Bruker Reports Third Quarter 2024 Financial Results

BILLERICA, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov 5, 2024--

Bruker Corporation (Nasdaq: BRKR) today announced financial results for its third quarter and for the nine months ended September 30, 2024.

Frank H. Laukien, Bruker’s President and CEO, commented: “Bruker has again posted double-digit year-over-year CER revenue growth, and above-market organic revenue growth, in Q3 and year-to-date. This is a testament to our Project Accelerate transformation, and to our operational excellence processes driving improvements in our strategic acquisitions. We have delivered sequential operating margin improvements in Q3, and we expect further sequential margin improvements, along with double-digit CER revenue growth, also in the fourth quarter.”

He continued: “Despite biopharma and China recovery delays, orders for our differentiated post-genomic, multiomics, cleantech, semicon and diagnostics solutions are gradually improving, with upper mid-single digit BSI organic bookings growth in Q3 year-over-year. However, nascent biopharma and China recoveries will not benefit our fiscal year 2024 anymore, and accordingly we are lowering our FY2024 guidance. Integrating and improving our strategic acquisitions is making good progress and will further accelerate Bruker’s remarkable transformation. We are confident in our ability to drive above-market organic revenue growth with significant margin expansion in 2025.”

Third Quarter 2024 Financial Results

Bruker’s revenues for the third quarter of 2024 were $864.4 million, an increase of 16.4% compared to $742.8 million in the third quarter of 2023. In the third quarter of 2024, revenues increased 3.1% organically year-over-year, with constant-exchange rate (CER) revenue growth of 15.7%. Revenue growth from acquisitions was 12.5%, while foreign currency translation had a favorable impact of 0.7%.

Third quarter 2024 Bruker Scientific Instruments (BSI) revenues of $799.5 million increased 18.2% year-over-year, with organic revenue growth of 3.8%. Third quarter 2024 Bruker Energy & Supercon Technologies (BEST) revenues of $68.7 million decreased 2.7% year-over-year, with organic revenue, net of intercompany eliminations, decreasing by 3.2%.

Third quarter 2024 GAAP operating income was $68.1 million, compared to $124.5 million in the third quarter of 2023. Non-GAAP operating income was $129.1 million in the third quarter of 2024, a decrease of 12.9% compared to $148.3 million in the third quarter of 2023. Bruker’s third quarter 2024 non-GAAP operating margin was 14.9%, down 510 basis points due to our strategic acquisitions, from 20.0% in the third quarter of 2023.

Third quarter 2024 GAAP diluted earnings per share (EPS) were $0.27, compared to $0.60 in the third quarter of 2023. Third quarter 2024 non-GAAP diluted EPS were $0.60, a decrease of 18.9% compared to $0.74 in the third quarter of 2023.

First Nine Months of 2024 Financial Results

For the first nine months of 2024, Bruker’s revenues were $2.39 billion, an increase of 13.1% from $2.11 billion in the first nine months of 2023. In the first nine months of 2024, revenues increased 4.0% organically year-over-year, with constant-exchange rate (CER) revenue growth of 13.2%. Revenue growth from acquisitions was 9.2%, while foreign currency translation had an unfavorable impact of 0.1%.

In the first nine months of 2024, BSI revenues of $2.19 billion increased 14.0% compared to $1.92 billion in the first nine months of 2023, including organic growth of 4.1%. First nine months 2024 BEST revenues of $210.9 million increased 2.6%, compared to $205.5 million in the first nine months of 2023. Organic revenue growth for BEST, net of intercompany eliminations, was 3.7%.

In the first nine months of 2024, GAAP operating income was $181.0 million, compared to $333.4 million in the first nine months of 2023. Non-GAAP operating income in the first nine months of 2024 was $340.5 million, down 13.1% compared to $391.8 million in the first nine months of 2023. Bruker’s non-GAAP operating margin in first nine months of 2024 was 14.3%, a decrease of 430 bps compared to 18.5% in the first nine months of 2023.

First nine months 2024 GAAP diluted EPS was $0.67, compared to $1.50 in the first nine months of 2023. First nine months 2024 non-GAAP diluted EPS was $1.65, down 12.2% compared to $1.88 in the first nine months of 2023.

A reconciliation of non-GAAP to GAAP financial measures is provided in the tables accompanying this press release.

