Company Release – 10/21/2021
Reports quarterly GAAP and adjusted earnings from continuing operations of $0.33 and $0.29 per diluted share, respectively
Generates year-to-date operating and total free cash flow of $428 million and $516 million, respectively
Returned $473 million of capital to stockholders year-to-date through dividends and share repurchases
DALLAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Trinity Industries, Inc. (NYSE:TRN) today announced earnings results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2021.
Financial and Operational Highlights
Quarterly total company revenues of $504 million
Quarterly income from continuing operations per common diluted share (“EPS”) of $0.33 and quarterly adjusted EPS of $0.29
Completed initial railcar portfolio sale of $325 million to Signal Rail Holdings LLC, a new railcar investment vehicle (“RIV”) partner
Lease fleet utilization of 95.0% and Future Lease Rate Differential (“FLRD”) of positive 1.4% at quarter end
New railcar orders of 2,530 and railcar deliveries of 2,410
Year-to-date cash flow from operations and total free cash flow after dividends and investments (“Free Cash Flow”) were $428 million and $516 million, respectively
Repurchases of approximately 2.8 million shares at a cost of $77 million
Committed liquidity of $1.1 billion as of September 30, 2021
Management Commentary
“Trinity continues to execute well on our strategy to enhance returns and shareholder value,” remarked Trinity’s Chief Executive Officer and President, Jean Savage. “The Company continued to advance toward our initiatives to improve returns, highlighted by the $325 million portfolio sale in our latest RIV partnership. The Signal Rail portfolio sale this past quarter and its resulting benefit to our earnings and balance sheet are a prime example of this dynamic.”
“While market activity continues to improve, Trinity’s third quarter results were negatively impacted by labor shortages and turnover as well as supply chain disruptions, diluting the impact of margin improvement initiatives in the Rail Products Group,” Ms. Savage continued. “It is important to note that while this quarter was challenged, we continue to expect improving demand for railcars and profitability.”
“In contrast, our Railcar Leasing and Management Services Group had another quarter of strong performance, and we maintain our view that market fundamentals for railcar leasing should continue to ramp up into 2022. The Future Lease Rate Differential climbed again in the third quarter to 1.4%, compared to negative 2.5% and negative 14.8% in the past two quarters.”
Ms. Savage concluded, “It has been nearly a year since we introduced our strategic vision, and I am pleased with the progress we have made. We are continuing to execute on our goals, and despite a challenging quarter in Rail Products, the Company’s enthusiasm to achieve the goals we set out in last year’s Investor Day presentation has never been stronger.”
Consolidated Financial Summary
Three Months Ended
September 30,
2021
2020
Year over Year – Comparison
(in millions, except percentages and per share amounts)
Revenues (1)
$
503.5
$
459.4
Increased demand and higher pricing in our highway products business and higher external deliveries in the Rail Products Group
Selling, engineering, and administrative expenses
$
54.3
$
51.2
Higher employee-related costs, including increased incentive-based compensation
Operating profit
$
92.2
$
72.9
Higher volume of railcar sales from our lease portfolio, partially offset by higher costs associated with external deliveries in the Rail Products Group, and lower lease rates and higher depreciation expense in the Leasing Group
Interest expense, net
$
45.2
$
51.7
Lower overall borrowing costs associated with the Company’s debt, partially offset by higher overall average debt
Net income from continuing operations attributable to Trinity Industries, Inc.
$
32.4
$
25.1
EBITDA (2)
$
163.6
$
136.4
Effective tax expense (benefit) rate
23.9%
(34.9)%
2020 tax benefit primarily related to tax law changes
Diluted EPS – GAAP
$
0.33
$
0.21
2021 includes $0.04 favorable impact of storm-related insurance recoveries
Diluted EPS – Adjusted (2)
$
0.29
$
0.17
Nine Months Ended
In August 2021, Trinity and Wafra, Inc. (“Wafra”), a global alternative investment manager, announced a new RIV program between Trinity and certain funds managed by Wafra (“Wafra Funds”). The joint venture created as part of this program, known as Signal Rail Holdings LLC (“Signal Rail”), is owned 90% by Wafra Funds and 10% by our wholly-owned subsidiary, Trinity Industries Leasing Company (“TILC”). Signal Rail or its subsidiaries are expected to invest in diversified portfolios of leased railcars originated by TILC targeting up to $1 billion in total acquisitions over an expected three-year investment period. TILC will service all railcars owned by Signal Rail.
