The Company is updating its 2013 annual guidance from continuing operations to reflect results to-date and the Management Services businesses in discontinued operations in the second half of the year.
The Company now expects annual revenue, excluding the impacts of currency, to be in the range of a 1 percent decline to 2 percent growth when compared to the 2012 pro-forma revenue of $3,983 million, which excludes the revenue of Pitney Bowes Management Services.
The Company now expects GAAP earnings per diluted share from continuing operations to be in the range of $1.07 to $1.22. This guidance includes restructuring charges recorded to date of $0.07 per share and excludes any additional actions that may occur as the Company implements plans to further streamline its operations and reduce costs. The guidance includes a goodwill impairment charge of $0.40 per share related to the Management Services business. This guidance also includes $0.08 per share for costs associated with the debt tender in the first quarter.
Adjusted earnings per diluted share from continuing operations are now expected to be in the range of $1.62 to $1.77.
The Company expects free cash flow to now be in the range of $575 million to $675 million.
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As a result of signing the definitive agreement for the sale of the North America Management Services business in the third quarter, the Company anticipates recording an after-tax charge in discontinued operations in the range of $0.40 per share to $0.50 per share primarily related to the difference between the Company’s book and tax basis in this business.
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
Pitney Bowes provides technology solutions for small, mid-size and large firms that help them connect with customers to build loyalty and grow revenue. Many of the company’s solutions are delivered on open platforms to best organize, analyze and apply both public and proprietary data to two-way customer communications. Pitney Bowes includes direct mail, transactional mail and call center communications in its solution mix along with digital channel messaging for the Web, email and mobile applications.
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 goodwill 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 and goodwill and asset impairments, 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.
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expected or potential future business and financial performance. For us
forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements
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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; changes in business portfolio; 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.