CANTON, Ohio, Jan. 12, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- TimkenSteel
Corp. (NYSE: TMST, timkensteel.com), a leader in custom steel and
alloy steel products and services, announced today that it is
changing to the mark-to-market method of accounting for pension and
other post-employment benefit (OPEB) plans. This method recognizes
actuarial gains or losses in the year incurred rather than
amortizing them over future years. The net impact of this
change is estimated to decrease the company's 2016 operating
results by approximately $25 million to $35
million (after-tax), with full-year net loss now projected
to be between $80 million and $90
million. The majority of the net impact will be
recognized in the fourth-quarter with the remainder during the
first nine months of 2016.
"The reporting method change for our benefit plans is preferable
because it eliminates the timing impact of past actuarial gains and
losses from current operating results," said Christopher J. Holding, TimkenSteel's executive
vice president and chief financial officer. "It has no effect on
benefits, pension funding or cash flow, and allows for better
comparison to other companies in our industry. Our pension
plans remain well funded, which is significant to our employees and
our results."
This accounting change requires retrospective application, and
select revised prior-period results are presented below. These
revised results are preliminary and subject to change as we
finalize our financial statements for the three years ended
December 31, 2016, which will be
provided at a later date in the company's 2016 form 10-K.
TimkenSteel will release its 2016 fourth-quarter and year-end
financial results on Thursday, Feb.
16, after the market closes on the New York Stock
Exchange.
The company will host a conference call at 9 a.m. EST on Friday, Feb.
17, to discuss its financial performance with investors and
securities analysts. The financial results and conference call
materials will be available online at
investors.timkensteel.com.
TimkenSteel Earnings Call Information:
Conference
Call
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Friday, Feb. 17,
2017
9 a.m. EST
Toll-free dial-in:
877-201-0168
International
dial-in: 647-788-4901
Conference ID:
49283443
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Conference Call
Replay
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Replay dial-in
available through March 3, 2017
855-859-2056 or
404-537-3406
Replay passcode:
49283443
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Live
Webcast
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investors.timkensteel.com
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About TimkenSteel Corporation
TimkenSteel (NYSE:
TMST, timkensteel.com) creates tailored steel products and services
for demanding applications, helping customers push the bounds of
what's possible within their industries. The company reaches around
the world in its customers' products and leads North America in large alloy steel bars (up to
16 inches in diameter) and seamless mechanical tubing made of its
special bar quality (SBQ) steel, as well as supply chain and steel
services. TimkenSteel makes all of its steel in the United States and operates warehouses and
sales offices in four other countries. The company posted
sales of $1.1 billion in 2015.
Follow us on Twitter @TimkenSteel and on Instagram.
This news release includes "forward-looking" statements
within the meaning of the federal securities laws. You can
generally identify the company's forward-looking statements by
words such as "anticipate," "believe," "could," "estimate,"
"expect," "forecast," "outlook," "intend," "may," "plan,"
"possible," "potential," "predict," "project," "seek," "target,"
"should" or "would" or other similar words, phrases or expressions
that convey the uncertainty of future events or outcomes.
The company cautions readers that actual results may differ
materially from those expressed or implied in forward-looking
statements made by or on behalf of the company due to a
variety of factors, such as: the finalization of the company's
financial statements for the fourth quarter and year ended
December 31, 2016, including the
actual impact of the adoption of mark-to-market accounting; the
company's ability to realize the expected benefits of its
spinoff from The Timken Company; deterioration in world economic
conditions, or in economic conditions in any of the geographic
regions in which the company conducts business, including
additional adverse effects from global economic slowdown, terrorism
or hostilities, including political risks associated with the
potential instability of governments and legal systems in countries
in which the company or its customers conduct business, and changes
in currency valuations; the effects of fluctuations in customer
demand on sales, product mix and prices in the industries in which
the company operates, including the ability of the company
to respond to rapid changes in customer demand, the effects of
customer bankruptcies or liquidations, the impact of changes in
industrial business cycles, and whether conditions of fair trade
exist in U.S. markets; competitive factors, including changes in
market penetration, increasing price competition by existing or new
foreign and domestic competitors, the introduction of new products
by existing and new competitors, and new technology that may impact
the way the company's products are sold or distributed; changes in
operating costs, including the effect of changes in the company's
manufacturing processes, changes in costs associated with varying
levels of operations and manufacturing capacity, availability of
raw materials and energy, the company's ability to mitigate the
impact of fluctuations in raw materials and energy costs and the
effectiveness of its surcharge mechanism, changes in the expected
costs associated with product warranty claims, changes resulting
from inventory management, cost reduction initiatives and different
levels of customer demands, the effects of unplanned work
stoppages, and changes in the cost of labor and benefits; the
success of the company's operating plans, announced programs,
initiatives and capital investments (including the jumbo bloom
vertical caster and advanced quench-and-temper facility); the
ability to integrate acquired companies, the ability of acquired
companies to achieve satisfactory operating results, including
results being accretive to earnings; the company's ability to
maintain appropriate relations with unions that represent its
employees in certain locations in order to avoid disruptions of
business; and the availability of financing and interest rates,
which affect the company's cost of funds and/or ability to raise
capital, the company's pension obligations and investment
performance, and/or customer demand and the ability of customers to
obtain financing to purchase the company's products or
equipment that contain its products.
Additional risks relating to the company's business, the
industries in which the company operates or the company's common
shares may be described from time to time in the company's filings
with the SEC. All of these risk factors are difficult to predict,
are subject to material uncertainties that may affect actual
results and may be beyond the company's control. Readers are
cautioned that it is not possible to predict or identify all of the
risks, uncertainties and other factors that may affect future
results and that the above list should not be considered to
be a complete list. Except as required by the federal securities
laws, the company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or
revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new
information, future events or otherwise.
TimkenSteel
Corporation
REVISED FINANCIAL INFORMATION
(Dollars in millions, except per share data)
(Unaudited)
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Years Ended December 31,
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2015
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2014
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Net (Loss) Income
before income taxes - Previously Reported
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($115.0)
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$158.2
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Elimination of
actuarial loss
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34.1
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18.1
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Other - Effects on
inventory and asset fair value change
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2.0
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7.5
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Remeasurement
gain/(loss)
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6.5
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(114.2)
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Net (Loss) Income
before income taxes - Revised
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($72.4)
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$69.6
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(Benefit) provision
from income taxes
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(26.9)
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23.0
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Net (Loss)
income
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($45.5)
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$46.6
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Per Share
Data:
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Basic (loss) earnings
per share
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($1.02)
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$1.02
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Diluted (loss)
earnings per share
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($1.02)
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$1.01
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Weighted average
shares outstanding
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44,533,725
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45,541,705
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Weighted average
shares outstanding - assuming dilution
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44,533,725
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46,044,143
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