Pitney Bowes Announces Second Quarter 2020 Financial Results

Global Ecommerce

Revenue driven by significant growth in Domestic Parcel Delivery services volumes as well as Digital Delivery volumes. EBIT margin improved from the first quarter and versus prior year. EBIT and EBITDA margins benefited from lower transportation and warehousing costs per unit as a result of scale achieved in the quarter, offset by incremental costs associated with Covid-19.

Presort Services

Revenue declined due to lower Marketing Mail and First Class volumes. Marketing Mail Flats and Bound Printed Matter volumes grew significantly over prior year. EBIT and EBITDA margins were impacted by the lower revenue.

 

SendTech Solutions

 

 

 

Second Quarter

 

($ millions)

 

2020

 

2019

 

Y/Y
Reported

 

Y/Y Ex
Currency

Revenue

 

$321

 

$378

 

(15%)

 

(15%)

EBITDA

 

$113

 

$137

 

(17%)

 

EBIT

 

$104

 

$125

 

(16%)

 

Revenue declined driven by lower equipment sales, support services, supplies and financing. Business services revenues grew as clients increased their usage of shipping offerings and capabilities. Covid-19 adversely impacted in-period revenue, particularly equipment sales and supplies. EBIT and EBITDA margins performed relatively in-line with prior year despite the lower revenue.

2020 Guidance

Given the continued level of uncertainty around the depth and duration of Covid-19, and consistent with direction provided last quarter, the Company has suspended its 2020 annual guidance.

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. ET. 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.pitneybowes.com.

About Pitney Bowes

Pitney Bowes (NYSE: PBI) is a global technology company providing commerce solutions that power billions of transactions. Clients around the world, including 90 percent of the Fortune 500, rely on the accuracy and precision delivered by Pitney Bowes solutions, analytics, and APIs in the areas of ecommerce fulfillment, shipping and returns; cross-border ecommerce; office mailing and shipping; presort services; and financing. For 100 years, Pitney Bowes has been innovating and delivering technologies that remove the complexity of getting commerce transactions precisely right. For additional information visit Pitney Bowes, the Craftsmen of Commerce, at www.pitneybowes.com.

Use of Non-GAAP Measures

The Company's financial results are reported in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP); however, in its disclosures the Company uses certain non-GAAP measures, such as adjusted earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT), adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA), adjusted earnings per share (EPS), revenue growth on a constant currency basis and free cash flow.

The Company reports measures such as adjusted EBIT, adjusted EBITDA and adjusted EPS to exclude the impact of items like discontinued operations, restructuring charges, gains, losses and costs related to acquisitions and dispositions, asset impairment charges, goodwill impairment charges and other unusual or one-time items. While these are actual Company income or expenses, they can mask underlying trends associated with its business. Such items are often inconsistent in amount and frequency and as such, the non-GAAP measures provide investors greater insight into the underlying operating trends of the business.

In addition, revenue growth is 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 is calculated by converting the current period non-U.S. dollar denominated revenue using the prior year’s exchange rate for the comparable quarter. We believe that excluding the impacts of currency exchange rates provides investors a better understanding of the underlying revenue performance. A reconciliation of reported revenue to constant currency revenue can be found in the attached financial schedules.

The Company reports free cash flow in order to provide investors insight into the amount of cash that management could have available for other discretionary uses. Free cash flow adjusts GAAP cash from operations for cash flows of discontinued operations, capital expenditures, restructuring payments, changes in customer deposits held at the Pitney Bowes Bank, transaction costs and other special items. A reconciliation of GAAP cash from operations to free cash flow can be found in the attached financial schedules.

Segment EBIT is the primary measure of profitability and operational performance at the segment level. Segment EBIT is determined by deducting from segment revenue 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. The Company also provides segment EBITDA, which further excludes depreciation and amortization expense for the segment, as an additional useful measure of segment profitability and operational performance. A reconciliation of segment EBIT and EBITDA to net income can be found in the attached financial schedules.

Pitney Bowes has provided a quantitative reconciliation to GAAP in supplemental schedules. This information can be found at the Company's web site www.pb.com/investorrelations.

This document contains “forward-looking statements” about the Company’s expected or potential future business and financial performance. Forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements about its 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 the severity, magnitude and duration of the Covid-19 pandemic (Covid-19), including governments' responses to Covid-19, its continuing impact on our operations, employees, the availability and cost of labor, global supply chain and demand across our and our clients' businesses as well as any deterioration or instability in global macroeconomic conditions. Other factors, which could cause future financial performance to differ materially from the expectations, and which may also be exacerbated by Covid-19 or a negative change in the economy, include, without limitation: declining physical mail volumes; changes in postal regulations, or the financial health of posts in the U.S. or other major markets or the loss of, or significant changes to, our contractual relationship with the United States Postal Service (USPS); expenses and potential impacts resulting from a breach of security, including cyber-attacks or other comparable events; our ability to continue to grow volumes, gain additional economies of scale and improve profitability within our Commerce Services group; the loss of some of our larger clients in our Commerce Services group; our success at managing customer credit risk; third-party suppliers' ability to provide products and services required by our clients; changes in labor conditions and transportation costs; capital market disruptions or credit rating downgrades that adversely impact our ability to access capital markets at reasonable costs; our success in developing and marketing new products and services and obtaining regulatory approvals, if required; competitive factors, including pricing pressures, technological developments and the introduction of new products and services by competitors and other factors as more fully outlined in the Company's 2019 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.

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