Park Aerospace Corp. Reports Third Quarter Results

NEWTON, Kan., Jan. 14, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Park Aerospace Corp. (NYSE-PKE) reported results for the 2025 fiscal year third quarter ended December 1, 2024. The Company will conduct a conference call to discuss its financial results and other matters at 5:00 p.m. EST today. A live audio webcast of the event, along with presentation materials, will be available at https://edge.media-server.com/mmc/p/7jbapomd at 5:00 p.m. EST today. The presentation materials will also be available at approximately 4:15 p.m. EST today at https://parkaerospace.com/shareholders/investor-conference-calls/ and on the Company's website at www.parkaerospace.com under "Investor Conference Calls" on the "Shareholders" page.

Park reported net sales of $14,408,000 for the 2025 fiscal year third quarter ended December 1, 2024 compared to $11,639,000 for the 2024 fiscal year third quarter ended November 26, 2023 and $16,709,000 for the 2025 fiscal year second quarter ended September 1, 2024. Park's net sales for the nine months ended December 1, 2024 were $45,087,000 compared to $39,671,000 for the nine months ended November 26, 2023. Net earnings for the 2025 fiscal year third quarter were $1,577,000 compared to $1,203,000 for the 2024 fiscal year third quarter and $2,066,000 for the 2025 fiscal year second quarter. Net earnings were $4,636,000 for the current year's first nine months compared to $4,803,000 for last year's first nine months.

Net earnings before special items for the 2025 fiscal year third quarter were $1,577,000 compared to $1,203,000 for the 2024 fiscal year third quarter and $2,092,000 for the 2025 fiscal year second quarter. Net earnings before special items for the nine months ended December 1, 2024 were $5,450,000 compared to $5,356,000 for last fiscal year's first nine months.

Adjusted EBITDA for the 2025 fiscal year third quarter was $2,415,000 compared to $1,808,000 for the 2024 fiscal year third quarter and $3,206,000 for the 2025 fiscal year second quarter. Adjusted EBITDA for the current year's first nine months was $8,231,000 compared to $7,788,000 for last year's first nine months.

During the 2025 fiscal year first nine months, the Company recorded $1,098,000 of pre-tax charges related to storm damage to the Company's facilities in Newton Kansas. During the 2024 fiscal year's first nine months, the Company recorded $570,000 of pre-tax activist shareholder defense costs, $65,000 of pre-tax losses on sales of investments to fund the $1.00 per share special cash dividend paid on April 6, 2023 to shareholders of record on March 9, 2023 and a $109,000 pre-tax charge for the modification of previously granted stock options in connection with the special cash dividend in the 2024 fiscal year first quarter.

Park reported basic and diluted earnings per share of $0.08 for the 2025 fiscal year third quarter compared to $0.06 for the 2024 fiscal year third quarter and $0.10 for the 2025 fiscal year second quarter. Basic and diluted earnings per share before special items were $0.08 for the 2025 fiscal year third quarter compared to $0.06 for the 2024 fiscal year third quarter and $0.10 for the 2025 fiscal year second quarter.

Park reported basic and diluted earnings per share of $0.23 for the 2025 fiscal year's first nine months compared to $0.24 for the 2024 fiscal year's first nine months. Basic and diluted earnings per share before special items were $0.27 for the 2025 fiscal year's first nine months compared to $0.26 for the 2024 fiscal year's first nine months.

The Company will conduct a conference call to discuss its financial results at 5:00 p.m. EST today. Forward-looking and other material information may be discussed in this conference call. The conference call dial-in number is (877) 407-3982 in the United States and Canada, and (201) 493-6780 in other countries. The required passcode for attendance by phone is 13750836.

For those unable to listen to the call live, a conference call replay will be available from approximately 8:00 p.m. EST today through 11:59 p.m. EST on Tuesday, January 21, 2025. The conference call replay will be available at https://edge.media-server.com/mmc/p/7jbapomd and on the Company's website at www.parkaerospace.com under "Investor Conference Calls" on the "Shareholders" page. It can also be accessed by dialing (844) 512-2921 in the United States and Canada, and (412) 317-6671 in other countries. The required passcode for accessing the replay by phone is 13750836.

Any additional material financial or statistical data disclosed in the conference call, including the investor presentation, will also be available at the time of the conference call on the Company's website at

https://parkaerospace.com/shareholders/investor-conference-calls/.