Fiscal Year 2024 (FY 2024) Financial Outlook

For FY 2024, Bruker now expects revenues of $3.34 to $3.37 billion, compared to FY 2023 revenues of $2.96 billion, with 12.5% to 13.5% year-over-year reported revenue growth, including:

• Organic revenue growth of 3% to 4%,
• Contribution from M&A of approximately 9.5%,
• Foreign currency translation impact approximately neutral,
• CER revenue growth of approximately 13%.

Bruker now expects FY 2024 non-GAAP EPS of $2.36 to $2.41, compared to FY 2023 non-GAAP EPS of $2.58.

Updated FY 2024 revenue and non-GAAP EPS guidance is based on foreign currency exchange rates as of September 30, 2024.

For the Company’s outlook for 2024 organic revenue growth, M&A revenue growth, constant exchange rate revenue growth, and non-GAAP EPS, we are not able to provide without unreasonable effort the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures, or reconciliations to such GAAP financial measures on a forward-looking basis. Please see “Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures” below for a description of items excluded from our expected non-GAAP EPS.

Quarterly Earnings Call

Bruker will host a conference call and webcast to discuss its financial results, business outlook, and related corporate and financial matters today, November 5, 2024, at 8:30 am Eastern Time. To listen to the webcast, investors can go to http://ir.bruker.com and click on the “Q3 2024 Earnings Webcast” hyperlink. A slide presentation will be referenced during the webcast and will be posted to our Investor Relations website shortly before the webcast begins. Investors can also listen to the earnings webcast via telephone by dialing 1-888-437-2685 (U.S. toll free) or +1-412-317-6702 (international) and referencing “Bruker’s Third Quarter 2024 Earnings Conference Call”.

Bruker is enabling investors to pre-register for the earnings conference call so that they can expedite their entry into the call and avoid the need to wait for a live operator. In order to pre-register for the call, investors can visit https://dpregister.com/sreg/10193829/fdca035215 and enter their contact information. Investors will then be issued a personalized phone number and PIN to dial into the live conference call. Individuals can pre-register any time prior to the start of the conference call on November 5.

A telephone replay of the conference call will be available by dialing 1-877-344-7529 (U.S. toll free) or +1-412-317-0088 (international) and entering replay access code: 7508549. The replay will be available beginning one hour after the end of the conference call through December 5, 2024.

About Bruker Corporation – Leader of the Post-Genomic Era (Nasdaq: BRKR)

Bruker is enabling scientists and engineers to make breakthrough post-genomic discoveries and develop new applications that improve the quality of human life. Bruker’s high-performance scientific instruments and high-value analytical and diagnostic solutions enable scientists to explore life and materials at molecular, cellular, and microscopic levels. In close cooperation with our customers, Bruker is enabling innovation, improved productivity, and customer success in post-genomic life science molecular and cell biology research, in applied and biopharma applications, in microscopy and nanoanalysis, as well as in industrial and cleantech research, and next-gen semiconductor metrology in support of AI. Bruker offers differentiated, high-value life science and diagnostics systems and solutions in preclinical imaging, clinical phenomics research, proteomics and multiomics, spatial and single-cell biology, functional structural and condensate biology, as well as in clinical microbiology and molecular diagnostics. For more information, please visit www.bruker.com.

Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures

To supplement our consolidated financial statements, which are prepared and presented in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), we use the following non-GAAP financial measures: non-GAAP gross profit; non-GAAP gross profit margin; non-GAAP operating income; non-GAAP operating income margin; non-GAAP SG&A expense; non-GAAP interest and other income (expense), net; non-GAAP profit before income taxes; non-GAAP income tax rate; non-GAAP net income and non-GAAP diluted earnings per share. These non-GAAP measures exclude costs related to restructuring actions, acquisition and related integration expenses, amortization of acquired intangible assets and other non-operational costs.

We also may refer to constant-exchange rate (CER) currency revenue growth and free cash flow or use which are also non-GAAP financial measures. We define the term CER currency revenue as GAAP revenue excluding the effect of changes in foreign currency translation rates. We define free cash flow as net cash provided by operating activities less additions to property, plant, and equipment. We believe free cash flow is a useful measure to evaluate our business because it indicates the amount of cash generated after additions to property, plant, and equipment that is available for, among other things, acquisitions, investments in our business, repayment of debt and return of capital to shareholders.

