Controls and Procedures.................................................................... 66
PART III
Item 10. Directors and Executive Officers of the Registrant ........................................ 67
Item 11. Executive Compensation..................................................................... 67
Item 12. Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management............................. 67
Item 13. Certain Relationships and Related Transactions............................................. 68
Item 14. Principal Accounting Fees and Services..................................................... 68
PART IV
Item 15. Exhibits, Financial Statement Schedules, and Reports on Form 8-K........................... 69
Signatures................................................................................. 73
LeCroy(R), WaveMaster(R), WavePro(R), WaveRunner(R) and WaveSurfer(TM) are
our trademarks. All other trademarks, servicemarks or tradenames referred to in
this Annual Report on Form 10-K are the property of their respective owners.
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PART I
ITEM 1. BUSINESS.
OUR COMPANY
LeCroy Corporation (the "Company," "LeCroy," "us," "we" or "our") was
founded in 1964 and is incorporated in the State of Delaware. Our principal
executive offices and manufacturing facilities are located at 700 Chestnut Ridge
Road, Chestnut Ridge, New York 10977 and our telephone number is (845) 425-2000.
Our website is located at www.lecroy.com. We sell our products and provide
service worldwide through wholly-owned subsidiaries and representatives.
We are a leading, worldwide provider of oscilloscopes as well as a provider
of related test and measurement equipment and currently operate as one business
segment in the Test and Measurement market. Our oscilloscopes are tools used by
designers and engineers to measure and analyze complex electronic signals in
order to develop high-performance systems, to validate electronic designs and to
improve time to market. We currently offer four families of oscilloscopes, which
address different solutions to the markets we serve: WaveMaster, our highest
performance product family; WavePro, which is targeted at the mid- to
high-performance sector; WaveRunner, designed for the mid-performance sector;
and WaveSurfer, designed for the lower-end of the performance sector of the
market.
We sell our products into a broad range of end markets, including the
computer and semiconductor, data storage devices, automotive and industrial, and
military and aerospace markets. We believe that our products offer the strongest
value proposition in these markets by providing advanced analysis capabilities
coupled with innovative and proprietary technology features. We believe
designers in all of these markets are developing products which rely on
increasingly complex electronic signals to provide the features and performance
their customers require. Our customers include leading original equipment
manufacturers, or OEMs, such as BAE Systems, IBM, Maxtor, Raytheon, Robert
Bosch, Seagate, Samsung and Siemens VDO.
MARKET OVERVIEW
TEST AND MEASUREMENT MARKET
Test and measurement equipment is used in the design, development,
manufacture, deployment and operation of electronic products and systems. This
equipment is required to verify functionality and performance of new product
designs and to ensure compliance to industry standards and overall product
quality. These instruments are used across all electronic equipment industries,
including computer, semiconductor, communications, consumer, automotive,
defense, and video. In addition, test and measurement instruments are utilized
to install, maintain and monitor wireless and wireline communications and
broadcast networks. Test and measurement equipment aid in the research and
development of new products, testing of products in production, and maintenance
and service of products in the field.
According to Prime Data, Inc., an independent market research firm tracking
the Test and Measurement industry, the market for this equipment exceeded $5.5
billion in 2003. Certain segments of the Test and Measurement industry have
historically experienced greater volatility than the overall industry because of
their exposure to certain end markets, such as communications, that experienced
rapid growth in the late 1990s, followed by rapid declines.
Growth in the Test and Measurement market is driven by improvements in
electronic systems performance, growth in the electronics market and emerging
technologies and standards. Designers in a wide variety of industries are being
constantly driven to increase the performance of their products and to add new
features and capabilities. These improvements rely upon advanced semiconductor
technology and require the design of faster, more powerful and complex
electronic systems. As a result, the underlying technological advances in
communications and electronic signals are increasing exponentially in complexity
and speed. This is driving the demand for analysis tools that allow designers
and manufacturers of these devices to improve new product cycle time. With each
advancement in technology, engineers designing next generation technologies and
products must contend with both a reduced margin for error and a progressively
more difficult task of fully characterizing new product design.
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While the overall market for test and measurement equipment is made up of
hundreds of different types of instruments and measurement tools, the largest
single product category is oscilloscopes. Prime Data estimates that
oscilloscopes represented approximately $840 million of the overall $5.5 billion
market in 2003.
OSCILLOSCOPE MARKET
Oscilloscopes are the primary instrument utilized by engineers for testing
and analyzing electronic signals. According to Prime Data, the oscilloscope
market is expected to reach $934 million in 2004. Historically, the oscilloscope
segment of the Test and Measurement industry has experienced less volatility
than the industry as a whole because of its widespread use across many
applications and end markets. Thorough testing of complex electronic signals
requires a measurement tool capable of physically attaching to the signal of
interest, capturing data with high resolution for long periods of time and
supporting detailed signal analysis while providing additional insight into data
characteristics and signal trends over time. The entire system must also
maintain the correct shape of the signal, a concept called signal integrity. An
oscilloscope utilizes a graphical display device that allows an engineer to view
an electronic signal. The most basic display of an oscilloscope plots a signal's
voltage versus time (typically in billionths and trillionths of a second),
providing a user insight into the performance of an electronic circuit. In many
cases, a user is trying to either verify that the circuit is behaving as
designed or measure the signal to gain a basic understanding of signal
performance.
Today's oscilloscopes are digital devices which capture electronic signals
and convert the voltage values to digital representations, which are stored in
computer memory, allowing the instrument not only to display the signal on a
screen, but also to analyze the signal's characteristics. The ability of an
oscilloscope to conduct in-depth analysis of a complex electronic signal's
characteristics and trends is referred to as wave shape analysis, which is
increasingly important as signals become more complex.
The three primary specifications of an oscilloscope are its bandwidth, or
capacity to capture a signal of a particular speed; sample rate, or number of
data points that can be captured within a specific time; and memory length, or
the number of points per channel. Higher bandwidths allow capture of higher
speed signals, increased sample rate improves resolution, and longer memory
allows capture of longer, more complex signals. The merit of a specific
oscilloscope depends on the combination of these specifications. Oscilloscopes
with bandwidths ranging from 20 MHz up to 8.0 GHz are currently available.
Generally, the prices of oscilloscopes increase as the primary specifications
increase. We believe the oscilloscope market can be generally divided into four
major categories:
o High-end oscilloscopes. The largest part of the market, which we believe
currently accounts for slightly more than half of the market based on
revenues generated, is comprised of instruments with the ability to
capture and analyze signals above 300 MHz up to the highest available
real-time bandwidths. These instruments generally sell from $4,000 up to
$100,000, depending on their capabilities.
o Lower-end oscilloscopes. We believe about one-third of the market's
revenue comes from products which generally sell for below $5,000, and
include less-complex instruments with the ability to capture and analyze
signals from 20 MHz to 300 MHz.
o Handheld oscilloscopes. The lowest end of the market includes a variety
of handheld oscilloscopes which we believe currently comprises less than
10% of the overall market. Selling prices for these handheld instruments
are generally between $1,000 and $3,000.
o Sampling oscilloscopes. For certain high signal speed applications, such
as optical communications, instruments with bandwidths of up to 50 GHz
or more are required. At these speeds, real-time oscilloscopes do not
have the ability to track the signal shape in real-time and take samples
quickly enough to be effective. We believe this category currently
comprises less than 10% of the overall market, but because of their
ability to provide extremely high bandwidths, sampling oscilloscopes can
range in price generally from $50,000 to $100,000.
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OUR COMPETITIVE STRENGTHS
We are a leading, worldwide provider of oscilloscopes as well as a provider
of related test and measurement equipment used by electronic designers and
engineers to measure and analyze complex electronic signals. Our key competitive
strengths include:
Technology leadership. We are a recognized technology leader in the Test and
Measurement industry and continue to leverage our core strengths to develop new
and innovative products for the changing requirements of the markets we serve.
Most recently, we have focused on incorporating our internally developed
operating system and our advanced methodology for enabling high-speed signal
acquisition into our entire product line. We believe this has allowed us to
transform general purpose oscilloscopes into application-specific analysis
tools, providing a competitive advantage to our products. These, and our other
core technologies, are currently protected by 37 U.S. patents, with 42 other
U.S. patents pending.
Broad product portfolio. Our WaveMaster, WavePro, WaveRunner and WaveSurfer
oscilloscopes encompass 23 different models, which are designed to analyze
electronic signals ranging from 200 MHz to 6 GHz. We believe our breadth of
product offerings, coupled with our ability to create application-specific
analysis tools, address the specific needs of design engineers in many
industries.
Leading customer relationships. Our major customers are leaders in a range
of industries, including computers and semiconductors, data storage devices,
automotive and industrial, and military and aerospace. Our ability to work with
innovative, industry-leading customers allows us to continuously refine our
products to better address the needs of the latest technologies.
Global sales and distribution. We have a global sales force and distribution
structure covering North America, Europe/Middle East and Asia/Pacific. Each of
these regions is a major contributor to our revenue and provided between
approximately 30% and 40% of our revenues in the last three fiscal years. We
currently have direct sales personnel in 12 countries and operate in 53 smaller
markets through regional managers, distributors and sales representatives. We
believe that our sales force is recognized by our customers for their technical
expertise and often work in tandem with design engineers to create solutions to
complex applications.
Experienced management team. Our management team has a long and successful
track record in the Test and Measurement industry with an average of 15 years of
experience in the industry. Our management team has overseen the introduction of
eight new products over the past two years and has restructured our operations,
enhancing our focus on our core markets while developing our ongoing business
strategy, which encourages product innovation.
OUR STRATEGY
In order to enhance our position as a leading provider of oscilloscopes, our
objective is to grow our company and our market share in the markets in which we
operate. Currently, we serve the market for oscilloscopes that analyze complex
signals ranging from 200 MHz to 6 GHz. We believe that our products offer the
strongest value proposition in these markets by providing advanced analysis
performance at a highly competitive price. We intend to leverage our technical
expertise to target additional customers for our core WaveMaster, WavePro,
WaveRunner and WaveSurfer products. In addition, we intend to pursue the
following business strategies to expand our business:
Expand our addressable portion of the oscilloscope market. We have
development efforts underway and expect to introduce new products over the next
year to address customer needs for oscilloscope solutions in market sectors such
as sampling oscilloscopes and lower bandwidth oscilloscopes. We believe that the
advanced hardware and software technologies incorporated into our core products
can be adapted to address additional sectors of the large and diverse
oscilloscope market where we have not historically focused. By constantly
working to broaden our product portfolio to address additional sectors of this
market, we believe we will be able to offer a more comprehensive suite of
products to a larger customer base, while maintaining the technology
differentiation that we have already developed in our core markets.
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Create solutions for specific applications. We have developed differentiated
solutions that address our end users' specific requirements through our advanced
analysis programs. These programs, which are based on our proprietary software
architecture and operating system, support our suite of analysis tools. For
example, we provide specialized solutions that address the complex signal
analysis requirements specific to the disk drive industry and others that
address the analysis of specialized serial data signals of many widely-used
protocols for computers, network servers and communications equipment. We also
have application specific solutions for engineers who design and test power
supplies and controller area network bus, or CAN bus, (automotive) electronics.
Engineers can easily customize our oscilloscopes with these analyzers and we
intend to develop and offer additional analyzers.
Leverage our technology to offer additional products for use in the Test and
Measurement market. We believe that we can leverage our core strengths in signal
acquisition in connection with our internally designed hardware and proprietary
software platforms to address additional areas within the Test and Measurement
market. While we have not yet commenced development in these areas, we intend to
use our in-house design and analysis capabilities as well as potential
acquisitions to develop additional products.
PRODUCTS AND SERVICES
OVERVIEW
We currently offer four major oscilloscope families: WaveMaster, WavePro,
WaveRunner and WaveSurfer. Each oscilloscope model is capable of capturing and
analyzing electronic signals at different bandwidth and performance points in
the market. Each oscilloscope family is also offered with a selection of general
software packages that expand its capabilities and allow customization of the
operation and measurements of the specific product. The key features of our
oscilloscope families are as follows:
NUMBER
PRODUCT OF BANDWIDTH MAXIMUM SAMPLING RATE U.S. LIST MARKET
FAMILY MODELS RANGE AND MEMORY LENGTH PRICE RANGE INTRODUCTION
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WaveMaster 7 3 - 6 GHz 20 billion samples per second; $42,490 - $93,740 January 2002
8000 Series...... 100 million points
WavePro 4 1 - 3 GHz 20 billion samples per second; $18,500 - $39,500 January 2003
7000 Series...... 48 million points
WaveRunner 5 350 MHz - 2 GHz 10 billion samples per second; $8,990 - $25,990 October 2003
6000 Series...... 24 million points
WaveSurfer 6 200 - 500 MHz 2 billion samples per second; $4,190 - $8,490 April 2004
400 Series....... 2 million points
ANALYZERS AND APPLICATION SOFTWARE
Our general-purpose oscilloscope products are tailored with proprietary
software and hardware to create application specific analyzers which function as
industry-specific oscilloscopes for use in:
o Data storage applications -- Disk Drive Analyzer products, DDA5000
series and DDA3000 series, using WaveMaster and WavePro platforms;
o Serial data applications -- Serial Data Analyzer products, SDA3000
series, SDA5000 series and the SDA6000 series, based on the WaveMaster
platform;
o Automotive applications -- Hardware and software applications based on
the WaveRunner platform for use in understanding serial communications
in automobiles and industrial systems; and
o Power measurement applications -- Software applications based on the
WaveRunner platform for use in a variety of industries.
We also offer other application software packages to enhance the performance
of our oscilloscopes in the areas of optical recording, pulse mask testing, disk
drive head testing, ethernet, universal serial bus signal testing and jitter
analysis that range in price from $1,000 to $9,000.
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OTHER PRODUCTS AND SERVICES
We offer our customers a variety of complementary probes and accessory
products. Probes provide the critical physical electrical or optical connection
from the customer's circuit to the oscilloscope. We believe our WaveLink high
frequency differential probes provide the high bandwidth performance necessary
to measure serial data signals in the expanding serial data communications
market. We also offer digitizing modules from 150 MHz to 1 GHz bandwidths.
We also provide aftermarket support, repair, maintenance recalibration and a
variety of post sale upgrades and installations. We maintain major field service
centers in Chestnut Ridge, New York; Geneva, Switzerland; Tokyo, Japan; Seoul,
South Korea; and Beijing, China.
OUR CUSTOMERS AND END MARKETS
Our products are used primarily by electronic designers and engineers
principally in the research and development of new products. These end users
typically employ our oscilloscopes to validate the performance of electronic
components. We currently provide products to customers in four primary end
markets:
COMPUTER AND
SEMICONDUCTOR DATA STORAGE DEVICES AUTOMOTIVE AND INDUSTRIAL MILITARY AND AEROSPACE
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IBM Hitachi BMW BAE Systems
Intel Matsushita Electric Industry Continental Teves EADS
LG Electronics Maxtor Denso Lockheed Martin
Samsung Seagate Robert Bosch Raytheon
ST Microelectronics Toshiba Siemens VDO THALES
Computer and semiconductor. These markets include companies providing
components, interfaces, subsystems and complete products for high speed and
general purpose computing, network servers, and related devices and systems.
Requirements in this end market have been driven by:
o growth in the capability and complexity of devices, which now provide a
higher level of integration and functionality;
o a dramatic increase in the use of high speed serial data communications
interfaces in both the computer and semiconductor market;
o new interface standards, which enable increased interoperability and
higher levels of bandwidth between devices and peripherals, including:
PCI Express -- a high speed serial data interface for connection to high
performance subsystems, such as a graphics card, inside a computer;
Serial ATA -- a high speed serial data interface for computer disk
drives; USB 2.0 -- the latest version of the Universal Serial Bus
standard, a high speed computer peripheral expansion interface; XAUI --
a 10 Gigabit Ethernet standard that improves the routing of electrical
interconnections; and Firewire -- a high-speed serial interface for
computer peripheral expansion; and
o system-on-a-chip verification.
Data storage devices. This market includes companies that provide magnetic
and optical storage devices such as hard disk drives, removable media, tape, CDs
and DVDs. Requirements in this end market are being driven by:
o continued pressure to reduce product development life cycle time;
o increasing need to store more information on storage media, which
requires the encoding of signals to achieve higher density;
o migration of hard disk drives to portable media applications and
consumer devices, such as MP3 players and digital video recorders;
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o evolution to perpendicular magnetic recording for higher capacity
storage; and
o adoption of faster point-to-point connections through the use of the
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment, or Serial ATA, interface
standard.
Automotive and industrial. The automotive market includes automobile OEMs,
component suppliers to automobile OEMs and industrial equipment manufacturers.
Requirements in this end market are being driven by:
o proliferation of Electronic Control Units, or ECUs, to various
automotive subsystems, such as engine control, braking, and traction
control;
o progression to networked ECUs;
o serial data topologies managing complex inbound and outbound signals;
and
o evolution to 42 V power systems to provide adequate power with lower
current.
Military and aerospace. The military and aerospace market includes companies
that provide components and systems for defense and commercial airplane
applications. Requirements in this end market are being driven by:
o applications that use complex communications signals in challenging
environments;
o extraordinarily high need for precision and reliability given the
consequences of failure; and
o need for long-term support due to long military program life.
SALES, MARKETING AND DISTRIBUTION
We maintain a direct sales force of highly trained, technically
sophisticated sales engineers who are knowledgeable in the use of oscilloscopes
and the features and advantages of our products. In addition, because of our
focus on high-performance oscilloscopes, our sales engineers are skilled in
performing product demonstrations for current and prospective customers. We
believe we have a competitive advantage in sales situations in which our sales
engineers have the opportunity to demonstrate the advantages of our
oscilloscopes. Accordingly, such demonstrations are an integral part of our
sales strategy and we deploy significant instruments to support this strategy.
We sell our oscilloscopes through our own direct sales force in the United
States, Europe, Japan, China, South Korea and Singapore, with regional sales
headquarters located in Chestnut Ridge, New York; Geneva, Switzerland; and
Tokyo, Japan. As of June 30, 2004, our direct sales force consisted of 80 sales
engineers, directed by 16 regional managers worldwide. Our direct sales force
generates the significant majority of our business. In territories where the
sales potential does not currently justify the maintenance of a direct sales
force, we use manufacturers' representatives and distributors in support of our
direct selling efforts. In addition, in Japan we maintain a strategic alliance
with Iwatsu, a communications and test and measurement company, that sells and
distributes some of our products under the "Iwatsu/LeCroy" and "Iwatsu" labels.
Finally, our new WaveSurfer line of lower-priced oscilloscopes is sold in all
regions through our direct sales force and a complementary network of buy-sell
distributors.
We support our customers through a worldwide network of specialized
applications engineers. We maintain service, repair and calibration facilities
in Chestnut Ridge, New York; Geneva, Switzerland; Seoul, South Korea; Tokyo,
Japan; and Beijing, China.
In order to raise market awareness of our products, we advertise in trade
publications, distribute promotional materials, conduct marketing programs and
seminars, issue press releases regarding new products, publish technical
articles and participate in industry trade shows and conferences.
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TECHNOLOGY AND PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
We believe we are a technology leader in the oscilloscope market. We have
developed core capabilities in the design of high-performance, high-speed signal
conditioning, sampling and analog-to-digital conversion circuitry. We believe we
are also a leader in the design of technologies related to the storage, movement
and processing of the large amounts of data produced in an oscilloscope. We have
also developed an advanced source code technology underlying our oscilloscope
operating system called MAUI as well as proprietary analysis software.
As of June 30, 2004, we employed 75 people in technology and product
development. Our efforts are focused on hardware, software and mechanical
development initiatives. Our hardware product development team is focused on
developing innovative signal conditioning, data acquisition and electrical
circuit probing technologies that allow better waveform fidelity and circuit
connection capabilities. This is accomplished through the use of advanced
integrated circuit techniques and processes, innovative design tools and
methodologies and key technology partnerships.
Our software engineering group continues to develop and advance our wave
shape analysis and measurement technologies in order to offer new and innovative
analysis tools for our customers. This group also develops application solutions
to perform specific analysis for data storage, power measurement, communications
and other markets.
From time to time, we enter into technology partnerships in order to gain
access to innovative technologies to enhance our products' capabilities and
features. During fiscal 2002, we introduced our first product incorporating
innovative signal conditioning and sampling technologies fabricated on a then
current-generation extremely high-speed silicon germanium process developed by
International Business Machines Corporation, or IBM. This technology is now
fully deployed throughout our product line.
In June 2002, we entered into a technology development agreement with IBM in
order to gain access to IBM's next-generation silicon germanium technology,
although the fabrication process was unproven at the time. This development
agreement allowed us to begin the design process of next-generation silicon
germanium prototype components, which are expected to deliver higher density,
greater speed and reduced power consumption as compared to those currently
available. Under this agreement with IBM we incurred a $4.0 million charge for
access to IBM's next-generation silicon germanium technology in the fourth
quarter of fiscal 2002. At the time of the agreement, we and IBM were in the
development stage of this technology and there was no guarantee that the
technology would function as developed or that it would be viable in production.
We have yet to introduce products utilizing this technology.
We have also entered into technology partnerships that have provided us
access to technologies that enable extremely high-speed, high-fidelity signal
capture capabilities and very high throughput data movement capabilities. We
intend to continue to develop and leverage such key partnerships in areas that
complement or enhance our own internal strengths.
MANUFACTURING AND SUPPLIERS
We have consolidated and streamlined our manufacturing and operational
activity to focus on our core expertise of oscilloscope product introduction and
development. Our WaveMaster and WavePro oscilloscopes and related products are
manufactured at our facility in Chestnut Ridge, New York. As of June 30, 2004 we
employed 54 manufacturing employees at our Chestnut Ridge facility, which
occupies an area of approximately 35,000 square feet devoted to such tasks. Our
focus on supply chain execution has allowed us to improve the cycle time
required to build our instruments as well as reduce the time required to test
and deliver products to our customers. For example, we have partnered with
manufacturing companies in the U.S. and Asia that have allowed us to design and
develop innovative products at reduced costs. This has allowed us to lower the
overall costs of our products to our customers while improving our overall
margin efficiency. Our WaveRunner 2 and WaveSurfer products are manufactured by
our strategic partner, Iwatsu, and our WaveRunner 6000 products are manufactured
by a contract manufacturer, Plexus Corporation.
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We purchase a small number of parts from single-source suppliers. In
particular, several key integrated circuits that we use are made by IBM.
Although we have not experienced significant production delays attributable to
supply changes, we believe that, for integrated circuits in particular,
alternative sources of supply would be difficult to develop over a short period
of time. Because we have no direct control over our third-party suppliers,
interruptions or delays in the products and services provided by these third
parties may be difficult to remedy in a timely fashion. In addition, if such
suppliers are unable or unwilling to deliver the necessary parts or products, we
may be unable to redesign or adapt our technology to work without such parts or
find alternative suppliers or manufacturers. In such events, we could experience
interruptions, delays, increased costs or quality control problems.
COMPETITION
The oscilloscope market is highly competitive and characterized by rapid and
continual advances in technology. Our principal competitors in this market are
Tektronix, Inc. and Agilent Technologies, Inc. Both of our principal competitors
have substantially greater sales and marketing, development and financial
resources than we do. We believe that Tektronix, Agilent and other competitors
offer a range of products that attempt to address most sectors of the
oscilloscope market.
We believe that the principal bases of competition in the oscilloscope
market are a product's performance characterized by the confluence of bandwidth,
sample rate, memory length and processing power, its price and quality, the
vendor's name recognition and reputation, product availability and the quality
of post-sale support. We also believe that our success will depend in part on
our ability to maintain and develop the advanced technology used in our
oscilloscope products and our ability to offer high-performance products at a
favorable "price-to-performance" ratio. We believe that we currently compete
effectively with respect to each of the principal bases of competition in the
oscilloscope market in the general price range ($4,100 to $93,700) in which our
oscilloscopes are focused.
BACKLOG
Our backlog of unshipped customer orders was approximately $10.8 million and
$8.6 million as of June 30, 2004 and 2003, respectively. Backlog at June 30,
2004 and 2003 excludes $2.0 million and $3.3 million, respectively, of deferred
revenue established in connection with the adoption of the Securities and
Exchange Commission's Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 101 ("SAB 101"), "Revenue
Recognition in Financial Statements," in fiscal 2001. Customers may cancel
orders at any time. We believe that our level of backlog at any particular time
is not necessarily indicative of our future operating performance.
PATENTS, TRADEMARKS AND LICENSES
We currently rely on a combination of patents, trademarks and trade secret
laws, non-disclosure agreements and other intellectual property protection
methods, as well as technical expertise and continuing technological research
and development to establish and protect proprietary rights in our products. We
believe, however, that because of the rapid pace of change and advancement in
oscilloscope technology, legal intellectual property protection is and will
continue to be a less significant factor in our success than our core competency
of wave shape analysis and the experience and expertise of our personnel.
We protect significant technologies, products and processes that we consider
important to our business by, among other things, filing applications for patent
protection. Although none of our products depend exclusively on any single
patent, we believe our patents, in the aggregate, are important to our business
and contribute to our competitive advantage. We hold 19 U.S. patents (three of
which expire in 2006, one of which expires in 2009, one of which expires in
2010, three of which expire in 2011, one of which expires in 2013, one of which
expires in 2015, one of which expires in 2016, two of which expire in 2018, one
of which expires in 2019, three of which expire in 2020, one of which expires in
2021 and one of which expires in 2022) and eight foreign patents (one of which
expires in 2009, one of which expires in 2012, two of which expire in 2013, two
of which expire in 2014, one of which expires in 2016 and one of which expires
in 2017) relating to hardware and system software incorporated into our
oscilloscope product lines. We hold four U.S. patents (expiring in 2015, 2016,
2018 and 2019, respectively) and two foreign patents (expiring in 2017 and 2019,
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respectively) relating to add-on software technology for use with oscilloscopes
sold by us. Infringement of three of these U.S. patents has been asserted
against Tektronix in the United States District Court in Oregon. For more
information on this litigation, see the "Business -- Legal Proceedings" section.
We hold ten U.S. patents (one of which expires in 2012, three of which expire in
2015, two of which expire in 2019, three of which expire in 2020 and one of
which expires in 2023) and two foreign patents (expiring in 2010 and 2013,
respectively) relating to our oscilloscope probe technology, and we hold four
U.S. patents (one of which expires in 2012, two of which expire in 2016 and one
of which expires in 2017) and one foreign patent (expiring in 2016) relating to
time to digital converters, which measure extremely short time intervals between
events. We also have 42 patent applications pending or under evaluation in the
United States, as well as additional patent applications pending or under
evaluation in various foreign jurisdictions.
We license or otherwise acquire key enabling technologies from third parties
in order to gain access to technologies that would be too expensive or too
time-consuming to develop internally or that would give us a competitive
advantage or shorten our product development time-to-market. We are currently
party to a license agreement with Perigee LLC pursuant to which we license fast
data readout technology for use in our WaveRunner 6000 Series family of
products. This license is perpetual. We also license a patent from William A.
