UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, DC 20549
CURRENT REPORT
Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): March 10, 2006
WIRELESS FACILITIES, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
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(858) 228-2000
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(Former name or former address, if changed since last report.)
Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2. below):
o Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)
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Item 2.01 Completion of Acquisition or Disposition of Asset
As previously reported in a Current Report on Form 8-K filed by Wireless Facilities, Inc. (the Company) on February 23, 2006, the Company entered into an Equity Purchase Agreement (the Purchase Agreement) on February 17, 2006 to sell all of the stock of its wholly owned subsidiaries (i) WFI de México, S. de R.L. de C.V., (ii) WFI de México, Servicios de Administración, S. de R.L. de C.V., (iii) WFI de México, Servicios de Ingeniería, S. de R.L. de C.V., (iv) WFI Services de Mexico S.A. de C.V., (v) WFI Asesoria en Administración, S.C.; and (vi) WFI Asesoria en Telecomunicaciones, S.C. (the Mexico Operations) to Sakoki LLC (Sakoki). On March 10, 2006, the Company closed the sale of the Mexico Operations to Sakoki. Pursuant to the Purchase Agreement, the Company received proceeds of $18 million, subject to adjustment, payable as follows:
$1.5 million in cash on signing of the Purchase Agreement; and
$16.5 million by means of a secured promissory note payable in installments through December 31, 2006, subject to adjustments. The note is secured by pledges of assets and a personal guaranty.
Item 2.02 Results of Operations and Financial Condition.
On March 14, 2006 the Company issued a press release regarding the Companys financial results for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2005. The full text of the Companys press release is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1.
Item 4.02 Non-Reliance on Previously Issued Financial Statements or a Related Audit Report or Completed Interim Review.
On March 10, 2006, the Company determined that its unaudited interim financial statements for the quarters ended July 1, 2005 and September 30, 2005 required revision to reflect the accounting impact of the cancellation of certain sites by its customer in Mexico during those periods. The reason for the revisions was the Companys determination that a customer in Mexico had cancelled sites in June, July and August of 2005 that the Companys subsidiary in Mexico was building. Although the Company had an agreement with its customer to build these sites, the terms and conditions of the agreement did not provide for recovery by the Company of costs incurred on in-process sites in the event of site cancellation, unless agreed to by the customer.
Senior management as well as the Audit Committee first became aware of communications regarding these site cancellations after the replacement of certain managers in these operations in the fourth quarter of 2005. The replacement of these managers was prompted by certain control deficiencies and required improvements to the entity level control environment that the Company had identified in certain of its Latin American operations in the third quarter of 2005. None of these managers had a significant role in the Companys internal control over financial reporting. As the Company disclosed in Item 4 of its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended September 30, 2005, these control deficiencies included required improvements in the following areas; (i) contracts: a thorough review of all existing contractual documents was required to ensure that the Company has the proper formal contractual documentation necessary to support the project estimate at completion computation, and (ii) project costs: additional procedures were required to ensure that certain expenditures have been properly classified as project direct costs.
Shortly after the Company made the change in managers of these operations, information related to the site cancellations was brought for the first time to the attention of the Companys executive management team who then commenced an investigation and analysis of such information under the oversight of the Audit Committee. During the in-depth review of this matter by the Companys executive management team, it was discovered that the information concerning these sites, as reported by the former managers of these operations, was inconsistent with facts revealed in documents discovered by executive management conducting the investigation. Also during the review, it became apparent that certain former managers had, in prior periods, reported the status of the cancelled sites to executive management in a manner which was inconsistent with the documents in possession of the former managers. At the conclusion of this investigation and analysis, and after consulting with Grant Thornton LLP, the Companys independent auditors, the Company determined that the unrecoverable costs associated with the cancelled sites should have been recognized in the second and third fiscal quarters of 2005. As a result, the Company is concurrently filing amendments to its previously filed Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters
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ended July 1, 2005 and September 30, 2005 to effect revisions reflecting the appropriate recognition of the unrecoverable costs in those periods. The previously issued unaudited interim financial statements for those periods should no longer be relied upon.
Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.
(d) Exhibits.
2.1 Equity Purchase Agreement, dated February 17, 2006, by and between Sakoki LLC and Wireless Facilities, Inc. (This exhibit is hereby incorporated by reference to Exhibit 2.1 filed with the Companys Current Report on Form 8-K filed on February 23, 2006.)
