DryShips Inc. Reports Financial and Operating Results for the Third Quarter 2015
(firmenpresse) - ATHENS, GREECE -- (Marketwired) -- 12/07/15 -- DryShips Inc. (NASDAQ: DRYS), or DryShips or the Company, an international owner of drybulk carriers and offshore support vessels, today announced its unaudited financial and operating results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2015.
For the third quarter of 2015, the Company reported a net loss of $820.0 million, or $1.23 basic and diluted loss per share.
Included in the third quarter 2015 results are impairment charges and loss on sales on the entire drybulk fleet, of $797.5 million, or $1.20 per share.
Excluding these impairment charges and losses, the Company''s net results would have amounted to a net loss of $22.5 million, or $0.03 per share.(1)
The Company reported Adjusted EBITDA of $30.1 million for the third quarter of 2015.(2)
As of December 7, 2015, the Company has delivered all of its tanker vessels and 13 drybulk vessels to their new owners under the previously disclosed sales agreements for 10 tanker vessels and 17 drybulk vessels.
As of November 24, 2015, the Company has acquired a 100% equity stake in Nautilus OffShore Services Inc. ("Nautilus"). Nautilus owns six offshore supply vessels on time charter to Petrobras.
On November 2, 2015, the Company concluded two Memoranda of Agreement to sell its two Supramax vessels, the Byron and the Galveston, for an aggregate sales price of $12.3 million. The vessels were delivered to their new owners during November 2015.
On October 21, 2015, as amended on November 11, 2015, the Company entered into a secured revolving credit facility of up to $60 million with an entity controlled by Mr. George Economou. The loan is secured by the shares that the Company holds in Ocean Rig UDW Inc. ("Ocean Rig") and in Nautilus, and by a first priority mortgage over one Panamax drybulk carrier. The loan has a tenor of three years and both the lenders and the borrowers have certain conversion rights.
On October 13, 2015, the Company received an additional 180-day grace period to regain compliance with the Nasdaq''s minimum bid price requirement, which will end on April 11, 2016. The Company has provided written notice of its intention to cure the minimum bid price deficiency during the second grace period by effecting a reverse stock split, if necessary.
(1) The net result includes approximately 40.44% of Ocean Rig''s results, which are owned by DryShips Inc. common shareholders.
(2) Adjusted EBITDA is a non-GAAP measure; please see later in this press release for reconciliation to net income.
Adjusted EBITDA represents earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, vessel impairments and certain other non-cash items as described below, dry-dockings, class survey costs and gains or losses on interest rate swaps. Adjusted EBITDA does not represent and should not be considered as an alternative to net income or cash flow from operations, as determined by United States generally accepted accounting principles, or U.S. GAAP, and our calculation of adjusted EBITDA may not be comparable to that reported by other companies. Adjusted EBITDA is included herein because it is a basis upon which the Company measures its operations. Adjusted EBITDA is also used by our lenders as a measure of our compliance with certain covenants contained in our loan agreements and because the Company believes that it presents useful information to investors regarding a company''s ability to service and/or incur indebtedness.
DryShips Inc. is an owner of drybulk carriers and offshore support vessels that operate worldwide. DryShips also owns approximately 40% of the outstanding shares of Ocean Rig UDW Inc. (NASDAQ: ORIG), an international drilling contractor. DryShips owns a fleet of 24 drybulk carriers, comprising 4 Capesize and 20 Panamax with a combined deadweight tonnage of approximately 2.3 million tons, and 6 offshore supply vessels, comprising 2 platform supply and 4 oil spill recovery vessels.
DryShips'' common stock is listed on the NASDAQ Capital Market where it trades under the symbol "DRYS."
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Matters discussed in this release may constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 provides safe harbor protections for forward-looking statements in order to encourage companies to provide prospective information about their business. The Company desires to take advantage of the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and is including this cautionary statement in connection with such safe harbor legislation.
Forward-looking statements reflect our current views with respect to future events and financial performance and may include statements concerning plans, objectives, goals, strategies, future events or performance, and underlying assumptions and other statements, which are other than statements of historical facts.
The forward-looking statements in this release are based upon various assumptions, many of which are based, in turn, upon further assumptions, including without limitation, management''s examination of historical operating trends, data contained in our records and other data available from third parties. Although we believe that these assumptions were reasonable when made, because these assumptions are inherently subject to significant uncertainties and contingencies which are difficult or impossible to predict and are beyond our control, we cannot assure you that it will achieve or accomplish these expectations, beliefs or projections.
Important factors that, in our view, could cause actual results to differ materially from those discussed in the forward-looking statements include the strength of world economies and currencies, general market conditions, including changes in charter rates and dayrates and vessel and drilling dayrates and drybulk vessel, drilling rig and drillship values, failure of a seller to deliver one or more vessels or drilling units, drillships or drybulk vessels, failure of a buyer to accept delivery of a drilling rig, drillship, or vessel, inability to procure acquisition financing, default by one or more customers, changes in demand for drybulk commodities or oil, changes in demand that may affect attitudes of time charterers and customer drilling programs, scheduled and unscheduled drydockings and upgrades, changes in our operating expenses, including bunker prices, drydocking and insurance costs, complications associated with repairing and replacing equipment in remote locations, limitations on insurance coverage, such as war risk coverage, in certain areas, changes in governmental rules and regulations or actions taken by regulatory authorities, potential liability from pending or future litigation, changes in tax laws, treaties and regulations, tax assessments and liabilities for tax issues, domestic and international political conditions, potential disruption of shipping routes due to accidents and political events or acts by terrorists.
Risks and uncertainties are further described in reports filed by DryShips Inc. with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including the Company''s most recently filed Annual Report on Form 20-F.
Nicolas Bornozis
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