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Movado Group, Inc. Announces Third Quarter Results

November 26, 2019 6:45 AM

~ Board Declares Quarterly Dividend ~

~ Updates Fiscal 2020 Outlook ~

PARAMUS, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Movado Group, Inc. (NYSE: MOV) today announced third quarter and nine month results for the period ended October 31, 2019.

Efraim Grinberg, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, stated, “This year we made the strategic decision to increase marketing investments to drive sales across our powerful portfolio of watch brands. While this effort led to market share gains, we fell short of our sales plan due to the category performing below our expectations as challenges intensified within the watch category and retail landscape, which combined with our increased marketing expenditures, impacted our results. We have updated our full year outlook to reflect our year-to-date performance and expectations for the fourth quarter. Although our results have not met our expectations, we remain excited about the initiatives that we have in place to support our brands for the holiday season.”

Mr. Grinberg continued, “We are introducing exciting newness, including our new Movado Connect 2.0, our Movado Bold Fusion collection and innovative product across our portfolio of licensed brands. Our marketing features a strong holiday television campaign for Movado, and the debut of MVMT’s first national television campaign. These efforts, combined with our strategic growth initiatives, will help drive results for our ecommerce platform and our retail partners in the final quarter of the year. Our strong balance sheet which includes $116 million in cash gives us great flexibility to navigate challenges and continue to invest in support of our growth.”

Non-GAAP Items (See attached table for GAAP and Non-GAAP measures)

Third quarter fiscal 2020 included the following charges and benefits:

Third quarter fiscal 2019 included the following charges and benefits:

Third Quarter Fiscal 2020 (See attached table for GAAP and Non-GAAP measures)

Nine Month Results Fiscal 2020 (See attached table for GAAP and Non-GAAP measures)

Updated Fiscal 2020 Outlook

The Company is updating its outlook for fiscal 2020 to reflect results to-date and the challenging watch category and retail environment, and currency headwinds. The Company now anticipates that net sales will be in the range of $690.0 million to $700.0 million and operating income will be in the range of $46.0 million to $50.0 million. The Company expects net income in fiscal 2020 to be in the range of $36.4 million to $39.5 million, or $1.55 to $1.70 per diluted share, reflecting a 21% effective tax rate. The outlook excludes approximately $7.5 million of amortization of the acquired intangible assets and other expenses for fiscal 2020 related to the acquisitions of MVMT and Olivia Burton, the $13.6 million remeasurement of the contingent consideration liability related to the MVMT acquisition and the $0.3 million change in the estimate for the remaining accrual for the fiscal 2018 cost savings initiatives. The Company's outlook assumes no other unusual items, no significant fluctuations from prevailing foreign currency exchange rates and no further changes in prevailing tariff rates.

Quarterly Dividend and Share Repurchase Program

The Company also announced that on November 26, 2019, the Board of Directors approved the payment on December 20, 2019 of a cash dividend in the amount of $0.20 for each share of the Company’s outstanding common stock and class A common stock held by shareholders of record as of the close of business on December 6, 2019.

During the first nine months of fiscal 2020, the Company repurchased approximately 131,000 shares under its share repurchase program. As of October 31, 2019, the Company had $36.4 million remaining under the $50.0 million share repurchase authorization.

Conference Call

The Company’s management will host a conference call and audio webcast to discuss its results today, November 26th at 9:00 a.m. Eastern Time. The conference call may be accessed by dialing (877) 407-0784. Additionally, a live webcast of the call can be accessed at www.movadogroup.com. The webcast will be archived on the Company’s website approximately one hour after the conclusion of the call. Additionally, a telephonic re-play of the call will be available at 12:00 p.m. ET on November 26, 2019 until 11:59 p.m. ET on December 10, 2019 and can be accessed by dialing (844) 512-2921 and entering replay pin number 13695920.

Movado Group, Inc. designs, sources, and distributes MOVADO®, MVMT®, OLIVIA BURTON®, EBEL®, CONCORD®, COACH®, TOMMY HILFIGER®, HUGO BOSS®, LACOSTE®, SCUDERIA FERRARI®, REBECCA MINKOFF® and URI MINKOFF® watches worldwide, and operates Movado company stores in the United States and Canada.

