The Company expects that it will make continued investments in its growth initiatives that will result in higher expenses in the first half of the year, but are anticipated to lead to greater revenue and margin contribution beginning in the second half of the year. Additionally, it is expected that the decline in recurring revenue streams will continue to moderate and will have less of an impact on revenue and earnings in the second half of the year. The Company expects interest expense to increase approximately $10 million, or $0.03 per diluted share, related to the interest rate differential between the Company’s recent $425 million debt issuance and the debt tendered.
The Company will provide more information regarding its plans and the expected financial impacts at their May 3rd Investor update meeting.
Conference Call and Webcast
Management of Pitney Bowes will discuss the Company’s results in a broadcast over the Internet today at 8:00 a.m. EDT. Instructions for listening to the earnings results via the Web are available on the Investor Relations page of the Company’s web site at www.pb.com.
About Pitney Bowes
Delivering more than 90 years of innovation, Pitney Bowes provides business communications software, mailing systems and services that integrate physical and digital communications channels. Long known for making its customers more productive, Pitney Bowes is increasingly helping other companies grow their business through advanced customer communications management. Pitney Bowes is a $5 billion company with 29,000 employees worldwide. Pitney Bowes: Every connection is a new opportunity™. www.pb.com
The Company's financial results are reported in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). The Company uses measures such as adjusted earnings per share, adjusted income from continuing operations and free cash flow to exclude the impact of special items like restructuring charges, tax adjustments, and asset write-downs, because, while these are actual Company expenses, they can mask underlying trends associated with our business. Such items are often inconsistent in amount and frequency and as such, the adjustments allow an investor greater insight into the current underlying operating trends of the business.
The use of free cash flow provides investors insight into the amount of cash that management could have available for other discretionary uses. It adjusts GAAP cash from operations for capital expenditures, as well as special items like cash used for restructuring charges, unusual tax payments and contributions to its pension funds. Management uses segment EBIT to measure profitability and performance at the segment level. EBIT is determined by deducting the related costs and expenses attributable to the segment. Segment EBIT excludes interest, taxes, general corporate expenses not allocated to a particular business segment, restructuring charges, asset impairments, and goodwill charges which are recognized on a consolidated basis. In addition, financial results are presented on a constant currency basis to exclude the impact of changes in foreign currency exchange rates since the prior period under comparison. Constant currency measures are intended to help investors better understand the underlying operational performance of the business excluding the impacts of shifts in currency exchange rates over the intervening period.
Pitney Bowes has provided a quantitative reconciliation to GAAP in supplemental schedules. This information may also be found at the Company's web site www.pb.com/investorrelations.
This document contains “forward-looking statements” about our expected or potential future business and financial performance. For us forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements about our future revenue and earnings guidance and other statements about future events or conditions. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: mail volumes; the uncertain economic environment; timely development, market acceptance and regulatory approvals, if needed, of new products; fluctuations in customer demand; changes in postal regulations; interrupted use of key information systems; management of outsourcing arrangements; foreign currency exchange rates; changes in our credit ratings; management of credit risk; changes in interest rates; the financial health of national posts; and other factors beyond our control as more fully outlined in the Company's 2012 Form 10-K Annual Report and other reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Pitney Bowes assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements contained in this document as a result of new information, events or developments.
Note: Consolidated statements of income; revenue and EBIT by business segment; and reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP measures for the three months ended March 31, 2013 and 2012, and consolidated balance sheets at March 31, 2013 and December 31, 2012 are attached.
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| Three months ended March 31, | ||||||||
| 2013 | 2012 | |||||||
| Revenue: | ||||||||
| Equipment sales | $ | 214,999 | $ | 220,179 | ||||
| Supplies | 74,287 | 76,365 | ||||||
| Software | 87,012 | 104,350 | ||||||
| Rentals | 136,379 | 140,389 | ||||||
| Financing | 116,762 | 126,748 | ||||||
| Support services | 165,486 | 173,518 | ||||||
| Business services | 372,031 | 378,587 | ||||||
| Total revenue | 1,166,956 | 1,220,136 | ||||||
| Costs and expenses: | ||||||||
| Cost of equipment sales | 109,337 | 96,916 | ||||||
| Cost of supplies | 23,262 | 23,871 | ||||||
| Cost of software | 20,706 | 21,093 | ||||||
| Cost of rentals | 27,755 | 30,225 | ||||||
| Financing interest expense | 19,875 | 21,139 | ||||||
| Cost of support services | 108,009 | 115,087 | ||||||
| Cost of business services | 291,648 | 286,817 | ||||||
| Selling, general and administrative | 377,206 | 405,486 | ||||||
| Research and development | 33,335 | 34,073 | ||||||
| Other interest expense | 30,739 | 29,367 | ||||||
| Interest income | (1,748 | ) | (1,733 | ) | ||||
| Other expense (income), net | 25,121 | (3,234 | ) | |||||
| Total costs and expenses | 1,065,245 | 1,059,107 | ||||||
| Income from continuing operations before income taxes | 101,711 | 161,029 | ||||||
| Provision for income taxes | 27,549 | 15,493 | ||||||
| Income from continuing operations | 74,162 | 145,536 | ||||||
| (Loss) income from discontinued operations, net of tax | (2,062 | ) | 17,728 | |||||
| Net income before attribution of noncontrolling interests | 72,100 | 163,264 | ||||||
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Less: Preferred stock dividends of subsidiaries attributable
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4,594 | 4,594 | ||||||
| Net income - Pitney Bowes Inc. | $ | 67,506 | $ | 158,670 | ||||
| Amounts attributable to common stockholders: | ||||||||
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Net income from continuing operations |
$ | 69,568 | $ | 140,942 | ||||
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(Loss) income from discontinued operations, net of tax |
(2,062 | ) | 17,728 | |||||
| Net income - Pitney Bowes Inc. | $ | 67,506 | $ | 158,670 | ||||
| Basic earnings per share attributable to common stockholders (1) : | ||||||||
| Continuing operations | 0.35 | 0.70 | ||||||
| Discontinued operations | (0.01 | ) | 0.09 | |||||
| Net income - Pitney Bowes Inc. | $ | 0.34 | $ | 0.79 | ||||
| Diluted earnings per share attributable to common stockholders (1) : | ||||||||
| Continuing operations | 0.34 | 0.70 | ||||||
| Discontinued operations | (0.01 | ) | 0.09 | |||||
| Net income - Pitney Bowes Inc. | $ | 0.33 | $ | 0.79 | ||||
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| (1) | The sum of the earnings per share amounts may not equal the totals above due to rounding. | |