Farnbach, which relates to the triggering characteristics of an oscilloscope.
This license extends for the term of the patent, which expires in October 2008.
In June 2002, we entered into a technology development agreement with IBM, as
described in more detail in the "Business -- Technology and Product Development"
section, in order to gain access to IBM's next-generation silicon germanium
technology. This development agreement expires in February 2005 but can be
renewed at no additional cost. Previously, this agreement was renewed at no cost
for an additional term of two years. With the exception of our technology
development agreement with IBM, the capabilities licensed or otherwise acquired
through these agreements could be developed by us, but would require
considerable time and expense.
From time to time, we license our technology to third parties. The revenue
generated from these licenses is a small percentage of our total revenue. We
generally do not actively seek out licensing opportunities, but will take
advantage of opportunities that arise in the normal course of business.
Currently, we are actively supplying oscilloscope components and software
support to Iwatsu, with whom we maintain a strategic alliance in Japan, pursuant
to long-standing joint development agreements with Iwatsu. The license contained
in our agreement with Iwatsu is perpetual.
Although we believe that our products and technologies do not infringe the
proprietary rights of third parties, third parties including our competitor
Tektronix and Sicom Systems have asserted patent infringement claims against us,
and there can be no assurance that third parties will not assert claims against
us based on the infringement or alleged infringement of any such rights. Such
claims are typically costly to defend, regardless of the legal outcome. There
can be no assurance that we would prevail with respect to any such claim, or
that a license to third party rights, if needed, would be available on
acceptable terms. In any event, patent and proprietary rights litigation can be
extremely protracted and expensive.
REGULATION
As we manufacture our products in the United States and sell our products
and purchase parts, components and sub-assemblies in a number of countries, we
are subject to legal and regulatory requirements, particularly the imposition of
tariffs and customs, in a variety of countries. Our products are also subject to
United States export control restrictions. In certain cases, we may not be
permitted to export products without obtaining an export license. U.S. export
laws also prohibit the export of our products to a number of countries deemed by
the United States to be hostile. The export of our high-performance
oscilloscopes from the United States is also subject to regulation under the
Treaty for Nuclear Non-Proliferation. We cannot be certain that the U.S.
government will approve any pending or future export license requests. In
addition, the list of products and countries for which export approval is
required, and the regulatory policies with respect thereto, could be revised.
EMPLOYEES
As of June 30, 2004, we had 382 full-time employees, 235 of whom work in our
Chestnut Ridge, New York facility. Our employees are not represented by a labor
union and we have not experienced any work stoppages. We believe that our
employee relations are generally satisfactory.
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INVESTOR INFORMATION
Our Internet website address is www.lecroy.com. We make available, free of
charge on our website, by clicking on "About LeCroy" and then selecting the
"Investor Relations" link and the "SEC Filings" link, our annual report on Form
10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K, and
amendments to those reports filed or furnished pursuant to Section 13(a) or
15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"),
as soon as reasonably practicable after electronically filing such material
with, or furnishing it to, the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC.
EXECUTIVE OFFICERS OF THE REGISTRANT
Unless otherwise set forth, below are the name, age, position, and a brief
account of the business experience of each of our executive officers as of June
30, 2004:
NAME AGE POSITION(S)
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Thomas H. Reslewic...................... 45 President; Chief Executive Officer and Director
R. Scott Bausback....................... 43 Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer
Conrad J. Fernandes..................... 43 Vice President, Worldwide Sales
David C. Graef.......................... 47 Vice President, Chief Technology Officer
Scott D. Kantor......................... 41 Vice President, Finance; Chief Financial Officer;
Secretary and Treasurer
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Thomas H. Reslewic was named to our Board of Directors in January 2002. He
joined us in 1990 and has served as President and Chief Executive Officer since
January 2002. Mr. Reslewic previously served as President from October 2000
until December 2001, and Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
from February 1998 until October 2000. Mr. Reslewic has a Bachelor of Science
degree in physics from the College of the Holy Cross and a Master of Business
Administration degree from the University of Oregon.
R. Scott Bausback has served as Executive Vice President, Chief Operating
Officer since joining us in August 2001. Previously, he held a variety of sales
and marketing management positions during an 18-year tenure at Tektronix,
culminating in his role as Vice President and General Manager of Tektronix's
Communications Business Unit from September 1998 until June 2001. Mr. Bausback
has a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from Rutgers College
of Engineering and completed the YEI Executive Education program at
Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill.
Conrad J. Fernandes has served as Vice President, Worldwide Sales since July
2001. Previously, Mr. Fernandes served as Vice President, International Sales
from 1999 until 2000, Director of Asia / Pacific Sales from 1994 until 1999 and
Product Marketing Manager from 1990 until 1994. Mr. Fernandes has a Bachelor of
Electronic Engineering degree and a Master of Business Administration degree
from City University of London.
David C. Graef has served as Vice President, Chief Technology Officer since
April 2003. Previously, he served as Vice President, Research and Development
from January 1999 through March 2003, Engineering Manager from June 1996 through
January 1999 and Senior Engineer from January 1989 through May 1996. Mr. Graef
has a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University
of Bridgeport.
Scott D. Kantor has served as Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial
Officer since February 2003. Previously, he served as our Vice President and
Corporate Controller since August 1999. Before joining us, Mr. Kantor was with
Sappi Fine Paper N.A., from April 1996 to August 1999, where he served as
Assistant Financial Controller and led a business process reengineering project
that resulted in the redesign of the company's financial processes in connection
with a large-scale ERP implementation. Mr. Kantor previously held accounting and
financial reporting positions at Genzyme Corporation and Costar Corporation and
was a Senior Accountant with Deloitte & Touche, LLP. Mr. Kantor has a Bachelor
of Science degree from California State University and a Master of Business
Administration degree from Boston University.
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ITEM 2. PROPERTIES.
We own our executive offices and manufacturing facility, which is an
approximately 88,000 square foot building in Chestnut Ridge, New York. Pursuant
to our revolving credit facility with the Bank of New York, we granted the bank
a security interest in this property. In addition, we lease other office space
around the world to support our local sales and service operations and to
support our research and development activities. We believe that our facilities
are in good condition and are suitable and sufficient for our current
operations.
ITEM 3. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS.
On April 28, 2003, Tektronix filed a complaint against us in the United
States District Court for the District of Oregon claiming that we infringed on
eight of its U.S. patents. In our responsive pleading, we denied that we have
infringed, or are infringing, on any of these patents, and contend that the
patents are invalid. Four of these patents concern software user interface
features for oscilloscopes, two concern circuitry and two concern probes. On
August 5, 2003, we filed a counterclaim in the United States District Court for
the District of Oregon claiming that Tektronix is infringing on three of our
patents. We believe we have meritorious defenses and we intend to defend this
action vigorously. Discovery in this case is ongoing and the outcome cannot be
predicted.
On January 15, 2003, we were sued by Sicom in the United States District
Court for the District of Delaware for patent infringement of a U.S. patent
relating to the graphical display of test limits. We answered the complaint
denying infringement and asserted a counterclaim alleging the invalidity of the
patent and that Sicom had abused the judicial process by bringing a baseless
patent infringement claim. On July 16, 2003, we filed a Motion to Dismiss
Sicom's case, contending that Sicom did not have standing to bring the
litigation. On November 20, 2003, the Court granted our Motion to Dismiss. On
December 18, 2003, Sicom filed a Notice of Appeal to the United States Court of
Appeals for the Federal Circuit. On December 30, 2003, Sicom filed a new patent
infringement lawsuit against us in the United States District Court for the
District of Delaware. Tektronix and Agilent Technologies are also co-defendants
in this new litigation. The complaint in this new case is essentially the same
as the complaint filed by Sicom on January 15, 2003, except that Sicom now
states that it entered into an amendment to its license agreement with the
Canadian government on December 19, 2003, and that Sicom now has the exclusive
right to bring suit for infringement of the patent in the United States. On
January 5, 2004, Sicom filed a Notice and Order of Dismissal of Appeal of its
appeal to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the Order was entered
on the following day. In our responsive pleading, we have denied that we have
infringed, or are infringing, on the patent, and contend that the patent is
invalid. We intend to defend ourselves vigorously in this litigation. The
defendants in this case, including us, have filed a Motion to Dismiss for lack
of standing. The Motion contends that Sicom's amended license agreement with
Canada does not cure the standing defects that caused the Court to dismiss the
original lawsuit. The Court has stayed the case pending resolution of the new
Motion to Dismiss and the outcome cannot be predicted.
From time to time, we are involved in lawsuits, claims, investigations and
proceedings, including patent and environmental matters, that arise in the
ordinary course of business. There are no matters pending, including those
described above, that we expect to be material to our business, results of
operations, financial condition or cash flows.
ITEM 4. SUBMISSION OF MATTERS TO A VOTE OF SECURITY HOLDERS.
During the fourth quarter of fiscal 2004, there were no matters submitted to
a vote of securities holders, through the solicitation of proxies or otherwise.
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PART II
ITEM 5. MARKET FOR REGISTRANT'S COMMON EQUITY AND RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS.
PRICE RANGE OF COMMON STOCK
Our common stock is traded on the Nasdaq National Market under the symbol
"LCRY." The following table sets forth, for the periods indicated, the high and
low closing prices per share of our common stock as reported on the Nasdaq
National Market. As of August 16, 2004, there were 247 stockholders of record of
our common stock.
HIGH LOW
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Year Ended June 30, 2003:
First Quarter...................................... $ 11.94 $ 8.20
Second Quarter..................................... 11.70 7.30
Third Quarter...................................... 13.08 8.13
Fourth Quarter..................................... 10.49 8.06
Year Ended June 30, 2004:
First Quarter...................................... $ 16.03 $ 9.73
Second Quarter..................................... 18.45 15.72
Third Quarter...................................... 23.99 18.08
Fourth Quarter..................................... 21.79 17.59
DIVIDEND POLICY
We have never declared or paid cash dividends on our capital stock and do
not anticipate paying any dividends in the foreseeable future. We currently
intend to retain future earnings, if any, to operate and expand our business.
Our payment of any future dividends will be at the discretion of our board of
directors after taking into account various factors, including our financial
condition, operating results, cash needs and growth plans. Under the terms of
our revolving credit facility, we are not permitted to declare or pay dividends
other than dividends payable solely in additional shares of our equity
securities.
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ITEM 6. SELECTED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL DATA
The following selected consolidated financial data as of the end of each
fiscal year has been derived from our consolidated financial statements for each
of the years in the five-year period ended June 30, 2004. The following
information should be read in conjunction with "Management's Discussion and
Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" and the consolidated
financial statements and related notes appearing elsewhere in this Annual Report
on Form 10-K and incorporated by reference herein.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS DATA:
YEAR ENDED JUNE 30,
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2004 2003 2002 2001 2000
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(IN THOUSANDS, EXCEPT PER SHARE AMOUNTS)
Revenues:
Oscilloscopes and related products.................. $ 113,422 $ 95,008 $ 101,077 $ 129,425 $ 110,237
Service and other(1)................................ 11,518 12,851 10,379 11,963 11,163
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Total revenues.................................... 124,940 107,859 111,456 141,388 121,400
Cost of sales(2)(5)................................... 52,594 50,989 59,717 67,559 61,323
--------- --------- --------- ---------- ---------
Gross profit........................................ 72,346 56,870 51,739 73,829 60,077
Operating expenses:
Selling, general and administrative(3)(5)........... 43,997 41,422 40,477 44,738 36,027
Research and development(4)......................... 15,760 18,226 22,006 17,682 15,165
--------- --------- --------- ---------- ---------
Total operating expenses.......................... 59,757 59,648 62,483 62,420 51,192
--------- --------- --------- ---------- ---------
Operating income (loss)............................... 12,589 (2,778) (10,744) 11,409 8,885
(Loss) gain from sale of marketable securities...... -- -- (122) -- 2,460
Other (expense) income, net......................... (11) (84) 310 (471) (276)
--------- --------- --------- ---------- ---------
Income (loss) from continuing operations before income
taxes and the cumulative effect of an accounting
change............................................. 12,578 (2,862) (10,556) 10,938 11,069
(Provision for) benefit from income taxes........... (4,653) 1,059 4,307 897 (3,498)
--------- --------- --------- ---------- ---------
Income (loss) from continuing operations
before the cumulative effect of an
accounting change .............................. 7,925 (1,803) (6,249) 11,835 7,571
Gain (loss) from discontinued operations, net of tax.. 119 129 -- (1,994) (11,009)
--------- --------- --------- ---------- ---------
Income (loss) before the cumulative effect of an
accounting change............................... 8,044 (1,674) (6,249) 9,841 (3,438)
Cumulative effect of an accounting change for
revenue recognition, net of tax................. -- -- -- 4,417 --
--------- --------- --------- ---------- ---------
Net income (loss)..................................... 8,044 (1,674) (6,249) 5,424 (3,438)
Charges related to convertible preferred stock........ -- 2,069 1,876 1,700 1,540
Redemption of convertible preferred stock............. 7,665 -- -- -- --
Cumulative effect of an accounting change
for preferred stock ............................ -- -- -- 1,848 --
--------- --------- --------- ---------- ---------
Net income (loss) applicable to common stockholders... $ 379 $ (3,743) $ (8,125) $ 1,876 $ (4,978)
========= ========= ========= ========== =========
Income (loss) per common share - basic:
Income (loss) from continuing operations
before the cumulative effect of an
accounting change applicable to common
stockholders.................................... $ 0.02 $ (0.37) $ (0.81) $ 1.20 $ 0.78
Gain (loss) from discontinued operations.......... 0.01 0.01 -- (0.24) (1.42)
Cumulative effect of an accounting change......... -- -- -- (0.74) --
Net income (loss) applicable to common
stockholders ................................... 0.04 (0.36) (0.81) 0.22 (0.64)
Income (loss) per common share - diluted:
Income (loss) from continuing operations
before the cumulative effect of an
accounting change applicable to common
stockholders.................................... $ 0.02 $ (0.37) $ (0.81) $ 1.15 $ 0.76
Gain (loss) from discontinued operations.......... 0.01 0.01 -- (0.23) (1.38)
Cumulative effect of an accounting change......... -- -- -- (0.71) --
Net income (loss) applicable to common
stockholders ................................... 0.03 (0.36) (0.81) 0.21 (0.62)
Weighted average number of common shares:
Basic............................................... 10,754 10,364 10,052 8,476 7,749
Diluted............................................. 11,074 10,364 10,052 8,847 7,977
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AS OF JUNE 30,
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2004 2003 2002 2001 2000
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(IN THOUSANDS)
CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEET DATA:
Cash and cash equivalents and Marketable
securities, current ........................... $ 38,100 $ 30,851 $ 27,322 $ 11,449 $ 9,051
Working capital.................................. 69,916 62,831 63,265 41,610 24,129
Total assets..................................... 129,793 122,152 126,991 122,160 100,849
Total debt and capital leases.................... 196 291 375 456 11,000
Redeemable convertible preferred stock........... -- 15,335 13,266 11,390 9,692
Total stockholders' equity....................... 101,608 80,514 81,505 60,480 47,109
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(1) Service and other revenue in each of fiscal 2004, 2003, 2002 and 2001
includes the recognition of $1.3 million of revenue that was deferred with
the adoption of the Securities and Exchange Commission's Staff Accounting
Bulletin No. 101, "Revenue Recognition in Financial Statements," as of the
beginning of fiscal 2001. Also included in service and other revenue in
fiscal 2003 is a technology license fee of $3.0 million.
(2) Included in cost of sales in fiscal 2003 is $2.3 million of asset impairment
charges and a $0.1 million charge for severance. In fiscal 2002, we recorded
a $1.0 million charge for severance and $3.6 million of excess and obsolete
inventory charges related to the cost of inventory associated with
discontinued product lines and inventory levels that had been deemed to be
in excess of forecasted requirements. In fiscal 2001, cost of sales includes
$0.1 million in severance-related charges.
(3) Included in selling, general and administrative expense in fiscal 2004 is
the reversal of an unused 2002 restructuring reserve of $0.1 million. In
fiscal 2003, we recorded a $0.3 million charge related to the cost of
closing our Beaverton, Oregon facility and a $2.4 million charge for
severance, partially offset by the reversal of an unused 2002 restructuring
reserve of $0.1 million. In fiscal 2002, we recorded $3.0 million in
severance-related charges. In fiscal 2001, we recorded a charge for
severance of $0.7 million, partially offset by the reversal of an unused
1999 restructuring reserve of $0.2 million. In fiscal 2000, we reversed $2.0
million of a restructuring reserve established in fiscal 1999.
(4) Research and development in each of fiscal 2003, 2002 and 2001 includes
severance-related charges of $0.7 million, $0.2 million and $0.1 million,
respectively, and in fiscal 2002, a $4.0 million technology access fee paid
to IBM.
(5) Certain prior year amounts have been reclassified from cost of sales to
selling, general and administrative expense to conform to the fiscal 2004
presentation. These reclassifications had no impact on previously reported
net income (loss).
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ITEM 7. MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS
OF OPERATIONS
The following discussion and analysis should be read in conjunction with the
other financial information and consolidated financial statements and related
notes appearing elsewhere in this Form 10-K and the documents incorporated by
reference herein. This discussion contains forward-looking statements that
involve risks and uncertainties. Our actual results could differ materially from
those anticipated in the forward-looking statements as a result of a variety of
factors, including those discussed in "Risk Factors" and elsewhere in this Form
10-K and the documents incorporated by reference herein.
We utilize fiscal years that end on the Saturday nearest to June 30. For
clarity of presentation, we have described all fiscal years as if they end on
June 30.
OVERVIEW
We develop, manufacture, sell and license oscilloscopes and related test and
measurement equipment. Our oscilloscopes are tools used by designers and
engineers to measure and analyze complex electronic signals in the development
of high-performance systems, to validate electronic designs and to improve time
to market. We currently offer four families of oscilloscopes which address
different solutions to the markets we serve: WaveMaster, our highest performance
product family; WavePro, which is targeted at the mid- to high- performance
sector; WaveRunner, designed for the mid-performance sector; and WaveSurfer,
designed for the lower-end of the performance sector of the market. We were
founded in 1964 to develop, manufacture and sell high performance signal
analysis tools to scientists engaged in high energy physics research and, in
1985, we introduced our first oscilloscope using our core competency of
designing signal acquisition and digitizing technology.
We generate revenue in a single segment within the Test and Measurement
market, primarily from the sale of our oscilloscopes, probes, accessories, and
applications solutions, and to a lesser extent, our extended warranty contracts
and repairs and calibrations we perform on our instruments after the expiration
of their warranties. Revenue is recognized when products are shipped or services
are rendered to customers net of allowances for anticipated returns. We defer
revenue on shipments of our new WaveSurfer family of oscilloscopes until sold by
the distributor to their customers ("sell-through method"). We sell our products
into a broad range of end markets, including computer and semiconductor, data
storage devices, automotive and industrial, and military and aerospace markets.
We believe designers in all of these markets are developing products which rely
on increasingly complex electronic signals to provide the features and
performance their customers require. Our customers include leading original
equipment manufacturers, or OEMs, such as BAE Systems, IBM, Maxtor, Raytheon,
Robert Bosch, Seagate, Samsung and Siemens VDO.
We deploy a direct sales model and employ a highly skilled global sales
force where it makes economic sense to do so. We supplement our direct sales
force with a combination of manufacturers' representatives and distributors in
areas where demand levels do not justify direct distribution by us. We segment
the world into four areas - North America, Europe / Middle East, Japan and Asia
/ Pacific. In North America we sell our products direct in the United States. In
Europe, we sell our products direct in Switzerland, Germany, Italy, France, the
United Kingdom and Sweden. We sell our products direct in Japan and in Asia /
Pacific. We sell our products direct in South Korea, Singapore and in five
regions in China. During the third quarter of fiscal 2004, we began shipping our
new WaveSurfer family of lower bandwidth oscilloscopes. One component of our
strategy for selling this new family of oscilloscopes is the use of a
complementary network of distributors.
Generally, we transact revenues and pay our operating expenses in the local
currencies of the countries in which we have a direct distribution presence or
other operations, with limited exceptions, most notably in China where our sales
and operating expenses are denominated in U.S. dollars. In Europe / Middle East,
we transact business in Euros, Swiss francs, British pounds, Swedish krona and
U.S. dollars. In Japan, we transact business in Japanese yen. In Asia / Pacific,
we transact business in Korean won, Hong Kong dollars, Singapore dollars and
U.S. dollars. For a discussion of our foreign currency exchange rate exposure,
see Item 7A of this Part II entitled "Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosure
About Market Risk" of this Form 10-K.
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We have historically experienced lower sales activity during our first
fiscal quarter than in other fiscal quarters which, we believe, is due
principally to the lower level of orders and general market activity during the
summer months, particularly in Europe.
Cost of sales represents manufacturing costs, which primarily comprise
materials, labor and factory overhead. Gross margins represent revenues less
cost of sales. Additional factors integral to gross margins earned are our
products mix, as the average selling prices of our products range from $5,000 to
$80,000, and the effect of foreign currencies, as approximately two-thirds of
our revenues are derived overseas, much of which are denominated in local
currencies while manufacturing costs are U.S. dollar denominated.
Selling, general and administrative expenses consist of salaries and related
overhead costs for sales, marketing and administrative, personnel, legal,
accounting and other professional services.
Research and development expenses consist primarily of salaries and related
overhead costs associated with employees engaged in research, design and
development activities, as well as the cost of masks, wafers and other materials
and related test services and equipment used in the development process.
RESTRUCTURING AND ASSET IMPAIRMENT
In response to the economic downturn in 2002 and 2003, we took steps to
change our manufacturing strategy, discontinue older product lines and reduce
our operating expenses in an effort to better position our business for the long
term. The resultant charges, net taken to accomplish these efforts, were:
YEAR ENDED
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JUNE 30,
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(IN THOUSANDS) 2003 2002
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Charges for:
Impaired intangible assets....................... $ 2,280 $ --
Severance and related costs...................... 163 1,035
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Cost of sales.................................... $ 2,443 $ 1,035
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Charges for:
Severance and related costs...................... $ 670 $ 185
-------- ---------
Research and development........................ $ 670 $ 185
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Charges for:
Severance and related costs...................... $ 2,382 $ 3,020
Plant closure - lease termination costs.......... 286 --
Unused restructuring reserve..................... (78) --
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Selling, general and administrative............ $ 2,590 $ 3,020
======== =========
Totals ........................................ $ 5,703 $ 4,240
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No similar charges were incurred in fiscal 2004. However, we credited $0.1
million of unused fiscal 2002 restructuring reserves to selling, general and
administrative expense.
In fiscal 2003, faced with continued difficulties in the marketplace, we
implemented a new management operating system designed to improve processes in
sales, order management, customer relationship management and financial
performance management. In connection with the implementation of the new
management operating system, we made significant business decisions which
resulted in a restructuring charge of $3.5 million. Included in this charge were
the effects of closing down our Beaverton, Oregon facility and a worldwide
workforce reduction of 65 employees.
The annualized first year improvement to income from operations from reduced
salary and related expenses was approximately $5.6 million. The annual savings
achievable in rent expense due to the elimination of the Oregon facility is
approximately $0.1 million. As of June 30, 2004, we have paid $3.0 million of
the total $3.2 million in severance and other related expenses and $0.2 million
of the total $0.3 million in plant closing costs.
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During fiscal 2003 and 2004, $2.2 million and $0.8 million, respectively, of
severance was paid. Cash payments for severance and other related expenses in
fiscal 2005, 2006 and 2007 will be $0.1 million, $44,000 and approximately
$8,000, respectively. Severance and other related expenses will be substantially
paid by the end of second quarter of fiscal 2006. According to the lease
agreement on the Oregon facility which continues through the third quarter of
fiscal 2006, we will pay $87,000 in fiscal 2005 and $53,000 in fiscal 2006.
During fiscal 2003, we recorded a $2.1 million charge for the impairment of
technology, manufacturing and distribution rights and a $0.2 million charge for
a related future royalty payment. The impairment resulted from our strategic
decision to exit certain older product lines and to make significant changes to
our manufacturing strategy to improve further our operating efficiency. We
estimated the fair value of the impaired asset based on the present value of
forecasted future cash inflows using a discount rate commensurate with our
weighted average cost of capital.
In response to the continued weakness in the technology sector of the
economy, in fiscal 2002, we recorded a $4.2 million charge for severance and
other related expenses. The annualized first year improvement to income from
operations from reduced salary and related expenses was estimated to be
approximately $3.5 million on a pre-tax basis, which was substantially achieved.
In connection with this restructuring, we reduced our workforce by 69 employees.
Included in these amounts are costs associated with the succession of our Chief
Executive Officer in the second quarter of fiscal 2002.
Of the $4.2 million recorded, $0.2 million represented a non-cash expense
for the amendment of employee stock options. The remaining $4.0 million was paid
in cash in fiscal 2002, 2003 and 2004 in the amounts of $1.9 million, $1.8
million and $0.2 million, respectively. We credited $0.1 million of unused
restructuring reserves to selling, general and administrative expense in the
second quarter of fiscal 2004.
These restructuring charges represent our best efforts to respond to the
current demands in our industry. However, these and future cost reductions, or
other benefits expected from the restructuring, may be insufficient to align our
operations with customer demand and the changes affecting our industry, or may
be more costly or extensive than currently anticipated.
CRITICAL ACCOUNTING POLICIES
The discussion and analysis of our financial position and results of
operations are based upon our consolidated financial statements, which have been
prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the
United States of America. Our significant accounting policies are described in
Note 1 to the consolidated financial statements. The preparation of these
consolidated financial statements requires us to make estimates and assumptions
that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, and the disclosure
of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the consolidated financial
statements and the reported revenues and expenses during the period. The
accounting policies that we believe are the most critical in understanding and
evaluating our reported financial results include the following:
Revenue Recognition. We enter into agreements to sell products, services,
and other arrangements that include combinations of products and services.
Revenue from product sales, net of allowances for anticipated returns, is
recognized provided that persuasive evidence of an arrangement exists, delivery
has occurred, the price is fixed or determinable, and collectibility is
reasonably assured. Delivery is considered to have occurred when title and risk
of loss have transferred to the customer. We defer revenue on shipments of our
new WaveSurfer family of oscilloscopes until sold by the distributor to their
customers ("sell-through method"). For sales that include customer-specified
acceptance criteria, revenue is recognized after the acceptance criteria have
been met. Revenue from services is deferred and recognized over the contractual
period or as services are rendered and accepted by the customer. When
arrangements include multiple elements, we use relative fair values to allocate
revenue to the elements and recognize revenue when the criteria for revenue
recognition have been met for each element. The amount of revenue recognized is
affected by our judgments as to whether an arrangement includes multiple
elements and if so, whether objective and reliable evidence of fair value exists
for those elements. Changes to the elements in an arrangement and the ability to
establish objective and reliable evidence of fair value for those elements could
affect the timing of the revenue recognition.
