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MESA LABORATORIES INC /CO/ (MLAB)

CIK: 0000724004. SIC: 3823 Industrial Instruments For Measurement, Display, and Control. Latest 10-K as of: 2026-06-03.

SIC breadcrumb: Manufacturing > SIC Major Group 38 > SIC 3823 Industrial Instruments For Measurement, Display, and Control

SEC company page: https://www.sec.gov/edgar/browse/?CIK=724004. Latest filing source: 0000724004-26-000047.

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Business

Read MLAB's verbatim Item 1 Business section from its latest 10-K: Business.

Risk Factors

Read MLAB's verbatim Item 1A Risk Factors from its latest 10-K: Risk Factors.

Selected Fundamentals

MetricValueUnitFYFiled
Revenue249,130,000USD20262026-06-03
Net income6,712,000USD20262026-06-03
Assets427,747,000USD20262026-06-03

Financials

Annual standardized facts from SEC companyfacts as of latest extracted filing date 2026-06-03. Source: https://data.sec.gov/api/xbrl/companyfacts/CIK0000724004.json. Derived margins, ratios, and free cash flow are computed from the extracted annual SEC facts.

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Flow metrics use full-year FY periods from 10-K/10-K/A filings; balance-sheet metrics use FY-end instants. Free cash flow = operating cash flow - capital expenditures. Missing metrics are omitted rather than fabricated.

Metric2017201820192020202120222023202420252026
Revenue93,665,00096,179,000103,135,000117,687,000133,937,000184,335,000219,080,000216,187,000240,978,000249,130,000
Net income3,274,0001,871,000930,000-254,246,000-1,974,0006,712,000
Operating income16,313,0002,183,0009,781,0007,923,00012,358,0004,702,0003,320,000-272,075,00016,336,00018,511,000
Gross profit53,239,00054,619,00060,916,00065,362,00087,014,000109,090,000133,693,000133,250,000150,870,000158,270,000
Diluted EPS2.91-0.791.860.410.640.350.17-47.20-0.361.21
Operating cash flow17,304,00025,719,00030,554,00026,988,00037,073,00039,223,00027,983,00044,133,00046,808,00042,831,000
Capital expenditures2,799,0001,262,0001,498,0001,992,0004,432,0004,544,0002,567,0004,249,0003,250,000
Dividends paid2,355,0002,413,0002,462,0002,722,0003,165,0003,339,0003,406,0003,447,0003,468,0003,523,000
Assets171,733,000164,101,000156,767,000409,108,000601,475,000707,369,000661,832,000446,796,000433,348,000427,747,000
Liabilities73,912,00064,740,00045,456,000189,095,000195,248,000313,568,000268,352,000301,403,000273,518,000241,502,000
Stockholders' equity97,821,00099,361,000111,311,000220,013,000406,227,000393,801,000393,480,000145,393,000159,830,000186,245,000
Cash and cash equivalents5,820,0005,469,00010,185,00081,380,000263,865,00049,346,00032,910,00028,214,00027,321,00026,928,000
Free cash flow22,920,00029,292,00025,490,00035,081,00034,791,00023,439,00041,566,00042,559,00039,581,000

Ratios

ROE and ROA use period-end equity/assets. Liabilities / equity uses total liabilities divided by stockholders' equity. Current ratio uses current assets divided by current liabilities when both are reported.

Metric2017201820192020202120222023202420252026
Net margin2.44%1.01%0.42%-117.60%-0.82%2.69%
Operating margin17.42%2.27%9.48%6.73%9.23%2.55%1.52%-125.85%6.78%7.43%
Return on equity0.81%0.48%0.24%-174.87%-1.24%3.60%
Return on assets0.54%0.26%0.14%-56.90%-0.46%1.57%
Liabilities / equity0.760.650.410.860.480.800.682.071.711.30
Current ratio2.161.851.424.729.322.592.742.470.631.72

Industry Peer Context

Each number-line places MLAB against the min, median, and max of latest reported values among companies in the same SIC industry when at least three peers report that ratio.

Net margin peer context

MLAB Net margin versus SIC peer range. Source: grepcent computed from latest SEC companyfacts ratios for SIC industry 3823; peer count 10.MLAB Net margin versus SIC peer range. Source: grepcent computed from latest SEC companyfacts ratios for SIC industry 3823; peer count 10.10 SIC peersMin -59.1%Median 12.7%Max 20.0%MLAB 2.7%

Operating margin peer context

MLAB Operating margin versus SIC peer range. Source: grepcent computed from latest SEC companyfacts ratios for SIC industry 3823; peer count 10.MLAB Operating margin versus SIC peer range. Source: grepcent computed from latest SEC companyfacts ratios for SIC industry 3823; peer count 10.10 SIC peersMin -57.2%Median 16.3%Max 28.3%MLAB 7.4%

ROE peer context

MLAB ROE versus SIC peer range. Source: grepcent computed from latest SEC companyfacts ratios for SIC industry 3823; peer count 10.MLAB ROE versus SIC peer range. Source: grepcent computed from latest SEC companyfacts ratios for SIC industry 3823; peer count 10.10 SIC peersMin -74.8%Median 7.7%Max 14.5%MLAB 3.6%

ROA peer context

MLAB ROA versus SIC peer range. Source: grepcent computed from latest SEC companyfacts ratios for SIC industry 3823; peer count 10.MLAB ROA versus SIC peer range. Source: grepcent computed from latest SEC companyfacts ratios for SIC industry 3823; peer count 10.10 SIC peersMin -32.0%Median 4.4%Max 9.2%MLAB 1.6%

Financial Bridges

Waterfall figures reconcile reported SEC companyfacts components. Missing bridges are omitted when required components are not present for the same fiscal year.

Income statement bridge from reported figures

MLAB FY2026 income statement bridge from reported figures.MLAB FY2026 income statement bridge from reported figures.MLAB income bridgeFY2026: revenue to net incomeSource: SEC companyfacts FY2026.Income statement bridgeReported amount$0.0B$125.0M$250.0M$249.1MRevenue-$90.9MCost$158.3MGross-$139.8MOpEx$18.5MOperating-$11.8MOther/tax$6.7MNet income

Figure provenance: SEC companyfacts FY 2026. Revenue: accession 0000724004-26-000047; concept RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax; source concepts us-gaap:RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax | Gross profit: accession 0000724004-26-000047; concept GrossProfit; source concepts us-gaap:GrossProfit | Operating income: accession 0000724004-26-000047; concept OperatingIncomeLoss; source concepts us-gaap:OperatingIncomeLoss | Net income: accession 0000724004-26-000047; concept NetIncomeLoss; source concepts us-gaap:NetIncomeLoss

Free cash flow = operating cash flow - capital expenditures

MLAB FY2026 free cash flow bridge from reported figures.MLAB FY2026 free cash flow bridge from reported figures.MLAB free cash flow bridgeFY2026: operating cash flow less capital expendituresSource: SEC companyfacts FY2026.Free cash flow bridgeReported amount$0.0B$125.0M$250.0M$42.8MOperating cash flow-$3.2MCapex$39.6MFree cash flow

Figure provenance: SEC companyfacts FY 2026. Operating cash flow: accession 0000724004-26-000047; concept NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities; source concepts us-gaap:NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities | Capital expenditures: accession 0000724004-26-000047; concept PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment; source concepts us-gaap:PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment | Free cash flow: accession 0000724004-26-000047; concept NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities - PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment; source concepts us-gaap:NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities; us-gaap:PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment

Financial Charts

MLAB revenue, last 5 periods. Source: SEC companyfacts FY2026.MLAB revenue, last 5 periods. Source: SEC companyfacts FY2026.MLAB RevenueLatest point: FY2026 = $249.1MSource: SEC companyfacts FY2026.Fiscal yearReported revenue$0.0B$125.0M$250.0MFY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026

Figure provenance: SEC companyfacts. Latest point: FY 2026 ended 2026-03-31; accession 0000724004-26-000047; filed 2026-06-03. Concept: RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax. Source concepts: us-gaap:RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax.

MLAB net income, last 5 periods. Source: SEC companyfacts FY2026.MLAB net income, last 5 periods. Source: SEC companyfacts FY2026.MLAB Net incomeLatest point: FY2026 = $6.7MSource: SEC companyfacts FY2026.Fiscal yearNet income-$500.0M$0.0B$250.0MFY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026

Figure provenance: SEC companyfacts. Latest point: FY 2026 ended 2026-03-31; accession 0000724004-26-000047; filed 2026-06-03. Concept: NetIncomeLoss. Source concepts: us-gaap:NetIncomeLoss.

MLAB operating income, last 5 periods. Source: SEC companyfacts FY2026.MLAB operating income, last 5 periods. Source: SEC companyfacts FY2026.MLAB Operating incomeLatest point: FY2026 = $18.5MSource: SEC companyfacts FY2026.Fiscal yearOperating income-$500.0M$0.0B$250.0MFY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026

Figure provenance: SEC companyfacts. Latest point: FY 2026 ended 2026-03-31; accession 0000724004-26-000047; filed 2026-06-03. Concept: OperatingIncomeLoss. Source concepts: us-gaap:OperatingIncomeLoss.

MLAB gross profit, last 5 periods. Source: SEC companyfacts FY2026.MLAB gross profit, last 5 periods. Source: SEC companyfacts FY2026.MLAB Gross profitLatest point: FY2026 = $158.3MSource: SEC companyfacts FY2026.Fiscal yearGross profit$0.0B$125.0M$250.0MFY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026

Figure provenance: SEC companyfacts. Latest point: FY 2026 ended 2026-03-31; accession 0000724004-26-000047; filed 2026-06-03. Concept: GrossProfit. Source concepts: us-gaap:GrossProfit.

MLAB diluted eps, last 5 periods. Source: SEC companyfacts FY2026.MLAB diluted eps, last 5 periods. Source: SEC companyfacts FY2026.MLAB Diluted EPSLatest point: FY2026 = $1.21/shareSource: SEC companyfacts FY2026.Fiscal yearDiluted EPS (USD/share)-$50.00/share$0.00/share$8.00/shareFY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026

Figure provenance: SEC companyfacts. Latest point: FY 2026 ended 2026-03-31; accession 0000724004-26-000047; filed 2026-06-03. Concept: EarningsPerShareDiluted. Source concepts: us-gaap:EarningsPerShareDiluted.

MLAB operating cash flow, last 5 periods. Source: SEC companyfacts FY2026.MLAB operating cash flow, last 5 periods. Source: SEC companyfacts FY2026.MLAB Operating cash flowLatest point: FY2026 = $42.8MSource: SEC companyfacts FY2026.Fiscal yearOperating cash flow$0.0B$125.0M$250.0MFY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026

Figure provenance: SEC companyfacts. Latest point: FY 2026 ended 2026-03-31; accession 0000724004-26-000047; filed 2026-06-03. Concept: NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities. Source concepts: us-gaap:NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities.

MLAB capital expenditures, last 5 periods. Source: SEC companyfacts FY2026.MLAB capital expenditures, last 5 periods. Source: SEC companyfacts FY2026.MLAB Capital expendituresLatest point: FY2026 = $3.2MSource: SEC companyfacts FY2026.Fiscal yearCapital expenditures$0.0B$125.0M$250.0MFY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026

Figure provenance: SEC companyfacts. Latest point: FY 2026 ended 2026-03-31; accession 0000724004-26-000047; filed 2026-06-03. Concept: PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment. Source concepts: us-gaap:PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment.

MLAB dividends paid, last 5 periods. Source: SEC companyfacts FY2026.MLAB dividends paid, last 5 periods. Source: SEC companyfacts FY2026.MLAB Dividends paidLatest point: FY2026 = $3.5MSource: SEC companyfacts FY2026.Fiscal yearDividends paid$0.0B$125.0M$250.0MFY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026

Figure provenance: SEC companyfacts. Latest point: FY 2026 ended 2026-03-31; accession 0000724004-26-000047; filed 2026-06-03. Concept: PaymentsOfDividends. Source concepts: us-gaap:PaymentsOfDividends.

MLAB assets, last 5 periods. Source: SEC companyfacts FY2026.MLAB assets, last 5 periods. Source: SEC companyfacts FY2026.MLAB AssetsLatest point: FY2026 = $427.7MSource: SEC companyfacts FY2026.Fiscal yearAssets$0.0B$375.0M$750.0MFY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026

Figure provenance: SEC companyfacts. Latest point: FY 2026 ended 2026-03-31; accession 0000724004-26-000047; filed 2026-06-03. Concept: Assets. Source concepts: us-gaap:Assets.

MLAB liabilities, last 5 periods. Source: SEC companyfacts FY2026.MLAB liabilities, last 5 periods. Source: SEC companyfacts FY2026.MLAB LiabilitiesLatest point: FY2026 = $241.5MSource: SEC companyfacts FY2026.Fiscal yearLiabilities$0.0B$250.0M$500.0MFY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026

Figure provenance: SEC companyfacts. Latest point: FY 2026 ended 2026-03-31; accession 0000724004-26-000047; filed 2026-06-03. Concept: Liabilities. Source concepts: us-gaap:Liabilities.

MLAB stockholders' equity, last 5 periods. Source: SEC companyfacts FY2026.MLAB stockholders' equity, last 5 periods. Source: SEC companyfacts FY2026.MLAB Stockholders' equityLatest point: FY2026 = $186.2MSource: SEC companyfacts FY2026.Fiscal yearStockholders' equity$0.0B$250.0M$500.0MFY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026

Figure provenance: SEC companyfacts. Latest point: FY 2026 ended 2026-03-31; accession 0000724004-26-000047; filed 2026-06-03. Concept: StockholdersEquity. Source concepts: us-gaap:StockholdersEquity.

MLAB cash and cash equivalents, last 5 periods. Source: SEC companyfacts FY2026.MLAB cash and cash equivalents, last 5 periods. Source: SEC companyfacts FY2026.MLAB Cash and cash equivalentsLatest point: FY2026 = $26.9MSource: SEC companyfacts FY2026.Fiscal yearCash and cash equivalents$0.0B$125.0M$250.0MFY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026

Figure provenance: SEC companyfacts. Latest point: FY 2026 ended 2026-03-31; accession 0000724004-26-000047; filed 2026-06-03. Concept: CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue. Source concepts: us-gaap:CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue.

MLAB free cash flow, last 5 periods. Source: SEC companyfacts FY2026.MLAB free cash flow, last 5 periods. Source: SEC companyfacts FY2026.MLAB Free cash flowLatest point: FY2026 = $39.6MSource: SEC companyfacts FY2026.Fiscal yearFree cash flow$0.0B$125.0M$250.0MFY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026

Figure provenance: SEC companyfacts. Latest point: FY 2026 ended 2026-03-31; accession 0000724004-26-000047; filed 2026-06-03. Concept: NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities - PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment. Source concepts: us-gaap:NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities; us-gaap:PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment.

Quarterly

Quarterly standardized facts from SEC companyfacts as of latest extracted filing date 2026-02-03. Source: https://data.sec.gov/api/xbrl/companyfacts/CIK0000724004.json.

Flow metrics use discrete quarter-length periods from 10-Q/10-Q/A filings. Q4 revenue and net income are derived only when annual FY and nine-month YTD facts exist for the same fiscal year; derived Q4 values are labeled. EPS Q4 is not derived.

QuarterEnd DateRevenueNet IncomeDiluted EPSMethod
2020-Q32020-09-302,679,000reported discrete quarter
2022-Q12021-06-300.38reported discrete quarter
2022-Q22021-09-300.70reported discrete quarter
2022-Q32021-12-31-0.39reported discrete quarter
2022-Q42022-03-3158,879,000derived Q4 = FY annual - nine-month YTD
2023-Q12022-06-3050,453,000-1,438,000-0.27reported discrete quarter
2023-Q22022-09-3058,749,0001,306,0000.24reported discrete quarter
2023-Q32022-12-3154,287,000451,0000.08reported discrete quarter
2023-Q42023-03-3155,591,000611,000derived Q4 = FY annual - nine-month YTD
2024-Q12023-06-3050,645,000-549,000-0.10reported discrete quarter
2024-Q22023-09-3053,165,000-1,230,000-0.23reported discrete quarter
2024-Q32023-12-3153,473,0002,116,0000.39reported discrete quarter
2024-Q42024-03-3158,904,000-254,583,000derived Q4 = FY annual - nine-month YTD
2025-Q12025-06-3059,543,0004,742,0000.85reported discrete quarter
2025-Q22025-09-3060,737,0002,476,0000.45reported discrete quarter
2025-Q32025-12-3165,126,0003,630,0000.65reported discrete quarter

Quarterly Charts

MLAB quarterly revenue, last 12 periods. Source: SEC companyfacts 2025-Q3.MLAB quarterly revenue, last 12 periods. Source: SEC companyfacts 2025-Q3.MLAB Quarterly RevenueLatest point: 2025-Q3 = $65.1MSource: SEC companyfacts 2025-Q3.Fiscal quarterQuarterly Revenue$0.0B$125.0M$250.0M2022-Q42023-Q12023-Q22023-Q32023-Q42024-Q12024-Q22024-Q32024-Q42025-Q12025-Q22025-Q3

Figure provenance: SEC companyfacts. Latest point: FY 2025 ended 2025-12-31; accession 0000724004-26-000016; filed 2026-02-03. Concept: RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax. Source concepts: us-gaap:RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax.

MLAB quarterly net income, last 12 periods. Source: SEC companyfacts 2025-Q3.MLAB quarterly net income, last 12 periods. Source: SEC companyfacts 2025-Q3.MLAB Quarterly Net incomeLatest point: 2025-Q3 = $3.6MSource: SEC companyfacts 2025-Q3.Fiscal quarterQuarterly Net income-$500.0M$0.0B$250.0M2020-Q32023-Q12023-Q22023-Q32023-Q42024-Q12024-Q22024-Q32024-Q42025-Q12025-Q22025-Q3

Figure provenance: SEC companyfacts. Latest point: FY 2025 ended 2025-12-31; accession 0000724004-26-000016; filed 2026-02-03. Concept: NetIncomeLossAvailableToCommonStockholdersBasic. Source concepts: us-gaap:NetIncomeLossAvailableToCommonStockholdersBasic.

MLAB quarterly diluted eps, last 12 periods. Source: SEC companyfacts 2025-Q3.MLAB quarterly diluted eps, last 12 periods. Source: SEC companyfacts 2025-Q3.MLAB Quarterly Diluted EPSLatest point: 2025-Q3 = $0.65/shareSource: SEC companyfacts 2025-Q3.Fiscal quarterQuarterly Diluted EPS (USD/share)-$0.50/share$0.00/share$1.50/share2022-Q12022-Q22022-Q32023-Q12023-Q22023-Q32024-Q12024-Q22024-Q32025-Q12025-Q22025-Q3

Figure provenance: SEC companyfacts. Latest point: FY 2025 ended 2025-12-31; accession 0000724004-26-000016; filed 2026-02-03. Concept: EarningsPerShareDiluted. Source concepts: us-gaap:EarningsPerShareDiluted.

Macro Cross-References

Latest quarter (10-Q)

Latest 10-Q source: 0000724004-26-000016.

Extracted structurally from real Item 2 body heading to real Item 3/4 boundary. Confidence: high. Filing date: 2026-02-03. Report date: 2025-12-31.

Item 2. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

(Dollars in thousands, except per share amounts)

Forward-Looking Statements

This Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q contains forward-looking statements which are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”). The forward-looking statements in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q do not constitute guarantees of future performance. Investors are cautioned that statements in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q that are not strictly historical statements, including, without limitation, express or implied statements or guidance regarding current or future financial performance and position; the effect and duration of macroeconomic conditions in relevant markets; results of acquisitions; management’s strategy, plans and objectives for future operations or acquisitions, product development and sales; adequacy of capital resources and financing plans; anticipated cost savings; and the effect of tariffs and other developments in the regulatory environment and our responses thereto constitute forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are based on current expectations, estimates, forecasts and projections about the industry and markets in which the Company operates, and management’s beliefs and assumptions. In addition, other written and oral statements that constitute forward-looking statements may be made by the Company or on the Company’s behalf. Words such as “seek,” “believe,” “may,” “intend,” “could,” “target,” “expect,” “anticipate,” “plan,” “estimate,” “project,” or variations of such words and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated, including risks associated with: our ability to successfully grow our business, including as a result of acquisitions; the effect that acquisitions have on our operations; our ability to consummate acquisitions at our historical rate and at appropriate prices, and our ability to effectively integrate acquired businesses and achieve desired results; the market acceptance of our products; technological or market viability of our products; potential reduced demand for our products, including as a result of competitive factors; conditions in the global economy and the particular markets we serve; significant developments or uncertainties stemming from governmental actions, including changes in trade policies such as tariffs, and changes in tax, medical device and other regulations; the timely development and commercialization, and customer acceptance, of enhanced and new products and services; retirement of old products and customer migration to new products; the potential inaccuracy of projections of revenues, growth, operating results, profit margins, earnings, expenses, margins, tax rates, tax provisions, liquidity, cash flows, demand, and competition; the effects of actions taken to become more efficient or lower costs; supply chain challenges; cost pressures; laws regulating fraud and abuse in our industries, privacy and security of health and personal information; product liability; information security; outstanding claims, legal and regulatory proceedings; international business challenges including anti-corruption and sanctions laws and political developments; tax audits and assessments and other contingent liabilities; foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; general economic, industry, and capital markets conditions; the timing of any of the foregoing; and assumptions underlying any of the foregoing. Such risks and uncertainties also include those listed in Item 1A. “Risk Factors” in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2025 and in this report. The foregoing list sets forth many, but not all, of the factors that could impact our ability to achieve results described in any forward-looking statements. We disclaim any obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise.

Overview

We are a global leader in the design and manufacture of life sciences tools and critical quality control solutions for regulated applications in the pharmaceutical, healthcare and medical device industries. We offer products and services to help our customers ensure product integrity, increase patient and worker safety, and improve the quality of life throughout the world. We have manufacturing operations in the United States and Europe, and our products are marketed by our sales personnel in North America, Europe, and the APAC region, and by independent distributors throughout the world.

As of December 31, 2025, we managed our operations in four reportable segments, or divisions: Sterilization and Disinfection Control, Biopharmaceutical Development ("BPD"), Calibration Solutions, and Clinical Genomics. Each of our divisions is described further in "Results of Operations" below.

Corporate Strategy

We strive to create stakeholder value and further our purpose of Protecting the Vulnerable® by growing our business both organically and through acquisitions, by improving our operating efficiency, and by continuing to hire, develop and retain top talent. We commit to our purpose every day by taking a customer-focused approach to developing, building and delivering our products and services. We serve a broad set of industries, particularly the pharmaceutical, healthcare and medical device sectors, in which the safety, quality and efficacy of products is critical. By delivering the highest quality products possible, we are committed to protecting the communities we serve.

Our continued growth will depend on our ability to (i) expand business with new and existing customers through ongoing commercial efforts, (ii) manage our costs and allocate resources to ensure continued profitability of our business, (iii) identify, consummate and integrate acquisitions successfully, and (iv) develop or acquire differentiated products and services. We strive to maintain our profitability by improving the effectiveness of our sales force, by continuing to pursue cost reduction initiatives, and by taking a long-term strategic approach to investments in our business that we believe will support future commercial success.

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Organic Revenues Growth

Organic revenues growth is driven by expansion of our customer base, increases in sales volumes, new product offerings and price increases, and may be affected positively or negatively by the impact of changes in foreign currency exchange rates on our reported revenues. Our ability to increase organic revenues is affected by general economic conditions, both domestic and international, customer capital spending trends, competition, currency exchange rates, and the introduction of new products. Our policy is to price our products and services competitively and, where possible, we pass along cost increases to our customers in order to maintain our margins. We typically evaluate costs and pricing annually, with price increases effective January 1. We evaluate the need to increase prices at other times of the year in response to significant facts and circumstances that may arise, such as increases in the price of inputs to our products, or in response to changes in government or regulatory policies, for example, due to the imposition of tariffs.

Inorganic Growth - Acquisitions

Over the past decade, we have consummated a number of acquisitions of businesses, technologies, and intangibles such as customer lists as part of our growth strategy. Our acquisitions have allowed us to expand our product offerings and the industries we serve, globalize our company, and increase the scale at which we operate. In turn, this growth affords us the ability to improve our operating efficiency, extend our customer base, and further the pursuit of our purpose: Protecting the Vulnerable®.

Improving Our Operating Efficiency

Our ongoing goal is to maximize value in our businesses by implementing efficiencies in our manufacturing, commercial, engineering and administrative operations. We achieve efficiencies using the Mesa Way, our customer-centric, lean-based system for continuous improvement. The Mesa Way is built on four key pillars: "Measuring What Matters" based on our customers' perspectives and setting high standards of performance; "Empowering Teams" to improve operationally and to exceed customer expectations; "Sustainably Improving" using lean-based tools designed to help us identify and prioritize the best opportunities; and "Always Learning" to continuously build knowledge and capabilities to drive long-term performance.

Our gross profit is affected by many factors, including the mix of products and services sold and the geographical regions in which we sell them, labor and product costs (including costs of transporting, importing and exporting goods, as well as associated tariffs), manufacturing efficiencies, foreign currency rates and price competition. Historically, as we have integrated acquisitions into our business and taken advantage of manufacturing efficiencies, our gross profit percentages for some products have improved. There are, however, differences in gross profit percentages between product lines, and ultimately our mix of revenues will continue to impact our overall gross profit.

