Software revenue increased 18% over the prior year to $96 million. The increase was due to higher licensing revenue in the United States and Asia Pacific regions. Additionally, acquisitions accounted for 8% of the increase and foreign currency translation accounted for 3% of the increase. We continue to expand our multi-year software license offerings and recurring revenue streams from term licenses. Software EBIT increased 46% to $6 million primarily due to the higher revenue.
Management Services revenue decreased 5% to $241 million compared to the prior year. Revenue was adversely impacted by lower business activity in prior periods. Management Services EBIT increased 5% to $21 million, primarily due to our ongoing productivity initiatives.
Mail Services revenue decreased 3% to $144 million and EBIT decreased 59% to $10 million compared to the prior year. The fire that disrupted operations at our Dallas mail presort facility adversely impacted revenue and EBIT by 5% and 29%, respectively. Mail Services revenue and EBIT were also adversely impacted by lower shipping volumes coupled with higher shipping rates charged by international carriers in our International Mail Services business. The decreases in revenue were partially offset by acquisitions completed after the first quarter 2010, which increased revenue by 6%.
Marketing Services revenue decreased 6% to $30 million compared to the prior year period primarily due to lower household moves compared to the prior year and a transition to a recently introduced online service for movers. EBIT decreased 8% to $4 million primarily due to the decrease in revenue and investments made in our new online service.
The following tables show revenues and costs of revenues by source for the three months ended March 31, 2011 and 2010:
Equipment sales
Equipment sales revenue increased 1% to $242 million compared to the prior year. Foreign currency translation had a positive impact of 2%. Equipment sales were up 6% in Production Mail primarily driven by new placement of production print equipment offset by lower equipment sales of 3% in North America Mailing and 2% in International Mailing.
Cost of equipment sales as a percentage of revenue increased to 47.5% compared to 44.2% in the prior year primarily due to the higher mix of lower margin product sales in our North America Mailing and Production Mail businesses.
Supplies
Supplies revenue decreased 3% to $83 million compared to the prior year. Foreign currency translation had a 1% favorable impact. The overall decline was due to lower supplies usage resulting from lower mail volumes and fewer installed meters worldwide.
Cost of supplies as a percentage of revenue was 31.6% compared with 29.7% in the prior year primarily due to the increasing mix of lower margin supplies sales.
Software
Software revenue increased 19% to $99 million compared to the prior year. The increase was due to higher licensing revenue in the United States and Asia Pacific regions. Additionally, acquisitions accounted for 8% of the increase and foreign currency translation accounted for an additional 3% increase.
Cost of software as a percentage of revenue was unchanged at 25.3% compared with the prior year.
Rentals
Rentals revenue decreased 8% to $143 million compared to prior year as customers in the United States continue to downsize to smaller, fully featured machines and fewer installed meters. The weak economic conditions have also impacted our International rental markets, specifically in France. Foreign currency translation had a favorable impact of less than 1%.
Cost of rentals as a percentage of revenue improved to 22.8% compared with 23.8% in the prior year primarily due to lower depreciation associated with higher levels of lease extensions.
Financing
Financing revenue decreased 5% to $154 million compared to the prior year. Lower equipment sales in prior periods have resulted in a decline in our worldwide lease portfolio. Foreign currency translation had a favorable impact of 1%.
Financing interest expense as a percentage of revenue increased to 15.1% compared to 13.5% in the prior year. The increase is principally due to a higher overall effective interest rate. In computing our financing interest expense, which represents our cost of borrowing associated with the generation of financing revenues, we assumed a 10:1 leveraging ratio of debt to equity and applied our overall effective interest rate to the average outstanding finance receivables.
Support Services
Support services revenue decreased 1% to $179 million compared to the prior year. Foreign currency translation had a 1% favorable impact. The lower revenue is due to lower new mailing equipment placements in the United States.
Cost of support services as a percentage of revenue increased to 64.5% compared with 63.7% in the prior year primarily due to a more complex installation process associated with the Connect+TM product.
Business Services
Business services revenue decreased 4% to $423 million compared to the prior year. Foreign currency translation had a less than 1% favorable impact. The lower revenue is primarily driven by reduced volumes at Management Services from the loss of several large postal contracts during 2010 and the lost revenue from the fire in our mail presort facility in Dallas.
Cost of business services as a percentage of revenue increased to 78.8% compared with 74.8% in the prior year primarily due to the lower revenues and higher shipping costs in our International Mail Services businesses.
