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| Trauma, our trauma legacy trauma business continues to perform well |
| We also had a record free cash flow of $82 million, up to 79% |
| Revenue for the full year was a record $1, 569 million, delivering $546 million of revenue growth or 53% versus prior year, including four months of NuVasive sales |
| We achieved record sales while maintaining industry-leading profitability, generating a record $2.32 in non-GAAP EPS, and an adjusted EBITDA of 30% |
| Legacy Globus international revenue in Q4 2023 was $48.1 million, or 16.7% higher versus the prior year quarter, driven by strong implant growth within key focus countries including Australia, Brazil, Italy, Japan, Spain and United Kingdom |
| We also achieved significant progress integrating the NuVasive merger and continue to fuel our innovation with five new products launched in 2023, positioning us well to gain momentum in 2024 |
| In Q4, we delivered record sales of $617 million, growing 125% or $342 million |
| NuVasive has some products in that portfolio as well that we think together we're going to be better together and drive share growth |
| As I think about, as we dig in and start to look at the business more and more, to me there continues to be great opportunities for operational improvements in manufacturing |
| I think that bringing the facilities together with our manufacturing and legacy NuVasive really allows for fixed cost leverage improvements |
| spine of 11%, increasing momentum internationally with 20% growth and strong performance in trauma with 41% gains, enabling technology delivered 2% growth in Q4 driven by higher unit placements offset by product mix, country mix and financing programs |
| The foundation remained strong and I'm proud of the Globus team delivering solid growth and profitability as we enter 2024 |
| NuVasive standalone sales for Q4 were $312 million, up 2% on a pro forma basis, primarily driven by continued market penetration in international spine with 14% growth, market reentry of key technology of NuVasive Specialty Orthopedics delivering 26% gains and strengthen NuVasive Clinical Services increasing 6% versus prior year |
| I would say that we called out some of the sales dissynergies because I wanted to get across the point that we remain extremely excited about our business and the growth prospects, but we're acknowledging that sales dissynergies could exist |
| Legacy Globus enabling technologies revenue was $30.1 million, growing 2.1% over the prior year on record units placed |
| Which, to your point, will generate a favorable cash flow by generating the sales, not having the current level of investment needed to get those sales |
| Entering 2024, our combined product pipeline is full, setting the stage for a strong year of product introductions |
| We've got a robot that is superior |
| And so I think we're well poised to go head to head with anybody in this sense |
| The comprehensive and innovative portfolio in spine, enabling tech and orthopedics positions us well for long-term sustained growth |
| grew 25.9% over the prior year, while non-GAAP earnings per share grew 12.6% over the prior year |
| I'll be honest with you, the teams that I've worked with throughout the world have been fantastic and the vast majority have been willing to roll up the sleeves and figure out where to work and how to cut up the spaces |
| Q4 non-GAAP net income grew 38.9%, while non-GAAP EPS grew 2.1% over the prior year quarter, driven by a higher share count as a result of the merger with NuVasive |
| Our financial discipline provides the ability to redirect investments into focused growth areas while improving combined profitability and cash flow |
| Keith is a rock solid leader, a great partner, and is well suited for this role |
| The combined and well-balanced leadership team showed our salesforce that we really are bringing the best of both organizations together to support them and create a once-in-a-career opportunity |
| So from my perspective, our view of getting back to mid-30s, right now I feel good about that |
| For AAOS and the robot, we're really happy with it |
| Operations remains a strength of the merger |
| And I think as you've said, and one of the things I've called out that I'm most excited about, the array of power solutions that we're bringing forward in the near term will also work well with all of that enabling technology and further enhance the surgeon experience by all means |
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| spine attributed to deal dissynergies and lower pull sales impacted by customers' uncertainty with the merger |
| Further, as we look ahead to fiscal 2024, we expect an interest expense headwind driven by two factors |
| Now it doesn't mean it was dismal |
| So that really impacted a little bit of base business profitability |
| Our growth rate clearly is slowing down here for the first portion of the year |
| But if you really talk about the spinal robots, they are in their infancy not only in penetration but capabilities |
| The decreasing GAAP gross profit was driven by the impacts of the NuVasive merger, namely step up inventory amortization |
| Areas that have departed that we may attribute to this change, I think they're sporadic |
| First, our invested cash balance will be lower year-over-year driven by the paydown of the former NuVasive of line of credit at merger close, which decreased our cash balance by $420.8 million thus decreasing interest income moving forward |
| And I think it would be unrealistic not to think you would lose stuff |
| But I think if I could speak for investors that we talked to about the opportunity here is there's still some apprehension about when do we start to feel like things are, we're on the tail end or the downward slope of the risk of maybe dyssynergies getting bigger than we were expecting |
| The downside would just be some of the unsexy things, the heavy lifting you need to do of common processes and common reports and common systems |
| And then, sorry, I just lost my train of thought for a second |
| Remember the thing we've called out clearly is we had very low overlap |
| Legacy Globus GAAP gross profit for the full year of 2023, was 74.2% in line to the prior year, despite legacy enabling technology sales growing over 20% to the prior year, which reflects the impacts of continued manufacturing and supply chain cost savings initiatives |
| So you shouldn't see a blip in your model or anything that would take you off significantly from where we are |
| We were just conservative having not had FDA approval, not building an NOC needed plan to achieve |
| I believe the potential for Globus has never been greater |
| That's also having a little bit of an impact |
| The GAAP tax rate for the quarter was 39.8% compared to 19.4% in Q4 of 2022, primarily driven by the impact of non-deductible merger costs on lower GAAP pretax income |
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