In this release, the Company presents certain financial measures that are not calculated according to generally accepted accounting principles in the United States (“GAAP”). Specifically, the Company is presenting adjusted gross profit, adjusted gross margin, adjusted operating expenses and adjusted operating income, which are gross profit, gross margin, operating expenses and operating income, respectively, under GAAP, adjusted to eliminate the amortization of acquisition accounting adjustments related to the Olivia Burton and MVMT acquisitions and the change in estimate for the remaining accrual for the fiscal 2018 cost savings initiatives. The Company is also presenting adjusted tax provision, which is the tax provision under GAAP, adjusted to eliminate the impact of tax benefits related to the 2017 Tax Act as well as other tax benefit of foreign tax items, charges for the Olivia Burton and MVMT acquisitions, the change in estimate of the remaining accrual for the fiscal 2018 cost savings initiatives and the remeasurement of the contingent consideration liability. The Company believes these adjusted measures are useful because they give investors information about the Company’s financial performance without the effect of certain items that the Company believes are not characteristic of its usual operations. The Company is also presenting adjusted net income, adjusted earnings per share and adjusted effective tax rate, which are net income, earnings per share and effective tax rate, respectively, under GAAP, adjusted to eliminate the after-tax impact of tax benefits related to the 2017 Tax Act as well as other tax benefit of foreign tax items, amortization of acquisition accounting adjustments related to the Olivia Burton and MVMT acquisitions, the change in estimate for the remaining estimate for the fiscal 2018 cost savings initiatives and the remeasurement of the contingent consideration liability. The Company believes that adjusted net income, adjusted earnings per share and adjusted effective tax rate are useful measures of performance because they give investors information about the Company’s financial performance without the effect of certain items that the Company believes are not characteristic of its usual operations. Additionally, the Company is presenting constant currency information to provide a framework to assess how its business performed excluding the effects of foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations in the current period. Comparisons of financial results on a constant dollar basis are calculated by translating each foreign currency at the same US dollar exchange rate as in effect for the prior-year period for both periods being compared. The Company believes this information is useful to investors to facilitate comparisons of operating results. These non-GAAP financial measures are designed to complement the GAAP financial information presented in this release. The non-GAAP financial measures presented should not be considered in isolation from or as a substitute for the comparable GAAP financial measures, and the methods of their calculation may differ substantially from similarly titled measures used by other companies.

This press release contains certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The Company has tried, whenever possible, to identify these forward-looking statements using words such as “expects,” “anticipates,” “believes,” “targets,” “goals,” “projects,” “intends,” “plans,” “seeks,” “estimates,” “may,” “will,” “should” and variations of such words and similar expressions. Similarly, statements in this press release that describe the Company's business strategy, outlook, objectives, plans, intentions or goals are also forward-looking statements. Accordingly, such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause the Company's actual results, performance or achievements and levels of future dividends to differ materially from those expressed in, or implied by, these statements. These risks and uncertainties may include, but are not limited to general economic and business conditions which may impact disposable income of consumers in the United States and the other significant markets (including Europe) where the Company’s products are sold, uncertainty regarding such economic and business conditions, trends in consumer debt levels and bad debt write-offs, general uncertainty related to possible terrorist attacks, natural disasters, the stability of the European Union (including the impact of the United Kingdom’s process to exit from the European Union), the stability of the United Kingdom after its potential exit from the European Union, and defaults on or downgrades of sovereign debt and the impact of any of those events on consumer spending, changes in consumer preferences and popularity of particular designs, new product development and introduction, decrease in mall traffic and increase in e-commerce, the ability of the Company to successfully implement its business strategies, competitive products and pricing, the impact of “smart” watches and other wearable tech products on the traditional watch market, seasonality, availability of alternative sources of supply in the case of the loss of any significant supplier or any supplier’s inability to fulfill the Company’s orders, the loss of or curtailed sales to significant customers, the Company’s dependence on key employees and officers, the ability to successfully integrate the operations of acquired businesses (including Olivia Burton and MVMT) without disruption to other business activities, the possible impairment of acquired intangible assets including goodwill if the carrying value of any reporting unit were to exceed its fair value, volatility in reported earnings resulting from changes in the estimated fair value of contingent acquisition consideration, the continuation of the company’s major warehouse and distribution centers, the continuation of licensing arrangements with third parties, losses possible from pending or future litigation, the ability to secure and protect trademarks, patents and other intellectual property rights, the ability to lease new stores on suitable terms in desired markets and to complete construction on a timely basis, the ability of the Company to successfully manage its expenses on a continuing basis, information systems failure or breaches of network security, the continued availability to the Company of financing and credit on favorable terms, business disruptions, general risks associated with doing business outside the United States including, without limitation, import duties, tariffs (including retaliatory tariffs), quotas, political and economic stability, changes to existing laws or regulations, and success of hedging strategies with respect to currency exchange rate fluctuations, and the other factors discussed in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K and other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. These statements reflect the Company's current beliefs and are based upon information currently available to it. Be advised that developments subsequent to this press release are likely to cause these statements to become outdated with the passage of time. The Company assumes no duty to update its forward looking statements and this release shall not be construed to indicate the assumption by the Company of any duty to update its outlook in the future.

