Operator:
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Good afternoon. My name is (Beverlyn) and I will be your conference facilitator. At this time I would like to welcome everyone to the SS&C Third Quarter Earnings conference call. | |
All lines have been placed on mute to prevent any background noise. After the speakers remarks there will be a question and answer period. If you would |
like to ask a question during this time simply press star then the number 1 on your telephone keypad. If you would like to withdraw your question press star then the number 2 on your telephone keypad. | ||
Thank you. Mr. Stone you may begin your conference. | ||
Bill Stone:
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Thank you (Beverlyn). Good afternoon. Thank you everyone for being on our Q3 earnings call today. Im Bill Stone, CEO of SS&C and with me on the call is Norm Boulanger our President and Chief Operating Officer, and Patrick Pedonti our Chief Financial Officer. | |
Before we get to the third quarter results we need to review some information about SS&Cs current proxy filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. SS&C filed its definitive merger proxy statement with the SEC on October 19, 2005 and plan to begin mailing the proxy statement to its stockholders on or about October 21, 2005. The proxy statement contains important information about SS&C, the merger, and related matters. | ||
Investors are urged to read the proxy statement carefully. Investors can obtain free copies of the proxy statement and other documents filed with the SEC through the SECs website at www.sec.gov. | ||
In addition, investors can obtain free copies of the proxy statements from SS&C by contacting our Investor Relations department at 80 Lamberton Road, Windsor, Connecticut 06095. And our telephone number is 860-298-4500. | ||
SS&C and its directors and executive officers may be deemed to be participants in the solicitation of proxies in respect of the merger. Information regarding our directors and executive officers is contained in our last 10K, our |
2005 annual meeting proxy statement, and the merger proxy statement, all of which were filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. | ||
In addition various remarks we may make on the conference call about our future expectations, plans, and prospects constitutes forward looking statements for purposes of Safe Harbor provisions under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. | ||
Actual results may differ materially from those indicated by these forward looking statements as a result of various important factors, including those discussed in SS&Cs filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission including the companys quarterly report on Form 10Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2005. | ||
Now Id like to move to our Q3 results. Q3 was a solid quarter for SS&C with solid results on all fronts. We had record revenues of $46.1 million with key contributions from all revenue streams. Revenues grew through acquisitions as well as organically. | ||
At $7.6 million our license revenue continued to trend upward and increased 84% in Q3 2004. This quarter we saw strong results from CAMRA, our portfolio management system, LMS, our commercial loan management system, SKYLINE, our property management solutions, Antares, our trade order management system, Altair, our Netherlands-targeted portfolio management solution, Sylvan, our performance attribution system, and FundRunner, our investor relationship management system targeted to hedge funds and fund to funds. | ||
Recurring revenues which include both maintenance and outsourcing revenues continue to be a major growth factor. In Q3 we hit a new high of $34.9 million, an increase of 93% over Q3 2004. Due primarily to our acquisitions, |
maintenance revenues were $13.3 million for the quarter, an increase of 39% over Q3 2004. | ||
Our outsourcing revenues continued to climb and this quarter reached $21.6 million, an increase of 153% over the same period last year. | ||
We are dedicated to taking care of business every day: customer satisfaction, lead generation, product development, and integration of our acquisitions. We do this by keeping our operating costs in line, maximizing our resources and personnel, and looking for efficiencies. | ||
When we do this, and we do this well, our efforts should show up in our numbers and in Q3 our operating income rose by 59% over Q3 last year to $11.9 million. And our net income was $7 million, a 44% increase over Q3 last year. | ||
Our Q3 operating income was up 59%. Diluted earnings per share for Q3 were 28 cents, an increase of 40% over the 20 cents a diluted share of for Q3 2004. Merger costs related to the Carlyle transaction, and included in Q3 earnings per share for 05, were four cents per diluted earnings per share. | ||
On August 24th we closed the MarginMan acquisition. The MarginMan product delivers collateralized trading software for the FX marketplace and, like many of our acquisitions, complements our existing family of products and services. Based in Dublin, MarginMan broadens our global presence and supports our strategy of being a leading provider of solutions to the worldwide financial services industry. | ||
As an update on the Carlyle Group transaction, we believe our transaction with the Carlyle Group is good for our customers, employees, and shareholders. The transaction is progressing as planned. As I said at the |
beginning of the call our final proxy was filed with the SEC yesterday the nineteenth and we anticipate mailing the proxy to our shareholders tomorrow the twenty-first. | ||
We encourage all of our investors and stockholders to read this statement. The proxy contains important information about our pending transactions. The shareholder meeting to adopt the merger agreement has been set for November 22, 2005. Our original timeline of closing the transaction in Q4 has not changed. | ||
And at this time I would be open for any questions anyone might have. | ||
(Beverlyn)? | ||
Operator:
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At this time I would like to remind everyone if you would like to ask a question simply press star then the number 1 on your telephone keypad. Well pause for a moment to compile the Q&A roster. Your first question comes from Steven Hanson. | |
Bill Stone:
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Its a very quiet question. | |
Operator:
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Mr. Hanson your line is open. | |
Steven Hanson:
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For the first nine months of the year in the numbers that you put out, does that include the full nine months for the Financial Models acquisition or is it just the portion of the revenues for after the deal closed? | |
