Unique Fabricating, Inc. Reports First Quarter 2021 Financial Results
Unique Fabricating (NYSE:UFAB) reported Q1 2021 results with net sales of $34.8 million, slightly up from $34.7 million YoY. The net loss narrowed to $1.1 million or $0.11 per share, an improvement from a loss of $2.3 million or $0.24 per share in Q1 2020. Gross profit increased to 16.8% of net sales. However, the company anticipates lower Q2 revenues due to ongoing microchip shortages. It remains optimistic about recovery in the second half of 2021, driven by demand in home building and improvements in light vehicle production forecasts.
- Narrowing net loss to $1.1 million from $2.3 million YoY.
- Increased gross profit margin to 16.8% from 16.1% YoY.
- Improved cash position with $2.7 million in cash compared to $1.1 million YoY.
- Net debt increased to $52.0 million from $45.3 million YoY.
- Lower Q2 revenue expected due to microchip shortages, impacting operations.
AUBURN HILLS, MI / ACCESSWIRE / May 13, 2021 / Unique Fabricating, Inc. (NYSE American:UFAB), a leader in engineering and manufacturing multi-material foam, rubber, and plastic components utilized in noise, vibration, and harshness management and air/water sealing applications for the transportation, appliance, medical, and consumer markets, today announced its financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2021.
First Quarter 2021 Financial Results
- Net sales of
$34.8 million compared to$34.7 million in the first quarter of 2020. - Net loss of
$1.1 million or$0.11 per basic and diluted share compared to a net loss of$2.3 million or$0.24 per basic and diluted share in the first quarter of 2020. - Net debt(1) increased
$(6.7) million to$52.0 million as of March 31, 2021, from$45.3 million as of March 31, 2020; the 2021 amount includes the$6.0 million PPP loan. - Interest expense decreased
$1.0 million to$0.7 million compared to the prior year period of$1.7 million .
"We increased both gross profit and operating income from the year ago period on essentially flat revenues reflecting our continued focus on cost reduction, efficiency, and consolidation activities," said Doug Cain, President and Chief Executive Officer. "These improvements also helped us offset the impacts in our customer markets and our supply chains from the well-documented microchip and other raw material availability issues negatively affecting volumes and costs. We are also continuing to deal with the lingering impact of COVID-19, including a challenging labor market."
"Based on current third-party forecasts reflecting the increased negative impact from the microchip shortage, we believe our second quarter revenue will be lower than our first quarter revenue," added Mr. Cain. "Light duty vehicle inventory levels remain significantly below historical norms and retail sales, while strong, are constrained by inadequate new vehicle supply. We are optimistic that we are nearing the low-water mark in our top line projections and that we will see improvements in the second half of 2021 and into 2022. The size of the revenue increases in the second half of 2021 are dependent upon our customers' abilities to secure sufficient microchip supply and successfully manage supply chain disruptions that are likely to continue in the second half of 2021."
"We believe we enter the second quarter of 2021 poised to generate improved results when our markets strengthen and our volumes increase," added Mr. Cain. "The industry forecast underscores the pent-up demand in the second half of 2021 and all of 2022. We remain encouraged by the strength in the home building and home remodeling industries where we have been capturing market share and volumes continue to be robust even as supply has also been running behind demand."
First Quarter 2021 Financial Summary
Net sales for the quarter were
Net loss was
Balance Sheet Summary
As of March 31, 2021, the Company had approximately
As previously disclosed, we entered into a Forbearance Agreement with our lenders under which, during a period commencing on April 9, 2021 and through and including June 15, 2021, the Company will be able to borrow on its revolving line of credit, subject to the terms and conditions for making a revolving credit advance, including availability, and the Lenders have agreed, subject to the terms of the Forbearance Agreement, to forbear from enforcing their rights or seeking to collect payment of the Company's debt or disposing of the collateral securing the debt. The Company intends to use the forbearance period to continue negotiations with the Lenders to enter into an amendment and waiver to cure the defaults. There can be no assurance that the Company will be able to enter into an amendment or waiver with the Lenders or if it enters into an amendment, what the terms, restrictions, and covenants of the amendment will contain.
2021 Outlook and Beyond
As of the latest North American third-party service light vehicle production forecasts, first half production has been reduced again to approximately seven million units and the second half of 2021 is now showing a reduction to approximately eight million units, primarily due to the impact of the semiconductor shortages. For 2022, the belief is that the production volumes will increase with initial forecasts of 16.8 million units as this lost production is recovered and the strong consumer demand remains. If this light vehicle production forecast level for 2021 holds, management expects to generate operating profits and improved operating cash flows, reflecting cost-reduction and efficiency related actions taken to date. Management notes that projected results are subject to substantial uncertainty regarding the continuing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the economy and our industry, as well as other factors referenced in "Forward Looking Statements." There can be no assurance that our or industry results will not vary significantly from current expectations.
