Press release from the issuing company
VENLO, Netherlands - Cimpress N.V. (Nasdaq: CMPR), the world leader in mass customization, today announced financial results for the three month period ended March 31, 2017, the third quarter of its 2017 fiscal year.
"We continue to execute across a broad spectrum of initiatives as outlined at our August 2016 investor day, including activating additional components of our mass customization platform. Additionally, this was our first full quarter of ownership of National Pen, and our integration efforts to achieve targeted synergies are underway," said Robert Keane, president and chief executive officer. "As previously announced, we also deeply decentralized our operations over the past quarter. We believe this will improve accountability for customer satisfaction and capital returns, simplify decision-making, improve the speed of execution, further develop our cadre of general managers, and preserve and release entrepreneurial energy. We see early indications that this reorganization is helping us move faster and free up capital. We are also pleased that, despite the near-term disruption of the organizational changes, our team members delivered solid operating results for the third quarter."
The restructuring charge booked through our income statement during the quarter was $24.8 million. The restructuring is substantially complete and the company does not expect material charges in future quarters related to these changes. Year-to-date restructuring charges of $25.9 million are lower than the $28 million to $31 million estimate we shared in January, due to changed share price and pension assumptions which decreased non-cash restructuring expense. Of this year-to-date restructuring charge, we expect to pay a total of approximately $19.0 million of cash expense through early fiscal 2018, including $7.5 million paid during the third quarter of fiscal 2017.
Sean Quinn, chief financial officer, said, "Revenue growth accelerated in line with our expectations, both in aggregate due to the addition of National Pen, as well as on an organic constant-currency basis, even though revenue continues to be pressured in the near term by the loss of certain partner revenue and the reduction of shipping prices to Vistaprint customers. Beyond revenue and margin pressure from the shipping price changes, the continued execution of our strategy to invest in the rapid expansion of product selection and design services has contributed to our top-line revenue growth but is weighing down our incremental margin in the Vistaprint business in the near term. We see opportunity to optimize costs and pricing in the future as we scale these offerings."
The following year-over-year items negatively influenced GAAP operating income in the third quarter:
Quinn added, "Furthermore, during the third quarter of fiscal year 2017, Cimpress recorded an impairment charge of $9.6 million related to one of our Upload and Print business units. This is similar in nature to the$30.8 million impairment charge recorded in the third quarter of fiscal year 2016 for a different Upload and Print business unit. The performance across our Upload and Print group varies, with some business units performing above the cash flow expectations built into the original deal models, some performing in line, and two for which we have had to reset expectations and therefore impair. To date the aggregate free cash flow of the full portfolio of Upload and Print businesses has exceeded our aggregate deal model plans, and we expect it to continue to do so in the future."
Quinn added, "Looking forward, we continue to expect annualized cost savings of about $55 million to $60 million from our recent restructuring, including about $45 million to $50 million of cash savings and about $10 million of non-cash savings. For fiscal year 2017, we expect the restructuring costs to offset in-year savings, but as we look forward we expect both these savings and the organizational changes to increase our estimated range of steady state free cash flow."
Consolidated Financial Metrics:
Supplemental Materials and April 27, 2017 Conference Call Information
Cimpress has posted an end-of-quarter presentation with accompanying prepared remarks, as well as a guide to reporting changes related to our recent restructuring at ir.cimpress.com. On Thursday, April 27, 2017 at7:30 a.m. (EDT) the company will host a live Q&A conference call with management to discuss the financial results, which will be available via webcast at ir.cimpress.com and via dial-in at +1 (844) 778-4144, conference ID 98415047. A replay of the Q&A session will be available on the company’s website following the call on April 27, 2017.
Important Reminder of Cimpress’ Priorities
We ask investors and potential investors in Cimpress to understand the upper-most objectives by which we endeavor to make all decisions, including investment decisions. Often we make decisions in service of these priorities that could be considered non-optimal were they to be evaluated based on other criteria such as (but not limited to) near- and mid-term net income, operating income, EPS, cash flow, EBITDA, and adjusted NOPAT.
Our priorities are:
To understand these objectives and their implications, Cimpress encourages investors to read Robert Keane’s letter to investors published on July 27, 2016 at ir.cimpress.com and to review materials presented at our annual investor day meeting on August 10, 2016.
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