Shenandoah Telecommunications Company (“Shentel”) (Nasdaq: SHEN)
announced first quarter 2020 financial and operating results.
First Quarter 2020 Highlights
- Generated $36.0 million in normalized free cash flow and $61.1
million in operating cash flow.
- Ended the quarter with $195.2 million of liquidity.
- Broadband revenues and Adjusted OIBDA increased 6.2%, and 4.3%,
respectively. Operating income was flat with prior year.
- Launched Glo Fiber into three new markets increasing homes
passed to over 5,000.
"Although we do not operate in the densely populated urban
markets most affected, the COVID-19 crisis began to affect our
operating and financial results during the latter part of the first
quarter of 2020," said President and CEO, Christopher E. French.
“These effects were not material to our overall first quarter
performance, but our postpaid gross additions decreased as a result
of the temporary closure, beginning in the middle of March, of
approximately 40% of our Sprint-branded retail stores and the
stay-at-home directives in the states where we operate. We
expect that the interruption of our wireless operating momentum
will continue until the economies in the markets that we serve more
fully re-open, but do not expect that the long-term growth
prospects of our wireless business will be materially affected.
Impacts from COVID-19 related closures to our broadband and tower
segments have been minimal, and we have introduced a number of
initiatives, including temporarily upgrading the broadband speeds
of more than 27,000 customers to a minimum of 50Mbps, temporarily
increasing broadband data allowances, and introducing lower cost
pre-paid broadband plans, designed to benefit our customers during
this difficult period. We continue to focus on protecting our
employees while maintaining and enhancing our networks, and
enabling our communities to further rely on our essential services
during these difficult times.”
Shentel's first-quarter earnings conference call will be webcast
at 8:00 a.m. ET on Thursday, April 30, 2020. The webcast and
related materials will be available on Shentel’s Investor Relations
website at https://investor.shentel.com.
Consolidated First Quarter 2020 Results
- Revenue in the first quarter of 2020 was $153.2 million
compared with $158.8 million in the first quarter of 2019, due
primarily to a decline of $8.5 million in the Wireless segment,
partially offset by growth of $2.9 million and $0.7 million in the
Broadband and Tower segments, respectively. The Wireless segment
recognized $4.5 million in lower travel revenue in the first
quarter of 2020 compared to the first quarter of 2019 due to the
ongoing dispute with Sprint over resetting of the travel fee. We
expect to settle this dispute in the second quarter of 2020 through
binding arbitration.
- Adjusted OIBDA in the first quarter of 2020 decreased $3.5
million to $64.2 million compared with $67.7 million in 2019 due
primarily to the $4.5 million travel revenue decline in the
Wireless segment.
- Operating income decreased 7.0% to $23.1 million in 2020 from
$24.8 million in 2019.
- Earnings per diluted share decreased 3.6% to $0.27 from $0.28
per diluted share in 2019.
Wireless
- Shentel served 847,771 wireless postpaid subscribers at March
31, 2020, representing an increase of 5.8% compared with March 31,
2019. First quarter 2020 postpaid gross adds were 51,991, as
compared to 60,477 in the third quarter of 2019 and 50,847 in the
first quarter of 2019. Net adds were 3,577 as compared to 11,698 in
the third quarter 2019 and 5,776 in the first quarter 2019.
Postpaid churn was 1.91%, consistent with the third quarter and
first quarter 2019. The COVID-19 related retail store closures and
local government mandated stay at home directives in second half of
March adversely affected gross and net additions during the quarter
diluting the sales momentum from the network and distributions
expansions we completed in the summer of 2019. At March 31, 2020,
phones represented 87.1% of the postpaid base.
- Shentel served 279,096 wireless prepaid subscribers at March
31, 2020, representing an increase of 4.4% compared with March 31,
2019. First quarter 2020 prepaid gross adds of 39,074 declined from
40,979 in the first quarter 2019. Net adds were 5,084, as compared
to 8,516 in the same period a year ago. Prepaid phone churn was
4.13%, consistent with the first quarter 2019. Prepaid subscriber
results were consistent with our expectations.
