FONAR Corporation (NASDAQ:FONR), Melville, N.Y., The Inventor of MR
Scanning, has announced its financial results for the fourth quarter and
full year of Fiscal 2007, which ended June 30, 2007. The net loss for
Fiscal 2007 was $25.5 million or $5.29 per share, (basic and diluted),
as compared to a net loss for Fiscal Year 2006 of $30.0 million, or
$6.78 loss per share (basic and diluted), a decrease in losses of
approximately 14.8%.
Revenues showed a small improvement at $33.2 million for Fiscal
2007 as compared to $33.1 million for Fiscal 2006. Service and repair
revenues showed the largest change which improved by 16.9% to $10.0
million in Fiscal 2007 from $8.6 million in Fiscal 2006. These increases
are due to the result and initiation of service contract agreements from
recent installations of FONAR UPRIGHT "Multi-Position" MRI
units.
During Fiscal Year 2007 the company had continued cost saving
measures in both R&D and Selling, General and Administrative
expenses (SG&A) that accomplished an 8.4% overall reduction in those
areas. R&D decreased from $6.9 million in Fiscal 2006 to $5.7
million in Fiscal 2007, while SG&A declined from $25.9 million in
Fiscal 2006 to $24.3 million in Fiscal 2007.
At June 30, 2007, total assets were $41.2 million, total current
assets were $23.0 million, total cash and marketable securities were
$3.4 million, total current liabilities were $30.6 million, and total
long-term liabilities were $1.2 million.
On April 17, 2007, FONAR announced that following its Annual
Meeting of Stockholders held one day earlier, it had effected a reverse
stock split at a ratio of 1:25 (one new share for every 25 shares) of
its outstanding common stock and all other classes of its outstanding
stock, to be effective that day. At a hearing held before the NASDAQ
Listing Qualifications Panel ("Panel") on February 15, 2007,
FONAR's request for continued listing on The NASDAQ Stock Market
was granted, subject to the condition that on or before May 1, 2007, the
company must have evidenced a closing bid price of $1.00 or more for a
minimum of ten consecutive trading days. The Panel's decision was
based on its determination that the reverse stock split to be presented
at the Annual Meeting on April 16, 2007, when implemented, would be
likely to cure the bid price deficiency and allow the company to
maintain compliance for the longer term.
Subsequently, the NASDAQ Listing Qualifications Panel found the
company to be in full compliance with its listing requirements,
including its share price, and the post-split price performance of FONAR
shares. Since the introduction of the FONAR UPRIGHT MRI in 2001 until
June 30, 2007, the company has sold 150 UPRIGHT Multi-Position MRIs and
installed 121.
As announced on July 24, FONAR's multiple unit customers
continued to flourish. One customer, True MRI, purchased its 13th and
14th FONAR UPRIGHT Multi-Position MRI.
In November 2006, FONAR was awarded the 2006 North American Medical
Imaging Industry Innovation and Advancement of the Year Award by Frost
and Sullivan. It was given in recognition of the company's
longstanding role as a pioneering innovator of MR technology.
The April 23, 2007 issue of the Journal of Magnetic Resonance
Imaging featured an article entitled "Upright MRI of glenohumeral
dysplasia following obstetric brachial plexus injury." In
laymen's terms, the study evaluated the effectiveness of upright
MRI imaging for the diagnosis of a particular deformity in a
child's shoulder (glenohumeral dysplasia), which occurs as the
result of an injury known as Obstetric Brachial Plexus Injury (OBPI),
also known as Erb's palsy. The authors, including lead
author-researcher in the study Rahul K. Nath, M.D., Director of the
Texas Nerve & Paralysis Institute and the Nath Brachial Plexus
Institute at the Texas Medical Center in Houston, Texas, concluded that
Upright MRI could, thus, serve as the standard procedure of care in the
pediatric obstetric brachial plexus population for glenohumeral
imaging." The study, which included 89 children, ages 0.4 to 17.9
years, with OBPI, was conducted on a FONAR UPRIGHT Multi-Position MRI
operating at Natural MRI in Houston. In May 2007, at the Annual Meeting
of the American College of Spine Surgeons (ACSS), held in Nashville,
attendees heard Professor F.W. Smith, M.D. report that the FONAR UPRIGHT
MRI successfully diagnosed 54% of the back pain on patients that could
NOT be diagnosed by recumbent MRI. On June 11, FONAR president and
founder, Raymond Damadian, was presented with the 2007 National Inventor
of the Year Award by the Intellectual Property Owners Education
Foundation, for the invention of the FONAR UPRIGHT Multi-Position MRI.
On July 10, FONAR reported that the company had sold seven UPRIGHT
Multi-Position MRIs during the previous two weeks. Shortly thereafter, a
sale closed that was inspired after the physician read a two-page
advertisement for the Upright MRI in the Journal of the American Medical
Association (JAMA). It was the first sale to a broad-based medical
practice, and the fastest sale in FONAR history, taking only two days
from the physician's call to FONAR to closure of the sale.
The FONAR UPRIGHT Multi-Position MRI has been named one of two
runners-up in the Medical-Devices category for The Wall Street Journal
Technology Innovation Award for 2007. According to The Wall Street
Journal, over 800 entries were received in the contest and the
competition was extremely intense with only about 4% receiving an award.
Commenting on the Fiscal Year 2007 results, Raymond Damadian, M.D.,
president and chairman of FONAR, said, "It was an interesting year
for our company as we continued to educate the marketplace about the
benefits of UPRIGHT imaging and the FONAR UPRIGHT Multi-Position MRI. It
is also the year that the Federal Deficit Reduction Act (DRA) has become
effective. As is sometimes the case, it is uncertainty that dictates our
potential customers' decisions and not the reality, as the FONAR
UPRIGHT MRI users have replaced diminished reimbursements with added
scan revenues, that in many cases have more than compensated. This
happened because of the uniqueness of the FONAR UPRIGHT MRI and its
ability to make more accurate and comprehensive diagnoses of when
gravity affects their condition."
Dr. Damadian continued, "In addition, we are receiving UPRIGHT
Multi-Position MRI orders in the first quarter of Fiscal 2008 at one of
the highest levels we have experienced since the product was
introduced."
For more information, visit http://www.fonar.com or call
631/694-2929.
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