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Allowance for Doubtful Accounts. We maintain an allowance for doubtful
accounts relating to the portion of the accounts receivable which we estimate is
non-collectible. We analyze historical bad debts, customer concentrations,
customer creditworthiness, current economic trends and changes in customer
payment patterns when evaluating the adequacy of the allowance for doubtful
accounts. The allowance for doubtful accounts, which includes the allowance for
anticipated returns, was approximately $0.4 million at June 30, 2004 and 2003.
Changes in the overall economic environment or in the financial condition of our
customers may require adjustments to the allowance for doubtful accounts which
could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition, results of
operations and cash flows.
Allowance for Excess and Obsolete Inventory. We assess the valuation of our
inventory on a quarterly basis and provide an allowance for the value of
estimated excess and obsolete inventory. Our marketing department plays a key
role in our inventory review process by providing updated sales forecasts,
managing product rollovers and working with our manufacturing department to
maximize recovery of excess inventory. Based upon management's forecast,
inventory items no longer expected to be used in the future are considered
obsolete and the difference between an inventory's quantity and its forecasted
usage are classified as excess. The allowance for excess and obsolete inventory
was $2.5 million and $2.1 million at June 30, 2004 and 2003, respectively. If
actual market conditions are less favorable than those projected by management,
additional inventory allowances for excess or obsolete inventory may be
required.
Deferred Tax Assets. We have recorded $12.2 million of net deferred tax
assets as of June 30, 2004 for the future tax benefits of certain expenses
reported for financial statement purposes that have not yet been deducted on our
tax returns. Significant components of our deferred tax assets are federal,
state and foreign net operating loss and credit carryforwards, inventory
reserves and other reserves. The recognition of this deferred tax asset is based
on the assessment that it is more likely than not that we will be able to
generate sufficient future taxable income within statutory carryforward periods
to realize the benefit of these tax deductions. The factors that management
considers in assessing the likelihood of realization include the forecast of
future taxable income and available tax planning strategies that could be
implemented to realize the deferred tax assets. Based on this information, we
have recorded a valuation allowance of $5.3 million as of June 30, 2004 to
reserve for certain tax credits and foreign net operating loss carryforwards due
to the uncertainty surrounding the utilization of these deferred tax assets.
Adjustments to the valuation allowance may be made in the future if it is
determined that the realizable amount of net operating losses and other deferred
tax assets is greater or less than the amount recorded. Such adjustments may be
material to our results of operations when made.
Valuation of Long-Lived and Intangible Assets. We assess the recoverability
of our long-lived assets and intangible assets with finite lives (including
technology, manufacturing and distribution rights) whenever events or changes in
circumstances indicate that the carrying values may not be recoverable. When
such events or changes in circumstances occur, we assess the recoverability of
long-lived assets by determining whether the carrying values of such assets will
be recovered through undiscounted expected future cash flows. If the
undiscounted cash flows are less than the carrying amounts, an impairment loss
is recorded to the extent that the carrying amounts exceed the fair value.
Factors which could trigger an impairment review include the following:
significant underperformance by us relative to historical or projected operating
results; significant changes in the manner of our use of the assets or the
strategy for the overall business; and significant negative industry or economic
trends. We recognized an intangible asset impairment of $2.3 million in fiscal
2003. We estimated the fair value of the impaired asset based on the present
value of forecasted future cash inflows using a discount rate commensurate with
our weighted average cost of capital.
The cost of technology, manufacturing and distribution rights acquired is
amortized primarily on the basis of the higher of units shipped over the
contract periods or on a straight-line basis not to exceed three years.
Management assesses the recoverability of these rights on the basis of actual
and forecasted production units as well as the average selling price and
standard costs of the related products after the amortization of the rights to
determine profitability. If required, an impairment charge is recorded as
described above.
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Goodwill. Statement of Financial Accounting Standards ("SFAS") No. 142,
"Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets," requires goodwill to be tested for
impairment annually under a two-step approach, or more frequently, if events or
changes in circumstances indicate that the asset might be impaired. Impairment
is assessed at the "reporting unit" level by applying a fair value-based test. A
reporting unit is defined as the same as or one level below the operating
segment level as described in SFAS No. 131, "Disclosures about Segments of an
Enterprise and Related Information." We have one reporting unit for the purposes
of SFAS No. 142.
The first step is to identify if an impairment of goodwill has occurred by
comparing the fair value of a reporting unit with its carrying amount, including
goodwill. If the fair value of a reporting unit exceeds its carrying amount,
goodwill of the reporting unit is not considered impaired. If the carrying
amount of the reporting unit exceeds its fair value, the second step of the
goodwill test is performed to measure the amount of the impairment loss, if any.
In this second step, the "implied" fair value (as defined in SFAS No. 142) of
the reporting unit's goodwill is compared with the carrying amount of the
goodwill. If the carrying amount of the reporting unit's goodwill exceeds the
implied fair value of that goodwill, an impairment loss is recognized in an
amount equal to that excess, not to exceed the carrying amount of the goodwill.
We completed the annual impairment test required under SFAS No. 142 during the
fourth quarter of fiscal 2004 after completion of our annual financial operating
plan and determined that there was no impairment to our recorded goodwill
balance of $1.9 million at June 30, 2004. We use a fair value-based test using
our market capitalization to estimate our fair value. There were no impairment
indicators during the fiscal year ended June 30, 2004.
Warranty. Provisions for estimated expenses related to product warranties
are made at the time products are sold. These estimates are derived from
historical data of product reliability. The expected failure is arrived at in
terms of units, which are then converted into labor hours to which an average
fully burdened cost per hour is applied to derive the amount of accrued warranty
required. On a quarterly basis, we study trends of warranty claims and take
action to improve the quality of our products and minimize our warranty
exposure. The warranty reserve was $1.2 million at June 30, 2004 and June 30,
2003. Management believes that the warranty reserve is appropriate; however,
actual claims incurred could differ from the original estimates, requiring
adjustments to the reserve.
RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
The following table sets forth certain operating data as a percentage of our
total revenues for the fiscal years indicated:
YEAR ENDED JUNE 30,
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2004 2003 2002
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Revenues:
Oscilloscopes and related products................. 90.8% 88.1% 90.7%
Service and other.................................. 9.2 11.9 9.3
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Total revenues.................................. 100.0 100.0 100.0
Cost of sales........................................ 42.1 47.3 53.6
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Gross margin.................................... 57.9 52.7 46.4
Operating expenses:
Selling, general and administrative................ 35.2 38.4 36.3
Research and development........................... 12.6 16.9 19.7
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Total operating expenses........................ 47.8 55.3 56.0
Operating income (loss).............................. 10.1 (2.6) (9.6)
Other (expense) income, net........................ -- (0.1) 0.1
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Income (loss) from continuing operations before
income taxes....................................... 10.1 (2.7) (9.5)
Provision for (benefit from) income taxes............ 3.8 (1.0) (3.9)
----- ----- -----
Income (loss) from continuing operations ............ 6.3 (1.7) (5.6)
Gain from discontinued operations, net of tax...... 0.1 0.1 --
----- ----- -----
Net income (loss).................................... 6.4 (1.6) (5.6)
Charges related to convertible preferred stock....... 6.1 1.9 1.7
----- ----- -----
Net income (loss) applicable to common stockholders.. 0.3% (3.5)% (7.3)%
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COMPARISON OF FISCAL YEARS 2004 AND 2003
Total revenues were $124.9 million in fiscal 2004 compared to $107.9 million
in fiscal 2003, an increase of 15.8%, or $17.1 million. Revenues from
oscilloscopes and related products increased 19.4%, or $18.4 million, in fiscal
2004. This increase in revenues was primarily due to a 23% increase in total
oscilloscope units shipped due to increased customer demand and to higher
average selling prices, the combined effect of which contributed $16.7 million
to the increase, and a $3.1 million increase in probes and accessories. This
increase in revenues was partially offset by a $2.6 million decrease in sales of
discontinued product lines, distributed products and components.
Service and other revenues consist primarily of service revenue and license
and maintenance fees. Service revenue increased by 24.2%, or $1.8 million, from
$7.3 million in fiscal 2003 compared to $9.1 million in fiscal 2004. We did not
recognize any software license revenue during fiscal 2004 compared to fiscal
2003 when we recognized a $3.0 million license of our proprietary MAUI
Instrument Operating System technology. Service and other revenue in each of
fiscal 2004 and 2003 includes the recognition of $1.3 million of revenue that
was deferred with the adoption of the Securities and Exchange Commission's Staff
Accounting Bulletin No. 101 ("SAB 101"), "Revenue Recognition in Financial
Statements," as of the beginning of fiscal 2001.
The effect of foreign currency contributed approximately $4.5 million to the
increase in total revenues during fiscal 2004 as compared to fiscal 2003. Our
geographic breakdown of revenues by area in total dollars and as a percentage of
total revenues is as follows:
YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, YEAR ENDED JUNE 30,
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(IN THOUSANDS) 2004 2003 2004 2003
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North America............... $ 38,276 $ 32,394 North America............ 30.6% 30.0%
Europe / Middle East........ 37,716 31,171 Europe / Middle East..... 30.2 28.9
Japan....................... 19,574 17,038 Japan.................... 15.7 15.8
Asia / Pacific.............. 29,374 27,256 Asia / Pacific........... 23.5 25.3
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Total revenues............ $124,940 $107,859 Total revenues......... 100.0% 100.0%
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Gross margin was 57.9% in fiscal 2004 compared to 52.7% in fiscal 2003.
Included in cost of sales in fiscal 2003 is a $2.1 million charge for the
impairment of technology, manufacturing and distribution rights, a $0.2 million
charge for a future royalty payment and a $0.1 million charge for severance
expense. The impairment and royalty cost resulted from our strategic decision to
exit certain older product lines and to make significant changes to our
manufacturing strategy to improve operating efficiency. Additionally, included
in gross margin in fiscal 2003 was the positive effect of the $3.0 million in
license revenues included in service and other revenues on the Consolidated
Statement of Operations. The increase in gross margin in fiscal 2004 was
primarily due to higher margins and higher average selling prices on our
high-performance WaveMaster and mid-performance WaveRunner oscilloscopes, lower
manufacturing costs resulting from continued improvements in operational
efficiency, positive impact of foreign currency fluctuations on revenues while
cost of sales are predominately in U.S. dollars, restructuring savings of $0.4
million and the ongoing benefit of our shift to a direct sales model in China
and Singapore.
Selling, general and administrative expense increased by 6.2%, or $2.6
million, from $41.4 million in fiscal 2003 to $44.0 million in fiscal 2004.
Selling, general and administrative expense in fiscal 2003 includes $2.4 million
of severance charges and $0.3 million of plant closing costs partially offset by
the reversal of an unused 2002 restructuring reserve of $0.1 million. This
increase was primarily due to increased variable selling costs related to higher
revenues and the impact of foreign currencies, certain legal and compliance
expenses and expenses related to performance bonuses that were suspended in the
first three quarters of fiscal 2003 due to the weakness in the technology sector
of the economy and in LeCroy sales. Selling costs increased by $3.8 million and
general and administrative costs increased by $1.4 million, net of restructuring
savings of approximately $3.5 million, partially offset by the decrease in net
restructuring charges of $2.6 million in fiscal 2004 compared to the same period
in the prior year. As a percentage of total revenues, selling, general and
administrative expense was 35.2% in fiscal 2004, compared with 38.4% in fiscal
2003. This decrease as a percentage of total revenues was primarily due to our
ability to leverage selling infrastructure over the increased revenues in fiscal
2004. In fiscal 2005, we expect selling, general and administrative expense will
increase when compared to fiscal 2004 due to increased variable selling costs on
higher forecasted revenues, the non-cash compensation expense associated with
restricted stock grants under our new long-term incentive program and our
intention to continue to defend ourselves vigorously in lawsuits filed against
us.
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Research and development expense decreased by 13.5%, or $2.5 million, from
$18.2 million in fiscal 2003 to $15.8 million in fiscal 2004. The decrease was
primarily due to cost savings realized from the consolidation of our probe
development activities into our Chestnut Ridge, New York facility at the end of
the fourth quarter of fiscal 2003, the full benefit of cost reduction
initiatives taken in fiscal 2003 of approximately $1.7 million, a $0.7 million
charge for severance in fiscal 2003 and the timing of certain project specific
engineering expenses. As a percentage of total revenues, research and
development expense decreased from 16.9% in fiscal 2003 to 12.6% in fiscal 2004,
which reflects our ability to leverage expenses over the higher sales base in
fiscal 2004 which is consistent with our long-term operating model of spending
13% of sales on product development. In fiscal 2005, we intend to continue to
invest a substantial percentage of our revenues in our research and development
efforts. We have development efforts underway and expect to introduce new
products over the next year to address customer needs for solutions in market
sectors such as ultra-wide band and lower bandwidth oscilloscopes. We believe
that our advanced hardware and software technologies incorporated into our core
products can be adapted to address additional sectors of the large and diverse
test and measurement market where we have not historically focused.
Other (expense) income, net, which consists primarily of net interest income
and foreign exchange gains or losses, was an expense of ($11,000) and ($84,000)
in fiscal 2004 and fiscal 2003, respectively. Included in other (expense)
income, net in fiscal 2004, was $0.4 million in transaction costs related to the
repurchase of our redeemable convertible preferred stock and higher interest
expense due to borrowings under our revolving line of credit, partially offset
by foreign exchange gains of $0.3 million on transactions denominated in other
than the functional currency of us or our subsidiaries. In fiscal 2003, foreign
exchange losses of $0.4 million were partially offset by net interest income of
$0.2 million.
In fiscal 2004, we recorded a tax provision of $4.7 million, compared to a
tax benefit of $1.1 million in fiscal 2003. The Company's effective tax rate was
37.0% in fiscal 2004 and fiscal 2003.
In fiscal 2004 and 2003, we recorded $0.1 million gains on sales of
discontinued operations in the Consolidated Statements of Operations, net of
income tax provisions, for the reversal of unused accrued discontinued
operations reserves. In addition, the gain on sale of discontinued operations in
fiscal 2003 includes the sale of the residual assets and business of Digitech
Industries, Inc. ("Digitech").
On September 27, 2003, we redeemed all 500,000 issued and outstanding shares
of our redeemable convertible preferred stock from the holders ("Holders") for
$23.0 million in cash (the "Redemption"). In accordance with the Securities and
Exchange Commission's position published in an Emerging Issues Task Force
("EITF") Topic No. D-42 relating to induced conversions of preferred stock, we
recorded the $7.7 million premium paid to purchase the preferred stock as a
charge to arrive at net income applicable to common stockholders in fiscal 2004.
LeCroy and the Holders agreed that the Redemption would be transacted as of
the beginning of the first quarter of fiscal 2004. As a result, we accounted for
the Redemption as though no dividends had accrued in fiscal 2004 and that the
unaccreted value attributed to the warrants at the point of issue was
accelerated and combined with the redemption premium to reflect the total charge
related to the Redemption in the Consolidated Statement of Operations.
In fiscal 2003, charges related to our redeemable convertible preferred
stock, comprising the dividend on the preferred stock and the accretion for the
value of fully exercisable warrants granted in connection with the private
placement of the preferred stock, were $2.1 million.
COMPARISON OF FISCAL YEARS 2003 AND 2002
Total revenues were $107.9 million in fiscal 2003 compared to $111.5 million
in fiscal 2002, a decrease of 3.2%, or $3.6 million. The decrease in revenue was
due to a 5.8% decrease in total oscilloscope units shipped in fiscal 2003. The
positive impact of foreign currency offset approximately $5.0 million of the
decrease in total revenues during fiscal 2003 as compared to fiscal 2002.
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Revenues from oscilloscopes and related products decreased 6.0%, or $6.1
million, in fiscal 2003. Lower sales of approximately $16.0 million from
discontinued and older product lines, OEM/distributed products and components
were partially offset by increased sales of approximately $10.9 million for our
application-specific Serial Data Analyzer and Disk Drive Analyzer versions of
our high-end WaveMaster product line of oscilloscopes and increased sales of
probes and accessory products.
Revenues from service and other revenue increased 23.8%, or $2.5 million, in
fiscal 2003 primarily due to a $3.0 million agreement to license our MAUI
Instrument Operating System technology and a $0.8 million increase in service
revenue. Revenues from high-energy physics products included in service and
other revenue declined by $1.4 million, or 100%, in fiscal 2003 as a result of
our decision in December 2001 to discontinue this product line. Service and
other revenue in each of fiscal 2003 and 2002 includes the recognition of $1.3
million of revenue that was deferred with the adoption of SAB 101 as of the
beginning of fiscal 2001.
Our geographic breakdown of revenues by area in total dollars and as a
percentage of total revenues is as follows:
YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, YEAR ENDED JUNE 30,
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(IN THOUSANDS) 2003 2002 2003 2002
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North America.............. $ 32,394 $ 33,052 North America.............. 30.0% 29.6%
Europe / Middle East....... 31,171 33,056 Europe / Middle East....... 28.9 29.7
Japan...................... 17,038 22,050 Japan...................... 15.8 19.8
Asia / Pacific............. 27,256 23,298 Asia / Pacific............. 25.3 20.9
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Total revenues........... $107,859 $111,456 Total revenues........... 100.0% 100.0%
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Gross margin was 52.7% in fiscal 2003 compared to 46.4% in fiscal 2002.
Included in cost of sales in fiscal 2003 is a $2.1 million charge for the
impairment of technology, manufacturing and distribution rights, a $0.2 million
charge for a future royalty payment and a $0.1 million charge for severance
expense. The impairment and royalty cost resulted from our strategic decision to
exit certain older product lines and to make significant changes to our
manufacturing strategy to improve operating efficiency. Included in cost of
sales in fiscal 2002 is a $1.0 million charge for severance and a charge of $3.6
million to increase our allowance for excess and obsolete inventory. This
inventory charge relates to the cost of inventory associated with discontinued
product lines and inventory levels that had been deemed to be in excess of
forecasted requirements. The increase in gross margin in fiscal 2003 resulted
from the $3.0 million technology license included in service and other revenue,
favorable margins on our high-end WaveMaster product line of oscilloscopes, more
favorable product margins on the existing base of products due to higher average
selling prices of our high-end products, increased operational efficiency,
positive impact of foreign currency fluctuations on revenues while cost of sales
are predominately in U.S. dollars and improved cost structure.
Selling, general and administrative expense increased by 2.3%, or $0.9
million, from $40.5 million in fiscal 2002 to $41.4 million in fiscal 2003.
Selling, general and administrative expense in fiscal 2003 includes $2.4 million
of severance charges and $0.3 million of plant closing costs partially offset by
the reversal of an unused 2002 restructuring reserve of $0.1 million. Selling,
general and administrative expense in fiscal 2002 includes $3.0 million of
severance charges. This increase in selling, general and administrative expense
is attributable to increased fixed selling costs of approximately $2.0 million
as a result of the conversion, in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2002, of the U.S.
sales force from partial coverage by manufacturers' representatives to full
coverage by our direct sales force, the impact of foreign currencies,
establishing a direct presence in Singapore and the opening of two new offices
in China. This increase was partially offset by lower general and administrative
expenses of approximately $0.6 million due to improvements in our cost structure
and a $0.4 million incremental decrease in restructuring charges in fiscal 2003.
As a percentage of total revenues, selling, general and administrative expense
was 38.4% in fiscal 2003, compared with 36.3% in fiscal 2002. This increase as a
percentage of total revenues was primarily due to our inability to leverage
higher costs of fixed infrastructure over the lower sales base.
Research and development expense decreased by 17.2%, or $3.8 million, from
$22.0 million in fiscal 2002 to $18.2 million in fiscal 2003. Included in
research and development in fiscal 2003 and 2002 are severance charges of $0.7
million and $0.2 million, respectively, and in fiscal 2002 a $4.0 million
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technology access fee to IBM. We are using the access to this next-generation
silicon germanium technology acquired from IBM to develop components that are
expected to deliver higher density, greater speed and reduced power consumption
than those currently available. Such components will be used in future
high-speed oscilloscopes. As a percentage of sales, research and development
expense decreased from 19.7% in fiscal 2002 to 16.9% in fiscal 2003. This
decrease as a percentage of total revenues was primarily due to the technology
access fee purchased in fiscal 2002, partially offset by increased severance
charges. Despite the effects of the difficult economy, we maintained our
commitment to product development in fiscal 2003 as evidenced by the successful
execution of our product strategy of leveraging our high-end silicon germanium
acquisition technology and our MAUI operating system, which had been deployed in
our WaveMaster product line, into our WavePro product line as well.
Other (expense) income, net, which consists primarily of net interest income
and foreign exchange gains or losses, was an expense of ($0.1) million in fiscal
2003, compared to income of $0.2 million in fiscal 2002. The decrease in income
in fiscal 2003 was primarily due to a $0.3 million increase in foreign exchange
losses on transactions denominated in other than the functional currency of us
or our subsidiaries and lower net interest income earned on our cash balances
due to lower interest rates. Other (expense) income, net in fiscal 2002, is
partially offset by a $0.1 million loss from the sale of marketable securities.
In fiscal 2003, we recorded a tax benefit of $1.1 million, or an effective
tax rate of (37.0%), compared to a tax benefit of $4.3 million, or an effective
tax rate of (40.8%), in fiscal 2002. The effective tax rate in fiscal 2002 was
based on an estimated annual effective tax rate of approximately 37.0%,
increased by the release of a $0.4 million tax reserve related to a favorable
audit settlement in the first quarter of fiscal 2002.
In fiscal 2003, we recorded a $0.1 million gain on sale of discontinued
operations in the Consolidated Statements of Operations, net of an income tax
provision, for the reversal of unused accrued discontinued operations reserves
and the sale of the residual assets and business of Digitech.
Charges related to our redeemable convertible preferred stock, comprising
the preferred stock dividend and the accretion for the value of fully
exercisable warrants granted in connection with the private placement of the
preferred stock, were $2.1 million and $1.9 million in fiscal 2003 and 2002,
respectively.
LIQUIDITY AND CAPITAL RESOURCES
Cash and marketable securities at June 30, 2004 improved to $38.1 million
compared to $30.9 million at June 30, 2003.
Net cash provided by operating activities increased by $13.6 million, from
$6.7 million in fiscal 2003 to $20.3 million in fiscal 2004. This increase was
primarily due to the $9.7 million improvement in net income, the $4.6 million
incremental increase in the utilization of deferred tax assets, the tax benefit
of $1.2 million from the exercise of stock options and reduced cash payments for
accounts payable, accrued expenses and other liabilities in fiscal 2004,
partially offset by the $7.3 million incremental increase in accounts
receivable. The increase in accounts receivable was primarily due to a $5.2
million increase in shipments in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2004 as compared
to the same period in the prior year and increased shipments to Asia where
collection terms run longer.
Net cash (used in) investing activities was ($16.6) million in fiscal 2004
compared to ($3.9) million in fiscal 2003. This increase was primarily due to
the purchase of $9.6 million of marketable securities, an incremental increase
of $3.2 million in capital expenditures and a $0.5 million net increase of
acquisition of technology licenses, partially offset by the net proceeds of $0.6
million from the sale of property during fiscal 2004. The increase in capital
expenditures in fiscal 2004 was primarily due to $2.2 million of capital
improvements to our principal office and manufacturing facility and increased
capital spending on furniture, machinery and equipment.
Net cash (used in) provided by financing activities was ($6.2) million in
fiscal 2004 compared to $0.5 million in fiscal 2003. The decrease in cash
provided by financing activities in fiscal 2004 versus 2003 was primarily due to
the repurchase of our preferred stock for $23.0 million partially offset by net
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proceeds of $12.0 million from our follow-on offering of our common stock and an
increase of $4.8 million in proceeds from employee stock purchases and stock
option exercises.
On April 14, 2004, we closed an underwritten public follow-on offering of
500,000 shares of our common stock at $19.00 per share (less the underwriting
discount) raising aggregate net proceeds of approximately $8.0 million, net of
$1.1 million in offering costs and expenses. We granted the underwriters an
option to purchase up to an additional 225,000 shares of common stock included
in the offering to cover over-allotments, if any, within 30 days of the closing.
On April 27, 2004, pursuant to the exercise of this over-allotment option, we
sold an additional 225,000 shares at $19.00 per share (less the underwriting
discount), raising additional net proceeds of $4.1 million, net of expenses.
On April 23, 2004, we used proceeds from this offering to repay $4.0 million
of indebtedness outstanding under our revolving credit facility, and we intend
to use the remaining net proceeds for general corporate and working capital
purposes. We may also use a portion of the net proceeds of this offering to
acquire or invest in businesses, products, services or technologies
complementary to our current business, through mergers, acquisitions, joint
ventures or otherwise. Pending application of any of the proceeds to any
specific uses, we have invested the net proceeds of this offering in short-term,
interest-bearing investment grade marketable securities.
On November 13, 2003, we amended our existing $15.0 million revolving credit
facility with The Bank of New York. The amended agreement provides us with a
$25.0 million revolving credit facility expiring on November 30, 2006, which can
be used to provide funds for general corporate purposes and acquisitions.
Borrowings under this line bear interest at an annual rate of prime plus a
margin not to exceed 1.00%, or at the London Interbank Offering Rate (LIBOR)
plus a margin of between 1.25% and 2.25%, depending on our leverage ratio, as
such term is defined in the credit agreement. A commitment fee of 0.375% per
annum is payable on any unused amount under the facility. This revolving credit
facility is secured by a lien on substantially all of our domestic assets. As of
June 30, 2004, we are in compliance with our financial covenant requirements and
there were no borrowings outstanding under this line of credit.
We have a $2.0 million capital lease line of credit to fund certain capital
expenditures. As of June 30, 2004, we had $0.2 million outstanding under this
line of credit, $0.1 million of which was current and the remaining $0.1 million
of which was included in deferred revenue and other non-current liabilities on
the Consolidated Balance Sheet. This line of credit expires November 2005 and
outstanding borrowings bear interest at an annual rate of 12.2%.
In addition to the above U.S.-based facilities, we maintain certain
short-term foreign credit facilities, principally facilities with two Japanese
banks totaling 150 million yen ($1.4 million as of June 30, 2004). No amounts
were outstanding under these facilities as of June 30, 2004.
We believe that our cash on hand, cash flow generated by our continuing
operations and availability under our revolving credit lines will be sufficient
to fund our operations, working capital and capital expenditure requirements for
the foreseeable future and provide funds for potential acquisition
opportunities.
CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATIONS AND OTHER COMMITMENTS
Our contractual obligations and commitments include obligations associated
with our capital and operating leases, employee severance agreements and a
technology license agreement as set forth in the table below:
PAYMENTS DUE BY PERIOD AS OF JUNE 30, 2004
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LESS THAN MORE THAN 5
TOTAL 1 YEAR 1-3 YEARS 3-5 YEARS YEARS
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(IN THOUSANDS)
Capital lease obligations................... $ 196 $ 107 $ 89 $ -- $ --
Employee severance agreements............... 200 148 44 8 --
Operating lease obligations................. 4,627 1,688 2,134 645 160
Other contractual commitments to purchase
technology................................ 250 250 -- -- --
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Total....................................... $ 5,273 $ 2,193 $ 2,267 $ 653 $ 160
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RECENT ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS
In April 2003, the Financial Accounting Standards Board ("FASB") issued SFAS
No. 149, "Amendment of Statement 133 on Derivative Instruments and Hedging
Activities." SFAS No. 149 amends and clarifies financial accounting and
reporting for derivative instruments and for hedging activities under SFAS No.
