Pitney Bowes Beats Estimates - Analyst Blog
May 08 2012 - 4:45AM
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Pitney Bowes Inc.
(PBI) reported first-quarter 2012 earnings per share from
continuing operations of 63 cents, above the Zacks Consensus
Estimateof 50 cents and prior-year earnings of 43 cents. Excluding
net tax benefit of 11 cents as a result of resolution of additional
tax matters with the IRS, adjusted earnings per share from
continuing operations came in at 52 cents.
Total Revenue
Total revenue came in at $1.26
billion, down 5% y/y, as a result of a fall in SMB sales and
weakness in Production Mail and Management Services segments.
Moreover, foreign currency led to a drop in total revenue by 1%.
The top line benefited from an improvement in Software and Mail
Services segments.
The company reported a revenue
increase in all its segments.
Segment
Performance
Small and Medium Business
(SMB) Solutions segment sales declined 7% year over year
on a constant currency basis to $629 million, as a result of a 9%
fall in North America Mailing revenue, partially offset by a 1%
increase in International Mailing
revenue.
Enterprise Business
Solutions segment sales inched down 2% year over year to
$626 million, due to a 12% decline in revenue from Worldwide
Production Mail, and 4% decline in Management Services. The
negative effect was partially offset by a 5% increase in Software,
4% in Mail Services and 1% in Marketing Services revenue.
Income
Pitney Bowes incurred total
SG&A expense of approximately $411.2 million in the quarter
versus approximately $426.6 million in the first quarter of 2011.
R&D expense was $34.1 million versus $34.8 million in the
year-ago quarter. The company’s income from continuing operations
was $143.9 million compared with $92.8 million in the prior-year
period.
Balance Sheet
Cash and cash equivalents were
$915.6 million with long-term debt of $3.7 billion and
shareholder’s deficit of $91 million at the end of the quarter.
Free cash flow in the quarter was
$211 million and generated $96 million from cash flow from
operations.
Outlook
The company updated its 2012
guidance to account for the benefits from sale of leveraged lease
assets in Canada. GAAP earnings from continuing operation is
expected to be in the range of $2.22 to $2.42, including net tax
benefits of 11 cents per share and benefit from the sale of
leveraged lease assets in Canada of 6 cents per share. Excluding
these, adjusted earnings per share from continuing operations is
expected to be in the to be in the range of $2.05 to $2.25. Revenue
growth, excluding the impact of currency, is expected to be in the
range of 2% growth to a decline of 2% compared to 2011. Free cash
flow for 2012 is expected to be in the range of $700 million to
$800 million.
Pitney Bowes Inc. is the largest
provider of mail processing equipment and integrated mail solutions
in the world. It offers a full suite of equipment, supplies,
software and services for end-to-end mailstream solutions, which
enable its customers to optimize the flow of physical and
electronic mail, documents and packages across their operations. A
major competitor of Pitney Bowes is Siemens Inc.
(SI).
We currently maintain our Neutral
rating on Pitney Bowes Inc. with a Zacks #3 Rank (short-term Hold
recommendation) over the next one-to-three months.
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