(Tables to follow)

MOVADO GROUP, INC.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
(In thousands, except per share data)
(Unaudited)

Three Months Ended

Nine Months Ended

October 31,

October 31,

2019

2018

2019

2018

Net sales

$

205,618

$

208,949

$

509,983

$

480,191

Cost of sales

95,549

95,585

235,702

221,469

Gross profit

110,069

113,364

274,281

258,722

Operating expenses

87,431

89,257

237,893

213,616

Operating income

22,638

24,107

36,388

45,106

Non-operating income/(expense):
Change in contingent consideration

-

-

13,627

-

Interest expense

(240

)

(146

)

(689

)

(530

)

Interest income

18

144

63

258

Income before income taxes

22,416

24,105

49,389

44,834

Provision/(Benefit) for income taxes

4,955

(2,817

)

10,543

657

Net income

17,461

26,922

38,846

44,177

Less: Net loss attributable to noncontrolling interests

(304

)

-

(349

)

-

Net income attributable to Movado Group, Inc.

$

17,765

$

26,922

$

39,195

$

44,177

Diluted Income Per Share Information
Net income attributable to Movado Group, Inc.

$

0.76

$

1.14

$

1.68

$

1.87

Weighted diluted average shares outstanding

23,250

23,698

23,322

23,624

MOVADO GROUP, INC.
GAAP AND NON-GAAP MEASURES
(In thousands, except for percentage data)
(Unaudited)

As Reported

Three Months Ended

October 31,

% Change

2019

2018

Total net sales, as reported

$

205,618

$

208,949

-1.6

%

Total net sales, constant dollar basis

$

209,933

$

208,949

0.5

%

As Reported
Nine Months Ended
October 31, % Change

2019

2018

Total net sales, as reported

$

509,983

$

480,191

6.2

%

Total net sales, constant dollar basis

$

521,039

$

480,191

8.5

%

MOVADO GROUP, INC.
GAAP AND NON-GAAP MEASURES
(In thousands, except per share data)
(Unaudited)
Net Sales Gross Profit Operating
Income
Pre-tax
Income
Provision/(Benefit)
for Income Taxes
Net Income
Attributable to
Movado Group, Inc.
Diluted EPS
Three Months Ended October 31, 2019
As Reported (GAAP)

$

205,618

$

110,069

$

22,638

$

22,416

$

4,955

$

17,765

$

0.76

Olivia Burton Costs (1)

-

-

676

676

128

548

0.03

MVMT Costs (2)

-

-

936

936

225

711

0.03

Adjusted Results (Non-GAAP)

$

205,618

$

110,069

$

24,250

$

24,028

$

5,308

$

19,024

$

0.82

Three Months Ended October 31, 2018
As Reported (GAAP)

$

208,949

$

113,364

$

24,107

$

24,105

$

(2,817

)

$

26,922

$

1.14

Olivia Burton Costs (1)

-

-

705

705

134

571

0.02

MVMT Costs (5)

-

140

10,925

10,925

2,836

8,089

0.34

Other Tax Items (6)

-

-

-

-

7,633

(7,633

)

(0.32

)

Adjusted Results (Non-GAAP)

$

208,949

$

113,504

$

35,737

$

35,735

$

7,786

$

27,949

$

1.18

Net Sales Gross Profit Operating
Income
Pre-tax
Income
Provision/(Benefit)
for Income Taxes
Net Income
Attributable to
Movado Group, Inc.
Diluted EPS
Nine Months Ended October 31, 2019
As Reported (GAAP)

$

509,983

$

274,281

$

36,388

$

49,389

$

10,543

$

39,195

$

1.68

Olivia Burton Costs (1)

-

-

2,078

2,078

395

1,683

0.07

MVMT Costs (2)

-

140

3,534

3,534

848

2,686

0.11

Change In Contingent Consideration (3)

-

-

-

(13,627

)

(3,270

)

(10,357

)

(0.44

)

Cost Savings Initiatives (4)

-

-

(320

)

(320

)

(77

)

(243

)

(0.01

)

