AZZ Inc. Issues Fiscal Year 2018 Guidance for Revenue and Earnings

FORT WORTH, Texas, Feb. 7, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- AZZ Inc. (NYSE:AZZ), a global provider of galvanizing services, welding solutions, specialty electrical equipment and highly engineered services, today announced its revenue and earnings guidance for fiscal year 2018. Fiscal year 2018 refers to the 12-month period beginning March 1, 2017 and ending on February 28, 2018.

Tom Ferguson, president and chief executive officer of AZZ, said, "Based upon the evaluation of information currently available to management, we are projecting our fiscal 2018 earnings to be within the range of $2.85 and $3.15 per diluted share, and revenues are estimated to be within the range of $900 to $970 million. Our fiscal year 2018 guidance reflects our estimates given the current market conditions, quarterly seasonality, and does not include any significant acquisitions or divestitures."

Mr. Ferguson, concluded, "Fiscal year 2018 guidance includes AZZ Nuclear Logistics, LLC ("AZZ NL"), which will be a main part of the Energy segment. AZZ NL will be operated under the Industrial Solutions Platform which has a significant welding solutions offering to the global nuclear industry. This move would have been disruptive to AZZ WSI and AZZ NL businesses two years ago, while we were in the process of rebuilding these businesses, as they require different operational skill sets. We believe we can drive synergies between our business for our customers since both have sales organizations serving the domestic and international nuclear markets. Additionally, we anticipate leveraging the finance, legal and human resources functions across the broader business."

About AZZ Inc.
AZZ Inc. is a global provider of galvanizing services, welding solutions, specialty electrical equipment and highly engineered services to the markets of power generation, transmission, distribution and industrial in protecting metal and electrical systems used to build and enhance the world's infrastructure. AZZ Galvanizing is a leading provider of metal finishing solutions for corrosion protection, including hot dip galvanizing to the North American steel fabrication industry. AZZ Energy is dedicated to delivering safe and reliable transmission of power from generation sources to end customers, and automated weld overlay solutions for corrosion and erosion mitigation to critical infrastructure in the energy markets worldwide.

Safe Harbor Statement
Certain statements herein about our expectations of future events or results constitute forward-looking statements for purposes of the safe harbor provisions of The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. You can identify forward-looking statements by terminology such as, "may," "should," "expects," "plans," "anticipates," "believes," "estimates," "predicts," "potential," "continue," or the negative of these terms or other comparable terminology. Such forward-looking statements are based on currently available competitive, financial and economic data and management's views and assumptions regarding future events. Such forward-looking statements are inherently uncertain, and investors must recognize that actual results may differ from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements. This release may contain forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties including, but not limited to, changes in customer demand and response to products and services offered by AZZ, including demand by the power generation markets, electrical transmission and distribution markets, the industrial markets, and the hot dip galvanizing markets; prices and raw material cost, including zinc and natural gas which are used in the hot dip galvanizing process; changes in the political stability and economic conditions of the various markets that AZZ serves, foreign and domestic, customer requested delays of shipments, acquisition opportunities, currency exchange rates, adequacy of financing, and availability of experienced management and employees to implement AZZ's growth strategy. AZZ has provided additional information regarding risks associated with the business in AZZ's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended February 29, 2016 and other filings with the SEC, available for viewing on AZZ's website at www.azz.com and on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov.  You are urged to consider these factors carefully in evaluating the forward-looking statements herein and are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements, which are qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement. These statements are based on information as of the date hereof and AZZ assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.

Contact:	Paul Fehlman, Senior Vice President - Finance and CFO
	AZZ Inc. 817-810-0095
	Internet:  www.azz.com
	Lytham Partners 602-889-9700
	Joe Dorame, Robert Blum or Joe Diaz
	Internet: www.lythampartners.com

 

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