Business Overview
Haynes International, Inc. (“Haynes”, “the Company”, “we”, “our” or “us”) is one of the world’s largest developers, producers, and distributors of technologically advanced high-performance nickel- and cobalt-based alloys. The Company’s products, which are sold primarily into the aerospace, chemical processing and industrial gas turbine industries, consist of high-temperature resistant alloys, or “HTA” products, and corrosion-resistant alloys, or “CRA” products. HTA products are used by manufacturers of equipment that is subjected to extremely high temperatures, such as jet engines for the aerospace market, gas turbine engines used for power generation and industrial heating equipment. CRA products are used in applications that require resistance to very corrosive media found in chemical processing, power plant emissions control and waste treatment. Haynes high-performance alloy sales in sheet, coil and plate forms, in the aggregate, represented approximately 62% of net product revenues in fiscal 2022. The Company also produces its products as seamless and welded tubulars, which represented approximately 13% of fiscal 2022 net product revenues and in wire form, which represented approximately 7% of fiscal 2022 net product revenues, and in slab, bar and billet form, which, in the aggregate, represented approximately 18% of fiscal 2022 net product revenues.
The Company has manufacturing facilities in Kokomo, Indiana; Arcadia, Louisiana; and Mountain Home, North Carolina. The Kokomo facility specializes in flat products, the Arcadia facility specializes in tubular products, and the Mountain Home facility specializes in wire products. The Company’s products are sold primarily through its direct sales organization, which includes 11 service and/or sales centers in the United States, Europe and Asia. All of these centers are Company-operated.
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Dividends Paid and Declared
In the first, second and third quarters of fiscal 2023, the Company declared and paid a regular quarterly cash dividend of $0.22 per outstanding share of the Company’s common stock. The first quarter dividend was paid on December 19, 2022 to stockholders of record at the close of business on December 5, 2022, the second quarter dividend was paid on March 15, 2023 to stockholders of record at the close of business on March 1, 2023 and the third quarter dividend was paid on June 15, 2023 to stockholders of record at the close of business on June 1, 2023. The total dividend cash pay-outs in the first, second and third quarters were approximately $2.8 million each based on the number of shares outstanding.
On August 3, 2023, the Company announced that the Board of Directors declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of $0.22 per outstanding share of the Company’s common stock. The dividend is payable September 15, 2023 to stockholders of record at the close of business on September 1, 2023. Any future dividends will be at the discretion of the Board of Directors.
Capital Spending
During the first nine months of fiscal 2023, capital investment was $11.8 million, and total planned capital expenditures for fiscal 2023 are expected to be between $16.0 million and $18.0 million.
Cybersecurity Incident
As previously disclosed, the Company began experiencing a network outage indicative of a cybersecurity incident on June 10, 2023. Upon detection of the incident, the Company engaged third-party specialists to assist in investigating the source of the outage, determine its potential impact on the Company’s systems, and securely restore full system functionality. On June 21, 2023, less than 2 weeks after the incident began, the Company announced that all manufacturing operations were running and that the Company had substantially restored administrative, sales, financial and customer service functions. Nevertheless, during those 11 days many aspects of the Company’s production were substantially disrupted.
Based on lost production time, the Company estimates that net revenues for the quarter were impacted by roughly $18 - $20 million resulting in net sales for the third quarter of $143.9 million. The lower production level also impacted efficiency and absorption of fixed costs which compressed the gross margin percentage for the quarter and impacted earnings. Also impacting earnings are the costs related to the investigation and restoration efforts. In total, the Company currently estimates the full impact of this event to be approximately $0.40 - $0.45 on diluted earnings per share. In addition, the estimated headwind from raw material fluctuations, primarily Cobalt, lowered diluted earnings per share an additional $0.09 resulting in a diluted earnings per share of $0.68 for the third quarter of fiscal 2023.
Volume and Pricing
Volume shipped in the third quarter of fiscal 2023 was 4.4 million pounds which is 2.5% lower than the third quarter of the prior fiscal year and 5.1% lower sequentially from the second quarter of fiscal 2023. The lower volumes were primarily a result of the