Summer Infant, Inc. Issues Full Year 2008 Guidance
December 12 2007 - 4:01PM
Business Wire
Summer Infant, Inc. (�Company�) (Nasdaq: SUMR, SUMRU, SUMRW), today
announced its outlook for the full year 2008. Based on customer
commitments to date and sales data at the retail level, the Company
expects net revenues for 2008 to be in the range of approximately
$95.0 to $100.0 million and EBITDA for 2008 to be in the range of
$10.2 to $10.6 million, before any acquisitions. The Company
expects earnings per share for 2008 to be in the range of $0.30 to
$0.32. �We are very excited about the opportunities that lie ahead
for Summer Infant in 2008,� commented Jason Macari, Chief Executive
Officer of the Summer Infant, Inc. �We continue to see significant
momentum in our industry and a very positive response from our
retail partners regarding our 2008 product lineup and placements.
Despite facing some near-term pressure from higher raw material and
labor costs in China, we continue to carefully manage our expenses
and to adjust our cost structure as necessary. Nevertheless, we
continue to invest in our business to ensure we are developing
safe, innovative products and improved designs to help build the
Summer Infant brand and to differentiate our products from our
competition.� About Summer Infant, Inc. Based in Woonsocket, Rhode
Island, the Company is a designer, marketer and distributor of
branded durable juvenile health, safety and wellness products (for
ages 0-3 years), which are sold principally to large U.S.
retailers. The Company currently sells proprietary products in a
number of different categories, including nursery audio/video
monitors, safety gates, durable bath products, bed rails, infant
thermometers and related health and safety products, booster and
potty seats, soft goods, bouncers, strollers, highchairs and
swings. Use of Non-GAAP Financial Information This release includes
presentations of EBITDA, which is defined as income before interest
and taxes plus depreciation, amortization and non cash stock option
expense. The Company believes that the presentation of EBITDA
provides useful information to investors as it indicates more
clearly the ability of the Company's assets to generate cash
sufficient to pay interest on its indebtedness, meet capital
expenditure and working capital requirements and otherwise meet its
obligations as they become due. EBITDA is commonly used as a
measure of leverage capacity, debt service ability and liquidity.
EBITDA is not considered a measure of financial performance under
U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), and the items
excluded from EBITDA are significant components in understanding
and assessing our financial performance. EBITDA should not be
considered in isolation or as an alternative to such GAAP measures
as net income, cash flows provided by or used in operating,
investing or financing activities or other financial statement data
presented in our consolidated financial statements as an indicator
of financial performance or liquidity. The Company provides
reconciliations of EBITDA and any other non-GAAP financial measures
in its press releases of historical performance. However,
reconciliation for forward-looking EBITDA projections presented in
this release is not being provided due to the number of variables
in the projected range of EBITDA. The EBITDA range in this release
is calculated in accordance with the Company's past practices.
Since EBITDA is not a measure determined in accordance with GAAP
and is susceptible to varying calculations, EBITDA, as presented,
may not be comparable to other similarly titled measures of other
companies. Forward Looking Statements Certain statements in this
release that are not historical fact may be deemed �forward-looking
statements� within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation
Reform Act of 1995, and the Company intends that these
forward-looking statements be subject to the safe harbor created
thereby. These forward-looking statements include statements
regarding expected operating performance, sales, net revenues,
EBITDA and customer commitments for fiscal 2008. The Company
cautions that these statements are qualified by important factors
that could cause actual results to differ materially from those
reflected by these forward-looking statements. These factors
include the concentration of the Company�s business with retail
customers; the ability of the Company to compete in the industry;
the Company�s dependence on key personnel; the Company�s reliance
on foreign suppliers; and other risks as detailed in the Company�s
Annual Report on Form 10-KSB for the fiscal year ended December 31,
2006, Definitive Proxy filed February 13, 2007, and subsequent
filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Company
assumes no obligation to update the information contained in this
presentation.
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