Artisoft, Inc. (Nasdaq: ASFT) announced today financial results for the first quarter of fiscal 1997 ended September 30, 1996. The company reported net sales of $11.1 million, and a loss of $2.2 million or $.15 per share, before giving effect to certain one-time charges. The one-time charges totaled approximately $.08 per share in severance and other expenses relating to an organizational realignment accomplished during the quarter. These results compare to net sales of $15.0 million and net income of $464,000, or $.03 per share, for the first quarter of fiscal 1996.
William C. Keiper, Artisoft's chairman and chief executive officer, said "Net sales were lower due principally to a reduction in distribution channel inventories of $3 million, and a slower than anticipated transition to version 7.0 of the company's award-winning LANtastic networking product released in June 1996. Distribution channel inventories were reduced to reflect the slower transition to the LANtastic 7.0 product, and to anticipate stocking for new communications software products to be introduced by the company and sold through distribution channels. We believe that the timing of the product transition from LANtastic 6.0 to 7.0 met seasonal market softness, not only in Europe, but also in the United States. In addition, because of the inclusion of several more advanced communications software features in LANtastic 7.0, resellers have indicated a desire for more training on the product. The company has completed a comprehensive CD training tool, and is conducting hands-on regional training in 12 locations around the U.S. during October. In addition, more than 40 product reviews either have been or are expected to be published by the end of December. Since the latter part of September, the sell-through for LANtastic 7.0 in the U.S. distribution channel has improved."
"The organizational realignment was designed to focus additional resources on PC communications and computer telephony development efforts. These resources are intended to produce not only standalone products in the PC communications and computer telephony area, but also to support Artisoft's recently announced plans to integrate strategic communications and telephony technologies into LANtastic. Finally, the realignment was implemented in order to reduce overall company costs," Keiper added.
Artisoft leads the industry in providing easy-to-use, affordable networking, PC communications and computer telephony solutions for small business. Chosen by nearly five million users worldwide to connect and share computer resources, Artisoft solutions include the award-winning LANtastic family of networking products, and the family of remote communication products, including INSYNC(r) CoSession Remote(tm) and ModemShare(tm). Dedicated to the development of easy-to-use tools and applications for Windows telephony, Artisoft's computer telephony solutions include Visual Voice(r) and Visual Fax(r) . The company maintains nine offices outside the United States, and distributes its products in more than 100 countries.
For more information, contact Artisoft, Inc. at 2202 N. Forbes Blvd., Tucson, AZ 85745. Sales Consultation Center 800/233-5564. Corporate 520/670-7100. Fax 520/670-7101. World Wide Web home page http://www.artisoft.com. Recent Artisoft press releases are available at no charge through PR Newswire's Company News On-Call fax-on-demand system; call 800/758-5804 and enter company number 107158.
"Safe Harbor" Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: This release may contain forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Among the important factors which could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements are the impact of competitive products and pricing, product demand and market acceptance risks, the presence of competitors with greater financial resources, product development and commercialization risks, costs associated with integration and administration of acquired operations, capacity and supply constraints or difficulties, the results of financing efforts and other factors detailed in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission including its recent filings on Forms 10-K and 10-Q.
CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
(in thousands, except share amounts)
September 30, June 30,
ASSETS 1996 1996
(unaudited)
Current assets:
Cash and cash equivalents $15,852 $15,325
Short-term investments - -
Receivables:
Trade accounts, net 13,364 16,768
Income taxes 706 1,635
Notes and other 875 1,405
Inventories 3,432 2,998
Prepaid expenses 1,410 906
Deferred income taxes 6,296 4,426
Total current assets 41,935 43,463
Property and equipment 14,215 13,690
Less accumulated depreciation (6,672) (6,166)
Net property and equipment 7,543 7,524
Long-term deferred income taxes 3,141 3,141
Other assets 3,452 3,584
$56,071 $57,712
LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY
Current liabilities:
Accounts payable $ 4,175 $ 3,333
Accrued liabilities 3,659 2,640
Income taxes payable 450 577
Current portion of capital... 79 85
...lease obligations
Total current liabilities 8,363 6,635
Capital lease obligations, 76 96
net of current portion
Commitments and Contingencies - -
Shareholders' equity:
Common stock, $.01 par value. Authorized
50,000,000 shares; issued 27,766,167
shares at March 31, 1996 and
27,671,680 at June 30, 1995 278 278
Additional paid-in capital 96,112 96,075
Retained earnings 20,922 24,308
Less treasury stock, at cost,
13,287,500 shares (69,680) (69,680)
Total shareholders' equity 47,632 50,981
$56,071 $57,712
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
Three Months Ended September 30, 1996 and 1995
(in thousands, except per share amounts)
Three Months Ended
September 30,
1996 1995
Net sales $ 11,120 $ 14,980
Cost of sales 3,930 5,548
Gross margin 7,190 9,432
Operating expenses:
Marketing and sales 7,005 6,412
Product development 2,390 1,253
General and administrative 1,438 1,357
Restructuring Charge 1,805 -
Total operating expenses 12,638 9,022
Income (loss) from operations (5,448) 410
Other income, net 192 339
Income (loss) before income taxes (5,256) 749
Income tax (benefit) expense (1,871) 285
Net income (loss) $ (3,385) $ 464
Net income (loss) per common and
equivalent share $ (.23) $ .03
Shares used in per share calculation 14,524 14,853