Pall Corporation Reports Third Quarter Results

Pall Corporation Reports Third Quarter Results

PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Pall Corporation (NYSE:PLL) today reported financial results for the third quarter of fiscal year 2013 which ended on April 30, 2013.

Third Quarter and Nine Months Continuing Operations Sales and Earnings Overview⁽¹⁾

Third quarter sales were $641.2 million compared to $658.0 million last year, a decrease of 3%. Sales in local currency ("LC") were flat year over year. Diluted EPS were $0.65 in the quarter, compared to $0.60 last year. Pro forma diluted EPS⁽²⁾ were $0.74, a 21% increase compared to $0.61 a year earlier, including a negative impact of approximately $0.03 from foreign currency translation.

For the nine months, sales decreased 1% year over year. Sales in LC increased 1%. Diluted EPS were $2.13 in the nine months, compared to $1.74 for the same period last year. Pro forma EPS⁽²⁾ were $2.15, an 11% increase compared to $1.94 a year earlier, including a negative impact of approximately $0.07 from foreign currency translation.

Larry Kingsley, Pall President and CEO, said, "The best way to summarize our performance for the quarter and nine months is that, in the face of continued economic challenges, we are delivering pretty solid returns. This is largely due to improved operational execution and the effect of our structural cost actions."

BioPharmaceuticals: Consumables sales grew 15% compared to last year, with growth in all regions and 5% sequentially on continued strength in the biotech sector. The year-over-year sales comparison reflects weakness in the third quarter of fiscal year 2012, due to the effect of our global ERP go-live. Systems sales were down 33% in the quarter, primarily due to large projects in the third quarter of last year.

Food and Beverage: Overall sales were down due to weak capital spending and timing of projects in the Americas and Asia. Consumables sales were up 2% due to geographic expansion.

Medical: Consumables sales increased 10% over last year, with growth in all regions, and were up 2% sequentially. This reflects strong sales year over year in the Hospital Critical Care market and blood media.

Process Technologies: Consumables sales were down almost 6%, reflecting softness across most end-markets, particularly in Europe and Asia. Systems sales were down 24% on weakness in capital spend and timing of projects.

Aerospace: Aerospace results were driven by particularly strong Commercial performance, with sales up about 40%. Military Aerospace sales were up 14% year over year. The year-over-year sales comparison also reflects the effect of our global ERP go-live last year.

Microelectronics: Sales were down 10% largely due to the continuing weakness in display and data storage end-markets.

Conclusion/Outlook

Kingsley concluded, "While the company is executing well, we're mindful of the slower global environment that many of our customers are experiencing and now expect full year sales to be flat year over year, excluding impact from foreign currency translation. Full-year pro forma EPS is now expected to be in the range of $2.95 to $3.05⁽²⁾, and within our previously discussed range, but narrowed to the bottom half. If consumables sales are more robust than currently anticipated for the remainder of the fiscal year, we should convert to earnings quite well."

Conference Call

On Friday, May 31, 2013, at 8:30 am ET, Pall Corporation will host a conference call to review these results. The call can be accessed at www.pall.com/investor. The webcast will be archived for 30 days.

About Pall Corporation

Pall Corporation (NYSE:PLL) is a filtration, separation and purification leader providing solutions to meet the critical fluid management needs of customers across the broad spectrum of life sciences and industry. Pall works with customers to advance health, safety and environmentally responsible technologies. The Company's engineered products enable process and product innovation and minimize emissions and waste. Pall Corporation is an S&P 500 company serving customers worldwide. Pall has been named a "top green company" by Newsweek magazine. To see how Pall is helping enable a greener, safer, more sustainable future, follow us on Twitter @PallCorporation or visit www.pall.com/green.

Forward-Looking Statements

The matters discussed in this presentation contain "forward-looking statements" as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Results for the third quarter of fiscal year 2013 are preliminary until the Company's Form 10-Q is filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on or before June 10, 2013. Forward-looking statements are those that address activities, events or developments that the Company or management intends, expects, projects, believes or anticipates will or may occur in the future. All statements regarding future performance, earnings projections, earnings guidance, management's expectations about its future cash needs, dilution from the disposition or future allocation of capital and effective tax rate, and other future events or developments are forward-looking statements.

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The Company's forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties and are not guarantees of future performance, and actual results, developments and business decisions may differ materially from those envisaged by the Company's forward-looking statements. Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, those discussed in Part I-Item 1A.-Risk Factors in the 2012 Form 10-K, and other reports the Company files with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including: the impact of legislative, regulatory and political developments globally; the impact of the uncertain global economic environment; the extent to which adverse economic conditions may affect the Company's sales volume and results; demand for the Company's products and business relationships with key customers and suppliers, which may be impacted by their cash flow and payment practices; delays or cancellations in shipments; the Company's ability to develop and commercialize new technologies or obtain regulatory approval or market acceptance of new technologies; the Company's ability to enforce patents and protect proprietary products and manufacturing techniques; increase in costs of manufacturing and operating costs; the Company's ability to achieve and sustain the savings anticipated from its structural cost improvement initiatives; volatility in foreign currency exchange rates, interest rates and energy costs and other macroeconomic challenges currently affecting the Company; the Company's ability to meet its regulatory obligations; costs and outcome of pending or future claims or litigation; the Company's ability to comply with environmental, health and safety laws and regulations; changes in product mix, market mix and product pricing, particularly relating to the expansion of the systems business; the effect of a serious disruption in the Company's information systems; fluctuations in the Company's effective tax rate; the Company's ability to successfully complete or integrate any acquisitions; competition, including the impact of pricing and other actions by the Company's competitors; the effect of litigation and regulatory inquiries associated with the restatement of the Company's prior period financial statements; the Company's ability to attract and retain management talent or the loss of members of its senior management team; the effect of the restrictive covenants in the Company's debt facilities; and the effect of product defects and recalls. 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 the Company to predict all of them. The Company makes these statements as of the date of this disclosure and undertakes no obligation to update them, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise.

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