Park believes that an evaluation of its ongoing operations would be difficult if the disclosure of its operating results were limited to accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America ("GAAP") financial measures, which include special items, such as a charge related to storm damage, activist shareholder defense costs, losses on sales of investments and charges for modification of previously granted stock options. Accordingly, in addition to disclosing its operating results determined in accordance with GAAP, Park discloses non-GAAP measures, including Adjusted EBITDA, and operating results that exclude special items in order to assist its shareholders and other readers in assessing the Company's operating performance, since the Company's on-going, normal business operations do not include such special items. The detailed operating information presented below includes a reconciliation of the non-GAAP operating results before special items to earnings determined in accordance with GAAP and a reconciliation of GAAP pre-tax earnings to Adjusted EBITDA. Such non-GAAP financial measures are provided to supplement the results provided in accordance with GAAP.

Park Aerospace Corp. develops and manufactures solution and hot-melt advanced composite materials used to produce composite structures for the global aerospace markets. Park's advanced composite materials include film adhesives (Aeroadhere^®) and lightning strike protection materials (Electroglide^®). Park offers an array of composite materials specifically designed for hand lay-up or automated fiber placement (AFP) manufacturing applications. Park's advanced composite materials are used to produce primary and secondary structures for jet engines, large and regional transport aircraft, military aircraft, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs commonly referred to as "drones"), business jets, general aviation aircraft and rotary wing aircraft. Park also offers specialty ablative materials for rocket motors and nozzles and specially designed materials for radome applications. As a complement to Park's advanced composite materials offering, Park designs and fabricates composite parts, structures and assemblies and low volume tooling for the aerospace industry. Target markets for Park's composite parts and structures (which include Park's proprietary composite SigmaStrut™ and AlphaStrut™ product lines) are, among others, prototype and development aircraft, special mission aircraft, spares for legacy military and civilian aircraft and exotic spacecraft. Park's objective is to do what others are either unwilling or unable to do. When nobody else wants to do it because it is too difficult, too small or too annoying, sign us up.

Additional corporate information is available on the Company's website at www.parkaerospace.com

Contact:  Donna D'Amico-Annitto  

486 North Oliver Road, Bldg. Z

Newton, Kansas 67114

(316) 283-6500

Performance table, including non-GAAP information (in thousands, except per share amounts –unaudited):

	13 Weeks Ended				13 Weeks Ended				13 Weeks Ended				39 Weeks Ended
	December 1, 2024				November 26, 2023				September 1, 2024				December 1, 2024					November 26, 2023
Sales	$	14,408			$	11,639			$	16,709			$	45,087				$	39,671
Net Earnings before Special Items1	$	1,577			$	1,203			$	2,092			$	5,450				$	5,356
Special Items, Net of Tax:
Activist Shareholder Defense Costs		-				-				-				-					(570	)
Stock Option Modification		-				-				-				-					(109	)
Loss on Sale of Marketable Securities		-				-				-				-					(65	)
Storm Damage Charge		-				-				(46	)			(1,098	)				-
Income Tax Effect on Pretax Special Items		-				-				20				284					191
Net Earnings	$	1,577			$	1,203			$	2,066			$	4,636				$	4,803
Basic Earnings per Share:
Basic Earnings before Special Items1	$	0.08			$	0.06			$	0.10			$	0.27				$	0.26
Special Items:
Activist Shareholder Defense Costs		-				-				-				-					(0.03	)
Stock Option Modification		-				-				-				-					-
Loss on Sale of Marketable Securities		-				-				-				-					-
Storm Damage Charge		-				-				-				(0.05	)				-
Income Tax Effect on Pretax Special Items		-				-				-				0.01					0.01
Basic Earnings per Share	$	0.08			$	0.06			$	0.10			$	0.23				$	0.24
Diluted Earnings before Special Items1	$	0.08			$	0.06			$	0.10			$	0.27				$	0.26
Special Items:
Activist Shareholder Defense Costs		-				-				-				-					(0.03	)
Stock Option Modification		-				-				-				-					-
Loss on Sale of Marketable Securities		-				-				-				-					-
Storm Damage Charge		-				-				-				(0.05	)				-
Income Tax Effect on Pretax Special Items		-				-				-				0.01					0.01
Diluted Earnings per Share	$	0.08			$	0.06			$	0.10			$	0.23				$	0.24
Weighted Average Shares Outstanding:
Basic		19,982				20,250				20,216				20,150					20,323
Diluted		20,077				20,355				20,291				20,246					20,406
1 Refer to "Reconciliation of non-GAAP financial measures" below for information regarding Special Items.

