RBA RB Global Inc

WESTCHESTER, Ill., Nov. 9, 2023 /CNW/ - RB Global, Inc. (NYSE: RBA) (TSX: RBA) the "Company", "RB Global", "we", "us", "their", or "our") reported the following results for the three months ended September 30, 2023.

"Our strong GTV growth was driven by every sector and underscores our team's dedication and commitment to being trusted partners to our valued customers," said Jim Kessler, CEO of RB Global. "As we continue to advance our integration of IAA, we remain focused on operational excellence to drive profitable growth."

Third Quarter Financial Highlights¹²³:

• GTV increased 185% year-over-year to $3.9 billion, which includes $2.2 billion from the impact of the acquisition of IAA, Inc. ("IAA").
• Total revenue increased 148 % year-over-year to $1.0 billion, which includes $557.4 million from the impact of the acquisition of IAA.
  • Service revenue increased 214 % year-over-year to $773.8 million, which includes $478.3 million from the impact of the acquisition of IAA.
  • Inventory sales revenue increased 49 % year-over-year to $246.0 million, which includes $79.1 million from the impact of the acquisition of IAA.
• Net income increased 47 % year-over-year to $63.2 million.
• Net income available to common stockholders increased 28 % year-over-year to $54.7 million.
• Diluted earnings per share available to common stockholders decreased 21% to $0.30 per share.
• Diluted adjusted earnings per share available to common stockholders increased 36% year-over-year to $0.72 per share.
• Adjusted EBITDA increased 179% year-over-year to $285.8 million.

Other Company Developments:

• In October 2023, the Company, along with Nations Capital, LLC ("Nations"), received bankruptcy court approval to be the agent and liquidator of Yellow Corporation's transportation assets. The Company and Nations intend to utilize the expansive footprint of RB Global to manage the relocation, transportation, refurbishment, inventory, storage and sale of the rolling stock assets, including approximately 60,000 units of trucks, trailers and miscellaneous equipment located across the United States and Canada at over 300 terminal locations. The Company and Nations intend to implement a multi-faceted sales strategy, including private treaty and strategic bulk sales, as well as live and fully digital formats.
  
  
• In October 2023, the Company received notice from one of IAA's customers, which comprised approximately 4% of GTV, 5% of lot volumes and 3% of total consolidated revenues on an annual run-rate basis, that they would be shifting their assignment volume away from IAA. We expect the assignment volume shift to begin in the fourth quarter of 2023, with the majority of the impact on revenues beginning in the first quarter of 2024.

Additional Financial and Operational Highlights

GTV by Geography

GTV by Sector

Lots Sold by Sector

The following table presents the selected results from RBA and IAA:

Supplemental Pro Forma Revenue Related Highlights¹

Supplemental Pro Forma GTV by Sector¹

Supplemental Pro Forma Lots Sold by Sector¹

Reconciliation of Operating Expenses

The below table reconciles as reported operating expenses by line item to adjusted operating expenses to exclude the impact of adjustments as defined in our Non-GAAP Measures.

For the Third Quarter:

• GTV increased 185 % year-over-year to $3.9 billion, primarily from the inclusion of $2.2 billion GTV from IAA. GTV increased 17 % year-over-year on a pro forma combined basis, with strength in lot volumes across all sectors, partially offset by a lower average price per lot sold in the commercial construction and transportation sector.
  
  
• Service revenue increased 214 % year-over-year to $773.8 million, primarily from the inclusion of $478.3 million of service revenue from IAA. Service revenue increased 20 % year-over-year on a pro forma combined basis on higher GTV and a higher average service revenue take rate. Service revenue take rate expanded 60 basis points on a pro forma combined basis year-over-year to 20.0 % driven by a higher average buyer fees rate and growth in marketplace services revenue, partially offset by a lower average commissions rate. Marketplace services was driven by an increase in auction-related fee structures in the commercial construction and transportation sector.
  
