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ManTech Announces Financial Results for Third Quarter of Fiscal Year 2010

^{Published on 2010-10-27 13:11:22 - Market Wire}
 

FAIRFAX, Va.--([ BUSINESS WIRE ])--ManTech International Corporation (NASDAQ:MANT) ([ www.mantech.com ]), a leading provider of innovative technologies and solutions for mission-critical national security programs, today announced financial results for the third quarter of fiscal year 2010, which ended Sept. 30, 2010.

"In the third quarter of fiscal year 2010, we continued our strong growth trajectory"

aIn the third quarter of fiscal year 2010, we continued our strong growth trajectory,a said ManTech Chairman and Chief Executive Officer George J. Pedersen. aOur outstanding bookings in the quarter position us well for sustaining growth in fiscal year 2011 and beyond. Bookings were especially strong in support of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) missions, validating the Sensor Technologies Inc. (STI) acquisition. We look for similar success on our recent acquisition by providing integrated security solutions for defense and intelligence customers.a

Summary Operating Results

Revenues for the quarter were $657.0 million, up 28 percent from $514.6 million in the third quarter of fiscal year 2009. Organic growth was 11 percent for the quarter, driven primarily by recent awards for ISR, systems engineering, and test and evaluation programs, as well as expanded requirements on existing cyber security and logistics contracts. Organic growth is calculated by comparing reported revenue for the current quarter to the revenue for the prior year quarter, adjusted as if STI had been acquired one year earlier.

Operating income for the quarter was $54.5 million (8.3 percent of revenue), up 17 percent from $46.4 million (9.0 percent of revenue) in the third quarter of fiscal year 2009. Operating margin was higher than expected based on a relatively greater direct labor mix and exceptionally strong program performance.

Net income for the quarter was $31.4 million, up seven percent from $29.2 million in the third quarter of fiscal year 2009. Net income was affected by an increase in net interest expense of $3.8 million as the result of a strategic decision to issue $200 million in unsecured senior notes in April. The notes add financial flexibility for future potential corporate investments and acquisitions. After the close of the quarter, the company completed the first acquisition to deploy the new source of capital effectively.

Diluted earnings per share for the quarter were $0.86, up six percent from $0.81 in the third quarter of fiscal year 2009, driven by the increase in net income offset by a slightly higher share count compared to the prior year quarter.

Cash Management and Capital Deployment

The company used $10.7 million of net cash flow to fund operating activities in the quarter. Days sales outstanding (DSO) were 69 days, compared to 63 days in the second quarter of fiscal year 2010 and 64 days in the third quarter of fiscal year 2009.

As of Sept. 30, 2010, the company had $152 million in cash and cash equivalents and $200 million in debt with no borrowings on its $350 million revolving-credit facility.

On Oct. 8, ManTech acquired the assets of QinetiQ North America's Security and Intelligence Solutions (S&IS) business for $60 million in cash. ManTech funded the acquisition from cash on hand. The transaction is expected to be immediately accretive to earnings per share.

Contract Awards

Contract awards (bookings) totaled $1.2 billion in the third quarter, representing a book-to-bill ratio of 1.9. The company received especially significant awards under its Strategic Services Sourcing (S3) contract with the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command (CECOM) and in the area of cyber defense.

• S3awards. The company booked more than $750 million in awards on the S3 contract, the vast majority of which are two-year awards. The awards primarily provide full life-cycle support to C4ISR systems and include significant awards moving from a subcontractor to a prime position. To date, the company has received customer approval to announce only one of the awards:
  • Base Expeditionary Target Surveillance Systems-Combined (BETSS-C) Operators. ManTech was awarded a two-year, $70 million contract to operate advanced surveillance and force protection systems in Iraq. Under the contract, ManTech will provide BETSS-C operators and related administrative, managerial, logistics and business services necessary to support their deployment.
• Cyber defense awards. Thecompany was awarded three contracts with an expected value of about $125 million to establish and manage enterprisewide security operation centers for U.S. federal government customers, including:
  • Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Cyber Security Services. The FBI Security Division awarded ManTech a five-year, $99 million contract to provide 24/7 cyber security support, including intrusion-detection monitoring, security engineering, incident identification and response, vulnerability assessment and penetration testing, cyber-threat analysis and specialized cyber training services.
  • U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Cyber Security Operations Center. Under a five-year, $11 million contract, ManTech will provide 24/7 incident handling and strategic support to help detect and report malicious cyber activities on the agency's enterprise information infrastructure.
• Other awards. The company generated more than $300 million in additional awards across all three operating groups, including:
  • Integrated Logistics Support and Services (ILSS) Contract. ManTech was awarded an indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity follow-on to its Global Property Management Support Services contract. The ILSS contract has a potential total value of $490 million over two years. ManTech was awarded an initial one-year, $23 million task to support left-behind equipment, pre-deployment training equipment, theater-provided equipment and supply support activity in the Pacific region.
  • Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Security Services. ManTech received a five-year, $23 million contract to provide full-scope, integrated security services to support the start-up of new DISA facilities at Fort Meade, Md., which are moving from Arlington, Va., as a result of the Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) process.