- Wireless revenue decreased approximately $8.5 million for the
three months ended March 31, 2020 compared with the three months
ended March 31, 2019. The decrease was primarily attributable to
the aforementioned $4.5 million decline in travel revenue, $2.5
million in lower equipment revenue, $3.0 million in higher
amortized customer contract costs, partially offset by a $1.7
million increase in postpaid and prepaid revenue from growth in
subscribers.
- Wireless operating expenses in the first quarter of 2020 were
$80.7 million compared to $88.4 million in the first quarter of
2019. The decrease was primarily attributable to a $4.6 million
decrease in depreciation and amortization as certain assets
acquired from nTelos became fully utilized, a $1.9 million decline
in cost of goods sold resulting from reduced volume of equipment
sales, $1.0 million in lower advertising costs driven by temporary
closure of certain retail stores, a $0.8 million sales and use tax
settlement gain, partially offset by higher cell site rent expense
of $1.0 million related to our network expansion.
- Wireless Adjusted OIBDA in the first quarter of 2020 was
$49.2 million, compared with $54.6 million for the first quarter of
2019.
- Wireless operating income in the first quarter of 2020 was
$23.4 million, compared to $24.2 million for the first quarter of
2019.
Broadband
- Total Revenue Generating Units ("RGUs") as of March 31, 2020
were 193,654, representing an increase of 0.4% from March 31, 2019.
Incumbent cable broadband penetration grew from 38.3% to 41.7% and
broadband churn declined 5 basis points to 1.48%. Glo Fiber added
over 3,600 homes passed and ended the quarter with approximately
5,350 homes passed and 8.5% broadband penetration.
- Broadband revenue in the first quarter of 2020 grew $2.9
million or 6.2% to $49.8 million compared with $46.9 million in the
first quarter of 2019, primarily driven by a $2.5 million increase
in Cable Residential and SMB revenue and $1.1 million increase in
Fiber, enterprise and wholesale revenue partially offset by $0.5
million decline in RLEC revenues.
- Broadband operating expenses in the first quarter of 2020 were
$39.8 million compared to $36.8 million in the first quarter of
2019. The increase was primarily due to $1.3 million of Glo Fiber
start-up expenses, $0.9 million increase in depreciation and
amortization expense due to the expansion of our network and $0.5
million increase in advertising expenses,
- Broadband Adjusted OIBDA in the first quarter of 2020 grew 4.3%
to $20.9 million, compared with $20.0 million for the first quarter
of 2019.
- Broadband Operating income in the first quarter of 2020 was
$10.0 million, compared to $10.0 million in the first quarter of
2019.
Tower
- Total towers and tenants were 226 and 408 as of March 31, 2020
as compared to 211 and 368, respectively, as of March 31,
2019.
- Tower revenue in the first quarter of 2020 grew 23.0% to $3.7
million, compared with $3.0 million for the first quarter of 2019.
This increase was due to a 10.9% increase in tenants and an 11.4%
increase in the average lease rate.
- Tower operating expenses in both the first quarter of 2020 and
2019 were $1.9 million.
- Tower Adjusted OIBDA in the first quarter of 2020 grew
25.5% to $2.3 million, compared with $1.8 million for the first
quarter of 2019.
- Tower operating income in the first quarter of 2020 was $1.8
million, compared to $1.1 million for the first quarter of
2019.
Other Information
- Capital expenditures were $32.3 million for the three months
ended March 31, 2020 compared with $44.4 million in the comparable
2019 period. The $12.1 million decrease in capital expenditures was
primarily due to a $17.0 million decline in Wireless as the Ntelos
and Parkersburg network expansions were completed in the first half
of 2019 partially offset by $5.0 million in higher spending in
Broadband driven by our Glo Fiber market expansion.
- Outstanding debt at March 31, 2020 totaled $712.2 million, net
of unamortized loan costs, compared to $720.1 million as of March
31, 2019. As of March 31, 2020, the Company had liquidity of
approximately $195.2 million, including $75.0
million of revolving line of credit availability.
