* Net sales were $472 million and down 3% year over year. Core sales(1) declined 1%, excluding the 2% impact of the RHF product line exit, while acquisitions contributed 1% and foreign currency translation subtracted 1%.
* GAAP diluted earnings per share from continuing operations was $0.18 compared with $0.20 in the prior year.
* Adjusted earnings per share(1) was $0.35, compared with $0.32 in the prior year.
* Adjusted EBITDA(1) was $79 million or 17% of net sales.
* Increased exposure to consumer-facing markets with acquisition of Cambridge.
* Total liquidity was $528 million ($183 million of cash plus $345 million of available borrowings).
Todd Adams, President and Chief Executive Officer, commented, “Our first quarter operating results were slightly better than our guidance, with core growth and margins in line. Although the industrial environment remains challenging, demand conditions in our nonresidential construction, aerospace, and food and beverage end markets continue to be favorable to growth and our investments in innovation and operational excellence initiatives are expected to drive incremental growth and value creation. During the quarter, we closed an important acquisition that provides new pathways to enhance our growth, while also reducing our outstanding debt by $100 million. Our supply chain optimization and footprint repositioning initiative remains on track to deliver $30 million of annualized cost savings as we exit this fiscal year.”
“The Process & Motion Control (''PMC'') platform benefited from stabilizing sell-through rates in our industrial distribution channels, plus the contribution of Cambridge after closing in early June. While our sales to process industry OEMs and end users continued to be down year over year, our core sales to consumer-facing end markets increased in the quarter and global aftermarket revenue was also up. We are excited about the combined capabilities of Cambridge and Rexnord and the incremental and tangible growth opportunities that we have identified and plan to capture. Operational execution is improving as expected in our Aerospace operations, where demand conditions continue to support our favorable core growth outlook. PMC margins reflect a peak in the short-term impact from elevated spending on our supply chain optimization and footprint repositioning project, our product innovation pipeline, and our market expansion initiatives.”
“Water Management platform operating results were consistent with our expectations as sales growth benefited from ongoing steady growth in our nonresidential construction end markets and the timing of shipments in our water and wastewater infrastructure end markets. Our previously disclosed exit from a non-core product line is proceeding as planned, and is expected to have a rapidly diminishing impact on our consolidated financial results. The substantial pipeline of projects in our nonresidential construction end markets supports our expectations for ongoing positive core sales growth, leveraged by our ongoing investments in continuous improvement initiatives and product innovation through the Rexnord Business System (''RBS'').”
Second Quarter and Fiscal 2017 Outlook and Guidance
Adams continued, “We are reaffirming our guidance for fiscal year 2017 adjusted earnings per share in a range of $1.47-1.57. We believe our unchanged outlook prudently balances the modest upside that was realized in our first quarter and the ongoing solid progress with our strategic growth and cost reduction initiatives with the increasingly volatile global business landscape. For the second quarter, we expect our net sales to be in the range of $492-$502 million and adjusted earnings per share to be in a range of $0.36-$0.39. Our first quarter results benefited from $0.03 of excess tax benefits on stock option exercises that were originally anticipated in our second quarter.”
First Quarter Fiscal 2017 Segment Highlights
Process & Motion Control
Process & Motion Control net sales were $264 million in the first quarter of fiscal 2017, down 3% year over year. The Cambridge acquisition contributed 2% after closing in early June, partially offsetting the 5% year over year decrease in core sales. Adverse OEM and end user demand across several of our industrial process end markets was partially offset by positive sales growth in our industrial distribution channels and our consumer-facing end markets.
Process & Motion Control income from operations for the first quarter of fiscal 2017 was $26 million, or 9.7% of net sales. Income from operations as a percentage of net sales decreased by 340 basis points year over year in the first quarter as a result of the lower level of sales, incremental investments in our innovation, market expansion, and footprint repositioning actions, as well as purchase accounting adjustments related to the Cambridge acquisition.
Adjusted EBITDA(1) in the first quarter was $49 million. Adjusted EBITDA as a percentage of net sales decreased 240 basis points year over year to 18.6%.
Water Management
Water Management net sales were $208 million in the first quarter of fiscal 2017. Core sales increased 3% year over year, which excludes a 5% adverse impact associated with the exit of the Rodney Hunt® Fontaine® (“RHF”) product line and a 1% unfavorable impact from foreign currency translation. Growth benefited from favorable demand in our nonresidential construction end markets as well as the timing of project shipments to our water and wastewater infrastructure end markets.
Water Management income from operations was $23 million for the first quarter of fiscal 2017. Operating margin was 10.9% of net sales, a decrease of 190 basis points year over year. Favorable volume growth in the core operations was leveraged with RBS-driven productivity gains to mitigate the impact of the RHF product line exit, higher restructuring expenses, and the timing of project shipments in our water and wastewater infrastructure end markets.
Adjusted EBITDA(1) in the first quarter was $38 million or 19.0% of sales (adjusted for the RHF product line exit). Comparable margin declined by 80 bps year over year.
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
The following non-GAAP financial measures are utilized by management in comparing our operating performance on a consistent basis. We believe that these financial measures are appropriate to enhance an overall understanding of our underlying operating performance trends compared to historical and prospective periods and our peers. Management also believes that these measures are useful to investors in their analysis of our results of operations and provide improved comparability between fiscal periods. Non-GAAP financial measures should not be considered in isolation from, or as a substitute for, financial information calculated in accordance with GAAP. Investors are encouraged to review the reconciliation of these non-GAAP measures to their most directly comparable GAAP financial measures. A reconciliation of non-GAAP financial measures presented above to our GAAP results has been provided in the financial tables included in this press release.
Core Sales
Core sales excludes the impact of acquisitions (including the Cambridge acquisition), divestitures (including the RHF product line exit) and foreign currency translation. Management believes that core sales facilitates easier and more meaningful comparison of our net sales performance with prior and future periods and to our peers. We exclude the effect of acquisitions and divestitures because the nature, size and number of acquisitions and divestitures can vary dramatically from period to period and between us and our peers, and can also obscure underlying business trends and make comparisons of long-term performance difficult. We exclude the effect of foreign currency translation from this measure because the volatility of currency translation is not under management's control.
Adjusted Net Income and Adjusted Earnings Per Share
Adjusted net income and adjusted earnings per share (calculated on a diluted basis) exclude actuarial gains and losses on pension and postretirement benefit obligations, restructuring and other similar costs, gains or losses on divestitures, gains or losses on extinguishment of debt, the impact of inventory fair value adjustments in connection with purchase accounting, amortization of intangible assets, and other non-operational, non-cash or non-recurring losses, net of their income tax impact. The tax rates used to calculate adjusted net income and adjusted earnings per share are based on a transaction specific basis. We believe that adjusted net income and adjusted earnings per share are useful in assessing our financial performance by excluding items that are not indicative of our core operating performance or that may obscure trends useful in evaluating our continuing results of operations.
EBITDA
EBITDA represents earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization. EBITDA is presented because it is an important supplemental measure of performance and it is frequently used by analysts, investors and other interested parties in the evaluation of companies in our industry. EBITDA is also presented and compared by analysts and investors in evaluating our ability to meet debt service obligations. Other companies in our industry may calculate EBITDA differently. EBITDA is not a measurement of financial performance under GAAP and should not be considered as an alternative to cash flow from operating activities or as a measure of liquidity or an alternative to net income as indicators of operating performance or any other measures of performance derived in accordance with GAAP. Because EBITDA is calculated before recurring cash charges, including interest expense and taxes, and is not adjusted for capital expenditures or other recurring cash requirements of the business, it should not be considered as a measure of discretionary cash available to invest in the growth of the business.
Adjusted EBITDA
“Adjusted EBITDA” is the term we use to describe EBITDA as defined and adjusted in our credit agreement, which is net income, adjusted for the items summarized in the table below. Adjusted EBITDA is intended to show our unleveraged, pre-tax operating results and therefore reflects our financial performance based on operational factors, excluding non-operational, non-cash or non-recurring losses or gains. In view of our debt level, it is also provided to aid investors in understanding our compliance with our debt covenants. Adjusted EBITDA is not a presentation made in accordance with GAAP, and our use of the term Adjusted EBITDA varies from others in our industry. This measure should not be considered as an alternative to net income, income from operations or any other performance measures derived in accordance with GAAP. Adjusted EBITDA has important limitations as an analytical tool, and you should not consider it in isolation, or as a substitute for, analysis of our results as reported under GAAP. For example, Adjusted EBITDA does not reflect: (a) our capital expenditures, future requirements for capital expenditures or contractual commitments; (b) changes in, or cash requirements for, our working capital needs; (c) the significant interest expenses, or the cash requirements necessary to service interest or principal payments, on our debt; (d) tax payments that represent a reduction in cash available to us; (e) any cash requirements for the assets being depreciated and amortized that may have to be replaced in the future; or (f) the impact of earnings or charges resulting from matters that we and the lenders under our credit agreement may not consider indicative of our ongoing operations. In particular, our definition of Adjusted EBITDA allows us to add back certain non-cash, non-operating or non-recurring charges that are deducted in calculating net income, even though these are expenses that may recur, vary greatly and are difficult to predict and can represent the effect of long-term strategies as opposed to short-term results.
In addition, certain of these expenses can represent the reduction of cash that could be used for other corporate purposes. Further, although not included in the calculation of Adjusted EBITDA below, the measure may at times allow us to add estimated cost savings and operating synergies related to operational changes ranging from acquisitions to dispositions to restructurings and/or exclude one-time transition expenditures that we anticipate we will need to incur to realize cost savings before such savings have occurred. Further, management and various investors use the ratio of total debt less cash to Adjusted EBITDA (which includes a full pro-forma last-twelve-month impact of acquisitions), or "net debt leverage", as a measure of our financial strength and ability to incur incremental indebtedness when making key investment decisions and evaluating us against peers.
Free Cash Flow
We define Free Cash Flow as cash flow from operations less capital expenditures, and we use this metric in analyzing our ability to service and repay our debt and to forecast future periods. However, this measure does not represent funds available for investment or other discretionary uses since it does not deduct cash used to service our debt.
About Rexnord
Headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Rexnord is comprised of two strategic platforms, Process & Motion Control and Water Management, with approximately 7,800 employees worldwide. The Process & Motion Control platform designs, manufactures, markets and services specified, highly-engineered mechanical components used within complex systems. The Water Management platform designs, procures, manufactures and markets products that provide and enhance water quality, safety, flow control and conservation. Additional information about the Company can be found at www.rexnord.com.
Conference Call Details
Rexnord will hold a conference call on Tuesday, August 2, 2016 at 8:00 a.m. Eastern Time to discuss its fiscal 2017 first quarter results and provide a general business update. Rexnord President and CEO, Todd Adams, and Senior Vice President and CFO, Mark Peterson, will co-host the call. The conference call can be accessed via telephone as follows:
A live webcast of the call will also be available on the Company's investor relations website. Please go to the website (investors.rexnord.com) at least fifteen minutes prior to the start of the call to register, download and install any necessary audio software.
If you are unable to participate during the live teleconference, a replay of the conference call will be available from 10:30 a.m. Eastern Time, August 2, 2016 until 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time, August 9, 2016. To access the replay, please dial 888-843-7419 (domestic) or 630-652-3042 (international) with access code 4301 1324 #.
Cautionary Statement on Forward-Looking Statements
Information in this release may involve outlook, expectations, beliefs, plans, intentions, strategies or other statements regarding the future, which are forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties. All forward-looking statements included in this release are based upon information available to Rexnord Corporation as of the date of the release, and Rexnord Corporation assumes no obligation to update any such forward-looking statements. The statements in this release are not guarantees of future performance, and actual results could differ materially from current expectations. Numerous factors could cause or contribute to such differences. Please refer to "Risk Factors" and "Cautionary Notice Regarding Forward-Looking Statements" in the Company's Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2016 as well as the Company's annual, quarterly and current reports filed on Forms 10-K, 10-Q and 8-K from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a further discussion of the factors and risks associated with the business.
(1) Refer to "Non-GAAP Measures" for a definition of this non-GAAP metric, as well as the accompanying reconciliations to GAAP.
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