J. Michael Pearson
Analyst · the trends in Medicis' sales. So are you going to be putting any programs in place to stem that, either -- or do you have to do anything over and above what is already in place
Thank you, Laurie. Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us. As you have read in our press release, we finished out 2012 with a strong fourth quarter resulting in another great year for Valeant and its shareholders. We are particularly pleased to deliver over $420 million in adjusted cash flow on the fourth quarter, which is a key metric for all of us. On today's call, I will review our fourth quarter and overall 2012 results and performance, provide a short update on our early progress in 2013 and then turn over the call to Howard to provide a financial update. After our remarks, Howard, Ryan, Laizer and I will be available for Q&A. Total revenue in the quarter was $986 million as compared to $688 million in the fourth quarter of 2011, an increase of 43%. Product sales in the fourth quarter of 2012 were $947 million as compared to $654 million in the same period in the prior year, an increase of 45%. Our fourth quarter cash EPS was $1.22 per share or an increase of 30% over 2011. There were no one-time items in this quarter. Adjusted cash flow from operations was $423 million for the quarter, an increase of over 67% over the prior year. On an annual basis, we increased total revenue by 44% and product sales by 47%. Cash EPS was $4.51, an increase of 54%, which included the interest expense related to the Medicis transaction. Excluding this expense, cash EPS for 2012 was $4.53, an increase of 58% over 2011. Adjusted cash flow for the full year increased 40% to nearly $1.3 billion. Organic growth continued be strong for both the quarter and the year. We're particularly pleased to report a return to positive growth for our Neuro and Other business after 6 quarters of decline. As we mentioned earlier this year, we expect U.S. Neuro and Other business to continue to grow throughout to 2013. We also note the continued very strong growth in the emerging markets despite significant economic headwinds this year. Finally, I would like to note that our Canadian and Australian segment grew 5% same-store, 6% pro forma, excluding the impact of the Cesamet generic entry in the first quarter of 2012. We expect this segment to return to growth in the second quarter of 2013. Slide 5 summarizes our adjusted cash flow by quarter in 2012. We are pleased to report we delivered at the very high-end of our revised guidance given last quarter of $1.1 billion to $1.3 billion. At the end of each year, we always like to compare our final results versus our original January guidance. Consistent with our track record over the last 5 years, we have over-delivered on every key metric: revenue growth, cash EPS and adjusted cash flow from operations. We were also pleased to once again deliver a very strong organic growth for the year. On my final slide, on 2012 performance, I would like to recognize and thank some of our executives and their teams for a particularly strong performance in 2012. To Leszek and Pavel for their truly outstanding performance where in 2012, we were the fastest-growing pharmaceutical company in Poland, including branded generics, pure generics, branded companies and biologic companies. To Andrew and Chris and their teams in Southeast Asia and South Africa; both businesses delivered 20% growth and operating margins above 40%. To Ryan for turning around U.S. Neuro and Other to positive growth. To our other U.S. general managers of our prescription dermatology, aesthetics, oral care, ophthalmology and OraPharma, who each delivered double-digit organic growth for the year. And finally, to Dr. Rovalo and his team in Mexico, who once again delivered double-digit organic growth on a pro forma basis. While we are only 2 months into 2013, we are off to a strong start. In terms of business development, we have already closed 3 deals, all-around two-time sales. Natur Produkt and Eisai, we issued press releases on. In addition, we've purchased 3 OTC products from Lek-am in Poland representing over $20 million of sales. In terms of the Medicis integration, essentially, all of the headcount related synergies are now completed. The new Medicis field force is fully trained on both companies' product lines, and all of them are back in the field. We are aggressively pursuing the non-personnel synergies, such as legal costs and the termination and sale of R&D programs, and are also making good progress there. When we recently updated our deal model in preparation for this call, we are pleased to report that there is significantly more value for our shareholders in this transaction than we originally modeled. Furthermore, despite our disciplined spend in R&D, we expect to have a banner year in terms of progressing our R&D pipeline. Efinaconazole remains on track for our May 23 PDUFA date; our NDA for Luliconazole has been accepted by the FDA, and we have a December 11 PDUFA date for that compound; DYSPORT is currently launching in Canada; we expect to file 2 new Emervel fillers in the U.S. in 2013; and we are also on track to file our MetroGel BV indication in the first half of this year. Finally, we've provided you with guidance in January and reaffirmed that guidance earlier this month when we initiated our debt repricing. We will update our financial guidance for 2013 at our next earnings call in early May. I would also like to remind everyone that we will be making changes to our segment reporting in the first quarter of 2013. We will still be providing the same model of revenue and organic growth detail, but we will be reporting only 2 segments from an SEC reporting perspective: developed markets and emerging markets. Each segment will be comprised of similar margin profile business units, and we believe this reporting structure continues to represent our business appropriately. Now I will turn the call over to Howard.