Nov 01, 2017 4:20 PM
Year-to-date net income was
Both third quarter and year-to-date net income were negatively impacted
by
“Despite the significant weather event, the team did a commendable job
of safely managing our assets and keeping our customers’ informed and
their operational needs met,” said
Third Quarter and Year-to-Date Operating Results
Third quarter 2017 sales were
Year-to-date sales were
Third quarter and year-to-date 2017 operating income was
Year-to-date 2017, the Company has realized approximately
Interest and Other Expense, Net
Interest expense, net of interest income and other expense, was
Income Tax Expense
The year-to-date effective tax rate was 38 percent, compared to 35 percent during the prior year period. The current period effective tax rate reflects the accounting impact of the write-off of the deferred tax asset associated with the 2014 employee incentive stock grant, which did not vest.
Cash Flows and Liquidity
Year-to-date, the Company generated operating cash flows of
On
Guidance and Outlook
The impact of Hurricane Irma and the operational disruption of a major
customer’s production will have a significant negative impact on full
year guidance, but its impact is expected to be limited to 2017. For the
full year 2017, the Company now expects cellulose specialties sales
prices and volumes to decline approximately 4 percent and 5 percent,
respectively, from the previous year. The reductions in full year
cellulose specialties sales volumes are driven by the negative impact
from Hurricane Irma and the previously announced operational upset of a
major customer. Additionally, commodity sales volumes are expected to
decline 9 percent over last year. Commodity sales volumes were also
impacted by Hurricane Irma and the planned shift in production from
absorbent materials to commodity viscose, as well as production issues.
As a result, the Company expects net income of approximately
Ethers and other cellulose specialties end-use demand continue to show strength and will provide opportunities for the Company to expand future sales in these faster growing end-uses. The acquisition of Tembec and its strong position in the ethers end-use, allows the Company to further diversify its portfolio of products. In acetate, excess capacity coupled with flat demand growth for acetate tow products is creating a very competitive sales environment. The Company believes its cost transformation efforts and the pending acquisition of Tembec, progress in market optimization and new products, position it well for future growth.
“The third quarter and the full year results are being negatively impacted by events outside our control. I am proud of each employee’s focus and effort during these challenging months to minimize the impact to our performance. Without these two significant disruptions, we would continue to be at the higher end of our original full year EBITDA outlook,” Boynton concluded. “We are a resilient company and focused on the future, which includes significant growth opportunities including the acquisition of Tembec, the completion of LignoTech Florida, the continued cost transformation of our business and the execution of our four pillars of growth.”
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Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements in this document regarding anticipated financial, business, legal or other outcomes including business and market conditions, outlook and other similar statements relating to Rayonier Advanced Materials’ future events, developments, or financial or operational performance or results, are “forward-looking statements” made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and other federal securities laws. These forward-looking statements are identified by the use of words such as “may,” “will,” “should,” “expect,” “estimate,” “believe,” “intend,” “forecast,” “anticipate,” “guidance,” and other similar language. However, the absence of these or similar words or expressions does not mean a statement is not forward-looking. While we believe these forward-looking statements are reasonable when made, forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance or events and undue reliance should not be placed on these statements. Although we believe the expectations reflected in any forward-looking statements are based on reasonable assumptions, we can give no assurance these expectations will be attained and it is possible actual results may differ materially from those indicated by these forward-looking statements due to a variety of risks and uncertainties.
Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: competitive pressures in the markets in which we operate, especially with respect to increases in supply and pressures on demand for our products, which impact pricing; our ability to complete our announced cost and debt reduction initiatives and objectives within the planned parameters and achieve the anticipated benefits; our customer concentration, especially with our three largest customers; changes in global economic conditions, including currency; the Chinese dumping duties currently in effect for commodity viscose pulps; potential legal, regulatory and similar challenges relating to our permitted air emissions and waste water discharges from our facilities by non-governmental groups and individuals; the effect of current and future environmental laws and regulations as well as changes in circumstances on the cost and estimated future cost of required environmental expenditures; the potential impact of future tobacco-related restrictions; potential for additional pension contributions; labor relations with the unions representing our hourly employees; the effect of weather and other natural conditions; changes in transportation-related costs and availability; the failure to attract and retain key personnel; the failure to innovate to maintain our competitiveness, grow our business and protect our intellectual property; uncertainties related to the availability of additional financing to us in the future and the terms of such financing; our inability to make or effectively integrate current and future acquisitions and engage in certain other corporate transactions; any failure to realize expected benefits from our separation from Rayonier Inc.; risks related to our pending acquisition of Tembec Inc., including the failure to satisfy the conditions to completing the transaction, including obtaining regulatory approvals, our failure to obtain the anticipated benefits and synergies from the acquisition and the impact of additional debt we will incur and equity that we will issue to finance the acquisition; financial and other obligations under agreements relating to our debt; and uncertainties relating to general economic, political, and regulatory conditions.
