Pitney Bowes Announces Third Quarter 2023 Financial Results

Pitney Bowes (NYSE:PBI) ("Pitney Bowes" or the "Company"), a global shipping and mailing company that provides technology, logistics, and financial services, today announced its financial results for the third quarter of fiscal year 2023.

Jason Dies, Interim Chief Executive Officer, commented:

"Our SendTech and Presort segments both delivered profit growth and margin expansion during the quarter, reflecting success in our growth strategies and productivity initiatives, as well as resilience in challenging economic conditions. We are ahead of schedule on delivering the savings associated with our previously announced restructuring plan. Building on this momentum, we have identified additional actions and are increasing our 2024 annualized cost savings under this program by an additional $40 million. This brings the total to approximately $115 million inclusive of restructuring and other productivity actions. Global Ecommerce did not meet financial expectations, and we are taking meaningful actions to enable this valuable segment to realize its potential. As we look ahead to next quarter and beyond, our teams will leave no stone unturned while working to identify near-term initiatives and long-term steps that can drive enhanced value for our stockholders and other stakeholders."

Third Quarter Financial Highlights

• Revenue in the quarter was $784 million, a decrease of 6 percent on a reported basis and 1 percent on a comparable basis versus prior year ⁽¹⁾
• GAAP EPS was a loss of $0.07 in the quarter versus GAAP EPS of $0.03 in third quarter 2022; Adjusted EPS was $0.00 and flat versus prior year
• GAAP cash from operating activities was $25 million in the quarter and Free Cash Flow was $15 million; both improved in the quarter compared to the prior year period
• Cash and short-term investments were $579 million at quarter-end
• Ahead of target on previously announced restructuring plan, adding incremental $40 million and now targeting $75 to $85 million in annual savings by end of 2024, bringing the total savings to $115 million when other productivity actions are included
• Used the net proceeds from $275 million private placement offering in July 2023, to redeem the remaining balance of 2024 notes and $30 million of the Term Loan A

⁽¹⁾ Comparable basis is defined in the "Use of Non-GAAP Measures" section

Earnings per share results are summarized in the table below:

(2) The sum of the earnings per share may not equal the totals due to rounding.

Business Segment Reporting

SendTech Solutions

SendTech Solutions offers physical and digital mailing and shipping technology solutions, financing, services, supplies and other applications for small and medium businesses, retail, enterprise, and government clients around the world to help simplify and save on the sending, tracking and receiving of letters, parcels and flats.

We are in a stage of our product lifecycle where we will have fewer new lease opportunities, which we expect to be generally offset by an increase in fixed term lease extensions. From a financial perspective, this shift results in lower equipment sales partially offset by higher margin financing revenue spread over the lease term. Support service revenue declined in line with the mail market and as a result of exiting certain unprofitable contracts to service equipment of third parties. Shipping-related revenue grew 6 percent year over year, partially offsetting the decline in mail related revenue, and now accounts for 12 percent of segment revenue.

Simplification and cost reduction actions more than offset the revenue decline and resulted in Adjusted Segment EBIT improvement.

Presort Services

Presort Services provides sortation services that enable clients to qualify for USPS workshare discounts in First Class Mail, Marketing Mail, Marketing Mail Flats and Bound Printed Matter.

New sales and higher revenue per piece more than offset organic mail decline, driving segment revenue growth. Growth in higher yielding mail classes contributed to increased revenue per piece.

Adjusted Segment EBIT growth was driven by higher revenue, improved labor productivity from increased automation and process improvements, and lower unit transportation costs from select route insourcing.

Global Ecommerce

Global Ecommerce provides business to consumer logistics services for domestic and cross-border delivery, returns and fulfillment.

Global Ecommerce processed 51 million domestic parcels in the quarter, which is up 38 percent from third quarter 2022. Domestic parcel revenue growth of 29 percent versus prior year, was more than offset by a loss in revenue from cross-border as that offering resets from the previously announced change in two client relationships. Cross-border revenue stabilized in the quarter versus second quarter 2023.

The decline in Adjusted Segment EBIT was primarily a result of lower cross-border revenue, market pressures on domestic parcel revenue per piece, and incremental costs related to network consolidation efforts. Lower operating expenses partially offset the decline.

Full Year 2023 Guidance

Given our Global Ecommerce segment's year-to-date performance and continued market headwinds, we now expect the Company's full-year revenue to decline between 3% and 4% on a comparable basis and full-year adjusted EBIT margins to remain relatively flat versus the prior year.

Conference Call and Webcast

Management of Pitney Bowes will discuss the Company's results in a broadcast over the Internet today at 8:00 a.m. ET. Instructions for listening to the earnings results via the Web are available on the Investor Relations page of the Company's web site at www.pitneybowes.com.

About Pitney Bowes

Pitney Bowes (NYSE:PBI) is a global shipping and mailing company that provides technology, logistics, and financial services to more than 90 percent of the Fortune 500. Small business, retail, enterprise, and government clients around the world rely on Pitney Bowes to remove the complexity of sending mail and parcels. For additional information, visit: www.pitneybowes.com

Use of Non-GAAP Measures

Our financial results are reported in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). We also disclose certain non-GAAP measures, such as adjusted earnings before interest and taxes (Adjusted EBIT), adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (Adjusted EBITDA), adjusted earnings per share (Adjusted EPS), revenue growth on a comparable basis and free cash flow.

Adjusted EBIT, Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted EPS exclude the impact of restructuring charges, goodwill impairment, gains, losses and costs related to the sale of assets, acquisitions and dispositions, losses on debt redemptions and refinancings and other unusual items. Management believes that these non-GAAP measures provide investors greater insight into the underlying operating trends of the business.

We disclose revenue growth on a comparable basis, which excludes three items. First, the comparison excludes the impacts of foreign currency. Second, we are excluding the impact of the divestiture of the Borderfree business effective July 1, 2022. Third, we are excluding the impact of a change in the presentation of revenue beginning in the fourth quarter of 2022, from a gross basis to net basis due to an adjustment in terms of one of our contracts with the United States Postal Service. The change in revenue presentation impacts both our Global Ecommerce and SendTech Solutions segments. The change in revenue presentation does not impact gross profit. Management believes that excluding these items provides investors with a better understanding of the underlying revenue performance.

Free cash flow adjusts cash flow from operations calculated in accordance with GAAP for capital expenditures, restructuring payments and other special items. Management believes free cash flow provides investors better insight into the amount of cash available for other discretionary uses.

Adjusted Segment EBIT is the primary measure of profitability and operational performance at the segment level and is determined by deducting from segment revenue the related costs and expenses attributable to the segment. Adjusted Segment EBIT excludes interest, taxes, unallocated corporate expenses, restructuring charges, goodwill impairment, and other items not allocated to a business segment. The Company also reports Adjusted Segment EBITDA as an additional useful measure of segment profitability and operational performance.

Complete reconciliations of non-GAAP measures to comparable GAAP measures can be found in the attached financial schedules and at the Company's web site at www.pb.com/investorrelations.

This document contains "forward-looking statements" about the Company's expected or potential future business and financial performance. Forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements about future revenue and earnings guidance and future events or conditions. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. Factors which could cause future financial performance to differ materially from expectations include, without limitation, declining physical mail volumes; changes in postal regulations or the operations and financial health of posts in the U.S. or other major markets or changes to the broader postal or shipping markets; our ability to continue to grow and manage unexpected fluctuations in volumes, gain additional economies of scale and improve profitability within our Global Ecommerce segment; the loss of some of our larger clients in our Global Ecommerce and Presort Services segments; the loss of, or significant changes to, United States Postal Service (USPS) commercial programs, or our contractual relationships with the USPS or their performance under those contracts; the impacts on our cost of debt due to recent increases in interest rates and the potential for future interest rate hikes; and other factors as more fully outlined in the Company's 2022 Form 10-K Annual Report and other reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission during 2023. Pitney Bowes assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements contained in this document as a result of new information, events or developments.

Note: Consolidated statements of income; revenue, adjusted segment EBIT and adjusted segment EBITDA by business segment; and reconciliations of GAAP to non-GAAP measures for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, and consolidated balance sheets at September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022 are attached.

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