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General Finance (MM) | NASDAQ:GFNCU | NASDAQ | Common Stock |
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General Finance Corporation (“General Finance” or “GFN”) (NASDAQ: GFN) (NASDAQ: GFNCW) (NASDAQ: GFNCU) today announced its consolidated financial results for the first quarter ended September 30, 2009 (“QE1 FY 2010”). The results include RWA Holdings Pty Limited and subsidiaries (“Royal Wolf”), the leading provider of portable storage solutions in Australia and New Zealand and Pac-Van, Inc. (“Pac-Van”), a key provider of modular buildings and mobile office units in the United States. Unaudited non-U.S. GAAP financial information for the first quarter ended September 30, 2008 (“QE1 FY 2009”), which combines the results of Pac-Van with the consolidated results of General Finance, is provided for comparison purposes.
General Finance Consolidated QE1 FY 2010 Results Compared to Non-U.S. GAAP Combined QE1 FY 2009 Results
Key Financial Highlights
(1) EBITDA (earnings before interest expense, income tax, depreciation and amortization and other non-operating costs and stock based compensation expense) is a supplemental measure of performance that is not required by, or presented in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“U.S. GAAP”). EBITDA and adjusted EBITDA (which adds back stock-based compensation expense) are non-U.S. GAAP measure, is not a measurement of our financial performance under U.S. GAAP and should not be considered as an alternative to net income, income from operations or any other performance measures derived in accordance with U.S. GAAP or as an alternative to cash flow from operating, investing or financing activities as a measure of liquidity. We present EBITDA and adjusted EBITDA because we consider it to be an important supplemental measure of our performance and because it is frequently used by securities analysts, investors and other interested parties in the evaluation of companies in our industry, many of which present EBITDA when reporting their results.
Business Overview
Ronald Valenta, General Finance’s President and Chief Executive Officer, commented, “Despite the challenges of the current economic environment, we have had continued success in our objectives to reduce debt, maintain utilization and improve margins.”
Charles Barrantes, General Finance’s Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, added, “In reducing our discretionary spending and personnel costs by approximately thirty percent, inventory levels and monitoring receivable collections, as well as fleet capital expenditures, we remained compliant with the financial covenants of our loan facilities at quarter end.”
Mr. Valenta concluded, “We continue to be cautiously optimistic about the long-term outlook for our businesses in both geographic operating segments and believe that the Asia-Pacific area will recover more quickly than the United States. We continue to focus on debt and cost reductions while deriving the benefits of our best practices programs.”
Conference Call
A conference call is scheduled for Thursday, November 12, 2009, at 8:30 a.m. PST (11:30 am EST) to discuss the QE1 FY 2010 earnings results. The conference call number for U.S. participants is (866) 901-5096, the conference call number for participants outside the U.S. is (706) 643-3717 and the conference ID number for both conference call numbers is 37269963. A replay of the conference call may be accessed through November 27, 2009 by U.S. callers by calling (800) 642-1687 or by callers outside the U.S. by calling (706) 645-9291; both U.S. callers and callers outside of the U.S. will utilize conference ID number 37269963 to access the replay of the conference call.
