Oil-Dri Corporation of America (NYSE: ODC), producer and marketer
of sorbent mineral products, today announced results for its first
quarter of fiscal year 2024.
|
First Quarter |
(in thousands, except per share amounts) |
Ended October 31, |
|
2023 |
2022 |
Change |
Consolidated Results |
|
|
|
Net Sales |
$ |
111,438 |
$ |
98,539 |
13% |
Net Income Attributable to Oil-Dri |
$ |
10,742 |
$ |
5,241 |
105% |
Diluted EPS - Common |
$ |
1.50 |
$ |
0.78 |
92% |
Business to Business |
|
|
|
Net Sales |
$ |
39,161 |
$ |
33,687 |
16% |
Segment Operating Income |
$ |
11,123 |
$ |
7,257 |
53% |
Retail and Wholesale |
|
|
|
Net Sales |
$ |
72,277 |
$ |
64,852 |
11% |
Segment Operating Income |
$ |
11,331 |
$ |
7,574 |
50% |
Daniel S. Jaffee, President and Chief Executive Officer, stated,
“I am very proud of our team’s efforts to successfully grow our top
and bottom lines in the first quarter of fiscal 2024 compared to
last year. These favorable results reflect our sixth consecutive
quarter of record net sales and our eighth consecutive quarter of
record gross profit. We also doubled our net income which reached
an all-time high for the first quarter. While our gross margins
were slightly lower than fourth quarter fiscal 2023 levels, we
expanded year-over-year gross margins by 520 basis points. Moving
forward, we hope to maintain this trajectory of success through
further gross margin improvement and expanded distribution of our
innovative products. At the same time, we will continue investing
heavily in our manufacturing facilities to replace aging assets and
support increased demand.”
Consolidated Results Consolidated
net sales in the first quarter of fiscal 2024 reached a record
$111.4 million, a 13% increase over the prior year. This growth was
primarily driven by elevated sales of cat litter and fluids
purification products. While the Company also experienced revenue
gains from its animal health, industrial & sports, and
agricultural businesses, sales of its co-packaged coarse cat litter
products declined in the first quarter compared to last year.
Higher prices across all principal products helped contribute to
the improvement in net sales, as well as increased volumes within
our Business to Business (“B2B”) Products Group.
First quarter of fiscal 2024 consolidated gross
profit was a record $31.0 million, an increase of $8.7 million, or
39%, over the first quarter of the prior year, with gross margin
expansion to 27.8% in fiscal 2024 from 22.6% in fiscal 2023. During
the three months ended October 31, 2023, domestic cost of goods
sold per ton increased 11% compared to the prior year as a result
of higher per ton non-fuel manufacturing, freight, and packaging
costs, partially offset by lower natural gas costs. The
implementation of several rounds of pricing actions over the last
12 months helped to mitigate these headwinds.
Selling, general and administrative (“SG&A”)
expenses were $17.8 million during the first quarter of fiscal 2024
compared to $15.7 million for the same period last year. This 13%
increase reflects higher advertising spending and an increase in
compensation related expenses including salaries and corporate
bonus accrual. Advertising expenses were significantly higher in
the first quarter compared to the same period last year, as the
majority of the prior year’s expenditures took place in the fourth
quarter. Oil-Dri expects advertising costs for the full fiscal year
2024 to be higher than fiscal year 2023 and equally spread over
four quarters.
In the first quarter of fiscal 2024, the Company
doubled its consolidated operating income to $13.2 million from
$6.6 million in the first quarter of fiscal 2023. Higher sales
offset inflationary impacts on cost of goods sold and an increase
in SG&A expenditures.
Income tax expense increased to $2.1 million in
the first quarter of fiscal year 2024 compared to $1.2 million in
the same period last year due to higher taxable income. The Company
set a record for the highest first quarter net income attributable
to Oil-Dri of $10.7 million in fiscal 2024, more than double the
prior year’s first quarter bottom line of $5.2 million.
Cash and cash equivalents for the three month
period ending October 31, 2023, totaled $29.6 million compared to
$10.5 million in the prior year. This $19.1 million increase was
driven by higher earnings. Significant uses of cash during the
first quarter of fiscal 2024 include capital investments for
manufacturing infrastructure improvements and dividends.
Product Group Review The Business
to Business Products Group’s first quarter of fiscal 2024 revenues
reached a record $39.2 million, a 16% increase over the prior year.