Other important factors that could cause actual results or events to
differ materially from those expressed in forward-looking statements
that may have been made in this document are described or will be
described in our filings with the
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
This earnings release and the accompanying schedules contain certain non-GAAP financial measures, including EBITDA, adjusted free cash flows, pro forma operating income, pro forma net income, pro forma EBITDA and adjusted net debt. These non-GAAP measures are reconciled to each of their respective most directly comparable GAAP financial measures on Schedules C - E of this earnings release.
We believe these non-GAAP measures provide useful information to our board of directors, management and investors regarding certain trends relating to our financial condition and results of operations. Our management uses these non-GAAP measures to compare our performance to that of prior periods for trend analyses, purposes of determining management incentive compensation and budgeting, forecasting and planning purposes.
We do not consider these non-GAAP measures an alternative to financial measures determined in accordance with GAAP. The principal limitations of these non-GAAP financial measures are that they may exclude significant expenses and income items that are required by GAAP to be recognized in our consolidated financial statements. In addition, they reflect the exercise of management’s judgment about which expenses and income items are excluded or included in determining these non-GAAP financial measures. In order to compensate for these limitations, management provides reconciliations of the non-GAAP financial measures we use to their most directly comparable GAAP measures. Non-GAAP financial measures should not be relied upon, in whole or part, in evaluating the financial condition, results of operations or future prospects of the Company.
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Cellulose specialties | $ | 167 | $ | 158 | $ | 173 | $ | 482 | $ | 513 | |||||
Commodity products and other | 43 | 43 | 34 | 130 | 125 | ||||||||||
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210 | 201 | 207 | 612 | 638 | ||||||||||
Cost of Sales | (179) | (168) | (156) | (511) | (498) | ||||||||||
Gross Margin | 31 | 33 | 51 | 101 | 140 | ||||||||||
Selling, general & administrative expenses | (13) | (18) | (10) | (41) | (26) | ||||||||||
Other operating expense, net | — | (2) | — | (3) | (2) | ||||||||||
Operating Income | 18 | 13 | 41 | 57 | 112 | ||||||||||
Interest and other expense, net | (9) | (8) | (8) | (25) | (26) | ||||||||||
Unrealized gain on derivative instrument | 14 | 2 | — | 16 | — | ||||||||||
Gain on debt extinguishment | — | — | — | — | 9 | ||||||||||
Income Before Income Taxes | 23 | 7 | 33 | 48 | 95 | ||||||||||
Income tax expense | (7) | (2) | (11) | (18) | (33) | ||||||||||
Net Income Attributable to |
$ | 16 | $ | 5 | $ | 22 | $ | 30 | $ | 62 | |||||
Mandatory convertible stock dividends | (4) | (4) | (2) | (10) | (2) | ||||||||||
Net Income Available to |
$ | 12 | $ | 1 | $ | 20 | $ | 20 | $ | 60 | |||||
Earnings Per Share of Common Stock | |||||||||||||||
Basic earnings per share | $ | 0.29 | $ | 0.03 | $ | 0.46 | $ | 0.47 | $ | 1.42 | |||||
Diluted earnings per share | $ | 0.28 | $ | 0.03 | $ | 0.44 | $ | 0.46 | $ | 1.38 | |||||
Pro forma net income per share (a) | $ | 0.18 | $ | 0.11 | $ | 0.44 | $ | 0.42 | $ | 1.24 | |||||
Shares Used for Determining | |||||||||||||||
Basic EPS | 42,427,437 | 42,387,578 | 42,360,326 | 42,388,762 | 42,266,295 | ||||||||||
Diluted EPS | 56,034,722 | 43,223,599 | 49,336,106 | 43,284,828 | 44,724,516 | ||||||||||
(a) Pro forma net income per share is a non-GAAP measure. See Schedule D for a reconciliation to the nearest GAAP measure. |
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Cash and cash equivalents | $ | 379 | $ | 326 | |||
Other current assets | 211 | 193 | |||||
Property, plant and equipment, net | 775 | 801 | |||||
Other assets | 78 | 102 | |||||
$ | 1,443 | $ | 1,422 | ||||
Liabilities and Stockholders’ Equity | |||||||
Current maturities of long-term debt | $ | 267 | $ | 9 | |||
