Boston Scientific Corp. Reports Operating Results (10-Q)

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Nov 06, 2012
Boston Scientific Corp. (BSX, Financial) filed Quarterly Report for the period ended 2012-09-30.

Boston Scientific, Inc. has a market cap of $7.34 billion; its shares were traded at around $5.35 with a P/E ratio of 9.1 and P/S ratio of 1. Boston Scientific, Inc. had an annual average earning growth of 0.9% over the past 10 years.

Highlight of Business Operations:

Our Endoscopy division develops and manufactures devices to treat a variety of medical conditions including diseases of the digestive and pulmonary systems. Our worldwide net sales of these products were $310 million in the third quarter of 2012, as compared to $298 million in the third quarter of 2011, an increase of $12 million, or four percent. U.S. net sales of our Endoscopy products were $149 million for the third quarter of 2012, as compared to $141 million for the same period in the prior year. Our international net sales were $161 million for the third quarter of 2012, as compared to $157 million for the third quarter of 2011, and included an $8 million negative impact from changes in foreign currency exchange rates. Excluding the impact of changes in foreign currency exchange rates, our worldwide Endoscopy net sales increased $20 million, or seven percent, in the third quarter of 2012, as compared to the third quarter of 2011. This performance was primarily the result of growth across several of our key product franchises, including our biopsy business; our biliary device franchise driven by continued growth in our Expect™ Endoscopic Ultrasound Aspiration Needle; our metal stent franchise driven by our industry-leading WallFlex® product family, which now includes our WallFlex® Biliary Transhepatic stent system for treatment of biliary strictures, launched in the first quarter of 2012; and our hemostasis franchise on the continued adoption and utilization of our Resolution Clip for gastrointestinal bleeding.

Our PI product offerings include stents, balloon catheters, wires, peripheral embolization devices and other devices used to diagnose and treat peripheral vascular disease. Our worldwide net sales of these products were $189 million in the third quarter of 2012, as compared to $182 million in the third quarter of 2011, an increase of $7 million, or four percent. Our U.S. net sales of these products were $86 million in the third quarter of 2012, as compared to $77 million in the third quarter of 2011. Our international net sales were $103 million in the third quarter of 2012, as compared to $105 million in the third quarter of 2011, and included a $6 million negative impact from changes in foreign currency exchange rates. Excluding the impact of changes in foreign currency exchange rates, our worldwide PI net sales increased $13 million, or seven percent, in the third quarter of 2012, as compared to the third quarter of 2011. The year-over-year increase in worldwide PI net sales was primarily driven by growth in our core PI franchise following the recent launches of our next-generation Mustang™ percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA) balloon; our Coyote™ balloon catheter, a highly deliverable and ultra-low profile balloon dilatation catheter designed for a wide range of peripheral angioplasty procedures; our Charger™ PTA Balloon Catheter, launched in the U.S. in December 2011; and our Gladiator™ Balloon Dilatation Catheter. In addition, our PI stent systems continued to grow on the strength of the EPIC™ self-expanding nitinol stent system in the U.S. and certain international markets, the Carotid WALLSTENT® stent system in Japan, and the recent launch of the Innova™ self-expanding bare metal stent system in EMEA and certain other international markets.

Our Urology/Women s Health division develops and manufactures devices to treat various urological and gynecological disorders. Our worldwide net sales of these products were $125 million in the third quarter of 2012, as compared to $124 million in the third quarter of 2011, an increase of approximately $1 million, or less than one percent. Our U.S. net sales were $89 million for the third quarter of 2012, as compared to $91 million in the third quarter of 2011. Our international net sales were $36 million in the third quarter of 2012, as compared to $33 million for the same period in the prior year, and included a $1 million negative impact from changes in foreign currency exchange rates. Excluding the impact of changes in foreign currency exchange rates, our worldwide Urology/Women's Health net sales increased $2 million, or one percent, in the third quarter of 2012, as compared to the third quarter of 2011.

Our CRM division develops, manufactures and markets a variety of implantable devices including implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) systems and pacemaker systems that monitor the heart and deliver electricity to treat cardiac abnormalities. Worldwide net sales of our CRM products of $462 million represented approximately 27 percent of our consolidated net sales for the third quarter of 2012. Our worldwide CRM net sales decreased $41 million, or eight percent, in the third quarter of 2012, as compared to the third quarter of 2011. Excluding the impact of changes in foreign currency exchange rates, which had a $12 million negative impact on our third quarter 2012 CRM net sales as compared to the same period in the prior year, our CRM net sales decreased $29 million, or six percent. Our U.S. CRM net sales decreased $23 million, or eight percent, in the third quarter of 2012 as compared to the third quarter of 2011. Our international CRM net sales decreased $18 million, or nine percent, in the third quarter of 2012, as compared to the third quarter of 2011. Excluding the impact of changes in foreign currency exchange rates, which had a $12 million negative impact on net sales in the third quarter of 2012, as compared to the same period in the prior year, our international CRM net sales decreased $6 million, or two percent, as compared to the same period in the prior year, due primarily to lower average selling prices driven by governmental, competitive and other pricing pressures.

In addition to coronary stent systems, our Interventional Cardiology business markets balloon catheters, rotational atherectomy systems, guide wires, guide catheters, embolic protection devices, and diagnostic catheters used in percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) procedures, as well as intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) imaging systems. Our worldwide net sales of these products were $190 million in the third quarter of 2012, as compared to $211 million in the third quarter of 2011, a decrease of $21 million, or nine percent. Our U.S. net sales were $74 million in the third quarter of 2012, as compared to $82 million in the third quarter of 2011. Our international net sales of these products were $116 million in the third quarter of 2012, as compared to $129 million in the third quarter of 2011, and included a $7 million unfavorable impact from changes in foreign currency exchange rates for the third quarter of 2012, as compared to the same period in the prior year. Excluding the impact of changes in foreign currency exchange rates, Interventional Cardiology (excluding coronary stent systems) international net sales decreased $6 million, or five percent, as compared to the same period in the prior year. In April 2012, we received CE Mark approval for and launched our Emerge™ PTCA Dilatation Catheter in our EMEA region and we received FDA clearance for this product in September 2012. The Emerge™ Catheter is a next-generation pre-dilatation balloon catheter designed specifically to offer exceptional deliverability for physicians to address challenging lesions in coronary arteries. In addition, in October 2012, we completed the acquisition of BridgePoint Medical, Inc., a developer of proprietary, catheter-based systems to treat coronary chronic total occlusions (CTOs). Through this acquisition we will augment our current portfolio of Interventional Cardiology products, which we believe will enable us to be a single-source supplier for complex PCI procedures.

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