  
• Inventory sales revenue increased 49 % year-over-year, mainly due to the inclusion of $79.1 million of inventory sales revenue from IAA. Inventory sales revenue decreased 7% year-over-year on a pro forma combined basis on lower automotive and commercial construction and transportation related revenue. Inventory rate declined 220 basis points year-over-year on a pro forma combined basis to 6.5 %. The decline in inventory rate year-over-year on a pro forma combined basis can be attributed to prices declining faster than anticipated between the purchase date and date of sale of inventory, primarily in the Company's commercial construction and transportation sector.
  
  
• Net income available to common stockholders increased to $54.7 million, mainly due to an increase in operating income partially offset by higher effective tax rate, higher net interest expense, and allocated earnings to Series A Senior Preferred shareholders.
  
  
• Adjusted EBITDA¹ increased 179% year-over-year mainly driven by the inclusion of IAA.

Dividend Information

Quarterly Dividend
On November 7, 2023, the Company declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.27 per common share, payable on December 21, 2023 to shareholders of record on November 30, 2023.

Third Quarter 2023 Earnings Conference Call
RB Global is hosting a conference call to discuss its financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2023 at 4:30 pm ET on November 9, 2023. The replay of the webcast will be available through December 1, 2023.

Conference call and webcast details are available at the following link:
https://investor.rbglobal.com

About RB Global 
RB Global, Inc. (NYSE: RBA) (TSX: RBA) is a leading, omnichannel marketplace that provides value-added insights, services and transaction solutions for buyers and sellers of commercial assets and vehicles worldwide. Through its auction sites in 13 countries and digital platform, RB Global serves customers in more than 170 countries across a variety of asset classes, including automotive, commercial transportation, construction, government surplus, lifting and material handling, energy, mining and agriculture. The company's marketplace brands include Ritchie Bros., the world's largest auctioneer of commercial assets and vehicles offering online bidding, and IAA, a leading global digital marketplace connecting vehicle buyers and sellers. RB Global's portfolio of brands also includes Rouse Services, which provides a complete end-to-end asset management, data-driven intelligence and performance benchmarking system; SmartEquip, an innovative technology platform that supports customers' management of the equipment lifecycle and integrates parts procurement with both OEMs and dealers; Xcira, a leader in live simulcast auction technologies; and VeriTread, an online marketplace for heavy haul transport.

Forward-looking Statements 
This news release contains forward-looking statements and forward-looking information within the meaning of applicable US and Canadian securities legislation (collectively, "forward-looking statements"), including, in particular, statements regarding future financial and operational results, opportunities, and any other statements regarding events or developments that RB Global believes or anticipates will or may occur in the future. Forward-looking statements are statements that are not historical facts and are generally, although not always, identified by words such as "expect", "plan, "anticipate", "project", "target", "potential", "schedule", "forecast", "budget", "estimate", "intend" or "believe" and similar expressions or their negative connotations, or statements that events or conditions "will", "would", "may", "could", "should" or "might" occur. All such forward-looking statements are based on the opinions and estimates of management as of the date such statements are made. Forward-looking statements necessarily involve assumptions, risks and uncertainties, certain of which are beyond RB Global's control, including risks and uncertainties related to: the effects of the business combination with IAA, including the Company's future financial condition, results of operations, strategy and plans; potential adverse reactions or changes to business or employee relationships, including those resulting from the completion of the merger; the diversion of management time on transaction-related issues; the response of competitors to the merger; the ultimate difficulty, timing, cost and results of integrating the operations of IAA; the fact that operating costs and business disruption may be greater than expected; the effect of the consummation of the merger on the trading price of RB Global's common shares; the ability of RB Global to retain and hire key personnel and employees; the significant costs associated with the merger; the outcome of any legal proceedings that could be instituted against RB Global; the ability of the Company to realize anticipated synergies in the amount, manner or timeframe expected or at all; the failure of the Company to achieve expected operating results in the amount, manner or timeframe expected or at all; changes in capital markets and the ability of the Company to generate cash flow and/or finance operations in the manner expected or to de-lever in the timeframe expected; the failure of RB Global or the Company to meet financial forecasts and/or KPI targets; the Company's ability to commercialize new platform solutions and offerings; legislative, regulatory and economic developments affecting the combined business; general economic and market developments and conditions; the evolving legal, regulatory and tax regimes under which RB Global operates; unpredictability and severity of catastrophic events, including, but not limited to, pandemics, acts of terrorism or outbreak of war or hostilities, as well as RB Global's response to any of the aforementioned factors. Other risks that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements are included in RB Global's periodic reports and other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") and/or applicable Canadian securities regulatory authorities, including the risk factors identified under Item 1A "Risk Factors" and the section titled "Summary of Risk Factors" in RB Global's most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022, and RB Global's periodic reports and other filings with the SEC which are available on the SEC, SEDAR and RB Global' websites. The foregoing list is not exhaustive of the factors that may affect RB Global's forward-looking statements. There can be no assurance that forward-looking statements will prove to be accurate, and actual results may differ materially from those expressed in, or implied by, these forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are made as of the date of this news release and RB Global does not undertake any obligation to update the information contained herein unless required by applicable securities legislation. For the reasons set forth above, you should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements.