133, "Accounting for Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities." This
statement clarifies under what circumstances a contract with an initial net
investment meets the characteristic of a derivative discussed in SFAS No. 133,
clarifies when a derivative contains a financing component, conforms SFAS No.
133 to language used in FASB Interpretation No. 45 and amends certain other
existing pronouncements. These changes are intended to result in more consistent
reporting of contracts as either derivatives or hybrid instruments. The
statement is generally effective for contracts entered into or modified after,
and for hedging relationships designated after, June 30, 2003. The adoption of
this statement did not have an impact on our consolidated financial statements.
In May 2003, the FASB issued SFAS No. 150, "Accounting for Certain Financial
Instruments with Characteristics of both Liabilities and Equity." SFAS No. 150
establishes standards for classifying certain financial instruments that
represent obligations, yet also have characteristics similar to equity
instruments. Specifically, SFAS No. 150 addresses the accounting for instruments
such as mandatory redeemable securities, certain option contracts and
obligations to be settled in shares. SFAS No. 150 is effective for interim
periods beginning after June 15, 2003. The adoption of this statement did not
have an impact on our consolidated financial statements.
In March 2004, the FASB issued the exposure draft "Share-Based Payment." The
proposed statement would require all equity-based awards to employees to be
recognized in the Consolidated Statement of Operations based on their fair value
for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2004. The new standard, if
accepted in its present form, would apply to all awards granted, modified or
settled after the effective date. We believe the adoption of this proposed
statement will have a material effect on our consolidated financial statements.
SUBSEQUENT EVENT
On September 1, 2004, we entered into an agreement to acquire 100% of the
outstanding common stock of Computer Access Technology Corporation ("CATC") for
$6.00 per share. Under the terms of the agreement, we also will pay additional
cash to the holders of CATC's outstanding, vested in-the-money stock options. In
addition, we will issue stock options to assume CATC's outstanding unvested
stock options. As a result, we expect the total purchase price of the
transaction to be approximately $85 million, excluding CATC's $45 million of
cash and investments.
We intend to fund the cash requirement of approximately $81 million, through
a combination of our existing cash and $50 million of term debt, which is part
of a $75 million credit facility to be underwritten by the Bank of New York. The
transaction is subject to approval by the stockholders of CATC, as well as
regulatory approvals and the satisfaction of other customary closing conditions.
Subject to these conditions, the transaction is expected to close in our second
fiscal quarter ending December 31, 2004.
FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
This Form 10-K contains forward-looking statements. When used in this Form
10-K, the words "anticipate," "believe," "estimate," "will," "plan," "intend,"
and "expect" and similar expressions identify forward-looking statements.
Although we believe that our plans, intentions, and expectations reflected in
any forward-looking statements are reasonable, these plans, intentions, or
expectations may not be achieved. Our actual results, performance, or
achievements could differ materially from those contemplated, expressed, or
implied, by the forward-looking statements contained in this Form 10-K.
Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from our
forward-looking statements are set forth in this Form 10-K, including under the
heading "Risk Factors." All forward-looking statements attributable to us or
persons acting on our behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by the
cautionary statements set forth in this Form 10-K. Except as required by federal
securities laws, we are under no obligation to update any forward-looking
statement, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.
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RISK FACTORS
An investment in our common stock involves a high degree of risk. You
should carefully consider the risks described below together with all of the
other information included in this Form 10-K when evaluating the Company and its
business. If any of the following risks actually occur, our business, financial
condition, liquidity, or results of operations could suffer. In that case, the
trading price of our common stock could decline and our stockholders may lose
all or part of their investment.
RISKS RELATED TO OUR BUSINESS
OUR OPERATING RESULTS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE TO FLUCTUATE AND MAY NOT
MEET OUR FINANCIAL GUIDANCE OR PUBLISHED ANALYST FORECASTS, WHICH MAY CAUSE
THE PRICE OF OUR COMMON STOCK TO DECLINE SIGNIFICANTLY.
Our past operating results, including our gross margins, have fluctuated
from fiscal period to fiscal period. We expect our future operating results and
gross margins will continue to fluctuate from fiscal period to fiscal period due
to a number of factors, many of which are outside our control and any of which
could cause our stock price to fluctuate. The primary factors that affect us
include the following:
o changes in overall demand for our products;
o the timing of the introduction and market acceptance of new products
by us or competing companies;
o the timing and magnitude of research and development expenses;
o changes in the estimation of the future size and growth rate of our
markets;
o changes in our production efficiency;
o disruptions in operations at any of our facilities or the facilities
of any of our contract manufacturers for any reason;
o changes in our selling prices; and
o changes in foreign currency exchange risks.
In addition, we have historically experienced somewhat lower activity
during our first fiscal quarter than in other fiscal quarters which, we believe,
is due principally to the lower level of orders and market activity during the
summer months, particularly in Europe. We believe this seasonal aspect of our
business is likely to continue in the future.
OUR STOCK PRICE MAY BE VOLATILE IN THE FUTURE, AND OUR STOCKHOLDERS MAY NOT
BE ABLE TO RESELL THEIR SHARES AT OR ABOVE THE PRICE THEY PAID.
The market price of our common stock fluctuates significantly. The stock
price could fluctuate in the future due to a number of factors, some of which
are beyond our control. These factors include:
o historically low trading volume in our stock;
o announcements of developments related to our business;
o announcements of technological innovations or new products or
enhancements by us or our competitors;
o sales by competitors, including sales to our customers;
o sales of common stock into the public market, including those by
directors and members of management;
o developments in our relationships with our customers, partners,
distributors, and suppliers;
o shortfalls or changes in revenue, gross margins, earnings or losses,
or other financial results from analysts' expectations;
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o regulatory developments;
o fluctuations in results of operations;
o trends in the seasonality of our sales; and
o general conditions in our market or the markets served by our
customers.
In addition, in recent years the stock market in general and the market for
shares of technology stocks in particular have experienced extreme price
fluctuations, which have often been due largely to factors other than the
operating performance of the affected companies. We cannot ensure that the
market price of our common stock will not decline substantially, or otherwise
continue to experience significant fluctuations in the future, including
fluctuations that are unrelated to our operating performance.
IF DEMAND FOR OUR PRODUCTS DOES NOT MATCH MANUFACTURING CAPACITY, WE MAY
UNDERUTILIZE OUR CAPACITY OR, ALTERNATIVELY, BE UNABLE TO FULFILL ORDERS IN
A TIMELY MANNER, AND IN EITHER SITUATION OUR EARNINGS MAY SUFFER.
The sale of our products is dependent, to a large degree, on customers
whose industries are subject to cyclical trends in the demands for their
products. We may not be able to adapt production capacity and related cost
structures to rapidly changing market conditions in a timely manner. When demand
does not meet expectations, manufacturing capacity will likely exceed production
requirements. We have at times increased our production capacity and the
overhead that supports production based on anticipated market demand which has
not always developed as expected. As a result, we have periodically
underutilized our capacity, which has adversely affected our earnings due to
existing fixed costs. In addition, conversely, if during a market upturn we
cannot increase manufacturing capacity to meet product demand, we will not be
able to fulfill orders in a timely manner, which in turn may have a negative
effect on earnings and our overall business.
IF OUR OPERATING RESULTS DO NOT CONTINUE TO IMPROVE IN THE LONG-TERM, WE
MAY BE REQUIRED TO ESTABLISH A VALUATION ALLOWANCE AGAINST OUR NET DEFERRED
TAX ASSETS.
We evaluate whether our deferred tax assets can be realized and assess the
need for a valuation allowance on an ongoing basis. As of June 30, 2004, we had
recorded $12.2 million of net deferred tax assets related to the future tax
benefit of certain expenses reported for financial statement purposes that have
not yet been deducted on our tax returns. Realization of our net deferred tax
assets is dependent on our ability to generate future taxable income. As of June
30, 2004, we had recorded a valuation allowance of $5.3 million to reserve for
those tax assets we believe are not likely to be realized in future periods. An
additional valuation allowance would be recorded if it were more likely than not
that some or all of our net deferred assets will not be realized. If we
establish additional valuation allowances, we might record a tax expense in our
condensed consolidated statement of operations, which would have an adverse
impact on our operating results.
WE MAY NOT BE SUCCESSFUL IN THE EXPANSION OF OUR BUSINESS OPERATIONS IN
CHINA, WHICH COULD RESULT IN A LOSS OF OUR INVESTMENT AND THEREBY HARM OUR
OPERATING RESULTS.
We intend to continue to expand our business operations and sales in China.
However, we may be unsuccessful in implementing this strategy as planned or at
all. Factors that could inhibit our successful expansion into China include its
highly cyclical business environment, historically poor recognition of
intellectual property rights and poor performance in stopping counterfeiting and
piracy activity.
WE FACE NUMEROUS RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH OUR INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS, WHICH
COULD CAUSE A MATERIAL ADVERSE EFFECT ON OUR BUSINESS AND RESULTS OF
OPERATIONS SINCE APPROXIMATELY TWO-THIRDS OF OUR REVENUES ARE DERIVED FROM
INTERNATIONAL SALES.
We market and sell our products and services outside the United States, and
currently have employees located in China, France, Germany, Italy, Hong Kong,
Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Many
of our customers and licensees are located outside the United States. As
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part of our strategy, we intend to expand our international sales, particularly
in China. We face numerous risks in doing business outside the United States,
including:
o dependence on sales representatives or foreign distributors and their
sales channels;
o longer accounts receivable collection cycles;
o less effective and less predictable protection of intellectual
property;
o trade protection measures, import or export licensing requirements,
tariffs and other trade barriers;
o unusual or burdensome foreign laws or regulatory requirements or
unexpected changes to those laws or requirements;
o stronger U.S. dollar makes our product more expensive;
o changes in the political or economic condition of a specific country
or region, particularly in emerging markets; and
o potentially adverse tax consequences.
Such factors could cause our future international sales to decline.
Our business practices in international markets are also subject to the
requirements of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. If any of our employees are
found to have violated these requirements, we could be subject to significant
fines and other penalties.
Our products are also subject to United States export control restrictions.
In certain cases, we may not be permitted to export products without obtaining
an export license. U.S. export laws also prohibit the export of our products to
a number of countries deemed by the United States to be hostile. The export of
our high-performance oscilloscopes from the United States, which accounts for a
material portion of our internationally derived revenue, is also subject to
regulation under the Treaty for Nuclear Non-Proliferation. However, only a small
portion of those oscilloscopes are sold in countries where that treaty restricts
the end-user. These restrictions may make foreign competitors facing less
stringent controls on their products more competitive in the global market. We
cannot be certain that the U.S. government will approve any pending or future
export license requests. In addition, the list of products and countries for
which export approval is required, and the regulatory policies with respect
thereto, could be revised. Our international sales and, because approximately
two-thirds of our revenue is derived from sales outside the United States, our
sales in general, could be materially harmed by our inability to obtain required
licenses or by the costs of compliance.
We may be greatly impacted by the political, economic, and military
conditions in China, Taiwan, North Korea, and South Korea. These countries have
recently conducted military exercises in or near the others' territorial waters
and airspace. Such disputes may continue or escalate, resulting in economic
embargoes, disruptions in shipping, or even military hostilities. This could
severely harm our business by interrupting or delaying shipment of our products
to or through these areas and/or reducing our sales in these areas.
WE DEPEND ON SINGLE-SOURCE SUPPLIERS FOR SOME OF OUR PRODUCTS, AND THE LOSS
OF THESE SUPPLIERS COULD HARM OUR BUSINESS BY INTERRUPTING OR TERMINATING
OUR MANUFACTURE OF THOSE PRODUCTS.
We purchase a small number of parts from single-source suppliers. In
particular, several key integrated circuits that we use are made by IBM.
Although we have not experienced significant production delays attributable to
supply changes, we believe that, for integrated circuits in particular,
alternative sources of supply would be difficult to develop over a short period
of time. Because we have no direct control over our third-party suppliers,
interruptions or delays in the products and services provided by these third
parties may be difficult to remedy in a timely fashion. In addition, if such
suppliers are unable or unwilling to deliver the necessary parts or products, we
may be unable to redesign or adapt our technology to work without such parts or
find alternative suppliers or manufacturers. In such events, we could experience
interruptions, delays, increased costs, or quality control problems.
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WE DEPEND UPON KEY PERSONNEL AND QUALIFIED FUTURE HIRES TO IMPLEMENT OUR
EXPANSION STRATEGY, AND IF WE ARE UNABLE TO RETAIN OR ATTRACT PERSONNEL WE
MAY NOT BE ABLE TO MANAGE AND OPERATE SUCCESSFULLY AND WE MAY NOT BE ABLE
TO MEET OUR STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES.
Our success depends on the efforts and abilities of senior management and
key employees in the sales, marketing, research and development, and
manufacturing areas. Many of these employees would be difficult to replace. We
do not have employment contracts with most of our key personnel. If we cannot
retain existing key managers and employ additional qualified senior employees,
our business, financial condition, and results of operations could be materially
and adversely affected. We do not maintain "key man" life insurance policies on
any of our personnel. Future expansion of operations will require us to attract,
train and retain new personnel. In addition, we may be limited by
non-solicitation agreements entered into by our key personnel with respect to
hiring employees from our competitors. These factors could increase our
operating expenses. If we are unable to recruit or retain a sufficient number of
qualified employees, or the costs of compensation or employee benefits increase
substantially, our business, results of operations or financial condition could
be materially and adversely affected.
THE ACTIONS WE TOOK AT THE END OF FISCAL 2001 THROUGH FISCAL 2003 IN
RESPONSE TO THE REDUCED DEMAND FOR OUR PRODUCTS COULD HAVE LONG-TERM
ADVERSE EFFECTS ON OUR BUSINESS.
We experienced reduced demand for our products beginning in the fourth
quarter of fiscal 2001 through the fourth quarter of fiscal 2003. In an effort
to decrease expenses in response to this reduced demand, beginning at the end of
fiscal 2001 and continuing through fiscal 2003, we consolidated certain
operations, reduced the size of our workforce and increased operating
efficiencies.
There are several risks inherent in our cost-cutting initiatives to
transition to a reduced cost structure. These include the risk that cost-cutting
initiatives have impaired our ability to develop and market products effectively
and remain competitive in the industries in which we compete. Cost reduction
measures could have long-term adverse effects on our business by reducing our
pool of technical talent, decreasing or slowing improvements in our products,
making it more difficult for us to respond to customers, limiting our ability to
increase production quickly if and when the demand for our products increases
and limiting our ability to hire and retain key personnel. These circumstances
could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations or
financial condition.
WE MAY NOT BE SUCCESSFUL IN PROTECTING OUR INTELLECTUAL AND PROPRIETARY
RIGHTS, WHICH WOULD DEPRIVE US OF A COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE AND THEREBY
NEGATIVELY IMPACT OUR ABILITY TO COMPETE.
As a technology-based company, our success depends on developing and
protecting our intellectual property. We rely generally on patent, copyright,
trademark and trade secret laws in the United States and abroad. Electronic
equipment as complex as most of our products, however, is generally not
patentable in its entirety. We also license intellectual property from third
parties and rely on those parties to maintain and protect their technology. We
cannot be certain that actions we take to establish and protect proprietary
rights will be adequate, particularly in countries where intellectual property
rights are not highly developed or protected. If we are unable to adequately
protect our technology, or if we are unable to continue to obtain or maintain
licenses for protected technology from third parties, it may be difficult to
design alternatives to such technology without incurring significant costs.
Thus, the loss of intellectual property rights to technology could have a
material adverse effect on our business, results of operations or financial
condition.
We are engaged in intellectual property litigation, including with
Tektronix. On April 28, 2003, Tektronix filed a complaint against us in the
United States District Court for the District of Oregon claiming that we
infringed on eight of its U.S. patents. In our responsive pleading, we denied
that we have infringed, or are infringing, on any of these patents, and contend
that the patents are invalid. Four of these patents concern software user
interface features for oscilloscopes, two concern circuitry and two concern
probes. On August 5, 2003, we filed a counterclaim in the United States District
Court for the District of Oregon claiming that Tektronix is infringing on three
of our patents.
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From time to time, in the ordinary course of business, we receive notices
from third parties regarding intellectual property infringement or take action
against others with regard to intellectual property rights. Even where we are
successful in defending or pursuing such claims, we may incur significant costs.
In the event of a successful claim against us, we could lose our rights to
needed technology or be required to pay license fees for the infringed rights,
either of which could have an adverse impact on our business.
WE LICENSE CERTAIN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY FROM THIRD PARTIES, AND THE LOSS
OF THESE LICENSES COULD DELAY DEVELOPMENT OF FUTURE PRODUCTS OR PREVENT THE
SALE OR ENHANCEMENT OF EXISTING PRODUCTS.
We rely on licenses of intellectual property for our businesses, including
technology used in our products. We cannot ensure that these licenses will be
available in the future on favorable terms or at all. The loss of these licenses
or the ability to maintain any of them on acceptable terms could delay
development of future products or prevent the further sale or enhancement of
existing products. Such loss could adversely affect our business, results of
operations and financial condition.
POTENTIAL ACQUISITIONS, STRATEGIC ALLIANCES AND JOINT VENTURES MAY RESULT
IN FINANCIAL RESULTS THAT ARE DIFFERENT THAN EXPECTED.
In the normal course of business, we engage in discussions with third
parties relating to possible acquisitions, strategic alliances and joint
ventures. As a result of transactions which may be consummated, our financial
results may differ from the investment community's expectations in a given
quarter. In addition, acquisitions and strategic alliances may require us to
integrate a different company culture, management team and business
infrastructure. We may have difficulty developing, manufacturing and marketing
the products of a newly-acquired company in a way that enhances the performance
of our combined businesses or product lines to realize the value from expected
synergies. Depending on the size and complexity of an acquisition, our
successful integration of the entity depends on a variety of factors, including:
o the retention of key employees;
o the management of facilities and employees in different geographic
areas;
o the retention of key customers; and
o the integration or coordination of different research and development,
product manufacturing and sales programs and facilities.
Any impairment of the value of purchased assets or goodwill could have a
significant negative impact on our future operating results.
All of these efforts require varying levels of management resources, which
may divert our attention from other business operations. Further, if market
conditions or other factors lead us to change our strategic direction, we may
not realize the expected value from such transactions. If we do not realize the
expected benefits or synergies of such transactions, our consolidated financial
position, results of operations, cash flows and stock price could be negatively
impacted.
WE MAY NOT BE ABLE TO OBTAIN THE CAPITAL WE NEED TO MAINTAIN OR GROW OUR
BUSINESS.
Our ability to execute our long-term strategy may depend to a significant
degree on our ability to obtain long-term debt and equity capital. We have no
commitments for additional borrowings, other than our existing credit facility,
or for sales of equity, other than under our existing employee benefit plans. We
cannot determine the precise amount and timing of our funding needs at this
time. We may be unable to obtain future additional financing on terms acceptable
to us, or at all.
The following factors could affect our ability to obtain additional
financing on favorable terms, or at all:
o our results of operations;
o general economic conditions and conditions in our industry;
o the perception in the capital markets of our business;
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o our ratio of debt to equity;
o our financial condition;
o our business prospects; and
o changes in interest rates.
In addition, certain covenants relating to our revolving credit facility
impose certain limitations on additional indebtedness. If we are unable to
obtain sufficient capital in the future, we may have to curtail our capital
expenditures and reduce research and development expenditures. Any such actions
could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition,
results of operations and liquidity.
WE COULD INCUR SUBSTANTIAL COSTS AS A RESULT OF VIOLATIONS OF OR
LIABILITIES UNDER ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS.
Our operations are subject to laws and regulations relating to the
protection of the environment, including those governing the discharge of
pollutants into the air or water, the management and disposal of hazardous
substances or wastes and the cleanup of contaminated sites. Some of our
operations require environmental permits and controls to prevent and reduce air
and water pollution, and these permits are subject to modification, renewal and
revocation by issuing authorities. We could incur substantial costs, including
cleanup costs, fines and civil or criminal sanctions and third-party claims for
property damage and personal injury as a result of violations of or liabilities
under environmental laws or noncompliance with environmental permits.
Our former subsidiary, Digitech Industries, Inc., has been involved in
environmental remediation activities, the liability for which was retained by us
and entirely reserved for after the sale of the Vigilant Networks segment and
the residual assets of Digitech. Any liability beyond what is currently expected
and reserved for could have a material adverse effect on our results of
operations.
WE ARE SUBJECT TO LAWS AND REGULATIONS GOVERNING GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS, AND
FAILURE TO ADDRESS THESE LAWS AND REGULATIONS OR COMPLY WITH GOVERNMENT
CONTRACTS COULD HARM OUR BUSINESS BY LEADING TO A REDUCTION IN REVENUE
ASSOCIATED WITH THESE CUSTOMERS.
We have agreements relating to the sale of our products to government
entities and, as a result, we are subject to various statutes and regulations
that apply to companies doing business with the government. The laws governing
government contracts differ from the laws governing private contracts. For
example, many government contracts contain pricing terms and conditions that are
not applicable to private contracts. We are also subject to investigation for
compliance with the regulations governing government contracts. A failure to
comply with these regulations might result in suspension of these contracts, or
administrative penalties.
IF WE ARE REQUIRED TO EXPENSE THE FAIR VALUE OF STOCK OPTIONS GRANTED UNDER
OUR EMPLOYEE STOCK PLANS, OUR NET INCOME AND EARNINGS PER SHARE WOULD BE
SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCED.
There has been an increasing public debate about the proper accounting
treatment for employee stock options. In March 2004, the FASB issued an exposure
draft entitled "Share-based Payment an amendment of FASB Statements No. 123 and
No. 95," requiring companies to expense the fair value of all employee
equity-based awards granted, modified or settled. The tentative requirements
would be effective for us in our 2006 fiscal year commencing July 2005 and would
require any options issued or vesting on or after that date to be recognized as
compensation expense in accordance with the future statement. Currently, we
record compensation expense in accordance with Accounting Principles Board
Opinion No. 25, "Accounting for Stock Issued to Employees," only in connection
with option grants that have an exercise price below fair value. It is possible
that future laws, regulations and accounting pronouncements will require us to
record the fair value of all stock options as compensation expense in our
consolidated statement of operations, which would have an adverse effect on our
results of operations.
WE HAVE A REVOLVING CREDIT FACILITY THAT CONTAINS FINANCIAL COVENANTS, AND
THE FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH THESE COVENANTS COULD HARM OUR FINANCIAL
CONDITION BECAUSE OUR CREDIT FACILITY MAY BE UNAVAILABLE TO US.
We have a $25.0 million revolving credit facility with The Bank of New
York. We are subject to financial covenants under our credit facility, including
interest coverage ratio, minimum total net worth, minimum total tangible net
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worth and liquidity ratio requirements. We expect that existing cash and cash
equivalents, cash provided from operations, and borrowings pursuant to our
existing credit facility with The Bank of New York will be sufficient to meet
ongoing cash requirements. Failure to generate sufficient cash or comply with
the financial covenants under our credit facility may adversely affect our
business, results of operations, liquidity and financial condition.
ISSUANCE OF SHARES IN CONNECTION WITH FINANCING TRANSACTIONS OR UNDER STOCK
PLANS AND OUTSTANDING WARRANTS WILL DILUTE CURRENT STOCKHOLDERS.
Pursuant to our stock plans, our management is authorized to grant
restricted stock awards or stock options to our employees, directors and
consultants. In addition, we also have warrants outstanding to purchase shares
of our common stock. Our stockholders will incur dilution upon exercise of any
outstanding stock options or warrants. In addition, if we raise additional funds
by issuing additional common stock, or securities convertible into or
exchangeable or exercisable for common stock, further dilution to our existing
stockholders will result, and new investors could have rights superior to
existing stockholders.
ANTI-TAKEOVER PROVISIONS UNDER OUR STOCKHOLDER RIGHTS PLAN, CHARTER
DOCUMENTS AND DELAWARE LAW COULD DELAY OR PREVENT A CHANGE OF CONTROL AND
COULD ALSO LIMIT THE MARKET PRICE OF OUR STOCK.
Our stockholder rights plan, certificate of incorporation and bylaws
contain provisions that could delay or prevent a change of control of our
company that our stockholders might consider favorable. Certain provisions of
our certificate of incorporation and bylaws allow us to:
o authorize the issuance of preferred stock which can be created and
issued by the board of directors without prior stockholder approval,
with rights senior to those of the common stock;
o provide for a classified board of directors, with each director
serving a staggered three-year term;
o prohibit stockholders from filling board vacancies, calling special
stockholder meetings, or taking action by written consent; and
o require advance written notice of stockholder proposals and director
nominations.
In addition, we are governed by the provisions of Section 203 of the
Delaware General Corporate Law, which may prohibit certain business combinations
with stockholders owning 15% or more of our outstanding voting stock. These and
other provisions in our certificate of incorporation, bylaws and stockholder
rights plan and Delaware law could make it more difficult for stockholders or
potential acquirors to obtain control of our board of directors or initiate
actions that are opposed by the then-current board of directors, including delay
or impede a merger, tender offer, or proxy contest involving our company.
Moreover, certain provisions of our license agreement with Tektronix, which
expires in September 2004, could discourage certain companies or other third
parties from attempting to acquire control of us or limit the price that such
parties might be willing to pay for our common stock until the expiration of
such agreement. Any delay or prevention of a change of control transaction or
changes in our board of directors could cause the market price of our common
stock to decline.
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RISKS RELATED TO OUR INDUSTRY
WE OPERATE IN HIGHLY COMPETITIVE MARKETS AND THIS COMPETITION COULD REDUCE
OUR MARKET SHARE AND HARM OUR BUSINESS.
The oscilloscope market is highly competitive and characterized by rapid
and continual advances in technology. Our principal competitors in this market
are Tektronix and Agilent. Both of our principal competitors have substantially
greater sales and marketing, development and financial resources than we do. We
believe that Tektronix, Agilent and other competitors each offer a wide range of
products that attempt to address most sectors of the oscilloscope market.
We have historically engaged in intense competition with Tektronix. Some of
our senior managers, including our chief executive officer and chief operating
officer, are former employees of Tektronix. In 1994, we settled litigation with
Tektronix alleging that our oscilloscope products infringed certain patents held
by Tektronix by entering into a license agreement for the right to use that
intellectual property. We are currently engaged in intellectual property
litigation with Tektronix in which both sides have claimed that the other is
infringing its patents. This litigation is described in more detail under Item
3, "Legal Proceedings," of Part I of this Form 10-K.