Adjusted Results (Non-GAAP)

$

509,983

$

274,421

$

41,680

$

41,054

$

8,439

$

32,964

$

1.41

Nine Months Ended October 31, 2018
As Reported (GAAP)

$

480,191

$

258,722

$

45,106

$

44,834

$

657

$

44,177

$

1.87

Olivia Burton Costs (1)

-

-

2,192

2,192

416

1,776

$

0.07

MVMT Costs (5)

-

140

11,945

11,945

3,010

8,935

$

0.38

Other Tax Items (6)

-

-

-

-

7,633

(7,633

)

$

(0.32

)

Adjusted Results (Non-GAAP)

$

480,191

$

258,862

$

59,243

$

58,971

$

11,716

$

47,255

$

2.00

(1)

Related to the amortization of acquired intangible assets for Olivia Burton.

(2)

Related to the amortization of acquired intangible assets, accounting adjustments and deferred compensation of MVMT.

(3)

Remeasurement of contingent consideration liability.

(4)

Change in estimate in Fiscal 2020 for severance and occupancy expenses.

(5)

Related to acquisition costs, amortization of acquired intangible assets and accounting adjustments of MVMT.

(6)

Related to the impact of the 2017 Tax Act as well as tax benefit of other foreign tax items.

MOVADO GROUP, INC.
CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
(In thousands)
(Unaudited)

October 31,

January 31,

October 31,

2019

2019

2018

ASSETS
Cash and cash equivalents

$

116,025

$

189,911

$

142,668

Trade receivables, net

136,272

84,026

126,106

Inventories

201,164

165,311

183,539

Other current assets

30,737

28,898

31,590

Total current assets

484,198

468,146

483,903

Property, plant and equipment, net

29,275

26,067

25,471

Operating lease right-of-use assets

88,126

-

-

Deferred and non-current income taxes

28,191

24,503

17,400

Goodwill

135,280

136,033

131,756

Other intangibles, net

43,532

48,183

47,479

Other non-current assets

58,453

56,769

57,907

Total assets

$

867,055

$

759,701

$

763,916

LIABILITIES AND EQUITY
Accounts payable

$

33,757

$

38,650

$

47,164

Accrued liabilities

62,499

44,429

65,761

Accrued payroll and benefits

9,353

18,773

14,530

Current operating lease liabilities

14,579

-

-

Income taxes payable

17,243

10,831

9,617

Total current liabilities

137,431

112,683

137,072

Loans payable to bank, non current

50,685

50,280

49,590

Deferred and non-current income taxes payable

26,370

29,242

29,519

Non-current operating lease liabilities

80,682

-

-

Other non-current liabilities

47,943

67,120

66,721

Redeemable noncontrolling interest

3,263

3,721

-

Shareholders' equity

520,681

496,655

481,014

Total liabilities, redeemable noncontrolling interest and equity

$

867,055

$

759,701

$

763,916

MOVADO GROUP, INC.
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
(In thousands)
(Unaudited)

Nine Months Ended

October 31,

2019

2018

Cash flows from operating activities:
Net income

$

39,195

$

44,177

Change in contingent consideration

(13,627

)

-

Depreciation and amortization

11,888

9,907

Other non-cash adjustments

696

(4,814

)

Changes in working capital

(81,015

)

(24,760

)

Changes in non-current assets and liabilities

(1,707

)

2,336

Net cash (used in)/provided by operating activities

(44,570

)

26,846

Cash flows from investing activities:
Capital expenditures

(10,023

)

(8,206

)

Acquisitions, net of cash acquired

-

(93,040

)

Proceeds from assets held for sale

242

-

Tradenames and other intangibles

(194

)

(130

)

Net cash used in investing activities

(9,975

)

(101,376

)

Cash flows from financing activities:
Proceeds from bank borrowings

-

50,296

Repayments of bank borrowings

-

(25,000

)

Dividends paid

(13,796

)

(13,855

)

Stock repurchase

(4,199

)

(3,931

)

Stock awards and options exercised and other changes

(1,249

)

4,863

Net cash (used in)/provided by financing activities

(19,244

)

12,373

Effect of exchange rate changes on cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash

(93

)

(9,986

)

Net change in cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash

(73,882

)

(72,143

)

Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash at beginning of period

190,459

215,411

Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash at end of period

$

116,577

$

143,268

Reconciliation of cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash:
Cash and cash equivalents

$

116,025

$

142,668

Restricted cash included in other non-current assets

552

600

Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash

$

116,577

$

143,268

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