All principal products achieved topline growth which was driven by
higher prices and, to a lesser extent, by increased volumes. Sales
of fluids purification products contributed to the majority of the
increase with revenues of $22.4 million for the first quarter of
fiscal 2024, a 23% increase over the prior year. This was primarily
a result of elevated demand for renewable diesel and edible oil
products within North America from both new and existing customers.
Amlan International, the Company’s animal health business,
demonstrated strong revenue growth with $6.4 million in sales
during the first quarter of fiscal 2024, or an 18% increase over
the prior year. These gains were primarily driven by customer
demand, despite challenging global economic and market conditions
impacting the poultry industry. Sales rose within North America due
to higher prices and increased demand of Sorbiam products from
existing customers. Amlan International’s topline growth can also
be attributed to higher revenues within China, as a result of the
sale of existing inventory to the Company’s master distributor in
that country. Animal health products sales in Asia showed positive
gains, while revenues from other regions remained soft. During the
first quarter of fiscal 2024, agricultural products sales were
$10.3 million, or a 3% increase over the prior year. Higher prices
as well as a favorable mix of products contributed to the revenue
improvement.
Operating income for the B2B Products Group was
$11.1 million in the first quarter of fiscal 2024 compared to $7.3
million in fiscal 2023, reflecting a 53% increase. Higher sales
coupled with a $300,000, or 7% decrease, in SG&A expenses drove
the increase. This reduction in SG&A costs was primarily a
result of a decrease in the allocation of technical support
expenses.
The Retail and Wholesale (“R&W”) Products
Group’s first quarter revenues reached an all-time high of $72.3
million, an 11% increase over the prior year. This was mainly
driven by an $8.2 million, or 18%, increase in domestic cat litter
sales, excluding the Company’s co-packaged coarse-cat litter
business. Higher prices across the domestic cat litter product
portfolio and increased volumes of lightweight scoopable and coarse
litter offerings drove these sales gains. In addition, the Company
expanded distribution with its newly launched Cat’s Pride
Antibacterial Clumping Litter, the first and only EPA approved
antibacterial cat litter in the United States. Revenues from
combined domestic branded and private label lightweight litter
items rose 24% in the first quarter of fiscal 2024 versus the prior
year, exceeding the lightweight litter segment sales growth of 7%
for the 13-week period ended November 4, 2023, according to
third-party research data for retail sales1. First quarter of
fiscal 2024 net sales from co-packaged coarse cat litter products
decreased by $1.6 million, or 36%, compared to the same period in
fiscal year 2023. This decline was primarily driven by a
cyberattack on a significant customer rendering them unable to
place and receive orders from the Company. Domestic industrial and
sports product revenues were $10.7 million in the first quarter of
fiscal 2024, or a 6% increase over last year. This gain was due to
increased demand for Oil-Dri’s synthetic absorbents and higher
prices across clay-based floor absorbent products. Net sales of our
subsidiary in Canada increased in the first quarter of fiscal year
2024 compared to the prior year driven by higher demand and pricing
of industrial floor absorbents.
Operating income for the R&W Products Group
was $11.3 million in the first quarter of fiscal year 2024 compared
to $7.6 million in the prior year, reflecting a 50% increase.
Higher sales offset elevated costs of goods sold and higher
SG&A spending. SG&A expenses for the first quarter of
fiscal year 2024 increased by $1.2 million, or 32%, over last year.
This increase was primarily driven by higher advertising
expenditures to promote Cat’s Pride lightweight litter, including
the newly launched Cat’s Pride Antibacterial Clumping Litter
product.
Oil-Dri will host its first quarter fiscal 2024
earnings discussion and its fiscal 2023 Annual Meeting of
Stockholders virtually via a live webcast on Wednesday, December
13, 2023 at 9:30 a.m. Central Time. Participation details are
available on the Company’s website’s Events page.
1Based in part on data reported by NielsenIQ
through its Scantrack Service for the Cat Litter Category in the
13-week period ended November 4, 2023, for the U.S. xAOC+Pet Supers
market. Copyright © 2023 NielsenIQ.
Oil-Dri Corporation of America is a leading
manufacturer and supplier of specialty sorbent products for the pet
care, animal health and nutrition, fluids purification,
agricultural ingredients, sports field, industrial and automotive
markets. Oil-Dri is vertically integrated which enables the Company
to efficiently oversee every step of the process from research and
development to supply chain to marketing and sales. With over 80
years of experience, the Company continues to fulfill its mission
to Create Value from Sorbent Minerals.