Other current liabilities | 137 | 117 | |||||
Long-term debt and capital lease obligations | 513 | 774 | |||||
Non-current liabilities for disposed operations | 137 | 139 | |||||
Other non-current liabilities | 155 | 171 | |||||
Total stockholders’ equity | 234 | 212 | |||||
$ | 1,443 | $ | 1,422 |
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Net income | $ | 30 | $ | 62 | ||
Depreciation and amortization | 64 | 64 | ||||
Other items to reconcile net income to cash provided by operating activities | 23 | 42 | ||||
Changes in working capital and other assets and liabilities | 1 | 13 | ||||
118 | 181 | |||||
Cash Used for Investing Activities: | ||||||
Capital expenditures | (44) | (58) | ||||
Other | — | 2 | ||||
(44) | (56) | |||||
Cash Used for Financing Activities: | ||||||
Issuance of mandatory convertible preferred stock, net | — | 167 | ||||
Changes in debt | (5) | (67) | ||||
Dividends paid - common stock | (6) | (6) | ||||
Dividends paid - preferred stock | (10) | — | ||||
(21) | 94 | |||||
Cash and Cash Equivalents: | ||||||
Change in cash and cash equivalents | 53 | 219 | ||||
Balance, beginning of year | 326 | 101 | ||||
Balance, end of period | $ | 379 | $ | 320 | ||
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EBITDA (a): | 2017 | 2016 | 2017 | 2016 | ||||||||||||
Net Income | $ | 16 | $ | 22 | $ | 30 | $ | 62 | ||||||||
Depreciation and amortization | 21 | 23 | 64 | 64 | ||||||||||||
Interest expense, net | 9 | 8 | 25 | 26 | ||||||||||||
Income tax expense | 7 | 11 | 18 | 33 | ||||||||||||
EBITDA | $ | 53 | $ | 64 | $ | 137 | $ | 185 | ||||||||
Acquisition Related Costs | 5 | — | 13 | — | ||||||||||||
Unrealized gain on derivative instrument | (14 | ) | — | (16 | ) | — | ||||||||||
Gain on debt extinguishment | — | — | — | (9 | ) | |||||||||||
Pro Forma EBITDA | $ | 44 | $ | 64 | $ | 134 | $ | 176 |
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Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization
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Cash provided by operating activities | $ | 118 | $ | 181 | ||
Capital expenditures | (41) | (58) | ||||
Adjusted Free Cash Flows | $ | 77 | $ | 123 |
(b) | We define adjusted free cash flows as cash provided by operating activities adjusted for capital expenditures excluding strategic capital. Adjusted free cash flows is a non-GAAP measure of cash generated during a period which is available for dividend distribution, debt reduction, strategic acquisitions and repurchase of our common stock. Adjusted free cash flows is not necessarily indicative of the adjusted free cash flows that may be generated in future periods. |
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Long-term debt & capital lease obligation | 513 | 774 | |||||
Total debt | 780 | 783 | |||||
Original issue discount and debt issuance costs | 7 | 9 | |||||
Cash and cash equivalents | (379) | (326) | |||||
Adjusted Net Debt |
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408 |
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466 |
(c) | We define adjusted net debt as the amount of debt after the consideration of the original issue discount and debt issuance costs, less cash. Adjusted net debt is a non-GAAP measure of debt and is not necessarily indicative of the adjusted net debt that may occur in future periods. | |
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Pro Forma Net Income (a): | $ | Share | $ | Share | $ | Share | $ | Share | $ | Share | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Operating Income | $ | 18 | $ | 13 | $ | 41 | $ | 57 | $ | 112 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Acquisition related costs | 5 | 8 | — | 13 | — | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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$ | 23 | $ | 21 | $ | 41 | $ | 70 | $ | 112 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Net Income | $ | 16 | $ | 0.28 | $ | 5 | $ | 0.03 | $ | 22 | $ | 0.44 | $ | 30 | $ | 0.46 | $ | 62 | $ | 1.38 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Gain on debt extinguishment | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | (9 | ) | $ | (0.21 | ) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Acquisition related costs | 5 | $ | 0.09 | 8 | $ | 0.18 | — | — | 13 | $ | 0.30 | — | — | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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(14 | ) | $ | (0.25 | ) | (2 | ) | (0.05 | ) | — | — | (16 | ) | $ | (0.37 | ) | — | — | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Tax effects of Pro Forma |