We continuously pursue opportunities to improve the efficiency of our administrative functions, including through increasing usage of process automation and artificial intelligence.

Hire, Develop, and Retain Top Talent

At the center of our organization are talented people who are capable of taking on new challenges using a team-based approach. Indeed, it is our exceptionally talented workforce that collaborates to find ways to continuously and sustainably improve our products, our services, and ourselves, resulting in long-term value creation for our stakeholders.

General Trends

As a global company, our geographic and industry diversity presents both opportunities and challenges, including those associated with pursuing expansion opportunities in high-growth markets, operating in varied economic environments, complying with evolving regulatory requirements such as tariffs, navigating global labor trends and costs, adapting to technology changes in served markets, and monitoring foreign currency impacts against the U.S. dollar ("USD"). During the nine months ended December 31, 2025, approximately 53% of our revenues were earned outside of the United States.

For the nine months ended December 31, 2025, revenues grew 3.7% versus the comparable prior year period, driven by growth in our Biopharmaceutical Development, Sterilization and Disinfection Control, and Calibration Solutions divisions. Our Clinical Genomics division continued to experience revenue declines due to trade tensions and unfavorable macroeconomic conditions in China, which have weakened demand for our Clinical Genomics products and services in that region. We expect that challenges in China will persist through the end of fiscal year 2026 and will most likely continue into fiscal year 2027. Despite challenges in China, Clinical Genomics has continued to execute its product development and commercial strategy successfully in the Americas and Europe, and our cost savings initiatives and geographic mix have resulted in improved gross profit percentages during the three and nine months ended December 31, 2025 versus the comparable prior year periods.

Consolidated gross profit as a percentage of revenues in the nine months ended December 31, 2025 was largely consistent with the comparable pri

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Latest 10-K MD&A

Extracted structurally from real Item 7 body heading to real Item 7A/8 boundary. Confidence: high. Filing date: 2026-06-03. Report date: 2026-03-31.

Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

This Management’s Discussion and Analysis (“MD&A”) is intended to help investors understand Mesa, our operations and our present business environment. MD&A is provided as a supplement to, and should be read in conjunction with, our Consolidated Financial Statements and the accompanying notes thereto contained in this Annual Report on Form 10-K. Unless the context requires otherwise, the terms “Mesa,” “Company,” “we,” “its,” and “our” in this annual report refer to Mesa Laboratories, Inc. and its subsidiaries.

This section generally discusses our fiscal years ended March 31, 2026 and March 31, 2025 and year-to-year comparisons between fiscal year 2026 and fiscal year 2025. Discussions of fiscal year 2024 and year-to-year comparisons between fiscal year 2025 and fiscal year 2024 can be found in “Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” in Part II, Item 7 of the Company's annual report for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2025 filed with the SEC on May 28, 2025.

Overview

We are a global leader in the design and manufacture of life sciences tools and critical quality control solutions for regulated applications in the pharmaceutical, healthcare and medical device industries. We offer products and services to help our customers ensure product integrity, increase patient and worker safety, and improve the quality of life throughout the world. We have manufacturing operations in the United States and Europe, and our products are marketed by our sales personnel in North America, Europe and APAC, and by independent distributors in these areas as well as throughout the rest of the world.

As of March 31, 2026, we managed our operations in four reportable segments, or divisions: Sterilization and Disinfection Control, Biopharmaceutical Development, Calibration Solutions and Clinical Genomics. Each of our divisions is described further in "Results of Operations" below. Unallocated corporate expenses and other business activities are reported within Corporate and Other.

Corporate Strategy

We strive to create stakeholder value and further our purpose of Protecting the Vulnerable® by growing our business both organically and through acquisitions, by improving our operating efficiency, and by continuing to hire, develop and retain top talent. We commit to our purpose every day by taking a customer-focused approach to developing, building and delivering our products and services. We serve a broad set of industries, particularly the pharmaceutical, healthcare and medical device sectors, in which the safety, quality and efficacy of products is critical. By delivering the highest quality products possible, we are committed to protecting the communities we serve.

Organic Revenues Growth

Organic revenues growth is driven by the expansion of our customer base, increases in sales volumes, new product offerings, and price increases, and may be affected positively or negatively by changes in foreign currency rates. Our ability to increase organic revenues is affected by general economic conditions, both domestic and international, customer capital spending trends, competition, currency exchange rates, and the introduction of new products. Our policy is to price our products competitively and, where possible, we pass along cost increases to our customers in order to maintain our margins. We typically evaluate costs and pricing annually, with price increases effective January 1. We evaluate the need to increase prices at other times of the year in response to changes in regulatory policy, such as the imposition of tariffs, or significant increases in the price of inputs to our products.

Inorganic Revenues Growth - Acquisitions

Over the past decade, we have consummated a number of acquisitions as part of our growth strategy. These acquisitions have allowed us to expand our product offerings and the industries we serve, globalize our company, and increase the scale at which we operate. In turn, this growth affords us the ability to improve our operating efficiency, extend our customer base, and further the pursuit of our purpose: Protecting the Vulnerable®.

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Improving Our Operating Efficiency

Our ongoing goal is to maximize value in our businesses and those we acquire by implementing efficiencies in our manufacturing, commercial, engineering and administrative operations. We achieve efficiencies using the four pillars that make up the Mesa Way, our customer-centric, lean-based system for continuous improvement. The Mesa Way is built on four key pillars: "Measuring What Matters" based on our customers' perspectives to set high standards of performance; "Empowering Teams" to improve operationally and exceed customer expectations; "Sustainably Improving" using lean-based tools designed to help us identify and prioritize the best opportunities; and "Always Learning" to continuously build knowledge and capabilities to drive long-term performance.

Our gross profit is affected by many factors, including the mix of products and services sold and the geographical regions in which we sell them, labor and product costs (including costs of transporting, importing and exporting goods, as well as associated tariffs), manufacturing efficiencies, foreign currency rates and price competition. Historically, as we have integrated acquisitions into our business and taken advantage of manufacturing efficiencies, our gross profit percentages for some products have improved. There are, however, differences in gross profit percentages between product lines, and ultimately our mix of revenues will continue to impact our overall gross profit.

We continuously pursue opportunities to improve the efficiency of our administrative functions, including through increasing usage of process automation and artificial intelligence.

Hire, Develop, and Retain Top Talent

At the center of our organization are highly talented people who are capable of taking on new challenges using a team-based approach. Indeed, it is our exceptionally talented workforce that collaborates to continuously and sustainably improve our products, our services, and ourselves, resulting in long-term value creation for our stakeholders.

General Trends

As a global company, our geographic and industry diversity presents both opportunities and challenges, including in relation to pursuing expansion opportunities in high-growth markets, operating in varied economic environments, complying with evolving regulatory requirements such as tariffs, navigating global labor trends and costs, adapting to technological changes in markets we serve, and monitoring the effects of foreign currency fluctuations against the U.S. dollar. During fiscal 2026, approximately 53% of our revenues were earned outside of the United States.

In fiscal year 2026, we announced a planned transition in executive leadership, with the appointment of Dr. Siddhartha Kadia as Chief Executive Officer effective in fiscal year 2027.

In fiscal year 2026, revenues grew 3.4% compared to fiscal 2025, driven primarily by growth in our Sterilization and Disinfection Control division, and to a lesser extent, our Calibration Solutions division. Revenues in our Biopharmaceutical Development division were largely consistent with fiscal year 2026. Our Clinical Genomics division experienced revenue declines, primarily due to unfavorable macroeconomic conditions in China and ongoing trade tensions, which have weakened demand for our Clinical Genomics products and services in that region. We expect these challenges to persist into fiscal year 2027; however, we anticipate that the related financial impact will be substantially smaller than in fiscal year 2026. In the Americas and Europe, Clinical Genomics continued to execute its product development and commercial strategy successfully in fiscal year 2026. Currency translation increased reported revenues by 2.2% in fiscal year 2026 compared to fiscal year 2025, primarily affecting the Sterilization and Disinfection Control and Biopharmaceutical Development divisions.

Consolidated gross profit as a percentage of revenues in fiscal year 2026 increased 0.9 percentage points in fiscal year 2026. The improvement was driven by a more favorable geographic revenue mix in the Clinical Genomics division, cost savings initiatives implemented in fiscal years 2025 and 2026, and higher sales on a partially-fixed cost base. These improvements were partially offset by unfavorable foreign currency translation and the impact of tariffs, which together reduced consolidated gross profit as a percentage of revenues by approximately 0.8 percentage points compared to the prior year, with a particularly pronounced effect in our Biopharmaceutical Development division. In addition, fiscal year 2025 results included GKE-related inventory step-up amortization expense, which negatively impacted gross profit margins in fiscal year 2025 and did not recur in fiscal year 2026.

Operating expense increased 3.9% in fiscal year 2026 compared to fiscal year 2025, while operating expense as a percentage of revenues remained largely consistent. The increase in operating expense was primarily driven by costs associated with the departure of our former CEO. Additionally, reported selling expense, general and administrative expense, and research and development expense increased due to the weakening of the U.S. dollar against the euro and Swedish krona in fiscal year 2026 compared to fiscal year 2025. Increases in operating expense were partially offset by lower professional services and consulting costs, as fiscal year 2025 included GKE integration costs.

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Changes in foreign currency exchange rates relative to the U.S. dollar affect our reported revenues, gross profit margins, and operating expenses and impact the comparability of our results between periods. A strengthening or weakening of the U.S. dollar can therefore influence reported financial results even when underlying operating performance is unchanged.

Results of Operations

Our results of operations and period-over-period changes are discussed in the following section. The tables and discussion below should be read in conjunction with the accompanying Consolidated Financial Statements and the notes thereto appearing in Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data.

Results by reportable segment are as follows:

RevenuesOrganic Revenues Growth (non-GAAP)(a)Gross Profit as a % of Revenues
Year ended March 31,Year ended March 31,Year ended March 31,
amounts in thousands, except percentage data202620252026202520262025
Sterilization and Disinfection Control$101,567$93,4188.7%4.7%70.6%69.2%
Biopharmaceutical Development48,62648,730(0.2%)19.7%58.7%61.4%
Calibration Solutions53,55151,7493.5%8.3%59.7%59.2%
Clinical Genomics45,38647,081(3.6%)(10.5%)57.3%54.5%
Reportable segments$249,130$240,9783.4%4.6%63.5%62.6%
Column 1Column 2
(a)Organic revenues growth is a non-GAAP measure of financial performance. See "Non-GAAP Reconciliations" below for further information and for a reconciliation of organic revenues growth to total revenues growth.

Our consolidated results of operations are as follows:

Year Ended March 31,Total Change
amounts in thousands, except percentage data2026202520242026 vs. 20252025 vs. 2024
Revenues$249,130$240,978$216,1873.4%11.5%
Gross profit158,270150,870133,2504.9%13.2%
Operating expense (excluding impairment losses)139,759134,534130,7923.9%2.9%
Impairment losses--274,533N/A(100.0%)
Operating income (loss)18,51116,336(272,075)13.3%106.0%
Net income (loss)$6,712$(1,974)$(254,246)440.0%99.2%

Reportable Segments

Sterilization and Disinfection Control

Our Sterilization and Disinfection Control division manufactures and sells biological, chemical and cleaning indicators used to assess the effectiveness of sterilization, decontamination, disinfection and cleaning processes in the pharmaceutical, medical device and healthcare industries. The division also provides sterility assurance testing and laboratory services, primarily to dental and pharmaceutical customers. Sterilization and Disinfection Control products are disposable and are used on a routine basis.

Year Ended March 31,Total Change
amounts in thousands, except percentage data2026202520242026 vs. 20252025 vs. 2024
Revenues$101,567$93,418$75,1248.7%24.4%
Gross profit71,70764,66053,30210.9%21.3%
Gross profit as a % of revenues70.6%69.2%71.0%1.4 pt(1.8 pt)

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Sterilization and Disinfection Control revenues increased 8.7% in fiscal year 2026 compared to fiscal year 2025, primarily due to the weakening of the U.S. dollar and price increases during fiscal 2026, and to a lesser extent, higher sales volumes. Excluding the impact of foreign currency translation, revenues would have increased approximately 4.7% for fiscal year 2026. The Sterilization and Disinfection Control division’s backlog decreased by approximately $1.2 million in fiscal year 2026 as order fulfillments returned to normal levels.

Gross profit as a percentage of revenues in the Sterilization and Disinfection Control division increased 1.4 percentage points, primarily due to higher revenues on a partially-fixed cost base. Excluding the impact of foreign currency translation and $1.2 million of amortization of the non-cash inventory step-up related to the GKE acquisition recorded in fiscal year 2025, the Sterilization and Disinfection Control division's gross profit margin percentage would have increased approximately 0.8 percentage points in during fiscal year 2026 compared to fiscal year 2025.

Biopharmaceutical Development

Our Biopharmaceutical Development division develops, manufactures, sells and services automated systems for protein analysis (immunoassays) and peptide synthesis solutions. Immunoassays and peptide synthesis solutions accelerate the discovery, development and manufacture of biologic therapies, among other applications.

Year Ended March 31,Total Change
amounts in thousands, except percentage data2026202520242026 vs. 20252025 vs. 2024
Revenues$48,626$48,730$40,712(0.2%)19.7%
Gross profit28,55329,91325,400(4.5%)17.8%
Gross profit as a % of revenues58.7%61.4%62.4%(2.7 pt)(1.0 pt)

Biopharmaceutical Development revenues were largely consistent in fiscal year 2026 compared to fiscal year 2025, as declines in our immunoassay product lines were partially offset by growth in our peptide product lines. The decline in immunoassays revenues relates primarily to commercial execution challenges, partially offset by the impact of foreign currency. Revenues were impacted to a lesser extent by shipping delays related to export controls that prevented the shipment of certain peptides systems in the second half of fiscal year 2026. Excluding the impacts of foreign currency translation and revenues from tariff recovery surcharges, Biopharmaceutical Development revenues would have declined approximately 3.9% compared to the prior year.

Biopharmaceutical Development's gross profit as a percentage of revenues decreased 2.7 percentage points during fiscal year 2026, primarily due to the impacts of foreign currency translation and tariffs. Excluding the impacts of foreign currency translation and tariffs, gross profit as a percentage of revenues for fiscal year 2026 would have been approximately consistent with fiscal year 2025.

Calibration Solutions

The Calibration Solutions division develops, manufactures, sells and services quality control products using principles of advanced metrology to enable customers to measure and calibrate critical parameters in applications such as renal care, gas flow, environmental and process monitoring and torque testing, primarily in medical device manufacturing, pharmaceutical manufacturing, laboratory and hospital environments.

Year Ended March 31,Total Change
amounts in thousands, except percentage data2026202520242026 vs. 20252025 vs. 2024
Revenues$53,551$51,749$47,7633.5%8.3%
Gross profit31,98230,63727,5474.4%11.2%
Gross profit as a % of revenues59.7%59.2%57.7%0.5 pt1.5 pt

Calibration Solutions revenues increased 3.5% for fiscal year 2026 compared to fiscal year 2025, primarily driven by price increases and ongoing commercial efforts to establish and renew contracts that incentivize utilization of our service offerings.

The Calibration Solutions division's gross profit as a percentage of revenues increased 0.5 percentage points in fiscal year 2026 compared to fiscal year 2025, primarily due to increased revenues on a partially fixed cost base and product mix, partially offset by an unfavorable tariff impact of 20 basis points.

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Clinical Genomics

The Clinical Genomics division develops, manufactures and sells highly sensitive, high-throughput genetic analysis tools and related consumables and services that enable clinical research labs and contract research organizations to perform genomic testing across a broad range of non-diagnostic applications in several therapeutic areas, including hereditary disease screenings, pharmacogenetics, oncology related applications and toxicology research.

Year Ended March 31,Total Change
amounts in thousands, except percentage data2026202520242026 vs. 20252025 vs. 2024
Revenues$45,386$47,081$52,588(3.6%)(10.5%)
Gross profit26,02825,67027,0781.4%(5.2%)
Gross profit as a % of revenues57.3%54.5%51.5%2.8 pt3.0 pt

Clinical Genomics revenues decreased 3.6% in fiscal year 2026 compared to fiscal year 2025, driven primarily by lower sales to customers in China, reflecting ongoing macroeconomic and regulatory uncertainty as well as ongoing trade tensions. Excluding sales to China, revenues increased 9.2% in fiscal year 2026 compared to fiscal year 2025.

Clinical Genomics’ gross profit as a percentage of revenues increased 2.8 percentage points in fiscal year 2026 compared to fiscal year 2025, despite lower revenues. The increases in gross profit as a percentage of revenues were primarily attributable to manufacturing and supply chain efficiency improvements, lower personnel-related costs attributable to our cost mitigation efforts, and favorable geographic product mix, as sales outside of China typically generate higher margins. Gross profit as a percentage of revenues for fiscal year 2026 was also positively impacted by product mix, as higher-margin consumables represented a greater portion of the division's total revenues.

Operating Expense

Operating expense increased 3.9% in fiscal year 2026 compared to fiscal year 2025, while operating expense as a percentage of revenues remained largely consistent. Among other factors, operating expense increased due to the weakening of the U.S. dollar against the euro and Swedish krona in fiscal year 2026.

Selling Expense

Selling expense is driven primarily by labor costs, including salaries and commissions; accordingly, it may vary with sales levels.

Year Ended March 31,Total Change
amounts in thousands, except percentage data2026202520242026 vs. 20252025 vs. 2024
Selling expense$40,793$41,683$38,625(2.1%)7.9%
As a percentage of revenues16.4%17.3%17.9%(0.9 pt)(0.6 pt)

Selling expense decreased 2.1% for fiscal year 2026 and decreased 0.9 percentage points as a percentage of revenues. The decrease was primarily attributable to lower commissions-related expense, partially offset by severance costs associated with our cost-savings initiatives. In the prior year, selling expense was somewhat elevated due to costs associated with a sales training initiative.

General and Administrative Expense

Labor costs, non-cash stock-based compensation and amortization of intangible assets drive the substantial majority of general and administrative expense.

Year Ended March 31,Total Change
amounts in thousands, except percentage data2026202520242026 vs. 20252025 vs. 2024
General and administrative, other than impairment of finite-lived intangible assets and goodwill$78,658$73,333$72,8677.3%0.6%
As a percentage of revenues31.6%30.4%33.7%1.2 pt(3.3 pt)

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General and administrative expenses increased 7.3% in fiscal year 2026 and increased 1.2 percentage points as a percentage of revenues. The increase was primarily attributable to expenses associated with our former CEO’s departure, including accelerated stock-based compensation expense and severance. Higher expense related to estimated uncollectible accounts receivable, particularly related to customers in China, also contributed to the increase. These increases were partially offset by lower consulting and professional services expenses, as the prior year included consulting costs associated with integrating GKE into our enterprise resource planning system, and by lower amortization expense. Aggregate CEO transition costs were $6.7 million, including $3.7 million of non‑cash stock‑based compensation. Excluding these costs, general and administrative expenses would have declined 1.8% in fiscal year 2026.

No impairment losses were recorded in fiscal years 2026 or 2025.

Research and Development Expense

Research and development expense is predominantly comprised of labor costs and third-party consultants.

Year Ended March 31,Total Change
amounts in thousands, except percentage data2026202520242026 vs. 20252025 vs. 2024
Research and development expense$20,308$19,518$19,3004.0%1.1%
As a percentage of revenues8.2%8.1%8.9%0.1 pt(0.8 pt)

Research and development expenses increased 4.0% in fiscal 2026 compared to 2025 and were flat as a percentage of revenues. The increase was primarily attributable to consulting services and purchases of supplies to support project-specific research and development activities, as well as severance costs, particularly within our Clinical Genomics division. These increases were partially offset by lower salaries and personnel-related costs associated with our cost-savings initiatives.

Nonoperating Expense, Net

Year Ended March 31,Total Change
amounts in thousands, except percentage data2026202520242026 vs. 20252025 vs. 2024
Interest expense and amortization of debt issuance costs$10,692$11,859$5,697(9.8%)108.2%
(Gain) on extinguishment of convertible senior notes-(2,887)-(100.0%)N/A
Other (income) expense, net(4,195)1,403(2,124)(399.0%)(166.1%)
Nonoperating expense, net$6,497$10,3753,573(37.4%)190.4%

Interest expense decreased in fiscal year 2026 compared to fiscal year 2025 due to lower weighted‑average levels of outstanding interest‑bearing debt and a reduction in interest rates applicable to our floating‑rate debt. These decreases were partially offset by a higher interest rate associated with borrowings under the Credit Facility discussed below compared to our previously outstanding convertible notes ("the Notes"), which were settled during fiscal year 2026 using borrowings under the Credit Facility.

Other (income) expense, net primarily consists of gains and losses on foreign currency transactions. In particular, during fiscal year 2026, we recognized unrealized foreign currency gains of approximately $3.7 million related to an intercompany U.S. dollar-denominated loan issued in fiscal year 2024 to one of our wholly owned, euro-denominated subsidiaries.

Income Taxes

Year Ended March 31,Total Change
amounts in thousands, except percentage data2026202520242026 vs. 20252025 vs. 2024
Earnings (loss) before income taxes$12,014$5,961$(275,648)$6,053$281,609
Income tax expense (benefit)5,3027,935(21,402)(2,633)29,337
Effective tax rate44.1%133.1%7.8%(89.0 pt)125.3 pt

Our effective income tax rate was 44.1% for fiscal year 2026 compared to 133.1% for fiscal year 2025.

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The effective tax rate for fiscal year 2026 differed from the statutory federal rate of 21% primarily due to non-deductible executive compensation and taxes related to foreign operations, partially offset by a decrease to our valuation allowance. The effective tax rate for fiscal year 2025 differed from the statutory federal rate of 21% primarily due to increases in our valuation allowance related to our operations in the U.S. and Germany, as well as non-deductible executive compensation and varying applicable tax rates in foreign jurisdictions. See Note 12. “Income Taxes” within Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data) for a reconciliation of our income tax provision, including the impact of specific items on our overall effective income tax rate.

Our future effective income tax rate depends on various factors, such as changes in the realizability of deferred tax assets, tax laws, regulations, accounting principles, or interpretations thereof, and the geographic composition of our pre-tax income. We carefully monitor these factors and adjust our effective income tax rate accordingly.

Net Income (Loss)

Net income (loss) varies with the changes in revenues, gross profit, and operating expenses. Net income in fiscal year 2026 reflects, respectively, $18,017, $5,254, and $17,868 of non-cash amortization of intangible assets acquired in a business combination, non-cash depreciation, and non-cash stock-based compensation expense.

Non-GAAP Reconciliations

Adjusted operating income (which excludes the non-cash impact of amortization of finite-lived intangible assets acquired in a business combination, depreciation, stock-based compensation, and impairment of goodwill and finite-lived intangible assets) and organic revenues growth (reported revenues growth excluding the impact of revenues growth from recent acquisitions) are used by management as supplemental performance measures in order to compare current financial performance to historical performance, to assess the ability of our assets to generate cash, and to evaluate potential acquisitions.

Adjusted operating income and organic revenues growth should not be considered alternatives to, or more meaningful than, net income (loss), operating income (loss), reported revenues growth, cash flows from operating activities or any other measure of financial performance presented in accordance with GAAP as measures of operating performance or liquidity.

The following table sets forth our reconciliation of operating income (loss) to adjusted operating income, a non-GAAP measure:

Year Ended March 31,
amounts in thousands202620252024
Operating income (loss)$18,511$16,336$(272,075)
Amortization of intangible assets acquired in a business combination18,01719,14527,341
Depreciation of long-lived assets5,2545,3824,233
Stock-based compensation17,86813,14211,936
Impairment losses on goodwill and finite-lived intangible assets--274,533
Adjusted operating income (non-GAAP)$59,650$54,005$45,968

The following table sets forth our reconciliation of total revenues growth to organic revenues growth, a non-GAAP measure:

Total Revenues GrowthImpact of AcquisitionsOrganic Revenues Growth (non-GAAP)
Year ended March 31,Year ended March 31,Year ended March 31,
202620252026202520262025
Sterilization and Disinfection Control8.7%24.4%-%(19.7%)8.7%4.7%
Biopharmaceutical Development(0.2%)19.7%-%-%(0.2%)19.7%
Calibration Solutions3.5%8.3%-%-%3.5%8.3%
Clinical Genomics(3.6%)(10.5%)-%-%(3.6%)(10.5%)
Total Company3.4%11.5%-%(6.9%)3.4%4.6%

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Liquidity and Capital Resources

Our sources of liquidity include cash generated from operations, cash on hand and cash available from our Credit Facility (See Note 8. "Indebtedness" for a description of the Credit Facility). We believe these sources are sufficient to meet our ongoing operating needs, scheduled debt service obligations, dividend payments and anticipated capital expenditures. As of March 31, 2026 and 2025, we held cash of $26.9 million and $27.3 million, respectively.

Historically, our more significant uses of resources have included acquisitions, payments of debt principal and interest, capital expenditures, and quarterly dividends to shareholders. During fiscal year 2024, we acquired GKE for $87.2 million, net of cash acquired and financial liabilities assumed and inclusive of working capital adjustments. In April 2025, we paid a $9.6 million holdback related to the acquisition, consistent with previously accrued and disclosed amounts.