Key Operating Metrics

The Company regularly reviews a number of metrics, including the following key operating metrics, to evaluate its business, measure its performance, identify trends affecting its business, and make operating decisions. The Company believes these key operating metrics are useful to investors because management uses these metrics to assess the growth of the Company's business and the effectiveness of its operational strategies.

The Company defines its key operating metrics as follows:

Gross transaction value (GTV): Represents total proceeds from all items sold at the Company's auctions and online marketplaces. GTV is not a measure of financial performance, liquidity, or revenue, and is not presented in the Company's consolidated financial statements.

Total service revenue take rate: Total service revenue divided by total GTV.

Inventory return: Inventory sales revenue less cost of inventory sold.

Inventory rate: Inventory return divided by inventory sales revenue.

Total lots sold: A single asset to be sold, or a group of assets bundled for sale as one unit. Low value assets are sometimes bundled into a single lot, collectively referred to as "small value lots."

Historically, the Company reported total lots sold excluding lots sold in their GovPlanet business. Commencing in the first quarter of 2023, as a result of a change in management organizational structure and the acquisition of IAA, management reviews all auction metrics of the combined businesses as a whole, which includes GovPlanet. In addition, the total bids per lot sold metric was historically used by management as a key metric. This metric has been discontinued since the first quarter of 2023 as it is no longer considered meaningful when reviewing the auction metrics of the combined business and the Company's one reportable segment.

GTV and Selected Condensed Consolidated Financial Information

GTV and Condensed Consolidated Income Statements – Third Quarter
(Expressed in millions of U.S. dollars, except share, per share data and percentages)
(Unaudited)

Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets
(Expressed in millions of U.S. dollars, except share data)
(Unaudited)

Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows
(Expressed in millions of U.S. dollars)
(Unaudited)

Non-GAAP Measures

This news release references non-GAAP measures. These measures do not have a standardized meaning and are, therefore, unlikely to be comparable to similar measures presented by other companies. The presentation of this financial information, which is not prepared under any comprehensive set of accounting rules or principles, is not intended to be considered in isolation of, or as a substitute for, the financial information prepared and presented in accordance with US GAAP.

Beginning in the third quarter of 2023, we updated the calculation of our non-GAAP measures to no longer adjust for the effect of the incremental net depreciation on the step-up in fair value of property, plant and equipment and the incremental net rent expense on the step-up in the fair value of operating lease right-of -use assets in connection with the application of acquisition accounting in the IAA acquisition. This change has been applied retrospectively to the second quarter of 2023 and accordingly to the nine-month period ended September 30, 2023. The Company continues to adjust for the amortization of acquired intangible assets, consistent with past practice, and the impact of purchase accounting on prepaid consigned vehicle charges which is expected to continue until the end of 2023.