Results Conference Call
Unique Fabricating will host a conference call and live webcast today at 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time to review the quarterly results and provide a corporate update. To access the conference call, please dial +1 (844) 602-0380 (toll free) or +1 (862) 298-0970 and if requested, reference conference ID 41247. The conference call will also be webcast live on the Investor Relations section of the Company's website at http://ir.uniquefab.com.
Following the conclusion of the live call, a replay of the webcast will be available on the Investor Relations section of the Company's website for at least 90 days. A telephonic replay of the conference call will also be available from 12 p.m. ET on May 14, 2021 until 11:59 p.m. ET on May 27, 2021 by dialing +1 (877) 481-4010 (United States) or +1 (919) 882-2331 (international) and using the passcode 41247.
About Unique Fabricating, Inc.
Unique Fabricating, Inc. (NYSE American:UFAB) engineers and manufactures components for customers in the transportation, appliance, medical, and consumer markets. The Company's solutions are comprised of multi-material foam, rubber, and plastic components and utilized in noise, vibration and harshness ("NVH") management, acoustical management, water and air sealing, decorative and other functional applications. Unique leverages proprietary manufacturing processes, including die cutting, thermoforming, compression molding, fusion molding, and reaction injection molding to manufacture a wide range of products including air management products, heating ventilating and air conditioning ("HVAC"), seals, engine covers, fender stuffers, air ducts, acoustical insulation, door water shields, gas tank pads, light gaskets, topper pads, mirror gaskets, glove box liners, personal protection equipment, and packaging. The Company is headquartered in Auburn Hills, Michigan. For more information, visit http://www.uniquefab.com.
About Non-GAAP Financial Measures
We present Net Debt, a non-GAAP financial measure, in this press release to provide a supplemental measure of our financial position. We believe that Net Debt is a useful measure of the Company's credit position and progress toward reducing leverage. The calculation is limited in that the Company may not always be able to use cash to repay debt on a dollar-for-dollar basis.
We present Consolidated EBITDA (defined as "Consolidated EBITDA" in our Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, as amended), a non-GAAP financial measure, in this press release to allow evaluation of our covenant compliance in accordance with our Amended and Restated Credit Agreement. Consolidated EBITDA, as defined in our Credit Agreement, is earnings before interest expense, income tax expense (benefit), depreciation and amortization expenses, management fees, non-cash stock compensation expenses, restructuring expenses, goodwill impairment charges, and consulting and licensing costs from our ongoing enterprise resource planning ("ERP") system implementation. There may be additional adjustments allowed by the Amended and Restated Credit Agreement and there are dollar limitations on certain adjustments and add backs. Please refer to our Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, as amended, for a complete understanding of all adjustments and add backs allowed to Consolidated EBITDA as well as our financial covenants. The Company is presenting Consolidated EBITDA to measure our covenant compliance, not as a supplemental performance measurement. Certain of the allowable adjustments and add backs to Consolidated EBITDA are recurring in nature and cash expenses, which we believe limits the usefulness of Consolidated EBITDA as a measurement of the Company's performance. As of December 31, 2020 and March 31, 2021, we were not in compliance with our financial covenants and, as a result, in default under the Amended and Restated Credit Agreement. We have entered into a Forbearance Agreement with our lenders under which, during a period commencing on April 9, 2021 and through and including June 15, 2021, the Company will be able to borrow on its Revolver, subject to the terms and conditions to making a revolving credit advance, including availability, and the Lenders have agreed, subject to the terms of the Forbearance Agreement, to forbear from enforcing their rights or seeking to collect payment of the Company's debt or disposing of the collateral securing the debt. The Company intends to use the forbearance period to continue negotiations with the Lenders to enter into an amendment and waiver to cure the defaults. There can be no assurance that the Company will be able to enter into an amendment or waiver with the Lenders or if it enters into an amendment, what the terms, restrictions, and covenants of the amendment will contain. Without an amendment and waiver that cures the default, substantial doubt about the Company's ability to continue as a going concern remains.
These non-GAAP financial measures may have limitations as analytical tools, and these measures should not be considered in isolation as a substitute for analysis of Unique Fabricating's results as reported under GAAP.
Safe Harbor Statement
Except for the historical information contained herein, the matters discussed in this news release include forward-looking statements, as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 that are subject to risks and uncertainties. Forward-looking statements relate to future events or to future financial performance and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors that may cause the Company's or the Company's industry's actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements including statements relating to the Company's results for the second quarter of 2021 to be materially different from any future results, levels of activity, performance, or achievements expressed or implied by this press release. Words such as "may," "will," "could," "would," "should," "anticipate," "predict," "potential," "continue," "expects," "intends," "plans," "projects," "believes," "estimates," "outlook," and similar expressions are used to identify these forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements include statements regarding, among other things, our expectations about net sales, Consolidated EBITDA, and adjusted diluted earnings per share. All such forward-looking statements are based on management's present expectations and are subject to certain factors, risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results, outcome of events, timing and performance to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, those discussed in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2020 as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and in particular the Section entitled "Risk Factors", as well as any updates to those risk factors filed from time to time in our periodic and current reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. All statements contained in this press release are made as of the date of this press release, and Unique Fabricating does not intend to update this information, unless required by law. Reference to the Company's website above does not constitute incorporation of any of the information thereon into this press release.
