SALT LAKE CITY -- (Business Wire)

Varex Imaging Corporation (Nasdaq: VREX) today announced its unaudited financial results for the first quarter fiscal year 2026.

Q1FY26 Summary

• Revenues $210 million
• GAAP gross margin 33% | Non-GAAP gross margin* 34%
• GAAP operating margin 7% | Non-GAAP operating margin* 9%
• GAAP net income $0.05 per diluted share | Non-GAAP net income* $0.19 per diluted share
• Cash outflow from operations of $16 million

"We are pleased to report a solid start to fiscal 2026, with results toward the high-end of guidance. First quarter revenue of $210 million, increased 5% year-over-year. Growth in the quarter was driven by strength in our cargo systems business, which contributed to a 17% year-over-year increase in Industrial segment revenue," said Sunny Sanyal, Chief Executive Officer. Sanyal added, "Looking ahead, we expect demand for CT products to remain strong and we are encouraged by the sustained momentum in our cargo security systems business."

Varex’s first quarter revenue of $210 million was up 5% year-over-year. Medical segment revenue was $145 million, while Industrial segment revenue was $65 million. Non-GAAP gross margin was 34% in the quarter compared to 35% in the first quarter of fiscal year 2025, and non-GAAP EPS increased to $0.19 in the quarter from $0.10 in the first quarter of fiscal year 2025.

Balance Sheet & Cash Flow

Cash outflow from operations was $16 million in the first quarter of fiscal year 2026. Cash, cash equivalents, and marketable securities was $126 million as of the end of the first quarter of 2026 compared to $155 million at the end of fiscal year 2025. The primary driver of the lower cash was an increase in working capital, primarily driven by inventory.

Outlook

Guidance for the second quarter of fiscal year 2026 is as follows:

• Revenues are expected to be between $210 million and $225 million
• Non-GAAP net earnings per diluted share is expected to be between $0.15 and $0.25

Guidance for the company's net earnings per diluted share is provided on a non-GAAP basis only. This non-GAAP financial measure is forward-looking, and the company is unable to provide a meaningful or accurate reconciliation to a GAAP forecast of net earnings per diluted share without unreasonable effort due to certain of these reconciling items being uncertain, out of its control, and the amount and timing of these items being unable to be reasonably predicted. The actual amounts of such reconciling items could have a significant impact on the company's GAAP net income (loss) per diluted share.

Non-GAAP Financial Measures

* The company updated its non-GAAP policy related to equity-method investments beginning with the first quarter of fiscal year 2026. Please refer to "Reconciliation of 2025 Non-GAAP Financial Information As Previously Reported to2025 Non-GAAP Financial Results as per Updated Policy - Excluding gains and losses from equity-method investments(Unaudited)" below.

Conference Call Information

Varex will conduct its earnings conference call for the first quarter of fiscal year 2026 today at 3:00 p.m. Mountain Time. The conference call, including a supplemental slide presentation, will be webcast live and can be accessed at Varex’s website at www.vareximaging.com/investor-relations. Access will also be available by dialing 877-524-8416 from anywhere in the U.S. or by dialing 412-902-1028 from non-U.S. locations. The webcast and supplemental slide presentation will be archived on Varex’s website at www.vareximaging.com/financial-reports. A replay of the call will be available from today through February 24^th at 877-660-6853 from anywhere in the U.S. or 201-612-7415 from non-U.S. locations. The replay access code is 13758188. The listen-only webcast link is: https://event.choruscall.com/mediaframe/webcast.html?webcastid=seewOOWX

About Varex

Varex Imaging Corporation is a leading innovator, designer, and manufacturer of X-ray imaging components, which include X-ray tubes, digital detectors, and other image processing solutions that are key components of X-ray imaging systems, as well as X-ray imaging systems for industrial applications. With a 70+ year history of successful innovation, Varex’s products are used in medical imaging as well as in industrial and security imaging applications. Global OEM manufacturers incorporate the company’s X-ray sources, digital detectors, connecting devices, and imaging software in their systems to detect, diagnose, protect, and inspect. Headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, Varex employs approximately 2,400 people located in North America, Europe, and Asia. For more information visit www.vareximaging.com.

