Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by and welcome to the WMS Industries Fiscal 2012 Fourth Quarter Conference call. During the presentation all participants will be in a listen-only mode. Afterwards you will be invited to participate in the question-and-answer session. As a reminder, today’s conference call on August 6, 2012 is being recorded. I’d now like to turn the call over to Bill Pfund, Vice President of Investor Relations for WMS Industries. Please go ahead.

Thank you, operator. Before beginning our review, I’d like to remind everyone that our call today contains forward-looking statements concerning the outlook for WMS and future business conditions. These statements are based on currently available information and involve certain risks and uncertainties. Reported results may not be indicative of future performance and the Company’s actual results may differ materially from those anticipated in the forward-looking statements depending on the factors described under Item 1 business and Item 1A risk factors in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended June 30, 2011 and in our more recent press releases and reports filed with the SEC. The forward-looking statements made on this call and webcast, the archived version of the webcast, and in any transcripts of this call are made only as of this date, August 6, 2012. On the call today are Brian Gamache, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer; Orrin Edidin, President; and Scott Schweinfurth, CFO. Now, let me turn the call over to Brian.

Thanks, Bill, good afternoon, everyone. WMS’ fiscal fourth quarter results demonstrate ongoing operating progress, as well as success with our product plan and organizational goals we’ve set in place a year ago. Although the operating environment remained challenging throughout fiscal ‘12, in each quarter we generated improvements in our operating financial metrics. While we have more work to do, our success throughout the year was very strong indicator. We have the right strategies in place to drive gains in product sales ship share and our installed participation base. For the June 2012 quarter, WMS generated a total of $196 million, a quarterly sequential increase of $20 million or 11% from the March quarter. This increase was led by new unit shipments to the U.S. and Canada. We reached a three-year quarterly high of 4,672 new gaming machines aided by just over 3,900 replacement units, the second highest quarterly number of replacement units we have ever shipped to these customers. We believe this solid demand reflects the improved performance of our newest products. Second, our ongoing preliminary [ph] strategic sourcing and lean sigma initiatives coupled with higher gross margin on other product sales revenues contribute to the significant improvements in product sales margin more than offsetting lower ASPs on a year-over-year basis. Gross margin on product sales rose by nearly a 1,000 basis points year-over-year and on more significantly, increased 280 basis points over the March 2012 quarter to reach 55%, a new all-time high for WMS. For sometime this has been our goal and its achievement marks another milestone and we believe there is still potential for additional margin improvement long-term. Next to participation, our excellence in innovation and product advancement is clearly evident. Our newest games are driving unit growth in our install base and we have a healthy…

Thanks Brian, and good afternoon everyone. On the June ‘12 quarter we generated revenues from the sale of 6,146 new gaming machines. Notably, we achieved 1,100 unit quarterly sequential increase in replacement units to 3,900 units which was just shy of the record 3,950 units shipped in the June ‘10 quarter. Unit sales for new casino openings and expansions in the U.S. and Canada totaled approximately 775 units. Our floor share of new casinos continues to average on the high teens. Internationally, we sold 1,474 new units representing 24% of our total global unit shipments. Shipments were essentially flat on an quarterly sequential basis and they remained below the prior year, largely reflecting a decline due to market conditions in the Mexican and Australian markets, both of which had provided significant sales activity during the last two years. Average selling price rose $749 per unit on a quarterly sequential basis to $15,982 per unit, but was below the prior year reflecting fewer premium for sale units, the realities of our competitive marketplace and more large volume orders that carry higher volume discounts. Our pricing is more important to customers now than at anytime in the last decade, we believe earnings performance and player appeal remain at the forefront of our customers focus. Other product sales revenues increased on a year-over-year basis by 72% and on a quarterly sequential basis by 82%. Higher revenues from used gaming machines and conversion kits contributed to the increase. Sales of approximately 5,500 conversion kits in Q4 bring our total to 19,900 for fiscal ‘12 or about 95% of the annual new units sold which was more than double the total for fiscal ‘11 and represents about 27% of the approximately 7,500 Bluebird2 and Bluebird xD gaming machines installed globally. We believe our success with…

