WALNUT CREEK, CA — (Marketwired) — 02/23/16 — ARC Document Solutions, Inc. (NYSE: ARC), the nation–s leading document solutions provider for the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry, today reported its financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2015.
Revenue grew by $4.9 million year-over-year, or 1.2%
Adjusted diluted earnings per share grew 40% to $0.35 vs. $0.25 in 2014
Gross margin increased 60 basis points year-over-year to 34.6%
Adjusted EBITDA was $72.2 million
Adjusted cash flow from operations grew more than 13% to $61.2 million
Total debt reduced by $30.9 million, or 15.2%
2016 fully-diluted annual adjusted earnings per share projected to be in the range of $0.30 to $0.35; annual adjusted cash provided by operating activities projected to be in the range of $55 to $60 million; and annual adjusted EBITDA to be in the range of $66 million to $71 million
“In 2015 we carved out a solid position for our new technology solutions, generated more than a million dollars of new sales from innovative technology-enabled services, and drove impressive growth in our Archiving and Information Management business,” said K. “Suri” Suriyakumar, Chairman, President and CEO of ARC Document Solutions. “Our team also generated a consolidated gross margin of nearly 35 percent, paid down more than 10 percent of our senior debt obligations, generated strong cash flows and healthy EBITDA performance, and created the opportunity to produce strong returns on a share repurchase program. All of this was done in the face of our traditional business being challenged due to secular headwinds and a continuing industry trend toward reducing print.”
“As we look at the next 24 to 36 months,” said Mr. Suriyakumar, “we expect to deliver excellent cash generation, healthy gross margin performance, and continuing improvements to our capital structure as we capture new business, gain traction with our new business lines, and build upon them to offset the slow declines in our traditional business. We–re building a new business, and as we do so, we believe our investors will recognize the fundamental value of our transformation.”
Net sales were $104.5 million, a 2.8% decrease compared to the fourth quarter of 2014.
Days sales outstanding in Q4 2015 and 2014 were 52.
AEC customers comprised approximately 77% of our total net sales, while non-AEC customers made up 23% of our total net sales.
The number of MPS accounts has grown to approximately 9,000, a gain of approximately 500 contracts over Q4 2014.
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.
ARC Document Solutions 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 of 2015. To access the live audio call, dial 888-378-0320. International callers may join the conference by dialing 719-325-2361. The conference ID number is 6449686. A live webcast will also be made available on the investor relations page of ARC Document Solution–s website at ir.e-arc.com.
A replay of the call will be available for five days after the call–s conclusion. To access the replay, dial 888-203-1112. International callers may access the replay by dialing 719-457-0820. The conference ID number is 6449686. The webcast will also be made available at for approximately 90 days following the call–s conclusion.
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ARC Document Solutions is a leading document solutions company serving businesses of all types, with an emphasis on the non-residential segment of the architecture, engineering and construction industries. The Company helps more than 90,000 customers reduce costs and increase efficiency in the use of their documents, improve document access and control, and offers a wide variety of ways to print, produce, and store documents. ARC provides its solutions onsite in more than 8,500 of its customers– offices, offsite in service centers around the world, and digitally in the form of proprietary software and web applications. For more information please visit .
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 “expect,” “forecast,” “project,” “outlook,” 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. In addition to matters affecting the construction, managed print services, document management or reprographics industries, or the economy generally, factors that could cause actual results to differ from expectations stated in forward-looking statements include, among others, the factors described in the caption entitled “Risk Factors” in Item 1A in ARC Document Solution–s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2014, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, and other periodic filings and prospectuses. 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. 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. For more information, see our 2014 Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Specifically, we have presented adjusted net income attributable to ARC and adjusted earnings per share attributable to ARC shareholders for the three and twelve months ended December 31, 2015 and 2014 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 and twelve months ended December 31, 2015 and 2014 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 and twelve months ended December 31, 2015 and 2014. 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 have presented adjusted EBITDA for the three and twelve months ended December 31, 2015 and 2014 to exclude loss on extinguishment of debt, trade secret litigation costs, stock-based compensation expense, and restructuring 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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