We believe that the principal bases of competition in the oscilloscope
market are a product's performance (bandwidth, sample rate, memory length and
processing power), its price and quality, the vendor's name recognition and
reputation, product availability and the quality of post-sale support. If any of
our competitors surpass us or are perceived to have surpassed us with respect to
one or more of these factors, we may lose customers. We also believe that our
success will depend in part on our ability to maintain and develop the advanced
technology used in our oscilloscope products and our ability to offer
high-performance products at a favorable "price-to-performance" ratio. We cannot
assure that we will continue to compete effectively.
A PROLONGED ECONOMIC DOWNTURN COULD MATERIALLY HARM OUR BUSINESS BY
DECREASING CAPITAL SPENDING.
Negative trends in the general economy, including trends resulting from
actual or threatened military action by the United States and threats of
terrorist attacks on the United States and abroad, could cause a decrease in
capital spending in many of the markets we serve. In particular, a downward
cycle affecting the computer and semiconductor, data storage devices, automotive
and industrial, and military and aerospace markets would likely result in a
reduction in demand for our products and would have a material adverse effect on
our business, results of operations, financial condition and liquidity. In
addition, if customers' markets decline, we may not be able to collect
outstanding amounts due to us. Such declines could harm our consolidated
financial position, results of operations, cash flows and stock price, and could
limit our ability to maintain profitability.
WE MUST SUCCESSFULLY EXECUTE OUR STRATEGY TO INTRODUCE NEW PRODUCTS.
One of our key strategies is to expand our addressable portion of the
oscilloscope market by introducing new products such as sampling oscilloscopes
and additional oscilloscopes in the lower bandwidth market. We have in the past
withdrawn a product line due to implementation concerns. In August 2000, we
divested our Vigilant Networks business segment because, while its technology
was potentially viable, the additional capital investment required for its
commercial success was judged to be too high. The success of our new product
offerings will depend on a number of factors, including our ability to identify
customer needs properly, manufacture and deliver products in sufficient volumes
on time, differentiate offerings from competitors' offerings, price products
competitively and anticipate competitors' development of new products or
technological innovations.
WITHOUT THE TIMELY INTRODUCTION OF COMPETITIVE PRODUCTS, OUR PRODUCTS MAY
BECOME TECHNOLOGICALLY OBSOLETE.
We generally sell our products in industries that are characterized by
rapid technological changes, frequent new product introductions and changing
industry standards. Without the timely introduction of new products, services
and enhancements, our products may become technologically obsolete, in which
case our revenue and operating results could suffer. The success of new product
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offerings will depend on several factors, including our ability to identify
customer needs properly, innovate and develop new technologies, manufacture and
deliver products in sufficient volumes on time, differentiate offerings from
competitors' offerings, price products competitively and anticipate competitors'
development of new products or technological innovations.
WE COULD BE AFFECTED BY GOVERNMENT REGULATION AND OTHER LEGAL
UNCERTAINTIES.
We manufacture our products in the United States, and sell our products and
purchase parts, components and sub-assemblies in a number of countries. We are
therefore subject to various significant international, federal, state and local
regulations, including but not limited to health and safety, product content,
labor and import/export regulations. For example, the export of high-performance
oscilloscopes from the United States is subject to regulation under the Treaty
for Nuclear Non-Proliferation. These regulations are complex, change frequently
and have tended to become more stringent over time. We may be required to incur
significant expenses to comply with these regulations or to remedy violations of
these regulations. Any failure by us to comply with applicable government
regulations could also result in cessation of our operations or portions of our
operations, product recalls or impositions of fines and restrictions on our
ability to carry on or expand our operations. In addition, because many of our
products are regulated or sold into regulated industries, we must comply with
additional regulations in marketing our products.
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ITEM 7A. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURE ABOUT MARKET RISK.
We purchase materials from suppliers and sell our products around the world
and maintain investments in foreign subsidiaries, all denominated in a variety
of currencies. As a consequence, we are exposed to risks from fluctuations in
foreign currency exchange rates with respect to a number of currencies, changes
in government policies and legal and regulatory requirements, political
instability, transportation delays and the imposition of tariffs and export
controls. Among the more significant potential risks to us of relative
fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates is the relationship among and
between the U.S. dollar, the Euro, Swiss franc, British pound, Swedish krona,
Japanese yen, Korean won, Singapore dollar and Hong Kong dollar.
We have a program of entering into foreign exchange forward contracts to
minimize the risks associated with currency fluctuations on assets or
liabilities denominated in other than the functional currency of us or our
subsidiaries. It cannot be assured, however, that this program will effectively
offset all of our foreign currency risk related to these assets or liabilities.
These foreign exchange forward contracts do not qualify for hedge accounting in
accordance with SFAS No. 133, "Accounting for Derivative Investments and Hedging
Activities."
Other than this program, we do not attempt to reduce our foreign currency
exchange risks by entering into foreign currency management programs. As a
consequence, there can be no assurance that fluctuations in foreign currency
exchange rates in the future as a result of mismatches between local currency
revenues and expenses, the translation of foreign currencies into the U.S.
dollar, our financial reporting currency, or otherwise, will not adversely
affect our results of operations. Moreover, fluctuations in exchange rates could
affect the demand for our products.
During fiscal 2004, 2003 and 2002, foreign currency exchange gains (losses)
on assets or liabilities denominated in other than their functional currencies,
net of gains (losses) on related foreign exchange contracts, were $0.3 million,
($0.4) million and ($0.1) million, respectively. These net gains (losses) are
included in other income (expense), net in the Consolidated Statements of
Operations and include gross gains of $0.5 million, $0.1 million and $0.2
million in fiscal 2004, 2003 and 2002, respectively. At June 30, 2004 and June
30, 2003, the notional amounts of the Company's open foreign exchange forward
contracts, all with maturities of less than six months, were approximately $8.2
million and $6.7 million, respectively.
We performed a sensitivity analysis assuming a hypothetical 10% adverse
movement in foreign exchange rates to the hedging contracts and the underlying
exposures described above. As of June 30, 2004, the analysis indicated that
these hypothetical market movements would have an immaterial effect on our
consolidated financial position, results of operations or cash flows.
We are exposed to adverse changes in interest rates primarily due to our
investment in cash and cash equivalents and marketable securities. Market risk
is estimated as the potential change in fair value resulting from a hypothetical
1% adverse change in interest rates, which would have been immaterial to our
results of operations, financial position or cash flows.
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ITEM 8. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY DATA.
LeCROY CORPORATION
INDEX TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
Reports of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firms................................................... 39
Consolidated Balance Sheets as of June 30, 2004 and 2003.................................................... 41
Consolidated Statements of Operations for the years ended June 30, 2004, 2003 and 2002...................... 42
Consolidated Statements of Stockholders' Equity for the years ended June 30, 2004, 2003 and 2002............ 43
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the years ended June 30, 2004, 2003 and 2002...................... 44
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.................................................................. 45
Financial Statement Schedule -- Valuation and Qualifying Accounts............................................ 65
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REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
The Board of Directors and Stockholders
LeCroy Corporation:
We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of LeCroy
Corporation and subsidiaries as of June 30, 2004 and 2003, and the related
consolidated statements of operations, stockholders' equity, and cash flows for
the years then ended. In connection with our audits of the 2004 and 2003
consolidated financial statements, we also audited the 2004 and 2003
consolidated financial statement schedule as listed in the index to the
consolidated financial statements. These consolidated financial statements and
schedule are the responsibility of the Company's management. Our responsibility
is to express an opinion on these consolidated financial statements and schedule
based on our audits.
We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public
Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that
we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the
financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes
examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in
the financial statements. An audit also includes assessing the accounting
principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as
evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our
audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements referred to above
present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of LeCroy
Corporation and subsidiaries as of June 30, 2004 and 2003, and the results of
their operations and their cash flows for the years then ended, in conformity
with United States generally accepted accounting principles. Also, in our
opinion, the related 2004 and 2003 financial statement schedule, when considered
in relation to the basic consolidated financial statements taken as a whole,
presents fairly, in all material respects, the information set forth therein.
/s/ KPMG LLP
Short Hills, New Jersey
August 3, 2004, except as to note 23,
which is as of September 1, 2004
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REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
The Board of Directors and Stockholders
LeCroy Corporation
We have audited the accompanying consolidated statements of operations,
stockholders' equity and cash flows of LeCroy Corporation and subsidiaries for
the year ended June 30, 2002. Our audit also included the financial statement
schedule as listed in the index to the consolidated financial statements at Item
8. These consolidated financial statements and schedule are the responsibility
of the Company's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on
these consolidated financial statements and schedule based on our audit.
We conducted our audit in accordance with the standards of the Public
Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that
we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the
financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes
examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in
the financial statements. An audit also includes assessing the accounting
principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as
evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our
audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.
In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements referred to above
present fairly, in all material respects, the consolidated results of operations
and cash flows of LeCroy Corporation and subsidiaries for the year ended June
30, 2002, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.
Also, in our opinion, the related consolidated financial statement schedule for
the year ended June 30, 2002, when considered in relation to the basic financial
statements taken as a whole, presents fairly in all material respects the
information set forth therein.
/s/ Ernst & Young LLP
MetroPark, New Jersey
July 31, 2002
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LeCROY CORPORATION
CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
(IN THOUSANDS, EXCEPT PAR VALUE AND SHARE DATA)
JUNE 30,
-------------------------
2004 2003
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ASSETS
Current assets:
Cash and cash equivalents........................................................... $ 28,566 $ 30,851
Marketable securities............................................................... 9,534 --
Accounts receivable, net of reserves of $436 and $394 at
June 30, 2004 and June 30, 2003, respectively..................................... 24,675 20,523
Inventories, net.................................................................... 21,978 24,720
Other current assets................................................................ 11,921 10,012
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Total current assets........................................................ 96,674 86,106
Property and equipment, net........................................................... 19,778 20,021
Other assets.......................................................................... 13,341 16,025
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Total assets................................................................ $ 129,793 $ 122,152
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LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY
Current liabilities:
Current portion of capital lease.................................................... $ 107 $ 95
Accounts payable.................................................................... 12,097 10,937
Accrued expenses and other liabilities.............................................. 14,554 12,243
----------- -----------
Total current liabilities................................................... 26,758 23,275
Deferred revenue and other non-current liabilities.................................... 1,427 3,028
----------- -----------
Total liabilities........................................................... 28,185 26,303
Commitments and contingencies
Redeemable convertible preferred stock, $.01 par value (authorized 5,000,000
shares of preferred stock; 0 and 500,000 shares issued and outstanding
designated as redeemable convertible preferred stock; liquidation value, $0
and $15,735 at June 30, 2004 and June 30, 2003, respectively)....................... -- 15,335
----------- -----------
Stockholders' equity:
Common stock, $.01 par value (authorized 45,000,000 shares; 11,973,830 and
10,412,562 shares issued and outstanding at June 30, 2004 and 2003, respectively). 120 104
Additional paid-in capital.......................................................... 98,421 79,864
Warrants to purchase common stock................................................... 2,165 2,165
Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss)....................................... 434 (1,598)
Deferred stock compensation......................................................... (6,509) --
Retained earnings (accumulated deficit)............................................. 6,977 (21)
----------- -----------
Total stockholders' equity.................................................. 101,608 80,514
----------- -----------
Total liabilities and stockholders' equity.................................. $ 129,793 $ 122,152
=========== ===========
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these
consolidated financial statements.
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LeCROY CORPORATION
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
(IN THOUSANDS, EXCEPT PER SHARE DATA)
YEARS ENDED JUNE 30,
----------------------------------------
2004 2003 2002
----------- ----------- -----------
Revenues:
Oscilloscopes and related products.................................. $ 113,422 $ 95,008 $ 101,077
Service and other................................................... 11,518 12,851 10,379
----------- ----------- -----------
Total revenues................................................... 124,940 107,859 111,456
Cost of sales......................................................... 52,594 50,989 59,717
----------- ----------- -----------
Gross profit..................................................... 72,346 56,870 51,739
----------- ----------- -----------
Operating expenses:
Selling, general and administrative................................. 43,997 41,422 40,477
Research and development............................................ 15,760 18,226 22,006
----------- ----------- -----------
Total operating expenses......................................... 59,757 59,648 62,483
----------- ----------- -----------
Operating income (loss)............................................... 12,589 (2,778) (10,744)
Other (expense) income, net......................................... (11) (84) 188
----------- ----------- -----------
Income (loss) from continuing operations before income taxes.......... 12,578 (2,862) (10,556)
(Provision for) benefit from income taxes............................ (4,653) 1,059 4,307
----------- ----------- -----------
Income (loss) from continuing operations.............................. 7,925 (1,803) (6,249)
Discontinued operations:
Gain on sale, net of provision for income taxes of
$70 and $75 in 2004 and 2003, respectively........................ 119 129 --
----------- ----------- -----------
Net income (loss)..................................................... 8,044 (1,674) (6,249)
Charges related to convertible preferred stock........................ -- 2,069 1,876
Redemption of convertible preferred stock............................. 7,665 -- --
----------- ----------- -----------
Net income (loss) applicable to common stockholders................... $ 379 $ (3,743) $ (8,125)
=========== =========== ===========
Income (loss) per common share - basic:
Income (loss) from continuing operations applicable to
common stockholders............................................... $ 0.02 $ (0.37) $ (0.81)
Gain from discontinued operations................................... 0.01 0.01 --
Net income (loss) applicable to common stockholders................. 0.04 (0.36) (0.81)
Income (loss) per common share - diluted:
Income (loss) from continuing operations applicable to
common stockholders............................................... $ 0.02 $ (0.37) $ (0.81)
Gain from discontinued operations................................... 0.01 0.01 --
Net income (loss) applicable to common stockholders................. 0.03 (0.36) (0.81)
Weighted average number of common shares:
Basic............................................................... 10,754 10,364 10,052
Diluted............................................................. 11,074 10,364 10,052
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these
consolidated financial statements.
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LeCROY CORPORATION
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY
(IN THOUSANDS)
ACCUMULATED
OTHER RETAINED
COMMON STOCK COMMON ADDITIONAL COMPREHENSIVE DEFERRED EARNINGS
---------------- STOCK PAID-IN INCOME STOCK (ACCUMULATED
SHARES AMOUNT WARRANTS CAPITAL (LOSS) COMPENSATION DEFICIT) TOTAL
------ ------ -------- ---------- ------------- ------------ ------------ -------
Balance at June 30, 2001............. 8,734 $ 87 $ 1,848 $ 56,315 $ (7,548) $ -- $ 9,778 $ 60,480
--------
Comprehensive loss:
Net loss........................... -- -- -- -- -- -- (6,249) (6,249)
Foreign currency translation....... -- -- -- -- 4,213 -- -- 4,213
Reversal of cumulative unrealized
gain on sale of marketable
securities....................... -- -- -- -- (360) -- -- (360)
--------
Total comprehensive loss............. (2,396)
--------
Exercise of stock options and
employee stock purchases........... 160 2 -- 2,031 -- -- -- 2,033
Tax benefit from exercise of stock
options............................ -- -- -- 82 -- -- -- 82
Charges related to convertible
preferred stock.................... -- -- -- -- -- -- (1,876) (1,876)
Issuance of shares in private
placement.......................... 1,429 14 -- 24,986 -- -- -- 25,000
Issuance of common stock warrants -- -- 317 (317) -- -- -- --
Securities offering costs............ -- -- -- (1,818) -- -- -- (1,818)
------ ------ -------- -------- -------- -------- ------- --------
Balance at June 30, 2002............. 10,323 103 2,165 81,279 (3,695) -- 1,653 81,505
--------
Comprehensive loss:
Net loss........................... -- -- -- -- -- -- (1,674) (1,674)
Foreign currency translation....... -- -- -- -- 2,097 -- -- 2,097
--------
Total comprehensive income........... 423
--------
Exercise of stock options and
employee stock purchases........... 90 1 -- 618 -- -- -- 619
Amortization of employee stock
compensation....................... -- -- -- 36 -- -- -- 36
Charges related to convertible
preferred stock.................... -- -- -- (2,069) -- -- -- (2,069)
------ ------ -------- -------- -------- -------- ------- --------
Balance at June 30, 2003............. 10,413 104 2,165 79,864 (1,598) -- (21) 80,514
--------
Comprehensive income:
Net income......................... -- -- -- -- -- -- 8,044 8,044
Foreign currency translation....... -- -- -- -- 2,052 -- -- 2,052
Unrealized loss on marketable
securities, net ................. -- -- -- -- (20) -- -- (20)
--------
Total comprehensive income........... 10,076
--------
Public sale of common stock, net 725 7 -- 11,997 -- -- -- 12,004
Exercise of stock options and
employee stock purchases........... 471 5 -- 5,374 -- -- -- 5,379
Issuance of restricted stock to
employees.......................... 365 4 -- 6,570 -- (6,574) -- --
Amortization of employee stock
compensation....................... -- -- -- 23 -- 65 -- 88
Tax benefit from exercise of stock
options............................ -- -- -- 1,212 -- -- -- 1,212
Redemption of convertible preferred
stock.............................. -- -- -- (6,619) -- -- (1,046) (7,665)
------ ------ -------- -------- -------- -------- ------- --------
Balance at June 30, 2004............. 11,974 $ 120 $ 2,165 $ 98,421 $ 434 $ (6,509) $ 6,977 $101,608
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The accompanying notes are an integral part of these
consolidated financial statements.
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LeCROY CORPORATION
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
(IN THOUSANDS)
YEARS ENDED JUNE 30,
------------------------------------
2004 2003 2002
---------- ----------- ----------
CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES:
Net income (loss)...................................................... $ 8,044 $ (1,674) $ (6,249)
Adjustments to reconcile net income (loss) to net cash
provided by (used in) operating activities:
Depreciation and amortization....................................... 6,482 6,752 6,215
Deferred income taxes............................................... 2,963 (1,674) (4,466)
Impairment of intangible assets..................................... -- 2,030 --
Recognition of deferred revenue..................................... (1,296) (1,296) (1,296)
Loss on disposals of property and equipment, net.................... 124 52 --
Inventory and severance charges..................................... -- -- 3,772
Loss on sale of marketable securities............................... -- -- 122
Tax benefit from exercise of stock options.......................... 1,212 -- 82
Gain on sale of discontinued operations............................. (189) (204) --
Gross profit on non-cash transactions............................... (132) -- --
Change in operating asset and liabilities:
Accounts receivable................................................. (3,265) 4,082 2,573
Inventories......................................................... 3,421 3,582 630
Other current and non-current assets................................ (649) 490 1,117
Accounts payable, accrued expenses and other liabilities............ 3,535 (5,457) (9,363)
---------- ---------- ----------
Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities...................... 20,250 6,683 (6,863)
---------- ---------- ----------
CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES:
Purchase of property and equipment..................................... (5,845) (2,633) (4,095)
Purchase of marketable securities...................................... (9,566) -- --
Purchase of intangible assets.......................................... (1,800) (1,260) --
Proceeds from the sale of marketable securities........................ -- -- 1,849
Proceeds from the sale of property..................................... 584 -- --
---------- ---------- ----------
Net cash used in investing activities.................................... (16,627) (3,893) (2,246)
---------- ---------- ----------
CASH FLOWS FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES:
Borrowings under line of credit........................................ 10,000 -- --
Repayment of borrowings under line of credit and capital leases........ (10,096) (85) (81)
Proceeds from issuance of common stock, net of direct costs............ 12,004 -- 23,182
Redemption of convertible preferred stock.............................. (23,000) -- --
Payment of seller-financed intangible assets........................... (500) -- --
Proceeds from employee stock purchase and option plans................. 5,379 619 1,722
---------- ---------- ----------
Net cash (used in) provided by financing activities...................... (6,213) 534 24,823
---------- ---------- ----------
Effect of exchange rate changes on cash.................................. 305 205 159
---------- ---------- ----------
Net (decrease) increase in cash and cash equivalents................... (2,285) 3,529 15,873
Cash and cash equivalents, beginning of year........................... 30,851 27,322 11,449
---------- ---------- ----------
Cash and cash equivalents, end of year................................. $ 28,566 $ 30,851 $ 27,322
========== ========== ==========
Supplemental Cash Flow Disclosure
Cash paid during the year for:
Interest............................................................ $ 190 $ 104 $ 119
Income taxes........................................................ 249 816 716
Non-cash transactions:
Acquisition of intangible asset and equipment in exchange
for oscilloscopes .................................................. 167 -- --
Acquisition of distributor in exchange for amounts due to the Company.. -- 300 --
Acquisition of seller-financed intangible asset........................ -- 750 --
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these
consolidated financial statements.
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LeCROY CORPORATION
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(IN THOUSANDS, EXCEPT SHARE AND PER SHARE AMOUNTS)
1. SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
ORGANIZATION
LeCroy Corporation (the "Company" or "LeCroy"), was founded and incorporated
in the State of New York in 1964 and reincorporated in the State of Delaware in
1995. The Company develops, manufactures, sells and licenses oscilloscopes and
related test and measurement equipment. Oscilloscopes are tools used by
designers and engineers to measure and analyze complex electronic signals in
order to develop high-performance systems, to validate electronic designs and to
improve time to market. The Company's products are sold into a broad range of
end markets, including the computer and semiconductor, data storage devices,
automotive and industrial, and military and aerospace markets. Revenues are also
generated from the sale of probes, accessories, and applications solutions, and
to a lesser extent, extended warranty contracts and repairs and calibrations
performed on instruments after the expiration of their warranties.
BASIS OF PRESENTATION AND USE OF ESTIMATES
The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of LeCroy and its
wholly-owned subsidiaries. Intercompany balances and transactions have been
eliminated in consolidation. Certain reclassifications have been made to
prior-year amounts to conform to the current-year presentation.
The Company's consolidated financial statements have been prepared in
accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of
America, which require management to make estimates and assumptions. These
estimates and assumptions affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities
and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the
consolidated financial statements and the revenues and expenses reported during
the period. The most significant of these estimates and assumptions relate to
the allowance for doubtful accounts, allowance for excess and obsolete
inventory, warranty accrual, stock-based compensation, intangible asset
valuation, determining if and when impairments have occurred, and the assessment
of the valuation of deferred income taxes and income tax reserves. These
estimates and assumptions are based on management's judgment and available
information and, consequently, actual results could differ from these estimates.
FISCAL YEAR ENDING DATES
The Company's fiscal year ends on the Saturday closest to June 30 (June 26,
2004, June 28, 2003 and June 29, 2002). Each of these fiscal years represented a
52-week period. For clarity of presentation, the consolidated financial
statement year-end references are stated as June 30.
REVENUE
Revenue recognition. The Company recognizes revenue, net of allowances for
anticipated returns, provided that (1) persuasive evidence of an arrangement
exists (2) delivery has occurred (3) the selling price is fixed or determinable
and (4) collection is reasonably assured. Delivery is considered to have
occurred when title and risk of loss have transferred to the customer, or when
services have been provided. The price is considered fixed or determinable when
it is not subject to refund or adjustments.
The Company maintains an allowance for doubtful accounts relating to
accounts receivable estimated to be non-collectible. The Company analyzes
historical bad debts, customer concentrations, customer creditworthiness,
current economic trends and changes in customer payment terms when evaluating
the adequacy of the allowance for doubtful accounts.
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LeCROY CORPORATION
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS - (CONTINUED)
Product revenue. The Company generates product revenues from the sales of
oscilloscopes, probes, accessories and application solutions. Application
solutions, which provide the oscilloscope with additional analysis capabilities,
are either delivered via compact disc read-only memory or are already loaded in
the oscilloscope and activated via a key code after the sale is made to the
customer for such application solution. All sales of these related products are
based upon separately established prices for these items and are recorded as
revenue according to the above revenue recognition criteria. No post-contract
support is provided on the application solutions. Revenues from these related
products are included in revenues from oscilloscopes and related products on the
Consolidated Statements of Operations. Software is embedded in the Company's
oscilloscopes, but the software component is considered incidental.
License revenue. The Company recognizes software license revenue in
accordance with American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Statement of
Position 97-2, "Software Revenue Recognition" ("SOP 97-2"), as amended by
Statement of Position 98-9, "Modifications of SOP 97-2 with Respect to Certain
Transactions" ("SOP 98-9"). Revenues from perpetual software license agreements
are recognized upon delivery of the software if evidence of an arrangement
exists, pricing is fixed and determinable, and collectibility is probable. If an
acceptance period is required, revenues are recognized upon the earlier of
customer acceptance or the expiration of the acceptance period. The Company
allocates revenue on software arrangements involving multiple elements to each
element based on the relative fair values of the elements. The determination of
fair value of each element in multiple element-arrangements is based on vendor
specific objective evidence ("VSOE"). The Company analyzes all of the elements
and determines if there is sufficient VSOE to allocate revenue to maintenance
included in multiple element-arrangements. Accordingly, assuming all other
revenue recognition criteria are met, revenue is recognized upon delivery using
the residual method in accordance with SOP 98-9, where the fair value of the
undelivered elements is deferred and the remaining portion of the arrangement
fee is recognized as license revenue. The revenue allocated to software
maintenance is recognized ratably over the term of the support agreement. The
revenue allocated to licenses is recognized upon delivery of the licenses. The
revenue allocated to software maintenance is recognized ratably over the term of
the support agreement.
In the third quarter of fiscal 2003, the Company licensed its proprietary
MAUI Instrument Operating System technology and recognized $3.0 million of
license revenue included in service and other revenue in the Consolidated
Statement of Operations. Maintenance fees (post-contract support or "PCS") were
included in the agreement and are recognized pro rata for each year of
maintenance purchased. The only two elements in this agreement were the license
and the PCS. The Company recognizes revenue on the license, in accordance with
the contract, upon delivery of the source code. The Company's pricing committee
established VSOE of fair value for the PCS prior to the sale of the software,
and accordingly, the Company recognizes revenue allocated to PCS ratably over
the term of the maintenance purchased. The Company did not recognize any
software license revenue during fiscal 2004 and 2002.
Service revenue. Service revenues include extended warranty contracts and
repairs and calibrations performed on instruments after the expiration of their
normal warranty period. The Company records deferred revenue for extended
warranty contracts and calibrations included within the sales contract
agreement. This deferred revenue is then recognized on a straight-line basis
over the related service period. When arrangements include multiple elements,
the Company uses relative fair values in accordance with Emerging Issues Task
Force ("EITF") 00-21, "Revenue Arrangements with Multiple Deliverables," to
allocate revenue to the elements and recognize revenue when the criteria for
revenue recognition have been met for each element.
Deferred revenue. During the third quarter of fiscal 2004, the Company
began shipping its new WaveSurfer family of oscilloscopes. One component of the
Company's strategy for distributing this new family of oscilloscopes is the use
of a buy-sell distribution channel. This is the Company's initial entry into
this distribution channel and because of the associated uncertainty about
sell-through volumes the Company has determined that it is only appropriate to
recognize revenue when the WaveSurfer is sold by the distributors to their
customers ("sell-through method"). Until revenue is recognized, WaveSurfers
shipped to distributors are included in the Company's finished goods inventory
and recorded in deferred revenue, included in accrued expenses and other
liabilities in the accompanying Consolidated Balance Sheets.