Thanks Scott. I’d like to focus my remarks on our interactive initiatives. WMS began to seriously target this area more than four years ago. At that time we envisioned that the convergence between land-based casino gaming and online and interactive gaming with the direction that consumers and customers would move, and took our initial steps to ensure WMS had differentiated customer focus operating plan to address the new opportunities arising from this convergence. Across the gaming industry, our customers are looking for suppliers who’ll collaborate with them on strategic – on strategies and efforts to help them benefit in this convergence of their land-based gaming with the various new interactive gaming options. Our approach was to primarily build from within which enabled us to conduct research and the players preferences while maintaining a prudent disciplined approach to deployment of shareholder capital as these opportunities emerged and evolved. Initially, we licensed intellectual property and technology that eventually became the foundation of our U.K. based real money online casino platform JackpotParty.com. And about the same time, we were in the final development stage of creating our proprietary cloud-based Player’s Life Web Services. Strategically we set out to build a best of bread comprehensive portfolio that would be capable of meeting the very meets of our customers. We believe online creates significant potential growth opportunities for our customers which in turn are expected to drive meaningful longer term growth for WMS. Significantly as our customers formulate their strategies to capture the benefits of these new distribution channels, we’ll remain flexible in order to use our full arsenal of technologies and capabilities to quickly offer the customized solutions that our customers will need to continue to engage their existing patrons, attract new players and grow the businesses. We sharpened our focus on the extensive…

Thanks, Orrin. We achieved significant progress in fiscal ‘12 and expect to build upon these improvements to drive further progress in fiscal ‘13. These improvements along with the growing contribution from our interactive products and services are expected to generate positive revenue growth. We’re also likely to result in additional R&D and S&A expenses to reaccelerate our innovation efforts, expand our interactive products and services and support the overall growth of our business. At this time, we expect economic conditions in the gaming industry sentiment to remain challenging. We believe it will take several quarters of meaningful improvements in general economic conditions before we see operator confidence build to the point where they notably increase their annual capital budgets and right now we are not expecting such a rebound. As a result, consistent with our previous commentary, we expect to see little if anything, meaningful improvement to replacement markets in fiscal ‘13 compared to fiscal ‘12. In addition, we continue to expect an overall reduction in demand for shipments to new casino openings and expansions over the next 12 months. Despite this, we expect to benefit from our broad range of growth drivers in the year ahead. We believe our revenue growth will be driven by ship share gains, as a result of great content, and product innovation including new platforms and form factors, by increased VLT unit shipments including our selection to participation in the replacement of VLTs in Alberta, Canada and the initial VLT shipments in the Illinois, increased participation revenues as we grow the install base with innovative new content and new license participation games, the launch of My New Poker video product in partnerships with Station Casinos’ in Las Vegas locals markets, an increase in the contribution from the ongoing commercialization of the Company’s network gaming…

Thank you. (Operator Instructions) One moment please for the first question. Our first question comes from the line of Harry Curtis with Nomura. Please go ahead.

Hi.

Hi Harry.

How are you?

I am well.

So talk about the competitive environment, particularly on game ops, just interested in how aggressive your competitors are being on price and to what degree you’re having to perhaps cut better deals just to keep share on the floor?

Harry, we haven’t had a lot of deals we’ve cut with our participation product. I would tell you that there is probably the better competitor product is out there, it’s been in quite sometime. The competitor pressures from our product standpoint have never been this aggressive, but again I think when you look at our quarterly sequential decline of 2%, it’s less than the 5% to 6% that, that operators are reporting thus far, and it’s half of what our biggest competitor reported. So I think our content is working, but with this global economic situation in the lack of consumer confidence as we’ve mentioned in our comments, it’s kind of hard to swim upstream here. Our content is working. Our newest content is performing very, very well but again with 70% of our install bases on variable coin-in op models and when you don’t have the kind of volume, it’s kind of hard for us to show a leverage in that yield.

