SPECTRANETICS CP
SymbolSPNC

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Spectranetics Reports Third Quarter Revenue Up 7% to $28.8 Million

2009-10-28 06:00 ET - News Release

Profitability Achieved, Excluding Special Items

Conference Call Begins at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time Today


COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- (Business Wire)

Spectranetics Corporation (Nasdaq:SPNC) today reported financial results for the quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2009.

Revenue for the third quarter of 2009 was $28.8 million, up 7% compared with revenue of $26.8 million for the third quarter of 2008.

The pre-tax loss for the third quarter of 2009 was $2,492,000, compared with pre-tax income of $615,000 for the third quarter of 2008. The pre-tax loss during the third quarter of 2009 includes $3,133,000 of special items, consisting of $602,000 of costs associated with the federal investigation; $1,090,000 of costs associated with previously announced ongoing litigation, which is unrelated to the federal investigation; $1,075,000 relating to the discontinuation of the marketing and sales of the Safe-Cross® product line; and $366,000 of employee termination and lease abandonment costs. Pre-tax income during the third quarter of 2008 included $422,000 of costs associated with the federal investigation. Excluding these special items in both periods, adjusted pre-tax income was $641,000 in the third quarter of 2009, compared with adjusted pre-tax income of $1,037,000 in the third quarter of 2008. A further description of these special items and a reconciliation of these non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable financial measure calculated in accordance with GAAP is provided immediately following the financial tables under Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Financial Measures.

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