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LeCROY CORPORATION
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS - (CONTINUED)
SAB 101 "Revenue Recognition in Financial Statements." Beginning in fiscal
2001 with the adoption of the Securities and Exchange Commission's Staff
Accounting Bulletin No. 101 ("SAB 101"), "Revenue Recognition in Financial
Statements," revenue from license fees under agreements that have exclusivity
clauses and, from the licensee's perspective, have ongoing requirements or
expectations that are more than perfunctory, are recognized over the term of the
related agreements. An ongoing requirement or expectation would be considered
more than perfunctory if any party to the contract considers it to be "essential
to the functionality" of the delivered product or service or failure to complete
the activities would result in the customer receiving a full or partial refund
or rejecting the products delivered or services performed to date.
Under SAB 101 (superseded by SAB 104), certain previously recognized
license fee revenue was deferred and recognized in future periods over the terms
of the agreements. The adoption of SAB 101 was recorded as of the beginning of
fiscal 2001 and resulted in a non-cash charge for the cumulative effect of an
accounting change of $4.4 million, net of a tax benefit of $2.7 million. The
deferred revenue is being amortized into revenue over 5.5 years, the remaining
terms of the license agreements. The Company recognized pretax license fee
revenue of $1.3 million during fiscal years 2004, 2003 and 2002. Such license
fees were included in service and other revenue in the Consolidated Statements
of Operations. As of June 30, 2004, the remaining deferred license fees balance
was $2.0 million.
STOCK - BASED COMPENSATION
The Company accounts for stock-based compensation plans under the
recognition and measurement principles of Accounting Principles Board Opinion
No. 25, "Accounting for Stock Issued to Employees" ("APB No. 25"), and related
interpretations. No compensation expense related to stock option plans is
reflected in the Company's Consolidated Statements of Operations, as all options
granted under those plans had an exercise price equal to the market value of the
underlying common stock on the date of grant. Compensation cost for restricted
stock is recorded based on its market value on the date of grant and is included
in the Company's Consolidated Statements of Operations ratably over the vesting
period. Upon the grant of restricted stock, deferred stock compensation is
recorded as an offset to additional paid-in capital and is amortized on a
straight-line basis as compensation expense over the vesting period.
The following table illustrates the effect on net income (loss) and net loss
per common share applicable to common stockholders as if the Company had applied
the fair value recognition provisions for stock-based employee compensation of
Statement of Financial Accounting Standards ("SFAS") No. 123, "Accounting for
Stock-Based Compensation," as amended by SFAS No. 148, "Accounting for
Stock-Based Compensation -- Transition and Disclosure."
YEARS ENDED JUNE 30,
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2004 2003 2002
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Net income (loss), as reported........................................... $ 8,044 $ (1,674) $ (6,249)
Add: stock-based compensation expense included in reported
net income (loss), net of income taxes................................. 55 24 87
Deduct: stock-based compensation expense determined under
fair value-based method for all awards, net of income taxes............ (2,901) (3,061) (3,696)
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Pro forma net income (loss).............................................. 5,198 (4,711) (9,858)
Charges related to convertible preferred stock........................... 7,665 2,069 1,876
---------- ----------- -----------
Pro forma net loss applicable to common stockholders..................... $ (2,467) $ (6,780) $ (11,734)
========== =========== ===========
Net income (loss) per common share applicable to common stockholders:
Basic, as reported..................................................... $ 0.04 $ (0.36) $ (0.81)
Diluted, as reported................................................... $ 0.03 $ (0.36) $ (0.81)
Basic, pro forma....................................................... $ (0.23) $ (0.65) $ (1.17)
Diluted, pro forma..................................................... $ (0.23) $ (0.65) $ (1.17)
The fair value of these options was estimated at the date of grant using a
Black-Scholes option pricing model with the following weighted-average
assumptions:
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YEARS ENDED JUNE 30,
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2004 2003 2002
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Expected holding period (years).......................................... 4.5 4.7 4.4
Risk-free interest rate ................................................. 3.37% 2.84% 4.09%
Dividend yield........................................................... 0% 0% 0%
Expected volatility...................................................... 69.0% 71.4% 71.2%
Fair value of options granted............................................ $ 9.79 $ 6.16 $ 9.93
For purposes of pro forma disclosures, the estimated fair value of the
options granted is amortized to expense over the option vesting periods.
WARRANTY
The Company provides a warranty on its products, typically extending three
years after delivery and accounted for in accordance with SFAS No. 5,
"Accounting for Contingencies." Estimated future warranty obligations related to
products are provided by charges to operations in the period that the related
revenue is recognized. These estimates are derived from historical data of
product reliability. The expected failure rate is arrived at in terms of units,
which are then converted into labor hours to which an average fully burdened
cost per hour is applied to derive the amount of accrued warranty required. On a
quarterly basis, the Company studies trends of warranty claims and performance
of specific products and adjusts its warranty obligation through charges or
credits to operations.
SHIPPING AND HANDLING COSTS
The Company records the costs and fees associated with transporting its
products to customers as a component of selling, general and administrative
expense in the Consolidated Statement of Operations. These costs totaled $2.2
million, $2.1 million and $2.0 million for the fiscal years ended June 30, 2004,
2003 and 2002, respectively.
ADVERTISING COSTS
The costs of general advertising, promotion and marketing programs are
charged to selling, general and administrative expense in the Consolidated
Statements of Operations in the fiscal year incurred. The costs of advertising
related to new product introductions are deferred until such advertising first
takes place, which generally coincides with product introduction. Advertising
expense for the fiscal years ended June 30, 2004, 2003 and 2002 was $2.3
million, $2.4 million and $2.4 million, respectively.
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
Research and development costs are expensed as incurred.
CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS
Cash in excess of current operating requirements are invested in cash
equivalents, which are short-term, highly liquid interest bearing investments
with maturities of three months or less at the date of purchase and are stated
at cost, which approximates market value.
MARKETABLE SECURITIES
The Company's investments in debt securities are classified as
available-for-sale and are reported at fair market value based on quoted market
prices. Unrealized gains and losses, net of taxes, are reported as a component
of stockholders' equity. Realized gains and losses on investments are included
in other income (expense), net on the Consolidated Statements of Operations when
realized. As of June 30, 2004, the Company had debt securities of $9.5 million,
net of an unrealized loss of $32,000. Management has the ability and intent, if
necessary, to liquidate any of these investments in order to meet its liquidity
needs within the normal operating cycle. Accordingly, all investments in debt
securities are classified as current assets.
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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS - (CONTINUED)
PROPERTY AND EQUIPMENT
Property and equipment are stated at cost less accumulated depreciation.
Replacements, maintenance and repairs which do not improve or extend the life of
the respective asset are expensed as incurred. Depreciation and amortization of
property and equipment is provided on a straight-line basis over the asset's
estimated useful life or related lease term as follows:
Building and improvements........................ 10-32 years
Furniture, machinery and equipment............... 2-12 years
Computer software and hardware................... 2-7 years
INVENTORIES
Inventories are stated at the lower of cost or market. Cost is determined
using the first-in, first-out method.
IMPAIRMENT OF LONG-LIVED ASSETS AND ACQUIRED INTANGIBLE ASSETS
The Company monitors events and changes in circumstances that could indicate
carrying amounts of long-lived assets, including amortizable intangible assets,
may not be recoverable. When such events or changes in circumstances occur, the
Company assesses the recoverability of long-lived assets by determining whether
the carrying value of such assets will be recovered through undiscounted
expected future cash flows. If the undiscounted cash flows are less than the
carrying amount, an impairment loss is recorded to the extent that the carrying
amount exceeds the fair value.
GOODWILL
Goodwill is recognized for the excess of the purchase price over the fair
value of assets acquired and liabilities assumed in a purchase business
combination. The Company tests goodwill for impairment annually under a two-step
approach, or more frequently, if events or changes in circumstances indicate
that the asset might be impaired. Impairment is assessed at the "reporting unit"
level by applying a fair value-based test using the Company's market
capitalization. The Company has one reporting unit for the purposes of SFAS No.
142.
The Company completed the annual impairment test required under SFAS No. 142
during the fourth quarter of fiscal 2004 after completion of its annual
financial operating plan and determined that there was no impairment to its
recorded goodwill balance of $1.9 million at June 30, 2004. There were no
impairment indicators during the fiscal year ended June 30, 2004.
CONCENTRATION OF CREDIT RISK
The Company develops, manufactures, sells and licenses oscilloscopes and
related test and measurement equipment. The Company's products are sold into a
broad range of end markets, including the computer and semiconductor, data
storage devices, automotive and industrial, and military and aerospace markets.
Sales are to all regions of the United States as well as to a multitude of
foreign countries. Revenue derived from one customer, Iwatsu Electric Co.
("Iwatsu"), accounted for 11% of the Company's consolidated revenues in fiscal
2002. No other customer accounted for more than 10% of the Company's
consolidated revenues in any of the last three fiscal years. There is no
significant concentration of the Company's accounts receivable portfolio in any
customer or geographical region that presents a risk to the Company based on
that concentration. Credit losses have been minimal in fiscal 2004, 2003 and
2002.
Financial instruments, which potentially subject the Company to
concentrations of credit risk, consist primarily of marketable securities,
foreign exchange forward contracts and short-term deposits in the United States
and Europe with major banks with investment levels and debt ratings set to limit
exposure with any one institution.
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INCOME TAXES
Deferred tax assets and liabilities are recognized under the asset and
liability method based upon the difference between the amounts reported for
financial reporting and tax purposes. These deferred taxes are measured by
applying current enacted tax rates. The effect on deferred tax assets and
liabilities of a change in tax rates is recognized in operations in the period
that includes the enactment date. A valuation allowance is provided when it is
more likely than not that some portion or all of the deferred tax assets will
not be realized. The ultimate realization of deferred tax assets is dependent
upon the generation of future taxable income during the period in which related
temporary differences become deductible. Management considers the scheduled
reversal of deferred tax liabilities, projected future taxable income and tax
planning strategies in making this assessment. The Company's policy is not to
provide for U.S. taxes on undistributed earnings of foreign subsidiaries to the
extent such earnings are determined to be permanently invested outside the
United States.
FOREIGN EXCHANGE
The Company's foreign subsidiaries use their local currency as the
functional currency and translate all assets and liabilities at fiscal year end
exchange rates and all income and expenses at average fiscal year exchange rates
with translation adjustments recorded in accumulated other comprehensive income
(loss), which is a separate component of stockholders' equity in the
Consolidated Balance Sheets. Transaction gains and losses that arise from
exchange rate fluctuations on transactions denominated in a currency other than
the functional currency are included in other income (expense), net in the
Consolidated Statements of Operations. Gains (losses) in fiscal 2004, 2003 and
2002 resulting from foreign currency transactions, net of gains or losses on
related foreign exchange forward contracts, approximated $0.3 million, ($0.4)
million and ($0.1) million, respectively. These net gains (losses) in fiscal
2004, 2003 and 2002 include gross gains of $0.5 million, $0.1 million and $0.2
million, respectively.
FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS
Cash and cash equivalents, marketable securities, accounts receivable,
accounts payable, accrued expenses and other current liabilities reported in the
Consolidated Balance Sheets equal or approximate their fair value due to their
short term to maturity.
The Company enters into foreign exchange forward contracts to minimize the
risks associated with foreign currency fluctuations on assets or liabilities
denominated in other than the functional currency of the Company or its
subsidiaries. These foreign exchange forward contracts are not accounted for as
hedges in accordance with SFAS No. 133, "Accounting for Derivative Investments
and Hedging Activities"; therefore, any changes in fair value of these contracts
are recorded in other income (expense), net in the Consolidated Statement of
Operations. These foreign exchange forward contracts are recorded on the
Consolidated Balance Sheet at fair value. The changes in fair value of these
contracts are highly inversely correlated to changes in the value of certain of
the Company's foreign currency-denominated assets and liabilities. At June 30,
2004 and June 30, 2003, the notional amounts of the Company's open foreign
exchange forward contracts, all with maturities of less than six months, were
approximately $8.2 million and $6.7 million, respectively.
COMPREHENSIVE INCOME
Comprehensive income comprises of net income (loss), foreign currency
translation adjustments and unrealized gains and losses on marketable securities
classified as available-for-sale.
NEW ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS
In April 2003, the Financial Accounting Standards Board ("FASB") issued SFAS
No. 149, "Amendment of Statement 133 on Derivative Instruments and Hedging
Activities." SFAS No. 149 amends and clarifies financial accounting and
reporting for derivative instruments and for hedging activities under SFAS No.
133 "Accounting for Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities." This
statement clarifies under what circumstances a contract with an initial net
investment meets the characteristic of a derivative discussed in SFAS No. 133,
clarifies when a derivative contains a financing component, conforms SFAS No.
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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS - (CONTINUED)
133 to language used in FASB Interpretation No. 45 and amends certain other
existing pronouncements. These changes are intended to result in more consistent
reporting of contracts as either derivatives or hybrid instruments. The
statement is generally effective for contracts entered into or modified after,
and for hedging relationships designated after, June 30, 2003. The adoption of
this statement did not have an impact on the Company's consolidated financial
statements.
In May 2003, the FASB issued SFAS No. 150, "Accounting for Certain Financial
Instruments with Characteristics of both Liabilities and Equity." SFAS No. 150
establishes standards for classifying certain financial instruments that
represent obligations, yet also have characteristics similar to equity
instruments. Specifically, SFAS No. 150 addresses the accounting for instruments
such as mandatory redeemable securities, certain option contracts and
obligations to be settled in shares. SFAS No. 150 is effective for interim
periods beginning after June 15, 2003. The adoption of this statement did not
have an impact on the Company's consolidated financial statements.
In March 2004, the FASB issued the exposure draft "Share-Based Payment." The
proposed statement would require all equity-based awards to employees to be
recognized in the Consolidated Statement of Operations based on their fair value
for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2004. The new standard, if
accepted in its present form, would apply to all awards granted, modified or
settled after the effective date. The Company believes the adoption of this
proposed statement will have a material effect on its consolidated financial
position and results of operations.
2. RESTRUCTURING AND OTHER CHARGES (CREDITS), NET
During the fourth quarter of fiscal 2003, the Company adopted a plan to
consolidate its probe development activities into its Chestnut Ridge, New York
facility. In connection with this plan, the Company closed its Beaverton, Oregon
facility and recorded lease termination costs of $0.3 million and a charge for
severance of $0.6 million ($0.1 million of which was recorded in cost of sales,
$0.6 million was recorded in selling, general and administrative expense and
$0.2 million was recorded in research and development expense). The
implementation of this plan resulted in headcount reductions of 27 employees or
approximately 7% of the workforce as compared to June 30, 2002. Final payments
for severance under this plan occurred in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2004. As
of June 30, 2004, $0.8 million of the total $0.9 million has been paid and $0.1
million remains in accrued expenses and other liabilities in the Consolidated
Balance Sheet. Lease termination costs under this plan will be paid by the end
of the third quarter of fiscal 2006.
During the first quarter of fiscal 2003, the Company adopted a plan to scale
down fixed infrastructure due to the difficult economic environment and to
implement new management operating systems designed to improve processes in
sales, order management, customer relationship management and financial
performance management. In connection with the adoption of this plan, the
Company recorded a charge for severance and other related expenses in the first
quarter of fiscal 2003 of $2.6 million ($2.1 million of which was recorded in
selling, general and administrative expense and $0.5 million was recorded in
research and development expense). The plan implemented during fiscal 2003
resulted in improved operating efficiencies and headcount reductions of 38
employees or approximately 9% of the workforce as compared to June 30, 2002. As
of June 30, 2004, $2.4 million of the total $2.6 million has been paid and $0.2
million remains in accrued expenses and other liabilities in the Consolidated
Balance Sheet. Severance and other related amounts under this plan will be paid
by the end of the second quarter of fiscal 2006.
The Company took steps during fiscal 2002 to reduce its expenses in response
to the continued weakness in the technology sector of the economy. As part of
this effort, LeCroy reduced its workforce by 69 employees or approximately 15%
as compared to June 30, 2001. In connection with these workforce reductions, the
Company recorded a $4.2 million charge ($1.0 million recorded in cost of sales,
$3.0 million in selling, general and administrative expense and $0.2 million in
research and development expense) for severance and related expenses, including
costs associated with the succession of the Company's Chief Executive Officer
during the second quarter of fiscal 2002. Of the $4.2 million total charge, $4.0
million was initially credited to accrued expenses and other liabilities and
$0.2 million, representing a non-cash expense for the amendment of employee
stock options, was credited to additional paid-in capital. As of December 31,
2003, the 2002 restructuring plan was completed. Cumulative through the
completion of this plan, $3.9 million of the total $4.0 million was paid and
$0.1 million of unused restructuring reserve was credited to selling, general
and administrative expense in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2003.
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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS - (CONTINUED)
3. DISCONTINUED OPERATIONS
In August 2000, the Company closed the sale of the assets and business of
its Vigilant Networks, Inc. ("Vigilant") subsidiary and a portion of the assets
and business of its Digitech Industries, Inc. ("Digitech") subsidiary for gross
proceeds of $12.0 million. The remaining business of Digitech was classified as
discontinued operations. The buyer also assumed certain liabilities of Vigilant.
In connection with the sale, the Company issued warrants to purchase 200,000
shares of LeCroy Common Stock at $10.05 per share to the buyer. Using the
Black-Scholes option pricing model, these warrants were valued at approximately
$1.3 million. After deducting the value of these warrants, along with fees and
certain retained liabilities, the Company recorded a loss of ($0.6) million, net
of a $0.3 million income tax benefit, on the sale and discontinuance of the
Vigilant Networks business segment. This includes a $1.4 million adjustment to
the loss recorded in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2001 due to changes in
estimates.
In fiscal 2004 and 2003, the Company recorded $0.1 million of gains on sales
of discontinued operations in the Consolidated Statements of Operations, net of
income tax provisions, for the reversal of unused accrued discontinued
operations reserves. In addition, the gain on sale of discontinued operations in
fiscal 2003 includes the sale of the residual assets and business of Digitech.
As of June 30, 2004, the Company has accrued discontinued operations reserves of
$0.2 due to environmental problems on Digitech's previously leased facilities
(see Note 20).
4. ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE, NET
The Company has agreements with two of its customers, who are also vendors,
that provide the Company with the legal right to offset outstanding accounts
receivable balances against outstanding accounts payable balances. At June 30,
2004 and 2003, the Company netted approximately $0.6 million and $1.7 million,
respectively, of accounts receivable against accounts payable on the
Consolidated Balance Sheets related to these agreements.
5. INVENTORIES
Inventories, including demonstration units in finished goods, are stated at
the lower of cost (first-in, first-out method) or market. Inventories consist of
the following:
JUNE 30,
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2004 2003
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Raw materials........................... $ 6,617 $ 6,372
Work in process......................... 4,544 5,696
Finished goods.......................... 10,817 12,652
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$ 21,978 $ 24,720
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The value of demonstration units included in finished goods was $8.0 million
and $9.1 million at June 30, 2004 and 2003, respectively. The Company's
demonstration units are held for sale and are sold regularly in the ordinary
course of business through its normal sales distribution channels and existing
customer base. The allowance for excess and obsolete inventory, included above,
amounted to $2.5 million and $2.1 million at June 30, 2004 and 2003,
respectively.
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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS - (CONTINUED)
6. OTHER CURRENT ASSETS
Other current assets consist of the following:
JUNE 30,
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2004 2003
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Deferred tax assets, net................ $ 7,400 $ 7,200
Other receivables....................... 511 560
Prepaid probes and accessories.......... 818 --
Value-added tax......................... 595 627
Other................................... 2,597 1,625
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$ 11,921 $ 10,012
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7. PROPERTY AND EQUIPMENT, NET
Property and equipment consist of the following:
JUNE 30,
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2004 2003
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Land, building and improvements......... $ 14,640 $ 13,288
Furniture, machinery and equipment...... 25,073 23,619
Computer software and hardware.......... 17,637 16,998
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57,350 53,905
Less: Accumulated depreciation and
amortization......................... (37,572) (33,884)
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$ 19,778 $ 20,021
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Depreciation and amortization expense for the fiscal years ended June 30,
2004, 2003 and 2002 was $5.0 million, $4.7 million and $4.3 million,
respectively.
8. OTHER ASSETS
Other assets consist of the following:
JUNE 30,
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2004 2003
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Intangibles, net........................ $ 5,802 $ 5,232
Deferred tax assets, net................ 4,771 7,934
Goodwill................................ 1,874 1,874
Other................................... 894 985
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$ 13,341 $ 16,025
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The following table reflects the gross carrying amount and accumulated
amortization of the Company's goodwill and intangible assets included in other
assets on the Consolidated Balance Sheets as of the dates indicated:
JUNE 30,
WEIGHTED -----------------------
AVERAGE LIVES 2004 2003
-------------- ---------- ----------
Amortizable intangible assets:
Technology, manufacturing and distribution rights............. 4.1 years $ 8,897 $ 7,010
Patents and other intangible assets........................... 4.4 years 661 661
Effect of currency translation on intangible assets........... 148 105
Accumulated amortization...................................... (3,904) (2,544)
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Net carrying amount............................................. $ 5,802 $ 5,232
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Non-amortizable intangible assets:
Goodwill...................................................... $ 1,874 $ 1,874
========== ==========
During the third quarter of fiscal 2003, the Company acquired a former
distributor in Singapore for $0.3 million in exchange for amounts due to the
Company. The purchase price allocation resulted in $0.3 million of goodwill.
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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS - (CONTINUED)
During the second quarter of fiscal 2003, the Company recorded a $2.1
million charge for the impairment of technology, manufacturing and distribution
rights and a $0.2 million charge for a related future royalty payment, both of
which are recorded in cost of sales. The impairment resulted from the Company's
strategic decision to exit certain older product lines and to make significant
changes to its manufacturing strategy to further improve operating efficiency.
The Company estimated the fair value of the impaired asset based on the present
value of forecasted future cash inflows using a discount rate commensurate with
its weighted average cost of capital.
Amortization expense for those intangible assets with finite lives was $1.4
million, $2.0 million and $1.7 million for fiscal 2004, 2003 and 2002,
respectively. The cost of technology, manufacturing and distribution rights
acquired is amortized primarily on the basis of the higher of units shipped over
the contract periods through June 2008 or on a straight-line basis. Management
estimates intangible assets amortization expense on a straight-line basis in
fiscal 2005 through 2008 will approximate $1.7 million, $1.4 million, $1.4
million, and $1.3 million, respectively.
9. ACCRUED EXPENSES AND OTHER LIABILITIES
Accrued expenses and other liabilities consist of the following:
JUNE 30,
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2004 2003
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Compensation and benefits...................................................... $ 5,022 $ 4,489
Income taxes................................................................... 2,938 2,595
Deferred license fee revenue, current portion.................................. 1,296 1,296
Warranty....................................................................... 1,247 1,235
Deferred revenue, current portion.............................................. 1,606 375
Retained liabilities from discontinued operations.............................. 160 456
Other.......................................................................... 2,285 1,797
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$ 14,554 $ 12,243
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10. WARRANTIES AND GUARANTEES
The following table is a reconciliation of the changes in the Company's
aggregate product warranty liability during the period ending June 30, 2004 and
2003:
JUNE 30,
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2004 2003 2002
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Balance at beginning of period................................... $ 1,235 $ 1,247 $ 1,529
Accruals for warranties issued during the period............... 1,366 1,160 688
Warranty costs incurred during the period...................... (1,354) (1,172) (970)
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Balance at end of period......................................... $ 1,247 $ 1,235 $ 1,247
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In connection with an agreement to license the Company's MAUI Instrument
Operating System technology entered into by the Company during the third quarter
of fiscal 2003, the Company agreed to indemnify the licensee against losses
arising from any third party claim against the licensee to the extent such claim
arose directly out of the infringement of a U.S. or Japanese patent by any
LeCroy software components delivered under the license agreement. As of June 30,
2004, there have been no claims under such indemnification provisions.
As is customary in the Test and Measurement industry, and as provided for by
local law in the U.S. and other jurisdictions, the Company's standard terms of
sale provide remedies to customers, such as defense, settlement, or payment of a
judgment for intellectual property claims related to the use of the Company's
products. Such indemnification provisions are accounted for in accordance with
SFAS No. 5, "Accounting for Contingencies." To date, there have been no claims
under such indemnification provisions.
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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS - (CONTINUED)
11. INCOME TAXES
The components of income (loss) from continuing operations before income
taxes are as follows:
YEARS ENDED
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JUNE 30,
2004 2003 2002
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Domestic......................................................... $ 10,546 $ (2,750) $ (10,569)
Foreign.......................................................... 2,032 (112) 13
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$ 12,578 $ (2,862) $ (10,556)
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The income tax (provision) benefit from continuing operations consists of
the following:
YEARS ENDED
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JUNE 30,
2004 2003 2002
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Current:
U.S. federal................................................... $ (36) $ -- $ 325
U.S. state and local........................................... (133) (93) (128)
Foreign........................................................ (421) (596) (356)
Deferred:
U.S. federal................................................... (3,554) 1,613 4,105
U.S. state and local........................................... (313) 135 361
Foreign........................................................ (196) -- --
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$ (4,653) $ 1,059 $ 4,307
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The reconciliations between the income tax (provision) benefit at the U.S.
federal statutory rate and the Company's effective tax rate from continuing
operations is as follows:
YEARS ENDED
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JUNE 30,
2004 2003 2002
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(Provision) benefit at U.S. federal statutory rate............... $ (4,402) $ 1,002 $ 3,695
(Increase) reduction to statutory tax from:
Difference between U.S. and foreign rates...................... 317 (336) (352)
Reversal of tax contingency reserve............................ -- -- 400
Adjustment of net tax assets................................... 40 524 644
State income taxes, net of federal benefit..................... (389) (61) (80)
(Increase) decrease in valuation allowance..................... (218) (145) --
Other, net..................................................... (1) 75 --
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Income tax (provision) benefit................................... $ (4,653) $ 1,059 $ 4,307
========= ========= =========
Significant components of the Company's net deferred tax assets as of
June 30, 2004 and 2003 were as follows:
JUNE 30,
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Deferred tax assets: 2004 2003
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U.S. net operating loss carryforwards................................... $ 6,478 $ 6,584
Foreign net operating loss carryforwards................................ 352 592
Tax credit carryforwards................................................ 6,239 6,407
Inventory reserves...................................................... 796 735
Deferred revenue........................................................ 1,045 1,552
Deferred research expenses.............................................. 3,004 3,434
Other reserves.......................................................... 2,191 3,349
---------- ----------
Deferred tax assets before valuation allowance........................ 20,105 22,653
Valuation allowance..................................................... (5,304) (5,086)
---------- ----------
Deferred tax assets after valuation allowance........................ 14,801 17,567
---------- ----------
Deferred tax liabilities:
Unrepatriated funds .................................................... (1,622) (1,622)
Depreciation and amortization........................................... (885) (749)
Other................................................................... (123) (62)
---------- ----------
Deferred tax liabilities................................................ (2,630) (2,433)
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Net deferred tax assets............................................. $ 12,171 $ 15,134
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LeCROY CORPORATION
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS - (CONTINUED)
At June 30, 2004 and 2003, $7.4 million and $7.2 million, respectively, of
the Company's net deferred tax assets were included on the Consolidated Balance
Sheets in other current assets, with the remaining $4.8 million and $7.9
million, respectively, included in other assets.