Working capital, defined as the amount by which current assets exceed current liabilities, was $44.4 million as of March 31, 2026, compared to negative working capital of $(61.3) million as of March 31, 2025. The prior year's negative working capital was due to the classification of $97.5 million of principal related to our Notes as a current liability. During fiscal year 2026, we settled the Notes using borrowings of $97.0 million under our revolving credit facility (the "Revolver"). The Revolver allows us to borrow up to $125.0 million, of which $84.5 million was outstanding as of March 31, 2026.

On October 10, 2025 we amended our Credit Facility to reduce the applicable interest rate spread above the SOFR base rate from 1.5%-3.5% to 1.25%-2.5%. We expect to incur approximately $8.8 million in cash interest expense over the next twelve months based on outstanding debt levels and interest rates in effect as of March 31, 2026. Required principal debt payments due on our term loan under the Credit Facility (the "Term Loan") within the next twelve months total $5.6 million.

We routinely evaluate opportunities for strategic acquisitions. Future material acquisitions may require us to obtain additional capital, assume additional third-party debt or incur other long-term obligations. While we believe that we have the ability to issue more equity or debt in the future in order to finance our acquisition and investment activities, such financing, may not be available on acceptable terms, if at all.

Dividends

We have paid regular quarterly dividends since 2003. We declared and paid dividends of $0.16 per share each quarter of the years ended March 31, 2026, 2025, and 2024.

In April 2026, our Board of Directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.16 per share of common stock, payable on June 15, 2026, to shareholders of record at the close of business on May 29, 2026.

Cash Flows

Our cash flows from operating, investing, and financing activities were as follows:

Year Ended March 31,
202620252024
Net cash provided by operating activities42,831$46,808$44,133
Net cash (used in) investing activities(3,250)(4,499)(81,306)
Net cash (used in) provided by financing activities(41,854)(44,509)32,836

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Cash flows from operating activities for the year ended March 31, 2026 provided $42.8 million, a decrease of $4.0 million versus the prior year. The decrease in cash flows from operating activities was primarily a result of:

Column 1Column 2Column 3
higher cash payments in the first quarter of fiscal year 2026 to settle accrued bonuses and commissions from the end of fiscal year 2025; and
Column 1Column 2Column 3
increased inventory purchases, including for finished goods warehoused in international locations as part of our tariff mitigation strategy.

These factors were partially offset by improved operating performance, including an $8.2 million increase in revenues compared to the prior year.

Cash used in investing activities decreased for fiscal year 2026 versus fiscal year 2025 as we invested in property, plant and equipment for our new leased facility in Sweden in the prior year. Financing activities resulted in a $41.9 million use of cash for fiscal year 2026. We borrowed a total of $107.5 million:

$10.5 million under the Revolver, largely to fund a $9.6 million payment of the GKE acquisition-related holdback; and
$97.0 million under the Revolver, to settle the Notes upon maturity in August 2025.

We repaid a total of $134.2 million:

$97.5 million to settle the Notes;
$33.0 million under the Revolver; and
$3.7 million under the Term Loan.

Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates

Our Consolidated Financial Statements are prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States, which require management to make estimates, judgments and assumptions that affect the amounts reported in our Consolidated Financial Statements and accompanying notes. We believe the following are the more critical judgment areas in the application of accounting policies that currently affect our financial condition and results of operations. Management has discussed the development, selection and disclosure of critical accounting policies and estimates with the Audit Committee of our Board of Directors. While our estimates and assumptions are based on our knowledge of current events and circumstances and actions we may take in the future, actual results may ultimately differ from these estimates and assumptions. For a discussion of our significant accounting policies, see Note 1. “Description of Business and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies” in Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data.

Goodwill Impairment Testing

Management believes goodwill impairment testing is a critical accounting estimate. We test goodwill for impairment on an annual basis as of January 1st each year, or more frequently if events and circumstances indicate it is more likely than not that the fair value of a goodwill reporting unit is less than its carrying value. Events that could indicate impairment and trigger interim impairment tests include, but are not limited to, adverse current or expected economic, market, or industry-specific conditions (including a decline in our market capitalization), adverse changes or expected changes in business climate or operating performance, changes in legal or regulatory factors, and adverse actions or assessments by regulators. We monitor for indicators of impairment throughout the year and perform qualitative and quantitative impairment testing as necessary based on quarterly preliminary assessments of performance and other relevant circumstances.

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When we perform quantitative impairment testing either at our election, at least every five years, or because we believe a reporting unit is more likely than not impaired, we estimate the fair values of our reporting units primarily using a discounted cash flow approach, supplemented by market multiple analyses. These fair value measurements require the use of significant Level 3 inputs, including but not limited to discount rates, forecasted results including earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (“EBITDA”), revenue, revenue growth rates, operating expenses, the identification of comparable public entities, and the selection of applicable market multiples. We develop these assumptions using internal expectations of future performance informed by historical results, available financial data such as backlog and customer orders, and our assessment of relevant facts and circumstances, leveraging expert input where appropriate. The use of these assumptions involves significant judgment, and there are inherent uncertainties associated with valuation estimates. Our assumptions and inputs are forward-looking, and could differ from actual future facts and conditions. Different assumptions from those used in our analyses could materially affect projected cash flows and the estimated fair values of our reporting units. We engage third-party valuation specialists to assist management in performing quantitative goodwill impairment analyses.

In fiscal year 2026 we elected to perform quantitative impairment testing for our Clinical Genomics reporting unit due to its sensitivity in prior impairment analyses and its operating performance during the year. We performed qualitative impairment testing for our other reporting units. Based on our fiscal 2026 impairment testing, we concluded that the fair values of all reporting units exceeded their respective carrying values, and no impairment losses have been incurred or recorded in fiscal year 2026.

Income Taxes, Valuation of Deferred Taxes

Our provision for income taxes requires the use of estimates in determining deferred tax items and related valuation allowances based on management’s interpretation and application of complex tax laws and accounting guidance. We establish allowances for uncertain tax positions for material, known tax exposures relating to deductions, transactions and other matters involving uncertainty as to the measurement and recognition of the item. While we believe that our allowances are adequate, issues raised by a tax authority may be finally resolved at an amount different than the related reserve and it is reasonably possible that our income tax provision in the current and/or future periods could materially increase or decrease.

Recent Accounting Standards and Pronouncements

For a discussion of the new accounting standards impacting the Company, refer to Note 1. “Description of Business and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies” in Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data.

Contractual Obligations

We are party to many contractual obligations that involve commitments to make payments to third parties in the ordinary course of business.

On a consolidated basis, at March 31, 2026, we had contractual obligations for open purchase orders of approximately $13.0 million for routine purchases of supplies and inventory, of which the substantial majority are payable in less than one year. See "Liquidity and Capital Resources" for information related to future required debt payments. For a description of our contractual obligations and other commercial commitments as of March 31, 2025, see our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2025, filed with the SEC on May 28, 2025.

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MD&A history

Prior-year 10-K MD&A spans are extracted from SEC filings with the same bounded parser used for the latest filing. The latest 10-K appears above; prior years are below.

FY 2025 10-K MD&A

SEC filing source: 0001437749-25-018586.

Extracted structurally from real Item 7 body heading to real Item 7A/8 boundary. Published MD&A gate trimmed front/tail over-capture. Confidence: high. Filing date: 2025-05-28. Report date: 2025-03-31.

Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

This Management’s Discussion and Analysis (“MD&A”) is intended to help investors understand Mesa, our operations and our present business environment. MD&A is provided as a supplement to, and should be read in conjunction with, our Consolidated Financial Statements and the accompanying notes thereto contained in this Annual Report on Form 10-K. Unless the context requires otherwise, the terms “Mesa,” “Company,” “we,” “its,” and “our” in this Annual Report on Form 10-K refer to Mesa Laboratories, Inc. and its subsidiaries.

This section generally discusses our fiscal years ended March 31, 2025 and March 31, 2024 items and year-to-year comparisons between fiscal year 2025 and fiscal year 2024. Discussions of fiscal year 2023 items and year-to-year comparisons between fiscal year 2024 and fiscal year 2023 that are not included in this report can be found in “Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” in Part II, Item 7 of the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2024 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 28, 2024.

(dollars in thousands, unless otherwise specified)

Overview

We are a global leader in the design and manufacture of life sciences tools and critical quality control solutions for regulated applications in the pharmaceutical, healthcare and medical device industries. We offer products and services to help our customers ensure product integrity, increase patient and worker safety, and improve the quality of life throughout the world. We have manufacturing operations in the United States and Europe, and our products are marketed by our sales personnel in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific, and by independent distributors in these areas as well as throughout the rest of the world. We prefer markets in which we can establish a strong presence and achieve high gross profit margins.

As of March 31, 2025, we managed our operations in four reportable segments, or divisions: Sterilization and Disinfection Control, Clinical Genomics, Biopharmaceutical Development, and Calibration Solutions. Each of our divisions is described further in "Results of Operations" below. Unallocated corporate expenses and other business activities are reported within Corporate and Other.

Corporate Strategy

We strive to create stakeholder value and further our purpose of Protecting the Vulnerable® by growing our business both organically and through acquisitions, by improving our operating efficiency, and by continuing to hire, develop and retain top talent. As a business, we commit to our purpose of Protecting the Vulnerable® every day by taking a customer-focused approach to developing, building, and delivering our products. We serve a broad set of industries, in particular the pharmaceutical, healthcare and medical device industries, in which the safety, quality, and efficacy of products are critical. By delivering the highest quality products possible, we are committed to protecting the communities we serve.

Organic Revenues Growth

Organic revenues growth is driven by the expansion of our customer base, increases in sales volumes, new product offerings, and price increases, and may be affected positively or negatively by changes in foreign currency rates. Our ability to increase organic revenues is affected by general economic conditions, both domestic and international, customer capital spending trends, competition, currency exchange rates, and the introduction of new products. Our policy is to price our products competitively and, where possible, we pass along cost increases to our customers in order to maintain our margins. We typically evaluate costs and pricing annually, with price increases effective January 1. We evaluate the need to increase prices at other times of the year in response to changes in regulatory policy, such as the imposition of tariffs, or significant increases in the price of inputs to our products which could result from drastic changes to the macroeconomy.

Inorganic Revenues Growth - Acquisitions

Over the past decade, we have consummated a number of acquisitions as part of our growth strategy. These acquisitions have allowed us to expand our product offerings and the industries we serve, globalize our company, and increase the scale at which we operate. In turn, this growth affords us the ability to improve our operating efficiency, extend our customer base, and further the pursuit of our purpose: Protecting the Vulnerable®.

During fiscal year 2024, we completed the acquisition of GKE. GKE develops, manufactures and sells a highly competitive portfolio of chemical sterilization indicators, biologics, and process challenge devices to protect patient safety across global healthcare markets.

Improving Our Operating Efficiency

Our ongoing goal is to maximize value in our existing businesses and those we acquire by implementing efficiencies in our manufacturing, commercial, engineering, and administrative operations. We achieve efficiencies using the four pillars that make up the Mesa Way, which is our customer-centric, lean-based system for continuously improving and operating the manufacturing and administrative aspects of our high-margin, niche businesses. The Mesa Way is focused on: "Measuring What Matters" based on customers' perspective and setting high standards for performance; "Empowering Teams" to improve operationally and exceed customer expectations; "Sustainably Improving" using lean-based tools designed to help us identify and prioritize the best opportunities; and "Always Learning" so that performance continuously improves.

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Our gross profit is affected by many factors including our product mix, foreign currency rates, manufacturing efficiencies, costs of products and labor, costs of transporting goods, and price competition. Historically, as we have integrated our acquisitions and taken advantage of manufacturing efficiencies, our gross profit percentages for some products have improved. There are, however, differences in gross profit percentages between product lines, and ultimately the mix of revenues will continue to impact our overall gross profit.

Hire, Develop, and Retain Top Talent

At the center of our organization are highly talented people who are capable of taking on new challenges using a team approach. Indeed, it is our exceptionally talented workforce that works together to continuously and sustainably improve our products, our services, and ourselves, resulting in long-term value creation for our stakeholders.

General Trends

We are a global company with multinational operations. During our fiscal year 2025, approximately 52% of our revenues were earned outside of the United States. We face both opportunities and challenges resulting from our geographic and industry diversity, such as operating in varied economic environments across served geographies, technology changes in served markets, expansion opportunities in high-growth markets, the impacts of foreign currency movements against the U.S. dollar ("USD"), changes in trends and costs of a global labor force, and increasing regulation. Our continued revenues growth will depend on our ability to (i) continue commercial efforts to expand business with new and existing customers, (ii) identify, consummate and integrate acquisitions successfully, and (iii) develop or purchase differentiated products and services. We maintain our profitability by improving the effectiveness of our sales force, by continuing to pursue cost reduction initiatives, and by improving our operating efficiency.

Our revenues increased 11.5% in fiscal year 2025 compared with fiscal year 2024. GKE, which we purchased during the third quarter of fiscal year 2024, contributed $24.8 million of revenues in fiscal year 2025 compared with $9.3 million from the acquisition date in mid-October 2023 through March 31, 2024. Organic revenues increased 4.6% during fiscal year 2025, primarily as a result of organic revenues growth of 19.7% from our Biopharmaceutical Development division, 8.3% from our Calibration Solutions division, and 4.7% from our Sterilization and Disinfection Control division, partially offset by a 10.5% organic revenues decline in our Clinical Genomics division.

Our Biopharmaceutical Development division has particularly benefited from improved capital equipment sales in fiscal year 2025 after being adversely impacted by industry-wide capital investment declines in the biopharmaceutical vertical in fiscal year 2024; hardware and software sales in the division increased 51.2% in fiscal year 2025 compared to fiscal year 2024. In general, we expect that as customers who have purchased equipment over the past 12 months adopt our technology into their businesses, consumables purchases will continue to increase in future periods. Our Clinical Genomics business continued to experience challenges presented by changing global regulatory environments. However, we began to realize benefits from implementing strategic changes in the Clinical Genomics division late in fiscal year 2024, and organic revenues growth increased 1.0% and 3.5% in the third and fourth quarters of fiscal year 2025 compared to prior year periods, respectively, despite continued regulatory challenges.

Gross profit as a percentage of revenues increased one percentage point in fiscal year 2025 versus fiscal year 2024, primarily due to $3.4 million of lower intangible asset amortization expense flowing through cost of revenues as a result of the Clinical Genomics intangible asset impairment loss recorded in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2024, partially offset by higher performance-based compensation costs related to our financial performance.

Excluding a $274.5 million impairment loss recorded in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2024, operating expenses increased 3.2% during fiscal year 2025 versus fiscal year 2024. Increases in operating expense were primarily attributable to (i) higher performance-based compensation expenses and higher professional services costs for compliance activities and integration activities related to the GKE acquisition and (ii) twelve months of operating expenses from GKE versus only about five and a half months in the comparable prior year period. These increases were partially offset by $4.8 million lower amortization expense in fiscal year 2025.

We source parts and materials used to produce our products from many different countries and we sell our products globally. In the first quarter of fiscal year 2026, the United States implemented tariffs on imports from most countries, which has prompted retaliatory tariffs on U.S. imports in certain cases. In April 2025, the effective date of certain tariffs was delayed; however, tariffs remain in place on most products imported to the U.S. as well as on products exported from the U.S. into China. The amount of tariffs that will remain in place over the long term is uncertain and is expected to vary by country. While we are seeking ways to minimize the impact of tariffs, if the effective tariffs remain in place, we expect to incur additional costs to source materials, import, and export our products. We may experience decreasing revenues if we are unable to price our products competitively in China, or we may experience declining gross margins if we chose to absorb the costs of tariffs in our own business; these impacts could be material.

A weakening or strengthening of foreign currencies against the USD increases or decreases our reported revenues, gross profit margins, and operating expenses, and impacts the comparability of our results between periods.

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Results of Operations

Results by reportable segment are as follows:

RevenuesOrganic Revenues Growth (non-GAAP) (a)Gross Profit as a % of Revenues
Year ended March 31,Year ended March 31,Year ended March 31,
amounts in thousands, except percentage data202520242025202420252024
Sterilization and Disinfection Control$93,418$75,1244.7%1.9%69.2%71.0%
Clinical Genomics47,08152,588(10.5%)(15.6%)54.5%51.5%
Biopharmaceutical Development48,73040,71219.7%(14.3%)61.4%62.4%
Calibration Solutions51,74947,7638.3%6.6%59.2%57.7%
Reportable segments$240,978$216,1874.6%(5.6%)62.6%61.6%
Column 1Column 2
(a)Organic revenues growth is a non-GAAP measure of financial performance. See "Non-GAAP Reconciliations" below for further information and for a reconciliation of organic revenues growth to total revenues growth.

Our consolidated results of operations are as follows:

Year Ended March 31,Total Change
amounts in thousands, except percentage data2025202420232025 vs. 20242024 vs. 2023
Revenues$240,978$216,187$219,08011.5%(1.3%)
Gross profit150,870133,250133,69313.2%(0.3%)
Operating expense (excluding impairment losses)134,534130,792130,3732.9%0.3%
Impairment losses-274,533-(100.0%)100.0%
Operating income (loss)16,336(272,075)3,320106.0%(8,295.0%)
Net (loss) income$(1,974)$(254,246)$93099.2%(27,438.3%)

We cannot accurately predict the impact that tariffs will have on our business in fiscal year 2026. In fiscal year 2025:

Column 1Column 2Column 3
We recognized $25.3 million of revenues from sales to customers in China, over $18.0 million of which was derived from products exported from the U.S.
Column 1Column 2Column 3
We recognized $116.6 million of revenues from sales to customers in the United States, over $16.0 million of which was derived from products imported to the U.S. from Sweden.
Column 1Column 2Column 3
We recognized approximately $56.1 million of revenues from customers in Europe, over $27.0 million of which was derived from products imported to Europe from the U.S.

Our ability to continue to sell products at margins we have historically realized, in light of effective tariffs, will depend on price elasticity, customer demand, continued evolution of tariff rates, and overall market conditions, among other factors.

We purchase a relatively immaterial portion of the materials we use in manufacturing our products from non-domestic sources that would likely be subject to effective or potential future tariffs.

Reportable Segments

Sterilization and Disinfection Control

Our Sterilization and Disinfection Control division manufactures and sells biological, chemical and cleaning indicators used to assess the effectiveness of sterilization, decontamination, disinfection and cleaning processes in the pharmaceutical, medical device, and healthcare industries. The division also provides testing and laboratory services, mainly to the dental and pharmaceutical industries. Sterilization and Disinfection Control products are disposable and are used on a routine basis.

Year Ended March 31,Total Change
amounts in thousands, except percentage data2025202420232025 vs. 20242024 vs. 2023
Revenues$93,418$75,124$64,60924.4%16.3%
Gross profit64,66053,30246,52021.3%14.6%
Gross profit as a % of revenues69.2%71.0%72.0%(1.8 pt)(1.0 pt)

Sterilization and Disinfection Control revenues increased 24.4% for fiscal year 2025 compared to fiscal year 2024. GKE contributed $15.5 million more to revenues and $11.2 million more to gross profit during fiscal year 2025 compared to the partial year of ownership in fiscal year 2024. GKE's gross profit as a percentage of revenues was 66.5% and 57.7% during fiscal year 2025 and 2024, respectively. Excluding $1.2 million of amortization of the non-cash inventory step-up related to the GKE acquisition in each year, the Sterilization and Disinfection Control division's gross profit margin percentage was 70.5% and 72.6% during fiscal year 2025 and 2024, respectively.

Excluding inorganic growth from the GKE acquisition, revenues in the Sterilization and Disinfection control division increased 4.7% and orders increased 6.4% in fiscal year 2025 compared to fiscal year 2024, driven by strong commercial execution. Increased order levels resulted in higher than normal past due backlog at certain times of the year. As of March 31, 2025, the Sterilization and Disinfection Control division's past due backlog was approximately $2.0 million higher compared to March 31, 2024, but has decreased approximately 27% compared to the end of the third quarter of our fiscal year 2025.

Gross profit as a percentage of revenues in the Sterilization and Disinfection Control division declined 1.8 percentage points, primarily as a result of higher expense for performance-based personnel costs and temporary labor costs utilized to increase capacity to decrease our past due backlog.

The Sterilization and Disinfection Control division recorded approximately $7.0 million of product revenues sourced directly from the U.S. into China during fiscal year 2025. We expect to continue sales of Sterilization and Disinfection Control products into China in fiscal year 2026 despite tariff charges; however, given the effective tariffs, we cannot predict whether sales volumes and/or gross profit margins on sales from the U.S. into China will decline compared to fiscal year 2025.

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Clinical Genomics

The Clinical Genomics division develops, manufactures and sells highly sensitive, low-cost, high-throughput genetic analysis tools and related consumables and services that enable clinical research labs and contract research organizations to perform genomic testing for a broad range of research applications in several therapeutic areas, such as screenings for hereditary diseases, pharmacogenetics, oncology related applications, and toxicology research.

Year Ended March 31,Total Change
amounts in thousands, except percentage data2025202420232025 vs. 20242024 vs. 2023
Revenues$47,081$52,588$62,299(10.5%)(15.6%)
Gross profit25,67027,07832,485(5.2%)(16.6%)
Gross profit as a % of revenues54.5%51.5%52.1%3.0 pt(0.6 pt)

Clinical Genomics revenues decreased 10.5% in fiscal year 2025 compared to fiscal year 2024, largely due to decreased revenues in China, and to a lesser extent lower hardware sales in the United States as a result of increased regulations of new lab-developed tests that were in place for almost all of fiscal year 2025. Restrictions on lab-developed tests that affected this division were vacated by a federal court ruling in March 2025; however, the FDA may appeal this favorable ruling within 60 days of the ruling. China’s government continues to play a significant role in regulating industry development by imposing sector-specific policies and maintaining control over China’s economic growth through monetary policy and the treatment of particular industries.

Gross profit as a percentage of revenues for the Clinical Genomics division increased 3.0 percentage points for fiscal year 2025 compared to fiscal year 2024, primarily due to lower intangibles amortization expense as a result of impairment losses recorded in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2024. Excluding amortization expense, gross profit as a percentage of revenues would have decreased 3.8 percentage points for fiscal year 2025 compared to fiscal year 2024, attributable to lower margin instrument sales into China, reserves for slow-moving inventory as sales declined, and to a lesser extent, lower revenues on a partially fixed cost base. The lower margin sales of hardware into China reflected a change in our strategy for growth in this division that we expected would drive future consumables sales.  However, until effective tariffs into China moderate significantly, it is unlikely that we will be able to realize increased sales in China.

The Clinical Genomics division recorded over $8.0 million of revenues from sales of goods produced in the U.S. to customers in China in fiscal year 2025, approximately half of which were sales of hardware and software. If effective tariffs remain in place for all of fiscal year 2026, we expect that revenues from sales of Clinical Genomics hardware will decline, however, we expect continued revenues from sales of consumables to existing customers.

Biopharmaceutical Development

Our Biopharmaceutical Development division develops, manufactures, sells and services automated systems for protein analysis (immunoassays) and peptide synthesis solutions. Immunoassays and peptide synthesis solutions accelerate the discovery, development, and manufacture of biologic therapies, among other applications.

Year Ended March 31,Total Change
amounts in thousands, except percentage data2025202420232025 vs. 20242024 vs. 2023
Revenues$48,730$40,712$47,36519.7%(14.0%)
Gross profit29,91325,40030,34017.8%(16.3%)
Gross profit as a % of revenues61.4%62.4%64.1%(1.0 pt)(1.7 pt)

Biopharmaceutical Development's revenues increased 19.7% for fiscal year 2025 compared to fiscal year 2024, benefitting from increased capital spending in the biopharmaceutical markets. Revenues from hardware and software increased 51.2% and revenues from consumables and services increased 4.9% in fiscal year 2025 compared to fiscal year 2024.

Biopharmaceutical Development's gross profit as a percentage of revenues decreased one percentage point during fiscal year 2025, primarily as a result of higher materials costs, increased expense for performance-based personnel costs and unfavorable product mix. We produce the majority of the Biopharmaceutical Development division's products outside of the United States, and we believe we will be able to increase prices to substantially cover the impact of effective tariffs on these products imported into the U.S.

Over $2.0 million of our Biopharmaceutical Development division’s product revenues were sourced from U.S. subsidiaries and sold into China in fiscal year 2025; effective tariffs are expected to negatively impact future sales and/or the profitability of the sales made to customers in China for this division.

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Calibration Solutions

The Calibration Solutions division develops, manufactures, sells and services quality control products using principles of advanced metrology to enable customers to measure and calibrate critical parameters in applications such as renal care, environmental and process monitoring, gas flow, air quality and torque testing, primarily in medical device manufacturing, pharmaceutical manufacturing, laboratory and hospital environments.

Year Ended March 31,Total Change
amounts in thousands, except percentage data2025202420232025 vs. 20242024 vs. 2023
Revenues$51,749$47,763$44,8078.3%6.6%
Gross profit30,63727,54724,38811.2%13.0%
Gross profit as a % of revenues59.2%57.7%54.4%1.5 pt3.3 pt

Calibration Solutions revenues increased 8.3% for fiscal year 2025 compared to fiscal year 2024, primarily due to commercial efforts, particularly in our renal care product lines, and price increases.

The Calibration Solutions division's gross profit as a percentage of revenues increased 1.5 percentage points in fiscal year 2025 compared to fiscal year 2024, primarily due to increased revenues on a partially fixed cost base and product mix, partially offset by increased expense for performance-based personnel costs. Approximately $10.0 million of the Calibration Solution division’s product revenues in fiscal year 2025 were from customers outside of the United States. While we cannot predict the impact effective or potential tariffs will have on the division, we do not expect material impacts to gross profit as a percentage of revenues at this time.

