WALNUT CREEK, CA — (Marketwired) — 05/03/16 — ARC Document Solutions, Inc. (NYSE: ARC), a leading document solutions provider to design, engineering, construction, and facilities management professionals, today reported its financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2016.
Net sales of $103.6 million vs. $104.3 million in 2015
Adjusted diluted earnings per share were $0.06 vs. $0.07 in 2015
Gross margin of 32.6% vs. 34.5% in 2015 due to quarterly increase in lower margin sales
Cash flow from operations of $5.3 million despite $3 million negative impact compared to prior year from payroll timing
Adjusted EBITDA of $14.8 million or 14.3%
Approximately 700,000 shares of ARC common stock repurchased in the open market
Management reaffirms 2016 forecast
“We continue to make progress towards the transformation of the company,” said K. “Suri” Suriyakumar, Chairman, President and CEO of ARC Document Solutions. “Our sales performance was as expected but the margins were softer due to our product mix. That said, our technology enabled services continued to grow, especially our AIM solution. We are working hard to offset the slow secular declines in our traditional business with new solutions and we are executing on our plans as expected, and I–m pleased with the direction in which we–re headed.”
“I–m also happy to announce the appointment of John Freeland to our Board of Directors,” Mr. Suriyakumar continued. “As a part of our transition, we–re actively seeking out candidates with strong backgrounds in building and leading technology-enabled companies, and John is a great fit. His experience and leadership with Accenture, salesforce.com, and IRI will bring a fresh perspective to our thinking and decisions on the Board. I look forward to his contributions.”
“As usual, strong cash generation characterized the first quarter for ARC,” said Jorge Avalos, Chief Financial Officer of ARC Document Solutions. “While we saw cash from operations off to its usual slow start due to seasonal timing of sales, our ability to execute our stock repurchase plan was unaffected. We bought $2.7 million of ARC common stock in the open market during the period, and further reduced the principal of our senior debt by more than $4 million.”
Net sales were $103.6 million, a 0.7% decrease compared to the first quarter of 2015.
Days sales outstanding in Q1 2016 were 53, compared to 57 days in Q1 2015.
AEC customers comprised approximately 78% of our total net sales, while non-AEC customers made up approximately 22% of our total net sales.
Total number of MPS accounts at the end of the first quarter has grown to approximately 9,050, a gain of 390 contracts over Q1 2015. This information reflects the reduction of approximately 200 locations associated with a large client that did not renew their MPS engagement with us at the end of 2015.
Adjusted EBITDA excludes loss on extinguishment of debt, the impact of trade secret litigation costs, stock-based compensation expense, and restructuring expense.
ARC Document Solutions anticipates annual adjusted earnings per share in 2016 to be in the range of $0.30 to $0.35 on a fully diluted basis, and annual cash flow from operations to be in the range of $55 million to $60 million. The Company–s outlook for 2016 annual adjusted EBITDA is expected to be in the range of $66 million to $71 million.
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ARC Document Solutions distributes Documents and Information to facilitate communication for design, engineering and construction professionals, real estate managers and developers, facilities owners, and a variety of similar disciplines. The Company provides cloud and mobile solutions, professional services, and hardware to help its customers around the world reduce costs and increase efficiency, improve information access and control, and communicate faster, easier, and better. Follow ARC at
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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. 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 have presented 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, we believe 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 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.
Our presentation of adjusted net income, adjusted EBITDA, and adjusted cash flows from operations 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 attributable to ARC and adjusted earnings per share attributable to ARC shareholders for the three months ended March 31, 2016 and 2015 to reflect the exclusion of loss on extinguishment of debt, restructuring expense, trade secret litigation costs, and changes in the valuation allowances related to certain deferred tax assets and other discrete tax items. We have presented adjusted cash flows from operating activities for the three months ended March 31, 2016 and 2015 to reflect the exclusion of cash payments related to trade secret litigation costs and cash payments related to restructuring expenses. This presentation facilitates a meaningful comparison of our operating results for the three months ended March 31, 2016 and 2015. We believe these charges were the result of the then current macroeconomic environment, our capital restructuring, or other items which are not indicative of our actual operating performance.
We have presented adjusted EBITDA in the three months ended March 31, 2016 and 2015 to exclude loss on extinguishment of debt, trade secret litigation costs, restructuring expense and stock-based compensation expense. The adjustment of EBITDA for these items is consistent with the definition of adjusted EBITDA in our credit agreement; therefore, we believe this information is useful to investors in assessing our financial performance.
David Stickney
VP Corporate Communications & Investor Relations
925-949-5114
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