“Oil-Dri”, “Cat’s Pride”, “Sorbiam”, and “Amlan”
are registered trademarks of Oil-Dri Corporation of America.
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differ materially including, but not limited to, the dependence of
our future growth and financial performance on successful new
product introductions, intense competition in our markets,
volatility of our quarterly results, risks associated with
acquisitions, our dependence on a limited number of customers for a
large portion of our net sales and other risks, price fluctuations
and pressures, increases in costs, disruptions to our and our
counterparties’ businesses and operations and other uncertainties
and assumptions that are described in Item 1A (Risk Factors) of our
Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended October 31,
2023 and our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and other
reports we file with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Should
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or should underlying assumptions prove incorrect, our actual
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Contact: Leslie A. Garber Director of Investor
Relations Oil-Dri Corporation of America
InvestorRelations@oildri.com (312) 321-1515
|
|
|
|
|
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS |
(in thousands, except per share amounts) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Three Months Ended October 31, |
|
|
|
2023 |
|
|
% of Sales |
|
|
2022 |
|
|
% of Sales |
Net Sales |
|
$ |
111,438 |
|
|
100.0 |
% |
|
$ |
98,539 |
|
|
100.0 |
% |
Cost of Goods Sold |
|
|
(80,447 |
) |
|
(72.2 |
)% |
|
|
(76,229 |
) |
|
(77.4 |
)% |
Gross Profit |
|
|
30,991 |
|
|
27.8 |
% |
|
|
22,310 |
|
|
22.6 |
% |
Selling, General and Administrative Expenses |
|
(17,835 |
) |
|
(16.0 |
)% |
|
|
(15,741 |
) |
|
(16.0 |
)% |
Operating Income |
|
13,156 |
|
|
11.8 |
% |
|
|
6,569 |
|
|
6.7 |
% |
Other Expense, Net |
|
(326 |
) |
|
(0.3 |
)% |
|
|
(132 |
) |
|
(0.1 |
)% |
Income Before Income Taxes |
|
12,830 |
|
|
11.5 |
% |
|
|
6,437 |
|
|
6.5 |
% |
Income Taxes Expense |
|
(2,088 |
) |
|
(1.9 |
)% |
|
|
(1,207 |
) |
|
(1.2 |
)% |
Net Income |
|
|
10,742 |
|
|
9.6 |
% |
|
|
5,230 |
|
|
5.3 |
% |
Net Loss Attributable to Noncontrolling
Interest |
|
— |
|
|
— |
% |
|
|
(11 |
) |
|
— |
% |
Net Income Attributable to Oil-Dri |
$ |
10,742 |
|
|
9.6 |
% |
|
$ |
5,241 |
|
|
5.3 |
% |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net Income Per Share: |
Basic Common |
$ |
1.61 |
|
|
|
|
$ |
0.80 |
|
|
|
|
Basic Class
B |
$ |
1.21 |
|
|
|
|
$ |
0.60 |
|
|
|
|
Diluted
Common |
$ |
1.50 |
|
|
|
|
$ |
0.78 |
|
|
|
|
Diluted Class
B |
$ |
1.21 |
|
|
|
|
$ |
0.59 |
|
|
|
Avg Shares Outstanding: |
Basic Common |
|
4,827 |
|
|
|
|
|
4,804 |
|
|
|
|
Basic Class
B |
|
1,967 |
|
|
|
|
|
1,942 |
|
|
|
|
Diluted
Common |
|
6,794 |
|
|
|
|
|
4,913 |
|
|
|
|
Diluted Class
B |
|
1,967 |
|
|
|
|
|
1,963 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS |
(in thousands, except per share amounts) |
|
|
|
As of October 31, |
|
|
|
2023 |
|
|
|
2022 |
|
Current Assets |
|
|
|
|
Cash and Cash Equivalents |
|
$ |
29,579 |
|
|
$ |
10,470 |
|
Accounts Receivable, Net |
|
|
60,663 |
|
|
|
53,062 |
|
Inventories |
|
|
43,832 |
|
|
|
45,460 |
|
Prepaid Expenses and Other Assets |
|
|
2,692 |
|
|
|
2,366 |
|
Total Current Assets |
|
|
136,766 |
|
|
|
