ARC Reports Results for Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2011
(firmenpresse) - WALNUT CREEK, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 02/21/12 -- ARC (NYSE: ARC), the nation's leading document solutions company for the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry, today reported its financial results for the full year and fourth quarter ended December 31, 2011.
Strong signs of a moderating revenue decline due to stabilizing AEC market, expansion into adjacent markets and other diversification efforts.
Full-year adjusted earnings per share meets forecast of $(0.02) and includes $1.2 million or $0.015 in costs associated with the Company's CFO transition and certain facility closing costs.
Full-year cash from operations was $49.2 million which equates to $1.08 per share for 2011.
Full-year gross margin was 31.8%.
New and undrawn senior secured credit facility effectively removes previous covenant restrictions.
2012 Fully diluted annual adjusted earnings per share outlook is $0.05 to $0.10; annual cash from operations for 2012 projected to be $40-50 million.
"Our results for the full-year were in line with our expectations and once again provided ample evidence of our ability to perform in the midst of economic and industry uncertainty," said K. "Suri" Suriyakumar, Chairman, President and CEO of ARC. "While we were gratified to see what appears to be a mitigation of the construction industry's down cycle over the past three years, our efforts to diversify into adjacent and growing markets delivered results that were truly noteworthy. Large-format color revenue grew 10.3% year-over-year, largely from our Riot Creative Imaging business. The fourth quarter also saw growth of 13.5% in our FM/MPS service line, and our annual growth in this area exceeded 11%."
Mr. Suriyakumar continued, "By developing our MPS service line, we are simultaneously reducing our revenue exposure to the cyclical nature of construction activity and expanding our client service capabilities in our core AEC market. These companies must conduct their day-to-day business regardless of how many construction projects they have. Our MPS solution addresses those needs perfectly by improving efficiency and reducing the costs associated with document management and fulfillment. We believe this will better demonstrate the value and breadth of our document solutions, and strengthen our client relationships."
CFO John Toth commented, "In addition to diversifying our product offerings, we added tremendous flexibility to our capital structure by replacing our previous $50 million revolver with a far less restrictive, low-interest, non-monitored, asset-supported credit facility. Our cash from operations continued to remain very healthy at nearly $50 million for 2011 and has returned more than 16% of our current stock price. With regard to cost controls, our 'Stay Fit' plans removed more than $16 million from our cost structure in 2011. With these financial accomplishments and a powerful brand position thanks to our consolidation efforts over the past year, we are very well positioned for success in 2012."
ARC management expects a mitigated decline in private non-residential construction activity in 2012, incremental growth in MPS services, the addition of new Global Solutions accounts, and improvement in other non-AEC service lines less exposed to the cyclical nature of construction projects.
While these assumptions are subject to change as the year progresses, ARC anticipates annual adjusted earnings per share in 2012 to be in the range of $0.05 to $0.10 on a fully-diluted basis, and annual cash flow from operations to be in the range of $40 million to $50 million.
ARC will host a conference call and audio webcast today at 2:00 P.M. Pacific Time (5:00 P.M. Eastern Time) to discuss results for the Company's fourth quarter and fiscal year 2011. The conference call can be accessed by dialing 877-402-8179. The conference ID number is 45393925.
A live Webcast will also be made available on the investor relations page of ARC's website at .
A replay will be available approximately one hour after the call for seven days following the call's conclusion. To access the replay, dial (855) 859-2056. The conference ID number to access the replay is 45393925. A Web archive will be made available at for approximately 90 days following the call's conclusion.
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ARC (American Reprographics Company) is the nation's leading document solutions company providing business-to-business document management technology and services primarily to the architectural, engineering and construction, or 'AEC' industries. The Company also provides document management services to companies in non-AEC industries, such as technology, financial services, retail, entertainment, and food and hospitality. ARC provides its services through its suite of technology products, a network of hundreds of service centers around the world and on-site at more than 5,500 customer locations. The Company's service centers are digitally connected as a cohesive network, allowing the provision of services both locally and nationally to more than 100,000 active customers.
This press release contains forward-looking statements that are based on current opinions, estimates and assumptions of management regarding future events and the future financial performance of the Company. Words such as "anticipates," "projects," "expect" and similar expressions identify forward-looking statements and all statements other than statements of historical fact, including, but not limited to, any projections regarding earnings, revenues and financial performance of the Company, could be deemed forward-looking statements. We caution you that such statements are only predictions and are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause our actual results to differ materially from those set forth in the forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, current economic conditions and downturn in the architectural, engineering and construction (AEC) industries specifically, and the timing and nature of any economic recovery; our inability to mitigate revenue exposure to the cyclical nature of the AEC industries; our inability to streamline operations and reduce and/or manage costs; our failure to develop and introduce new services successfully, including expansion of client service capabilities in our core AEC market; competition in our industry and innovation by our competitors; our failure to anticipate and adapt to future changes in our industry; our failure to take advantage of market opportunities and/or to complete acquisitions; our dependence on certain key vendors for equipment, maintenance services and supplies; and damage or disruption to our facilities, our technology centers, our vendors or a majority of our customers. The foregoing list of risks and uncertainties is illustrative but is by no means exhaustive. For more information on factors that may affect our future performance, please review our periodic filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and specifically the risk factors set forth in our most recent reports on Form 10-K and Form 10-Q. The Company undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise, except as required by law.
