The $3.3 million and $6.7 million reduction in disc publishing revenues for the three and six months ended June 30, 2012 compared to the same periods in 2011 was driven by worldwide declines in equipment sales combined with a decline in consumable sales primarily in the Company’s U.S. market. The decline in equipment sales was primarily due to lower sales to European and U.S. channel partners as well as reduced sales in the Company’s U.S. retail market, where sales can fluctuate significantly between periods. The decline in equipment sales to U.S. and European channel partners was impacted by delays in closing several expected customer orders. Additionally, sales in the Company’s European markets were negatively impacted by continued economic challenges, increased competition and the negative impact of foreign currency fluctuations. The decline in U.S. consumable sales in the current-year periods was due to decreased usage of consumable products by the Company’s retail customers as well as the impact of customers purchasing consumables inventory in late first quarter and early second quarter of 2011 to minimize potential supply disruptions caused by the tsunami and earthquake that struck the northeast area of Japan in March 2011.
Online publishing revenues totaled $1.4 million and $2.8 million for the three and six months ended June 30, 2012, respectively. A high concentration of online publishing revenues were generated from software maintenance contracts and professional services, with a lower volume of software licenses and appliance sales. The Company introduced its Signal online publishing solution in the second quarter of 2012 and expects it to begin generating revenues in the second half of 2012. During the second quarter of 2012, the Company announced that Qumu had partnered with one of its key managed service providers to close a multi-year, multi-million dollar contract with a Fortune 50 corporation. The Company will recognize revenue related to this transaction over the term of the agreement and expects to begin recognizing revenue in the third quarter of 2012. The Company’s contracted commitment backlog for Qumu’s enterprise video communications solution aggregated $6.6 million as of June 30, 2012. The Company defines contracted commitments as the dollar value of signed customer purchase commitments.
Future consolidated revenues will be dependent upon many factors, including the continued growth of Qumu’s enterprise video communications and online publishing product line, whether Qumu structures its license arrangements with customers as term or perpetual licenses, which impacts the timing of revenue recognition, the Company’s ability to successfully commercialize its Signal online publishing solution, introduced in the second quarter of 2012, the success of the Company’s deployment of a complete disc publishing solution for medical imaging in hospitals in China and the rate of adoption of other new solutions-based products introduced by the Company. Other factors that will influence future consolidated revenues include the timing of new product introductions, the rate of adoption of other new applications for the Company’s products in its targeted markets, the performance of the Company’s channel partners, the timing of customer orders and related product deliveries, the Company’s ability to maintain continuous supply of its products and components, the impact of changes in economic conditions and the impact of foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations.
The three and six month period declines in consolidated gross profit as a percentage of total revenues were primarily impacted by a lower volume and concentration of equipment sales in the disc publishing business, particularly in the Producer Series product line, which typically generates higher margins than other disc publishing products. Further, the reduced volume of Producer equipment sales led to lower production levels in the second quarter and a resulting underabsorption of fixed manufacturing costs, negatively impacting gross profit as a percentage of revenues for the three months ended June 30, 2012. Also contributing to the declines in consolidated gross margin for the three and six months ended June 30, 2012 were lower gross margins generated by the enterprise video communications product line. Inclusive of the impact of amortization expense, the online publishing business contributed 0.3% and 0.8% of the decline in gross profit as a percentage of total revenues in each respective period. In addition to the impact of amortization expense, online publishing margins were unfavorably impacted by a low volume and concentration of higher margin software license revenues. Partially offsetting the unfavorable impact in the current-year periods of a reduced volume of equipment sales in the disc publishing product line was the impact of the Company incurring higher media prices and air freight costs in the comparable periods in 2011 to secure alternative supply sources and to expedite shipments stemming from supply disruptions caused by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan.
Future gross profit margins will continue to be affected by many factors, including product mix, the timing of new product introductions, the timing of customer orders and related product deliveries, changes in material costs and supply sources, manufacturing volume, the growth rate of service-related revenues relative to associated service support costs and foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations. Future gross margins will also be impacted by the integration and growth of Qumu’s enterprise video communications online publishing product line, which has historically generated higher gross margins than the Company’s disc publishing business. This benefit will be partially offset in future years from the inclusion of amortization expense associated with intangibles acquired as a result of the Qumu acquisition, expected to approximate $0.9 million in 2012.