Okay. And then kind of the same question on product sales, are you having to discount all that much and not necessarily just on the optics, but perhaps other ways of generating sales like through conversion kits, if you’d give us a sense of...

Sure.

What those trends look like?

Well first of all again the for-sale product business is very competitive as well. The pie has shrunk over the last couple of years and I am really proud of our guys. They are going out there and fighting for our share. We think we had somewhere in the 20% share for the quarter and given the fact that our hardware is a couple of years older than our competitors’ hardware, which we mentioned in the call. We’ll be bringing out new hardware this current year, that’s pretty good result. So I think our sales guys have really created an opportunity here where there really wasn’t one to gain share, but again I think that the pricing there – it’s fairly consistent. I think when you – Q4 we saw a $700 increase quarter-over-quarter which we expected. I don’t think you’ll see any major upticks or downticks in the pricing going forward. I think when we have our new cabinets coming out next fiscal year, there will be an opportunity for us to look at price again and hopefully the market conditions will be more improved there, but I think pricing is, it’s competitive and you have to kind of roll your sleeves up from time to time but people are still willing to pay for content. And the good news in our standpoint is we were able – on a 13% less reduction in product sales for the year, we were able to show a 400 basis point improvement in our margin. So we are being more efficient and our supply chain is working better and our continuous improvement initiatives are working better. So when the price does come back, we’ll be able to have a drop to the bottom line.

Thank you very much for the color.

Our next question comes from the line of Carlo Santarelli, Deutsche Bank. Please proceed.

Hi, good afternoon everyone. I had a question about your gaming ops space. For the second quarter it looks like your average install base at the end of the period was below your end of period balances for both of the fiscal 3Q and fiscal 4Q, could you guys kind of walk through the cadence of that within the quarter?

Well yes, the average is nearly taking the number of units that we have out each day of the quarter and computing a simple average to that and it was – pull it up here, it was 9,250 [ph] for the quarter. We’ve started the quarter with a higher number and we had units that the net of units being installed and de-installed resulted in units going backwards at the beginning of the quarter and then once we got the approvals for the products in the June timeframe...

Mid June timeframe.

Right. Then we were able to build the install base as we approached the…

But from an apples-to-apples standpoint, the June 30 number versus the end of March number that we’re comparing, that we showed an accretion.

Well that showed an accretion when we follow the same, but your average install base was lower than where you started.

I was looking at some numbers today Carlo, and I was interested to find out that we’re now less than a 100 units from our high watermark on the Wide-Area Progressive business and we’re about 400 units away from our high watermark on the Total Participation business. So we have gained some ground. We would expect that with the products we have rolling out and have rolled out that we would make up some ground here in fiscal ‘13 and get back to an accretive number from an all-time high mark going forward.

We’re more than 400 units from the – the high was 10,400.

Okay. Pardon me [ph].

Yes.

Great. So as we look ahead in fiscal ‘13 will there be as much as variability in that number or within the intra-quarter swings because as you can tell a lot of times that the models will drive up that average number and it seems like end of period to end of period, there seems to be a wide swing between that and the average. Does that start to normalize next year just given the commentary about some of the approvals that you had out in June?

It’s really – it’s a competitive environment Carlo, and a lot of that will depend on the consistency of our products. The products we’re launching right now would give me great hope that we won’t have the kind of churn that we have seen, but we have a lot, as I said earlier in Harry’s question, we have a lot of great competitive products out there that’s – you have to earn your stripes out there every single day. And we have a lot of different competitors putting very good products out there that’s causing us to earn our footprint every single day. So one would hope that, the product we are launching that it wouldn’t be as much of a churn but time will tell.