The presentation of these non-GAAP financial measures is not intended to be a substitute for, or superior to, the financial information prepared and presented in accordance with GAAP and may be different from non-GAAP financial measures used by other companies, and therefore, may not be comparable among companies. We believe these non-GAAP financial measures provide meaningful supplemental information regarding our performance, however, we urge investors to review the reconciliation of these financial measures to the comparable GAAP financial measures included in the accompanying tables, and not to rely on any single financial measure to evaluate our business. Specifically, management believes that the non-GAAP measures mentioned above provide relevant and useful information which is widely used by analysts, investors and competitors in our industry, as well as by our management, in assessing both consolidated and business unit performance.

We use these non-GAAP financial measures to evaluate our period-over-period operating performance because our management believes this provides a more comparable measure of our continuing business by adjusting for certain items that are not reflective of the underlying performance of our business. These measures may also be useful to investors in evaluating the underlying operating performance of our business and forecasting future results. We regularly use these non-GAAP financial measures internally to understand, manage, and evaluate our business results and make operating decisions. We also measure our employees and compensate them, in part, based on certain non-GAAP measures and use this information for our planning and forecasting activities.

Additional information relating to the non-GAAP financial measures used in this press release and reconciliations to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures are provided in the tables accompanying this press release following our GAAP financial statements.

With respect to our outlook for 2024 non-GAAP organic revenue, non-GAAP M&A revenue, non-GAAP constant exchange rate (CER) revenue and non-GAAP EPS, we are not providing the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures or corresponding reconciliations to such GAAP financial measures on a forward-looking basis, because we are unable to predict with reasonable certainty certain items that may affect such measures calculated and presented in accordance with GAAP without unreasonable effort. Our expected non-GAAP organic revenue and EPS ranges exclude primarily the future impact of restructuring actions, unusual gains and losses, acquisition-related expenses and purchase accounting fair value adjustments. These reconciling items are uncertain, depend on various factors outside our management’s control and could significantly impact, either individually or in the aggregate, our future period revenues and EPS presented in accordance with GAAP.

Forward-Looking Statements

Any statements contained in this press release which do not describe historical facts may constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, including statements regarding our fiscal year 2024 and 2025 financial outlook, our outlook for reported revenue growth, organic revenue growth, M&A revenue growth contributions, CER currency revenue growth, margin improvements, foreign currency translation revenue impact and non-GAAP EPS; management’s expectations for the impact of foreign currency and acquisitions; and for future financial and operational performance and business outlook; future economic conditions; and statements found under the “Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures” section of this release. Any forward-looking statements contained herein are based on current expectations, but are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated, including, but not limited to, the length and severity of any recession and the impact on global economic conditions, the impact of supply chain challenges, including inflationary pressures, the impact of geopolitical tensions and any sanctions, including any reduction in natural gas exports from Russia resulting from its ongoing conflict with Ukraine and resulting market disruptions, such as higher prices for and reduced availability of key metals used in our products, the conflict in Israel, Palestine and surrounding areas and the possible expansion of such conflicts and potential geopolitical consequences, the ongoing tensions between the United States and China, tariff and trade policy changes, and the increasing potential of conflict involving countries in Asia that are critical to our supply chain operations, such as Taiwan and China, continued volatility in the capital markets, the impact of increased interest rates, the integration and assumption of liabilities of businesses we have acquired or may acquire in the future, including our recent acquisitions of PhenomeX, ELITech, Chemspeed, and NanoString, our restructuring and cost-control initiatives, changing technologies, product development and market acceptance of our products, the cost and pricing of our products, manufacturing and outsourcing, competition, dependence on collaborative partners, key suppliers and third party distributors, capital spending and government funding policies, changes in governmental regulations, intellectual property rights, litigation, exposure to foreign currency fluctuations, the impact of foreign currency exchange rates, our ability to service our debt obligations and fund our anticipated cash needs, the effect of a concentrated ownership of our common stock, loss of key personnel, payment of future dividends and other risk factors discussed from time to time in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC. These and other factors are identified and described in more detail in our filings with the SEC, including, without limitation, our annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023, as may be updated by our quarterly reports on Form 10-Q. We expressly disclaim any intent or obligation to update these forward-looking statements other than as required by law.

The GAAP to Non-GAAP reconciliations of the above financial measures are detailed in the following pages.