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Operating expenses. Total operating expenses amounted to $12.0 million and $24.6 million for the three and six months ended June 30, 2012, respectively, compared to $8.1 million and $16.5 million in the respective prior-year periods. The $3.9 million and $8.1 million rise in total operating expenses between the second quarter and year-to-date periods, respectively, occurred primarily as a result of expenses incurred to support the Company’s online publishing business, including $3.8 million and $7.5 million of expenses to support Qumu’s enterprise video communications product line in each respective period, $0.3 million and $0.5 million of expenses in each respective period associated with the amortization of intangible assets acquired as part of the acquisition of Qumu and a $0.3 million and $0.6 million increase in expenses in each respective period to support the Company’s internally developed online publishing solution, Signal.
Research and development expenses totaled $2.9 million and $6.0 million for the three and six months ended June 30, 2012, respectively, each representing 16% of revenues. Research and development expenses totaled $1.5 million and $3.1 million for the comparative three and six months ended June 30, 2011, representing 8% and 7% of revenues, respectively. The $1.4 million second quarter and $2.9 million year-to-date increases from 2011 reflect the inclusion of $1.3 million and $2.6 million, respectively, of research and development expenses generated by Qumu to support the enterprise video communications product line, included in the Company’s online publishing business. The remaining increases over prior-year periods are primarily driven by costs to support the development of the Signal online publishing solution. The Company also continues to incur development expenses to enhance its disc publishing products. Rimage anticipates expenditures in research and development in the third quarter 2012 will be comparable to that of the second quarter.
Selling, general and administrative expenses for the three and six months ended June 30, 2012 totaled $8.9 million and $18.1 million, or 49% and 48% of revenues, respectively, compared to expenses in the same prior-year periods of $6.5 million and $13.4 million, or 32% of revenues for each respective period. The $2.4 million and $4.7 million increase in expenses in the respective current-year periods primarily reflects the impact of $2.5 million and $4.9 million of expenses incurred in each respective period to support the enterprise video communications product line, included in the Company’s online publishing business. The Company also incurred a higher level of expenses in the current-year periods to support the introduction in the second quarter of its internally developed Signal online publishing solution. The Company also continued to make investments to strengthen its disc publishing business. Partially offsetting the expense growth driven by the online publishing business was the impact of currency fluctuations primarily in the Company’s European operations, which reduced selling, general and administrative expenses in the disc publishing business in the current year’s second quarter and year-to-date periods by $0.2 million and $0.3 million, respectively. Rimage anticipates expenditures for selling, general and administrative activities in the third quarter to increase moderately relative to second quarter 2012 expense levels, primarily due to increased online publishing sales and marketing expenses.
Amortization of Purchased Intangibles.Operating expenses for the three and six months ended June 30, 2012 include $0.3 million and $0.5 million, respectively, for the amortization of intangible assets acquired as part of the Company’s acquisition of Qumu in October 2011. Operating expenses in 2012 are expected to include approximately $1.1 million of amortization expense associated with the Qumu acquisition, exclusive of the portion classified in cost of revenues.
Other income, net.The Company recognized net interest income on cash, marketable securities and in the second quarter 2012, notes receivable, of $19,000 and $21,000 for the three and six month periods ended June 30, 2012, respectively, compared to $52,000 and $119,000 for the comparative prior-year periods. The reduction in interest income in the current-year periods was primarily the result of a shift in investments to lower yield securities and the Company’s use of approximately $39 million in cash to acquire Qumu. Other income for the three and six months ended June 30, 2012 also included net losses on foreign currency transactions of $13,000 and $85,000, respectively, compared to net income of $3,000 for the three months ended June 30, 2011 and net losses of $30,000 for the six months ended June 30, 2011.
Income taxes.The provision or benefit for income taxes represents federal, state and foreign income taxes on income. The income tax benefit for the three and six months ended June 30, 2012 amounted to $0.9 million and $2.2 million, respectively, or 24.2% and 32.2% of loss before income taxes for the respective periods. Income tax expense for the three and six months ended June 30, 2011 amounted to $0.7 million and $1.6 million, respectively, or 38.8% and 37.9% of income before taxes for each respective period. The tax benefit for the current-year periods was driven by a projected annualized pre-tax consolidated loss for 2012. The effective tax rate is lower than the comparable prior-year periods due to offsetting tax expense associated with non-deductible expenses.
