Hologic Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal 2009 Operati...( 2008 to $174.2 million as of September ...),Health

Fourth quarter fiscal 2009 revenues totaled $402.8 million, a decrease of 9.0% when compared to revenues of $442.5 million in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2008. The decrease was primarily attributable to the year-over-year decline in sales of Selenia systems. We believe this decline continues to be due, in large part, to the current economic environment and the resulting delays and reductions in hospital capital spending as compared to the same period in the prior fiscal year. Also contributing to this decline, to a lesser extent, was the year-over-year decline in Skeletal Health product revenues of $5.9 million. These declines were partially offset by: (i) growth in Diagnostics and GYN Surgical product sales of $14.7 million as compared to the fourth quarter of fiscal 2008, including an increase of $3.7 million from Third Wave, which we acquired in July 2008; and (ii) an $8.7 million, or 17.9%, increase in service and other revenues primarily related to our increased installed base of Selenia full field digital mammography systems.

For the fourth quarter of fiscal 2009, Hologic reported net income of $34.9 million, or $0.13 per diluted share, compared with a net loss of $144.4 million, or $0.56 per diluted share, in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2008. Included in fourth quarter fiscal 2009 results were: (i) a charge of $46.3 million attributable to the amortization of intangibles relating to the Cytyc merger and the Third Wave acquisition; (ii) a full quarter of costs and expenses from Third Wave of $13.8 million (excluding amortization expense); and (iii) operating charges of $2.0 million related to the closure of the Company's organic photoconductor drum coatings manufacturing operations in Shanghai, which the Company had acquired as part of its acquisition of AEG in fiscal 2006. Included in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2008 results
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