It makes sense. And then if I could just have one follow-up on the product sales and I know Brian, you touched on it earlier. When you guys look at your apples-to-apples just – sorry, your new units sales, in terms of the margin on your units, obviously not including your used games and your conversion kits and things like that, are your margins on that pretty much stable year-over-year or are you seeing some nice growth in that segment as well?

Actually it’s growing quite nicely. If you look at our Bluebird2, we are north of 60%. If you just look at our pure Bluebird2 today and that we’ve made significant progress over the last 12 months on that. So our goal as we take out Bluebird3 and beyond is to be not margin neutral and we’ve hired a whole team of people under Mike Rutz and Fred Gabbard to make sure that these new products come to market at par. And so we’ve spend a lot of time and effort making sure that we don’t step backwards, we’re bringing new products to market because it’s just – it’s too painful in the margin area.

Okay, great. Thanks Brian.

Our next question comes from the line of Shaun Kelley with Bank of America. Please proceed.

Hi good afternoon guys. I just wanted to ask about the guidance looking ahead for next year. So if I am reading this right given some of the higher expenses, can we basically kind of triangulate into something like flattish earnings per share kind of assuming that you guys are able to hit the revenue targets that you’ve kind of laid out here?

We didn’t give that guidance, but if you are interpreting the – literally it’s probably pretty close.

Fair enough. So then I guess kind of thinking through that, I mean how much contingency plan do you guys think you have if some of your revenue targets come in little late, obviously it means a very competitive and promotional environment out there and you guys have a target to really pickup in the second half but if those numbers aren’t coming in as you anticipated, are you able to adjust down some of the operating expenses to kind of get some cushion there?

Absolutely. The majority of the expenses we’re going to be adding are headcount and they’re particularly in the interactive area. So there is no question. If the revenues somehow – every budget we give to our Board of Directors comes with an contingency plan. And we’d always plan for rainy day and we’ve executed on these plans. Unfortunately it’s been a core competency of ours for the last several years but that being said, I believe this budget is a realistic budget given the visibility we have today, but it also has some upside in it. I think there is no home runs here, lot of singles and doubles and at the end of the day we want to see some more positive trends before we start declaring victory.

Okay, that’s helpful. And then I guess last one for me which is beyond ASPs and general kind of or as we think about the outlook. I mean is it reasonable to think that ASPs can stabilize for you guys next year and actually gain or with VLT mix as you guys started kind of mixing in Illinois and Canada. Is it fair to assume that those actually probably need to be down just given the negative mix shift?

I think that to be conservative I’d say that the VLTs business as you know these are huge orders that come every 10 or so years, so wonderful business for us to have and we’re delighted to be able to serve those markets but it does come at a lower ASP. I don’t think our new product offerings are going to offset those ASPs. So I think ASP – the upside is limited for fiscal ‘13 on ASP, but I do believe that the second half of the year, we launched our new products and cabinets and form factors, we’ll have an ability to see an uptick in our pricing but I am not sure given the first half if we’ll offset it enough.

Okay, got it. That’s it for me. Thank you very much.

Our next question comes from the line of Joel Simkins with Credit Suisse. Please go ahead.

Yes, hi good afternoon guys. Brian, I guess just going back to the commentary on gaming operations, can you just give us a sense where you think the floor is on game op yields, just given some of the pricing dynamics we’re seeing with some of your competitors?

Well again I think it really is contingent on the economy, Joel.

Yes.

I mean I am looking at numbers every single day and it’s not one market, all the markets are affected. We get daily coin-in numbers across North America and all markets are off. I think it’s more of a macro issue for the industry as opposed to a WMS issue. And I think the fact that we’re only off 2% when the operators reporting 5% to 6% declines is a good thing for us, but it’s not something we’re happy with.

Sure.

I do think that the more of these products that we bring out on CPU-NXT3 and the more of these new form factors we bring to the market, and you’ll see them in a few weeks at G2E, I believe we have a chance to ramp up the yield dramatically in fiscal ‘13 but again we do have to have a little bit of help from the economy, we can’t do this alone on the back of our content.

