The new home company reports 2016 second quarter results
Aliso viejo, calif.--(business wire)--the new home company inc. (nyse: nwhm) today announced results for the 2016 second quarter. second quarter 2016 highlights compared to second quarter 2015 earnings of $0.12 per diluted share vs. $0.03 per diluted share total revenues of $108.9 million vs. $45.6 million, up 139% home sales revenue of $78.8 million, an increase of 311% backlog dollar value up 104% to $278.0 million community count up 50% to 12 vs. 8 “the new home company continued to make progress in the second quarter of 2016,” said new home company chief executive officer larry webb. “we quadrupled our earnings per share as compared to the second quarter of 2015, continued to grow our community count with the opening of our much anticipated crystal cove communities, and ended the period with an estimated backlog value of $278 million, the highest in our company’s history. we also continue to leverage our stellar reputation, relationships and expertise in each of our markets to capitalize on opportunities that will further our growth objectives and generate solid returns for our shareholders. in short, we believe the pieces are in place to deliver strong results in the back half of the year. i am very optimistic about the future of the new home company.” second quarter 2016 operating results total revenues for the 2016 second quarter were $108.9 million, compared to $45.6 million in the prior year period. net income attributable to the company was $2.5 million, or $0.12 per diluted share, compared to net income of $0.4 million, or $0.03 per diluted share, in the prior year period. the year-over-year improvement in net income was primarily attributable to a 139% increase in total revenues, a 1,880 basis point reduction in selling, general and administrative (“sg&a”) expenses as a percentage of home sales revenue, and a $0.7 million increase in joint venture income. wholly owned projects home sales revenue for the 2016 second quarter was $78.8 million, compared to $19.2 million in the prior year period. the increase in home sales revenue was driven primarily by a 258% increase in deliveries that was due to a shift to more wholly owned communities and a 15% increase in average selling price to $1.8 million. homebuilding gross margin percentage was 12.0%, compared to 13.6% in the prior year period. adjusted homebuilding gross margin percentage, which excludes interest in cost of home sales, was 13.3%*, compared to 14.2%* in the prior year period. the year-over-year decrease in gross margin percentage was due to a mix shift in deliveries. based on the homes currently in backlog, we anticipate that our gross margin percentage will improve in the back-half of the year as compared to the 2016 second quarter. our sg&a expense ratio as a percentage of home sales revenue was 13.8% versus 32.6% in the prior year period. the improvement in this expense ratio was largely attributable to a 311% increase in home sales revenue, which was driven by the significant increase in new home deliveries resulting from the growth in our wholly owned operations. new home orders were up 60% to 64 homes, compared to 40 homes in the prior year period. the company's monthly sales absorption pace was consistent with the prior year period at 1.9 sales per average selling community. the company increased its selling communities by 50%, ending the quarter with 12 communities, compared to eight as of the end of the prior year quarter. the dollar value of the company's wholly owned backlog at the end of the 2016 second quarter was up 104% year-over-year to $278.0 million and totaled 125 homes, compared to $136.6 million and 65 homes in the prior year period. the average selling price of homes in backlog was $2.2 million, up 6% over the prior year. fee building projects fee building revenue for the 2016 second quarter increased 14% to $30.0 million due primarily to an increase in fee building construction activity. fee building gross margin was $1.7 million, or 5.7%, compared to $1.2 million, or 4.6%, in the prior year period. unconsolidated joint ventures (jvs) the company’s share of joint venture income for the 2016 second quarter was $3.9 million, compared to $3.3 million in the prior year period. the increase in joint venture income was driven by a 20% increase in jv total revenues, a 480 basis point improvement in homebuilding gross margins, and a benefit related to the close-out of a southern california joint venture. the following sets forth supplemental information about the company’s jvs. such information is not included in the company’s financial data for gaap purposes but is provided for informational purposes. total revenue of the jvs was $70.1 million and net income was $10.2 million, compared to $58.2 million and $7.6 million in the prior year period, respectively. home sales revenue of the jvs was $47.7 million, compared to $42.6 million in the prior year period. homebuilding gross margin percentage generated by the jvs during the quarter increased to 25.6%, compared to 20.8% in the prior year period. at the end of the 2016 second quarter, the jvs had three selling communities, down from 10 at the end of the