- On April 1, 2020, T-Mobile announced the completion of its
business combination with Sprint and subsequently delivered to the
Company a notice of Network Technology Conversion, Brand Conversion
and Combination Conversion (a “Conversion Notice”) pursuant to the
terms of the Company’s affiliate agreement with Sprint. As
described in more detail in the Company’s 2019 Annual Report on
Form 10-K, our Wireless segment has been an affiliate of Sprint
since 1995. The affiliate agreement provides for a 90 day period
following receipt of the Conversion Notice for the parties to
negotiate mutually agreeable terms and conditions under which the
Company would continue as an affiliate of T-Mobile. The affiliate
agreement further provides that, if T-Mobile and the Company have
not negotiated a mutually acceptable agreement within the 90 day
period, then T-Mobile would have a period of 60 days thereafter to
exercise an option to purchase the assets of our Wireless
operations for 90% of the “Entire Business Value” (as defined under
our affiliate agreement). If T-Mobile does not exercise its
purchase option, the Company would then have a 60 day period to
exercise an option to purchase the legacy T-Mobile network and
subscribers in our service area. If the Company does not exercise
its purchase option, T-Mobile must sell or decommission its legacy
network and customers in our service area.
- We have been closely monitoring the latest developments around
the outbreak of a new strain of coronavirus ("COVID-19") and its
impact globally. As we focus on our community and do our part to
stop COVID-19 from spreading we have taken the following actions to
keep families and businesses safe and connected virtually: --
In our Broadband segment, we expanded our service offerings by
temporarily increasing the minimum speed and data allowance of our
broadband service to 50 Mbps and by 250 GB, respectively, each at
no additional charge and introducing a new $25 per month prepaid
internet service. -- In our Wireless segment, we have
supported Sprint’s adoption of the Keep Americans Connected pledge
while temporarily closing approximately 40% of the Sprint branded
retail locations in our service area to comply with federal and
state mandates. -- We have implemented alternative
working arrangements where practicable to keep our employees safe
and maintained our geographically redundant equipment, diverse
fiber facilities and monitoring services to support maximum uptime
of all our essential networks and services. While these actions did
not have a material impact on our first quarter operating results
nor do we expect them to impact our long-term growth prospects, we
do expect them to temporarily dislocate our wireless operating
momentum until the economies in the markets that we serve
re-open.
Free cash flow, normalized free cash flow and Adjusted OIBDA are
non-GAAP financial measures that are not determined in accordance
with US generally accepted accounting principles. Reconciliations
of these non-GAAP financial measures are provided in this press
release after the consolidated financial statements.
Conference Call and Webcast
Teleconference Information:
Date: April 30, 2020 Time: 8:00 A.M. (ET)Dial in
number: 1-888-695-7639
Password: 6654869
Audio webcast: http://investor.shentel.com/
An audio replay of the call will be available
approximately two hours after the call is complete, through
May 29, 2020 by calling (855) 859-2056.
About Shenandoah
Telecommunications
Shenandoah Telecommunications Company (Shentel) provides a broad
range of diversified communications services through its high
speed, state-of-the-art wireless, cable and fiber optic networks to
customers in the Mid-Atlantic United States. The Company’s services
include: wireless voice and data; broadband internet, video, and
digital voice; fiber optic Ethernet, wavelength and leasing;
telephone voice and digital subscriber line; and tower colocation
leasing. Shentel is the exclusive personal communications service
(“PCS”) Affiliate of Sprint in a multi-state area covering large
portions of central and western Virginia, south-central
Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and portions of Maryland, Kentucky,
and Ohio. For more information, please visit www.shentel.com.
This release contains forward-looking statements
that are subject to various risks and uncertainties. The Company's
actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in
these forward-looking statements as a result of unforeseen factors.
A discussion of factors that may cause actual results to differ
from management's projections, forecasts, estimates and
expectations, is available in the Company’s filings with the SEC.
Those factors may include natural disasters, pandemics and
outbreaks of contagious diseases and other adverse public health
developments, such as COVID-19, changes in general economic
conditions, increases in costs, changes in regulation and other
competitive factors.
