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Corrected Press Release
Bio-Rad Reports Second-Quarter 2019 Financial Results
HERCULES, Calif.–August 27, 2019– This press release corrects a prior version published on August 1, 2019. The prior press release contained a $3.37 million error with respect to Legal Matters used in thenon-GAAP financial presentation. This corrected press release does not change the GAAP results or the guidance provided on August 1, 2019.
Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE: BIO and BIOb), a global leader of life science research and clinical diagnostic products, today announced financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2019. This release includes immaterial changes, in the company’s view, to the non-GAAP results provided in the August 1, 2019 release for the three and six months ended June 30, 2019 that resulted from a $3.37 million error with respect to Legal Matters used in the non-GAAP financial presentation in the prior release.
Second-quarter 2019 net sales were $572.6 million, a decrease of 0.6 percent compared to $575.9 million reported for the second quarter of 2018. On a currency-neutral basis, quarterly sales increased 2.7 percent compared to the same period in 2018. Second-quarter gross margin was 53.7 percent compared to 52.4 percent during the second quarter in 2018.
Life Science segment net sales for the second quarter were $212.4 million, down 2.5 percent compared to the same period in 2018. On a currency-neutral basis, Life Science segment sales decreased by 0.1 percent compared to the same quarter in 2018. Sales were strong in the Droplet Digital PCR, Antibody, and Food Safety product lines, moderated by the Process Media product line, in which sales vary from quarter to quarter. Excluding Process Media sales, the Life Science business grew about 7.5 percent, year-over-year on a currency neutral basis.
Clinical Diagnostics segment net sales for the second quarter were $357.1 million, an increase of 0.9 percent compared to the same period in 2018. On a currency-neutral basis, net sales increased 4.8 percent compared to the same quarter last year. The currency-neutral sales increase was primarily due to solid growth of Quality Controls, Immunology, and Diabetes product lines. Sales during the second quarter of 2019 increased across all three regions.
Net income for the second quarter of 2019 was $598.8 million, or $19.86 per share on a diluted basis versus the second quarter in 2018 in which net income was $268.0 million, or $8.87 per share on a diluted basis. Net income for the second quarters of both 2019 and 2018 were significantly and favorably impacted by recognition, on the income statement, of changes in the fair market value of equity securities of $716.4 million and $286.4 million, respectively, primarily related to the holdings of our investment in
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