Patrick Pedonti:
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Its only since the acquisition on April 19. |
Steven Hanson:
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Okay. Do you have the numbers for the full year for both companies that you can give to us? | |
Patrick Pedonti:
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Weve got an 8K on file for the acquisition that has their first quarter results. | |
Steven Hanson:
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Okay great. And now that the proxys been finalized and mailed has there been any change in plans for the high yield financing and the road show? | |
Bill Stone:
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Again we havent disclosed the road show dates yet. But as we said before we still expect the close of the deal in Q4. | |
Steven Hanson:
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Okay but you still plan on coming to market with the high yield deal to finance the deal for a portion of it. | |
Bill Stone:
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Again, the financing that we expect to do is in our proxy. | |
Steven Hanson:
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Okay and theres been no change to that either; you do a high yield or theres a credit facility. | |
Bill Stone:
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The definitive was just filed yesterday and I think it covers the financing. | |
Steven Hanson:
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Okay. Thank you. | |
Operator:
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Your next question comes from Roy Hottenstein. | |
Mr. Hottenstein would you please press star 1 again? | ||
Bill Stone:
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Roy has a quiet question as well. Maybe we can go to the next one (Beverlyn). | |
Operator:
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Mr. Hottenstein your line is open. |
Roy Hottenstein:
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Can you guys hear me? | |
Bill Stone:
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We can now. | |
Roy Hottenstein:
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Sorry about that; something happened there. I was going to ask some similar questions about the financing but Ill just Ill move on. Thank you. | |
Operator:
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Your next question comes from Sam Sabbagh. | |
Man:
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Hi its (Unintelligible) with Sam Sabbagh, Quattro Global Capitol. In addition to the merger related costs are there any other non-recurring charges that we should be aware of? | |
Patrick Pedonti:
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No there arent. | |
Sam Sabbagh:
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Okay. And I just want to confirm; there is a bridge loan that would backstop the high yield offering in the event that offering couldnt be absorbed by the capital markets? | |
Patrick Pedonti:
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I think again weve got to refer you to the proxy. | |
Sam Sabbagh:
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Okay. Thank you. | |
Operator:
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Again if you would like to ask a question please press star 1 on your telephone keypad. | |
At this time sir there are no further questions. | ||
Bill Stone:
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Well again as weve said a couple of times already on this call we really refer everybody to our definitive proxy statement that we filed yesterday and we will be mailing it out to all the shareholders tomorrow. And we look forward |
to completing this transaction in Q4 and we appreciate everyones long term holdings as we are aware you have. | ||
So thanks again and... | ||
Operator:
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Excuse me Mr. Stone? | |
Bill Stone:
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Yes? | |
Operator:
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You do have another question. | |
Bill Stone:
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Okay. | |
Operator:
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Its from Mitch Nordon. | |
Mitch Nordon:
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Yes hi good afternoon. Nice quarter; wondering if you can two questions. One can you talk about your top five customers and what percent of your revenues they would account for in the last quarter? | |
Bill Stone:
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In general we dont really disclose our top five customers by quarter but what we do disclose is that the top ten customers are less than 20% of our revenue and no customer represents more than 4% of our revenue. | |
Mitch Nordon:
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Terrific. And in terms of the funding you keep referring questioners to the proxy and Im wondering why it is that you cannot comment on plans for funding. Because there has been a, you know, spreads have opened up a little bit in the credit market. If there was a change in plans for funding would we have seen that in the proxy? | |
Bill Stone:
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I dont believe theres any changes from the definitive proxy to the previous proxies that have been filed. So everything that we have said before in any of |
our filings with the SEC I dont think theres anything but some technical changes. Although I think, you know, again we would refer you to read it and read it with your advisors and all that kind of stuff. | ||
But all of the things that we had in place before we have in place now. And as I said we expect to close in Q4. | ||
Mitch Nordon:
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And would the closing occur promptly after the shareholder meeting or do you anticipate that the financing would take a number of weeks following the meeting so that closing wouldnt occur until a good amount of time after the shareholder meeting. Whats the target that youre shooting for? | |
Bill Stone:
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I believe thats disclosed in the proxy but I think in the proxy it says no more than ten business days afterwards. | |
Mitch Nordon:
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No more than ten afterwards; and do you think youll need the full ten or do you think you can close... | |
Bill Stone:
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I think it will be about 6.35782 days. What do you think? | |
Mitch Nordon:
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Im sorry. | |
Bill Stone:
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I said I think itll be about 6.5382 days. | |