CONTACTS:Shenandoah Telecommunications CompanyJim VolkSenior
Vice President - Chief Financial
Officer540-984-5168Jim.Volk@emp.shentel.com OrJohn
Nesbett/Jennifer BelodeauIMS Investor
Relations203-972-9200jnesbett@institutionalms.com
|
SHENANDOAH TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMPANY AND
SUBSIDIARIES |
UNAUDITED CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF
OPERATIONS |
(in thousands, except per share amounts) |
|
Three Months Ended March 31, |
|
2020 |
|
2019 |
Revenue: |
|
|
|
Service revenue and other |
$ |
140,188 |
|
|
$ |
143,231 |
|
Equipment revenue |
13,000 |
|
|
15,612 |
|
Total revenue |
153,188 |
|
|
158,843 |
|
Operating
expenses: |
|
|
|
Cost of services |
49,565 |
|
|
49,518 |
|
Cost of goods sold |
12,671 |
|
|
14,637 |
|
Selling, general and administrative |
30,991 |
|
|
28,722 |
|
Depreciation and amortization |
36,911 |
|
|
41,179 |
|
Total operating expenses |
130,138 |
|
|
134,056 |
|
Operating income |
23,050 |
|
|
24,787 |
|
Other income
(expense): |
|
|
|
Interest expense |
(6,211 |
) |
|
(7,954 |
) |
Other |
733 |
|
|
1,287 |
|
Income before income taxes |
17,572 |
|
|
18,120 |
|
Income tax
expense |
4,292 |
|
|
4,210 |
|
Net income |
$ |
13,280 |
|
|
$ |
13,910 |
|
|
|
|
|
Net income
per share, basic and diluted: |
|
|
|
Basic net
income per share |
$ |
0.27 |
|
|
$ |
0.28 |
|
Diluted net
income per share |
$ |
0.27 |
|
|
$ |
0.28 |
|
Weighted
average shares outstanding, basic |
49,888 |
|
|
49,775 |
|
Weighted
average shares outstanding, diluted |
50,036 |
|
|
50,115 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
SHENANDOAH TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMPANY AND
SUBSIDIARIES |
UNAUDITED CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE
SHEETS |
(in thousands) |
|
March
31, |
|
December
31, |
|
2020 |
|
2019 |
|
|
|
|
Cash and cash equivalents |
$ |
120,232 |
|
|
$ |
101,651 |
|
Other
current assets |
137,677 |
|
|
140,102 |
|
Total current assets |
257,909 |
|
|
241,753 |
|
|
|
|
|
Investments |
12,011 |
|
|
12,388 |
|
Property,
plant and equipment, net |
695,920 |
|
|
701,514 |
|
Intangible
assets, net |
299,458 |
|
|
314,147 |
|
Goodwill |
149,070 |
|
|
149,070 |
|
Operating
lease right-of-use assets |
382,973 |
|
|
392,589 |
|
Deferred
charges and other assets, net |
53,436 |
|
|
53,352 |
|
Total assets |
$ |
1,850,777 |
|
|
$ |
1,864,813 |
|
|
|
|
|
Total
current liabilities |
139,644 |
|
|
$ |
147,336 |
|
Long-term
debt, less current maturities |
680,531 |
|
|
688,464 |
|
Other
liabilities |
549,952 |
|
|
556,585 |
|
Total
shareholders’ equity |
480,650 |
|
|
472,428 |
|
Total liabilities and shareholders’ equity |
$ |
1,850,777 |
|
|
$ |
1,864,813 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
SHENANDOAH TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMPANY AND
SUBSIDIARIES |
|
|
UNAUDITED CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH
FLOWS |
|
|
(in thousands) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Three Months
Ended March 31, |
|
2020 |
|
2019 |
Cash
flows from operating activities: |
|
|
|
Net income |
$ |
13,280 |
|
|
$ |
13,910 |
|
Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by
operating activities: |
|
|
|
Depreciation |
32,468 |
|
|
35,520 |
|
Amortization of intangible assets |
4,868 |
|
|
5,659 |
|
Bad debt expense |
205 |
|
|
367 |
|
Stock based compensation expense, net of amount capitalized |
2,905 |
|
|
1,714 |
|
Deferred income taxes |
2,135 |
|
|
(3,378 |
) |
Other adjustments |
739 |
|
|
173 |
|
Changes in assets and liabilities |
4,508 |
|
|
7,698 |
|
Net cash provided by operating activities |
61,108 |
|
|
61,663 |
|
|
|
|
|
Cash
flows from investing activities: |
|
|
|
Capital expenditures |
(32,299 |
) |
|
(44,420 |
) |
Cash disbursed for acquisitions |
— |
|
|
(10,000 |
) |
Proceeds from sale of assets and other |
274 |
|
|
45 |
|
Net cash used in investing activities |
(32,025 |
) |
|
(54,375 |
) |
|
|
|
|
Cash
flows from financing activities: |
|
|
|
Principal payments on long-term debt |
(8,530 |
) |
|
(19,889 |
) |
Taxes paid for equity award issuances |
(1,945 |
) |
|
(2,698 |
) |
Proceeds from exercise of stock options |
(27 |
) |
|
72 |
|
Net cash used in financing activities |
(10,502 |
) |
|
(22,515 |
) |
Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents |
18,581 |
|
|
(15,227 |
) |
Cash and cash equivalents, beginning of period |
101,651 |
|
|
85,086 |
|
Cash and cash equivalents, end of period |
$ |
120,232 |
|
|
$ |
69,859 |
|
|
|
|
|
Non-GAAP Financial
Measures Adjusted OIBDA
Adjusted OIBDA represents Operating income
before depreciation, amortization of intangible assets, stock-based
compensation and certain other items of revenue, expense, gain or
loss not reflective of our operating performance, which may or may
not be recurring in nature.