Net income (loss) / net income (loss) per share. Resulting net loss attributable to Rimage for the three and six months ended June 30, 2012 was $2.8 million and $4.5 million, respectively, compared to net income attributable to Rimage of $1.2 million and $2.7 million, for the same prior-year periods. Related net income (loss) per diluted share was ($0.27) and ($0.44) for the three and six months ended June 30, 2012, respectively, compared to $0.12 and $0.28 per diluted share for the respective prior-year periods.
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Liquidity and Capital Resources
The Company expects it will be able to maintain current operations and anticipated capital expenditure requirements for the foreseeable future through its internally generated funds and cash reserves. At June 30, 2012, the Company had working capital of $67.9 million, down $10.4 million from working capital reported at December 31, 2011. The decrease was primarily the result of generation of a net loss adjusted for non-cash items during the six months ended June 30, 2012 of $3.9 million, payment of $3.5 million in dividends, purchases of property and equipment of $1.4 million, repurchases of common stock of $0.9 million and issuance of a $0.5 million note receivable. Exclusive of a small amount of capital lease obligations, Rimage has no long-term debt and does not require significant capital investment for its ongoing operations as all fabrication of tooling-intensive parts is outsourced to vendors.
Effective October 2010, the Company’s Board of Directors approved the continuation of common stock repurchases under original Board authorizations providing for the repurchase of up to 1,000,000 shares of the Company’s common stock. Shares may be purchased at prevailing market prices in the open market or in private transactions, subject to market conditions, share price, trading volume and other factors. The repurchase program may be discontinued at any time. Under the program, the Company repurchased 99,616 shares of its common stock during the three and six months ended June 30, 2012. The repurchase program has been funded to date using cash on hand. As of June 30, 2012, the Company had 247,393 shares available for repurchase under the authorizations. On April 24, 2012, the Company’s Board of Directors approved a quarterly dividend of $0.17 per share payable June 15, 2012, to shareholders of record as of May 31, 2012. The Company expects quarterly dividend payments during 2012 of approximately $1.7 million. The Company also intends on utilizing its cash primarily for its continued organic growth and potential future strategic initiatives or alliances.
Net cash used by operating activities totaled $1.4 million for the six months ended June 30, 2012, compared to net cash provided by operations of $6.1 million in the same prior-year period. The $7.5 million decrease in cash provided by operating activities resulted from an $8.4 million unfavorable change in net income (net loss) adjusted for non-cash items, partially offset by a $0.9 million increase in cash provided by changes in operating assets and liabilities. Primarily contributing to the change in operating assets and liabilities compared to the prior-year period were favorable changes of $4.1 million in accounts receivable, $1.5 million in inventories and $0.7 in other long-term liabilities, partially offset by unfavorable changes of $5.3 million in deferred income. The favorable change in receivables was the result of decreased sales in May and June of 2012 compared to the same periods in 2011. The favorable change in inventories occurred as the Company reduced inventory purchases in the current-year’s second quarter in response to lower product demand. The favorable change in inventories in the current period was also due to the Company’s increased inventory purchases from alternative supply sources in late first quarter and second quarter of 2011 to minimize potential supply disruptions from its Japanese suppliers stemming from the earthquake and tsunami that struck the northeast area of Japan in March 2011. The unfavorable change in deferred income was impacted primarily by a $3.5 million sale of new maintenance contracts to a retail customer in the prior period under a multi-system sales agreement obtained in the second quarter of 2010.
Investing activities used net cash of $15.2 million and $1.0 million for the six months ended June 30, 2012 and 2011, respectively. The fluctuations in investing activities were primarily the result of $13.3 million in purchases of marketable securities during the six months ended June 30, 2012, compared to $2.1 million of maturities of marketable securities during the comparable prior-year period. Investing activities in the prior-year period also included a $2.0 million equity investment in BriefCam. Purchases of property and equipment during the six months ended June 30, 2012 and 2011 amounted to $1.4 million and $0.6 million, respectively. Capital expenditures in the current-year period consisted primarily of leasehold improvements and office equipment associated with the Company’s facility in San Bruno, California. Capital expenditures in the prior-year period consisted primarily of the first installment payment of $0.4 million for software source code acquired and capitalized by the Company’s Chinese joint venture in late 2010.
