Management Comments
“We delivered solid topline growth in the second quarter as we continued to capitalize on the stability of our legacy business, strength of our acquired businesses and our proactive pricing actions, which offset input cost increases,” said Kim Ann Mink, Ph.D., Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer.
“We made significant strides in advancing our strategic value chain repositioning and manufacturing optimization program which sets us up well for 2019 and beyond. This program will meaningfully diversify Innophos’ supply base and deliver an improved sustainable cost structure, while maintaining our market-leadership position in our cash-generative phosphate portfolio, which is an important component of our Vision 2022 strategy,” continued Mink.
“We are confident that the strategic value chain program will deliver a 10% improvement to our adjusted diluted EPS by the end of 2019. In the near term there will be a negative impact to our GAAP earnings as the anticipated specific value chain transition costs are incurred ahead of the full benefit accruing from the $20 million payment.
“We continue to position Innophos for sustained organic and inorganic growth,” added Mink. “We have strong momentum behind our enterprise-wide new product development process called SPARC, are progressing with the integration of our 2017 acquisitions and are actively pursuing additional M&A opportunities that will further strengthen our position in attractive FHN markets.
“Our performance in H1 2018 has been defined by solid financial results and strong momentum as we advance along our Vision 2022 strategic roadmap to establish Innophos as a leading specialty ingredients provider. Looking ahead, we are focused on leveraging this momentum and continuing to put our transformation in action,” concluded Mink.
Q2 2018 Results
Variance $ and Variance % in the following tables may not foot due to rounding
$ Millions except EPS
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Quarter 2 | | 2018 | | | 2017 | | | Variance $ | | | Variance % | |
Sales | | | 207 | | | | 179 | | | | 28 | | | | 15 | % |
Net Income | | | 6 | | | | 11 | | | | (5 | ) | | | (44 | )% |
Adj. Net Income | | | 11 | | | | 11 | | | | — | | | | (4 | )% |
EBITDA | | | 23 | | | | 28 | | | | (6 | ) | | | (20 | )% |
Adj. EBITDA | | | 31 | | | | 30 | | | | 1 | | | | 3 | % |
Diluted EPS | | | 0.31 | | | | 0.57 | | | | (0.25 | ) | | | (45 | )% |
Adj. Diluted EPS | | | 0.55 | | | | 0.57 | | | | (0.03 | ) | | | (5 | )% |
Cash from Ops | | | 16 | | | | 30 | | | | (14 | ) | | | (46 | )% |
Free Cash Flow | | | (3 | ) | | | 23 | | | | (26 | ) | | | (115 | )% |
| • | | Sales grew 15% compared with the prior year due to 12% higher volumes, and 3% higher prices |
| • | | GAAP Net Income of $6 million, or diluted EPS of $0.31, were down versus the prior year reflecting $4 million of specific value chain transition charges and $3 million from the annual Mexico plant maintenance stoppage charges |
| • | | Adjusted EBITDA of $31 million was ahead of last year due to additional earnings from acquisitions, partly offset by $3 million of Mexico plant maintenance charges. Adjusted diluted EPS of $0.55 was down due to the $0.10 impact from the annual Mexico maintenance stoppage |
| • | | Free Cash outflow was $3 million, down $26 million versus the same quarter last year due to lower earnings, as well as higher capex of $12 million and greater working capital needs to support the value chain repositioning and manufacturing optimization program |