Forward Looking Statements

This news release contains “forward-looking” statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Statements concerning unaudited financial results; revenue and earnings guidance; industry or business outlook; product demand environment; expected future financial results or performance; and any statements using the terms “believe,” “expect,” “anticipate,” “can,” “should,” “would,” “could,” “estimate,” “may,” “intend,” and “potential,” or similar statements are forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause the company's actual results and the outcome and timing of certain events to differ materially from those projected or management’s current expectations. While forward-looking statements are based on assumptions and analyses made by management of Varex that it believes to be reasonable under the circumstances, actual results and developments will depend on a number of risks and uncertainties which could cause actual results, performance, and financial condition to differ materially from such expectations. Such risks and uncertainties include: changes in import/export regulatory regimes, tariffs, trade wars, and national policies, including exemptions thereto; reduction in or loss of business of one or more of the company's limited original equipment manufacturing customers; global, regional, and country-specific economic instability, shifting political environments, changing tax treatment, tariffs, trade wars, and other risks associated with international manufacturing, operations and sales; loss of business to, and an inability to effectively compete with, competitors; pricing pressures and other factors that could result in market erosion or loss of customers; failure to meet customers’ needs and demands; supply chain disruptions resulting in delayed product delivery, and increased costs as a result of reliance on a limited number of suppliers for certain key components; disruption of critical information systems or material breaches in the security of such systems; inability to maintain or defend intellectual property rights, and cost associated with protecting the company's intellectual property and defending such rights and defending against infringement claims; non-compliance with regulations applicable to marketing, manufacturing, labeling, and distributing the company's products and delays in obtaining regulatory clearances or approvals; limitations imposed by operating and financial restrictions of the company's debt financing agreements; the financial results of the company's equity method investments and joint ventures, and the other risks listed from time to time in the company's filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Any forward-looking statement made by us in this news release speaks only as of the date on which it is made. Factors or events that could cause the company's actual results to differ may emerge from time to time, and it is not possible for us to predict all of them. Varex assumes no obligation to update or revise the forward-looking statements in this release because of new information, future events, or otherwise.

Varex has not filed its Form 10-Q for the first quarter of fiscal year 2026. All financial results described here should be considered preliminary and are subject to change to reflect any necessary adjustments or changes in accounting estimates that are identified prior to the time Varex files its Form 10-Q.

Reconciliation of 2025 Non-GAAP Financial Information As Previously Reported to 2025 Non-GAAP Financial Results as per Updated Policy - Excluding gains and losses from equity-method investments
(Unaudited)

We annually review our non-GAAP policy to determine whether any changes to the policy should be made. As part of our review, we considered a strategic shift at one of our equity method investees. Because of this, and because we do not control operations of either of our equity method investments, we believe that the results of these businesses no longer provide investors with information helpful to evaluate our ongoing operations. As such, we have modified our non-GAAP policy to exclude the gains and losses from our equity method investments. The gains and losses on the company's equity-method investments in privately-held companies are recorded to other expense, net, in the company’s Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations. This updated non-GAAP policy will become the basis for the company’s comparisons going forward in fiscal year 2026 and is reflected in its 2026 guidance. The reconciliations below reflect the application of the new policy as if it had been adopted at the beginning of fiscal year 2025. Please refer to "Reconciliation between GAAP and non-GAAP Financial Measures" below for a reconciliation of non-GAAP items to the most comparable GAAP measures.

Discussion of Non-GAAP Financial Measures

This press release includes non-GAAP financial measures derived from the company's Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations. These measures are not presented in accordance with, nor are they a substitute for U.S. generally accepted accounting principles, or GAAP. These measures include: non-GAAP gross profit; non-GAAP gross margin; non-GAAP operating expense; non-GAAP operating earnings; non-GAAP operating earnings margin; non-GAAP earnings before taxes; non-GAAP net earnings; non-GAAP net earnings per diluted share, non-GAAP dilutive shares; and non-GAAP EBITDA. The company is providing a reconciliation above of each non-GAAP financial measure used in this earnings release to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measure. The company is unable to provide without unreasonable effort a reconciliation of non-GAAP guidance measures to the corresponding GAAP measures on a forward-looking basis due to the potential significant variability and limited visibility of the excluded items discussed.

The company utilizes a number of different financial measures, both GAAP and non-GAAP, in analyzing and assessing the overall performance of its business, in making operating decisions, and forecasting and planning for future periods. The company considers the use of the non-GAAP measures to be helpful in assessing the performance of the ongoing operation of its business by excluding unusual and one-time costs. The company believes that disclosing non-GAAP financial measures provides useful supplemental data that allows for greater transparency in the review of its financial and operational performance. The company also believes that disclosing non-GAAP financial measures provides useful information to investors and others in understanding and evaluating its operating results and future prospects in the same manner as management and in comparing financial results across accounting periods and to those of peer companies.