Adjusted OIBDA is a non-GAAP financial measure
that we use to evaluate our operating performance in comparison to
our competitors. Management believes that analysts and investors
use Adjusted OIBDA as a supplemental measure of operating
performance to facilitate comparisons with other telecommunications
companies. This measure isolates and evaluates operating
performance by excluding the cost of financing (e.g., interest
expense), as well as the non-cash depreciation and amortization of
past capital investments, non-cash share-based compensation
expense, and certain other items of revenue, expense, gain or loss
not reflective of our operating performance, which may or may not
be recurring in nature.
Adjusted OIBDA has limitations as an analytical
tool and should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute
for operating income, net income or any other measure of financial
performance reported in accordance with U.S. Generally Accepted
Accounting Principles (“GAAP”).
The following tables reconcile Adjusted OIBDA to
operating income, which we consider to be the most directly
comparable GAAP financial measure:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Three Months Ended March 31, 2020 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(in thousands) |
|
Wireless |
|
Broadband |
|
Tower |
|
Corporate & Eliminations |
|
Consolidated |
Operating
income |
|
$ |
23,444 |
|
|
$ |
10,030 |
|
|
$ |
1,795 |
|
|
$ |
(12,219 |
) |
|
$ |
23,050 |
|
Depreciation |
|
21,010 |
|
|
10,717 |
|
|
470 |
|
|
271 |
|
|
32,468 |
|
Amortization of intangible assets |
|
4,714 |
|
|
154 |
|
|
— |
|
|
— |
|
|
4,868 |
|
OIBDA |
|
49,168 |
|
|
20,901 |
|
|
2,265 |
|
|
(11,948 |
) |
|
60,386 |
|
Share-based compensation expense |
|
— |
|
|
— |
|
|
— |
|
|
2,905 |
|
|
2,905 |
|
Non-recurring deal advisory fees |
|
— |
|
|
— |
|
|
— |
|
|
910 |
|
|
910 |
|
Adjusted
OIBDA |
|
$ |
49,168 |
|
|
$ |
20,901 |
|
|
$ |
2,265 |
|
|
$ |
(8,133 |
) |
|
$ |
64,201 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Three Months Ended March 31, 2019 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(in thousands) |
|
Wireless |
|
Broadband |
|
Tower |
|
Corporate & Eliminations |
|
Consolidated |
Operating
income |
|
$ |
24,213 |
|
|
$ |
10,049 |
|
|
$ |
1,124 |
|
|
$ |
(10,599 |
) |
|
$ |
24,787 |
|
Depreciation |
|
24,752 |
|
|
9,950 |
|
|
680 |