The companya™s backlog of business at the end of quarter was $4.9 billion, of which a record $1.7 billion was funded. Compared to the third quarter of fiscal year 2009, total backlog increased 28 percent and funded backlog increased 33 percent, due to a trailing-twelve-month book-to-bill ratio of 1.2 and the robust backlog brought by the STI acquisition.

Forward Guidance

Based on year-to-date results and revised expectations for the remainder of the year, the company is lowering its guidance slightly for fiscal year 2010 revenue and narrowing its guidance for 2010 net income and diluted earnings per share. The resulting guidance ranges, which include the S&IS acquisition but no future acquisitions or divestitures, are shown in the table below:

ManTech Chief Financial Officer Kevin M. Phillips commented, aOverall, we are pleased with the performance and momentum of the business. Based on changes in customer demand for material purchases in support of in-theater vehicles, we have lowered our top-line guidance for fiscal year 2010, but our positioning on priority programs and excellent bookings provides an excellent growth platform for fiscal year 2011. Contract award delays that we have seen for most of the year are beginning to clear, and we are rapidly staffing to support our growth over the coming year.a

Conference Call

ManTech executive management will hold a conference call today at 5 p.m. Eastern to discuss the financial results and outlook and answer questions. Analysts and institutional investors may participate on the conference call by dialing 888-205-6786 (domestic) or 913-312-0975 (international) and entering passcode 2099411. The conference call will be webcast simultaneously to the public through a link on the Investor Relations section of the ManTech website ([ www.mantech.com ]).

A replay of the conference call will be available by telephone approximately one hour after conclusion of the call through Nov. 11, 2010, by dialing 888-203-1112 (domestic) or 719-457-0820 (international) and entering passcode 2099411. In addition, a replay of the webcast will be available on the ManTech website approximately two hours after the conclusion of the conference call.

About ManTech International Corporation

Headquartered in Fairfax, Va., with approximately 9,800 professionals in 40 countries around the world, ManTech is a leading provider of innovative technologies and solutions for mission-critical national security programs for the intelligence community; the departments of Defense, State, Homeland Security and Justice; the space community; the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and other U.S. federal government customers. ManTecha™s expertise includes systems engineering, systems integration, enterprise architecture, cyber security, information assurance, intelligence operations and analysis support, network and critical infrastructure protection, information operations and information warfare support, information technology, communications integration, global logistics and supply chain management and service-oriented architectures. Additional information on ManTech can be found at [ www.mantech.com ].

Forward-Looking Information

Statements and assumptions made in this press release, which do not address historical facts, constitute aforward-lookinga statements that ManTech believes to be within the definition in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and involve risks and uncertainties, many of which are outside of our control. Words such as amay,a awill,a aintends,a ashould,a aexpects,a aplans,a aprojects,a aanticipates,a abelieves,a aestimates,a apredicts,a apotential,a acontinue,a or aopportunity,a or the negative of these terms or words of similar import are intended to identify forward-looking statements.

These forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated, including, without limitation: adverse changes in U.S. government spending priorities; failure to retain existing U.S. government contracts, win new contracts or win recompetes; risks associated with complex U.S. government procurement laws and regulations; adverse results of U.S. government audits of our government contracts; adverse changes in our mix of contract types; risk of contract performance, modification or termination; curtailment of the U.S. governmenta™s outsourcing of certain services that we provide; failure to obtain option awards, task orders or funding under contracts; risks of financing, such as increases in interest rates and restrictions imposed by our outstanding indebtedness, including the ability to meet financial covenants, and risks related to an inability to obtain new or additional financing; failure to successfully integrate recently acquired companies or businesses into our operations or to realize any accretive or synergistic effects from such acquisitions; failure to identify, execute or effectively integrate future acquisitions; and competition. These and other risk factors are more fully discussed in the section entitled aRisks Factorsa in ManTecha™s Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 26, 2010, and, from time to time, in ManTecha™s other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including among others, its reports on Form 10-Q.

The forward-looking statements included in this news release are only made as of the date of this press release, and ManTech undertakes no obligation to publicly update any of the forward-looking statements made herein, whether as a result of new information, subsequent events or circumstances, changes in expectations or otherwise.