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GE Aerospace • Medtronic • Medite Cancer Diagnostics • Koninklijke Philips • Danaher • Applied Dna Sciences • Icad • VASO • Merit Medical Systems • Viveve MedicalRisks
- The continuing worldwide macroeconomic and geopolitical uncertainty may adversely affect our business and prospects, both domestically and internationally.
- Our international operations and foreign acquisitions expose us to additional operational challenges that we might not otherwise face.
- Increased cybersecurity requirements, vulnerabilities, threats and more sophisticated and targeted computer crime could pose a risk to our systems, networks, products, solutions, services and data.
- Failure to comply with laws relating to the confidentiality of sensitive personal information or standards related to the transmission of electronic health data, may require us to make significant changes to our products, or incur penalties or other liabilities.
- Healthcare cost containment legislation and the failure of third-party payors to provide appropriate levels of coverage and reimbursement for the use of products and treatments facilitated by our products could harm our business and prospects.
- Guidelines, recommendations and studies published by various organizations may reduce the use of our products.
- Our Diagnostics segment depends on a small number of customers for a significant portion of its product sales, and the loss of any of these customers or any cancellation or delay of a large purchase by any of these customers could significantly reduce revenues in our Diagnostics segment.
- We utilize distributors for a portion of our sales, the loss of which could harm our revenues in the territory serviced by these distributors.
- Our success depends on our ability to attract, motivate and retain key personnel and plan for future executive transitions.
- We operate in a highly regulated industry, and changes in healthcare laws and regulations or our inability to obtain in a timely manner or at all U.S. or foreign regulatory clearances or approvals for our current and newly developed products and services or product or service enhancements, could adversely affect our business and prospects.
- Some of our activities may subject us to risks under federal and state laws prohibiting “kickbacks” and false or fraudulent claims.
- We are subject to the risk of product liability claims relating to our products for which we may not have adequate insurance.
- We are subject to environmental, health and safety laws and regulations, including related to our use and recycling of hazardous materials and the composition of our products.
- Changes in tax laws or exposures to additional tax liabilities could negatively impact the Company's operating results.
- Our business is dependent on technologies we license, and if we fail to maintain these licenses or license new technologies and rights to particular nucleic acid sequences for targeted diseases in the future, we may be limited in our ability to develop new products.
- Our business could be harmed if we are unable to protect our proprietary technology.
- Our business could be harmed if we infringe upon the intellectual property rights of others.
- We may not be able to generate sufficient cash flow to service all of our indebtedness and other obligations.
- A significant portion of our indebtedness is subject to floating interest rates, which may expose us to higher interest payments.
- Provisions in our charter, bylaws, and indebtedness may have the effect of discouraging advantageous offers for our business or common stock and limit the price that investors might be willing to pay in the future for shares of our common stock.
- Our stock price is volatile.
Management Discussion
- All dollar amounts in tables are presented in millions.
- We had a decrease in product revenues in the current quarter compared to the corresponding period in the prior year primarily due to the decrease in revenues in the Diagnostics business as COVID-19 assay sales declined significantly and the prior year period included an extra week based on our fiscal calendar. This decrease was partially offset by improved performance by our Breast Health division, as supply chain constraints impacted the prior year quarter and an increase in GYN Surgical revenue.
- Diagnostics product revenues decreased $112.7 million, or 21.2%, in the current quarter compared to the corresponding period in the prior year primarily due to a decrease in Molecular Diagnostics revenues of $107.5 million and to a lesser extent, a decrease in Cytology & Perinatal revenue of $6.5 million, partially offset by an increase in Blood Screening of $1.2 million. Molecular Diagnostics’ product revenue was $292.9 million in the current three month period compared to $400.4 million in the corresponding period in the prior year. The decrease was primarily attributable to a decrease of $100.1 million in sales from our two SARS-CoV-2 assays (primarily the Aptima SARS-CoV-2 assay and to a lesser extent the Panther Fusion SARS-CoV-2 assay) due to lower volumes, which we primarily attribute to lower demand from an improvement in the COVID-19 pandemic compared to the prior year, the increasing use of rapid tests and a decrease in average selling prices in international markets. We expect sales of our SARS-CoV-2 assays to continue to be significantly lower in fiscal 2024 compared to fiscal 2023. Within Cytology & Perinatal, in the current three month period we had a decrease in sales of our ThinPrep Pap Test from lower volumes in the U.S., which we primarily attribute to laboratories building up their inventories in the second half of fiscal 2023 which are now being worked down. We also experienced an increase in revenue from international sales denominated in foreign currencies from the favorable foreign currency exchange impact of the weakened U.S. dollar against a number of currencies.