|
|
138 |
|
|
35,520 |
|
Amortization of intangible assets |
|
5,618 |
|
|
41 |
|
|
— |
|
|
— |
|
|
5,659 |
|
OIBDA |
|
54,583 |
|
|
20,040 |
|
|
1,804 |
|
|
(10,461 |
) |
|
65,966 |
|
Share-based compensation expense |
|
— |
|
|
— |
|
|
— |
|
|
1,714 |
|
|
1,714 |
|
Adjusted
OIBDA |
|
$ |
54,583 |
|
|
$ |
20,040 |
|
|
$ |
1,804 |
|
|
$ |
(8,747 |
) |
|
$ |
67,680 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Segment Results
Three Months Ended March 31, 2020 |
Wireless |
|
Broadband |
|
Tower |
|
Corporate & Eliminations |
|
Consolidated |
(in thousands) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
External
revenue |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Postpaid |
$ |
74,928 |
|
|
$ |
— |
|
|
$ |
— |
|
|
— |
|
|
$ |
74,928 |
|
Prepaid |
13,109 |
|
|
— |
|
|
— |
|
|
— |
|
|
13,109 |
|
Tower lease |
— |
|
|
— |
|
|
1,797 |
|
|
— |
|
|
1,797 |
|
Cable, residential and SMB (1) |
— |
|
|
34,943 |
|
|
— |
|
|
— |
|
|
34,943 |
|
Fiber, enterprise and wholesale |
— |
|
|
5,488 |
|
|
— |
|
|
— |
|
|
5,488 |
|
Rural local exchange carrier |
— |
|
|
4,756 |
|
|
— |
|
|
— |
|
|
4,756 |
|
Travel, installation, and other |
3,351 |
|
|
1,816 |
|
|
— |
|
|
— |
|
|
5,167 |
|
Service revenue and other |
91,388 |
|
|
47,003 |
|
|
1,797 |
|
|
— |
|
|
140,188 |
|
Equipment |
12,750 |
|
|
250 |
|
|
— |
|
|
— |
|
|
13,000 |
|
Total
external revenue |
104,138 |
|
|
47,253 |
|
|
1,797 |
|
|
— |
|
|
153,188 |
|
Revenue from other segments |
— |
|
|
2,533 |
|
|
1,933 |
|
|
(4,466 |
) |
|
— |
|
Total
revenue |
104,138 |
|
|
49,786 |
|
|
3,730 |
|
|
(4,466 |
) |
|
153,188 |
|
Operating
expenses |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cost of services |
33,439 |
|
|
19,243 |
|
|
939 |
|
|
(4,056 |
) |
|
49,565 |
|
Cost of goods sold |
12,528 |
|
|
143 |
|
|
— |
|
|
— |
|
|
12,671 |
|
Selling, general and administrative |
9,428 |
|
|
9,499 |
|
|
526 |
|
|
11,538 |
|
|
30,991 |
|
Depreciation and amortization |
25,299 |
|
|
10,871 |
|
|
470 |
|
|
271 |
|
|
36,911 |
|
Total
operating expenses |
80,694 |
|
|
39,756 |
|
|
1,935 |
|
|
7,753 |
|
|
130,138 |
|
Operating
income (loss) |
$ |
23,444 |
|
|
$ |
10,030 |
|
|
$ |
1,795 |
|
|
$ |
(12,219 |
) |
|
$ |
23,050 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
_______________________________________________________ (1) SMB
refers to Small and Medium Businesses.