3 | $ | 0.06 | (2 | ) | (0.05 | ) | — | — | 1 | $ | 0.03 | 3 | $ | 0.07 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pro Forma Net Income | $ | 10 | $ | 0.18 | $ | 9 | $ | 0.11 | $ | 22 | $ | 0.44 | $ | 28 | $ | 0.42 | $ | 56 | $ | 1.24 |
(a) | Pro forma operating income is defined as operating income adjusted for acquisition related costs. Pro forma net income is defined as net income adjusted net of tax for gain on debt extinguishment, acquisition related costs and unrealized gain on debt extinguishment. Pro forma operating income and pro forma net income are not necessarily indicative of results that may be generated in future periods. |
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Sales Volume, thousands of metric tons | |||||||||||||||
Cellulose specialties | 114 | 116 | 331 | 335 | |||||||||||
Commodity products | 54 | 49 | 167 | 179 | |||||||||||
Total | 168 | 165 | 498 | 514 | |||||||||||
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Cellulose specialties | $ | 1,460 | $ | 1,495 | $ | 1,456 | $ | 1,532 | |||||||
Commodity products | $ | 737 | $ | 643 | $ | 739 | $ | 666 | |||||||
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Reconciliation of Guided Non-GAAP Measures
(millions of dollars, except per share information)
The following schedules include non-GAAP measures related to management’s performance expectations for the future. While we believe these forward-looking statements are reasonable when made, they are not guarantees of future performance or events and undue reliance should not be placed on these statements. Although we believe the expectations reflected in any forward-looking statements are based on reasonable assumptions, we can give no assurance that these expectations will be attained and it is possible that actual results may differ materially from those indicated by these forward-looking statements.
Our management uses these non-GAAP measures to compare our performance to that of prior periods for trend analyses, purposes of determining management incentive compensation and budgeting, forecasting and planning purposes; however, we do not consider these non-GAAP measures an alternative to financial measures determined in accordance with GAAP. As such, we provide reconciliations of the non-GAAP financial measures we use to their most directly comparable GAAP measures. Non-GAAP financial measures should not be relied upon, in whole or part, in evaluating the financial condition, results of operations or future prospects of the Company.
2017 Net Income Guidance | $ | 25 | |||||||
Income tax expense (a) | 14 | ||||||||
Acquisition related costs (b) | 15 | ||||||||
Interest expense, net | 37 | ||||||||
Depreciation and amortization | 89 | ||||||||
2017 Pro Forma EBITDA Guidance |
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(a) | Income tax expense for the full year 2017 is based on an expected effective tax rate of approximately 37.5 percent. The estimated effective tax rate will change significantly upon the closing of the acquisition of Tembec. |
(b) | Acquisition costs, net of tax, represents the forecasted legal, due-diligence and consulting costs for the Company and excludes all costs that are contingent upon the closing of the acquisition of Tembec. These costs could vary materially from this estimate. |
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2017 Operating Cash Flows Guidance |
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121 |
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126 |
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2017 Adjusted Free Cash Flows Guidance |
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80 |
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85 |
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