VistaPrint Ltd. Reports Operating Results (10-K)

Author's Avatar
Aug 15, 2012
VistaPrint Ltd. (VPRT, Financial) filed Annual Report for the period ended 2012-06-30.

Vistaprint Limited has a market cap of $1.45 billion; its shares were traded at around $39.35 with a P/E ratio of 30.8 and P/S ratio of 1.4. Vistaprint Limited had an annual average earning growth of 14.3% over the past 5 years.

Highlight of Business Operations:

Our second fiscal quarter, ending December 31, includes the majority of the holiday shopping season and has become our strongest quarter for sales of our consumer-oriented products, such as holiday cards, calendars, photo books, and personalized gifts. This second fiscal quarter seasonality has increased with the acquisition of Albumprinter, which also has a highly seasonal business. Net income during the second fiscal quarter represented 72%, 41%, and 40% of annual net income in the years ended June 30, 2012, 2011, and 2010, respectively.

Revenue for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2012 increased 25% to $1,020.3 million compared to the fiscal year ended June 30, 2011, due to increases in sales across our product and service offerings, as well as across all geographic segments, and our acquisitions of Albumprinter and Webs. The overall growth during this period was driven by increases in the number of unique active customers, which grew by 26% to approximately 14.4 million. This was driven by both new customer additions and repeat customers. Excluding the effect of acquisitions, new customer additions during the year ended June 30, 2012 grew 27% to approximately 9.4 million. The stronger U.S. dollar negatively impacted our revenue growth by an estimated 60 basis points in the fiscal year ended June 30, 2012, as compared to the fiscal year ended June 30, 2011.

The increase in our marketing and selling expenses of $103.7 million for fiscal 2012 as compared to fiscal 2011 was driven primarily by increases of $74.2 million in advertising costs and commissions related to new customer acquisition and costs of promotions targeted at our existing customer base, an integral component of our long-term growth strategy, as well as increases in payroll and facility-related costs of $20.7 million. We continued to expand our marketing organization and our customer service, sales and design support centers and at June 30, 2012, we employed 1,515 employees in these organizations compared to 1,017 employees at June 30, 2011. In addition, payment processing fees paid to third parties increased by $3.1 million during fiscal 2012, as compared to fiscal 2011 due primarily to increased order volumes. Other marketing and selling expenses also increased by $2.2 million due to increased employee travel and training costs, recruitment costs, and professional fees. Furthermore, the year ended June 30, 2012 includes $3.5 million of amortization of acquired customer and brand name intangible assets related to the Albumprinter and Webs acquisitions.

facility-related costs of $11.4 million. We continued to expand our marketing organization and our customer service, sales and design support centers and at June 30, 2011, we employed 1,017 employees in these organizations compared to 806 employees at June 30, 2010. In addition, payment processing fees paid to third parties increased by $3.2 million during fiscal 2011, as compared to fiscal 2010 due primarily to increased order volumes. These increases were partially offset by a charge of $1.5 million related to indirect taxes that is included in the fiscal year ended June 30, 2010.

Purchase Obligations. At June 30, 2012, we had unrecorded commitments under contract of $40.2 million, which were principally composed of the site development and construction for the expansion of our Venlo, the Netherlands manufacturing facility and our Jamaican customer service, sales and design support centers of approximately $18.0 million and $5.9 million, respectively, as well as production and computer equipment purchases of approximately $7.2 million, and other unrecorded purchase commitments of $9.1 million.

Read the The complete Report