Three Months Ended March 31, 2019 |
Wireless |
|
Broadband |
|
Tower |
|
Corporate & Eliminations |
|
Consolidated |
(in thousands) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
External
revenue |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Postpaid |
$ |
76,182 |
|
|
$ |
— |
|
|
$ |
— |
|
|
$ |
— |
|
|
$ |
76,182 |
|
Prepaid |
13,130 |
|
|
— |
|
|
— |
|
|
— |
|
|
13,130 |
|
Tower lease |
— |
|
|
— |
|
|
1,763 |
|
|
— |
|
|
1,763 |
|
Cable, residential and SMB |
— |
|
|
32,426 |
|
|
— |
|
|
— |
|
|
32,426 |
|
Fiber, enterprise and wholesale |
— |
|
|
4,828 |
|
|
— |
|
|
— |
|
|
4,828 |
|
Rural local exchange carrier |
— |
|
|
5,238 |
|
|
— |
|
|
— |
|
|
5,238 |
|
Travel, installation, and other |
8,018 |
|
|
1,646 |
|
|
— |
|
|
— |
|
|
9,664 |
|
Service revenue and other |
97,330 |
|
|
44,138 |
|
|
1,763 |
|
|
— |
|
|
143,231 |
|
Equipment |
15,291 |
|
|
321 |
|
|
— |
|
|
— |
|
|
15,612 |
|
Total
external revenue |
112,621 |
|
|
44,459 |
|
|
1,763 |
|
|
— |
|
|
158,843 |
|
Revenue from other segments |
— |
|
|
2,422 |
|
|
1,270 |
|
|
(3,692 |
) |
|
— |
|
Total
revenue |
112,621 |
|
|
46,881 |
|
|
3,033 |
|
|
(3,692 |
) |
|
158,843 |
|
Operating
expenses |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cost of services |
32,532 |
|
|
19,061 |
|
|
946 |
|
|
(3,021 |
) |
|
49,518 |
|
Cost of goods sold |
14,427 |
|
|
211 |
|
|
— |
|
|
(1 |
) |
|
14,637 |
|
Selling, general and administrative |
11,079 |
|
|
7,569 |
|
|
283 |
|
|
9,791 |
|
|
28,722 |
|
Depreciation and amortization |
30,370 |
|
|
9,991 |
|
|
680 |
|
|
138 |
|
|
41,179 |
|
Total
operating expenses |
88,408 |
|
|
36,832 |
|
|
1,909 |
|
|
6,907 |
|
|
134,056 |
|
Operating
income (loss) |
$ |
24,213 |
|
|
$ |
10,049 |
|
|
$ |
1,124 |
|
|
$ |
(10,599 |
) |
|
$ |
24,787 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Supplemental Information
Wireless Operating
Statistics
The following tables indicate selected operating
statistics of Wireless, including Sprint subscribers, as of the
dates shown:
|
|
March 31, 2020 |
|
March 31, 2019 |
Postpaid: |
|
|
|
|
Retail PCS total subscribers |
|
847,771 |
|
|
800,952 |
|
Retail PCS phone subscribers |
|
738,410 |
|
|
722,830 |
|
Retail PCS connected device subscribers |
|
109,361 |
|
|
78,122 |
|
Gross PCS total subscriber additions |
|
51,991 |
|
|
50,847 |
|
Gross PCS phone additions |
|
36,734 |
|
|
37,786 |
|
Gross PCS connected device additions |
|
15,257 |
|
|
13,061 |
|
Net PCS total subscriber additions |
|
3,577 |
|
|
5,776 |
|
Net PCS phone additions (losses) |
|
(2,311 |
) |
|
105 |
|
Net PCS connected device additions |
|
5,888 |
|
|
5,671 |
|
PCS monthly retail total churn % |
|
1.91 |
% |
|
1.89 |
% |
PCS monthly phone churn % |
|
1.76 |
% |
|
1.74 |
% |
PCS monthly connected device churn % |
|
2.97 |
% |
|
3.35 |
% |
Prepaid: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Retail PCS subscribers |
|
279,096 |
|
|
267,220 |
|
Gross PCS subscriber additions |
|
39,074 |
|
|
40,979 |
|
Net PCS subscriber additions |
|
5,084 |
|
|
8,516 |
|
PCS monthly retail churn % |
|
4.13 |
% |
|
4.14 |
% |
|
|
|
|
|
PCS market POPS (000) (1) |
|
7,227 |
|
|
7,023 |
|
PCS covered POP (000) (1) |
|
6,325 |
|
|
6,261 |
|
Macro base stations (cell
sites) |
|
1,966 |
|
|
1,874 |
|
_______________________________________________________ (1)
"POPS" refers to the estimated population of a given geographic
area. Market POPS are those within a market area which we are
authorized to serve under our Sprint PCS affiliate agreements, and
Covered POPS are those covered by our network. The data source for
POPS is U.S. census data.