Non-GAAP measures include the following items:

Amortization of intangible assets:The company does not acquire businesses and assets on a predictable cycle. The amount of purchase price allocated to intangible assets and the term of amortization can vary significantly and are unique to each acquisition or asset purchase. The company believes that excluding amortization of intangible assets allows the users of its financial statements to better review and understand the historic and current results of its operations, and also facilitates comparisons to peer companies.

Purchase price accounting charges to cost of revenues: The company may incur charges to cost of revenues as a result of acquisitions. The company believes that excluding these charges allows the users of its financial statements to better understand the historic and current cost of its products, its gross margin, and also facilitates comparisons to peer companies.

Restructuring charges: The company incurs restructuring charges that result from events which arise from unforeseen circumstances and/or often occur outside of the ordinary course of its on-going business. Although these events are reflected in its GAAP financials, these unique transactions may limit the comparability of its on-going operations with prior and future periods.

Acquisition and integration related costs: The company incurs expenses or benefits with respect to certain items associated with its acquisitions, such as transaction costs, changes in fair value of acquisition related hedges, changes in the fair value of contingent consideration liabilities, gain or expense on settlement of pre-existing relationships, etc. The company excludes such expenses or benefits as they are related to acquisitions and have no direct correlation to the operation of its on-going business. The company also incurs expenses or benefits with respect to certain items associated with its acquisitions, such as integration costs relating to acquisition costs incurred prior to closing and up to 12 months after the closing date of the acquisition.

Impairment of goodwill: The company may incur impairment charges that result from events which arise from unforeseen circumstances and/or often occur outside of the ordinary course of its on-going business and such charges may limit the comparability of its on-going operations with prior and future periods.

Non-ordinary course litigation: The company may incur charges that result from non-ordinary course litigation matters such as certain intellectual property disputes and joint venture litigation. Litigation matters that are part of the ordinary course of the company’s business, such as product liability claims, employment related matters and commercial contract disputes, are not excluded.

Other non-operational costs: Certain items may be non-recurring, unusual, infrequent and directly related to an event that is distinct and non-reflective of the company’s ongoing business operations. These may include such items as legal settlements, inventory write-downs for discontinued products, cost of facilities no longer in use, extinguishment of debt and hedge costs, environmental settlements, governmental settlements including tax settlements, and other items of similar nature.

Non-operational tax adjustments: Certain tax items may be non-recurring, unusual, infrequent and directly related to an event that is distinct and non-reflective of the company’s normal business operations. These may include such items as the retroactive impact of significant changes in tax laws, including changes to statutory tax rates and one-time tax charges.

Tax effects of operating earnings adjustments: The company applies its non-GAAP adjustments to the GAAP pretax income to calculate the non-GAAP effective tax rate. This application of its non-GAAP effective tax rate excludes any discrete items, as defined in the guidance for accounting for income taxes in interim periods, or any other non-operational tax adjustments.

Dilution offset from convertible notes hedge transaction: In connection with the issuance of the company’s Convertible Senior Unsecured Notes (the Convertible Notes) in June 2020, the company entered into convertible note hedge transactions (the Hedge Transactions) to reduce the potential dilutive effect on common shares upon the potential conversion of the Convertible Notes. GAAP diluted shares outstanding includes the incremental dilutive shares from the company’s Convertible Notes. Under GAAP, the anti-dilutive impact of the Convertible Note Hedge Transactions is not reflected in GAAP diluted shares outstanding. In periods in which the average stock price per share exceeds $20.81 and the company has GAAP net income, the non-GAAP diluted share count includes the anti-dilutive impact of the company’s Hedge Transactions, which reduces the potential dilution that otherwise would occur upon conversion of the company’s Convertible Notes. The company believes non-GAAP diluted shares is a useful non-GAAP metric because it provides insight into the offsetting economic effect of the Hedge Transactions against potential conversion of the Convertible Notes.

Gains and losses on equity-method investments: The company's net income (loss) is impacted by gains and losses associated with its equity-method investments in privately-held companies included in other expense, net on the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations. These gains and losses may arise from unforeseen circumstances and/or often occur outside of the ordinary course of the company's on-going business. By excluding these gains and losses, investors can better evaluate its operating performance period-over-period.

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Contacts:

For Information Contact:
Christopher Belfiore
Director of Investor Relations
Varex Imaging Corporation
801.973.1566 | christopher.belfiore@vareximaging.com

Source: Varex Imaging Corporation