The Company is required to recognize all or a portion of its net deferred
tax assets if it believes that it is more likely than not, given the weight of
all available evidence, that all or a portion of its net deferred tax assets
will be realized. Management assesses the realizability of the net deferred tax
assets at each interim and annual balance sheet date based on actual and
forecasted operating results. The Company assessed both its positive and
negative evidence to determine the proper amount of its required valuation
allowance, including the fact that the losses generated from the Company's
discontinued operations, as well as certain non-recurring restructuring charges,
principally resulted in the Company's cumulative net operating loss for
financial reporting purposes. Management believes that the actions taken to
improve the Company's operating performance will result in future projected
operating profits. Moreover, certain tax strategies are available, which include
the ability to capitalize research and development expenditures, that could be
implemented, if necessary, to supplement income from operations to fully realize
the net recorded tax benefits before their expiration. Other factors considered
include the Company's current utilization of net operating loss carryforwards as
well as management's projection that, as a result of the past cost-cutting
initiatives and new product offerings, the Company fully expects to utilize the
net operating loss carryforwards in the next couple of years, well before the
initial expiration period in fiscal 2019. A valuation allowance has been
established for certain tax credits and foreign net operating loss carryforwards
due to the uncertainty surrounding the utilization of these deferred tax assets.
As such, management believes that it is more likely than not that the Company
will realize the benefits of these deductible differences, net of the valuation
allowance. Management will continue to assess the realizability of the deferred
tax assets at each interim and annual balance sheet date based on actual and
forecasted operating results.
Historically, it has been the practice of the Company to reinvest unremitted
earnings of foreign subsidiaries. During the fourth quarter of fiscal 2001,
however, the Company determined that it would repatriate approximately $7.0
million in future periods from one of its foreign subsidiaries. The Company
believes repatriation of these earnings will result in additional taxes in the
amount of $1.6 million and has provided for that amount in the fiscal 2001 tax
provision. The cumulative amount of all other undistributed earnings of
consolidated foreign subsidiaries, for which U.S. federal income tax has not
been provided, was $25.6 million and $22.1 million at June 30, 2004 and 2003,
respectively. These earnings, which reflect full provision for non-U.S. income
taxes, are anticipated to be reinvested permanently outside the United States.
Determining the U.S. income tax liability that might result if these earnings
were remitted is not practicable.
At June 30, 2004, the Company has U.S. net operating loss carryforwards of
approximately $26.8 million available to offset future taxable income. The
carryforwards begin to expire at various dates starting in 2019 through 2023.
Foreign tax net operating losses of approximately $1.0 million at June 30, 2004
are available to offset future taxable income of certain foreign subsidiaries.
Those foreign losses that begin to expire at various dates starting in 2008 are
$0.5 million and those that do not expire are $0.5 million. The Company has
approximately $1.0 million of foreign tax credits, $1.4 million of state tax
credits and $3.8 million of federal general business credits available to offset
future payments of income taxes. The foreign, state and federal general tax
credits expire at various dates between 2005 and 2022.
12. DEBT
On November 13, 2003, the Company amended its existing $15.0 million
revolving credit facility with The Bank of New York. The amended agreement
provides the Company with a $25.0 million revolving credit facility expiring on
November 30, 2006, which can be used to provide funds for general corporate
purposes and acquisitions. Borrowings under this line bear interest at prime
plus a margin not to exceed 1.00%, or at the London Interbank Offering Rate
(LIBOR) plus a margin of between 1.25% and 2.25%, depending on the Company's
leverage ratio, as such term is defined in the credit agreement. A commitment
fee of 0.375% per annum is payable on any unused amount under the facility. This
revolving line of credit is secured by a lien on substantially all of the
domestic assets of the Company. As of June 30, 2004, the Company was in
compliance with its financial covenant requirements and there were no borrowings
outstanding under this line of credit.
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The Company has a five year $2.0 million capital lease line of credit
expiring in November 2005, that bears interest at 12.2%, to fund certain capital
expenditures. As of June 30, 2004 and 2003, the Company had $0.2 million and
$0.3 million, respectively, outstanding under this line of credit. The
outstanding borrowings under this line will be repaid by November 2005.
In addition to the above U.S.-based facilities, the Company maintains
certain short-term foreign credit facilities, principally facilities with two
Japanese banks totaling 150 million yen ($1.4 million and $1.3 million as of
June 30, 2004 and 2003, respectively). No amounts were outstanding under these
facilities as of June 30, 2004 and 2003.
Interest expense included in other (expense) income, net in the Consolidated
Statements of Operations was $0.2 million in fiscal 2004, $0.1 million in fiscal
2003 and $0.2 million in fiscal 2002.
13. STOCK COMPENSATION PLANS
STOCK OPTION PLANS
The Company maintains three stock option plans, the Amended and Restated
1993 Stock Incentive Plan ("1993 Plan"), the 1998 Non-Employee Director Stock
Option Plan ("1998 Plan") and the 2003 Stock Incentive Plan ("2003 Plan").
On October 29, 2003, the Company's shareholders approved the 2003 Plan. The
2003 Plan provides for the grant of incentive stock options, nonqualified stock
options and restricted stock awards to employees (including officers and
employee directors) and consultants. Unless approved by stockholders owning a
majority of shares present and entitled to vote at a duly convened meeting of
stockholders of the Company, the purchase price of any option granted under the
2003 Plan may not be less than 100% of the fair value on the date of grant. The
aggregate number of shares of Common Stock that may be issued or transferred
pursuant to options or restricted stock awards under the 2003 Plan shall not
exceed 910,167 shares. The Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors
administers the 2003 Plan and has the authority to determine the terms of such
options or awards including the number of shares, exercise or purchase prices
and times at which the options become and remain exercisable or restricted stock
is no longer restricted. The 2003 Plan expires on October 29, 2013.
The 1993 Plan expired on January 4, 2003. All options outstanding under the
1993 Plan at the time of its expiration will continue in full force and effect
in accordance with their terms. No more than 2,608,696 shares of Common Stock
were allowed to be issued pursuant to the exercise of incentive stock options
granted under the 1993 Plan. This limitation did not apply to non-qualified
stock options or restricted stock awards that were granted under the 1993 Plan.
The vesting period and expiration of each grant was determined by the
Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors. In general, the vesting period
is 25% per annum over a four-year period, or 50% after the second year and 25%
for the third and fourth years. The lives of the options are generally ten years
from the date of grant.
Compensation expense for restricted stock awards is recognized based on the
intrinsic value method defined by APB No. 25. Compensation expense is recognized
ratably over the associated service period, the period in which restrictions are
removed. On June 16, 2004, 365,000 shares of restricted stock were granted under
the 2003 Plan with long-term cliff vesting conditions to certain key employees.
During fiscal 2002, 17,210 shares of restricted stock were granted under the
1993 Plan of which 840 shares are unvested as of June 30, 2004.
In October 1998, the Board of Directors and stockholders terminated the 1995
Non-Employee Director Stock Option Plan ("1995 Plan") and adopted the 1998 Plan.
As of June 30, 2004, stock options to purchase 2,571 shares of Common Stock
issued pursuant to the 1995 Plan are outstanding and fully vested. Pursuant to
the 1998 Plan, each non-employee director receives a stock option grant of
15,000 shares exercisable at the market price on the date the plan was adopted
or upon initial election to the Board of Directors. These options vest ratably
over a 36-month period. Additionally, each non-employee director receives an
annual stock option grant of 7,000 shares (5,000 shares prior to an amendment
dated October 25, 2000) exercisable at the market price on the date of grant.
These options vest immediately. A total of 500,000 shares of Common Stock can be
issued during the term of the 1998 Plan.
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Stock option transactions for fiscal years 2004, 2003 and 2002 under all
plans are as follows:
NUMBER OF EXERCISE PRICE PER WEIGHTED AVERAGE
SHARES SHARE EXERCISE PRICE
--------- ------------------ ----------------
Outstanding at June 30, 2001......................... 2,271,783 $ 6.33 - $37.00 $ 16.85
Granted.............................................. 678,228 10.24 - 23.49 17.15
Exercised............................................ (102,498) 6.33 - 17.50 11.67
Cancelled............................................ (170,422) 6.33 - 23.50 17.56
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Outstanding at June 30, 2002......................... 2,677,091 6.33 - 37.00 17.15
Granted.............................................. 440,250 9.10 - 11.70 10.51
Exercised............................................ (17,057) 6.33 - 6.33 6.33
Cancelled............................................ (311,340) 9.20 - 32.25 18.49
---------
Outstanding at June 30, 2003......................... 2,788,944 6.33 - 37.00 16.02
Granted.............................................. 104,000 16.45 - 19.89 17.23
Exercised............................................ (439,785) 6.33 - 20.50 11.00
Cancelled............................................ (113,512) 10.15 - 23.69 18.22
---------
Outstanding at June 30, 2004......................... 2,339,647 $6.33 - $37.00 $ 16.91
=========
The following table summarizes information about stock options outstanding
at June 30, 2004:
OPTIONS OUTSTANDING AT OPTIONS EXERCISABLE AT
JUNE 30, 2004 JUNE 30, 2004
------------------------------------------- -----------------------
WEIGHTED WEIGHTED AVERAGE WEIGHTED
AVERAGE REMAINING AVERAGE
NUMBER OF EXERCISE CONTRACTUAL LIFE NUMBER OF EXERCISE
RANGE SHARES PRICE (YEARS) SHARES PRICE
------------------ ---------- -------- ---------------- ----------- ---------
$ 6.33 - $12.00.......................... 431,250 $ 10.28 7.81 130,110 $ 9.89
$12.01 - $18.00.......................... 999,859 15.27 5.41 893,360 15.22
$18.01 - $24.00.......................... 847,637 21.33 5.09 692,488 21.56
$24.01 - $37.00.......................... 60,901 29.12 3.97 55,901 29.49
--------- ---------
Total.................................. 2,339,647 $ 16.91 5.69 1,771,859 $ 17.76
========= =========
Of the total stock options outstanding, 1,771,859, 1,921,861 and 1,642,530
were exercisable at June 30, 2004, 2003 and 2002, respectively. Stock options
and restricted stock awards available for grant under all plans were 723,587,
266,000 and 955,114 at June 30, 2004, 2003 and 2002, respectively.
EMPLOYEE STOCK PURCHASE PLAN
In July 1995, the Company adopted the 1995 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (the
"ESPP") and reserved for issuance an aggregate of 434,783 shares of Common
Stock. The purpose of the ESPP is twofold: first, to encourage stock ownership
by employees by establishing a program that permits them to purchase shares of
Common Stock on a regular basis through payroll deductions; and second, to offer
employees an opportunity, without adverse tax consequences, to purchase stock at
a price equal to 85% of the market value on the first or last business day of
the offering period.
On October 29, 2003, the Company's shareholders approved the extension of
the expiration of the ESPP from June 7, 2005 to November 30, 2006 and increased
the number of shares available for issuance under the ESPP from 434,783 to
684,783. Through June 30, 2004, 436,299 shares have been issued under the ESPP
and 248,484 shares are available for future issuance.
14. COMMON STOCK
On April 14, 2004, the Company closed an underwritten public follow-on
offering of 500,000 shares of its common stock at $19.00 per share (less the
underwriting discount) raising aggregate net proceeds of approximately $8.0
million, net of $1.1 million in offering costs and expenses. The Company granted
the underwriters an option to purchase up to an additional 225,000 shares of
common stock included in the offering to cover over-allotments, if any, within
30 days of the closing. On April 27, 2004, pursuant to the exercise of this
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over-allotment option, the Company sold an additional 225,000 shares at $19.00
per share (less the underwriting discount), raising additional net proceeds of
$4.1 million, net of expenses. On April 23, 2004, the Company used $4.0 million
of proceeds from this offering to repay $4.0 million of indebtedness outstanding
under its revolving credit facility.
15. EARNINGS PER COMMON SHARE
Basic earnings per share is based on the weighted effect of all common
shares issued and outstanding, and is calculated by dividing net income (loss)
applicable to common stockholders by the weighted average shares outstanding
during the period. Diluted earnings per share is calculated by dividing net
income (loss) applicable to common stockholders by the weighted average number
of common shares used in the basic earnings per share calculation plus the
number of common shares that would be issued assuming exercise or conversion of
all potentially dilutive common shares outstanding. The Company excludes
potential common stock from the calculation of diluted weighted average shares
outstanding if the effect of including such instruments is anti-dilutive to
earnings per share. Accordingly, certain potential common stock have been
excluded from the calculation of diluted weighted average shares totaling 1.1
million, 3.6 million, and 3.5 million shares during fiscal 2004, 2003 and 2002,
respectively. Potential common stock is comprised of restricted shares, employee
and non-employee director stock options and warrants to purchase common stock
and in fiscal 2003 and 2002 convertible redeemable preferred stock. The
following table sets forth the reconciliation of the numerators and the
denominators of the basic and diluted earnings per share computation for each of
the past three fiscal years:
YEARS ENDED JUNE 30,
-------------------------------------
2004 2003 2002
--------- ----------- ----------
IN THOUSANDS, EXCEPT PER SHARE DATA
Numerator:
Income (loss) from continuing operations............................ $ 7,925 $ (1,803) $ (6,249)
Charges related to convertible preferred stock...................... -- 2,069 1,876
Redemption of convertible preferred stock........................... 7,665 -- --
--------- ----------- ----------
Net income (loss) from continuing operations applicable
to common stockholders....................................... $ 260 $ (3,872) $ (8,125)
========= =========== ==========
Denominator:
Weighted average shares outstanding:
Basic ....................................................... 10,754 10,364 10,052
Employee stock options and other............................. 320 -- --
--------- ----------- ----------
Diluted...................................................... 11,074 10,364 10,052
========= =========== ==========
16. STOCKHOLDER RIGHTS PLAN
On November 2, 1998, the Company's Board of Directors declared a dividend
distribution of one right in respect to each share of LeCroy's Common Stock
outstanding at the record date, November 18, 1998. Initially, the rights will
trade together with the Common Stock and will not be exercisable or separately
tradable. The rights will be exercisable if a person or group acquires, in the
future, 15% or more of the Company's stock or announces a tender offer. Right
holders, other than the acquiring person or group, are then entitled to purchase
an amount of the Company's stock at a 50% discount to the share price at that
time. The amount of stock that a right holder is entitled to purchase is based
on the exercise price. Under certain circumstances, the right will entitle the
stockholder to buy shares in an acquiring entity at a discount.
The Board of Directors may redeem the rights at a price of $0.001 per right
up until 10 days following a public announcement that any person or group has
acquired 15% or more of LeCroy's Common Stock. The rights will expire on
November 2, 2008, unless redeemed prior to that date.
17. REDEEMABLE CONVERTIBLE PREFERRED STOCK
On June 30, 1999 (the "Closing"), the Company completed a private placement
of 500,000 shares of its redeemable convertible preferred stock for proceeds of
$10.0 million. The shares of preferred stock were entitled to a 12% cumulative
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dividend on the original purchase price of $10.0 million, with redemption rights
beginning on June 30, 2004 at the sole discretion of the holders of such shares.
In connection with the private placement, the Company issued warrants to
purchase 250,000 shares of Common Stock at an exercise price of $20 per share.
On the closing date, the Company used the Black-Scholes option-pricing model to
assign an aggregate value of $1.8 million to the warrants. As such, $1.8 million
of the $10.0 million proceeds was allocated to warrants to purchase common stock
and the remaining $8.2 million was allocated to redeemable convertible preferred
stock. Prior to fiscal 2004, the accretion of the value assigned to the warrants
was recorded as a non-cash charge to net income of approximately $0.4 million
per year in arriving at net income (loss) applicable to common stockholders.
On September 27, 2003, the Company repurchased from the holders of its
redeemable convertible preferred stock all 500,000 issued and outstanding shares
for $23.0 million in cash. In connection with the repurchase of preferred stock,
the Company recorded a charge of approximately $7.7 million to stockholders'
equity representing the premium paid to the holders of its preferred stock ($1.0
million charged to retained earnings and $6.7 million charged to additional
paid-in capital) and recognized transaction costs of $0.4 million included in
other income (expense), net in the Consolidated Statements of Operations. In
accordance with the Securities and Exchange Commission's position published in
an EITF Topic No. D-42 relating to induced conversions of preferred stock, the
Company recorded the $7.7 million premium paid to purchase the preferred stock
as a charge to arrive at net income applicable to common stockholders in fiscal
2004.
The Company and the holders of its preferred stock agreed that the final
repurchase of preferred stock would be negotiated as though the transaction had
occurred at the beginning of the first quarter of fiscal 2004. As a result, the
Company accounted for the transaction as though no dividends had accrued in
fiscal 2004 and that the charge for the value originally attributed to the
warrants at the point of issue that remained unaccreted at the time of
redemption was accelerated and combined with the redemption premium to reflect
the total charge related to the redemption of convertible preferred stock in the
Consolidated Statement of Operations.
18. EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLANS
The Company has a trusteed, employee 401(k) savings plan for eligible U.S.
employees under which it contributes an unconditional match of up to 50% of
employee contributions up to a maximum employer contribution of 5% of the
employee's eligible compensation, as defined. For fiscal 2004, 2003, and 2002,
the Company has expensed $0.4 million, $0.4 million and $0.3 million,
respectively, in matching contributions to this plan.
The Company's subsidiary in Switzerland maintains a defined contribution
plan, which requires employee contributions based upon a percentage of the
employee's earnings, as defined, currently ranging from 2.0% to 6.5%. The
Company makes a matching contribution based also upon a percentage of the
employee's earnings, as defined, currently ranging from 6.5% to 14.0%. For
fiscal 2004, 2003, and 2002, the Company has expensed $0.4 million, $0.3 million
and $0.3 million, respectively, in matching contributions to this plan.
19. SEGMENT AND GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION
The Company operates in the oscilloscope segment of the Test and Measurement
market, in which it develops, manufactures, sells and licenses oscilloscopes and
related test and measurement equipment. These products are used by design
engineers and researchers and are sold into a broad range of end markets,
including the computer and semiconductor, data storage devices, automotive and
industrial, and military and aerospace markets.
Revenues are attributed to countries based on customer ship-to addresses.
Revenues by geographic area are as follows:
2004 2003 2002
-------- -------- --------
North America..................... $ 38,276 $ 32,394 $ 33,052
Europe / Middle East.............. 37,716 31,171 33,056
Japan............................. 19,574 17,038 22,050
Asia / Pacific.................... 29,374 27,256 23,298
-------- -------- --------
Total revenues.................. $124,940 $107,859 $111,456
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Total assets by geographic area are as follows:
2004 2003
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North America............................... $ 90,213 $ 89,500
Europe / Middle East........................ 29,324 23,648
Japan....................................... 6,862 5,332
Asia / Pacific.............................. 3,394 3,672
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$ 129,793 $ 122,152
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Total long-lived assets by geographic area are as follows:
2004 2003
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North America............................... $ 25,899 $ 25,398
Europe / Middle East........................ 1,379 1,513
Japan....................................... 632 737
Asia / Pacific.............................. 438 464
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$ 28,348 $ 28,112
=========== ===========
Revenue derived from one customer, Iwatsu, accounted for 11% of the
Company's consolidated revenues in fiscal 2002. No other customer accounted for
more than 10% of the Company's consolidated revenues in any of the last three
fiscal years.
Revenue attributable to individual countries based on customer ship-to
addresses that account for 10% or more of total revenues in fiscal 2004 include
the United States ($37.3 million), Japan ($19.6 million) and Germany ($15.9
million); in fiscal 2003 include the United States ($31.7 million), Japan ($17.0
million) and Germany ($11.0 million); and in fiscal 2002 include the United
States ($32.4 million), Japan ($22.1 million) and Germany ($11.8 million).
20. COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES
LEASES
Operating leases covering plant, certain office facilities and equipment
expire at various dates through 2010. Future minimum annual lease payments
required during the years ending in fiscal 2005 through 2009 and thereafter,
under noncancelable operating leases having an original term of more than one
year, are $1.7 million, $1.2 million, $0.9 million, $0.6 million, $0.1 million
and $0.2 million, respectively. Aggregate rental expense on noncancelable
operating leases for the years ended June 30, 2004, 2003 and 2002 approximated
$2.1 million, $2.0 million and $1.9 million, respectively.
ENVIRONMENTAL
The Company's former subsidiary, Digitech Industries, Inc., was notified
prior to 1999 by the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection (the
"DEP") that it may be responsible for environmental damage that occurred at its
previously leased facilities in Ridgefield, Connecticut (the "Ridgefield Site").
Based upon recommendations made by the DEP, Digitech engaged environmental
consultants to assist it in evaluating the costs associated with the DEP's
recommendations for monitoring and remediation of the environmental damage.
In May 1999, LeCroy, Digitech Industries, Inc. and the former owners of the
Ridgefield Site entered into an agreement with the current owners of the
Ridgefield Site. The current owners have purchased an insurance policy providing
for $2.0 million of coverage against certain environmental liabilities related
to the Ridgefield Site. This insurance policy names both LeCroy and Digitech as
insured parties. The current owners of the Ridgefield Site have also agreed to
remediate all environmental problems associated with the property and to obtain
all applicable approvals and certifications from the DEP. The current owners of
the Ridgefield Site have also agreed to hold both LeCroy and Digitech Industries
harmless in the event of a claim made against them relating to these
environmental matters. In return for the above, forty-five days after the DEP
has provided written notification to the Company that the site remediation has
been accomplished to its satisfaction, the Company agreed to pay the former
owners of the Ridgefield Site $0.2 million as compensation for the reduced sale
value of the property due to the environmental problems existing on the site.
The Company has retained this liability after the sale of the Vigilant segment
and the residual assets of Digitech.
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TECHNOLOGY
As of June 30, 2004, the Company has one technology license agreement under
which it is unconditionally committed to pay $0.3 million in fiscal 2005.
LEGAL
On April 28, 2003, Tektronix, Inc. ("Tektronix") filed a complaint against
the Company in the United States District Court for the District of Oregon
claiming that the Company infringed on eight of Tektronix' U.S. patents. In the
Company's responsive pleading, the Company denied that it has infringed, or is
infringing, any of these patents, and contends that the patents are invalid.
Four of these patents concern software user interface features for
oscilloscopes, two concern circuitry and two concern probes. On August 5, 2003,
the Company filed a counterclaim in the United States District Court for the
District of Oregon claiming that Tektronix is infringing three of the Company's
patents. The Company believes it has meritorious defenses and intends to defend
this action vigorously. Discovery in this case is ongoing and the outcome cannot
be predicted.
On January 15, 2003, LeCroy was sued by Sicom Systems ("Sicom") in the
United States District Court for the District of Delaware for patent
infringement of a U.S. patent relating to the graphical display of test limits.
LeCroy answered the complaint denying infringement and asserted a counterclaim
alleging the invalidity of the patent and that Sicom had abused the judicial
process by bringing a baseless patent infringement claim. On July 16, 2003,
LeCroy filed a Motion to Dismiss Sicom's case, contending that Sicom did not
have standing to bring the litigation. On November 20, 2003, the Court granted
LeCroy's Motion to Dismiss. On December 18, 2003, Sicom filed a Notice of Appeal
to the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. On December 30,
2003, Sicom filed a new patent infringement lawsuit against LeCroy in the United
States District Court for the District of Delaware. Tektronix and Agilent
Technologies are also co-defendants in this new litigation. The complaint in
this new case is essentially the same as the complaint filed by Sicom on January
15, 2003, except that Sicom now states that it entered into an amendment to its
license agreement with the Canadian government on December 19, 2003, and that
Sicom now has the exclusive right to bring suit for infringement of the patent
in the United States. On January 5, 2004, Sicom filed a Notice and Order of
Dismissal of Appeal of its appeal to the Court of Appeals for the Federal
Circuit and the Order was entered on the following day. In LeCroy's responsive
pleading, LeCroy has denied that it has infringed, or is infringing, the patent,
and contends that the patent is invalid. LeCroy intends to defend itself
vigorously in this litigation. The defendants in this case, including us, have
filed a Motion to Dismiss for lack of standing. The Motion contends that Sicom's
amended license agreement with Canada does not cure the standing defects that
caused the Court to dismiss the original lawsuit. The Court has stayed the case
pending resolution of the new Motion to Dismiss and the outcome cannot be
predicted.
From time to time, the Company is involved in other lawsuits, claims,
investigations and proceedings, including patent and environmental matters,
which arise in the ordinary course of business. There are no matters pending
that the Company expects to have a material adverse impact on its business,
results of operations, financial condition or cash flows.
21. RELATED PARTY
On October 20, 2000, the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors
approved a $0.3 million five-year loan to Thomas H. Reslewic, LeCroy's Chief
Executive Officer and President, secured by Mr. Reslewic's non-qualified stock
options. The loan accrues interest at 9.5% compounded annually with interest
payable at the maturity of the loan. If Mr. Reslewic remains an employee of
LeCroy for the entire five-year term of the loan or is terminated without cause
prior to the maturity date of the loan, the Company will forgive the loan
principal and all accrued interest. The outstanding balance under this loan at
June 30, 2004 and 2003 was $0.1 million.