Broadband Operating
Statistics
|
|
March 31, 2020 |
|
March 31, 2019 |
Broadband homes passed (1) (2) |
|
212,129 |
|
|
206,113 |
|
Broadband customer
relationships (3) |
|
103,287 |
|
|
95,933 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Video: |
|
|
|
|
RGUs |
|
53,067 |
|
|
59,202 |
|
Penetration (4) |
|
25.0 |
% |
|
28.7 |
% |
Digital video penetration (5) |
|
94.3 |
% |
|
85.7 |
% |
Broadband: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
RGUs |
|
86,667 |
|
|
78,867 |
|
Penetration (4) |
|
40.9 |
% |
|
38.3 |
% |
Voice: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
RGUs |
|
31,836 |
|
|
30,737 |
|
Penetration (4) |
|
16.3 |
% |
|
16.2 |
% |
Total Cable and Glo
Fiber RGUs |
|
171,570 |
|
|
168,806 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
RLEC homes passed |
|
25,848 |
|
|
25,798 |
|
RLEC customer relationships
(3) |
|
10,111 |
|
|
11,101 |
|
RLEC RGUs: |
|
|
|
|
Data RLEC |
|
7,947 |
|
|
8,744 |
|
Penetration (4) |
|
30.7 |
% |
|
33.9 |
% |
Voice RLEC |
|
14,137 |
|
|
15,262 |
|
Penetration (4) |
|
54.7 |
% |
|
59.2 |
% |
Total RLEC
RGUs |
|
22,084 |
|
|
24,006 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total
RGUs |
|
193,654 |
|
|
192,812 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Fiber route miles |
|
6,273 |
|
|
5,799 |
|
Total fiber miles (6) |
|
334,802 |
|
|
303,511 |
|
_______________________________________________________
(1) Homes and businesses are considered passed (“homes passed”)
if we can connect them to our distribution system without further
extending the transmission lines. Homes passed is an estimate
based upon the best available information. Homes passed have access
to video, broadband and voice services. (2) Includes
approximately 16,600 RLEC homes passed where we are the dual
incumbent telephone and cable provider. (3) Customer
relationships represent the number of billed customers who receive
at least one of our services. (4) Penetration is calculated by
dividing the number of users by the number of homes passed or
available homes, as appropriate. (5) Digital video penetration
is calculated by dividing the number of digital video users by
total video users. Digital video users are video customers who
receive any level of video service via digital transmission. A
dwelling with one or more digital set-top boxes or digital adapters
counts as one digital video user. (6) Total fiber miles are
measured by taking the number of fiber strands in a cable and
multiplying that number by the route distance. For example, a
10 mile route with 144 fiber strands would equal 1,440 fiber
miles.
Tower Operating Statistics
|
|
March 31, 2020 |
|
March 31, 2019 |
Towers owned |
|
226 |
|
|
211 |
|
Tenants (1) |
|
408 |
|
|
368 |
|
Average tenants per tower |
|
1.8 |
|
|
1.7 |
|
_______________________________________________________(1)
Includes 203 and 175 intercompany tenants for our Wireless segment
as of March 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively.
Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Measures Normalized Free Cash
Flow and Free Cash Flow
|
|
Three Months
Ended |
|
|
March 31, |
(in
thousands) |
|
2020 |
|
2019 |
Net cash provided by operating activities |
|
$ |
61,108 |
|
|
$ |
61,663 |
|
Less:
Capital expenditures (1) |
|
(25,104 |
) |
|
(44,420 |
) |
Normalized
free cash flow |
|
36,004 |
|
|
17,243 |
|
Glo Fiber
and Fixed Wireless capital expenditures |
|
(7,195 |
) |
|
— |
|
Free cash
flow |
|
$ |
28,809 |
|
|
$ |
17,243 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
_______________________________________________________
(1) Excludes capital expenditures for the development of Glo Fiber
and Fixed Wireless.
Free cash flow and normalized free cash flow are non-GAAP
financial measures that, when viewed with our GAAP results,
provides a more complete understanding of factors and trends
affecting our cash flows. Free cash flow is calculated by
subtracting capital expenditures from net cash provided by
operating activities. Normalized free cash flow is calculated by
subtracting capital expenditures, excluding spending on the
development of Glo Fiber and Fixed Wireless services, from net cash
provided by operating activities. We believe they are more
conservative measures of our cash flow since purchases of fixed
assets are necessary for ongoing operations and expansion. Free
cash flow and normalized free cash flow are utilized by our
management, investors and analysts to evaluate cash available that
may be used to pay scheduled principal payments on our debt
obligations and provide further investment in the business.
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