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(1) Net debt, a non-GAAP financial measure, is defined as debt minus cash and cash equivalents. Please refer to the Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Financial measures included in the tables included with this press release for a reconciliation of this non-GAAP financial measure to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measure.
UNIQUE FABRICATING INC.
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
(Unaudited - dollars in thousands)
March 31, 2021 | December 31, 2020 | ||||||
Assets | |||||||
Current assets | |||||||
Cash and cash equivalents | $ | 2,729 | $ | 760 | |||
Accounts receivable, net of reserves of approximately | 27,020 | 23,759 | |||||
Inventory, net | 13,562 | 11,951 | |||||
Prepaid expenses and other current assets: | |||||||
Prepaid expenses and other | 4,667 | 5,643 | |||||
Refundable taxes | 3,975 | 4,027 | |||||
Total current assets | 51,953 | 46,140 | |||||
Property, plant, and equipment, net | 23,095 | 22,383 | |||||
Goodwill | 22,111 | 22,111 | |||||
Intangible assets | 6,705 | 7,605 | |||||
Other assets | |||||||
Operating leases | 9,837 | 10,415 | |||||
Investments, at cost | 1,054 | 1,054 | |||||
Deposits and other assets | 289 | 579 | |||||
Deferred tax asset | 893 | 893 | |||||
Total assets | $ | 115,937 | $ | 111,180 | |||
Liabilities and Stockholders' Equity | |||||||
Current liabilities: | |||||||
Accounts payable | $ | 13,455 | $ | 10,892 | |||
Current maturities of long-term debt | 37,133 | 35,864 | |||||
Income taxes payable | 224 | 204 | |||||
Revolver, current maturities | 16,787 | 11,494 | |||||
Accrued compensation | 863 | 792 | |||||
Other accrued liabilities | 4,158 | 4,551 | |||||
Total current liabilities | 72,620 | 63,797 | |||||
Long-term debt, net of current maturities | 750 | 2,999 | |||||
Other long-term liabilities: | |||||||
Other liabilities | 9,744 | 10,519 | |||||
Total liabilities | 83,114 | 77,315 | |||||
Stockholders' equity: | |||||||
Common stock, | 10 | 10 | |||||
Additional paid-in-capital | 46,153 | 46,126 | |||||
Accumulated deficit | (13,340 | ) | (12,271) | ||||
Total stockholders' equity | 32,823 | 33,865 | |||||
Total liabilities and stockholders' equity | $ | 115,937 | $ | 111,180 | |||
UNIQUE FABRICATING INC.
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
(Unaudited - dollars in thousands, except per share amounts)
Three Months Ended March 31, | |||||||
2021 | 2020 | ||||||
Net sales | $ | 34,798 | $ | 34,661 | |||
Cost of sales | 28,936 | 29,070 | |||||
Gross profit | 5,862 | 5,591 | |||||
Selling, general, and administrative expenses | 5,814 | 5,884 | |||||
Restructuring expenses | - | 920 | |||||
Operating income (loss) | 48 | (1,213) | |||||
Other income (expense): | |||||||
Other, net | 18 | (24) | |||||
Interest expense | (693 | ) | (1,666) | ||||
Other expense, net | (675 | ) | (1,690) | ||||
Loss before income tax expense (benefit) | (627 | ) | (2,903) | ||||
Income tax expense (benefit) | 442 | (601) | |||||
Net loss | $ | (1,069 | ) | $ | (2,302) | ||
Net loss per share: | |||||||
Basic | $ | (0.11 | ) | $ | (0.24) | ||
Diluted | $ | (0.11 | ) | $ | (0.24) | ||
UNIQUE FABRICATING INC.
