Sharps Compliance Corp Reports Operating Results (10-K/A)

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Jun 28, 2010
Sharps Compliance Corp (SMED, Financial) filed Amended Annual Report for the period ended 2009-06-30.

Sharps Compliance Corp has a market cap of $69.41 million; its shares were traded at around $4.75 with a P/E ratio of 6.09 and P/S ratio of 3.42.

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As of December 31, 2008 and September 17, 2009, the aggregate market value of the Registrant s Common Stock held by non-affiliates was approximately $9,213,328 million (based on the closing price of $1.60 on December 31, 2008 as reported by The NASDAQ Capital Market) and approximately $ 61,556,789 million (based upon the closing price of $9.72 on September 17, 2009, as reported by THE NASDAQ Capital Market).

syringes and unused pharmaceuticals. On February 2, 2009, the Company announced a $40 million contract award (the “U.S. Government Contract”) award to provide its Sharps®MWMS™ to an agency of the United States Government. The total contract is valued at approximately $40 million and is expected to be executed over a five year period (one year plus four option years). The Company has received a purchase order for $28.5 million which represents products and services to be provided during the first contract year of which $3.0 million was billed in the quarter ended March 31, 2009 and $3 million in the quarter ended June 30, 2009. The following four option years represent payment for program maintenance (see description of Services below). The U.S. Government Contract is, as with all contracts or subcontracts involving the federal government, terminable, or subject to renegotiation, by the applicable governmental agency on 30 days notice, at the option of the governmental agency. The Government market generated 30% of the Company s billings for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2009.

Although Sharps has experienced growth in revenues over the past few years, there is an inherent concentration of credit risk associated with accounts receivable arising from sales to its major customers. For the fiscal year ended June 30, 2009, four customers represented approximately 48% of revenues. Those same four customers represented approximately 28%, or $503,735 of the total accounts receivable balance at June 30, 2009. For the fiscal year ended June 30, 2008, four customers represented approximately 38% of revenues. Those same four customers represented approximately 34%, or $402,723 of the total accounts receivable balance at June 30, 2008. The Company may be adversely affected by its dependence on a limited number of high volume customers. Management believes that the risks are mitigated by, (i) the contractual

In November 2005 and September 2009, the EPA and the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality promulgated new regulations under the Clean Air Act and associated state statutes which will affect the operations of the incineration facility located in Carthage, Texas. These regulations modify the emission limits and monitoring procedures required to operate an incineration facility. The new rules will necessitate changes to the Company s owned incinerator and pollution control equipment at the facility or require installation of an alternative treatment method to ensure compliance. These regulations will also require the Company to obtain a Title V permit and conduct additional monitoring. The Company is required to comply with these new standards by the end of 2012. Such changes will require the Company to incur significant capital expenditures in order to meet the requirements of the regulations. The Company has studied these amended regulations and their options, and decided in the interim to move forward with the process of adding alternative technology, autoclaving, which meets the EPA Clean Air Act requirements, for medical waste disposal which became fully operational in February 2009 at its current facility in Carthage, Texas. Autoclaving is a process that treats regulated waste with steam at high temperature and pressure to kill pathogens. Combining the autoclaving with a shredding or grinder process allows the waste to be disposed in a landfill operation. The Company believes autoclaving is environmentally cleaner and a less costly method of treating medical waste than incineration. Due to its continued growth, the Company anticipates that it will incur additional capital expenditures needed in order to meet the new air emission regulations. The additional capital expenditures are estimated to range from approximately $1.0 million to $2.5 million. The Company expects capital expenditures related to these new regulations to be made by the end of the first half of fiscal year 2013. These expenditures may allow the Company to increase the facility s permitted incineration capacity from eleven tons per day to forty tons per day. The amount of medical waste which can be treated through the incinerator is capped at 10% of the permitted capacity. As a result, the amount of medical waste we treat could potentially increase from 1.1 tons per day to 4 tons per day.

A material amount of our revenues are generated through the contract with an agency of the U.S. government. Our revenues for the first year of the five year contract (one year plus four option years) are approximately $28.5 million ($6 million of which was recognized in fiscal year 2009, $11.1 million of which is expected to be recognized in the quarter ending September 30, 2009 and $11.5 million of which is expected to be recognized in the quarter ending December 31, 2009). The annual revenue attributable to this contract for years two through five is expected to be approximately $2.9 mill

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