Non-U.S. GAAP Combined General Finance and Pac-Van (QE1 FY 2009)and Consolidated General Finance (QE1 FY 2010)
(Unaudited and in thousands, except per share data)
GFN ConsolidatedPac-Van
GFNCombined
GFN Consolidated QE1 FY 2009 QE1 FY 2009 QE1 FY 2009 QE1 FY 2010 (in thousands) Revenues Sales $ 20,995 $ 8,735 $ 29,730 $ 16,613 Leasing 10,658 13,907 24,565 18,606 31,653 22,642 54,295 35,219 Costs and expenses Cost of sales 18,166 6,294 24,460 13,785 Leasing, selling and general expenses (a) 8,377 11,738 20,115 14,102 Depreciation and amortization 3,383 1,229 4,612 5,257 Operating income 1,727 3,381 5,108 2,075 Interest income 121 — 121 59 Interest expense (b) (4,364 ) (2,894 ) (7,258 ) (3,707 ) Foreign currency exchange gain (loss) and other (c) (7,717 ) — (7,717 ) 2,593 (11,960 ) (2,894 ) (14,854 ) (1,055 ) Income (loss) before provision for income taxes and noncontrolling interest (10,233 ) 487 (9,746 ) 1,020 Provision (benefit) for income taxes (3,565 ) 173 (3,392 ) 372 Net income (loss) (6,668 ) 314 (6,354 ) 648 Noncontrolling interest (1,641 ) — (1,641 ) 573 Net income (loss) attributable to stockholders $ (5,027 ) $ 314 $ (4,713 ) $ 75 Preferred dividends $ — $ 41 Net income (loss) per common share: Basic $ (0.36 ) $ 0.00 Diluted (0.36 ) 0.00 Weighted average shares outstanding: Basic 13,826,052 17,826,052 Diluted 13,826,052 17,826,052(a) Includes stock-based compensation expense of $1,140 for Pac-Van and $210 for GFN Consolidated during QE1 FY 2009. In addition, transaction-related costs incurred by Pac-Van totaled $97 in QE1 FY 2009. During QE1 FY 2010, stock-based compensation expense totaled $246 for GFN Consolidated.
(b) Includes an unrealized loss on interest rate swap and option contracts at GFN Consolidated of $1,536 during QE1 FY 2009 and an unrealized gain of $141 during QE1 FY 2010.
(c) General Finance has certain U.S. dollar-denominated debt at Royal Wolf, including intercompany borrowings, which are remeasured at each financial reporting date with the impact of the remeasurement being recorded in the statement of operations as an unrealized gain or loss. Amounts exchanged into U.S. dollars from Australian dollars for repayments of this U.S. dollar-denominated debt will depend upon the currency exchange rate at the time, with differences in the exchange rate from when the borrowing was incurred being recorded in the statement of operations as a realized gain or loss. During QE1 FY2009, GFN Consolidated incurred net unrealized and realized foreign exchange losses totaling $5,785 and $3,237, respectively. During QE1 FY 2010, net unrealized and realized foreign exchange gains totaled $2,250 and $128, respectively, for GFN Consolidated.
GENERAL FINANCE CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIESCONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEET INFORMATION
(In thousands)
June 30, 2009
September 30, 2009 (Unaudited) Trade and other receivables, net $ 26,432 $ 21,656 Inventories 22,511 20,104 Lease fleet, net 188,915 195,562 Total assets 358,696 357,127 Trade payables and accrued liabilities 24,422 18,076 Long-term debt and obligations 200,304 198,735 Total stockholders’ equity 103,174 107,514About General Finance Corporation
General Finance Corporation (www.generalfinance.com), through its indirect 86.2%-owned subsidiary, Royal Wolf (www.royalwolf.com.au) and its indirect 100%-owned subsidiary Pac-Van (www.pacvan.com), sells and leases products in the portable services industry to a broad cross section of industrial, commercial, educational and government customers throughout Australia, New Zealand and the United States. These products include storage containers and freight containers in the mobile storage industry; and modular buildings, mobile offices and portable container buildings in the modular space industry.
Cautionary Statement About Forward-Looking Statements
Statements in this news release that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, prospects of General Finance, Royal Wolf and Pac-Van. We believe that the expectations represented by our forward looking statements are reasonable, yet there can be no assurance that such expectations will prove to be correct. Furthermore, unless otherwise stated, the forward looking statements contained in this press release are made as of the date of the press release, and we do not undertake any obligation to update publicly or to revise any of the included forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise unless required by applicable legislation or regulation. The forward-looking statements contained in this press release are expressly qualified by this cautionary statement. Readers are cautioned that these forward-looking statements involve certain risks and uncertainties, including those contained in filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission; such as General Finance’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2009.
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