prior year period. as a result of the 70% decline in jv selling communities, new home orders from jvs for the 2016 second quarter decreased 71% to 30 homes as compared to 103 homes in the prior year period. in addition, the dollar value of homes in backlog from unconsolidated jvs at the end of the 2016 second quarter was down 70% to $72.0 million from 76 homes, compared to $238.3 million from 187 homes in the prior year period. we expect to open seven new homebuilding jv communities by the end of 2016, five of which will be in the mckinley village master plan in central sacramento. balance sheet and liquidity as of june 30, 2016, the company had real estate inventories totaling $403.4 million, of which $306.2 million represented work-in-process and completed homes (including models), $60.8 million in land and land under development, and $36.4 million in land deposits and pre-acquisition costs. the company owned or controlled 1,485 lots through its wholly owned operations (excluding fee building and joint venture lots), of which 1,010 lots were controlled or under option. as of june 30, 2016, the company had $50.9 million in liquidity, which consisted of $29.8 million in cash and cash equivalents and $21.1 million in availability under its revolving credit facility. the company ended the 2016 second quarter with $242.9 million in total outstanding debt, with a debt-to-capital ratio of 52.1% and a net debt-to-capital ratio of 48.7%*. guidance the company updated its full year guidance for 2016 as follows: home sales revenue of $450 - $500 million fee building revenue of $130 - $150 million income from unconsolidated joint ventures of $10 - $11 million wholly owned active year-end community count of 13 joint venture active year-end community count of 9 conference call details the company will host a conference call and webcast for investors and other interested parties beginning at 12:00 p.m. eastern time on friday, july 29, 2016 to review second quarter results, discuss recent events and conduct a question-and-answer period. the conference call will be available in the investors section of the company’s website at www.nwhm.com. to listen to the broadcast live, go to the site approximately 15 minutes prior to the scheduled start time in order to register, download and install any necessary audio software. to participate in the telephone conference call, dial 1-877-407-0789 (domestic) or 1-201-689-8562 (international) at least five minutes prior to the start time. replays of the conference call will be available through august 29, 2016 and can be accessed by dialing 1-877-870-5176 (domestic) or 1-858-384-5517 (international) and entering the pass code 13640872. about the new home company nwhm is a new generation homebuilder focused on the design, construction and sale of innovative and consumer-driven homes in major metropolitan areas within select growth markets in california and arizona, including coastal southern california, the san francisco bay area, metro sacramento and the greater phoenix area. the company is headquartered in aliso viejo, california. for more information about the company and its new home developments, please visit the company's website at www.nwhm.com. * adjusted homebuilding gross margin percentage and net debt-to-capital ratio are non-gaap measures. a reconciliation of the appropriate gaap measure to each of these measures is included in the accompanying financial data. see "reconciliation of non-gaap financial measures." forward-looking statements various statements contained in this press release, including those that express a belief, anticipation, expectation or intention, as well as those that are not statements of historical fact, are forward-looking statements. these forward-looking statements may include projections and estimates concerning the timing and success of specific projects, community counts and openings and our future production, our ability to execute our strategic growth objectives, gross margins, revenues, projected results, income, earnings per share and capital spending. our forward-looking statements are generally accompanied by words such as “estimate,” “project,” “predict,” “believe,” “expect,” “intend,” “anticipate,” “potential,” “plan,” “goal,” “will,” “guidance,” or other words that convey the uncertainty of future events or outcomes. the forward-looking statements in this press release speak only as of the date of this release, and we disclaim any obligation to update these statements unless required by law, and we caution you not to rely on them unduly. we have based these forward-looking statements on our current expectations and assumptions about future events. while our management considers these expectations and assumptions to be reasonable, they are inherently subject to significant business, economic, competitive, regulatory and other risks, contingencies and uncertainties, most of which are difficult to predict and many of which are beyond our control. the following factors, among others, may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements: economic changes either nationally or in the markets in which we operate, including declines in employment, volatility of mortgage interest