Sure.

Our greatest content is performing. Unfortunately it’s not performing at a level it’s going to offset the economic weaknesses.

And may be for you Scott, in terms of the higher SG&A spend for fiscal ‘13, how much would be attributed to Williams Interactive and perhaps some of the acquisitions you made recently and then also if you could comment on the vendor financings as you touched on in your comments. Where is this vendor financing going, is this mainly native American regional gaming or is this touching down to more international markets?

Sure. On the higher SG&A expense, yes I would say that for both R&D and for SG&A the interactive products and services are the larger portion of the dollars that are increasing, and yes, some of it does relate to the M&A deals that we’ll now be consolidating this year, but also some of it there’s been acceleration on our part of spending for our interactive opportunities. And then relative to the vendor financing, it’s been something that has continued on really since we’ve started expanding the financing in ‘09 when – and actually recall at that time, it was mostly being done for the larger U.S. operators and then about after a year, it became more based upon couple of new markets that we went into. Mexico and Australia where the terms, people were doing two and three year deals so if we’re going play in that market, we had to offer that sort of thing. Now we’ve seen a bit more of the other international markets that want the financing along, along with some more of the U.S. larger operators asking for it. So we’ve done a pretty decent job I think in being cautious about what we’re doing, trying to protect WMS’ best interest and we’re using our financial flexibility of our balance sheet to create revenue opportunities. I think I’ve said in my comments that our bad debt expense has been at 1% or less over, I think the entire time – about last 12 years. And at June 30, we had something north of 90% of all of our receivable balances that were in the current categories. So not too many deterioration in that respect. So we’re going to continue to be prudent in what we do and at the same time use the balance sheet as we’ve been doing.

In addition, I think we’ve collected about $8.5 million of interest on those receivables as well.

Got it. And one final question if I may, in terms of the Station agreement you announced in the quarter, I thought that was pretty significant, could you give us a sense of how big of a sale this is, I mean is this hundreds of units, several 100 units, 1,000 units and does this have a recurring revenue opportunities associated with it?

Joel, it’s a couple of hundred units at the start. They obviously want to see how the product does on the floor and we’re not going to talk about pricing for an individual customer.

Okay, thank you.

Our next question comes from the line of Mark Strawn with Morgan Stanley. Please proceed.

Hi just had one question on the game ops side, it looks like – you mentioned that CapEx is going to tick back down to maybe the $65 million or so range, but this year you saw the increase out to maybe $85 million or so which is an all-time high which is driving returns down. Do you consider those investments more defensive or we’re going to see more offensive investments here because it doesn’t seem like that increased CapEx has started to contribute to incremental yield or really significant increases in placements yet?

It’s a great question, Mark. We have at least spend a lot of time around here talking about that very subject, but it comes back to if we didn’t invest that $80 million plus, that business would be in jeopardy. We have to protect and preserve that shelve space and you have to continually invest in that business in good times than in bad. So I would look at that as insurance policy about holding that space. It’s upwards of $300 million business that we run and you have to keep that business continually priming the pump. And when you have the kind of challenges that we’ve had over the last couple of years with content sticking, these are the kind of issues that happen. Unfortunately or fortunately for us, when you have the kind of Wizard of Oz experience it kind of skews results as far as an investment of capital because that game has been out there now for over five years with very few touches. So we’re going to continue to monitor. We believe it’s the best investment we can make given the fact that it’s 80% plus margin business and we’ve still believe in the business.

Okay, thank you.

Our next question comes from the line of Cameron Mcknight with Wells Fargo. Please proceed.

Great, thanks. Scott a question for you, on the CapEx guidance, can you give us some color in terms of the breakdown between the year-on-year change in game ops CapEx versus PP&E, is the 20% year-on-year decrease primarily represent the new building rolling off?