Financing activities used net cash of $4.4 million for the six months ended June 30, 2012, compared to net cash used of $0.7 million for the same prior-year period. The current-year period includes $3.5 million of dividend payments compared to $1.0 million in the prior-year period. The current-year period also includes $0.9 million of payments for the repurchase of common stock.
Critical Accounting Policies
Management utilizes its technical knowledge, cumulative business experience, judgment and other factors in the selection and application of the Company’s accounting policies. The accounting policies considered by management to be the most critical to the presentation of the condensed consolidated financial statements because they require the most difficult, subjective and complex judgments include revenue recognition, allowance for doubtful accounts, inventory provisions, deferred tax asset valuation allowances, accruals for uncertain tax positions, stock-based compensation and impairment of long-lived assets. These accounting policies are discussed in Item 7. “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” of the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2011. Management made no significant changes to the Company’s critical accounting policies during the six months ended June 30, 2012.
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In applying its critical accounting policies, management reassesses its estimates each reporting period based on available information. Changes in such estimates did not have a significant impact on the Company’s condensed consolidated financial statements for the six months ended June 30, 2012.
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This report contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. For this purpose, any statements contained in this report that are not statements of historical fact may be deemed to be forward-looking statements. Without limiting the foregoing, words such as “may,” “will,” “expect,” “believe,” “anticipate,” “estimate” or “continue” or comparable terminology are intended to identify forward-looking statements. These statements by their nature involve substantial risks and uncertainties. The Company’s actual results could differ significantly from those discussed in the forward-looking statements.
Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, the following, as well as other factors not now identified: the economic health of the markets from which Rimage derives its sales and, in particular, the strength of the economies within North America and Europe where the Company has averaged 90% of total sales over the past three years; the Company’s ability to keep pace with changes in technology in the computer and storage media industries as well as technology changes in the Company’s targeted markets; increasing competition and the ability of the Company’s products to successfully compete with products of competitors and newly developed media storage products; the mature market for disc publishing products, with limited growth potential; the Company’s ability to successfully implement its growth strategy; the ability of the Company’s newly developed products to gain acceptance and compete against products in their markets; the return on the Company’s investment in strategic initiatives may be lower or develop more slowly than expected; the Company’s ability to effectively address risks or other problems encountered in connection with the Qumu integration; the Company’s ability to successfully commercialize its online publishing solution introduced in the second quarter of 2012; the significance of the Company’s international operations and the risks associated with international operations including currency fluctuations, local economic health and management of these operations over long distances; the Company’s ability to protect its intellectual property and to defend claims of others relating to its intellectual property; risks related to open source software incorporated into Qumu’s products; the Company’s ability to effectively market its products and serve customers through its value-added resellers, distributors, strategic partners and its own sales force; the ability of the Qumu products to deliver fast, efficient and reliable service; the Company’s ability to maintain adequate inventory of products; the Company’s ability to secure alternative sources of supply given its reliance on single source suppliers for certain key products; the ability of the Company’s products to operate effectively with the computer products developed and to be developed by other manufacturers; the compatibility of the Company’s disc publishing products with products designed by others; the negative effect upon the Company’s business from manufacturing or design defects; the effect of U.S. and international regulation; fluctuations in the Company’s operating results; the Company’s dependence upon its key personnel; the volatility of the price of the Company’s common stock; the negative effect on the Company’s common stock price of future sales of common stock; provisions governing the Company relating to a change of control, compliance with corporate governance and securities disclosures rules and other risks, including those set forth in the Company’s reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including Item 1A of Part I of the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2011. These forward-looking statements are made as of the date of this report and the Company assumes no obligation to update such forward-looking statements, or to update the reasons why actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in such forward-looking statements.
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Item 3. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk
The Company is exposed to market risk from foreign exchange rate fluctuations of the European Euro, Japanese Yen, Chinese Yuan and Singapore dollar to the U.S. dollar as the financial position and operating results of the Company’s German subsidiary, Rimage Europe GmbH, its Japanese subsidiary, Rimage Japan Co., Ltd., its majority-owned Chinese joint venture, Rimage Information Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. and its Singapore subsidiary, Rimage Holdings (Singapore) Pte., Ltd., are translated into U.S. dollars for consolidation. Resulting translation adjustments are recorded as a separate component of stockholders’ equity.