EBIT, EBITDA and related ratios presented in this report are supplemental measures of our performance that are not required by or presented in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America ("GAAP"). These measures are not measurements of our financial performance under GAAP and should not be considered as alternatives to net income, income from operations, or any other performance measures derived in accordance with GAAP or as an alternative to cash flows from operating, investing or financing activities as a measure of our liquidity.
EBIT represents net income before interest and taxes. EBITDA represents net income before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization. Amortization does not include $0.5 million and $1.6 million of stock-based compensation expense recorded in selling, general and administrative expenses for the three months ended December 31, 2011 and 2010, respectively. Amortization does not include $4.3 million and $5.9 million of stock-based compensation expense recorded in selling, general and administrative expenses, for the twelve months ended December 31, 2011 and 2010 respectively. EBIT margin is a non-GAAP measure calculated by dividing EBIT by net sales. EBITDA margin is a non-GAAP measure calculated by dividing EBITDA by net sales.
We present EBIT, EBITDA and related ratios because we consider them important supplemental measures of our performance and liquidity. We believe investors may also find these measures meaningful, given how our management makes use of them. The following is a discussion of our use of these measures.
We use EBIT and EBITDA to measure and compare the performance of our operating segments. Our operating segments' financial performance includes all of the operating activities except debt and taxation which are managed at the corporate level for U.S. operating segments. As a result, EBIT is the best measure of operating segment profitability and the most useful metric by which to measure and compare the performance of our operating segments. We also use EBIT to measure performance for determining operating segment-level compensation and we use EBITDA to measure performance for determining consolidated-level compensation. In addition, we use EBIT and EBITDA to evaluate potential acquisitions and potential capital expenditures.
EBIT, EBITDA and related ratios have limitations as analytical tools, and should not be considered in isolation, or as a substitute for analysis of our results as reported under GAAP. Some of these limitations are as follows:
They do not reflect our cash expenditures, or future requirements for capital expenditures and contractual commitments;
They do not reflect changes in, or cash requirements for, our working capital needs;
They do not reflect the significant interest expense, or the cash requirements necessary, to service interest or principal payments on our debt;
Although depreciation and amortization are non-cash charges, the assets being depreciated and amortized will often have to be replaced in the future, and EBITDA does not reflect any cash requirements for such replacements; and
Other companies, including companies in our industry, may calculate these measures differently than we do, limiting their usefulness as comparative measures.
Because of these limitations, EBIT, EBITDA, and related ratios should not be considered as measures of discretionary cash available to us to invest in business growth or to reduce our indebtedness. We compensate for these limitations by relying primarily on our GAAP results and using EBIT, EBITDA and related ratios only as supplements. For more information, see our 2011 Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Our presentation of adjusted net income and adjusted EBITDA over certain periods is an attempt to provide meaningful comparisons to our historical performance for our existing and future investors. The unprecedented changes in our end markets over the past several years have required us to take measures that are unique in our history and specific to individual circumstances. Comparisons inclusive of these actions make normal financial and other performance patterns difficult to discern under a strict GAAP presentation. Each non-GAAP presentation, however, is explained in detail in the reconciliation tables above.
Specifically, we have presented adjusted net income (loss) attributable to ARC and adjusted earnings (loss) per share attributable to ARC shareholders for the three and twelve months ended December 31, 2011 and 2010 to reflect the exclusion of goodwill impairment charges, amortization impact related to the change in useful lives of our trade names, loss on early extinguishment of debt, certain interest rate swap related costs, the valuation allowance related to certain deferred tax assets and other discrete tax items. This presentation facilitates a meaningful comparison of our operating results for the three and twelve months ended December 31, 2011 and 2010, respectively. We believe these charges were the result of the current macroeconomic environment, our capital restructuring, or other items which are not indicative of our actual operating performance.
We presented adjusted EBITDA in 2011 and 2010 to exclude stock-based compensation expense, loss on early extinguishment of debt and the non-cash impairment charges. The exclusion of these items is consistent with the definition of adjusted EBITDA in our previous and current credit agreements; therefore, we believe this information is useful to investors in assessing our ability to meet our debt covenants.
David Stickney
Vice President, Corporate Communications
925-949-5114
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