99.1 Press Release of Wireless Facilities, Inc. issued on March 14, 2006.
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
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WIRELESS FACILITIES, INC. |
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Date: March 14, 2006 |
/s/ James R. Edwards |
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James R. Edwards |
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Senior Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary |
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EXHIBIT INDEX
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Exhibit 2.1 |
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Equity Purchase Agreement, dated February 23, 2006, by and between Sakoki LLC and Wireless Facilities, Inc. (This exhibit is hereby incorporated by reference to Exhibit 2.1 filed with the Companys Current Report on Form 8-K filed on February 23, 2006.) |
Exhibit 99.1 |
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Press Release of Wireless Facilities, Inc. issued on March 14, 2006. |
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Exhibit 99.1
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WFI REPORTS FOURTH QUARTER AND FULL YEAR 2005 RESULTS
Company Posts Fourth Quarter Revenues of $94.8 Million
Year Over Year Revenue Increase Of 12.3% to $375.3 Million
FY05 Net Income of $8.9 Million up from FY04 Net Income of $5.0 Million
SAN DIEGO, CA, MARCH 14, 2006 WFI (NASDAQ: WFII) today reported results for the fourth quarter and full year of fiscal 2005. Revenues for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2005 were $94.8 million compared to $88.4 million for the fourth quarter of last year. Income from continuing operations in accordance with GAAP was $1.6 million or $0.02 per share (diluted). Income from continuing operations includes a $0.4 million contingent earnout charge. Excluding this charge and the related tax effect, income from continuing operations was approximately $1.9 million or $0.03 per share (diluted), compared to $15.7 million, or $0.21 per share (diluted) in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2004, which included a benefit from income taxes of approximately $0.14 per share. Net loss for the quarter was $3.4 million or $0.05 per share (diluted), which included a loss from discontinued operations of $5.0 million or $0.07 per share (diluted), compared to net income of $12.3 million or $0.16 per share (diluted) in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2004, which included a benefit from income taxes of $10.7 million or $0.14 per share (diluted). All revenues and income from continuing operations for the current period and the comparative prior period have been reclassified to remove the operating results from the discontinued Latin American operations.
WFI also announced today that its previously reported second and third quarter results required revision to reflect the accounting impact of the cancellation of sites by one of its customers in Mexico in those periods. Senior management as well as the Audit Committee recently became
aware of communications regarding these cancellations after the replacement of certain managers in these operations in the fourth quarter of 2005. Although the Company had an agreement with its customer to build these sites, the terms and conditions of the agreements did not provide for recovery by the Company of costs incurred on in-process sites in the event of site cancellation, unless agreed to by the customer. The financial impact of these adjustments, which will be reflected in the Companys amendments to its Reports on Form 10-Q for the second and third quarters of 2005 which will be filed concurrently with the Companys 10-K, aggregate to a reduction of $4.8 million in revenues and $1.3 million in net income for the combined prior two quarters. The full year impact of these revisions will all be reflected in discontinued operations in the Companys 10-K for 2005 as this business has been discontinued.
Revenues in the fourth quarter of 2005 of $94.8 million represent a 7.2% increase over fourth quarter revenues of $88.4 million in 2004. The year over year revenue increase was driven primarily by engineering, deployment and optimization services performed for WFIs largest customers, including Cingular and Sprint-Nextel, and by continued growth in the federal government business as a result of increased demand for engineering services from the certain Federal Government agencies. Total revenues from continuing operations for fiscal year 2005 were $375.3 million, a 12.3% increase over revenues of $334.2 million in 2004. For the full year, GAAP net income increased from $5.0 million in fiscal 2004, or $0.07 per share (diluted) to $8.9 million in fiscal 2005, or $0.12 per share (diluted).
Over the past two years, we have been focused on transitioning WFI from primarily a carrier-based RF engineering and services company, to a company serving both the commercial and Federal Government wireless, networking and information technology markets. During this transition, we have increased our revenues 64% from $228.5 million in FY03 to $375.3 million in FY05, and have successfully diversified our business where we now have 23% of our business being generated by our Federal Government customers that typically provide large contract backlogs and greater overall predictability. In addition, our enterprise business comprises 18% of our total revenues.
In the fourth quarter and full year 2005, we continued to successfully build our business with our domestic carrier customers, while also making progress in our Federal Government business by winning new contracts with the major wireless carriers, the U.S. Navy and other
government agencies. In 2005, we continued to generate positive cash flow from operations. The recently announced sale of our Mexico business will add to WFIs available cash going forward to fund growth in our domestic commercial business, and allow us to maintain our focus on lower-risk, larger backlog areas of business, such as the Federal Government sector. With the sale of our Mexico operations, we believe we have significantly reduced risk and unpredictability to WFI inherent with doing major network deployment business in that geographic region, said Eric DeMarco, President and CEO of WFI.
Today, WFI is over 90% domestically focused in two principal large and growing markets: commercial wireless networks and system integration, and federal, state and local government networks and information technology.
As we look farther out into 2006, we anticipate our federal government information technology business to be just under 25% of WFIs overall business, before any acquisitions, and with long-term contracts and higher barriers to entry which are inherent in this industry, this will afford WFI a stronger, more predictable long-term growth path.
In the fourth quarter, contract highlights include:
A contract as subcontractor to SAIC for Navy Automatic Identification Technology (AIT) valued at $104.5 million in total.