The Company enters into forward exchange contracts principally to hedge intercompany receivables denominated in Euros arising from sales to its subsidiary in Germany. Gains or losses on forward exchange contracts are calculated at each period end and are recognized in net income in the period in which they arose. The Company records the fair value of its open forward foreign exchange contracts in other current assets or other current liabilities depending on whether the net amount is a gain or a loss. The Company does not utilize financial instruments for trading or other speculative purposes.
Item 4. Controls and Procedures
(a) Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures
The Company’s Chief Executive Officer, Sherman L. Black, and the Company’s Chief Financial Officer, James R. Stewart, have evaluated the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures as of June 30, 2012. Based upon such evaluation, they have concluded that these disclosure controls and procedures are effective. The Company’s Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer used the definition of “disclosure controls and procedures” as set forth in Rule 13a-15(e) under the Exchange Act in making their conclusion as to the effectiveness of such controls and procedures.
(b) Changes in Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
There have been no changes in internal controls over financial reporting that occurred during the second quarter ended June 30, 2012 that have materially affected, or are reasonable likely to materially affect, the Company’s internal control over financial reporting. As part of the Company’s ongoing integration activities following the acquisition of Qumu, Inc. in October 2011, the Company is continuing to incorporate the operations of Qumu into the Company’s control environment and continuing to improve Qumu’s control environment.
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PART II — OTHER INFORMATION
Item 1. Legal Proceedings
The Company is exposed to a number of asserted and unasserted claims encountered in the normal course of business. Legal costs related to loss contingencies are expensed as incurred. In the opinion of management, the resolution of these matters will not have a material adverse effect on the Company’s financial position or results of operations.
Item 1A. Risk Factors
Not Applicable.
Item 2. Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds
Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities
Effective October 2010, the Company’s Board of Directors approved the continuation of common stock repurchases under original Board authorizations providing for the repurchase of up to 1,000,000 shares of the Company’s common stock. On July 26, 2011, the Board authorized the repurchase of an additional 500,000 shares under the program. Shares may be purchased at prevailing market prices in the open market or in private transactions, subject to market conditions, share price, trading volume and other factors. The repurchase program may be discontinued at any time. The repurchase program has been funded to date using cash on hand.
Information on the Company’s repurchases of its common stock during each month of the second quarter ended June 30, 2012 is as follows:
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Monthly Period | | Total Number of Shares Purchased | | Average Price Paid per Share | | Total Number of Shares Purchased as Part of Publicly Announced Plans or Programs | | Maximum Number of Shares that May Yet Be purchased Under the Plans or Programs (at end of period) | |
April 2012 | | | 68,307 | | $ | 9.39 | | | 68,307 | | | 278,702 | |
May 2012 | | | 3,296 | (1) | $ | 8.58 | | | — | | | 278,702 | |
June 2012 | | | 31,309 | | $ | 8.26 | | | 31,309 | | | 247,393 | |
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| (1)In addition to shares purchased under the Board authorization, the Company purchases shares of common stock held by employees who wish to tender owned shares to satisfy the exercise price or tax withholding on stock option exercises or vesting of restricted awards. |
Item 3. Defaults Upon Senior Securities
Not Applicable.
Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures
Not Applicable.
Item 5. Other Information
Not Applicable.
Item 6. Exhibits
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(a) | The following exhibits are included herein: |
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| 31.1 | Certificate of Chief Executive Officer pursuant to Rules 13a-14 and 15d-14 of the Exchange Act. |
| 31.2 | Certificate of Chief Financial Officer pursuant to Rules 13a-14 and 15d-14 of the Exchange Act. |
| 32 | Certifications pursuant to 18 U.S.C. §1350. |
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SIGNATURES
In accordance with the Exchange Act, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereto duly authorized.
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| | | | RIMAGE CORPORATION |
| | | | Registrant |
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Date: | August 8, 2012 | | By: | /s/ Sherman L. Black |
| | | | Sherman L. Black |
| | | | Chief Executive Officer |
| | | | (Principal Executive Officer) |
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Date: | August 8, 2012 | | By: | /s/ James R. Stewart |
| | | | James R. Stewart |
| | | | Chief Financial Officer |
| | | | (Principal Financial Officer) |
| | | | (Principal Accounting Officer) |
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