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
(Unaudited - dollars in thousands)
Three Months Ended March 31, | ||||||||
2021 | 2020 | |||||||
Cash Flows from Operating Activities: | ||||||||
Net loss | $ | (1,069 | ) | $ | (2,302 | ) | ||
Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash provided by operating activities: | ||||||||
Depreciation and amortization | 1,644 | 1,751 | ||||||
Amortization of debt issuance costs | 45 | 37 | ||||||
Loss on sale of assets | 14 | 12 | ||||||
Bad debt adjustment | (118 | ) | 213 | |||||
Loss (gain) on derivative instrument | (185 | ) | 614 | |||||
Stock option expense | 27 | 23 | ||||||
Deferred income taxes | - | (788 | ) | |||||
Accounts receivable | (3,142 | ) | (103 | ) | ||||
Inventory | (1,611 | ) | (1,996 | ) | ||||
Prepaid expenses and other assets | 1,317 | (1,224 | ) | |||||
Accounts payable | 3,485 | 5,968 | ||||||
Other assets and liabilities, net | (317 | ) | 4 | |||||
Net cash provided by operating activities | 90 | 2,209 | ||||||
Cash Flows from Investing Activities: | ||||||||
Capital expenditures | (1,530 | ) | (296 | ) | ||||
Proceeds from sale of property, plant and equipment | 65 | 5 | ||||||
Net cash used in investing activities | (1,465 | ) | (291 | ) | ||||
Cash Flows from Financing Activities: | ||||||||
Net change in bank overdraft | (922 | ) | (335 | ) | ||||
Payments on term loans and capital expenditure line | (1,007 | ) | (1,425 | ) | ||||
Proceeds from capital expenditure line | - | - | ||||||
Payments on revolving credit facilities | (6,280 | ) | (3,359 | ) | ||||
Proceeds from revolving credit facilities | 11,553 | 3,671 | ||||||
Net cash provided by (used for) financing activities | 3,344 | (1,448 | ) | |||||
Cash and cash equivalents: | ||||||||
Net increase in cash and cash equivalents | 1,969 | 470 | ||||||
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period | 760 | 650 | ||||||
Cash and cash equivalents at end of period | $ | 2,729 | $ | 1,120 | ||||
Supplemental disclosure of cash flow information: | ||||||||
Cash paid for interest | $ | 815 | $ | 1,513 | ||||
Cash paid for Income taxes | $ | 226 | $ | 241 | ||||
UNIQUE FABRICATING INC.
RECONCILIATION OF NON-GAAP FINANCIAL MEASURES
(Unaudited - dollars in thousands)
RECONCILIATION OF NET INCOME TO CONSOLIDATED EBITDA
The following is a reconciliation of net income, as reported, which is a U.S. GAAP measure of our operating results, to Consolidated EBITDA, as defined in our Credit Agreement, a non-GAAP measure, for the nine months ended March 31, 2021 which is the measuring period for determining compliance with our financial covenants:
Nine Months Ended March 31, 2021(e) | ||||
Net loss | $ | (155 | ) | |
Plus: | ||||
Interest expense | 2,012 | |||
Income tax expense | (1,683 | ) | ||
Depreciation and amortization | 5,271 | |||
Management fees | 168 | |||
Non-cash stock awards | 87 | |||
Non-recurring expenses (a) | 69 | |||
ERP system implementation consulting and licensing costs (b) | 214 | |||
Consolidated EBITDA, as defined | $ | 5,983 | ||
Nine Months Ended March 31, 2021(e) | ||||
Total Consolidated Indebtedness, as defined (c) | $ | 48,670 | ||
Consolidated EBITDA, as defined | $ | 5,983 | ||
Total leverage ratio (d) | 6.10 x | |||
Covenant requirement | 3.25 x | |||
(a) Represents any other non-recurring, non-cash gains during such period, including without limitation, (i) gains from the sale or exchange of assets other than in the ordinary course of business, and (ii) gains from early extinguishment of Indebtedness or Hedging Agreements
(b) Represents costs incurred with respect to the purchase and implementation of the Company's enterprise resource planning system, in an aggregate amount under the definition, not to exceed (i)
(c) Total Consolidated Indebtedness, as defined, excludes the
(d) Ratio to Total Consolidated Indebtedness, as defined, divided by Consolidated EBITDA, as defined. To calculate the Total Leverage Ratio at March 31, 2021, the Consolidated EBITDA for the nine months ended March 31, 2021 is annualized by multiplying it by 4/3.
(e) The nine months ended March 31, 2021 is the most recent period for which information is available for measuring compliance with financial covenants under the Amended and Restated Credit Agreement.
RECONCILIATION OF NET DEBT TO DEBT
March 31, 2021 | December 31, 2020 | March 31, 2020 | ||||||||||
Current maturities of long-term debt | $ | 37,133 | $ | 35,864 | $ | 2,847 | ||||||
Revolver, current maturities | 16,787 | 11,494 | - | |||||||||
Long-term debt, net of current maturities | 750 | 2,999 | 31,819 | |||||||||
Line of credit | - | - | 11,750 | |||||||||
Debt | 54,670 | 50,357 | 46,416 | |||||||||
Less: Cash and cash equivalents | 2,729 | 760 | 1,120 | |||||||||
Net debt | $ | 51,941 | $ | 49,597 | $ | 45,296 | ||||||
SOURCE: Unique Fabricating, Inc.
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