Multiple contracts to provide network design and systems integration services for various municipalities interested in launching Wi-Fi services. These include the City of Madison, City of Temecula, and the City of Tucson.
A contract with a wireless carrier to provide value-added diagnostics services with Routewatch, a long distance calling analysis service targeted to carriers for improved cost reduction and operational efficiency.
We believe that the market dynamics in the commercial wireless and federal government communications and information technology industries continue to favor WFI. Our carrier customers continue to add new subscribers, municipalities are looking towards wireless broadband connectivity for general communications and security applications, and we believe
that the use of data in the wireless environment will continue to accelerate, including the expansion to 3G services
WFI will hold a conference call to discuss fourth quarter and fiscal 2005 results today at 1:30 p.m. Pacific Time. The call will be webcast over the Internet and can be accessed through WFIs website at www.wfinet.com. A replay of the call be will be available from 3:30 p.m. Pacific Time on March 14th through 8:00 p.m. Pacific Time on March 28th by dialing (888) 203-1112 Code # 9948507.
About WFI
Headquartered in San Diego, CA, WFI is an independent provider of systems engineering, network services and technical outsourcing for the worlds largest wireless carriers, enterprise customers and for government agencies. The company provides the design, deployment, integration, and the overall management of wired and wireless networks which deliver voice and data communication, and which support advanced security systems. WFI has performed work in over 100 countries since its founding in 1994. News and information are available at www.wfinet.com. (code: WFI-mb)
Notice Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This news release contains certain forward-looking statements including, without limitation, expressed or implied statements concerning the Companys expectations that the sale of our Mexico operations will significantly reduce the risk and unpredictability inherent with doing business in that region, that our federal government information technology business will be just under 25 percent of our overall business, that we will have a stronger, more predictable long-term growth plan, and future financial performance and cash flows and market developments that involve risks and uncertainties. Such statements are only predictions, and the Companys actual results may differ materially. Factors that may cause the Companys results to differ include, but are not limited to: changes in the scope or timing of the Companys projects; slowdowns in telecommunications infrastructure spending in the United States and globally, which could delay network deployment and reduce demand for the Companys services; the timing, rescheduling or cancellation of significant customer contracts and agreements, or consolidation by or the loss of key customers; failure to successfully consummate acquisitions or integrate acquired operations; the rate of adoption of telecom outsourcing by network carriers and equipment suppliers; the rate of growth of adoption of WLAN and wireless security systems by enterprises; and competition in the marketplace which could reduce revenues and profit margins. The Company undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements. These and other risk factors are more fully discussed in the Companys Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended September 30, 2005 and in other filings made with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Note Regarding Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures
Certain of the information set forth herein, including non-GAAP net income and earnings per share, may
be considered non-GAAP financial measures. WFI believes this information is useful to investors because it provides a basis for measuring WFIs available capital resources, the operating performance of WFIs business and WFIs cash flow, excluding contingent acquisition consideration that would normally be included in the most directly comparable measures calculated and presented in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. WFIs management uses these non-GAAP financial measures along with the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures in evaluating WFIs operating performance, capital resources and cash flow. Non-GAAP financial measures should not be considered in isolation from, or as a substitute for, financial information presented in compliance with GAAP, and non-financial measures as reported by WFI may not be comparable to similarly titled amounts reported by other companies.
Wireless Facilities, Inc.
Consolidated Statements of Operations
(in millions, except per share data)
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2005 |
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2004 |
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Revenues |
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$ |
94.8 |
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88.4 |
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375.3 |
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334.2 |
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Cost of revenues |
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73.3 |
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66.3 |
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291.0 |
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263.0 |
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Contract adjustments |
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Total cost of revenues |
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73.3 |
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66.3 |
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291.0 |
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263.0 |
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Gross profit |
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21.5 |
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22.1 |
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84.3 |
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71.2 |
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Selling, general and administrative expenses |
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18.5 |
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17.2 |
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69.4 |
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59.2 |
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Contingent acquisition consideration and restatement fees |
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0.4 |
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13.9 |
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Operating income (loss) |
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2.6 |
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4.9 |
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17.0 |
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0.1 |
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2.6 |
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5.0 |
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16.7 |
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5.0 |
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0.1 |
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Income (loss) from continuing operations |
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1.6 |
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15.7 |
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11.7 |
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9.4 |
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Net income (loss) |
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12.3 |
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8.9 |
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5.0 |
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$ |
0.02 |
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0.23 |
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0.16 |
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Income (loss) from discontinued operations, net of taxes |
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(0.07 |
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0.14 |
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Net income (loss) |
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$ |
0.18 |
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0.12 |
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0.07 |
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$ |
0.02 |
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0.21 |
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0.16 |
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(0.07 |
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0.14 |
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0.16 |
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0.12 |
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0.07 |
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Basic |
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71.8 |
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69.7 |
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71.5 |
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67.7 |
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Diluted |
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75.3 |
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75.8 |
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75.3 |
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67.7 |
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