Selling, general and administrative (SG&A)
SG&A expenses decreased $13 million, or 3% primarily due to our cost reduction initiatives. Acquisitions completed after the first quarter 2010 increased SG&A by $4 million and foreign currency translation had a $3 million unfavorable impact. As a percentage of revenue, SG&A was 32.5% compared with 32.9% in the prior year.
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Research and development
Research and development expenses decreased $6 million, or 15% from the prior year due to cost reduction initiatives and the completion of development work for Connect+ TM, which was launched in 2010.
Restructuring charges and asset impairments
See Note 11 to the unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.
Income taxes
See Note 7 to the unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.
Discontinued operations
See Note 3 to the unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.
Preferred stock dividends of subsidiaries attributable to noncontrolling interests
See Note 8 to the unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.
LIQUIDITY AND CAPITAL RESOURCES
We believe that cash flow from operations, existing cash and liquid investments, as well as borrowing capacity under our commercial paper program, the existing credit facility and debt capital markets should be sufficient to finance our capital requirements and to cover our customer deposits. Our potential uses of cash include, but are not limited to, growth and expansion opportunities; internal investments; customer financing; severance and benefits payments under our restructuring programs; income tax, interest and dividend payments; pension and other benefit plan funding; acquisitions; and share repurchases.
We continuously review our liquidity profile. We monitor for material changes in the creditworthiness of those banks acting as derivative counterparties, depository banks or credit providers to us through credit ratings and the credit default swap market. We have determined that there has not been a material variation in the underlying sources of cash flows currently used to finance the operations of the company. To date, we have had consistent access to the commercial paper market.
Cash Flow Summary
The change in cash and cash equivalents is as follows:
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Net cash provided by operating activities consists primarily of net income, non-cash items and changes in operating assets and liabilities. Cash provided by operating activities for the three months ended March 31, 2011 included decreases in finance receivable and accounts receivable balances of $90 million and $52 million, respectively. Due to declining equipment sales, finance receivables have declined as cash collections exceed the financing of new business. Similarly, accounts receivables have declined primarily due to cash collections in excess of new billings. In addition, the timing of tax payments and tax refunds received contributed $67 million. Partially offsetting these positive impacts was $30 million in restructuring payments and a reduction in accounts payable and accrued liabilities of $79 million primarily due to the timing of payments.
Net cash used in investing activities consisted of capital expenditures of $35 million and the net purchase of investment securities of $11 million.
Net cash used in financing activities consisted primarily of dividends paid to common stockholders of $75 million and net payments on commercial paper borrowings of $8 million.
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2010 Cash Flows
Cash provided by operating activities for the three months ended March 31, 2010 included $74 million and $60 million from decreases in finance receivable and accounts receivable balances, respectively. The decrease in finance receivables is due to the decline in the finance receivables portfolio as a result of reduced equipment sales from prior periods. The decrease in accounts receivable is primarily due to lower billings and strong collections. In addition, the timing of tax payments favorably contributed $57 million. Partially offsetting these positive impacts was a reduction in accounts payable and accrued liabilities of $61 million, primarily due to the timing of payments such as year-end incentive compensation and commissions as well as $28 million in restructuring payments.
Net cash used in investing activities consisted principally of capital expenditures of $28 million.
Net cash used in financing activities included a decrease of $122 million due to the repayment of commercial paper and dividends paid to common stockholders of $76 million.
Capital Expenditures
Capital expenditures for the three months ended March 31, 2011 and 2010 included additions to property, plant and equipment of $21 million and $12 million; respectively, and additions to rental equipment and related inventories of $14 million and $16 million, respectively. We have no material commitments for capital expenditures at March 31, 2011.
Financings and Capitalization
We are a Well-Known Seasoned Issuer with the SEC, which allows us to issue debt securities, preferred stock, preference stock, common stock, purchase contracts, depositary shares, warrants and units in an expedited fashion. We have a commercial paper program that is a significant source of liquidity for us and a committed line of credit of $1.25 billion which supports our commercial paper issuance. The line of credit expires in 2013. We have not experienced any problems to date in accessing the commercial paper market. As of March 31, 2011, the line of credit had not been drawn upon.
