FONAR Announces Fiscal 2007 Year-End
Financial Results
MELVILLE, NEW YORK, September 28, 2007 - FONAR Corporation (NASDAQ-FONR),
The Inventor of MR Scanning™, announced today its financial
results for the fourth quarter and full year of Fiscal 2007, which
ended June 30, 2007.
The net loss for Fiscal 2007 was $25.5 million or $5.29 per share,
(basic and diluted), as compared to a net loss for Fiscal Year
2006 of $30.0 million, or $6.78 loss per share (basic and diluted),
a decrease in losses of approximately 14.8%.
Revenues showed a small improvement at $33.2 million for Fiscal
2007 as compared to $33.1 million for Fiscal 2006. Service and
repair revenues showed the largest change which improved by 16.9%
to $10.0 million in Fiscal 2007 from $8.6 million in Fiscal 2006.
These increases are due to the result and initiation of service
contract agreements from recent installations of FONAR UPRIGHT
™ Multi-Position™ MRI units.
During Fiscal Year 2007 the Company had continued cost saving
measures in both R&D and Selling, General and Administrative
expenses (SG&A) that accomplished an 8.4% overall reduction
in those areas. R&D decreased from $6.9 million in Fiscal
2006 to $5.7 million in Fiscal 2007, while SG&A declined from
$25.9 million in Fiscal 2006 to $24.3 million in Fiscal 2007.
At June 30, 2007, total assets were $41.2 million, total current
assets were $23.0 million, total cash and marketable securities
were $3.4 million, total current liabilities were $30.6 million,
and total long-term liabilities were $1.2 million.
On April 17, 2007, FONAR announced that following its Annual Meeting
of Stockholders held one day earlier, it had effected a reverse
stock split at a ratio of 1:25 (one new share for every 25 shares)
of its outstanding common stock and all other classes of its outstanding
stock, to be effective that day. At a hearing held before the
NASDAQ Listing Qualifications Panel (“Panel”) on February
15, 2007, FONAR’s request for continued listing on The NASDAQ
Stock Market was granted, subject to the condition that on or
before May 1, 2007, the Company must have evidenced a closing
bid price of $1.00 or more for a minimum of ten consecutive trading
days. The Panel’s decision was based on its determination
that the reverse stock split to be presented at the Annual Meeting
on April 16, 2007, when implemented, would be likely to cure the
bid price deficiency and allow the Company to maintain compliance
for the longer term. Subsequently, the NASDAQ Listing Qualifications
Panel found the Company to be in full compliance with its listing
requirements, including its share price, and the post-split price
performance of FONAR shares.
Since the introduction of the FONAR UPRIGHT™ MRI in 2001
until June 30, 2007, the Company has sold 150 UPRIGHT™ Multi-Position™
MRIs and installed 121.
As announced on July 24, FONAR’s multiple unit customers
continued to flourish. One customer, True MRI, purchased its 13th
and 14th FONAR UPRIGHT™ Multi-Position™ MRI.
In November 2006, FONAR was awarded the 2006 North American Medical
Imaging Industry Innovation and Advancement of the Year Award
by Frost and Sullivan. It was given in recognition of the company’s
longstanding role as a pioneering innovator of MR technology.
The April 23, 2007 issue of the Journal of Magnetic Resonance
Imaging featured an article entitled 'Upright MRI of glenohumeral
dysplasia following obstetric brachial plexus injury'. In laymen’s
terms, the study evaluated the effectiveness of upright MRI imaging
for the diagnosis of a particular deformity in a child’s
shoulder (glenohumeral dysplasia), which occurs as the result
of an injury known as Obstetric Brachial Plexus Injury (OBPI),
also known as Erb's palsy. The authors, including lead author-researcher
in the study Rahul K. Nath, M.D., Director of the Texas Nerve
& Paralysis Institute and the Nath Brachial Plexus Institute
at the Texas Medical Center in Houston, Texas, concluded that
“Upright MRI could, thus, serve as the standard procedure
of care in the pediatric obstetric brachial plexus population
for glenohumeral imaging.” The study, which included 89
children, ages 0.4 to 17.9 years, with OBPI, was conducted on
a FONAR UPRIGHT™ Multi-Position™ MRI operating at
Natural MRI in Houston.
In May 2007, at the Annual Meeting of the American College of
Spine Surgeons (ACSS), held in Nashville, attendees heard Professor
F.W. Smith, M.D. report that the FONAR UPRIGHT™ MRI successfully
diagnosed 54% of the back pain on patients that could NOT be diagnosed
by recumbent MRI.
On June 11, FONAR president and founder, Raymond Damadian, was
presented with the 2007 National Inventor of the Year Award by
the Intellectual Property Owners Education Foundation, for the
invention of the FONAR UPRIGHT™ Multi-Position™ MRI.
On July 10, FONAR reported that the company had sold seven UPRIGHT™
Multi-Position™ MRIs during the previous two weeks. Shortly
thereafter, a sale closed that was inspired after the physician
read a two-page advertisement for the Upright™ MRI in the
Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). It was the
first sale to a broad-based medical practice, and the fastest
sale in FONAR history, taking only two days from the physician’s
call to FONAR to closure of the sale.
This week, The Wall Street Journal announced in Monday's edition
(9/24/2007) that the FONAR UPRIGHT™ Multi-Position™
MRI has been named one of two runners-up in the Medical-Devices
category for The Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Award
for 2007. According to The Wall Street Journal, over 800 entries
were received in the contest and the competition was extremely
intense with only about 4% receiving an award.
Commenting on the Fiscal Year 2007 results, Raymond Damadian,
M.D., president and chairman of FONAR, said, "It was an interesting
year for our Company as we continued to educate the marketplace
about the benefits of UPRIGHT™ imaging and the FONAR UPRIGHT™
Multi-Position™ MRI. It is also the year that the Federal
Deficit Reduction Act (DRA) has become effective. As is sometimes
the case, it is uncertainty that dictates our potential customers’
decisions and not the reality, as the FONAR UPRIGHT™ MRI
users have replaced diminished reimbursements with added scan
revenues, that in many cases have more than compensated. This
happened because of the uniqueness of the FONAR UPRIGHT™
MRI and its ability to make more accurate and comprehensive diagnoses
of when gravity affects their condition."
Dr. Damadian continued, “In addition, we are receiving UPRIGHT™
Multi-Position™ MRI orders in the first quarter of Fiscal
2008 at one of the highest levels we have experienced since the
product was introduced.”
CONDENSED
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS |
|
For the Years ended |
|
June 30, 2007 |
June 30, 2006 |
Revenues |
$33,211,932 |
$33,076,329 |
Net Income (Loss) |
$(25,538,867) |
$(29,963,357) |
Basic & Diluted Earnings |
|
|
__(Loss) per
Share |
$(5.29) |
$(6.78) |
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The Inventor of MR Scanning™, Full
Range of Motion™, STAND-UP™, UPRIGHT™, Multi-Position™,
pMRI™, True Flow™, Walk-In™ and The Proof is
in the Picture™ are trademarks of FONAR Corporation.
This release may include
forward-looking statements from the company that may or may not
materialize. Additional information on factors that could potentially
affect the company's financial results may be found in the company's
filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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