Comparative balance sheets (in thousands):

	December 1, 2024			March 3, 2024
Assets	(unaudited)
Current Assets
Cash and Marketable Securities	$	70,042		$	77,211
Accounts Receivable, Net		9,687			12,381
Inventories		10,592			6,404
Prepaid Expenses and Other Current Assets		2,243			2,849
Total Current Assets		92,564			98,845
Fixed Assets, Net		21,479			23,499
Operating Right-of-use Assets		320			95
Other Assets		9,859			9,870
Total Assets	$	124,222		$	132,309
Liabilities and Shareholders' Equity
Current Liabilities
Accounts Payable	$	5,532		$	3,514
Accrued Liabilities		1,427			1,986
Operating Lease Liability		39			53
Income Taxes Payable		5,258			4,105
Total Current Liabilities		12,256			9,658
Long-term Operating Lease Liability		328			82
Non-current Income Taxes Payable		-			5,259
Deferred Income Taxes		3,034			3,222
Other Liabilities		1,246			1,174
Total Liabilities		16,864			19,395
Shareholders' Equity		107,358			112,914
Total Liabilities and Shareholders' Equity	$	124,222		$	132,309
Additional information
Equity per Share	$	5.39		$	5.58

Comparative statements of operations (in thousands – unaudited):

	13 Weeks Ended					13 Weeks Ended					13 Weeks Ended					39 Weeks Ended
	December 1, 2024					November 26, 2023					September 1, 2024					December 1, 2024					November 26, 2023
Net Sales	$	14,408				$	11,639				$	16,709				$	45,087				$	39,671
Cost of Sales		10,580					8,470					11,952					32,403					27,590
Gross Profit		3,828					3,169					4,757					12,684					12,081
% of net sales		26.6	%				27.2	%				28.5	%				28.1	%				30.5	%
Selling, General & Administrative Expenses		1,982					1,804					2,140					6,139					6,272
% of net sales		13.8	%				15.5	%				12.8	%				13.6	%				15.8	%
Earnings from Operations		1,846					1,365					2,617					6,545					5,809
Storm Damage Charge		-					-					(46	)				(1,098	)				-
Interest and Other Income:
Interest Income		290					261					245					874					724
Earnings from Operations before Income Taxes		2,136					1,626					2,816					6,321					6,533
Income Tax Provision		559					423					750					1,685					1,730
Net Earnings	$	1,577				$	1,203				$	2,066				$	4,636				$	4,803
% of net sales		10.9	%				10.3	%				12.4	%				10.3	%				12.1	%

Reconciliation of non-GAAP financial measures (in thousands – unaudited):

Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Financial Measures
Reconciliation of GAAP Net Earnings to Adjusted EBITDA
	13 Weeks Ended					13 Weeks Ended					13 Weeks Ended					39 Weeks Ended					39 Weeks Ended
	December 1, 2024					November 26, 2023					September 1, 2024					December 1, 2024					November 26, 2023
GAAP Net Earnings	$	1,577				$	1,203				$	2,066				$	4,636				$	4,803
Adjustments:
Income Tax Provision		559					423					750					1,685					1,730
Interest Income		(290	)				(261	)				(245	)				(874	)				(789	)
Depreciation		464					339					488					1,391					984
Stock Option Expense		105					104					101					295					316
Special Items:
Activist Shareholder Defense Costs		-					-					-					-					570
Stock Option Modification Charge (a)		-					-					-					-					109
Pre-tax Losses on Sales of Investments (b)		-					-					-					-					65
Storm Damage Charge		-					-					46					1,098					-
Adjusted EBITDA	$	2,415				$	1,808				$	3,206				$	8,231				$	7,788
(a) pre-tax charge for the modification of previously granted stock options in connection with the special dividend in the 2024 fiscal year first quarter
(b) to fund the $1.00 per share special dividend paid on April 6, 2023 to shareholders of record on March 9, 2023