Mitch Nordon:
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Well Im not doing the funding so I guess Im unable to answer that question. I was hoping youd be able to, you know, give a little bit more of a straight answer. We all can read the proxy but with the conference call hopefully you can all give us clarification. | |
Bill Stone:
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Well we appreciate that youve read the proxy. |
Mitch Nordon:
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Okay and do you have the ability to take down bank debt versus junk debt if you wanted to do so? | |
Patrick Pedonti:
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I think again, you need to understand were really limited that we cant disclose anything other than whats in our SEC filings and I think again youve got to look at the proxy. | |
Mitch Nordon:
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Yeah if you were able to answer these questions you could file them as an 8K which would become an SEC filing. So Im unclear why the impression Im getting is that youre avoiding answering these questions and Im wondering why. | |
Bill Stone:
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You can have whatever impression you want; were trying to do what were supposed to do. We have advisors and more advisors and more advisors and were doing what weve been advised to do and we appreciate your questions. | |
Mitch Nordon:
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Terrific, thanks very much. Nice quarter. | |
Operator:
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Your next question comes from Michael Levitt. | |
Bill Stone:
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I think you need to tell him to press 1 again. | |
Operator:
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Mr. Levitt your line is open. | |
Michael Levitt:
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Oh hi guys thanks for taking my question. I just jumped back on the call so this may have been asked. Can you walk us through the sources and uses of funds as currently contemplated to fund the transaction? | |
Bill Stone:
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Again I think what were trying to say is that all that information is in the proxy statement and were really not commenting on anything other than whats in the proxy statement. And really were referring everyone to the |
proxy statement in order not to say anything that is not consistent with the proxy statement. | ||
Michael Levitt:
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Understood. Can you help identify the changes to the proxy that have been made? Theres been I think three versions distributed, right? | |
Bill Stone:
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I dont think we filed a black line. | |
Patrick Pedonti:
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I dont think we can. I think if you look at the current one at least youll get, you know, the current version. But... | |
Michael Levitt:
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Has the percentage of equity being rolled into the deal changed at all? | |
Patrick Pedonti:
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I dont think the total equity has changed. | |
Michael Levitt:
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Okay has the source of the equity changed? | |
Bill Stone:
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Again I think the thing youre not getting theres three proxy filings that weve made and right now the amount of equity thats been rolled is in the proxy statement. And again the numbers have not changed that I can tell you between the second filing and the third filing. But you might want to check between the first and the second, you know, thats all I can point you to. | |
Michael Levitt:
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Okay. Thank you. | |
Operator:
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Your next question comes from Alex Hyde. | |
Bill Stone:
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Alex? | |
Alex Hyde:
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Hello? |
Bill Stone:
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Go ahead. | |
Alex Hyde:
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Yeah Im trying to find out under the bridge facility term sheet that was filed there are certain terms that were not made public. And were trying to understand exactly how good is that bridge facility and under what conditions it would not be available. Could you please shed some light on that? | |
Bill Stone:
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Again I dont believe that, you know, we have any color other than whats in the proxy statement and whats been filed publicly. | |
Alex Hyde:
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Thank you. Have a good quarter. | |
Operator:
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You do have a follow-up question from Sam Sabbagh. | |
Man:
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Hi its (Unintelligible) again with Sam. Thanks for taking our second question. In the proxy there is it appears that theres been a slight change in the amount of equity that managements rolling over. I was wondering if you can confirm that thats the correct interpretation of the proxy and if you could provide any explanation for why that change was made and if it has to do with the contemplated sources and uses in the financing. | |
Bill Stone:
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I dont think that theres been any change in the amount of rollover from management. Its primarily me thats rolling over the money. And the amount of money that Im rolling over is to maintain about a 30% ownership in the company and thats why the numbers might have changed slightly. But thats the only change in the management rollover to date. | |
Alex Hyde:
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Okay. Thank you. | |
Operator:
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Your next question comes from Adam Gittes. |
Adam Gittes:
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Hi. We did actually all our questions have been asked and answered so I appreciate it. | |
Bill Stone:
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Great. | |
Operator:
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There are no further questions. | |
Bill Stone:
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Okay well thanks again for being on the call and thats it (Beverlyn). | |
Operator:
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This concludes todays SS&C Third Quarter Earnings conference call. You may now disconnect. |