rates and inflation; a downturn in the homebuilding industry; changes in sales conditions, including home prices, in the markets where we build homes, volatility and uncertainty in the credit markets and broader financial markets; our business and investment strategy; availability of land to acquire and our ability to acquire such land on favorable terms or at all; our liquidity and availability, terms and deployment of capital; shortages of or increased prices for labor, land or raw materials used in housing construction; delays in land development or home construction resulting from adverse weather conditions or other events outside our control; issues concerning our joint venture partnerships; the cost and availability of insurance and surety bonds; changes in, or the failure or inability to comply with, governmental laws and regulations; the timing of receipt of regulatory approvals and the opening of projects; the degree and nature of competition; our leverage and debt service obligations; the impact of recent accounting standards; restrictive covenants relating to our operations in our current of future financing arrangements; availability of qualified personnel and our ability to retain our key personnel; and additional factors discussed under the sections captioned “risk factors” included in our annual report and other reports filed with the securities and exchange commission. the company reserves the right to make such updates from time to time by press release, periodic report or other method of public disclosure without the need for specific reference to this press release. no such update shall be deemed to indicate that other statements not addressed by such update remain correct or create an obligation to provide any other updates. (dollars in thousands) (unaudited) (1) fee building revenue includes management fees from unconsolidated joint ventures. ** see "reconciliation of non-gaap financial measures" beginning on page 10. (dollars in thousands) (unaudited) consolidated balance sheets (unaudited) (unaudited) reconciliation of non-gaap financial measures(unaudited) in this earnings release, we utilize certain non-gaap financial measures as defined by the securities and exchange commission. we present these measures because we believe they, and similar measures, are useful to management and investors in evaluating the company’s operating performance and financing structure. we also believe these measures facilitate the comparison of our operating performance and financing structure with other companies in our industry. because these measures are not calculated in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (“gaap”), they may not be comparable to other similarly titled measures of other companies and should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for, or superior to, financial measures prepared in accordance with gaap. the following tables reconcile homebuilding gross margin percentage, as reported and prepared in accordance with gaap, to the non-gaap measure adjusted homebuilding gross margin percentage. we believe this information is meaningful, as it isolates the impact leverage has on homebuilding gross margin and provides investors better comparisons with our competitors, who adjust gross margins in a similar fashion. reconciliation of non-gaap financial measures (continued)(unaudited) the following table reconciles the company’s ratio of debt-to-capital to the non-gaap ratio of net debt-to-capital. we believe that the ratio of net debt-to-capital is a relevant financial measure for management and investors to understand the leverage employed in our operations and as an indicator of the company’s ability to obtain financing. schedule of quarterly amortization of capitalizable model set-up selling and marketing expenses, gross margins and sg&a expenses(unaudited) effective january 1, 2016, the company started amortizing certain capitalizable selling and marketing ("s&m") costs to selling and marketing expenses versus cost of home sales. we believe that the revised presentation and classification of these capitalizable model set-up s&m costs as a selling and marketing expense is more comparable with how other homebuilders reflect such costs in their gross margin and sg&a percentage metrics. we also believe this presentation is more useful to management and investors in evaluating our performance. the table below provides a quarterly summary of 2015 s&m costs reclassified to conform with the current year presentation and the resulting change in gross margin, as well as the impact on the company's sg&a expense ratio as a percentage of home sales revenue. gross margin aspreviously reported capitalizeds&mreclassification basis pointschange ingm% (1) $ % $ $ % % s&m expenses aspreviously reported($ and % of homes salesrevenue) capitalizeds&mreclassification s&m expenses ($ and %of homes sales revenue)as revised basis pointschange in s&mexpenses as %of home salesrevenue (1) $ % $ $ % % sg&a expenses aspreviously reported($ and % of homes salesrevenue) capitalizeds&mreclassification sg&a expenses ($ and %of homes sales revenue)as revised basis pointschange insg&a expensesas % of homesales revenue (1) $ % $ $ % %