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22. UNAUDITED QUARTERLY RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
The Company has periods ending on the Saturday closest to the end of the
month. For clarity of presentation, period-ends are stated as of the last day of
the month. Summarized unaudited quarterly operating results for fiscal years
2004 and 2003 (all quarters represent 13-week periods) are as follows:
QUARTERS ENDED
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FISCAL YEAR 2004 FISCAL YEAR 2003
------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------
JUNE. 30, MAR. 31, DEC. 31, SEPT. 30, JUNE. 30, MAR. 31, DEC. 31, SEPT. 30,
2004 2004 2003 2003 2003 2003 2002 2002
-------- -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- --------
(IN THOUSANDS, EXCEPT FOR PER SHARE DATA)
Revenues(1)
Oscilloscopes and related products $ 31,830 $ 29,968 $ 27,019 $ 24,605 $ 27,144 $ 21,009 $ 24,382 $ 22,473
Service and other................. 3,090 2,862 2,752 2,814 2,551 5,527 2,255 2,518
-------- -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- --------
Total revenues.................. 34,920 32,830 29,771 27,419 29,695 26,536 26,637 24,991
Cost of sales(2)(5)................. 14,420 13,684 12,691 11,799 12,518 11,401 14,755 12,315
-------- -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- --------
Gross profit.................... 20,500 19,146 17,080 15,620 17,177 15,135 11,882 12,676
Selling, general and
administrative expenses(3)(5)..... 12,312 11,429 10,335 9,921 11,413 9,629 9,615 10,765
Research and development
expenses(4)....................... 4,175 4,120 3,781 3,684 4,689 4,667 4,358 4,512
-------- -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- --------
Operating income (loss)......... 4,013 3,597 2,964 2,015 1,075 839 (2,091) (2,601)
Other income (expense), net......... 84 147 80 (322) 77 (10) (47) (104)
-------- -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- --------
Income (loss) from continuing
operations before income taxes 4,097 3,744 3,044 1,693 1,152 829 (2,138) (2,705)
Provision for (benefit from)
income taxes.................... 1,516 1,385 1,126 626 426 307 (791) (1,001)
-------- -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- --------
Income (loss) from continuing
operations...................... 2,581 2,359 1,918 1,067 726 522 (1,347) (1,704)
Gain on sale from discontinued
operations, net of tax............ 119 -- -- -- 129 -- -- --
-------- -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- --------
Net income (loss)............... 2,700 2,359 1,918 1,067 855 522 (1,347) (1,704)
Charges related to convertible
preferred stock................... -- -- -- 7,665 519 518 517 515
-------- -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- --------
Net income (loss) applicable to
common stockholders............... $ 2,700 $ 2,359 $ 1,918 $ (6,598) $ 336 $ 4 $ (1,864) $ (2,219)
======== ======== ======== ======== ======== ======== ======== ========
Income (loss) per common share-basic:
Income (loss) from continuing
operations applicable to
common stockholders............. $ 0.23 $ 0.22 $ 0.18 $ (0.63) $ 0.02 $ -- $ (0.18) $ (0.21)
Gain from discontinued operations. 0.01 -- -- -- 0.01 -- -- --
-------- -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- --------
Net income (loss) applicable to
common stockholders............. $ 0.24 $ 0.22 $ 0.18 $ (0.63) $ 0.03 $ -- $ (0.18) $ (0.21)
======== ======== ======== ======== ======== ======== ======== ========
Income (loss) per common share-
diluted:
Income (loss) from continuing
operations applicable to
common stockholders............. $ 0.22 $ 0.21 $ 0.18 $ (0.63) $ 0.02 $ -- $ (0.18) $ (0.21)
Gain from discontinued
operations...................... 0.01 -- -- -- 0.01 -- -- --
-------- -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- --------
Net income (loss) applicable to
common stockholders............. $ 0.23 $ 0.21 $ 0.18 $ (0.63) $ 0.03 $ -- $ (0.18) $ (0.21)
======== ======== ======== ======== ======== ======== ======== ========
Weighted average number of shares:
Basic............................. 11,387 10,721 10,498 10,414 10,392 10,348 10,340 10,323
Diluted........................... 11,807 11,271 10,690 10,414 10,439 10,404 10,340 10,323
__________
(1) Included in service and other revenue for each of the four quarters in
fiscal 2004 and 2003, is $0.3 million related to the recognition of deferred
revenue associated with the adoption of SAB 101. In the quarter ended March
31, 2003, service and other revenue include a $3.0 million agreement to
license the Company's MAUI Instrument Operating System technology.
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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS - (CONTINUED)
(2) Included in cost of sales in the quarter ended June 30, 2003 is a severance
charge of $0.1 million. Included in cost of sales in the quarter ended
December 31, 2002 is $2.3 million of asset impairment charges.
(3) Included in selling, general and administrative expense are severance
charges of $0.3 million and $2.1 million for the quarters ended June 30,
2003 and September 30, 2002, respectively. Severance charges during the
quarters ended December 31, 2003 and June 30, 2003 were partially offset by
the reversal of an unused 2002 restructuring reserve of $0.1 million. During
the quarter ended June 30, 2003, the Company adopted a plan to consolidate
its probe development activities into its Chestnut Ridge, New York facility.
In connection with this plan, the Company closed its Beaverton, Oregon
facility and recorded lease termination costs of $0.3 million
(4) Included in research and development expense in the quarters ended June 30,
2003 and September 30, 2002 are severance charges of $0.2 million and $0.5
million, respectively.
(5) Certain prior year amounts have been reclassified from cost of sales to
selling, general and administrative expense to conform to fiscal 2004
presentation. These reclassifications had no impact on previously reported
net loss (income).
23. SUBSEQUENT EVENT
On September 1, 2004, the Company entered into an agreement to acquire 100%
of the outstanding common stock of Computer Access Technology Corporation
("CATC") for $6.00 per share in a purchase business combination. Under the terms
of the agreement, the Company also will pay additional cash to the holders of
CATC's outstanding, vested in-the-money stock options. In addition, the Company
will issue stock options to assume CATC's outstanding unvested stock options. As
a result, the Company expects the total purchase price of the transaction to be
approximately $85 million, excluding CATC's $45 million of cash and investments.
The Company intends to fund the cash requirement of approximately $81
million, through a combination of its existing cash and $50 million of term
debt, which is part of a $75 million credit facility to be underwritten by the
Bank of New York. The transaction is subject to approval by the stockholders of
CATC and the closing of a new credit facility to finance the acquisition, as
well as regulatory approvals and the satisfaction of other customary closing
conditions.
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SCHEDULE II
LeCROY CORPORATION
VALUATION AND QUALIFYING ACCOUNTS
YEARS ENDED JUNE 30, 2004, 2003 AND 2002
(IN THOUSANDS)
BALANCE AT CHARGED TO BALANCE AT
BEGINNING COSTS AND DEDUCTIONS/ END OF
DESCRIPTION OF PERIOD EXPENSES OTHER(1)(2) PERIOD
- ------------- ---------- ---------- ------------ ----------
Against trade receivables --
Year ended June 30, 2002
Allowance for doubtful accounts........ $ 241 $ 301 $ (120) $ 422
Year ended June 30, 2003
Allowance for doubtful accounts........ 422 177 (205) 394
Year ended June 30, 2004
Allowance for doubtful accounts........ 394 56 (14) 436
Against inventories --
Year ended June 30, 2002
Allowance for excess and obsolete...... 3,633 3,851(3) (5,981) 1,503
Year ended June 30, 2003
Allowance for excess and obsolete...... 1,503 924 (320) 2,107
Year ended June 30, 2004
Allowance for excess and obsolete...... 2,107 911 (498) 2,520
Against deferred tax assets --
Year ended June 30, 2002
Valuation allowance.................... 4,296 644 -- 4,940
Year ended June 30, 2003
Valuation allowance.................... 4,940 146 -- 5,086
Year ended June 30, 2004
Valuation allowance.................... 5,086 218 -- 5,304
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(1) Accounts written-off.
(2) Merchandise disposals and/or impact of foreign currency.
(3) Includes $3.6 million of excess and obsolete inventory charges related to
the cost of inventory associated with discontinued product lines and
inventory levels that had been deemed to be in excess of forecasted
requirements in fiscal 2002.
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ITEM 9. CHANGES IN AND DISAGREEMENTS WITH ACCOUNTANTS ON ACCOUNTING AND
FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE.
None
ITEM 9A. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES.
The Company, under the supervision and with the participation of its
management, including the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer,
evaluated the effectiveness of the design and operation of the Company's
"disclosure controls and procedures" (as defined in Rule 13a-15(e) under the
Exchange Act) as of the end of the period covered by this report. Based on that
evaluation, the Chief Executive Officer and the Chief Financial Officer
concluded that the Company's disclosure controls and procedures are effective in
timely making known to them material information relating to the Company and the
Company's consolidated subsidiaries required to be disclosed in the Company's
reports filed or submitted under the Exchange Act.
There have not been any changes in the Company's internal control over
financial reporting during the quarter ended June 30, 2004 that have materially
affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, its internal control
over financial reporting.
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PART III
ITEM 10. DIRECTORS AND EXECUTIVE OFFICERS OF THE REGISTRANT.
Information with respect to our directors and with respect to Item 405
disclosure of delinquent Form 3, 4 or 5 filers will be contained in the section
captioned "Section 16(A) Beneficial Ownership Reporting Compliance" of the
Definitive Proxy Statement relating to our 2004 Annual Meeting of Stockholders,
which is scheduled to be held October 27, 2004; said information is incorporated
herein by reference. The discussion of our executive officers is included in
Item 1, Part I of this report under "Executive Officers of the Registrant."
The Company has adopted a code of ethics entitled "Revised Principles of
Business Conduct Policy," which applies to its officers, directors and
employees. A copy is available to any person without charge upon written request
to:
LeCroy Corporation
Attention: Investor Relations
700 Chestnut Ridge Road
Chestnut Ridge, New York 10977
ITEM 11. EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION.
A description of the compensation of our executive officers will be
contained in the section captioned "Executive Compensation" of the Definitive
Proxy Statement for our 2004 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, which is scheduled
to be held on October 27, 2004; said information is incorporated herein by
reference.
ITEM 12. SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT.
A description of the security ownership of certain beneficial owners and
management will be contained in the section captioned "Security Ownership of
Certain Beneficial Owners and Management" of the Definitive Proxy Statement for
our 2004 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, which is scheduled to be held on
October 27, 2004; said information is incorporated herein by reference.
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EQUITY COMPENSATION PLAN INFORMATION
The following table summarizes LeCroy's entire equity compensation program
in effect as of June 30, 2004:
NUMBER OF
SECURITIES
NUMBER OF REMAINING
SECURITIES AVAILABLE FOR
TO BE ISSUED WEIGHTED-AVERAGE FUTURE ISSUANCE
UPON EXERCISE UNDER EQUITY
EXERCISE OF PRICE OF COMPENSATION
OUTSTANDING OUTSTANDING PLANS (EXCLUDING
OPTIONS, OPTIONS, SECURITIES
WARRANTS AND WARRANTS REFLECTED IN
RIGHTS AND RIGHTS COLUMN (a))
(a) (b) (c)
----------- --------------- ---------------
Equity compensation plans approved by
security holders (1) (2) (3) 2,705,487 $ 16.91 972,071
Equity compensation plans not approved by security holders -- -- --
--------- ------------- -------------
Total 2,705,487 $ 16.91 972,071
========= ============= =============
(1) The plans consist of: (i) Amended and Restated 1993 Stock Incentive
Plan (ii) 1995 Non-Employee Director Stock Option Plan (iii) 1998
Non-Employee Director Stock Option Plan (iv) 2003 Stock Incentive
Plan.
(2) Number of securities to be issued upon exercise of outstanding options
consists of 2,339,647 options to purchase shares of the Company's
common stock and 365,840 shares of unvested restricted stock granted
to certain key employees. The grants of restricted stock consist of
shares of common stock, and therefore there is no exercise price
included in the weighted average exercise price of outstanding
options.
(3) Includes 248,484 securities authorized and available for issuance in
connection with the LeCroy Corporation 1995 Employee Stock Purchase
Plan and 723,587 stock options and restricted stock awards available
for grant under all plans.
ITEM 13. CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS.
Certain relationships and related transactions with management will be
contained in the section captioned "Certain Relationships and Related
Transactions" in the Definitive Proxy Statement for our 2004 Annual Meeting of
Stockholders, which is scheduled to be held on October 27, 2004; said
information is incorporated herein by reference.
ITEM 14. PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTING FEES AND SERVICES.
A Description Of The Principal Accounting Fees And Services Will Be
Contained In The Section Captioned "Principal Accounting Fees and Services" in
the Definitive Proxy Statement for our 2004 Annual Meeting of Stockholders,
which is scheduled to be held on October 27, 2004; said information is
incorporated herein by reference.
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PART IV
ITEM 15. EXHIBITS, FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULES, AND REPORTS ON FORM 8-K.
The following documents are filed as part of this report:
(a)(1) FINANCIAL STATEMENTS -- See Index to Consolidated Financial
Statements at Item 8 of this report.
(a)(2) FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULES -- See Index to Consolidated
Financial Statements at Item 8 of this report.
Schedule II: Valuation and Qualifying Accounts
Schedules not listed above have been omitted because the information
required to be set forth therein is not applicable, not required or is included
elsewhere in the financial statements or notes thereto.
(a)(3) EXHIBITS
The following exhibits are filed with this report:
Exhibit
Number Description
- ------- -----------
2.1 Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of August 3, 1995, between the
Registrant and LeCroy Merger Corporation, filed as Exhibit 2.1 to Form
S-1 Registration Statement No. 33-95620, and is incorporated herein by
reference.
2.2 Agreement and Plan of Merger and Reorganization between the
Registrant, the Merger Sub, Lightspeed, the Selling Stockholder and
Mickey Miller, filed as Exhibit 2.1 to Form S-3 Registration Statement
No.333-43690, and is incorporated herein by reference.
2.3 Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of September 1, 2004, between
the Registrant, Cobalt Acquisition Corporation and Computer Access
Technology Corporation.
3.1 Certificate of Incorporation of the Registrant as of July 24, 1995,
filed as Exhibit 3.1 to Form S-1 Registration Statement No. 33-95620,
and is incorporated herein by reference.
3.2 Current By-Laws of the Registrant, filed as Exhibit 3.3 to Form S-1
Registration Statement No. 33-95620, and is incorporated herein by
reference.
3.3 Amendment to the By-Laws of the Registrant, dated August 16, 2000,
filed as Exhibit 3.3 to the quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the
quarter ended September 30, 2000, and is incorporated herein by
reference.
4.1 Share Purchase Agreement, dated August 15, 2000, between the
Registrant and the State of Wisconsin Investment Board, and is
incorporated herein by reference.
4.2 Placement Agent Agreement, dated August 15, 2000, between the
Registrant and SG Cowen Securities Corporation, and is incorporated
herein by reference.
4.3 Warrant, dated August 16, 2000, issued to SG Cowen Securities
Corporation to purchase 20,701 shares of the Registrant's Common
Stock, and is incorporated herein by reference.
4.4 Warrant, dated August 25, 2000, issued to Big T-2 Company LLC to
purchase 200,000 shares of the Registrant's Common Stock, filed as
Exhibit 10.3 to Form 8-K dated August 31, 2000, and is incorporated
herein by reference.
4.5 Stock Purchase Agreement, dated August 15, 2001, between the
Registrant and ValueAct Capital Partners, L.P., ValueAct Capital
Partners II, L.P. and ValueAct Capital International, Ltd., and is
incorporated herein by reference.
4.6 Placement Agent Agreement, dated August 15, 2001, between the
Registrant and SG Cowen Securities Corporation, and is incorporated
herein by reference.
4.7 Warrant, dated August 15, 2001, issued to SG Cowen Securities
Corporation to purchase 28,571 shares of the Registrant's Common
Stock, and is incorporated herein by reference.
10.3 Employee Agreement Regarding Inventions, Confidentiality and
Non-Competition, dated as of March 28, 1995, between the Registrant
and Lutz. P. Henckels, filed as Exhibit 10.12 to Form S-1 Registration
Statement No. 33-95620, and is incorporated herein by reference.*
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Exhibit
Number Description
- ------- -----------
10.4 Employee Agreement Regarding Inventions, Confidentiality and
Non-Competition, dated as of March 28, 1995, between the Registrant
and Walter O. LeCroy, Jr., filed as Exhibit 10.13 to Form S-1
Registration Statement No. 33-95620, and is incorporated herein by
reference.*
10.5 Employee Agreement Regarding Inventions, Confidentiality and
Non-Competition, dated as of March 28, 1995, between the Registrant
and Brian V. Cake, filed as Exhibit 10.14 to Form S-1 Registration
Statement No. 33-95620, and is incorporated herein by reference.*
10.6 LeCroy Corporation Amended and Restated 1993 Stock Incentive Plan
filed as Exhibit 10.1 to Form S-1 Registration Statement No. 33-95620,
and is incorporated herein by reference.*
10.7 LeCroy Corporation 1995 Non-Employee Director Stock Option Plan filed
as Exhibit 10.2 to Form S-1 Registration Statement No. 33-95620 dated
August 9, 1995, and is incorporated herein by reference.*
10.8 LeCroy Corporation 1995 Employee Stock Purchase Plan filed as Exhibit
10.3 to Form S-1 Registration Statement No. 33-95620, and is
incorporated herein by reference.*
10.9 Settlement and License Agreement, dated as of December 9, 1993,
between the Registrant and Tektronix, Inc. filed as Exhibit 10.11 to
Form S-1 Registration Statement No. 33-95620, and is incorporated
herein by reference.
10.11 Securities Purchase Agreement, dated as of March 28, 1995, between the
Registrant and the purchasers named therein filed as Exhibit 10.7 to
Form S-1 Registration Statement No. 33-95620, and is incorporated
herein by reference.
10.12 Shareholders Purchase Agreement, dated as of March 28, 1995, among the
Registrant, Walter O. LeCroy, Jr. and the investors named therein
filed as Exhibit 10.8 to Form S-1 Registration Statement No. 33-95620,
and is incorporated herein by reference.
10.13 Form of Common Stock Purchase Warrant filed as Exhibit 10.10 to Form
S-1 Registration Statement No. 33-95620, and is incorporated herein by
reference.
10.14 Form of Indemnification Agreement, between the Registrant and each of
its executive officers and directors filed as Exhibit 10.29 to Form
S-1 Registration Statement No. 33-95620, and is incorporated herein by
reference.*
10.15 Agreement dated as of August 2, 1995, amending the Securities Purchase
Agreement filed as Exhibit 10.12 hereto filed as Exhibit 10.34 to Form
S-1 Registration Statement No. 33-95620, and is incorporated herein by
reference.
10.16 Agreement dated as of September 29, 1995, amending the Securities
Purchase Agreement filed as Exhibit 10.12 hereto filed as Exhibit
10.35 to Form S-1 Registration Statement No. 33-95620, and is
incorporated herein by reference.
10.17 LeCroy Corporation Employee Stock Ownership Trust Agreement, between
the Registrant and Cole Taylor Bank, dated September 13, 1995 filed as
Exhibit 10.36 to Form S-1 Registration Statement No. 33-95620, and is
incorporated herein by reference.*
10.18 Amended and Restated LeCroy Corporation Employee Stock Ownership Plan
filed as Exhibit 10.37 to Form S-1 Registration Statement No.
33-95620, and is incorporated herein by reference.*
10.19 OEM Purchase and Technology License Agreement, between the Registrant
and Guzik Technical Enterprises, Inc., dated February 19, 1997 filed
as Exhibit 10.20 to Form S-3 Registration Statement No. 333-22117, and
is incorporated herein by reference.
10.20 Agreement and Plan of Merger and Reorganization between the Registrant
and Digitech Industries, Inc., dated December 10, 1997 filed as
Exhibit 2 to Form S-3 Registration Statement No. 333-43699, and is
incorporated herein by reference.
10.21 Amended and Restated Multicurrency Credit Agreement dated as of March
31, 1999 between the Company, Chase Manhattan Bank and BankBoston,
filed as Exhibit 1.1 to the quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the
quarter ended March 31, 1999, and is incorporated herein by reference.
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Exhibit
Number Description
- ------- -----------
10.22 Series A Convertible, Redeemable Preferred Stock Purchase Agreement
dated as of June 30, 1999 between the Registrant and the purchasers
named therein and is incorporated herein by reference.
10.30 Executive Employment Agreement, dated July 14, 2000, between the
Registrant and Robert Miller, filed as Exhibit 10.0 to Form S-3
Registration Statement No. 333-43690, and is incorporated herein by
reference.*
10.31 Asset Purchase Agreement, dated August 23, 2000, by and among the
Registrant, Vigilant Networks, Inc., Digitech Industries, Inc. and
GenTek Inc., filed as Exhibit 10.1 to Form 8-K dated August 31, 2000,
and is incorporated herein by reference.
10.32 License and Supply Agreement, dated August 23, 2000 by and between the
Registrant and Big T-1 Company LLC, filed as Exhibit 10.2 to Form 8-K
dated August 31, 2000, and is incorporated herein by reference.
10.33 Amendment to the LeCroy Corporation Amended and Restated 1993 Stock
Incentive Plan, dated August 16, 2000, filed as Exhibit 10.33 to the
quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30,
2000, and is incorporated herein by reference.*
10.34 Amendment to the LeCroy Corporation 1998 Non-Employee Director Stock
Option Plan, dated August 16, 2000, filed as Exhibit 10.34 to the
quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30,
2000, and is incorporated herein by reference.*
10.35 Amendment to the LeCroy Corporation 1998 Non-Employee Director Stock
Option Plan, dated October 25, 2000, filed as Exhibit 10.35 to the
quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30,
2000, and is incorporated herein by reference.*
10.36 Credit Agreement, dated October 11, 2000, between the Registrant and
The Bank of New York, as Administrative Agent, filed as Exhibit 10.36
to the quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September
30, 2000, and is incorporated herein by reference.
10.37 Amendment to the Certificate of Designation of the Series A
Convertible Redeemable Preferred Stock as of April 9, 2001, filed as
Exhibit 10.37 to the quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the quarter
ended March 31, 2001, and is incorporated herein by reference.
10.38 Employment Agreement, dated August 13, 2001, between the Registrant
and Scott Bausback, and is incorporated herein by reference.*
10.39 Amended and Restated Employment Agreement, dated January 18, 2002,
between the Registrant and Lutz P. Henckels, and is incorporated
herein by reference.*
10.40 Employment Agreement, dated January 1, 2002, between the Registrant
and Thomas H. Reslewic, and is incorporated herein by reference.*
10.41 Form of Restricted Stock Purchase Agreement, and is incorporated
herein by reference.*
10.42 Separation Agreement, dated January 6, 2003, between the Registrant
and Raymond F. Kunzmann, and is incorporated herein by reference.*
10.43 Amendment Number One to Employment Agreement, dated December 16, 2002,
between the Registrant and Thomas H. Reslewic, and is incorporated
herein by reference.*
10.44 Amendment, dated September 2, 2003, to the Credit Agreement, between
the Registrant and The Bank of New York, filed as Exhibit 10.36.
10.45 LeCroy Corporation's 2003 Stock Incentive Plan, incorporated by
reference to Appendix A to the Company's Definitive Proxy Statement
filed with the SEC on September 26, 2003.*
10.46 LeCroy Corporation's Amended and Restated Employee Stock Purchase
Plan, incorporated by reference to Appendix B to the Company's
Definitive Proxy Statement filed with the SEC on September 26, 2003.*
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Exhibit
Number Description
- ------- -----------
10.47 Amendment No. 2 to the Credit Agreement, dated November 13, 2003,
between the Company and The Bank of New York, as Administrative Agent,
incorporated by reference to the Company's Form 8-K filed with the SEC
on November 24, 2003.
10.48 Amendment No. 1 to the Amended and Restated Employment Agreement,
dated November 25, 2003, between the Company and Lutz P. Henckels,
incorporated by reference to the Company's Form 8-K filed with the SEC
on December 11, 2003.*
10.49 Separation Agreement, dated August 19, 2004, between the Registrant
and Thomas H. Reslewic, and is incorporated herein by reference.*
10.50 Separation Agreement, dated August 19, 2004, between the Registrant
and R. Scott Bausback, and is incorporated herein by reference.*
10.51 Form of Separation Agreement, and is incorporated herein by
reference.*
16 Letter from Ernst & Young LLP to the Securities and Exchange
Commission dated December 4, 2002.
21 Subsidiaries of LeCroy Corporation.
23.1 Consent of Ernst & Young LLP, Independent Registered Public Accounting
Firm.
23.2 Consent of KPMG LLP, Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm.
31.1 Certification by the Chief Executive Officer pursuant to Rule
13a-14(a) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
31.2 Certification by the Chief Financial Officer pursuant to Rule
13a-14(a) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
32.1 Certification by the Chief Executive Officer pursuant to 18 U.S.C.
Section 1350.
32.2 Certification by the Chief Financial Officer pursuant to 18 U.S.C.
Section 1350.
* Indicates management contract or compensatory plan, contract or arrangement.
(b) REPORTS ON FORM 8-K
The Company filed a Form 8-K with the SEC on April 8, 2004, reporting under
Item 5 "Other Events" and under Item 7 "Financial Statements and Exhibits" the
pricing of its follow-on offering of 1,500,000 shares of common stock at $19.00
per share. Of these shares, the Company offered 500,000 newly issued shares and
selling stockholders offered 1,000,000 shares. The Company granted the
underwriters an option to purchase up to an additional 15 percent of the shares
of common stock included in the offering to cover over-allotments, if any,
within 30 days.
The Company filed a Form 8-K with the SEC on April 14, 2004, reporting
under Item 7 "Financial Statements and Exhibits" and under Item 12 "Results of
Operations and Financial Condition" the Company's earnings for the three-and
nine-month periods ended March 31, 2004.
The Company filed a Form 8-K with the SEC on April 19, 2004 reporting under
Item 5 "Other Events" the offering of 1,500,000 shares of its common stock. Of
these shares, 500,000 were newly issued by the Company and 1,000,000 were
offered by ValueAct Capital Partners, L.P. and its affiliates (the "ValueAct
Entities"). As a result of this offering, Peter H. Kamin, a managing member,
principal owner and controlling person of the general partner of ValueAct
Capital Partners, L.P. and a director and principal executive officer of one of
the ValueAct Entities, resigned from the Company's board of directors effective
April 15, 2004.
The Company filed a Form 8-K with the SEC on May 19, 2004, reporting under
Item 5 "Other Events" and under Item 7 "Financial Statements and Exhibits" the
election of Norman R. Robertson, 55, to the Company's board of directors. Mr.
Robertson is a senior vice president, finance and administration, and chief
financial officer for Progress Software Corporation, a Bedford,
Massachusetts-based supplier of development, deployment, integration and
business management applications. Mr. Robertson, who has extensive financial
experience, will also serve on the audit committee of the Company's board of
directors and as the audit committee's financial expert.
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on
its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
LeCROY CORPORATION
September 7, 2004 By /s/ Scott D. Kantor
--------------------
Scott D. Kantor
Vice President Finance,
Chief Financial Officer,
Secretary and Treasurer
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this
report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the
registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
Signature Title Date
--------- ----- ----
/s/ CHARLES A. DICKINSON Chairman of the Board of Directors September 7, 2004
- -----------------------------
Charles A. Dickinson
/s/ THOMAS H. RESLEWIC President, Chief Executive Officer September 7, 2004
- ----------------------------- and Director
Thomas H. Reslewic (Principal Executive Officer)
/s/ SCOTT D. KANTOR Vice President Finance, Chief September 7, 2004
- ----------------------------- Financial Officer, Secretary
Scott D. Kantor and Treasurer
(Principal Accounting Officer)
/s/ ROBERT E. ANDERSON Director September 7, 2004
- -----------------------------
Robert E. Anderson
/s/ WALTER O. LeCROY, JR. Director September 7, 2004
- -----------------------------
Walter O. LeCroy, Jr.
/s/ NORMAN R. ROBERTSON Director September 7, 2004
- -----------------------------
Norman R. Robertson
/s/ WILLIAM G. SCHEERER Director September 7, 2004
- -----------------------------
William G. Scheerer
/s/ ALLYN C. WOODWARD, JR. Director September 7, 2004
- -----------------------------
Allyn C. Woodward, Jr.