Well, yes the 20% decrease will have a bigger impact on PP&Es than game ops. On the game ops side, we have been investing at an accelerate rate for the last two years to change out the installed base, upgraded from the Bluebird cabinets to Bluebird2 and Bluebird xD. And while we’re at about two-thirds at this point, it’s not like we’re looking to replace the other third in the next fiscal year, that other third will be replaced over the next couple of years. So the spending on the participation business is likely to go backwards but we are expecting that the rollout of VLTs in Illinois that a portion of that will be on an operating lease basis and so that will be our capital and so we’ll be investing capital dollars there. And yes, on the PP&E side, we have both the new facility in Chicago and our Oracle ERP implementation – reimplementation, will be going live in early in fiscal ‘13 and so the capital spending that we’ve been doing there will lag as a result.

Okay, great, thanks. And then a follow-up, I mean sale of conversion kits are staying relatively strong for the past few quarters, do you think the fact that your platform has been out there for a while and we’re waiting for the next platform has seen some mix shift from box sales [ph] to the conversion kit sales?

When you look at the quarter Cameron, we got 2,100 units conversion kits sold a year ago and 5,500 this year. And for the year, fiscal ‘11 we had 8,200 versus 19,900. To me that says that people like our content again. I think fiscal ‘11 people will having a wait to see attitude. So I think if bodes well into keeping our content fresh, it certainly helps the performance of our games similarly sign up to buy new games, we’re going to be at the front aligned but our biggest opportunity is our 67,000 Bluebird1s will remain in the field. We don’t service those games anymore, they’ve been out there now for a number of years and we have a huge opportunity in creating those in to new sales opportunities hopefully in the next several quarters. So we continue to believe that those Bluebird1s are going to have to come back at some point and that’s huge opportunity for us but the conversion kits is very exciting to us. That along with our ASP are both two indices that we look at very carefully to make sure that our business is trending properly and I am happy to report that it is.

Great, thanks very much.

(Operator Instructions) Our next question comes from the line of Joe Greff with JPMorgan. Please proceed.

Hi Joe.

Good evening guys. Within your fiscal ‘13 guidance, do you have anything for Ohio VLTs?

No.

No, we don’t Joe.

Okay. And then Brian going back to what we saw in the quarter with the conversion revenues and the used game sales, how broad was that, is that across a broad spectrum of geography and customer base or is it – was it a handful of operators?

All across the board.

Okay.

All across all the jurisdictions.

And then when we look at that other product sales revenues Scott, what is roughly the margin differential between that and the product sales revenue, that obviously aided the quarter, but if you can help us understand that a little bit?

Well it’s really a mix Joe, because as you can imagine the conversion business is very high margin to it, because cost of a chip is very low. But the used game business has a relatively low margin to it especially if the used units are going out on an as used basis rather than a refurbished basis. So this quarter, we ended up having an actual higher margin on used gaming machine sales which helped the overall margin and we had 5,500 conversion kits which – that too helped the margin.

Okay, great. And then one final question if I may, Brian, Scott, Orrin, just based on conversations you’ve had with your customers, do you look at the second half of this calendar year for replacements in North America as being in line with what you experienced in the first half or do you see it for macro reasons slowing down, that’s all for me? Thanks.

The first half of our fiscal year which is the September, December quarter are typically are our two slowest quarters of the year primarily because of the budget – the capital allocation happens in January and the June quarter. And you have G2E in the middle of that, so I don’t think we’re expecting any different trends in the first half of our fiscal year than we have in the past. The guidance today as we talked about, Q1 is our slowest quarter both from a product sales and participation and it ramps up sequentially through the rest of the year.

Thank you.

Any other questions, operator?

We have no further questions. Mr. Gamache, I would turn it back to you.

Thank you for joining us today. We look forward to seeing many of you in early October at G2E in Las Vegas, where we’ll be demonstrating our line up of new and exciting products that will continue to power our growth during fiscal ‘13 and beyond. Have a great afternoon.

Ladies and gentlemen that does conclude the conference call for today. We do thank you for your participation and ask that you please disconnect your lines.