Adjusted Operating Income Reconciliation
The Company believe that adjusted operating income provides useful information about the growth or decline of its operating income for the relevant financial period and eliminates the financial impact of adjusting items that the Company do not consider to be part of its normal operating results. Adjusted operating income enhances the Company's ability to evaluate and understand ongoing operations, underlying business profitability, and facilitate the allocation of resources.

Adjusted operating income eliminates the financial impact of adjusting items from operating income, which are significant items that the Company do not consider to be part of our normal operating results, such as share-based payments expense, acquisition-related and integration costs, amortization of acquired intangible assets, prepaid consigned vehicles charges, executive transition costs, and certain other items, which the Company refers to as "adjusting items".

The following table reconciles adjusted operating income to operating income, which is the most directly comparable GAAP measure in our consolidated financial statements.

(1)  Please refer to pages 16-18 for a summary of adjusting items during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2023 and September 30, 2022.

(2)  Adjusted operating income represents operating income excluding the effects of adjusting items.

Adjusted Net Income Available to Common Stockholders and Diluted Adjusted EPS Available to Common Stockholders Reconciliation 
The Company believes that adjusted net income available to common stockholders provides useful information about the growth or decline of the net income available to common stockholders for the relevant financial period and eliminates the financial impact of adjusting items the Company does not consider to be part of the normal operating results. Diluted adjusted EPS available to common stockholders eliminates the financial impact of adjusting items from net income available to common stockholders that the Company does not consider to be part of the normal operating results, such as share-based payments expense, acquisition-related and integration costs, amortization of acquired intangible assets, executive transition costs, and certain other items, which the Company refers to as "adjusting items."

On February 1, 2023, we sold $485.0 million of participating Series A Senior Preferred Shares, convertible into common shares of the Company at an initial conversion price of $73.00 per share, and $15.0 million of common shares of the Company. The preferred equity is considered a participating security, and as a result, beginning in the first quarter of 2023, the Company calculated diluted EPS using the two-class method, which includes the effects of the assumed conversion of the Series A Senior Preferred Shares to common shares, as well as the effect of any shares issuable under the Company's stock-based incentive plans, if such effect is dilutive. Under this method, earnings are allocated to holders of common stock and preferred stock based on dividends declared and their respective participation rights in undistributed earnings. As a result, during the third quarter and first nine months of 2023, our net income available to common stockholders was lower by the cumulative dividends and allocated earnings to Series A Senior Preferred shareholders.

The following table reconciles adjusted net income available to common stockholders and diluted adjusted EPS available to common stockholders to net income available to common stockholders and diluted EPS available to common stockholders, which are the most directly comparable GAAP measures in our consolidated financial statements:

(1)  Please refer to pages 16-18 for a summary of adjusting items during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2023 and September 30, 2022.

(2)  Net income available to common stockholders is computed as: net income attributable to controlling interests less cumulative dividends on Series A Senior Preferred Shares and allocated earnings to participating securities.

(3)  Adjusted net income available to common stockholders represents net income available to common stockholders, excluding the effects of adjusting items.

(4)  Diluted adjusted EPS available to common stockholders is calculated by dividing adjusted net income available to common stockholders by the weighted average number of dilutive shares outstanding, except that it is computed based upon the lower of the two-class method or the if-converted method, which includes the effects of the assumed conversion of the Series A Senior Preferred Shares and the effect of shares issuable under the Company's stock-based incentive plans, if such effect is dilutive.

Adjusted EBITDA 
The Company believes adjusted EBITDA provides useful information about the growth or decline of its net income when compared between different financial periods. The Company uses adjusted EBITDA as a key performance measure because the Company believes it facilitates operating performance comparisons from period to period and provides management with the ability to monitor its controllable incremental revenues and costs.

The following table reconciles adjusted EBITDA to net income, which is the most directly comparable GAAP measure in, or calculated from, our consolidated financial statements: