Boise Cascade Company Reports First Quarter 2019 Net Income of $11.4 Million on Sales of $1.0 Billion
Boise, Idaho, May 07, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- BOISE, Idaho - Boise Cascade Company ("Boise Cascade," the "Company," "we," or "our") (NYSE: BCC) today reported net income of $11.4 million, or $0.29 per share, on sales of $1.0 billion for the first quarter ended March 31, 2019.
| First Quarter 2019 Highlights | 1Q 2019 | 1Q 2018 | % change | ||||||||
| (in thousands, except per-share data and percentages) | |||||||||||
| Consolidated Results | |||||||||||
| Sales | $ | 1,042,086 | $ | 1,182,841 | (12 | )% | |||||
| Net income | 11,389 | 37,050 | (69 | )% | |||||||
| Net income per common share - diluted | 0.29 | 0.94 | (69 | )% | |||||||
| Adjusted EBITDA 1 | 40,734 | 73,408 | (45 | )% | |||||||
| Segment Results | |||||||||||
| Wood Products sales | $ | 319,523 | $ | 397,991 | (20 | )% | |||||
| Wood Products income | 11,630 | 26,121 | (55 | )% | |||||||
| Wood Products EBITDA 1 | 25,368 | 43,665 | (42 | )% | |||||||
| Building Materials Distribution sales | 907,708 | 992,381 | (9 | )% | |||||||
| Building Materials Distribution income | 17,517 | 32,388 | (46 | )% | |||||||
| Building Materials Distribution EBITDA 1 | 22,649 | 36,560 | (38 | )% | |||||||
1 For reconciliations of non-GAAP measures, see summary notes at the end of this press release.
In the first quarter 2019, total U.S. housing starts declined approximately 10% compared to the same period last year. Single-family starts, the primary driver of our sales, decreased by 5% and multi-family starts decreased 19%. In particular, single-family housing starts in the Western United States reflected significant weakness, with the Census Bureau reporting year-over-year declines in that region in excess of 20%.
“First quarter results were challenging given low commodity wood products pricing and adverse weather held back construction activity in many parts of the country. We expect second quarter will serve as a better gauge of underlying demand for 2019,” commented Tom Corrick, CEO. “I am pleased that we made further progress on our strategy to grow our distribution business through the acquisition of American Lumber in Birmingham, Alabama, which was completed in late April. The team at American enjoys an excellent reputation in the markets they serve and has been an outstanding distributor of our engineered wood products for many years.”
Wood Products
Wood Products sales, including sales to Building Materials Distribution (BMD), decreased $78.5 million, or 20%, to $319.5 million for the three months ended March 31, 2019, from $398.0 million for the three months ended March 31, 2018. The decline in sales was driven primarily by lower sales prices and sales volumes for plywood. The lower sales volume for plywood reflects modest downtime in response to weaker market conditions and the sale of the Moncure plywood facility on March 1, 2019. In addition, we experienced lower sales volumes for I-joists and LVL (I-joists and LVL are collectively referred to as EWP). Furthermore, approximately one-third of the decrease in sales was attributable to lower sales volumes of lumber and particleboard due to the sale or closure of three lumber mills and a particleboard plant during 2018. These decreases were offset by increases in EWP sales prices.
Wood Products segment income decreased $14.5 million to $11.6 million for the three months ended March 31, 2019, from $26.1 million for the three months ended March 31, 2018. The decrease in segment income was due primarily to lower sales prices of plywood and lower sales volumes of EWP and plywood, as well as higher per-unit conversion costs. These decreases were offset partially by higher EWP sales prices and lower costs of OSB used in the manufacture of I-joists. In addition, depreciation and amortization expense decreased $3.8 million due primarily to discontinued depreciation on manufacturing facilities curtailed and sold in 2018.
Comparative average net selling prices and sales volume changes for EWP and plywood are as follows:
| 1Q 2019 vs. 1Q 2018 | 1Q 2019 vs. 4Q 2018 | |||||
| Average Net Selling Prices | ||||||
| LVL | 9 | % | 1 | % | ||
| I-joists | 7 | % | 4 | % | ||
| Plywood | (19 | )% | (6 | )% | ||
| Sales Volumes | ||||||
| LVL | (10 | )% | 21 | % | ||
| I-joists | (17 | )% | 16 | % | ||
| Plywood | (7 | )% | 3 | % | ||
In first quarter 2019, Wood Products completed the sale of a hardwood plywood facility located in Moncure, North Carolina and received proceeds of $2.5 million.
Building Materials Distribution
BMD's sales decreased $84.7 million, or 9%, to $907.7 million for the three months ended March 31, 2019, from $992.4 million for the three months ended March 31, 2018. Compared with the same quarter in the prior year, the overall decrease in sales was driven by sales price and sales volume decreases of 6% and 3%, respectively. Excluding the impact of the acquisition of wholesale building material distribution locations in Nashville, Tennessee, Medford, Oregon, and Cincinnati, Ohio during 2018, BMD sales would have decreased 11%. By product line, commodity sales decreased 19%, general line product sales increased 3%, and sales of EWP (substantially all of which is sourced through our Wood Products segment) decreased less than 1%.
BMD segment income decreased $14.9 million to $17.5 million for the three months ended March 31, 2019, from $32.4 million in the comparative prior year quarter. The decline in segment income was driven primarily by a gross margin decrease of $10.0 million, resulting from lower average commodity prices and lower sales volumes compared with first quarter 2018. In addition, selling and distribution expenses increased by $4.1 million.
On April 29, 2019, BMD completed the acquisition of the assets of American Lumber, which operates a single-location wholesale distribution business in Birmingham, Alabama.
Balance Sheet
Boise Cascade ended first quarter 2019 with $136.2 million of cash and cash equivalents and $365.4 million of undrawn committed bank line availability, for total available liquidity of $501.6 million. The Company had $439.7 million of outstanding debt at March 31, 2019.
We adopted the new lease accounting standard on January 1, 2019. The most significant impact of the adoption was the recognition of right-of-use assets and lease liabilities for operating leases, as reflected on the face of our balance sheet as of March 31, 2019. The standard did not have a material impact on our consolidated net earnings and cash flows. For additional information on the impact of this standard on our accounting for leases and additional required qualitative disclosures of our lease policies, see our Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended March 31, 2019 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Dividends
On May 2, 2019, our board of directors declared a quarterly dividend of $0.09 per share on our common stock payable on June 17, 2019, to stockholders of record on June 3, 2019.
Outlook
We expect to experience slower demand growth for the products we manufacture and distribute in 2019. The April 2019 Blue Chip consensus forecast for 2019 reflects 1.25 million total U.S. housing starts, which is flat with 2018 levels. Although we believe U.S. demographics are supportive of higher levels of housing starts, we expect near-term residential construction growth to be flat or only modestly improving due to constraints faced by builders, such as availability of labor and building lots, as well as affordability constraints faced by prospective buyers. The pace of household formation rates and residential repair-and-remodeling activity will be affected by employment growth, wage growth, prospective home buyers' access to and cost of financing, housing affordability, and consumer confidence, as well as other factors. Household formation rates in turn will be a key factor behind the demand for new construction. In addition, the size of new single-family residences as well as the mix of single and multi-family starts will influence product consumption.
Extreme winter weather in many parts of the U.S., coupled with seasonally weak demand and additional industry capacity brought on in 2018, led to weak commodity products pricing in first quarter 2019. Commodity product pricing during the remainder of 2019 will be dependent on industry operating rates, net import and export activity, transportation constraints or disruptions, inventory levels in various distribution channels, and seasonal demand patterns. Composite panel and lumber pricing indices are approximately 35% below average levels experienced in the second quarter of 2018, and even if we experience meaningful price increases from current levels, we expect our year-over-year financial comparisons to again be negative in the second quarter of 2019.
We expect our capital spending, excluding acquisitions, to be $85-$95 million in 2019, including spending to improve the efficiency of our veneer production at our Chester, South Carolina, and Florien, Louisiana, facilities.
About Boise Cascade
Boise Cascade Company is one of the largest producers of engineered wood products and plywood in North America and a leading U.S. wholesale distributor of building products. For more information, please visit the Company's website at www.bc.com.
Webcast and Conference Call
Boise Cascade will host a webcast and conference call on Tuesday, May 7, at 10 a.m. Eastern, to review the Company's first quarter results.
You can join the webcast through the Company's website by going to www.bc.com and clicking on the Event Calendar link under the Investor Relations heading. Please go to the website at least 15 minutes before the start of the webcast to register. To join the conference call, dial 844-795-4410 (international callers should dial 661-378-9637), participant passcode 7348348, at least 10 minutes before the start of the call.
The archived webcast will be available in the Investor Relations section of the Company's website. A replay of the conference call will be available from Tuesday, May 7, at 1 p.m. Eastern through Tuesday, May 14, at 1 p.m. Eastern. Replay numbers are 855-859-2056 for U.S. callers and 404-537-3406 for international callers, and the passcode will be 7348348.
Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures
We refer to the terms EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA in this earnings release and the accompanying Quarterly Statistical Information as supplemental measures of our performance and liquidity that are not required by or presented in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States (GAAP). We define EBITDA as income (loss) before interest (interest expense and interest income), income taxes, and depreciation and amortization. Additionally, we disclose Adjusted EBITDA, which further adjusts EBITDA to exclude the change in fair value of interest rate swaps.
We believe EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA are meaningful measures because they present a transparent view of our recurring operating performance and allow management to readily view operating trends, perform analytical comparisons, and identify strategies to improve operating performance. We also believe EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA are useful to investors because they provide a means to evaluate the operating performance of our segments and our Company on an ongoing basis using criteria that are used by our management and because they are frequently used by investors and other interested parties when comparing companies in our industry that have different financing and capital structures and/or tax rates. EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA, however, are not measures of our liquidity or financial performance under GAAP and should not be considered as alternatives to net income (loss), income (loss) from operations, or any other performance measure derived in accordance with GAAP or as alternatives to cash flow from operating activities as a measure of our liquidity. The use of EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA instead of net income (loss) or segment income (loss) have limitations as analytical tools, including: the inability to determine profitability; the exclusion of interest expense, interest income, and associated significant cash requirements; and the exclusion of depreciation and amortization, which represent unavoidable operating costs. Management compensates for these limitations by relying on our GAAP results. Our measures of EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA are not necessarily comparable to other similarly titled captions of other companies due to potential inconsistencies in the methods of calculation.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release includes statements about our expectations of future operational and financial performance that are forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Statements preceded or followed by, or that otherwise include, the words "believes," "expects," "anticipates," "intends," "project," "estimates," "plans," "forecast," "is likely to," and similar expressions or future or conditional verbs such as "will," "may," "would," "should," and "could" are generally forward-looking in nature and not historical facts. Such statements are based upon the current beliefs and expectations of our management and are subject to significant risks and uncertainties. The accuracy of such statements is subject to a number of risks, uncertainties, and assumptions that could cause our actual results to differ materially from those projected, including, but not limited to, prices for building products, commodity input costs, the effect of general economic conditions, mortgage rates and availability, housing demand, housing vacancy rates, governmental regulations, unforeseen production disruptions, as well as natural disasters. These and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from such forward-looking statements are discussed in greater detail in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this press release. We undertake no obligation to revise them in light of new information. Finally, we undertake no obligation to review or confirm analyst expectations or estimates that might be derived from this release.
Boise Cascade Company
Consolidated Statements of Operations
(in thousands, except per-share data)
| Three Months Ended | |||||||||||
| March 31 | December 31, 2018 | ||||||||||
| 2019 | 2018 | ||||||||||
| Sales | $ | 1,042,086 | $ | 1,182,841 | $ | 1,065,805 | |||||
| Costs and expenses | |||||||||||
| Materials, labor, and other operating expenses (excluding depreciation) | 897,822 | 1,009,778 | 940,878 | ||||||||
| Depreciation and amortization | 19,217 | 22,111 | 76,549 | ||||||||
| Selling and distribution expenses | 87,026 | 83,356 | 89,546 | ||||||||
| General and administrative expenses | 16,675 | 15,886 | 16,057 | ||||||||
| Loss on sale and curtailment of facilities | — | — | 27,288 | ||||||||
| Other (income) expense, net | (308 | ) | (94 | ) | (236 | ) | |||||
| 1,020,432 | 1,131,037 | 1,150,082 | |||||||||
| Income (loss) from operations | 21,654 | 51,804 | (84,277 | ) | |||||||
| Foreign currency exchange gain (loss) | 162 | (263 | ) | (672 | ) | ||||||
| Pension expense (excluding service costs) | (299 | ) | (244 | ) | (597 | ) | |||||
| Interest expense | (6,437 | ) | (6,362 | ) | (6,666 | ) | |||||
| Interest income | 492 | 264 | 648 | ||||||||
| Change in fair value of interest rate swaps | (983 | ) | 1,641 | (1,868 | ) | ||||||
| (7,065 | ) | (4,964 | ) | (9,155 | ) | ||||||
| Income (loss) before income taxes | 14,589 | 46,840 | (93,432 | ) | |||||||
| Income tax (provision) benefit | (3,200 | ) | (9,790 | ) | 21,186 | ||||||
| Net income (loss) | $ | 11,389 | $ | 37,050 | $ | (72,246 | ) | ||||
| Weighted average common shares outstanding: | |||||||||||
| Basic | 38,884 | 38,778 | 38,968 | ||||||||
| Diluted | 39,203 | 39,396 | 38,968 | ||||||||
| Net income (loss) per common share: | |||||||||||
| Basic | $ | 0.29 | $ | 0.96 | $ | (1.85 | ) | ||||
| Diluted | $ | 0.29 | $ | 0.94 | $ | (1.85 | ) | ||||
| Dividends declared per common share | $ | 0.09 | $ | 0.07 | $ | 0.09 | |||||
See accompanying summary notes to consolidated financial statements and segment information.
Wood Products Segment
Statements of Operations
(in thousands, except percentages)
| Three Months Ended | |||||||||||
| March 31 | December 31, 2018 | ||||||||||
| 2019 | 2018 | ||||||||||
| Segment sales | $ | 319,523 | $ | 397,991 | $ | 307,124 | |||||
| Costs and expenses | |||||||||||
| Materials, labor, and other operating expenses (excluding depreciation) | 283,030 | 342,559 | 282,795 | ||||||||
| Depreciation and amortization | 13,738 | 17,544 | 71,265 | ||||||||
| Selling and distribution expenses | 7,705 | 8,113 | 7,886 | ||||||||
| General and administrative expenses | 3,628 | 3,692 | 4,642 | ||||||||
| Loss on sale and curtailment of facilities | — | — | 27,288 | ||||||||
| Other (income) expense, net | (208 | ) | (38 | ) | (198 | ) | |||||
| 307,893 | 371,870 | 393,678 | |||||||||
| Segment income (loss) | $ | 11,630 | $ | 26,121 | $ | (86,554 | ) | ||||
| (percentage of sales) | |||||||||||
| Segment sales | 100.0 | % | 100.0 | % | 100.0 | % | |||||
| Costs and expenses | |||||||||||
| Materials, labor, and other operating expenses (excluding depreciation) | 88.6 | % | 86.1 | % | 92.1 | % | |||||
| Depreciation and amortization | 4.3 | % | 4.4 | % | 23.2 | % | |||||
| Selling and distribution expenses | 2.4 | % | 2.0 | % | 2.6 | % | |||||
| General and administrative expenses | 1.1 | % | 0.9 | % | 1.5 | % | |||||
| Loss on sale and curtailment of facilities | — | % | — | % | 8.9 | % | |||||
| Other (income) expense, net | (0.1 | )% | — | % | (0.1 | )% | |||||
| 96.4 | % | 93.4 | % | 128.2 | % | ||||||
| Segment income (loss) | 3.6 | % | 6.6 | % | (28.2 | )% | |||||
Building Materials Distribution Segment
Statements of Operations
(in thousands, except percentages)
| Three Months Ended | |||||||||||
| March 31 | December 31, 2018 | ||||||||||
| 2019 | 2018 | ||||||||||
| Segment sales | $ | 907,708 | $ | 992,381 | $ | 922,234 | |||||
| Costs and expenses | |||||||||||
| Materials, labor, and other operating expenses (excluding depreciation) | 800,200 | 874,859 | 821,703 | ||||||||
| Depreciation and amortization | 5,132 | 4,172 | 4,906 | ||||||||
| Selling and distribution expenses | 79,265 | 75,181 | 81,596 | ||||||||
| General and administrative expenses | 5,694 | 5,830 | 5,164 | ||||||||
| Other (income) expense, net | (100 | ) | (49 | ) | (40 | ) | |||||
| 890,191 | 959,993 | 913,329 | |||||||||
| Segment income | $ | 17,517 | $ | 32,388 | $ | 8,905 | |||||
| (percentage of sales) | |||||||||||
| Segment sales | 100.0 | % | 100.0 | % | 100.0 | % | |||||
| Costs and expenses | |||||||||||
| Materials, labor, and other operating expenses (excluding depreciation) | 88.2 | % | 88.2 | % | 89.1 | % | |||||
| Depreciation and amortization | 0.6 | % | 0.4 | % | 0.5 | % | |||||
| Selling and distribution expenses | 8.7 | % | 7.6 | % | 8.8 | % | |||||
| General and administrative expenses | 0.6 | % | 0.6 | % | 0.6 | % | |||||
| Other (income) expense, net | — | % | — | % | — | % | |||||
| 98.1 | % | 96.7 | % | 99.0 | % | ||||||
| Segment income | 1.9 | % | 3.3 | % | 1.0 | % | |||||
Segment Information
(in thousands)
| Three Months Ended | |||||||||||
| March 31 | December 31, 2018 | ||||||||||
| 2019 | 2018 | ||||||||||
| Segment sales | |||||||||||
| Wood Products | $ | 319,523 | $ | 397,991 | $ | 307,124 | |||||
| Building Materials Distribution | 907,708 | 992,381 | 922,234 | ||||||||
| Intersegment eliminations and other | (185,145 | ) | (207,531 | ) | (163,553 | ) | |||||
| Total net sales | $ | 1,042,086 | $ | 1,182,841 | $ | 1,065,805 | |||||
| Segment income (loss) | |||||||||||
| Wood Products | $ | 11,630 | $ | 26,121 | $ | (86,554 | ) | ||||
| Building Materials Distribution | 17,517 | 32,388 | 8,905 | ||||||||
| Total segment income | 29,147 | 58,509 | (77,649 | ) | |||||||
| Unallocated corporate | (7,493 | ) | (6,705 | ) | (6,628 | ) | |||||
| Income (loss) from operations | $ | 21,654 | $ | 51,804 | $ | (84,277 | ) | ||||
| Segment EBITDA (a) | |||||||||||
| Wood Products | $ | 25,368 | $ | 43,665 | $ | (15,289 | ) | ||||
| Building Materials Distribution | 22,649 | 36,560 | 13,811 | ||||||||
| See accompanying summary notes to consolidated financial statements and segment information. | |||||||||||
Boise Cascade Company
Consolidated Balance Sheets
(in thousands)
| March 31, 2019 | December 31, 2018 | ||||||
| ASSETS | |||||||
| Current | |||||||
| Cash and cash equivalents | $ | 136,204 | $ | 191,671 | |||
| Receivables | |||||||
| Trade, less allowances of $1,471 and $1,062 | 292,761 | 214,338 | |||||
| Related parties | 612 | 436 | |||||
| Other | 10,428 | 14,466 | |||||
| Inventories | 573,860 | 533,049 | |||||
| Prepaid expenses and other | 19,109 | 31,818 | |||||
| Total current assets | 1,032,974 | 985,778 | |||||
| Property and equipment, net | 460,650 | 487,224 | |||||
| Operating lease right-of-use assets | 67,493 | — | |||||
| Finance lease right-of-use assets | 20,376 | — | |||||
| Timber deposits | 12,314 | 12,568 | |||||
| Goodwill | 59,159 | 59,159 | |||||
| Intangible assets, net | 16,597 | 16,851 | |||||
| Deferred income taxes | 8,259 | 8,211 | |||||
| Other assets | 9,225 | 11,457 | |||||
| Total assets | $ | 1,687,047 | $ | 1,581,248 | |||
Boise Cascade Company
Consolidated Balance Sheets (continued)
(in thousands, except per-share data)
| March 31, 2019 | December 31, 2018 | ||||||
| LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY | |||||||
| Current | |||||||
| Accounts payable | |||||||
| Trade | $ | 284,518 | $ | 210,587 | |||
| Related parties | 1,890 | 1,070 | |||||
| Accrued liabilities | |||||||
| Compensation and benefits | 48,366 | 87,911 | |||||
| Interest payable | 1,818 | 6,748 | |||||
| Other | 70,298 | 63,509 | |||||
| Total current liabilities | 406,890 | 369,825 | |||||
| Debt | |||||||
| Long-term debt | 439,707 | 439,428 | |||||
| Other | |||||||
| Compensation and benefits | 43,361 | 41,283 | |||||
| Operating lease liabilities, net of current portion | 61,902 | — | |||||
| Finance lease liabilities, net of current portion | 21,687 | — | |||||
| Deferred income taxes | 20,392 | 19,218 | |||||
| Other long-term liabilities | 14,091 | 38,904 | |||||
| 161,433 | 99,405 | ||||||
| Commitments and contingent liabilities | |||||||
| Stockholders' equity | |||||||
| Preferred stock, $0.01 par value per share; 50,000 shares authorized, no shares issued and outstanding | — | — | |||||
| Common stock, $0.01 par value per share; 300,000 shares authorized, 44,341 and 44,076 shares issued, respectively | 443 | 441 | |||||
| Treasury stock 5,367 shares at cost | (138,909 | ) | (138,909 | ) | |||
| Additional paid-in capital | 527,283 | 528,654 | |||||
| Accumulated other comprehensive loss | (47,684 | ) | (47,652 | ) | |||
| Retained earnings | 337,884 | 330,056 | |||||
| Total stockholders' equity | 679,017 | 672,590 | |||||
| Total liabilities and stockholders' equity | $ | 1,687,047 | $ | 1,581,248 | |||
Boise Cascade Company
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows
(in thousands)
| Three Months Ended March 31 | |||||||
| 2019 | 2018 | ||||||
| Cash provided by (used for) operations | |||||||
| Net income | $ | 11,389 | $ | 37,050 | |||
| Items in net income not using (providing) cash | |||||||
| Depreciation and amortization, including deferred financing costs and other | 19,788 | 22,595 | |||||
| Stock-based compensation | 2,200 | 2,286 | |||||
| Pension expense | 460 | 449 | |||||
| Deferred income taxes | 1,313 | 1,125 | |||||
| Change in fair value of interest rate swaps | 983 | (1,641 | ) | ||||
| Other | (49 | ) | (96 | ) | |||
| Decrease (increase) in working capital | |||||||
| Receivables | (75,606 | ) | (91,252 | ) | |||
| Inventories | (39,483 | ) | (62,050 | ) | |||
| Prepaid expenses and other | (1,883 | ) | (1,949 | ) | |||
| Accounts payable and accrued liabilities | 29,810 | 48,571 | |||||
| Pension contributions | (469 | ) | (517 | ) | |||
| Income taxes payable | 12,753 | 20,751 | |||||
| Other | 1,835 | 2,919 | |||||
| Net cash used for operations | (36,959 | ) | (21,759 | ) | |||
| Cash provided by (used for) investment | |||||||
| Expenditures for property and equipment | (14,347 | ) | (13,272 | ) | |||
| Proceeds from sales of facilities | 2,493 | — | |||||
| Proceeds from sales of assets and other | 1,149 | 93 | |||||
| Net cash used for investment | (10,705 | ) | (13,179 | ) | |||
| Cash provided by (used for) financing | |||||||
| Borrowings of long-term debt, including revolving credit facility | — | 2,800 | |||||
| Payments of long-term debt, including revolving credit facility | — | (2,800 | ) | ||||
| Dividends paid on common stock | (4,053 | ) | (2,758 | ) | |||
| Tax withholding payments on stock-based awards | (3,569 | ) | (5,117 | ) | |||
| Other | (181 | ) | 357 | ||||
| Net cash used for financing | (7,803 | ) | (7,518 | ) | |||
| Net decrease in cash and cash equivalents | (55,467 | ) | (42,456 | ) | |||
| Balance at beginning of the period | 191,671 | 177,140 | |||||
| Balance at end of the period | $ | 136,204 | $ | 134,684 | |||
Summary Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements and Segment Information
The Consolidated Statements of Operations, Segment Statements of Operations, Consolidated Balance Sheets, Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows, and Segment Information presented herein do not include the notes accompanying the Company's Consolidated Financial Statements and should be read in conjunction with the Company’s 2018 Form 10-K and the Company's other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Net income for all periods presented involved estimates and accruals.
(a) EBITDA represents income (loss) before interest (interest expense and interest income), income taxes, and depreciation and amortization. Additionally, we disclose Adjusted EBITDA, which further adjusts EBITDA to exclude the change in fair value of interest rate swaps. The following table reconciles net income (loss) to EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA for the three months ended March 31, 2019 and 2018, and December 31, 2018:
| Three Months Ended | |||||||||||
| March 31 | December 31, 2018 | ||||||||||
| 2019 | 2018 | ||||||||||
| (in thousands) | |||||||||||
| Net income (loss) | $ | 11,389 | $ | 37,050 | $ | (72,246 | ) | ||||
| Interest expense | 6,437 | 6,362 | 6,666 | ||||||||
| Interest income | (492 | ) | (264 | ) | (648 | ) | |||||
| Income tax provision (benefit) | 3,200 | 9,790 | (21,186 | ) | |||||||
| Depreciation and amortization | 19,217 | 22,111 | 76,549 | ||||||||
| EBITDA | 39,751 | 75,049 | (10,865 | ) | |||||||
| Change in fair value of interest rate swaps | 983 | (1,641 | ) | 1,868 | |||||||
| Adjusted EBITDA | $ | 40,734 | $ | 73,408 | $ | (8,997 | ) | ||||
The following table reconciles segment income (loss) and unallocated corporate costs to EBITDA and adjusted EBITDA for the three months ended March 31, 2019 and 2018, and December 31, 2018:
| Three Months Ended | |||||||||||
| March 31 | December 31, 2018 | ||||||||||
| 2019 | 2018 | ||||||||||
| (in thousands) | |||||||||||
| Wood Products | |||||||||||
| Segment income (loss) | $ | 11,630 | $ | 26,121 | $ | (86,554 | ) | ||||
| Depreciation and amortization | 13,738 | 17,544 | 71,265 | ||||||||
| EBITDA | $ | 25,368 | $ | 43,665 | $ | (15,289 | ) | ||||
| Building Materials Distribution | |||||||||||
| Segment income | $ | 17,517 | $ | 32,388 | $ | 8,905 | |||||
| Depreciation and amortization | 5,132 | 4,172 | 4,906 | ||||||||
| EBITDA | $ | 22,649 | $ | 36,560 | $ | 13,811 | |||||
| Corporate | |||||||||||
| Unallocated corporate expenses | $ | (7,493 | ) | $ | (6,705 | ) | $ | (6,628 | ) | ||
| Foreign currency exchange gain (loss) | 162 | (263 | ) | (672 | ) | ||||||
| Pension expense (excluding service costs) | (299 | ) | (244 | ) | (597 | ) | |||||
| Change in fair value of interest rate swaps | (983 | ) | 1,641 | (1,868 | ) | ||||||
| Depreciation and amortization | 347 | 395 | 378 | ||||||||
| EBITDA | (8,266 | ) | (5,176 | ) | (9,387 | ) | |||||
| Change in fair value of interest rate swaps | 983 | (1,641 | ) | 1,868 | |||||||
| Corporate adjusted EBITDA | $ | (7,283 | ) | $ | (6,817 | ) | $ | (7,519 | ) | ||
| Total company adjusted EBITDA | $ | 40,734 | $ | 73,408 | $ | (8,997 | ) | ||||
Investor contact: Wayne Rancourt, 208-384-6073
Media contact: Lisa Chapman, 208-384-6552