Simulations Plus, Inc. · NASDAQ:SLP

Simulations Plus — Q4 FY2009 Earnings Presentation

20 slides from Simulations Plus's earnings presentation, Dec 3, 2009

  1. Slide 1: Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2009 Conference Call

    Exhibit 99.1 Simulations Plus, Inc. NASDAQ: SLP Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2009 Conference Call November 30, 2009

  2. Slide 2: Introduction and Welcome

    Introduction and Welcome • Introduction and Welcome • Agenda – Fourth Quarter FY 2009 (4QFY09) Financial Summary – Fiscal year 2009 Financial Summary – Progress in Business Units – Strategy Going Forward – Questions and Answers

  3. Slide 3: Safe Harbor Statement Under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995

    Safe Harbor Statement Under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 With the exception of historical information, the matters discussed in this presentation are forward-looking statements that involve a number of risks and uncertainties. The actual results of the Company could differ si

  4. Slide 4: 4QFY09 (3 months) Financial Summary

    4QFY09 (3 months) Financial Summary • Gross revenues = $1.839 MM (up 0.2% from 4QFY08) – Pharmaceutical software and services = $1.107 MM (up 1.4% from $1.092 MM in 4QFY08) – Words+ subsidiary = $732,000 (down 1.5% from $744,000 4QFY08) • SG&A = $966,000 (down 2.8% from $995,000 in 4QFY08) – SG&A de

  5. Slide 5: FY09 (12 months) Financial Summary

    FY09 (12 months) Financial Summary • Gross revenues = $9.143 MM (up 2.0% from $8.968 MM in FY08) – Pharmaceutical software and services = $6. 031 MM (up 4.1% from $6.055 MM in FY08) – Words+ subsidiary = $2.842 MM (down 2.4% from $2.912 MM in FY08) • SG&A = $3.896 MM (up 5.3% from $3.699 MM in FY08)

  6. Slide 6: Share Repurchase Program

    Share Repurchase Program • Board of directors authorized share repurchase program for up to $2.5 million from October 2008 through October 2009. Actually repurchases began December 2, 2008, so the board extended the repurchase period through December 1, 2009. • As of November 27, over 1.02 MM shares

  7. Slide 7: Progress - ADMET Predictor

    Progress - - 1 • ADMET Predictor™ (Structure-property prediction program) – Version 4.0 was released in July – New Dose Optimization Module estimates dose amount needed for new molecules based on mini-GastroPlus simulation • Developed under Pfizer funding and in active use at Pfizer now – New toxici

  8. Slide 8: Solubility in Biorelevant Fluids

    Solubility in Biorelevant Fluids • During FY09 we funded a series of experiments with Northeastern University to measure the solubility of 160 drugs and drug-like compounds in three different types of biorelevant fluids: – Fasted state simulated gastric fluid (FaSGF) – Fasted state simulated intesti

  9. Slide 9: Progress - ClassPharmer

    Progress - - 2 • ClassPharmer™ (Data Mining and De Novo Molecule Design) – Numerous improvements were being incorporated during the 4th quarter, and Version 4.7 was released in October. – We continue to enhance ClassPharmer’s capabilities in data mining and de novo molecule design (design of new mol

  10. Slide 10: Progress - DDDPlus

    Progress - - 3 DDDPlus - Simulates laboratory dissolution experiments Sales continue to increase steadily Version 3.0 was released in Q3 with a number of important enhancements Remains the only tool of its kind

  11. Slide 11: Progress - GastroPlus

    Progress - - 4 • GastroPlus™ – Development of Drug-drug Interaction module continues under funded collaboration with Roche - initial capability in use at Roche – Development of ocular delivery capability under a funded collaboration with Pfizer is nearly complete – Development of a nasal-pulmonary d

  12. Slide 12: GastroPlus Ocular Delivery - Funded Collaboration

    GastroPlus Ocular Delivery - Funded Collaboration

  13. Slide 13: GastroPlus Pulmonary Delivery

    GastroPlus Pulmonary Delivery

  14. Slide 14: Progress - Words+ subsidiary

    Progress - - 5 • Words+ subsidiary – General economy appears to be affecting this business - many states are struggling, and a large percentage of our sales come from 3rd-party sources (Medicaid, Medicare, schools, state vocational rehabilitation programs, etc.) – New Conversa™ communication device

  15. Slide 15: Miscellaneous Items

    Miscellaneous Items • Potential acquisition we were working on for a number of months did not go through - - seller decided to go with another buyer. Potential remains to acquire software part of the business, which was our primary interest. • Due diligence currently in progress on three acquisition

  16. Slide 16: Strategy Going Forward

    Strategy Going Forward • Continue to expand product line and services – Pharmaceutical software and services • Continue to expand Life Sciences team – For new product development as identified in corporate strategic planning – To increase capacity to conduct consulting studies and funded collaborati

  17. Slide 17: Summary

    Summary • Simulations Plus financial strength continues – Excellent cash position that continues to grow in spite of spending over $1 million on share repurchases - cash increased – No debt – Share repurchase has reduced number of shares outstanding by over 1 million shares • Decent fourth quarter -

  18. Slide 18: Additional Factors

    Additional Factors • State of the pharmaceutical industry – Mergers have had no effect on business to date - in fact licenses have increased at the larger companies. Academic and government licenses have also increased. – Large companies continue to adopt in silico (software) technologies in various

  19. Slide 19: Questions?

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