111,358 |
|
Property, Plant and Equipment, Net |
|
|
123,216 |
|
|
|
112,633 |
|
Other Noncurrent Assets |
|
|
28,786 |
|
|
|
25,122 |
|
Total Assets |
|
$ |
288,768 |
|
|
$ |
249,113 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Current Liabilities |
|
|
|
|
Current Maturities of Notes Payable |
|
$ |
1,000 |
|
|
$ |
1,000 |
|
Accounts Payable |
|
|
14,867 |
|
|
|
12,088 |
|
Dividends Payable |
|
|
1,953 |
|
|
|
1,860 |
|
Other Current Liabilities |
|
|
34,485 |
|
|
|
30,344 |
|
Total Current Liabilities |
|
|
52,305 |
|
|
|
45,292 |
|
Noncurrent Liabilities |
|
|
|
|
Notes Payable |
|
|
30,842 |
|
|
|
31,800 |
|
Other Noncurrent Liabilities |
|
|
19,705 |
|
|
|
17,993 |
|
Total Noncurrent Liabilities |
|
|
50,547 |
|
|
|
49,793 |
|
Stockholders' Equity |
|
|
185,916 |
|
|
|
154,028 |
|
Total Liabilities and Stockholders' Equity |
|
$ |
288,768 |
|
|
$ |
249,113 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Book Value Per Share Outstanding |
|
$ |
27.36 |
|
|
$ |
22.83 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Acquisitions of: |
|
|
|
|
Property, Plant and Equipment |
|
|
|
|
First Quarter |
|
$ |
8,064 |
|
|
$ |
6,737 |
|
Year To Date |
|
$ |
8,064 |
|
|
$ |
6,737 |
|
Depreciation and Amortization Charges |
|
|
|
|
First Quarter |
|
$ |
4,368 |
|
|
$ |
3,523 |
|
Year To Date |
|
$ |
4,368 |
|
|
$ |
3,523 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Certain amounts in
the prior period financial statements have been reclassified to
conform to the presentation of the current period financial
statements. |
|
|
|
|
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS |
(in thousands) |
|
For the Three Months Ended |
|
October 31, |
|
|
2023 |
|
|
|
2022 |
|
CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES |
|
|
|
Net Income |
$ |
10,742 |
|
|
$ |
5,230 |
|
Adjustments to reconcile net income to net
cash |
|
|
|
provided by operating activities: |
|
|
|
Depreciation and Amortization |
|
4,368 |
|
|
|
3,523 |
|
Increase in Accounts Receivable |
|
(1,487 |
) |
|
|
(1,622 |
) |
Increase in Inventories |
|
(1,374 |
) |
|
|
(5,202 |
) |
(Decrease) Increase in Accounts Payable |
|
(1,289 |
) |
|
|
1,854 |
|
Decrease in Accrued Expenses |
|
(4,365 |
) |
|
|
(1,601 |
) |
Other |
|
1,969 |
|
|
|
632 |
|
Total Adjustments |
|
(2,178 |
) |
|
|
(2,416 |
) |
Net Cash Provided by Operating Activities |
|
8,564 |
|
|
|
2,814 |
|
|
|
|
|
CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES |
|
|
|
Capital Expenditures |
|
(8,064 |
) |
|
|
(6,737 |
) |
Net Cash Used in Investing Activities |
|
(8,064 |
) |
|
|
(6,737 |
) |
|
|
|
|
CASH FLOWS FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES |
|
|
|
Dividends Paid |
|
(1,927 |
) |
|
|
(1,851 |
) |
Purchases of Treasury Stock |
|
(872 |
) |
|
|
(92 |
) |
Net Cash Used In Financing Activities |
|
(2,799 |
) |
|
|
(1,943 |
) |
|
|
|
|
Effect of exchange rate changes on Cash and Cash
Equivalents |
|
124 |
|
|
|
38 |
|
|
|
|
|
Net Decrease in Cash and Cash Equivalents |
|
(2,175 |
) |
|
|
(5,828 |
) |
Cash and Cash Equivalents, Beginning of
Period |
|
31,754 |
|
|
|
16,298 |
|
Cash and Cash Equivalents, End of Period |
$ |
29,579 |
|
|
$ |
10,470 |
|
|
Certain amounts in the prior period financial statements have been
reclassified to conform to the presentation of the current period
financial statements. |
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