Operating Expense

Excluding fiscal year 2024 impairment losses of $274.5 million, operating expenses for fiscal year 2025 increased 3.2% and were 56.0% and 60.5% of revenues for fiscal years 2025 and 2024, respectively.

Selling Expense

Selling expense is driven primarily by labor costs, including salaries and commissions; accordingly, it may vary with sales levels.

Year Ended March 31,Total Change
amounts in thousands, except percentage data2025202420232025 vs. 20242024 vs. 2023
Selling expense$41,683$38,625$37,4397.9%3.2%
As a percentage of revenues17.3%17.9%17.1%(0.6 pt)0.8 pt

Selling expense increased 7.9% for fiscal year 2025, but decreased 0.6 percentage points as a percentage of revenues. The increases in dollar terms are primarily attributable to increased performance-based compensation expense as our financial results improved, and the addition of GKE's selling expenses.

General and Administrative Expense

Labor costs, non-cash stock-based compensation and amortization of intangible assets drive the substantial majority of general and administrative expense.

Year Ended March 31,Total Change
amounts in thousands, except percentage data2025202420232025 vs. 20242024 vs. 2023
General and administrative, other than impairment of finite-lived intangible assets and goodwill$73,333$72,867$72,4440.6%0.6%
As a percentage of revenues30.4%33.7%33.1%(3.3 pt)0.6 pt

General and administrative expenses increased 0.6% for fiscal year 2025 and decreased 3.3 percentage points as a percentage of revenues. Amortization expense decreased $4.8 million, primarily driven by lower intangible asset values from the impairment losses recorded in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2024, partially offset by a $1.3 million increase in amortization expense from owning GKE's intangibles for the full fiscal year 2025. Excluding amortization expense, for fiscal year 2025, general and administrative costs would have increased 10.2%, primarily as a result of higher expense for performance-based personnel costs, the addition of GKE's administrative operating expenses for a full year in fiscal year 2025 versus a partial year in fiscal year 2024, and professional services costs related to integrating GKE into our enterprise resource planning tool and other compliance efforts.

Research and Development Expense

Research and development expense is predominantly comprised of labor costs and third-party consultants.

Year Ended March 31,Total Change
amounts in thousands, except percentage data2025202420232025 vs. 20242024 vs. 2023
Research and development expense$19,518$19,300$20,4901.1%(5.8%)
As a percentage of revenues8.1%8.9%9.4%(0.8 pt)(0.5 pt)

Research and development expenses for fiscal year 2025 increased 1.1% compared to fiscal year 2024, primarily due to higher performance-based compensation expense and the inclusion of GKE's results for a full year of operations. These increases were partially offset by lower salaries expense, which is expected to continue into future periods.

Impairment

Impairment losses were recorded in our Clinical Genomics and Biopharmaceutical Development divisions in fiscal year 2024. The impairment losses were primarily the result of higher weighted average cost of capital, which decreases the fair value of businesses, as well as downward revisions of expected future performance compared to the expectations that existed at the time of our previous quantitative impairment analyses. We did not record any impairment losses in fiscal year 2025; however, certain reporting units remain sensitive to potential future impairment. See Note 6. "Goodwill and Intangible Assets, Net" in Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data for further information.

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Nonoperating Expense, Net

Year Ended March 31,Total Change
amounts in thousands, except percentage data2025202420232025 vs. 20242024 vs. 2023
Interest expense and amortization of debt issuance costs$11,859$5,697$4,770108.2%19.4%
(Gain) on extinguishment of convertible senior notes(2,887)--N/AN/A
Other expense (income), net1,403(2,124)(1,061)(166.1%)100.2%
Nonoperating expense, net$10,375$3,5733,709190.4%(3.7%)

We incurred significantly more interest expense during fiscal year 2025 than in fiscal year 2024 as we refinanced our Credit Facility during the first quarter of fiscal year 2025 in order to repurchase $75.0 million in aggregate principal of our Notes. We had $80.7 million outstanding under our Credit Facility as of March 31, 2025, net of discounts on the Term Loan, compared to $50.5 million outstanding under our Credit Facility as of March 31, 2024. Amounts outstanding under the Credit Facility bear interest at a significantly higher rate than amounts outstanding under the Notes.

The $2.9 million gain on extinguishment of our Notes represents the difference between the cash paid to extinguish a portion of the Notes and their pro-rata carrying value the time of extinguishment in the first quarter of fiscal year 2025.

Income Taxes

Year Ended March 31,Total Change
amounts in thousands, except percentage data2025202420232025 vs. 20242024 vs. 2023
Earnings (loss) before income taxes$5,961$(275,648)$(389)$281,609$(275,259)
Income tax expense (benefit)7,935(21,402)(1,319)29,337(20,083)
Effective tax rate133.1%7.8%339.1%125.3 pt(331.3 pt)

Our effective income tax rate was 133.1% for fiscal year 2025 compared to 7.8% for fiscal year 2024.

The effective tax rate of 133.1% for fiscal year 2025 differed from the statutory federal rate of 21% primarily due to adjustments to the valuation allowance related to our operations in the U.S. and Germany, and varying applicable tax rates in foreign jurisdictions. Our effective income tax rate of 7.8% for fiscal year 2024 differed from the statutory federal rate primarily due to the tax effect from intangible asset impairment losses recorded in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2024. Please see Note 12. “Income Taxes” within Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data) for a reconciliation of our income tax provision, including the impact of specific items on our overall effective income tax rate.

Our future effective income tax rate depends on various factors, such as changes in the realizability of deferred tax assets, tax laws, regulations, accounting principles, or interpretations thereof, and the geographic composition of our pre-tax income. We carefully monitor these factors and adjust our effective income tax rate accordingly.

Net (Loss) Income

Net (loss) income varies with the changes in revenues, gross profit, and operating expenses. Net (loss) income in fiscal year 2025 reflects, respectively, $19,145, $5,382, and $13,142 of non-cash amortization of intangible assets acquired in a business combination, non-cash depreciation, and non-cash stock-based compensation expense.

Non-GAAP Reconciliations

Adjusted operating income (which excludes the non-cash impact of amortization of finite-lived intangible assets acquired in a business combination, depreciation, stock-based compensation, and impairment of goodwill and finite-lived intangible assets) and organic revenues growth (reported revenues growth excluding the impact of revenues growth from recent acquisitions) are used by management as supplemental performance measures in order to compare current financial performance to historical performance, to assess the ability of our assets to generate cash, and to evaluate potential acquisitions.

Adjusted operating income and organic revenues growth should not be considered alternatives to, or more meaningful than, net (loss) income, operating income (loss), reported revenues growth, cash flows from operating activities or any other measure of financial performance presented in accordance with GAAP as measures of operating performance or liquidity.

The following table sets forth our reconciliation of operating income (loss) to adjusted operating income, a non-GAAP measure:

Year Ended March 31,
amounts in thousands202520242023
Operating income (loss)$16,336$(272,075)$3,320
Amortization of intangible assets acquired in a business combination19,14527,34128,821
Depreciation of long-lived assets5,3824,2334,313
Stock-based compensation13,14211,93612,538
Impairment losses on goodwill and finite-lived intangible assets-274,533-
Adjusted operating income (non-GAAP)$54,005$45,968$48,992

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The following table sets forth our reconciliation of total revenues growth to organic revenues growth, a non-GAAP measure:

Total Revenues GrowthImpact of AcquisitionsOrganic Revenues Growth (non-GAAP)
Year ended March 31,Year ended March 31,Year ended March 31,
202520242025202420252024
Sterilization and Disinfection Control24.4%16.3%(19.7%)(14.4%)4.7%1.9%
Clinical Genomics(10.5%)(15.6%)-%-%(10.5%)(15.6%)
Biopharmaceutical Development19.7%(14.3%)-%-%19.7%(14.3%)
Calibration Solutions8.3%6.6%-%-%8.3%6.6%
Total Company11.5%(1.3%)(6.9%)(4.3%)4.6%(5.6%)

Liquidity and Capital Resources

Our sources of liquidity include cash generated from operations, cash and cash equivalents on hand and cash available from our Credit Facility (See Note 8. "Indebtedness" for a description of the Credit Facility), and potential additional equity and debt offerings. We believe that cash flows from operating activities and potential cash provided by borrowings from our Credit Facility, when necessary, will be sufficient to meet our ongoing short-term and long-term operating requirements, scheduled principal and interest payments on debt, dividend payments, and anticipated capital expenditures. Our Open Market Sale AgreementSM expired in April 2025.

Our more significant uses of resources have historically included acquisitions, payments on debt principal and interest obligations, long-term capital expenditures, and quarterly dividends to shareholders. During fiscal year 2024, we acquired GKE for $87,187, net of cash acquired and financial liabilities assumed and inclusive of working capital adjustments. We paid a holdback of $9,555 related to the acquisition in April 2025.

We had $27.3 million and $28.2 million of cash and cash equivalents as of March 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively. Working capital is the amount by which current assets exceed current liabilities. Our working capital balance was negative as of March 31, 2025 because the balance on our Notes, due August 15, 2025, is due within twelve months of our year end date and is therefore classified as a current liability. We had working capital of $(61.3) million and $65.0 million as of March 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively.

During the first quarter of fiscal year 2025, and in anticipation of settling the Notes, we amended and restated our Credit Facility to:

(i)Extend the maturity of the Credit Facility to April 2029;
(ii)Allow proceeds from the Credit Facility to be used to redeem some or all of the Company’s Notes;
(iii)Add the $75.0 million senior secured Term Loan; and
(iv)Make certain changes to the financial covenants.

Under the revised Credit Facility, we maintain access to our Revolver, allowing access to up to $125.0 million of borrowings. During fiscal year 2024, we borrowed a total of $71.0 million under the Revolver to fund the majority of the GKE acquisition. As of March 31, 2025, $10.0 million remained outstanding under the Revolver.

We used proceeds of $75.0 million from borrowings under the Term Loan to enter into separate, privately negotiated purchase agreements with a limited number of holders of our Notes. Pursuant to the purchase agreements, we purchased $75.0 million aggregate principal amount of the Notes for an aggregate cash purchase price of approximately $71.3 million. Following these transactions, $97.5 million aggregate principal amount of the Notes remained outstanding and is now classified as current in our Consolidated Balance Sheets.

Using the interest rate and debt balance outstanding effective as of April 30, 2025, we expect to incur cash interest expense within the next twelve months of approximately $10.6 million (adjusted for required future principal payments and expected borrowings to pay off the Notes.

We have $97.5 million principal amount due on the Notes in August 2025. Together with the current portion of our Term Loan, the cash needed for principal debt payments is $101.3  million within the next twelve months. We plan use cash on hand, draws against our Revolver, which had $115.0 million available as of March 31, 2025, and cash generated from operating activities over the next four months to fund the amounts due.

In April 2022, we entered into an Open Market Sale AgreementSM pursuant to which we may issue and sell, from time to time, shares of our common stock with an aggregate value of up to $150.0 million. We did not sell any shares under this agreement, and it expired in April 2025.

We routinely evaluate opportunities for strategic acquisitions. Future material acquisitions may require us to obtain additional capital, assume additional third-party debt or incur other long-term obligations. We believe that we have the ability to issue more equity or debt in the future in order to finance our acquisition and investment activities; however, additional equity or debt financing, or other transactions, may not be available on acceptable terms, if at all.

We may from time to time repurchase or take other steps to reduce our debt. These actions may include retirements or refinancing of outstanding debt through tender offers, privately negotiated transactions, or otherwise. The amount of debt that may be retired, if any, could be material. Retirement would be decided at the sole discretion of our Board of Directors and would depend on market conditions, our cash position, and other considerations.

Dividends

We have paid regular quarterly dividends since 2003. We declared and paid dividends of $0.16 per share each quarter of the years ended March 31, 2025, 2024, and 2023.

In April 2025, our Board of Directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.16 per share of common stock, payable on June 16, 2025, to shareholders of record at the close of business on May 30, 2025.

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Cash Flows

Our cash flows from operating, investing, and financing activities were as follows:

Year Ended March 31,
202520242023
Net cash provided by operating activities$46,808$44,133$27,983
Net cash (used in) investing activities(4,499)(81,306)(9,494)
Net cash (used in) provided by financing activities(44,509)32,836(33,328)

Cash flows from operating activities for the year ended March 31, 2025 provided $46.8 million, an increase of $2.7 million versus the prior year. The increase in cash flows from operating activities for the year ended March 31, 2025 compared to March 31, 2024 was primarily a result of:

Column 1Column 2Column 3
improved performance, including an increase in operating profits from an increase in revenues of $24.8 million compared to the prior year, partially offset by
higher cash spent for commissions, professional services costs, and GKE operating expenses for the full year of 2025 versus a partial year of 2024, and
$6.4 million more cash used for interest payments on our debt, as we had higher balances outstanding for a longer period of time during fiscal year 2025.

Cash used in investing activities in fiscal year 2025 primarily resulted from purchases of property, plant and equipment used in our normal operations. In fiscal year 2024, we used $78.7 million to fund the GKE acquisition.

Cash used in financing activities in fiscal year 2025 primarily relates to principal payments of $44.3 million made on our Line of Credit. Additionally, we received proceeds of $73.5 from borrowings under our Line of Credit, which we used to fund a $71.6 million repurchase of our Notes. In fiscal year 2024, we drew $71.0 million against our line of credit to partially fund the purchase of GKE, and we repaid $33.5 million during the year.

Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates

Our Consolidated Financial Statements are prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States, which require management to make estimates, judgments, and assumptions that affect the amounts reported in our Consolidated Financial Statements and accompanying notes. We believe that the following are the more critical judgment areas in the application of accounting policies that currently affect our financial condition and results of operations. Management has discussed the development, selection, and disclosure of critical accounting policies and estimates with the Audit Committee of our Board of Directors. While our estimates and assumptions are based on our knowledge of current events and circumstances and actions we may take in the future, actual results may ultimately differ from these estimates and assumptions. For a discussion of our significant accounting policies, see Note 1. “Description of Business and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies” in Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data.

Goodwill Impairment Testing

We test goodwill for impairment on an annual basis as of January 1st each year, or more frequently if events and circumstances indicate it is more likely than not that the fair value of a given goodwill reporting unit is less than its carrying value. Events that would indicate impairment and trigger interim impairment tests include, but are not limited to: adverse current or expected economic, market, or industry-specific conditions, including a decline in our market capitalization; adverse changes or expected changes in business climate or in the operational performance of the business; adverse changes in legal factors; and adverse actions or assessments by a regulator. We monitor for indications of impairment throughout the year and perform qualitative and quantitative impairment tests as necessary based on quarterly preliminary assessments of our performance and any challenging circumstances and events.

In fiscal year 2025 we elected to perform quantitative impairment tests over all five of our reporting units in conjunction with our annual impairment testing date. We estimated the fair values of our reporting units primarily using a discounted cash flow approach, supplemented by market multiple models. Our fair value measurements required the use of significant Level 3 inputs, including but not limited to: discount rates, forecasted results including earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (“EBITDA”), revenue, revenue growth rates, operating expenses, the identification of comparable public entities, and applied market multiples. We estimated such inputs using internal expectations of future performance based on our historical experience, available financial data such as backlog and customer orders, and analyses over relevant facts and circumstances that have bearing on our assumptions, leveraging expert input where applicable. There are inherent uncertainties related to valuation assumptions, and in management’s judgment in applying them. Our assumptions and inputs are forward-looking, and could differ from actual future facts and conditions. Different assumptions from those used in our analyses could materially affect projected cash flows and our evaluation of the fair values of our reporting units. The Company engages third-party valuation specialists to aid in calculating fair value estimates.

As a result of our fiscal 2025 impairment testing, we concluded that in all instances, the fair values of our reporting units exceeded their carrying values, and no impairment losses have been incurred or recorded in fiscal year 2025.

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In addition to our annual impairment testing, as of March 31, 2025, we performed our regular quarterly review of potential indicators of impairment, and we performed certain sensitivity tests (including certain lookback analyses with probability-weighted adjustments to future performance outcomes) to ensure that changes in facts, circumstances and expectations did not indicate that it was more likely than not that any of our goodwill reporting units was impaired as of March 31, 2025. We concluded that, based on information known or reasonably knowable as of March 31, 2025, our reporting units more-likely-than-not remained unimpaired. However, Clinical Genomics and Peptides (a reporting unit within our Biopharmaceutical Development division) are sensitive to significant changes in assumptions and have a heightened risk of future impairment losses if actual results differ significantly from our estimates, including if significant changes to performance expectations, market factors, increases in the weighted average cost of capital, or changes in other unobservable and uncertain Level 3 inputs used to estimate the reporting units' fair values occur. Further, subsequent to March 31, 2025, escalating global trade tensions resulted in tariffs that could adversely impact our total revenues and/or the profitability of sales we make into China. We are evaluating the significance of these tariffs to our reporting units, and whether the tariffs represent a triggering event sufficient to require additional quantitative impairment testing of our goodwill and other long-lived assets in the first quarter of our fiscal year 2026. Depending on the persistence and magnitude of the tariffs imposed subsequent to our March 31, 2025 reporting period, and other factors, it is reasonably possible we will incur impairment losses with respect to the Clinical Genomics and Peptides reporting units in the future. The fair values of Clinical Genomics and Peptides exceeded their carrying values by approximately 40% and 20%, respectively, as of our January 1, 2025 annual impairment testing date. The carrying values of goodwill and other intangible assets associated with our Clinical Genomics reporting unit were $16.9 million and $9.3 million, respectively as of March 31, 2025. The carrying values of goodwill and other intangible assets associated with our Peptides reporting unit were $13.7 million and $0.9 million, respectively, as of March 31, 2025.

Stock-based Compensation

We recognize compensation expense for equity awards on a straight-line basis over the vesting period based upon 1) the fair value of the awards at grant date, and 2) the number of awards that are ultimately expected to vest; accordingly, such compensation expense is adjusted by an amount of estimated forfeitures. Further, we recognize and adjust compensation expense for awards that vest based on performance conditions by estimating the probability that applicable performance thresholds will be achieved in the future. The fair value of our market-based awards at grant date is assessed by a knowledgeable third-party using a Monte Carlo simulation, and requires the use of estimation. Our estimates of forfeiture rates, the probability of achieving performance goals, and the fair value of awards with market conditions each require judgment and, to the extent actual results or updated estimates of forfeiture rates or performance achievement differ from our current estimates, a cumulative adjustment to stock-based compensation expense may be recorded in periods in which estimates are revised.

Income Taxes, Valuation of Deferred Taxes

Our provision for income taxes requires the use of estimates in determining deferred tax items and related valuation allowances based on management’s interpretation and application of complex tax laws and accounting guidance. We establish allowances for uncertain tax positions for material, known tax exposures relating to deductions, transactions and other matters involving uncertainty as to the measurement and recognition of the item. While we believe that our allowances are adequate, issues raised by a tax authority may be finally resolved at an amount different than the related reserve and it is reasonably possible that our income tax provision in the current and/or future periods could materially increase or decrease.

Recent Accounting Standards and Pronouncements

For a discussion of the new accounting standards impacting the Company, refer to Note 1. “Description of Business and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies” in Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data.

Contractual Obligations

We are party to many contractual obligations that involve commitments to make payments to third parties in the ordinary course of business.

On a consolidated basis, at March 31, 2025, we had contractual obligations for open purchase orders of approximately $14,300 for routine purchases of supplies and inventory, of which the substantial majority are payable in less than one year. See "Liquidity and Capital Resources" for information related to future required debt payments. For a description of our contractual obligations and other commercial commitments as of March 31, 2024, see our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2024, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 28, 2024.

FY 2024 10-K MD&A

SEC filing source: 0001437749-24-021606.

Extracted structurally from real Item 7 body heading to real Item 7A/8 boundary. Published MD&A gate trimmed front/tail over-capture. Confidence: high. Filing date: 2024-06-28. Report date: 2024-03-31.

Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

(dollars in thousands, unless specified)

Overview

We are a global leader in the design and manufacture of life sciences tools and critical quality control solutions for regulated applications in the pharmaceutical, healthcare, and medical device industries. We offer products and services to help our customers ensure product integrity, increase patient and worker safety, and improve the quality of life throughout the world. We have manufacturing operations in the United States and Europe, and our products are marketed by our sales personnel in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific, and by independent distributors in these areas as well as throughout the rest of the world. We prefer markets in which we can establish a strong presence and achieve high gross profit margins.

As of March 31, 2024, we managed our operations in four reportable segments, or divisions: Sterilization and Disinfection Control, Clinical Genomics, Biopharmaceutical Development, and Calibration Solutions. Each of our divisions are described further in "Results of Operations" below. Unallocated corporate expenses and other business activities are reported within Corporate and Other.

Corporate Strategy

We strive to create stakeholder value and further our purpose of Protecting the Vulnerable® by growing our business both organically and through acquisitions, by improving our operating efficiency, and by continuing to hire, develop and retain top talent. As a business, we commit to our purpose of Protecting the Vulnerable® every day by taking a customer-focused approach to developing, building, and delivering our products. We serve a broad set of industries, in particular the pharmaceutical, healthcare services, and medical device verticals, in which the safety, quality, and efficacy of products is critical. By delivering the highest quality products possible, we are committed to protecting the communities we serve.

Organic Revenues Growth

Organic revenues growth is driven by the expansion of our customer base, increases in sales volumes, new product offerings, and price increases, and may be affected positively or negatively by changes in foreign currency rates. Our ability to increase organic revenues is affected by general economic conditions, both domestic and international, customer capital spending trends, competition, and the introduction of new products. Our policy is to price our products competitively and, where possible, we pass along cost increases to our customers in order to maintain our margins. We typically evaluate costs and pricing annually with price increases effective January 1.

Inorganic Revenues Growth - Acquisitions

Over the past decade, we have consummated a number of acquisitions as part of our growth strategy. These acquisitions have allowed us to expand our product offerings and the industries we serve, globalize our company, and increase the scale at which we operate. In turn, this growth affords us the ability to improve our operating efficiency, extend our customer base, and further the pursuit of our purpose: Protecting the Vulnerable®.

During fiscal year 2024, we completed the acquisition of GKE. GKE develops, manufactures and sells a highly competitive portfolio of chemical sterilization indicators, biologics, and process challenge devices to protect patient safety across global healthcare markets.

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Improving Our Operating Efficiency

We maximize value in our existing businesses and those we acquire by implementing efficiencies in our manufacturing, commercial, engineering, and administrative operations. We achieve efficiencies using the four pillars that make up the Mesa Way, which is our customer-centric, lean-based system for continuously improving and operating the manufacturing and administrative aspects of our high-margin, niche businesses. The Mesa Way is focused on: Measuring What Matters using our customers' perspective and setting high standards for performance; Empowering Teams to improve operationally and exceed customer expectations; Sustainably Improving using lean-based tools designed to help us identify and prioritize the biggest opportunities; and Always Learning so that performance continuously improves.

Gross profit is affected by many factors including our product mix, manufacturing efficiencies, costs of products and labor, foreign currency rates, and price competition. Historically, as we have integrated our acquisitions and taken advantage of manufacturing efficiencies, our gross profit percentages for some products have improved. There are, however, differences in gross profit percentages between product lines, and ultimately the mix of sales will continue to impact our overall gross profit.

Hire, Develop, and Retain Top Talent

At the center of our organization are talented people who are capable of taking on new challenges using a team approach. It is our exceptionally talented workforce that works together and uses our lean-based tool set to find ways to continuously and sustainably improve our products, our services, and ourselves, resulting in long-term value creation for our stakeholders.

General Trends

We are a global company with multinational operations. During our fiscal year 2024, approximately 51% of our revenues were earned outside of the United States. Since we serve a number of industries across a variety of global markets, we may be affected by world-wide, regional, or industry-specific economic or political factors, trends and costs associated with a global labor force, and increasing regulation. However, our diversity in industry, geography, and product and service offerings may limit the impact of changes in specific industry trends or local economic changes in our consolidated operating results. We actively monitor trends affecting industries we operate in, including by monitoring key competitors and customers and by staying abreast of changes to local economies and how they may affect our operations.

Overall, supply chain disruptions, labor shortages and resulting manufacturing difficulties that impacted business operations in fiscal year 2023 largely abated during fiscal year 2024, facilitating organic revenues growth in our Sterilization and Disinfection and Calibration Solutions divisions.

During fiscal year 2024, we completed the acquisition of GKE, which develops, manufactures and sells a highly competitive portfolio of chemical sterilization indicators, biologics, and process challenge devices to protect patient safety across global healthcare markets. GKE’s healthcare-focused commercial capabilities in Europe and Asia greatly expand our reach in the healthcare markets in those geographies. We are working to obtain regulatory 510(k) clearance on certain GKE products for sale in the United States, which would further expand organic revenues growth opportunities from the GKE business. We began consolidating the results of GKE's operations into our financial statements in the third quarter of our fiscal year.

Several challenging macroeconomic factors existed during fiscal year 2024:

Softening of discretionary capital asset purchases across the life sciences tools market, with some abatement during the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2024, contributing to declines in our organic revenues growth in our Biopharmaceutical Development and Clinical Genomics divisions.
Economic slowdowns in China (partially attributable to the local government executing initiatives that may dissuade customers from making capital purchases of any kind) impacted our revenues, particularly in our Clinical Genomics division.
High interest rates resulting in expensive capital negatively impacting customer purchases and our overall profitability, particularly our Clinical Genomics and Biopharmaceutical Development divisions.

In response to decreased revenues growth, we took steps to preserve our financial model, implementing reductions in force and other cost savings initiatives in our Clinical Genomics and Biopharmaceutical Development divisions. We expect to realize incremental cost savings of approximately $4,000 from these initiatives in fiscal year 2025, of which approximately $900 will benefit cost of revenues and $3,100 will benefit operating expenses; however, the majority of these savings may be offset by higher performance-based payments such as bonus and sales commissions if we meet internal revenue growth targets. Management's efforts, coupled with the GKE acquisition, have allowed us to slightly increase our consolidated gross profit margin as a percentage of revenues. Overall, excluding impairment, our operating expenses remained flat during fiscal year 2024 compared to fiscal year 2023, despite the acquisition of GKE in fiscal year 2024.

A weakening or strengthening of foreign currencies against the United States dollar ("USD") increases or decreases our reported revenues, gross profit margins, and operating expenses, and impacts the comparability of our results between periods.

Results of Operations

Our results of operations and year-over-year changes are discussed in the following section. The tables and discussion below should be read in conjunction with the accompanying Consolidated Financial Statements and the notes thereto appearing in Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data (in thousands, except percent data). Refer to Item 7. Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended March 31, 2023, filed on May 30, 2023, for a comparison of results of operations for the years ended March 31, 2023 and March 31, 2022.

During the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2024 we recorded total impairment losses of $274,533 related to goodwill in our Clinical Genomics and Biopharmaceutical Development divisions and related to intangible assets in our Clinical Genomics division as discussed further in "Impairment" below. In fiscal year 2025, we expect a net decrease in non-cash amortization expense of approximately $3,700 within costs of revenues and $6,800 within operating expenses in the Clinical Genomics division due to impairment losses reducing the carrying values of intangible assets.

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Results by reportable segment are as follows:

RevenuesOrganic Revenues Growth (non-GAAP) (a)Gross Profit as a % of Revenues
Year Ended March 31, 2024Year Ended March 31, 2023Year Ended March 31, 2024Year Ended March 31, 2023Year Ended March 31, 2024Year Ended March 31, 2023
Sterilization and Disinfection Control$75,124$64,6091.9%9.4%71%72%
Clinical Genomics52,58862,299(15.6%)(12.9%)51%52%
Biopharmaceutical Development40,71247,365(14.3%)3.8%62%64%
Calibration Solutions47,76344,8076.6%(4.4%)58%54%
Reportable segments$216,187$219,080(5.6%)0.6%62%61%
Column 1Column 2Column 3
(a)Organic revenues growth is a non-GAAP measure of financial performance. See "Non-GAAP Reconciliations" below for further information and for a reconciliation of organic revenues growth to total revenues growth.

Our consolidated results of operations are as follows:

Year Ended March 31,Percentage Change
2024202320222024 vs. 20232023 vs. 2022
Revenues$216,187$219,080$184,335(1%)19%
Gross profit133,250133,693109,090-%23%
Operating expenses (excluding impairment losses)130,792130,373104,388-%25%
Impairment losses274,533--100%-%
Operating (loss) income(272,075)3,3204,702(8,295%)(29%)
Net (loss) income$(254,246)$930$1,871(27,438%)(50%)

Reportable Segments

Sterilization and Disinfection Control

Our Sterilization and Disinfection Control division manufactures and sells biological, chemical and cleaning indicators used to assess the effectiveness of sterilization, decontamination, disinfection and cleaning processes in the pharmaceutical, medical device, and healthcare industries. The division also provides testing and laboratory services, mainly to the dental and pharmaceutical industries. Sterilization and Disinfection Control products are disposable and are used on a routine basis.

Year Ended March 31,Percentage Change
2024202320222024 vs. 20232023 vs. 2022
Revenues$75,124$64,609$59,04416%9%
Gross profit53,30246,52043,72015%6%
Gross profit as a % of revenues71%72%74%(1%)(2%)

Sterilization and Disinfection Control revenues increased 16% for fiscal year 2024 compared to fiscal year 2023. The acquisition of GKE contributed $9,289 of revenues and $5,357 of gross profit to the Sterilization and Disinfection Control division during the year. GKE's gross profit as a percentage of revenues was 58% during fiscal year 2024, including $1,229 of amortization of the non-cash inventory step-up related to purchase accounting.

Excluding GKE, revenues in the Sterilization and Disinfection control division increased 2% in fiscal year 2024 compared to fiscal year 2023. Excluding $1,229 of amortization of the non-cash inventory step-up related to the GKE acquisition during fiscal year 2024, the Sterilization and Disinfection Control division's gross profit margin percentage was 73%. Fiscal year 2024 benefited from price increases and higher revenues on a partially fixed cost base.

Clinical Genomics

The Clinical Genomics division develops, manufactures and sells highly sensitive, low-cost, high-throughput genetic analysis tools and related consumables and services that enable clinical research labs and contract research organizations to perform genomic testing for a broad range of research applications in several therapeutic areas, such as screenings for hereditary diseases, pharmacogenetics, oncology related applications, and toxicology research.

Year Ended March 31,Percentage Change
2024202320222024 vs. 20232023 vs. 2022
Revenues$52,588$62,299$32,840(16%)90%
Gross profit27,07832,48511,941(17%)172%
Gross profit as a % of revenues51%52%36%(1%)16%

Clinical Genomics revenues decreased 16% in fiscal year 2024 compared to fiscal year 2023, largely due to the loss of Sema4 as a customer in the third quarter of fiscal year 2023, as well as China's economic slowdown. Also contributing to the decline was the persistently high cost of capital, which strained our customers' ability to purchase the division's hardware. Excluding the loss of revenues to Sema4, revenues from our Clinical Genomics division would have been 9% lower during fiscal year 2024 compared to fiscal year 2023. We expect revenues in the Clinical Genomics division to remain flat in fiscal year 2025 as we begin executing a new strategy to cultivate sustainable long-term growth.

Gross profit percentage for the Clinical Genomics division decreased one percentage point for fiscal year 2024 compared to fiscal year 2023, primarily due to lower revenues on a partially fixed cost base, and to a lesser extent, unfavorable product mix, particularly decreases in sales of high-margin consumables products, partially offset by a decrease in non-cash amortization expense of $1,227 following the impairment of acquired intangible assets in fiscal 2024. We expect costs of revenues in the Clinical Genomics division to decrease by approximately $3,700 in fiscal year 2025 as a result of lower non-cash amortization expense subsequent to the impairment in fiscal 2024. During the fourth quarter of fiscal 2024, we appointed a new General Manager to oversee the Clinical Genomics division, with a goal of establishing business processes that will support long-term growth.

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Biopharmaceutical Development

Our Biopharmaceutical Development division develops, manufactures and sells automated systems for protein analysis (immunoassays) and peptide synthesis solutions. Immunoassays and peptide synthesis solutions accelerate the discovery, development, and manufacture of biotherapeutic therapies, among other applications.

Year Ended March 31,Percentage Change
2024202320222024 vs. 20232023 vs. 2022
Revenues$40,712$47,365$45,579(14%)4%
Gross profit25,40030,34028,605(16%)6%
Gross profit as a % of revenues62%64%63%(2%)1%

Biopharmaceutical Development's revenues decreased 14% for fiscal year 2024 compared to fiscal year 2023, primarily due to continued softening demand for capital equipment, including our instruments, in the biopharmaceutical industry, with some abatement during the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2024. The decrease was partially offset by an increase in revenues from consumables and services, as well as price increases. Despite adverse macroeconomic factors, revenues from the division's consumables and services grew 10% compared to the prior year period.

Biopharmaceutical Development's gross profit percentage decreased two percentage points during fiscal year 2024 as a result of lower overall revenues on a partially fixed cost base, partially offset by favorable product mix.

Calibration Solutions

The Calibration Solutions division develops, manufactures and sells quality control products using principles of advanced metrology to enable customers to measure and calibrate critical parameters in applications such as environmental and process monitoring, dialysis, gas flow, air quality and torque testing, primarily in medical device manufacturing, pharmaceutical manufacturing, laboratory, and hospital environments.

Year Ended March 31,Percentage Change
2024202320222024 vs. 20232023 vs. 2022
Revenues$47,763$44,807$46,8727%(4%)
Gross profit27,54724,38824,98913%(2%)
Gross profit as a % of revenues58%54%53%4%1%

Calibration Solutions revenues increased 7% for fiscal year 2024 compared to fiscal year 2023, largely due to the abatement of production difficulties and supply constraints that limited our ability to manufacture ordered quantities of certain products during the first three quarters of fiscal year 2023. This abatement has allowed us to return to normal operations and growth during fiscal year 2024, driving orders growth, along with a reduction of past due backlog.

The Calibration Solutions division's gross profit percentage increased four percentage points in fiscal year 2024 compared to fiscal year 2023, primarily due to increased revenues on a partially fixed cost base.

Corporate and Other

Corporate and Other consists of unallocated corporate expenses and other business activities. Unallocated corporate expenses were $77, $40, and $165 for fiscal years 2024, 2023, and 2022, respectively, and were recorded in cost of revenues in the Consolidated Statements of Operations.

Operating Expense

Excluding impairment losses of $274,533, operating expenses for fiscal year 2024 were approximately flat compared to fiscal year 2023. Lower costs resulting from decreases in intangible asset amortization expense following impairment losses that reduced asset carrying values, lower bonus accruals, and lower stock compensation expense attributable to both performance outcomes and the timing of award grants during the year were partially offset by operating expenses incurred by GKE during fiscal year 2024, acquisition and integration costs related to GKE, and increased marketing efforts.

Selling Expense

Selling expense is driven primarily by labor costs, including salaries and commissions; accordingly, it may vary with sales levels.

Year Ended March 31,Percentage Change
2024202320222024 vs. 20232023 vs. 2022
Selling expense$38,625$37,43928,3103%32%
As a percentage of revenues18%17%15%1%2%

Selling expense increased 3% for fiscal year 2024, primarily as a result of increased marketing efforts and implementation of a new customer management software in certain divisions, partially offset by lower commissions on lower revenues and lower recruiting and training costs in fiscal 2024. Excluding the GKE acquisition, selling expense would have increased 2% in fiscal year 2024 compared to fiscal year 2023.

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General and Administrative Expense

Labor costs, non-cash stock-based compensation and amortization of intangible assets drive the substantial majority of general and administrative expense.

Year Ended March 31,Percentage Change
2024202320222024 vs. 20232023 vs. 2022
General and administrative, other than impairment of finite-lived intangible assets and goodwill$72,867$72,444$60,3111%20%
As a percentage of revenues34%33%33%1%-%
General and administrative expenses that affect the comparability of years presented:
General and administrative amortization of intangible assets, excluding GKE19,28422,02518,000(12%)22%
General and administrative expense related to GKE operations3,416--NANA
Costs incurred related to acquisitions and integrations of acquirees2,2351,1421,24496%(8%)
Total general and administrative expenses that affect the comparability of years presented24,93523,16719,2448%20%
Total general and administrative expenses, excluding expenses that affect the comparability of years presented$47,932$49,277$41,067(3%)20%

General and administrative expenses, other than impairment of finite-lived intangible assets and goodwill, increased 1% for the year ended March 31, 2024; excluding amounts impacting comparability as presented in the table above, expense would have decreased approximately 3% in fiscal 2024 compared to fiscal 2023, largely due to the effect of our ongoing cost containment efforts which reduced personnel related costs, as well as lower bonus expense due to performance, and lower stock-based compensation expense attributable to both performance outcomes and the timing of award grants during fiscal year 2024.

Impairment

Year Ended March 31,Percentage Change
2024202320222024 vs. 20232023 vs. 2022
Impairment of finite-lived intangible assets$117,641$-$-NANA
Impairment of goodwill156,892--NANA
Total impairment losses$274,533$-$-
As a percentage of revenues127%-%-%127%0%

Impairment losses were recorded in our Clinical Genomics and Biopharmaceutical Development divisions in fiscal year 2024. The impairment losses are primarily the result of higher weighted average cost of capital, which decreases the fair value of businesses, as well as downward revisions of expected future performance compared to the expectations that existed at the time of our most-recent quantitative impairment analyses, specifically due to the effects of:

decreased spending on capital equipment in the biopharmaceutical and pharmaceutical markets as a whole;
persistent economic uncertainty in China throughout our fiscal year 2024;
persistently high interest rates decreasing our customers' purchases of capital equipment.

We also appointed a new general manager to lead the Clinical Genomics division. Immediately, new division management began restructuring the division, eliminating 17 positions, and began to implement an updated business strategy, which resulted in a downward revision of financial expectations for the coming years, particularly the next 1.5 – 2 years as we adjust our business strategy to better support long-term growth. See Note 6. "Goodwill and Intangible Assets, Net" in Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data for further information.

Research and Development Expense

Research and development expense is predominantly comprised of labor costs and third-party consultants.

Year Ended March 31,Percentage Change
2024202320222024 vs. 20232023 vs. 2022
Research and development expense$19,300$20,490$15,767(6%)30%
As a percentage of revenues9%9%9%-%-%

Research and development expenses for fiscal year 2024 decreased 6% compared to fiscal year 2023, primarily due to our cost containment efforts in fiscal year 2024, including a reduction in force related to our Biopharmaceutical Development division during the second quarter of fiscal year 2024, lower third-party consulting costs, and lower bonus accruals in fiscal year 2024.

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Nonoperating Expense, Net

Year Ended March 31,Percentage Change
2024202320222024 vs. 20232023 vs. 2022
Nonoperating expense, net$3,5733,7091,128(4%)229%

Nonoperating expense, net for fiscal year 2024 is composed primarily of interest expense and amortization of the debt issuance costs associated with the 2025 Notes and the Credit Facility. Interest expense related to the Credit Facility was approximately $909 higher in fiscal year 2024 compared to fiscal year 2023 due to higher outstanding balances for a portion of fiscal year 2024 related to borrowings used to fund the GKE acquisition, as well as higher interest rates. Increases in interest expense were partially offset by net unrealized foreign currency gains of approximately $1,440 resulting from the movement of the euro against the U.S. dollar related to a U.S. dollar denominated intercompany loan we issued to our wholly owned subsidiary, Mesa Germany GmbH, during fiscal year 2024 to fund the purchase of GKE.

Income Taxes

Year Ended March 31,Percentage Change
2024202320222024 vs. 20232023 vs. 2022
Income tax (benefit) expense$(21,402)$(1,319)$1,7031,523%(177%)
Effective tax rate8%339%48%(331%)291%

Our income tax rate varies based upon many factors, but in general we anticipate that on a go-forward basis, our effective tax rate will be approximately 25%, plus or minus the impact of excess tax benefits and deficiencies associated with share-based payment awards to employees (please see Note 12. “Income Taxes” within Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data) and purchase price accounting for any future acquisitions. The change in our effective tax rate during fiscal year 2024 is primarily due to impairment losses recorded in fiscal year 2024 and the related tax impacts and resulting valuation allowance established. Tax benefits and deficiencies associated with share-based payment awards to our employees have caused and, in the future, may cause large fluctuations in our realized effective tax rate based on timing, volume, and the nature of stock options exercised under our share-based payment program.

Net (Loss) Income

Net (loss) income varies with the changes in revenues, gross profit, and operating expenses. Net loss in fiscal year 2024 reflects, respectively, $274,533, $27,341, $4,233, and $11,936 of non-cash impairment losses on goodwill and finite-lived intangible assets, non-cash amortization of intangible assets acquired in a business combination, non-cash depreciation, and non-cash stock-based compensation expense.

Non-GAAP Reconciliations

Adjusted operating income (which excludes the non-cash impact of amortization of finite-lived intangible assets acquired in a business combination, depreciation, stock-based compensation, and impairment of goodwill and finite-lived intangible assets) and organic revenues growth (reported revenues growth excluding the impact of revenues growth from recent acquisitions) are used by management as supplemental performance measures in order to compare current financial performance to historical performance, to assess the ability of our assets to generate cash, and to evaluate potential acquisitions.

Adjusted operating income and organic revenues growth should not be considered alternatives to, or more meaningful than, net (loss) income, operating (loss) income, reported revenues growth, cash flow from operating activities or any other measure of financial performance presented in accordance with GAAP as measures of operating performance or liquidity.

The following table sets forth our reconciliation of operating (loss) income to adjusted operating income, a non-GAAP measure:

Year Ended March 31,
202420232022
Operating (loss) income$(272,075)$3,320$4,702
Amortization of intangible assets acquired in a business combination27,34128,82121,806
Depreciation of long-lived assets4,2334,3133,262
Stock-based compensation11,93612,53811,391
Impairment losses on goodwill and finite-lived intangible assets274,533--
Adjusted Operating Income (non-GAAP)$45,968$48,992$41,161

The following table sets forth our reconciliation of total revenues growth to organic revenues growth, a non-GAAP measure:

Total Revenues GrowthImpact of AcquisitionsOrganic Revenues Growth (non-GAAP)
Year Ended March 31, 2024Year Ended March 31, 2023Year Ended March 31, 2024Year Ended March 31, 2023Year Ended March 31, 2024Year Ended March 31, 2023
Sterilization and Disinfection Control16.3%9.4%(14.4%)-%1.9%9.4%
Clinical Genomics(15.6%)89.7%-%(102.6%)(15.6%)(12.9%)
Biopharmaceutical Development(14.3%)3.9%-%(0.1%)(14.3%)3.8%
Calibration Solutions6.6%(4.4%)-%-%6.6%(4.4%)
Total Company(1.3%)18.8%(4.3%)(18.2%)(5.6%)0.6%

Liquidity and Capital Resources

Our sources of liquidity include cash generated from operations, cash and cash equivalents on hand, cash available from our Credit Facility and the Open Market Sale AgreementSM described below, and potential additional equity and debt offerings. We believe that cash flows from operating activities and potential cash provided by borrowings from our Credit Facility or funds from our Open Market Sale AgreementSM, when necessary, will be sufficient to meet our ongoing short-term and long-term operating requirements, scheduled principal and interest payments on debt, dividend payments, and anticipated capital expenditures.

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Our more significant uses of resources have historically included acquisitions, payments on debt principal and interest obligations, long-term capital expenditures, and quarterly dividends to shareholders. We had $28,214 and $32,910 of cash and cash equivalents as of March 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively. Working capital is the amount by which current assets exceed current liabilities. We had working capital of $65,040 and $75,616 on March 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively.

As of March 31, 2024, aggregate principal of $172,500 was outstanding under our 2025 Notes and $50,500 was outstanding under the Credit Facility. During the third quarter of fiscal year 2024, we borrowed a total of $71,000 under the Credit Facility to fund the majority of the GKE acquisition, and we repaid $20,500 against that outstanding balance during the third and fourth quarters of fiscal year 2024. Subsequent to March 31, 2024, we repaid an additional $7,500.

Subsequent to our fiscal year end, in April 2024 we amended the terms of the Credit Facility. The amended Credit Facility has been modified to:

(i)Extend the maturity of the Credit Facility to April 2029;
(ii)Allow proceeds from the Credit Facility to be used to redeem some or all of the Company’s 2025 Notes;
(iii)Include a $75,000 senior secured term loan facility, which is subject to principal amortization payments; and
(iv)Make certain changes to the financial covenants.

In April 2024, we used the proceeds from the term loan to fund repurchases of $75,000 in aggregate principal amount of the 2025 Notes for an aggregate cash purchase price of $71,410, including accrued and unpaid interest. We expect to settle the remaining $97,500 aggregate principal amount of the 2025 Notes in cash upon maturity using cash from operations and borrowings under the Credit Facility's revolving line of credit.

We will be required to make quarterly principal payments on the $75,000 term loan borrowings as follows: $938 each quarter from June 30, 2024 to March 31, 2026; $1,406 each quarter from June 30, 2026 to March 31, 2028; and $1,875 each quarter from June 30, 2028 to March 31, 2029. The remaining unpaid balance will be due at maturity in April 2029; however, we anticipate that we will have the ability to refinance outstanding debt at that time, if necessary. We believe cash from operations will be sufficient to make all required quarterly principal payments and interest payments on our outstanding debt obligations.

At the interest rate in effect at the time of borrowing under the term loan, we would expect to incur interest expense of approximately $10,500 per year on borrowings of $50,500 under the revolving credit facility and $75,000 under the term loan. We expect to pay annual cash interest of approximately $1,350 related to the remaining 2025 Notes until maturity.

We maintain relationships and cash deposits at multiple banking institutions across the world in an effort to diversify and reduce risk of loss related to concentrations of cash deposits.

In April 2022, we entered into an Open Market Sale AgreementSM pursuant to which we may issue and sell, from time to time, shares of our common stock with an aggregate value of up to $150,000. We have not sold any shares under this agreement to date.

We routinely evaluate opportunities for strategic acquisitions. Future material acquisitions may require that we obtain additional capital, assume additional third-party debt or incur other long-term obligations. We believe we have the ability to issue more equity or debt in the future in order to finance our acquisition and investment activities; however, additional equity or debt financing, or other transactions, may not be available on acceptable terms, if at all.

We may from time to time repurchase or take other steps to reduce our debt. These actions may include retirements or refinancing of outstanding debt, privately negotiated transactions or otherwise. The amount of debt that may be retired, if any, could be material and would be decided at the sole discretion of our Board of Directors and would depend on market conditions, our cash position, and other considerations.

Dividends

We have paid regular quarterly dividends since 2003. We declared and paid dividends of $0.16 per share each quarter of the years ended March 31, 2024, 2023, and 2022.

In April 2024, our Board of Directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.16 per share of common stock, payable on June 14, 2024, to shareholders of record at the close of business on May 31, 2024.

Cash Flows

Our cash flows from operating, investing, and financing activities were as follows:

Year Ended March 31,
202420232022
Net cash provided by operating activities$44,133$27,983$39,223
Net cash (used in) investing activities(81,306)(9,494)(305,225)
Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities32,836(33,328)52,576

Cash flows from operating activities for the year ended March 31, 2024 provided $44,133. We generated $23,085 more cash from working capital in fiscal year 2024 than in fiscal year 2023, primarily due to lower purchases of inventories in fiscal year 2024 compared to fiscal year 2023 when we were building safety stock to mitigate potential supply chain issues, and due to collections on receivables that were outstanding during the prior fiscal year. Net (loss) income and non-cash adjustments totaled $38,160 for fiscal year 2024 compared to $45,095 for fiscal year 2023. Cash used in investing activities was higher during fiscal year 2024 compared to fiscal year 2023 due to cash expended on the GKE acquisition, partially offset by corresponding costs related to the acquisition of Belyntic in fiscal year 2023. Cash provided by financing activities primarily resulted from a $71,000 draw on the Credit Facility partially offset by $33,500 repaid on previously outstanding balances and on the drawn amount, compared to $36,000 repaid on the Credit Facility in fiscal year 2023.

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Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates

Our Consolidated Financial Statements are prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States, which require management to make estimates, judgments, and assumptions that affect the amounts reported in our Consolidated Financial Statements and accompanying notes. We believe that the following are the more critical judgment areas in the application of accounting policies that currently affect our financial condition and results of operations. Management has discussed the development, selection, and disclosure of critical accounting policies and estimates with the Audit Committee of our Board of Directors. While our estimates and assumptions are based on our knowledge of current events and circumstances and actions we may take in the future, actual results may ultimately differ from these estimates and assumptions. For a discussion of our significant accounting policies, see Note 1. “Description of Business and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies” in Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data.

Purchase Accounting for Acquisitions

We account for all business combinations in which we obtain control over another entity using the acquisition method of accounting, which requires most assets (both tangible and intangible) and liabilities to be recognized at fair value at the date of acquisition. The excess of the purchase price over the fair value of acquired assets less liabilities is recognized as goodwill. We determine fair value using widely accepted valuation techniques, primarily discounted cash flow and market multiple analyses. These types of analyses require us to make and monitor assumptions and estimates regarding industry and economic factors, the profitability of future business strategies, discount rates and expected cash flow. For all material acquisitions, we engage external valuation specialists to aid management in preparing our fair value models. Certain adjustments to the assessed fair values of acquired assets or liabilities made subsequent to the acquisition date but within a one-year measurement period are recorded as adjustments to goodwill. Any adjustments subsequent to the measurement period are recorded within earnings. We expense all costs as incurred related to an acquisition, such as legal and advisory fees, in general and administrative expenses.

Results of operations of acquired companies are included in our Consolidated Financial Statements from the date of the acquisition forward. If actual results are not consistent with our assumptions and estimates, or if our assumptions and estimates change due to new information, we may be exposed to further impairment losses, as described under "Acquired Intangible Assets, Impairment Testing" below. For the fiscal years ended March 31, 2024, 2023 and 2022, we acquired businesses for total net purchase prices of $87,187, $6,140, and $300,793, respectively.

Acquired Intangible Assets, Impairment Testing

Our business acquisitions typically result in the recognition of goodwill and other intangible assets, which affect the amount of future period amortization expense and impairment losses we may incur. During fiscal year 2024, we recorded impairment losses totaling $274,533 related to goodwill in our Clinical Genomics and Biopharmaceutical Development divisions and to finite-lived intangible assets in our Clinical Genomics division as described in Note 6. "Goodwill and Intangible Assets, Net" in Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data. Should the fair values of our reporting units or finite-lived intangible assets decline because of reduced operating performance, market declines, or other indicators of impairment, or as a result of changes in the discount rates, additional charges for impairment may be necessary.

Intangible assets with finite lives are amortized over their useful lives using the straight-line method, and amortization expense is recorded within cost of revenues or general and administrative expense in the Consolidated Statements of Operations. Impairment assessments over finite-lived intangibles are conducted if events or conditions indicate that asset carrying amounts may not be recoverable. Events or conditions indicating potential impairment include but are not limited to changes in the competitive landscape, any internal decisions to pursue new or different technology strategies, losses of significant customers, or significant changes in business performance or in the markets and industries we serve, including adverse changes in the prices paid for our products or changes in the size of the markets for our products. If impairment indicators are present, we determine whether the carrying value of the underlying intangible asset or asset group is recoverable through undiscounted estimated future cash flows. If the asset or asset group is not found to be recoverable, we estimate the asset's fair value using Level 3 inputs and discounted cash flow models and recognize impairment losses as necessary. If the estimate of an intangible asset’s remaining useful life is changed, the remaining carrying amount of the intangible asset is amortized prospectively over the revised remaining useful life.

Goodwill is not subject to amortization. We test goodwill for impairment on an annual basis during the fourth quarter of each year as of January 1st, or more frequently if events and circumstances indicate it is more likely than not that the fair value of a given goodwill reporting unit is less than its carrying value. Events that would indicate impairment and trigger interim impairment assessments include but are not limited to: adverse current or expected economic, market, or industry-specific conditions, including a decline in our market capitalization; adverse changes or expected changes in business climate or in the operational performance of the business; adverse changes in legal factors; and adverse actions or assessments by a regulator. We monitor for indications of impairment throughout the year and perform qualitative and quantitative impairment tests as necessary based on quarterly preliminary assessments of our performance and any challenging circumstances and events. Our annual impairment tests typically begin with a qualitative assessment, and further quantitative assessments are performed if we determine it is more likely than not that the fair value is greater than the carrying amount. We also perform quantitative assessments of reporting units at least every five years, irrespective of whether any indicators exist that suggest a reporting unit may be impaired. Estimates of fair value require assumptions related to revenue and operating income growth rates, discount rates, weighted average cost of capital, and other factors. Different assumptions from those made in our analysis could materially affect projected cash flows and our evaluation of goodwill and finite-lived intangible assets for impairment.

As detailed in Note 6, "Goodwill and Intangible Assets, Net" within in Item 8, Financial Statements and Supplementary Data, we performed quantitative impairment tests of the Clinical Genomics division and both reporting units within the Biopharmaceutical Development division during fiscal year 2024. As a result, we recorded impairment losses related to goodwill and finite-lived intangible assets in the Clinical Genomics division and impairment losses related to goodwill in the Immunoassays reporting unit of the Biopharmaceutical Development division. Impaired reporting units were written down to their respective fair values, resulting in approximately zero excess fair value over carrying amount as of our testing date on January 1, 2024. The fair value of the Peptides reporting unit within our Biopharmaceutical Development division exceeded carrying value by approximately 36% as of our testing date, and no impairment losses were recorded for this reporting unit. The Clinical Genomics and Biopharmaceutical Development divisions have a heightened risk of future impairment losses if actual results differ significantly from our estimates, including if any changes in assumptions, inputs, market factors and/or increases in the weighted average cost of capital occur in the future. The Clinical Genomics division had $16,940 of goodwill as of March 31, 2024. The Biopharmaceutical Development division had $46,515 of goodwill as of March 31, 2024. The fair values of the Clinical Genomics and Biopharmaceutical Development divisions as a whole were $58,900 and $119,000, respectively, as of the date of our annual impairment testing.

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Stock-based Compensation

We recognize compensation expense for equity awards over the vesting period based on the fair value of the awards at grant date. We use the Black-Scholes-Merton valuation model ("Black-Scholes") to estimate the fair value of our stock options. The Black-Scholes model requires assumptions to be made regarding our stock price volatility, the expected life of awards, and expected dividend rates. The volatility assumption and the expected life assumptions are based on our historical data. Compensation expense related to performance share awards is based in part on the estimated probability of achieving performance goals associated with particular levels of payout. We determine the probability of achievement of future levels of performance by comparing the relevant performance level with our internal estimates of future performance. Those estimates are based on a number of assumptions, and different assumptions may result in different conclusions regarding the probability of achieving future levels of performance relevant to the payout levels for the awards. Valuations for awards containing market conditions are prepared using a lattice model. Had we arrived at different assumptions of stock price volatility or expected lives of our options, or different assumptions regarding the probability of our achieving future levels of performance with respect to performance share awards, our stock-based compensation expense and results of operations could have been different.

Income Taxes

Our provision for income taxes requires the use of estimates in determining the timing and amounts of deductible and taxable items, including impacts on effective tax rates, deferred tax items and valuation allowances based on management’s interpretation and application of complex tax laws and accounting guidance. We establish reserves for uncertain tax positions for material, known tax exposures relating to deductions, transactions and other matters involving uncertainty as to the measurement and recognition of the item. While we believe that our reserves are adequate, issues raised by a tax authority may be finally resolved at an amount different than the related reserve and could materially increase or decrease our income tax provision in the current and/or future periods.

Recent Accounting Standards and Pronouncements

For a discussion of the new accounting standards impacting the Company, refer to Note 1. “Description of Business and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies” in Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data.

Contractual Obligations

We are party to many contractual obligations that involve commitments to make payments to third parties in the ordinary course of business.

On a consolidated basis, at March 31, 2024, we had contractual obligations for open purchase orders of approximately $18,400 for routine purchases of supplies and inventory, of which the substantial majority are payable in less than one year. See "Liquidity and Capital Resources" for information related to future required debt payments. For a description of our contractual obligations and other commercial commitments as of March 31, 2023, see our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2023, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 30, 2023.

FY 2023 10-K MD&A

SEC filing source: 0001437749-23-016028.

Extracted structurally from real Item 7 body heading to real Item 7A/8 boundary. Confidence: high. Filing date: 2023-05-30. Report date: 2023-03-31.

Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

(dollars in thousands, unless specified)

Overview

We are a multinational manufacturer, developer, and seller of life sciences tools and critical quality control products and services, many of which are sold into niche markets driven by regulatory requirements. We have manufacturing operations in the United States and Europe, and our products are marketed by our sales personnel in North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific, as well as by independent distributors in these areas and throughout the rest of the world. We prefer markets in which we can establish a strong presence and achieve high gross profit margins. As of March 31, 2023, we managed our operations in four reportable segments, or divisions: Clinical Genomics, Sterilization and Disinfection Control, Biopharmaceutical Development, and Calibration Solutions. Each of our divisions are described further in "Results of Operations" below. Unallocated corporate expenses and other business activities are reported within Corporate and Other.

Corporate Strategy

We strive to create shareholder value and further our purpose of Protecting the Vulnerable® by growing our business both organically and through acquisitions, by improving our operating efficiency, and by continuing to hire, develop and retain top talent. As a business, we commit to our purpose of Protecting the Vulnerable® every day by taking a customer-focused approach to developing, building, and delivering our products. We serve a broad set of industries, in particular the pharmaceutical, healthcare services, and medical device verticals, in which the safety, quality, and efficacy of products is critical. By delivering the highest quality products possible, we are committed to protecting the communities we serve.

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Organic Revenues Growth

Organic revenues growth is driven by the expansion of our customer base, increases in sales volumes, new product offerings, and price increases, and may be affected positively or negatively by changes in foreign currency rates. Our ability to increase organic revenues is affected by general economic conditions, both domestic and international, customer capital spending trends, competition, and the introduction of new products. Our policy is to price our products competitively and, where possible, we pass along cost increases to our customers in order to maintain our margins. We typically evaluate costs and pricing annually with price increases effective January 1; however, as a result of high inflation in recent quarters, we implemented an additional mid-year price increase late in the second quarter of fiscal year 2023.

Inorganic Revenues Growth - Acquisitions

During the third quarter of fiscal year 2023, we completed the Belyntic acquisition. We paid $4,950 on the date of acquisition, and we expect to pay an additional $1,500 of contingent consideration based on the probable approval of pending patent applications expected within 36 months of the acquisition date. The acquisition provided a natural complement to our peptide synthesis business by adding a consumables product line.

During the third quarter of fiscal year 2022, we completed the acquisition of Agena for an aggregate net purchase price of $300,793. Agena is a leading clinical genomics tools company that develops, manufactures, and sells highly sensitive, low-cost, high-throughput genetic analysis tools used by clinical labs to perform genomic clinical testing in several therapeutic areas, such as screenings for hereditary diseases, pharmacogenetics and oncology related applications. The acquisition of Agena accelerated our strategic trajectory towards higher growth applications within the regulated segments of the life sciences tools market.

Over the past decade, we have consummated a number of acquisitions as part of our growth strategy. These acquisitions have allowed us to expand our product offerings, globalize our company, and increase the scale at which we operate, which in turn affords us the ability to improve our operating efficiency, extend our customer base, and further the pursuit of our purpose: Protecting the Vulnerable®.

Improving Our Operating Efficiency

We maximize value in both our existing businesses and those we acquire by implementing efficiencies in our manufacturing, commercial, engineering, and administrative operations. We achieve efficiencies using the four pillars that make up the Mesa Way, which is our customer-centric, lean-based system for continuously improving and operating a set of high-margin, niche businesses. The Mesa Way is focused on: Measuring What Matters using our customers' perspective and setting high standards for performance; Empowering Teams to improve operationally and exceed customer expectations; Sustainably Improving using lean-based tools designed to help us identify the root cause of opportunities and prioritize the biggest opportunities; and Always Learning so that performance continuously improves.

Gross profit is affected by many factors including our product mix, manufacturing efficiencies, costs of products and labor, foreign currency rates, and price competition. Historically, as we have integrated our acquisitions and taken advantage of manufacturing efficiencies, our gross profit percentages for some products have improved. There are, however, differences in gross profit percentages between product lines, and ultimately the mix of sales will continue to impact our overall gross profit.

Hire, Develop, and Retain Top Talent

At the center of our organization are talented people who are capable of taking on new challenges using a team approach. It is our exceptionally talented workforce that works together and uses our lean-based tool set to find ways to continuously improve our products, our services, and ourselves, resulting in long-term value creation for our shareholders.

General Trends

We are a global company, with multinational operations. During our fiscal year 2023, approximately 46% of our revenues were derived from revenues earned outside of the United States. Since Mesa serves a number of industries across a variety of global markets, we may be affected by world-wide, regional, or industry-specific economic or political factors. However, our diversity in industry, geography, and product and service offerings may limit the impact of changes in specific industry trends or local economic changes to a single geographic area on our consolidated operating results. We actively monitor trends affecting industries that we operate in, including monitoring key competitors and customers, as well as staying abreast of changes to local economies and how they may affect our divisions.

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Exchange rates were volatile throughout fiscal year 2023. A weakening or strengthening of foreign currencies against the United States dollar ("USD") increases or decreases our reported revenues, gross profit margins, and operating expenses, and impacts the comparability of our results between periods. Overall, currency exchange rates negatively impacted our reported revenues for fiscal year 2023 compared to fiscal year 2022. Generally, the USD strengthening against major currencies adversely impacts our reported revenues, but to a lesser extent, positively impacts our reported expenses; conversely, the weakening of the U.S. dollar against major currencies positively impacts our reported revenues but negatively impacts our reported expenses. The ultimate impact to gross profit as a percentage of revenue depends on the magnitude of changes in foreign currencies.

Inflation was significant in the regions that we operate in during fiscal year 2023. Current and future inflationary effects may continue to be impacted by a variety of macroeconomic forces, including, but not limited to: supply chain disruptions, government fiscal policies, changes in interest rates, and changing demand for goods and services. Inflationary pressures have affected our business in a number of ways, including increasing the cost of raw materials, labor, and freight, and the rate of interest we pay on borrowings under our Credit Facility. Our actions to mitigate the impact of supply chain disruptions and inflation, including pre-ordering components in higher than usual quantities, sourcing new vendors and increasing prices have been somewhat successful; however, raw materials shortages impacted our Calibrations Solutions division throughout much of fiscal year 2023.

COVID-19 negatively impacted commercial execution in different ways throughout fiscal year 2023, and in some cases, limited sales of Clinical Genomics consumables to existing customers and instruments to new customers. Specifically, we experienced disruptions to our business in China resulting from government mandated shut-downs and restrictions during fiscal year 2023. Although the COVID-19 pandemic has largely subsided as a public health matter, we may experience material adverse impacts to our business as a result of the pandemic's adverse impact on the global economy, in-person collaboration and sales efforts, and our customers’ changed purchasing behaviors and confidence.

During fiscal year 2023, we were notified by Sema4 Holdings Corp. ("Sema4"), a customer of our Clinical Genomics division, that they are exiting the reproductive health screening business, and as a result, they intend to significantly reduce the quantity of orders they place with us in the future. Revenues from sales to Sema4 were approximately $8,200 during the first twelve months of our ownership of Agena and were approximately $4,600 during fiscal year 2023. Following the notice, we evaluated our business operations and enacted several cost-cutting measures in the Clinical Genomics division, including a reduction-in-force, to preserve our financial model. These actions are expected to generate more than $4,000 in future annualized savings.

Results of Operations

Our results of operations and year-over-year changes are discussed in the following section. The tables and discussion below should be read in conjunction with the accompanying Consolidated Financial Statements and the notes thereto appearing in Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data (in thousands, except percent data). Refer to Item 7. Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended March 31, 2022, filed on May 31, 2022, for a comparison of results of operations for the years ended March 31, 2022 and March 31, 2021.

Revenues from our reportable segments increased 19% for fiscal year 2023 as compared to fiscal year 2022. Revenues growth for fiscal year 2023 was primarily attributable to the acquisition of Agena, and to a lesser extent, organic revenues growth of 0.6%.

Gross profit as a percentage of revenues increased two percentage points for fiscal year 2023 as a result of the recognition of a $7,462 non-cash inventory step-up charge, part of purchase accounting for the Agena Acquisition, during fiscal year 2022, partially offset by unfavorable product mix, increased cost of labor, and adverse changes in foreign currency on our reported revenues.

Results by reportable segment are as follows:

RevenuesOrganic Revenues GrowthGross Profit as a % of Revenues
Year Ended March 31, 2023Year Ended March 31, 2022Year Ended March 31, 2023Year Ended March 31, 2022Year Ended March 31, 2023Year Ended March 31, 2022
Clinical Genomics$62,299$32,840(12.9%)N/A52%36%
Sterilization and Disinfection Control64,60959,0449.4%11%72%74%
Biopharmaceutical Development47,36545,5793.8%34%64%63%
Calibration Solutions44,80746,872(4.4%)0%54%53%
Reportable segments$219,080$184,3350.6%13%61%59%

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Our condensed consolidated results of operations are as follows:

Year Ended March 31,Percentage Change
2023202220212023 vs. 20222022 vs. 2021
Revenues$219,080$184,335$133,93719%38%
Gross profit133,693109,09087,01423%25%
Operating expenses130,373104,38874,65625%40%
Operating income3,3204,70212,358(29%)(62%)
Net income$930$1,871$3,274(50%)(43%)

Reportable Segments

Clinical Genomics

The Clinical Genomics division develops, manufactures and sells highly sensitive, low-cost, high-throughput genetic analysis tools and related consumables and services that enable clinical labs to perform genomic testing for a broad range of diagnostic and research applications in several therapeutic areas, such as screenings for hereditary diseases, pharmacogenetics, and oncology related applications.

Year Ended March 31,Percentage Change
2023202220212023 vs. 20222022 vs. 2021
Revenues$62,299$32,840$-90%N/A
Gross profit32,48511,941-172%N/A
Gross profit as a % of revenues52%36%N/A16%N/A

Revenues in the Clinical Genomics division represent revenues from October 20, 2021 until March 31, 2023. Clinical Genomics revenues increased 90% for fiscal year 2023 compared to fiscal year 2022 due to a significantly shorter period of ownership of Agena in fiscal year 2022 compared to fiscal year 2023, partially offset by adverse foreign currency exchange rates. We recognized approximately $4,600 in revenues from sales to Sema4 during fiscal year 2023, and we expect a significant reduction of revenues resulting from the loss of Sema4's business in future quarters. However, two of our distribution partners, Guangzhou Darui Biotechnology Co., Ltd. and Jiangsu Simcere Medical Device Co., Ltd., recently received approval from China's National Medical Products Administration for Class III in vitro diagnostics ("IVD") panels. One of these panels addresses hereditary deafness and the other covers pharmacogenetics with the intended use of guiding personal drug therapy. These are the first approved Class III IVD panels in China from our distribution partner program, and we expect some increase in revenues resulting from these programs beginning in fiscal year 2024.

Gross profit percentage for the Clinical Genomics division increased 16 percentage points for fiscal year 2023 compared to fiscal year 2022 primarily due to the amortization of a $7,462 inventory step-up required under the purchasing accounting standards in the third quarter of fiscal year 2022. Excluding the inventory step-up, gross profit as a percentage of revenue decreased seven percentage points as a result of lower revenues due to unfavorable foreign currency impacts and the loss of Sema4, on a partially fixed cost base.

Sterilization and Disinfection Control

Our Sterilization and Disinfection Control division manufactures and sells biological, cleaning, and chemical indicators which are used to assess the effectiveness of sterilization and disinfection processes, including steam, gas, hydrogen peroxide, ethylene oxide, radiation, and other processes in the medical device, pharmaceutical, and hospital industries. The division also provides testing and laboratory services, mainly to the dental industry.

Year Ended March 31,Percentage Change
2023202220212023 vs. 20222022 vs. 2021
Revenues$64,609$59,044$53,1199%11%
Gross profit46,52043,72039,8706%10%
Gross profit as a % of revenues72%74%75%(2%)(1%)

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Sterilization and Disinfection Control revenues increased 9% for fiscal year 2023 compared to fiscal year 2022, despite the USD strengthening against the euro which resulted in lower reported revenues derived from sales in Europe. During fiscal year 2023, we added temporary and permanent manufacturing headcount at our Bozeman Montana facility, which enabled us to fulfill approximately $1,800 of customer orders that were backlogged as of March 31, 2022. Fiscal year 2023 also benefited from favorable product mix and, to a lesser extent, price increases.

Sterilization and Disinfection Control's gross profit percentage decreased two percentage points during the year ended March 31, 2023 primarily due to increased labor and benefit costs, including the cost of temporary headcount, inflation in freight expense, and the result of foreign currency negatively impacting our reported revenues.

Biopharmaceutical Development

Our Biopharmaceutical Development division develops, manufactures and sells automated systems for protein analysis (immunoassays) and peptide synthesis solutions. Immunoassays and peptide synthesis solutions accelerate the discovery, development, and manufacture of biotherapeutic therapies, among other applications.

Year Ended March 31,Percentage Change
2023202220212023 vs. 20222022 vs. 2021
Revenues$47,365$45,579$33,8924%34%
Gross profit30,34028,60521,0356%36%
Gross profit as a % of revenues64%63%62%1%1%

Biopharmaceutical Development's revenues increased 4% for fiscal year 2023 compared to fiscal year 2022. The division's increase in reported revenue was a result of increased product adoption and price increases, partially offset by unfavorable changes in foreign currency exchange rates on our reported revenues.

Biopharmaceutical Development's gross profit percentage increased one percentage point during the year ended March 31, 2023 as a result of higher revenues on a partially-fixed cost base, partially offset by unfavorable product mix and foreign currency fluctuations negatively impacting our reported revenues.

Calibration Solutions

The Calibration Solutions division develops, manufactures and sells quality control products using principles of advanced metrology to measure or calibrate critical chemical or physical parameters in various dialysis, process monitoring, instrument monitoring, environmental monitoring, gas flow, environmental air quality, and torque applications, primarily in hospital, medical device manufacturing, pharmaceutical manufacturing, and laboratory environments.

Year Ended March 31,Percentage Change
2023202220212023 vs. 20222022 vs. 2021
Revenues$44,807$46,872$46,926(4%)-%
Gross profit24,38824,98926,112(2%)(4%)
Gross profit as a % of revenues54%53%56%1%(3%)

Calibration Solutions' revenues decreased 4% for fiscal year 2023 compared to fiscal year 2022, primarily as a result of supply constraints limiting our ability to manufacture ordered quantities of certain products, partially offset by slightly higher service revenues as our service technicians had access to client facilities for substantially all of fiscal year 2023, and the benefit of modest price increases. Production difficulties resulted in longer lead times for customer orders, which negatively impacted the timing of new orders; however, beginning in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2023, production difficulties abated somewhat and revenues increased modestly compared to each of the first three quarters of fiscal year 2023.

Calibration Solutions' gross profit percentage increased one percentage point during the year ended March 31, 2023 primarily as a result of favorable product mix.

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Corporate and Other

Corporate and Other consists of unallocated corporate expenses and other business activities.

Year Ended March 31,Percentage Change
2023202220212023 vs. 20222022 vs. 2021
Revenues$-$-$-N/AN/A
Gross (loss) profit(40)(165)(3)(76%)5400%
Gross profit as a % of revenuesN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A

Operating Expenses

Operating expenses for the year ended March 31, 2023 increased 25% in total compared to the year ended March 31, 2022 primarily as a result of the increased costs of operations resulting from the Agena Acquisition which was consummated about halfway through fiscal year 2022.

Selling

Selling expense is driven primarily by labor costs, including salaries and commissions; accordingly, it may vary with sales levels.

Year Ended March 31,Percentage Change
2023202220212023 vs. 20222022 vs. 2021
Selling expense$37,439$28,31018,48032%53%
As a percentage of revenues17%15%14%2%1%

Selling expense increased 32% for the year ended March 31, 2023. Excluding the impact of Agena, selling expense increased 13% for the year ended March 31, 2023, as we continued to execute on our previously-announced plan to invest in sales and marketing resources in order to increase organic revenues growth. We hired several sales employees, resulting in higher labor-related costs. Further, travel-related costs increased as we continued to resume in-person meetings, tradeshows, and sales events. Increases were partially offset by lower commissions and bonus expense.

General and Administrative

Labor costs, non-cash stock-based compensation, and amortization of intangible assets drive the substantial majority of general and administrative expense.

Year Ended March 31,Percentage Change
2023202220212023 vs. 20222022 vs. 2021
General and administrative expense$72,444$60,311$45,78820%32%
As a percentage of revenues33%33%34%-%(1%)

General and administrative expenses increased 20% for the year ended March 31, 2023. Excluding the impact of Agena, general and administrative expenses increased 1% for the year ended March 31, 2023. The increase was a result of higher personnel costs, including increased stock-based compensation expense as we expanded the number of employee participants in the program. Increases to general and administrative costs were partially offset by lower intangible amortization expense as a result of the strengthening of the USD, lower annual bonus accruals based on our financial results for the year ended March 31, 2023, and decreased acquisition and integration-related costs.

Research and Development

Research and development expense is predominantly comprised of labor costs and third-party consultants.

Year Ended March 31,Percentage Change
2023202220212023 vs. 20222022 vs. 2021
Research and development expense$20,490$15,767$10,38830%52%
As a percentage of revenues9%9%8%-%1%

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Research and development expenses for the year ended March 31, 2023 increased 30%. Excluding the impact of Agena, research and development costs for the year ended March 31, 2023 increased 3% primarily as a result of our purchase of in process research and development technology that we are further developing in order to enhance a product offering in our Sterilization and Disinfection Control division, as well as higher personnel costs as we continue enhancing existing products and developing new products and features.

Nonoperating Expense

Year Ended March 31,Percentage Change
2023202220212023 vs. 20222022 vs. 2021
Nonoperating expense$3,7091,12810,055229%(89%)

Nonoperating expense for fiscal year 2023 is composed primarily of interest expense and amortization of the debt discount associated with the 2025 Notes and the Credit Facility as well as gains and losses on foreign currency transactions. Nonoperating expense was higher in fiscal year 2023 compared to fiscal year 2022 due to interest expense on the Credit Facility, which had an average interest rate of 4.5% during fiscal year 2023 compared with an average interest rate of 1.7% for the periods during which a balance was outstanding during fiscal year 2022, partially offset by net foreign currency gains.

Interest expense and amortization of debt discount was lower for the year ended March 31, 2022 compared to the year ended March 31, 2021 due to our adoption of Accounting Standards Update No. 2020-06, Debt with Conversion and Other Options and Derivatives and Hedging Accounting for Convertible Instruments and Contracts in an Entity's Own Equity ("ASU 2020-06"), which resulted in a $4,090 reduction in non-cash interest expense related to the 2025 Notes.

Income Taxes

Year Ended March 31,Percentage Change
2023202220212023 vs. 20222022 vs. 2021
Income tax (benefit) expense$(1,319)$1,703$(971)(177%)(275%)
Effective tax rate339%48%(42%)291%90%

Our income tax rate varies based upon many factors, but in general we anticipate that on a go-forward basis, our effective tax rate will be approximately 26%, plus or minus the impact of excess tax benefits and deficiencies associated with share-based payment awards to employees (please see Note 12. “Income Taxes” within Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data) and purchase price accounting for any future acquisitions. The change in our effective tax rate during the year ended March 31, 2023 is primarily due to being in a net loss position before taxes, a decrease in the provision for limitations under Section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue Code, partially offset by lower tax benefits associated with stock option exercises in fiscal year 2023. Tax benefits and deficiencies associated with share-based payment awards to our employees have caused and, in the future, may cause large fluctuations in our realized effective tax rate based on timing, volume, and nature of stock options exercised under our share-based payment program.

Net Income

Net income for the year ended March 31, 2023 varied with the changes in revenues, gross profit, and operating expenses (including, respectively, $28,821 and $12,538 of non-cash amortization of intangible assets acquired in a business combination, and stock-based compensation expense).

Non-GAAP reconciliation

Adjusted operating income (which excludes the non-cash impact of amortization of intangible assets acquired in a business combination, stock-based compensation and impairment of goodwill and long-lived assets) is used by management as a supplemental performance measure in order to compare current financial performance to historical performance, assess the ability of our assets to generate cash, and evaluate potential acquisitions.

Adjusted operating income should not be considered an alternative to, or more meaningful than, net income, operating income, cash flow from operating activities or any other measure of financial performance presented in accordance with GAAP as measures of operating performance or liquidity.

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The following table sets forth our reconciliation of adjusted operating income, a non-GAAP measure, to operating income:

Year Ended March 31,
202320222021
Operating income$3,320$4,702$12,358
Amortization of intangible assets acquired in a business combination28,82121,80614,513
Stock-based compensation12,53811,3919,268
Adjusted Operating Income$44,679$37,899$36,139

Liquidity and Capital Resources

Our sources of liquidity include cash generated from operations, cash and cash equivalents on hand, cash available from our Credit Facility and the Open Market Sale AgreementSM described below, working capital, and potential additional equity and debt offerings. We believe that cash flows from operating activities and potential cash provided by borrowings from our Credit Facility or funds from our Open Market Sale AgreementSM, when necessary, will be sufficient to meet our ongoing short-term and long-term operating requirements, scheduled interest payments on debt, dividend payments, and anticipated capital expenditures. At our option, we may settle the 2025 Notes in shares of our common stock or in cash, or we may re-finance the debt, depending on conditions in the market and the share price of our common stock.

Our more significant uses of resources have historically included acquisitions, payments on debt and interest obligations, long-term capital expenditures, and quarterly dividends to shareholders. Working capital is the amount by which current assets exceed current liabilities. We had working capital of $75,616 and $76,263 on March 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively. We also had $32,910 and $49,346 of cash and cash equivalents as of March 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively.

As of March 31, 2023, $172,500 was outstanding under the 2025 Notes and $13,000 was outstanding under the Credit Facility. In April 2023, we paid an additional $3,000 on our Credit Facility.

We have evaluated our risk from concentration of cash deposits and taken appropriate steps to mitigate such risk. We maintain relationships and cash deposits at multiple banking institutions across the world in an effort to diversify and reduce risk of loss.

In April 2022, we entered into an Open Market Sale AgreementSM pursuant to which we may issue and sell, from time to time, shares of our common stock with an aggregate value of up to $150,000. We did not sell any shares under this agreement during fiscal year 2023.

We routinely evaluate opportunities for strategic acquisitions. Future material acquisitions may require that we obtain additional capital, assume additional third-party debt or incur other long-term obligations. We believe that we have the ability to issue more equity or debt in the future in order to finance our acquisition and investment activities; however, additional equity or debt financing, or other transactions, may not be available on acceptable terms, if at all.

We may from time to time repurchase or take other steps to reduce our debt. These actions may include retirements or refinancing of outstanding debt, privately negotiated transactions or otherwise. The amount of debt that may be retired, if any, could be material and would be decided at the sole discretion of our Board of Directors and would depend on market conditions, our cash position, and other considerations.

Dividends

We have paid regular quarterly dividends since 2003. We declared and paid dividends of $0.16 per share each quarter of the years ended March 31, 2023, 2022, and 2021.

In April 2023, our Board of Directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.16 per share of common stock, payable on June 15, 2023, to shareholders of record at the close of business on May 31, 2023.

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Cash Flows

Our cash flows from operating, investing, and financing activities were as follows:

Year Ended March 31,
202320222021
Net cash provided by operating activities$27,983$39,223$37,073
Net cash (used in) investing activities(9,494)(305,225)(1,992)
Net cash (used in) provided by financing activities(33,328)52,576146,228

Cash flows from operating activities for the year ended March 31, 2023 provided $27,983. The $11,240 decrease in cash flows from operating activities primarily resulted from changes in our working capital accounts including higher purchases of inventories to mitigate potential supply chain issues as well as lower accrued liabilities, particularly bonus, partially offset by non-cash adjustments to net income including higher stock compensation expense and higher depreciation and amortization expense. Net income and non-cash adjustments totaled $45,095 for the year ended March 31, 2023 compared to $46,415 for the year ended March 31, 2022, while cash provided by operating assets and liabilities decreased by $9,920. Cash used in investing activities was lower during the year ended March 31, 2023 compared to the year ended March 31, 2022 due to cash expended on the Agena Acquisition fiscal year 2022, partially offset by the Belyntic Acquisition in fiscal year 2023. Cash used in financing activities primarily resulted from our repayment of $36,000 on our Credit Facility. The fiscal year 2022 draw on our Credit Facility was used to fund a portion of the purchase price of the Agena Acquisition. Our equity raise completed during the year ended March 31, 2021 provided $145,935.

Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates

Our Consolidated Financial Statements are prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States, which require management to make estimates, judgments, and assumptions that affect the amounts reported in our Consolidated Financial Statements and accompanying notes. We believe that the following are the more critical judgment areas in the application of accounting policies that currently affect our financial condition and results of operations. Management has discussed the development, selection, and disclosure of critical accounting policies and estimates with the Audit Committee of our Board of Directors. While our estimates and assumptions are based on our knowledge of current events and circumstances and actions we may take in the future, actual results may ultimately differ from these estimates and assumptions. For a discussion of our significant accounting policies, see Note 1. “Description of Business and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies” in Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data.

Purchase Accounting for Acquisitions

We account for all business combinations in which we obtain control over another entity using the acquisition method of accounting, which requires most assets (both tangible and intangible) and liabilities (including any applicable contingent consideration) to be recognized at fair value at the date of acquisition. The excess of the purchase price over the fair value of assets less liabilities is recognized as goodwill. We determine fair value using widely accepted valuation techniques, primarily discounted cash flow and market multiple analyses. These types of analyses require us to make and monitor assumptions and estimates regarding industry and economic factors, the profitability of future business strategies, discount rates and cash flow. Certain adjustments to the assessed fair values of acquired assets or liabilities made subsequent to the acquisition date but within a one-year measurement period are recorded as adjustments to goodwill. Any adjustments subsequent to the measurement period are recorded within earnings. We expense all costs as incurred related to an acquisition in selling, general, and administrative expenses.

Results of operations of the acquired company are included in our Consolidated Financial Statements from the date of the acquisition forward. If actual results are not consistent with our assumptions and estimates, or if our assumptions and estimates change due to new information, we may be exposed to an impairment charge in the future.

Acquired Intangible Assets

Our business acquisitions typically result in the recognition of goodwill and other intangible assets, which affect the amount of future period amortization expense and possible impairment charges we may incur.

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Intangible assets with finite lives are amortized over their useful lives using the straight-line method and amortization expense is recorded within cost of products or selling, general and administrative expense in the Consolidated Statements of Income. Impairment assessments are conducted if events or conditions indicate that asset carrying amounts may not be recoverable, including changes in the competitive landscape, any internal decisions to pursue new or different technology strategies, losses of significant customers, or significant changes in the marketplace, including adverse changes in the prices paid for our products or changes in the size of the market for our products. If impairment indicators are present, we determine whether the carrying value of the underlying intangible asset is recoverable through undiscounted estimated future cash flows. If the asset is not found to be recoverable, we estimate the asset's fair value using Level 3 inputs and record an impairment to write down the asset's carrying value to the estimated fair value. If the estimate of an intangible asset’s remaining useful life is changed, the remaining carrying amount of the intangible asset is amortized prospectively over the revised remaining useful life. We continue to believe that our finite lived intangible assets are recoverable as of March 31, 2023.

We test goodwill and indefinite lived intangible assets for impairment on an annual basis during the fourth quarter of each year, or more frequently if events and circumstances indicate it is more likely than not that the fair value of the respective asset is less than its carrying value. Events that would indicate impairment and trigger interim impairment assessments include but are not limited to: current economic and market conditions, including a decline in market capitalization; a significant adverse change in legal factors; business climate or operational performance of the business; and an adverse action or assessment by a regulator. Our impairment tests for indefinite lived intangible assets other than goodwill are generally conducted at the individual asset level. We accounted for the economic uncertainty caused by the macro-economic environment, including rising interest rates and high inflation, when conducting our impairment analyses of goodwill and other indefinite lived intangible assets during the fourth quarter of our year ended March 31, 2023.

Our impairment tests typically begin with optional qualitative assessments to determine whether it is more likely than not that the carrying value of a goodwill reporting unit or other intangible asset exceeds its fair value, as permitted by the accounting guidance. If, after this qualitative assessment, we determine it is more likely than not that the fair value is greater than the carrying amount, no further quantitative testing is necessary. A quantitative assessment is performed if the qualitative assessment results in a more-likely-than-not determination or if a qualitative assessment is not performed. The quantitative assessment measures whether the carrying amount of a reporting unit or indefinite lived intangible asset exceeds its fair value, in which case an impairment charge is recorded to the extent carrying value exceeds fair value. Fair value is determined using an income approach, which relies heavily on Level 3 inputs. In fiscal year 2023, we performed initial qualitative assessments over reporting units associated with our Clinical Genomics, Biopharmaceutical Development, and Calibration Solutions reportable segments. We supplemented our qualitative analysis over Clinical Genomics with a quantitative assessment as described further below. We also performed a quantitative assessment over the Sterilization and Disinfection Control reportable segment due to the length of time elapsed since our last quantitative assessment. Through our testing, we concluded that no impairment exists as of March 31, 2023.

Due to the loss of a significant customer, in the third quarter of fiscal year 2023 we used Level 3 inputs to quantitatively test the recoverability of the Clinical Genomics division’s intangible asset group and to evaluate the division’s goodwill for impairment. After considering all information available to us as of that testing date, we concluded that no impairment was indicated. As of March 31, 2023, our annual qualitative impairment analyses continued to support the conclusion that Clinical Genomics’ goodwill and intangible assets are not impaired; however, we chose to perform a quantitative impairment test in light of the division’s fourth quarter financial performance compared to original forecasts. We will continue to carefully monitor Clinical Genomics’ goodwill and other intangible assets for impairment in future periods. It is reasonably possible that the division’s goodwill, intangibles, or both, may be impaired in the near term. Impairment would result in non-cash charges, which could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition and results of operations.

The total net carrying values of Clinical Genomics’ intangible assets and goodwill potentially subject to future impairment are $140,700 and $135,811, respectively, as of March 31, 2023. The value of finite-lived intangible assets decreases about $15.5 million each year as we record amortization expense, and the value of goodwill and intangible assets may be affected by future events, including changes in our customer or product mix, market conditions, or our operating performance falling short of current forecasts.

Stock-based Compensation

We recognize compensation expense for equity awards over the vesting period based on the fair value of the awards. We use the Black-Scholes valuation model to estimate the fair value of our stock options. The Black-Scholes model requires assumptions to be made regarding our stock price volatility, the expected life of awards, and expected dividend rates. The volatility assumption and the expected life assumptions are based on our historical data. The compensation expense related to performance share awards is based in part on the estimated probability of achieving performance goals associated with particular levels of payout for performance shares. We determine the probability of achievement of future levels of performance by comparing the relevant performance level with our internal estimates of future performance. Those estimates are based on a number of assumptions, and different assumptions may result in different conclusions regarding the probability of achieving future levels of performance relevant to the payout levels for the awards. Had we arrived at different assumptions of stock price volatility or expected lives of our options, or different assumptions regarding the probability of our achieving future levels of performance with respect to performance share awards, our stock-based compensation expense and results of operations could have been different.

Income Taxes

Our provision for income taxes requires the use of estimates in determining the timing and amounts of deductible and taxable items, including impacts on effective tax rates, deferred tax items and valuation allowances based on management’s interpretation and application of complex tax laws and accounting guidance. We establish reserves for uncertain tax positions for material, known tax exposures relating to deductions, transactions and other matters involving uncertainty as to the measurement and recognition of the item. While we believe that our reserves are adequate, issues raised by a tax authority may be finally resolved at an amount different than the related reserve and could materially increase or decrease our income tax provision in the current and/or future periods.

Recent Accounting Standards and Pronouncements

For a discussion of the new accounting standards impacting the Company, refer to Note 1. “Description of Business and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies” in Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data.

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Contractual Obligations

We are party to many contractual obligations that involve commitments to make payments to third parties in the ordinary course of business. For a description of our contractual obligations and other commercial commitments as of March 31, 2022, see our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2022, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 31, 2022.

On a consolidated basis, at March 31, 2023, we had contractual obligations for open purchase orders of approximately $17,270 for routine purchases of supplies and inventory, of which the substantial majority are payable in less than one year.

FY 2022 10-K MD&A

SEC filing source: 0001437749-22-013906.

Extracted structurally from real Item 7 body heading to real Item 7A/8 boundary. Confidence: high. Filing date: 2022-05-31. Report date: 2022-03-31.

Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

(Dollars in thousands, unless specified)

Overview

We are a multinational manufacturer, developer, and seller of life sciences tools and quality control products and services, many of which are sold into niche markets that are driven by regulatory requirements. We have manufacturing operations in the United States and Europe and our products are marketed by our sales personnel in North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific, and by independent distributors in these areas as well as throughout the rest of the world. We prefer markets in which we can establish a strong presence and achieve high gross profit margins. As described in Note 14. "Segment Data" of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements contained within Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data of this annual report, during the third quarter of fiscal year 2022, following the acquisition of Agena, we changed our segment reporting to align with strategic changes in the way we manage our business units. As of March 31, 2022, we managed our operations in four reportable segments, or divisions: Sterilization and Disinfection Control, Biopharmaceutical Development, Calibration Solutions, and Clinical Genomics, which is comprised of the newly-acquired Agena. Each of our divisions are described further in "Results of Operations" below. Non-reportable operating segments (including our Cold Chain Packaging Division which ceased operations during the year ended March 31, 2020) and unallocated corporate expenses are reported within Corporate and Other.

Corporate Strategy

We strive to create shareholder value and further our purpose of Protecting the Vulnerable® by growing our business both organically and through acquisitions, by improving our operating efficiency, and by continuing to hire, develop and retain top talent. As a business, we commit to our purpose of Protecting the Vulnerable® every day by taking a customer-focused approach to developing, building, and delivering our products. We serve a broad set of industries, in particular the pharmaceutical, healthcare services, and medical device verticals, that require dependable quality control and calibration solutions to ensure the safety and efficacy of the products they use. By delivering the highest quality products possible, we are committed to protecting people, the environment, and end products.

Organic Revenues Growth

Organic revenues growth is primarily driven by the expansion of our customer base, increases in sales volumes, and price increases. Our ability to increase organic revenues is affected by general economic conditions, both domestic and international, customer capital spending trends, competition, and the introduction of new products. We typically evaluate costs and pricing annually. Our policy is to price our products competitively and, where possible, we pass along cost increases to our customers in order to maintain our margins.

Gross profit is affected by many factors including our product mix, manufacturing efficiencies, foreign currency rates, and price competition. Historically, as we have integrated our acquisitions and taken advantage of manufacturing efficiencies, our gross profit percentages for some products have improved. There are, however, differences in gross profit percentages between product lines, and ultimately the mix of sales and prices will continue to impact our overall gross profit.

Inorganic Revenues Growth - Acquisitions

During fiscal year 2022, we completed the acquisition of Agena for an aggregate purchase price of $300,793, net of cash acquired, subject to customary purchase price adjustments. Agena is a leading clinical genomics tools company that develops, manufactures, and sells highly sensitive, low-cost, high-throughput genetic analysis tools used by clinical labs to perform genomic clinical testing in several therapeutic areas, such as newborn screenings, pharmacogenetics and oncology. The acquisition of Agena accelerates Mesa's strategic trajectory towards higher growth applications within the regulated segments of the life sciences tools market.

Over the past decade, we have consummated a number of acquisitions as a part of our growth strategy. The acquisitions of these businesses have allowed us to expand our product offerings, globalize our company, and increase the scale at which we operate, which in turn affords us the ability to improve our operating efficiency, extend our customer base, and further the pursuit of our purpose: Protecting the Vulnerable®.

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Improving Our Operating Efficiency

We maximize value in both our existing businesses and those we acquire by implementing efficiencies in our manufacturing, commercial, engineering, and administrative operations. We achieve efficiencies using the four pillars that make up The Mesa Way, which is our customer-centric, lean-based system for continuously improving and operating a set of high-margin, niche businesses. The Mesa Way is focused on: Measuring what matters using our customers' perspective and setting high standards for performance; Empowering teams to improve operationally and exceed customer expectations; Steadily improving using lean-based tools designed to help us identify the root cause of opportunities and prioritize the biggest opportunities; and Always learn so that performance continuously improves. As we integrate Agena into our business, we will focus on applying The Mesa Way to its operations which we hope will improve efficiency in some areas of Agena’s business.

Hire, Develop, and Retain Top Talent

At the center of our organization are talented people who are capable of taking on new challenges using a team approach. It is our exceptionally talented workforce that works together and uses our lean-based tool set to find ways to continuously improve our products, our services, and ourselves, resulting in long-term value creation for our shareholders.

COVID-19 and Business Update

The COVID-19 pandemic began to broadly impact our business late in fiscal year 2020, and its impacts continued to affect our business in various ways throughout fiscal year 2021 and, to a lesser extent, into fiscal years 2022 and 2023. We continue to monitor the impacts of COVID-19, including the current spread of certain variants of the virus, and we have taken and will continue to take steps to identify and mitigate the adverse impact on, and risks to, our business (including but not limited to our employees, customers, vendors, manufacturing capabilities and capacity, and supply and distribution channels) posed by the spread of COVID-19 and the government responses thereto.

COVID-19 has caused or exacerbated broad market phenomena such as supply chain disruptions, inflation, and wage pressure to which we are susceptible. Throughout fiscal year 2022, we experienced increased supply constraints for certain components used in our operations, particularly components used by the Calibration Solutions and Biopharmaceutical Development divisions, and to a lesser extent the Sterilization and Disinfection Control and Clinical Genomics divisions. We continue to work with our suppliers to understand the existing and potential future impacts to our supply chain and are taking actions in an effort to mitigate such impacts, including pre-ordering components in higher quantities than usual, which has resulted in increased raw materials balances on our balance sheet as of March 31, 2022. The impact of supply chain disruptions is discussed in more detail in our "Results of Operations" and Item 1A. Risk Factors. Even after the COVID-19 pandemic has largely subsided as a public health matter, we may experience material adverse impacts to our business as a result of the pandemic's adverse impact on the global economy, in-person collaboration and sales efforts, and our customers’ changed purchasing behaviors and confidence.

The COVID-19 pandemic and related public health recommendations and mandated precautions to mitigate the spread of the virus, including regulations to close or limit the operating hours of our laboratory and facilities of our customers, and to prevent non-essential personnel from going on-site to customer locations to service or market our products, have negatively affected our operations. While many recommendations and precautions that affected us in fiscal year 2021 have been rescinded in the United States, some restrictions were reimposed for portions of the year ended March 31, 2022 as COVID-19 variants spread widely. Our operations in Europe and Asia have been most impacted because regulations and restrictions have tended to be more widespread in those areas. In contrast to the negative impacts experienced by our other divisions, our Clinical Genomics division produces a consumable reagent that can be used with its proprietary MassARRAY® instruments to accurately identify the presence of the COVID-19 virus and identify the variant from a biological sample. As a result, the Clinical Genomics division has benefited to some extent from outbreaks and resulting increased testing efforts. However, as in our other divisions, regulatory restrictions, particularly in Asia have negatively impacted commercial execution, limiting sales of Clinical Genomics products to new customers. We expect regulatory restrictions in Asia to continue into fiscal year 2023 which may negatively impact our Clinical Genomics division, and to a lesser extent, the rest of the company.

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Our revenues are generated from product sales, which include consumables and hardware; as well as services, which include discrete and ongoing calibration, testing, and maintenance services. Revenues increase as a result of organic or inorganic revenues growth. Inorganic revenues growth is driven by acquisitions. Sales of our hardware products have historically been more sensitive to general economic conditions than sales of our consumables. Even as the broad healthcare industry has returned to more normal operations resulting in increased sales levels in most of our divisions, outbreaks and increasing numbers of COVID-19 cases in many areas, especially Asia, have and may continue to result in the reinstatement of strict regulations, which we expect will result in lower sales levels. However, as vaccine distribution progresses, we are hopeful that any reinstatements of strict regulations will be less frequent and shorter in duration.

We are working on several research and development projects that, if completed, may result in enhanced or new products for both existing customers and new markets. We are hopeful that we will have enhanced or new products and services available for sale in the coming fiscal year.

As discussed in Note 15. "Subsequent Events" within Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data, we entered into an Open Market Sale AgreementSM with Jefferies LLC as sales agent subsequent to the year ended March 31, 2022.

Revenues for our reportable segments increased 38% for the year ended March 31, 2022. Revenues growth was primarily attributable to the acquisition of Agena; however, organic revenues growth was 13%. Gross profit as a percentage of revenues decreased 6 percentage points for the year ended March 31, 2022, primarily as a result of a $7,462 charge recorded as we amortized the fair value of inventory step up recorded as part of purchase accounting. Results by reportable segment are as follows:

RevenuesOrganic Revenues GrowthGross Profit as a % of Revenues
Year Ended March 31, 2022Year Ended March 31, 2021Year Ended March 31, 2022Year Ended March 31, 2021Year Ended March 31, 2022Year Ended March 31, 2021
Sterilization and Disinfection Control$59,044$53,11911%7%74%75%
Biopharmaceutical Development45,57933,89234%19%63%62%
Calibration Solutions46,87246,926-%(9%)53%56%
Clinical Genomics32,840-N/AN/A36%N/A
Reportable segments$184,335$133,93713%1%59%65%

Results of Operations

Our results of operations and year-over-year changes are discussed in the following section. The tables and discussion below should be read in conjunction with the accompanying Consolidated Financial Statements and the notes thereto appearing in Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data (in thousands, except percent data).

Refer to Item 7. Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended March 31, 2021, filed on June 1, 2021, for a comparison of results of operations for the years ended March 31, 2021 and March 31, 2020.

Our condensed consolidated results of operations are as follows:

Year Ended March 31,Percentage Change
2022202120202022 vs. 20212021 vs. 2020
Revenues$184,335$133,937$117,68738%14%
Gross profit109,09087,01465,36225%33%
Operating expenses104,38874,65657,43940%30%
Operating income4,70212,3587,923(62%)56%
Net income$1,871$3,274$1,778(43%)84%

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Reportable Segments

Sterilization and Disinfection Control

Our Sterilization and Disinfection Control division manufactures and sells biological, cleaning, and chemical indicators which are used to assess the effectiveness of sterilization and disinfection processes in the pharmaceutical, medical device, dental, and hospital industries. The division also provides testing and laboratory services, mainly to the dental industry. Sterilization and disinfection control products are disposable and are used on a routine basis.

Year Ended March 31,Percentage Change
2022202120202022 vs. 20212021 vs. 2020
Revenues$59,044$53,119$49,66011%7%
Gross profit43,72039,87035,79710%11%
Gross profit as a % of revenues74%75%72%(1%)3%

Sterilization and Disinfection Control revenues increased 11% as a result of organic revenues growth, which was achieved through modest price increases, effective efforts by our sales team to market and sell certain products to a larger customer base, and volume increases with existing customers particularly in the biopharmaceutical markets.

Sterilization and Disinfection Control's gross profit percentage decreased one percentage point during the year ended March 31, 2022 primarily due to higher labor costs as a result of strong competition for employees in the labor market, and higher freight costs as a result of the global supply chain disruptions.

Biopharmaceutical Development

Our Biopharmaceutical Development division develops, manufactures, and sells automated systems for protein analysis (immunoassays) and peptide synthesis solutions. Immunoassays and peptide synthesis solutions accelerate the discovery, development, and manufacture of biotherapeutic drugs.

Year Ended March 31,Percentage Change
2022202120202022 vs. 20212021 vs. 2020
Revenues$45,579$33,892$13,85134%145%
Gross profit28,60521,03538236%5,407%
Gross profit as a % of revenues63%62%3%1%59%

The results of the Biopharmaceutical Development division were consolidated into our results beginning on November 1, 2019, the first day following our acquisition of Gyros Protein Technologies Holding AB. Biopharmaceutical Development's revenues increased 34% as a result of resumed in-person sales efforts and a marketing strategy focused on packaging our hardware and software products in a format that is more appealing to our customers. These efforts resulted in increased hardware sales and to a lesser extent increased consumables sales, particularly in the cell and gene therapy market.

Biopharmaceutical Development's gross profit percentage increased one percentage point during the year ended March 31, 2022 as a result of a favorable mix shift towards immunoassay products, as well as production efficiencies resulting from increased revenues, partially offset by higher labor costs.

Substantially all of this division's sales are invoiced in either euros or U.S. dollars ("USD"); however, the majority of the costs in this division are recorded in Swedish Krona ("SEK") and translated to USD for reporting purposes. During periods in which the USD is weaker against the SEK, such as in the first and second quarters of fiscal year 2022, our USD reported costs are inflated and gross profit percentage is lower. In periods in which the USD strengthens against the SEK, such as in the third and fourth quarters of fiscal year 2022, our USD reported costs are lower and gross profit percentage is higher.

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Calibration Solutions

This new reportable segment is comprised of the historical Instruments and Continuous Monitoring segments. The Calibration Solutions division designs, manufactures, and markets quality control and calibration products used to measure or calibrate temperature, pressure, pH, humidity, and other such parameters for health and safety purposes, primarily in hospital, medical device manufacturing, pharmaceutical, and laboratory environments.

Year Ended March 31,Percentage Change
2022202120202022 vs. 20212021 vs. 2020
Revenues$46,872$46,926$51,713-%(9%)
Gross profit24,98926,11228,765(4%)(9%)
Gross profit as a % of revenues53%56%56%(3%)-%

Calibration Solutions' revenues were flat for the year ended March 31, 2022, primarily as a result of supply and labor constraints limiting our ability to manufacture ordered quantities of certain products, partially offset by slightly higher service revenues. As COVID-19 related restrictions were gradually lifted, our service technicians were able to go to client sites to complete service requests and hardware installations. Despite fulfillment delays for many customer orders, demand for the division's products increased during fiscal year 2022, and to date, we have been able to retain the substantial majority of our customers and orders.

Calibration Solutions' gross profit percentage decreased three percentage points during the year ended March 31, 2022. The decrease in gross profit percentage resulted primarily from increased freight on purchased components, higher labor costs as a result of strong competition for employees in the labor market, and costs associated with outsourcing certain calibration functions while we completed the move and manufacturing set up of certain product sets from our Butler, New Jersey facility to Lakewood, Colorado. While we no longer are outsourcing our calibration functions, supply chain disruptions and higher labor costs are expected to continue through fiscal year 2023.

Clinical Genomics

This is a new reportable segment comprised of the recently acquired Agena. The Clinical Genomics division develops, manufactures, and sells highly sensitive, low-cost, high-throughput genetic analysis tools used by clinical labs to perform genomic clinical testing in several therapeutic areas, such as newborn screenings, pharmacogenetics and oncology.

Year Ended March 31,Percentage Change
2022202120202022 vs. 20212021 vs. 2020
Revenues$32,840$-$--%N/A
Gross profit11,941---%N/A
Gross profit as a % of revenues36%N/AN/AN/AN/A

Revenues in the Clinical Genomics division represent revenues from October 20, 2021 until March 31, 2022. Of the revenues reported, $2,871 represents revenues from COVID-19-related sales, of which the substantial majority are consumables. We expect sales in fiscal year 2023 will be negatively impacted by continued restrictions and lockdowns imposed in China as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, which have limited our sales efforts beginning in late fiscal year 2022.

Clinical Genomics' gross profit was $11,941 for the period from October 20, 2021 until March 31, 2022. Gross profit includes a $7,462 charge related to amortization of an inventory step-up to fair value recorded in purchase accounting. Excluding the step-up amortization, gross profit for the period ended March 31, 2022 would have been $19,403, and gross profit as a percentage of revenues would have been 59%. Gross profit also includes $2,538 of amortization of intellectual property from the Agena Acquisition. Going forward, we expect gross profit as a percentage of revenues to range from the high 50s to the low 60s, including an annual impact of $5,675 of non-cash amortization of intellectual property.

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Corporate and Other

Corporate and Other primarily consists of results from our Cold Chain Packaging division, which was dissolved during the year ended March 31, 2020 and is no longer considered a reportable segment, as well as unallocated corporate expenses.

Year Ended March 31,Percentage Change
2022202120202022 vs. 20212021 vs. 2020
Revenues$-$-$2,463N/A(100%)
Gross (loss) profit(165)(3)4185400%(101%)
Gross profit as a % of revenuesN/AN/A17%N/AN/A

Operating Expenses

Operating expenses for the year ended March 31, 2022 increased 40% in total compared to the year ended March 31, 2021.

Selling

Selling expense is driven primarily by labor costs, including salaries and commissions; accordingly, it may vary with sales levels.

Year Ended March 31,Percentage Change
2022202120202022 vs. 20212021 vs. 2020
Selling expense$28,310$18,48012,91053%43%
As a percentage of revenues15%14%11%1%3%

Selling expense increased 53% for the year ended March 31, 2022 primarily as a result of the acquisition of Agena. Excluding the impact of Agena, selling expense increased 15% for the year ended March 31, 2022, as we executed on our previously-announced plan to invest in sales and marketing resources in order to increase organic revenues growth. We hired several sales employees throughout fiscal year 2022, resulting in higher labor-related costs and higher commission expense resulting from increased revenues. Further, travel-related costs increased as we resumed various in-person sales events as restrictions on gatherings lifted compared to fiscal year 2021. Including the acquisition of Agena and its sales force, we expect total selling expense will approximate 16% to 18% of revenues for fiscal year 2023.

General and Administrative

Labor costs, non-cash stock-based compensation, and amortization of intangible assets drive the substantial majority of general and administrative expense.

Year Ended March 31,Percentage Change
2022202120202022 vs. 20212021 vs. 2020
General and administrative expense$60,311$45,788$38,17432%20%
As a percentage of revenues33%34%32%(1%)2%

General and administrative expenses increased 32% for the year ended March 31, 2022, primarily as a result of the acquisition of Agena. Excluding the impact of Agena, general and administrative expenses increased 15% for the year ended March 31, 2022 as a result of acquisition and integration costs, higher annual bonus accruals based on our financial results for the year ended March 31, 2022, and increased stock-based compensation expense as we expanded the number of participants in our stock-based compensation programs.

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Research and Development

Research and development expense is predominantly comprised of labor costs and third-party consultants.

Year Ended March 31,Percentage Change
2022202120202022 vs. 20212021 vs. 2020
Research and development expense$15,767$10,388$6,35552%63%
As a percentage of revenues9%8%5%1%3%

Research and development expenses for the year ended March 31, 2022 increased 52% primarily as a result of expenses attributable to Agena. Excluding the impact of Agena, research and development costs for the year ended March 31, 2022 increased 12% primarily as a result of higher personnel and third-party contractor expenditures supporting our continued incremental investments in enhancing existing products as well as the development of new products and features. We expect research and development expenses will approximate 9% to 12% of revenues for fiscal year 2023.

Nonoperating Expense

Year Ended March 31,Percentage Change
2022202120202022 vs. 20212021 vs. 2020
Nonoperating expense$1,12810,0554,061(89%)148%

Nonoperating expense for the year ended March 31, 2022 is composed primarily of interest expense and amortization of the debt discount associated with our 1.375% convertible senior notes issued in August 2019, gains and losses on foreign currency transactions, and interest income earned on cash and cash equivalents.

During the year ended March 31, 2022, we incurred significant realized and unrealized foreign currency gains as a result of the USD strengthening significantly, particularly against the Swedish Krona.

Interest expense and amortization of debt discount was lower for the year ended March 31, 2022 compared to the year ended March 31, 2021 due to our adoption of ASU 2020-06, which resulted in a $4,090 reduction in non-cash interest expense related to the Notes. See Note 1. "Description of Business and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies" within Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data.

Income Taxes

Year Ended March 31,Percentage Change
2022202120202022 vs. 20212021 vs. 2020
Income tax expense (benefit)$1,703$(971)$2,084(275%)(147%)
Effective tax rate48%(42%)54%90%(96%)

Our income tax rate varies based upon many factors, but in general we anticipate that on a go-forward basis, our effective tax rate will be approximately 26%, plus or minus the impact of excess tax benefits and deficiencies associated with share-based payment awards to employees; (please see Note 12. “Income Taxes” within Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data). Our effective tax rate increased during the year ended March 31, 2022 due to the limitations imposed by Section 162(m), and higher federal and state income taxes, partially offset by tax benefits, notably the exercise of stock options. The excess tax benefits and deficiencies associated with share-based payment awards to our employees have caused and, in the future, may cause large fluctuations in our realized effective tax rate based on timing, volume, and nature of stock options exercised under our share-based payment program.

Net Income

Net income for the year ended March 31, 2022 varied with the changes in revenues, gross profit, and operating expenses (including, respectively, $21,806, $11,391, and $7,462 of non-cash amortization of intangible assets acquired in a business combination, stock-based compensation expense, and amortization of inventory step up). Prior to the adoption of ASU 2020-06 on April 1, 2021, we were required to recognize non-cash interest expense related to the amortization of debt discounts and issuance costs. Subsequent to the adoption, we recognize non-cash interest expense related to amortization of debt issuance costs only, resulting in higher net income subsequent to the adoption of ASU 2020-06.

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Non-GAAP reconciliation

Adjusted operating income (which excludes the non-cash impact of amortization of intangible assets acquired in a business combination, stock-based compensation and impairment of goodwill and long-lived assets) is used by management as a supplemental performance measure, in order to compare current financial performance to historical performance, assess the ability of our assets to generate cash, and evaluate potential acquisitions.

Adjusted operating income should not be considered an alternative to, or more meaningful than, net income, operating income, cash flow from operating activities or any other measure of financial performance presented in accordance with GAAP as measures of operating performance or liquidity.

The following table sets forth our reconciliation of adjusted operating income, a non-GAAP measure:

Year Ended March 31,
202220212020
Operating income$4,702$12,358$7,923
Amortization of intangible assets acquired in a business combination21,80614,51310,637
Stock-based compensation11,3919,2685,525
Impairment loss on goodwill and long-lived assets--276
Adjusted Operating Income$37,899$36,139$24,361

Liquidity and Capital Resources

Our sources of liquidity include cash generated from operations, cash and cash equivalents on hand, cash available from our revolving credit facility, swingline loan, and letters of credit (together referred to as the "Credit Facility"), working capital and potential additional equity and debt offerings. We continue to believe that we have the liquidity required to continue operations even if volatility in the economic environment reoccurs. We believe that cash and cash equivalents on hand and cash generated from operations, as well as the remainder of the unused capacity under our Credit Facility, and potential funds from our Open Market Sale AgreementSM, will be sufficient to meet our short-term and long-term needs.

Our more significant uses of resources have historically included acquisitions, long-term capital expenditures, payment of debt and interest obligations, and quarterly dividends to shareholders. Working capital is the amount by which current assets exceed current liabilities. We had working capital of $76,263 and $271,166 on March 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively. We also had $49,346 and $263,865 of cash and cash equivalents as of March 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively.  We consider all highly liquid investments with an original maturity of three months or less when purchased to be cash equivalents.

On October 20, 2021 we completed the acquisition of Agena for an adjusted purchase price, net of cash acquired, of $300,793.

On March 5, 2021, we entered into a four-year senior secured credit agreement that includes 1) a revolving credit facility in an aggregate principal amount of up to $75,000, 2) a swingline loan in an aggregate principal amount not exceeding $5,000, and 3) letters of credit in an aggregate stated amount not exceeding $2,500 at any time. The Credit Facility also provides for an incremental term loan or an increase in revolving commitments in an aggregate principal amount of at a minimum $25,000 and at a maximum $75,000, subject to the satisfaction of certain conditions and lender considerations. During the third quarter of fiscal year 2022, we borrowed $70,000 under the line of credit to fund the acquisition of Agena and repaid $21,000 during the third and fourth quarters of fiscal year 2022 using cash on hand and cash generated from operations. As of March 31, 2022, we had $26,000 remaining to draw on the Credit Facility.

As of March 31, 2022, we have $172,500 aggregate principal of senior convertible notes outstanding. The Notes bear interest at a rate of 1.375% payable semi-annually in arrears on February 15 and August 15 of each year. The Notes can be converted prior to maturity if certain conditions are met; no such conditions were met during the year ended March 31, 2022. We currently expect to settle future conversions of the Notes entirely in shares of our common stock and will reevaluate this policy from time to time in the event that conversion conditions are met, and conversion notices are received from holders of the Notes. We were in compliance with all debt agreements on March 31, 2022 and for all prior years presented and have met all debt payment obligations. Refer to Note 8. "Indebtedness" within Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data for more details on these transactions.

In April 2022 we entered into an Open Market Sale AgreementSM, pursuant to which we may issue and sell, from time to time, shares of our common stock with an aggregate value of up to $150 million.

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Future material acquisitions may require that we obtain additional capital, assume additional third-party debt or incur other long-term obligations. We believe that we have the ability to issue more equity or debt in the future in order to finance our acquisition and investment activities; however additional equity or debt financing, or other transactions, may not be available on acceptable terms, if at all.

We may from time to time repurchase or otherwise retire our debt. These actions may include retirements or refinancing of outstanding debt, privately negotiated transactions, or otherwise. The amount of debt that may be retired, if any, could be material and would be decided at the sole discretion of our Board of Directors and will depend on market conditions, our cash position and other considerations.

Dividends

We have paid regular quarterly dividends since 2003. We declared and paid dividends of $0.16 per share each quarter of the years ended March 31, 2022, 2021, and 2020.

In April 2022, our Board of Directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.16 per share of common stock, payable on June 15, 2022, to shareholders of record at the close of business on May 31, 2022

Cash Flows

Our cash flows from operating, investing, and financing activities were as follows:

Year Ended March 31,
202220212020
Net cash provided by operating activities$39,223$37,073$26,988
Net cash (used in) investing activities(305,225)(1,992)(185,585)
Net cash provided by financing activities52,576146,228231,277

Cash flows from operating activities for the year ended March 31, 2022 provided $39,223. The $2,150 increase in cash flows from operating activities primarily resulted from non-cash adjustments to net income, particularly increased depreciation and amortization as a result of higher intangibles balances resulting from the Agena Acquisition and amortization of the inventory step-up associated with the Agena Acquisition. Further, cash provided by operating assets and liabilities decreased by $12,444 for the year ended March 31, 2022 compared to the year ended March 31, 2021, primarily as a result of the impact of timing on our working capital accounts. Cash used in investing activities was higher during the year ended March 31, 2022 compared to the year ended March 31, 2021, due to cash expended on the Agena Acquisition, and to a lesser extent purchases of property, plant, and equipment, primarily to support the renovations of our Lakewood, Colorado facility. Cash provided by financing activities primarily resulted from a $70,000 draw on our Credit Facility, net of $21,000 repaid during the year. The draw on our Credit Facility was used to fund a portion of the purchase price of the Agena Acquisition. Our equity raise completed during the year ended March 31, 2021 provided $145,935.

Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates

Our Consolidated Financial Statements are prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States, which require management to make estimates, judgments, and assumptions that affect the amounts reported in our Consolidated Financial Statements and accompanying notes. We believe that the following are the more critical judgment areas in the application of accounting policies that currently affect our financial condition and results of operations. Management has discussed the development, selection, and disclosure of critical accounting policies and estimates with the Audit Committee of our Board of Directors. While our estimates and assumptions are based on our knowledge of current events and circumstances and actions we may take in the future, actual results may ultimately differ from these estimates and assumptions. For a discussion of our significant accounting policies, see Note 1. “Description of Business and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies” in Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data.

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Revenue Recognition

Our revenues come from product sales, which include consumables and hardware; as well as services, which include discrete and ongoing calibration, testing, and maintenance services and contracts. Revenues are recognized when we satisfy our performance obligations under the terms of a contract, which occurs when control of the promised products or services transfers to our customers. We recognize as revenue the amount of consideration we expect to receive in exchange for transferring products or services to our customers (the transaction price). For all revenue arrangements, prices are fixed at the time of purchase and no price protections or variables are offered. The significant majority of our revenues and related receivables are generated from contracts with customers that are 12 months or less in duration. We generally recognize revenues as follows:

Product sales: Our performance obligations related to product sales generally consist of the promise to sell tangible goods to distributors or end users. Control of these goods is typically transferred upon shipment, at which time our performance obligation is satisfied and revenue is recognized. For products requiring Mesa's personnel to complete installation, control transfers to the customer and revenue is recognized when our technicians have completed the installation at the customer’s location. Purchase orders typically provide evidence of an arrangement for product sales. Products sold include an assurance-type warranty which is accounted for as part of accrued warranty expense.

Services: We generate service revenues from discrete or contracted calibration, testing, and maintenance services performed on our hardware products. Performance obligations arise when discrete services are contracted in advance and performed at a future time, often at the time of the customer’s choosing. In such cases, our performance obligation is satisfied and revenue is recognized upon completion of the specified work. Alternately, performance obligations arising from ongoing service contracts are satisfied by completing any service that is contractually required during the contract period, if requested by the customer, or simply by the passage of time if no services are requested. For ongoing service contracts, revenue is recognized on a straight-line basis over the life of the contract in a faithful depiction of our obligation to provide services over the contract period. Evidence of a service arrangement may be in the form of a formal contract or a purchase order.

Collectability is reasonably assured through our customer review process, and payment is typically due within 60 days or less. Upon adoption of Accounting Standards Codification ("ASC") 606, we elected the practical expedient to expense commission costs as incurred. The substantial majority of our contracts have original durations of one year or less, and we have elected not to disclose the expected timing or allocated transaction prices of future performance obligations. Additionally, we have elected the practical expedient to not assess whether a significant financing component exists when the period between when we perform our performance obligation and when the customer remits payment is one year or less. None of our contracts contained a financing component as of March 31, 2022 or March 31, 2021.

Contracts with customers may contain multiple performance obligations. For such arrangements, the transaction price is allocated to each performance obligation based on the estimated relative standalone selling prices of the promised products or services underlying each performance obligation. Standalone selling prices are based on the price at which the performance obligation is sold separately. If the standalone selling price is not observable through past transactions, we estimate the standalone selling price considering available information such as market conditions and internally approved pricing guidelines. Discounts may be approved at the time of purchase and are included within a contract’s fixed transaction price. Discounts are typically allocated to the performance obligations included in the contract based on the standalone values of such obligations.

Inventories

Inventories are stated at the lower of cost or net realizable value using a weighted average costing methodology. Work in progress and finished goods inventory acquired in an acquisition are recorded at fair market value. Our work in process and finished goods inventories include the costs of raw materials, labor and overhead, which are estimated based on trailing twelve months of expense and standard labor hours for each product. We evaluate labor and overhead costs annually unless specific circumstances necessitate a mid-year evaluation for specific items.

We monitor inventory costs relative to selling prices and perform physical cycle count procedures on inventories throughout the year to determine if a lower of cost or net realizable value reserve is necessary. We estimate and maintain an inventory reserve as needed for such matters as excess or obsolete inventory, shrinkage, and scrap. This reserve may fluctuate as our assumptions change due to new information, discrete events, or changes in our business, such as entering new markets or discontinuing a specific product; however, once inventory is written down, a new cost basis is established that is not subsequently written back up in future periods.

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Purchase Accounting for Acquisitions

We account for all business combinations in which we obtain control over another entity using the acquisition method of accounting, which requires most assets (both tangible and intangible) and liabilities (including contingent consideration) to be recognized at fair value at the date of acquisition. The excess of the purchase price over the fair value of assets less liabilities is recognized as goodwill. We determine fair value using widely accepted valuation techniques, primarily discounted cash flow and market multiple analyses. These types of analyses require us to make and monitor assumptions and estimates regarding industry and economic factors, the profitability of future business strategies, discount rates and cash flow. Certain adjustments to the assessed fair values of acquired assets or liabilities made subsequent to the acquisition date but within the measurement period are recorded as adjustments to goodwill. Any adjustments subsequent to the measurement period are recorded within earnings. We expense all costs as incurred related to an acquisition in selling, general, and administrative expenses.

Results of operations of the acquired company are included in our Consolidated Financial Statements from the date of the acquisition forward. If actual results are not consistent with our assumptions and estimates, or if our assumptions and estimates change due to new information, we may be exposed to an impairment charge in the future.

Acquired Intangible Assets

Our business acquisitions typically result in the recognition of goodwill and other intangible assets, which affect the amount of future period amortization expense and possible impairment charges we may incur.

Intangible assets with a definite life are amortized over their useful lives using the straight-line method and the amortization expense is recorded within cost of products or selling, general and administrative expense in the Consolidated Statements of Income. Intangible assets and their related useful lives are reviewed at least annually to determine if any adverse conditions exist that would indicate the carrying value of these assets may not be recoverable. More frequent impairment assessments are conducted if certain conditions exist, including a change in the competitive landscape, any internal decisions to pursue new or different technology strategies, a loss of a significant customer, or a significant change in the marketplace, including changes in the prices paid for our products or changes in the size of the market for our products. If impairment indicators are present, we determine whether the underlying intangible asset is recoverable through estimated future undiscounted cash flows. The fair value measurement for asset impairment is based on Level 3 inputs. If the asset is not found to be recoverable, it is written down to the estimated fair value of the asset based on the sum of the future cash flows expected to result from the use and disposition of the asset. If the estimate of an intangible asset’s remaining useful life is changed, the remaining carrying amount of the intangible asset is amortized prospectively over the revised remaining useful life. We continue to believe that our definite lived intangible assets are recoverable as of March 31, 2022.

We test goodwill for impairment on an annual basis and between annual tests if events and circumstances indicate it is more likely than not that the fair value of a reporting unit is less than its carrying value. Events that would indicate impairment and trigger an interim impairment assessment include, but are not limited to: current economic and market conditions, including a decline in market capitalization; a significant adverse change in legal factors; business climate or operational performance of the business; and an adverse action or assessment by a regulator. Goodwill is tested for impairment during the fourth quarter of each year, or more frequently as warranted by events or changes in circumstances mentioned above. Our impairment tests for other indefinite lived intangible assets are similar to the tests performed for goodwill but are conducted at the individual asset level. We accounted for the economic uncertainty caused by the COVID-19 pandemic when conducting our impairment analyses of goodwill and other indefinite lived intangible assets during the fourth quarter of our year ended March 31, 2022.

Our impairment tests begin with the optional qualitative assessment to determine whether it is more likely than not that the carrying value of a goodwill reporting unit or other intangible asset exceeds its fair value, as permitted by the accounting guidance. If, after this qualitative assessment, we determine it is more likely than not that the fair value is greater than the carrying amount, then no further quantitative testing is necessary. A quantitative assessment is performed if the qualitative assessment results in a more likely than not determination or if a qualitative assessment is not performed. The quantitative assessment considers whether the carrying amount of a reporting unit or indefinite lived intangible asset exceeds its fair value, in which case an impairment charge is recorded to the extent carrying value exceeds fair value. Fair value is determined using an income approach, which relies heavily on Level 3 inputs. Our qualitative assessments over each of our reportable segments and our other indefinite lived intangible assets during the year ended March 31, 2022 concluded that no impairment exists as of March 31, 2022.

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Debt Accounting

As of March 31, 2022, our long-term debt balance is related to our 1.375% convertible senior notes due 2025, which were issued in August 2019 and are carried at their principal amount less unamortized debt discount. We account for our convertible notes as liabilities. For a discussion on the change in accounting for convertible debt, refer to Note 1. "Description of Business and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies" in Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data. Debt discount is amortized to interest expense in our Consolidated Statements of Income over the term of the convertible notes using the effective interest rate method.

Stock-based Compensation

We recognize compensation expense for equity awards over the vesting period based on the award’s fair value. We use the Black-Scholes valuation model to determine the fair value of our stock options. The Black-Scholes model requires assumptions to be made regarding our stock price volatility, the expected life of the award, and expected dividend rates. The volatility assumption and the expected life assumptions are based on our historical data. The compensation expense of performance share awards is based in part on the estimated probability of achieving levels of performance associated with particular levels of payout for performance shares. We determine the probability of achievement of future levels of performance by comparing the relevant performance level with our internal estimates of future performance. Those estimates are based on a number of assumptions, and different assumptions may have resulted in different conclusions regarding the probability of achieving future levels of performance relevant to the payout levels for the awards. Had we arrived at different assumptions of stock price volatility or expected lives of our options, or different assumptions regarding the probability of our achieving future levels of performance with respect to performance share awards, our stock-based compensation expense and results of operations could have been different.

Income Taxes

Our provision for income taxes requires the use of estimates in determining the timing and amounts of deductible and taxable items including impacts on effective tax rates, deferred tax items and valuation allowances based on management’s interpretation and application of complex tax laws and accounting guidance. We establish reserves for uncertain tax positions for material, known tax exposures relating to deductions, transactions and other matters involving some uncertainty as to the measurement and recognition of the item. While we believe that our reserves are adequate, issues raised by a tax authority may be finally resolved at an amount different than the related reserve and could materially increase or decrease our income tax provision in the current and/or future periods.

Recent Accounting Standards and Pronouncements

For a discussion of the new accounting standards impacting the Company, refer to Note 1. “Description of Business and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies” in Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data.

Contractual Obligations, Commitments and Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements

Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements

As of March 31, 2022, we have no obligations or interests which qualify as off-balance sheet arrangements.

Contractual Obligations

We are party to many contractual obligations that involve commitments to make payments to third parties in the ordinary course of business. For a description of our contractual obligations and other commercial commitments as of March 31, 2021, see our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2021, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 1, 2021. As a result of the Agena Acquisition in the third quarter of fiscal year 2022, we assumed certain contractual obligations, including an additional $9,884 of payments under existing lease agreements, and $4,373 of open purchase orders as of March 31, 2022.

On a consolidated basis, at March 31, 2022, we had contractual obligations for open purchase orders of approximately $19,025 for routine purchases of supplies and inventory, of which the substantial majority are payable in less than one year. Open purchase orders continue to increase as we take proactive steps to mitigate risks in supply by increasing our orders of certain critical raw materials.

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