At March 31, 2011, we had $42 million of outstanding commercial paper with a weighted average interest rate of 0.25%. During the three months ended March 31, 2011, borrowings under our commercial paper program averaged $141 million at a weighted average interest rate of 0.26% and the maximum amount of commercial paper issued at any point in time was $249 million.
At December 31, 2010, we had $50 million of outstanding commercial paper with a weighted average interest rate of 0.32%. During 2010, borrowings under our commercial paper program averaged $347 million at a weighted average interest rate of 0.23%. The maximum amount of commercial paper issued at any point in time during 2010 was $552 million.
There have been no significant changes to long-term debt since December 31, 2010. In April 2011, we entered into two interest rate swap agreements with an aggregate notional value of $450 million to effectively convert the fixed rate interest payments on our $450 million 4.875% notes due in 2014 into variable rates. Under the terms of these agreements, we will pay a weighted-average variable rate based on three month LIBOR plus 305 basis points and receive fixed rate payments of 4.875%.
We believe our financing needs in the short and long-term can be met from cash generated internally, the issuance of commercial paper, debt issuance under our effective shelf registration statement and borrowing capacity under our existing credit agreements.
Recent Accounting Pronouncements
See Note 2 to the unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.
Regulatory Matters
There have been no significant changes to the regulatory matters disclosed in our 2010 Annual Report.
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Item 3: Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk
There were no material changes to the disclosures made in the 2010 Annual Report regarding this matter.
Item 4: Controls and Procedures
Disclosure controls and procedures are designed to reasonably assure that information required to be disclosed in reports filed or submitted under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms. Disclosure controls and procedures are also designed to reasonably assure that such information is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Chief Financial Officer (CFO), as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
Under the direction of our CEO and CFO, we evaluated our disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rule 13a-15(e) or Rule 15d-15(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the Exchange Act)) and internal control over financial reporting. Our CEO and CFO concluded that such disclosure controls and procedures were effective as of March 31, 2011, based on the evaluation of these controls and procedures required by paragraph (b) of Rule 13a-15 or Rule 15d-15 under the Exchange Act. In addition, no changes in internal control over financial reporting occurred during the three months ended March 31, 2011, that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, such internal control over financial reporting. It should be noted that any system of controls is based in part upon certain assumptions designed to obtain reasonable (and not absolute) assurance as to its effectiveness, and there can be no assurance that any design will succeed in achieving its stated goals. Notwithstanding this caution, the disclosure controls and procedures are designed to provide reasonable assurance of achieving their stated objectives, and the CEO and CFO have concluded that the disclosure controls and procedures are effective at that reasonable assurance level.
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PART II. OTHER INFORMATION
Item 1: Legal Proceedings
See Note 12 to the unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.
Item 1A: Risk Factors
There were no material changes to the risk factors identified in the 2010 Annual Report.
Item 2: Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds
Repurchases of Equity Securities
We periodically repurchase shares of our common stock to manage the dilution created by shares issued under employee stock plans and for other purposes in the open market. In February 2011, our Board of Directors approved an increase of $100 million in our share repurchase authorization to $150 million. We have not repurchased or acquired any shares of our common stock during the first quarter 2011. At March 31, 2011, we have $150 million authorization for future repurchases of our common stock.
Item 6: Exhibits
See Index of Exhibits.
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Signatures
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.
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| PITNEY BOWES INC. |
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| /s/ Michael Monahan |
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| Michael Monahan |
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| Steven J. Green |
| Vice President – Finance and |
| Chief Accounting Officer |
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Exhibit Index
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(12) | | Computation of ratio of earnings to fixed charges | | Page 33 |
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(31.1) | | Certification of Chief Executive Officer Pursuant to Rules 13a-14(a) and 15d-14(a) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended | | Page 34 |
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(31.2) | | Certification of Chief Financial Officer Pursuant to Rules 13a-14(a) and 15d-14(a) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended | | Page 35 |
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(32.1) | | Certification of Chief Executive Officer Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350 | | Page 36 |
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(32.2) | | Certification of Chief Financial Officer Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350 | | Page 37 |
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101.INS | | XBRL Report Instance Document | | |
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101.SCH | | XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema Document | | |
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101.CAL | | XBRL Taxonomy Calculation Linkbase Document | | |
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101.DEF | | XBRL Taxonomy Definition Linkbase Document | | |
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101.LAB | | XBRL Taxonomy Label Linkbase Document | | |
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101.PRE | | XBRL Taxonomy Presentation Linkbase Document | | |
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