Second
Quarter 2007 Financial Highlights:
- Quarterly non - GAAP - operating
income and break even at the bottom
line
- Revenues of $5.7 million, up 27.6%
as compared to revenues of second
quarter of 2006
- Backlog of $7.8 million, 28%
higher than the backlog at the beginning
of the year 2007
- Reduction in operation expenses to
$1.4 million from $1.6 million in
the second quarter of 2006
- Financial expenses include non
cash expenses related to the
conversion of convertible notes in the amount of $611 thousand
Shmuel Koren, BOS's President and
CEO, said: "I'm very proud in the Q2 results that reflect the
implementation of our operating strategy to increase sales of existing
products and expand our product offerings . After many years of
losses, we show a non GAAP operating income and break even at the
bottom line. In Q2, we were also able to significantly increase our
product offerings, and are now well positioned to continue pursuing
our objectives and implementing our strategy " Edouard Cukierman, BOS’s
Chairman of the Board added: "We are very pleased with the Company’s
Q2 results and look forward to the continuation of our positive trend
and to the future sales of our new product offerings."
Revenues for the second quarter of 2007 amounted to $5.7 million, a
27.6% increase over the revenues in the second quarter of 2006 and a
5.6% increase over the revenues of the first quarter of 2007. Our
backlog as of June 30, 2007 amounted to a record number of $7.8
million, reflecting a 28% increase over backlog as of the end of year
2006 and a 20% growth over the backlog as of the end of the first
quarter of 2007.
Operating results show profits of $126 thousand on a non - GAAP basis
(excluding option compensation and amortization of intangible assets)
in the second quarter of 2007 as compared to a non - GAAP operating
loss of $71 thousand in the second quarter of the year 2006. Operating
loss in the second quarter of the year 2007, on a GAAP basis, was $90
thousand as compared to operating loss of $457 thousand in the second
quarter of 2006. On June 21, 2007, we announced that Laurus Master
Fund Ltd., the holder of our convertible notes, converted the entire
outstanding principal amount of the notes, of approximately $ 2.2
million, into BOS Ordinary Shares. The conversion is expected to
result in savings in financial expenses of approximately $250 thousand
in the second half of 2007 and of approximately a total of $350
thousand in the years 2008 and 2009. As a result of the conversion,
the Company recorded a one-time non-cash expense in the second quarter
of 2007, in the amount of $611 thousand.
Financial expenses in the second quarter of 2007 were $159 thousand,
of which $113 thousand are related to the aforementioned convertible
notes and will not recur in the next quarters.
Income from continuing operations on a non - GAAP basis for the second
quarter of year 2007 amounted to $3 thousand as compared to a non -
GAAP loss of $186 thousand in the second quarter of the year 2006. Net
loss on a GAAP basis for the second quarter of 2007 amounted to $824
thousand (or $0.09 per share) as compared to a net loss of $572
thousand (or $0.09 per share) in the second quarter of 2006 (excluding
a gain of $609 thousand from discontinued operations). Net loss for
the six months period ending June 30, 2007, amounted to $1,150
thousand (or $0.15 per share) compared to net loss of $732 thousand
(or $0.10 per share) in the six month period ending June 30, 2006
(excluding a gain of $906 thousand from discontinued operations).
Information with respect to non-GAAP reconciliation to GAAP
accompanies the condensed financial statements in this release.
Liquidity and Capital Resources
- As of June 30, 2007, our
shareholders' equity amounted to $18.5 million compared to $12.3
million in December 31, 2006. During the second quarter of 2007 we
raised $4.4 million through a rights offering to our shareholders,
$600 thousands through a private placement and $2.2 million of our
debt was converted into equity.
- As of June 30, 2007 cash and cash
equivalents increased to $5.6 million from $2 million in December
31, 2006.
- Loans were reduced to $4.4 million
in June 30, 2007 from $5.3 million in December 31, 2006.
Product Highlights
We are focused on providing RFID & Software based solutions for the
Enterprise market and were recently able to significantly expand our
product offerings.
Below is a list of our products and solutions, which were developed
and enhanced in the first half of 2007: - RFID solutions - by
leveraging our expertise in enterprise connectivity and RFID
technology, we are developing a fully integrated RFID solution that
combines a seamless interface with business applications, system
management, data transfer, hardware and support services.
- Data management - our
next-generation tools help manage and control digital documents
throughout the enterprise, providing a reliable and revolutionary
solution for transferring encrypted data, and for backup recovery
and retrieval.
- License management - a unique new
solution for automatically monitoring concurrent license
utilization, allowing enterprises to optimally load balance their
license pools and increase ROI per license.
- Mobile Connectivity solutions -
our workforce mobility solutions allow remote users to access and
interact with enterprise applications and resources, anywhere and
anytime. We support mobile connectivity solutions for IBM System i,
UNIX and Blackberry environments.
- Bosanova System i - This family of
branded middleware extends the compatibility of IBM's System i
Servers with a variety of networks, mobile, printing and web-based
applications and with RFID application environments.
About BOS
B.O.S Better Online Solutions Ltd. ("BOS") was established in 1990.
BOS operates through two divisions based in Israel: (1) The Software
Division, which provides specialized enterprise software, including
IBM System i middleware, data and license management, mobile
connectivity and RFID solutions; (2) The Supply Chain Division, which
resells electronic systems and components for security, aerospace,
networking and RFID. BOS is traded on NASDAQ and on the Tel-Aviv stock
exchange. Our website is http://www.boscorporate.com.
The forward-looking statements contained herein reflect
management's current views with respect to future events and financial
performance. These forward-looking statements are subject to certain
risks and uncertainties that could cause the actual results to differ
materially from those in the forward-looking statements, all of which
are difficult to predict and many of which are beyond the control of
BOS. These risk factors and uncertainties include, amongst others, the
dependency of sales being generated from one or few major customers,
the uncertainty of our being able to maintain current gross profit
margins, inability to keep up or ahead of technology and to succeed in
a highly competitive industry, inability to maintain marketing and
distribution arrangements and to expand our overseas markets,
uncertainty with respect to the prospects of legal claims against BOS;
and additional risks and uncertainties detailed in BOS's periodic
reports and registration statements filed with the U.S. Securities
Exchange Commission. BOS undertakes no obligation to publicly update
or revise any such forward-looking statements to reflect any change in
its expectations or in events, conditions or circumstances on which
any such statements may be based, or that may affect the likelihood
that actual results will differ from those set forth in the
forward-looking statements. |