In connection with the launch of the RIV program, in August 2021, TILC sold to Signal Rail an initial portfolio of 3,582 railcars and related leases that were previously owned by TILC and its subsidiaries for an aggregate sales price of approximately $325 million. As a result of the sale, TILC received approximately $319 million in cash and a 10% equity interest in Signal Rail valued at $6 million. TILC recognized a gain of approximately $33 million on the initial portfolio sale during the three months ended September 30, 2021.
During the quarter, Trinity repurchased approximately $77 million of shares under the Company’s authorized share repurchase program, which completed the previous share repurchase program.
In September 2021, our Board of Directors authorized a new share repurchase program effective September 9, 2021 through December 31, 2022. The new share repurchase program authorizes the Company to repurchase up to $250 million of its common stock.
During the quarter, Trinity received a $41 million income tax refund associated with the tax loss carryback for the 2019 tax year as permitted under recent tax legislation. The Company’s income tax receivable at the end of the third quarter was $192 million.
Conference Call
Trinity will hold a conference call at 8:30 a.m. Eastern on October 21, 2021 to discuss its third quarter results. To listen to the call, please visit the Investor Relations section of the Company’s website at www.trin.net and access the Events & Presentations webpage, or the live call can be accessed at 1-888-317-6003 with the conference passcode “7533427”. Please call at least 10 minutes in advance to ensure a timely connection. An audio replay may be accessed through the Company’s website or by dialing 1-877-344-7529 with passcode “10152033” until 11:59 p.m. Eastern on October 28, 2021.
Additionally, the Company will provide Supplemental Materials to accompany the earnings conference call. The materials will be accessible both within the webcast and on Trinity’s Investor Relations website under the Events and Presentations portion of the site along with the Third Quarter Earnings Call event weblink.
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
We have included financial measures compiled in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”) and certain non-GAAP measures in this earnings press release to provide management and investors with additional information regarding our financial results. Non-GAAP measures should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for our reporting results prepared in accordance with GAAP and, as calculated, may not be comparable to other similarly titled measures for other companies. For each non-GAAP financial measure, a reconciliation to the most comparable GAAP measure has been included in the accompanying tables. When forward-looking non-GAAP measures are provided, quantitative reconciliations to the most directly comparable GAAP measures are not provided because management cannot, without unreasonable effort, predict the timing and amounts of certain items included in the computations of each of these measures. These factors include, but are not limited to: the product mix of expected railcar deliveries; the timing and amount of significant transactions and investments, such as lease portfolio sales, capital expenditures, and returns of capital to stockholders; and the amount and timing of certain other items outside the normal course of our core business operations, such as restructuring activities and the potential financial and operational impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
About Trinity Industries
Trinity Industries, Inc., headquartered in Dallas, Texas, owns businesses that are leading providers of rail transportation products and services in North America. Our rail-related businesses market their railcar products and services under the trade name TrinityRail®. The TrinityRail platform provides railcar leasing and management services, as well as railcar manufacturing, maintenance and modifications. Trinity also owns businesses engaged in the manufacture of products used on the nation’s roadways and in traffic control. Trinity reports its financial results in three principal business segments: the Railcar Leasing and Management Services Group, the Rail Products Group, and All Other. For more information, visit: www.trin.net.
Some statements in this release, which are not historical facts, are “forward-looking statements” as defined by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements include statements about Trinity’s estimates, expectations, beliefs, intentions or strategies for the future, and the assumptions underlying these forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to, future financial and operating performance, future opportunities and any other statements regarding events or developments that Trinity believes or anticipates will or may occur in the future, including the potential financial and operational impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Trinity uses the words “anticipates,” “assumes,” “believes,” “estimates,” “expects,” “intends,” “forecasts,” “may,” “will,” “should,” “guidance,” “projected,” “outlook,” and similar expressions to identify these forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this release, and Trinity expressly disclaims any obligation or undertaking to disseminate any updates or revisions to any forward-looking statement contained herein to reflect any change in Trinity’s expectations with regard thereto or any change in events, conditions or circumstances on which any such statement is based, except as required by federal securities laws. Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from historical experience or our present expectations, including but not limited to risks and uncertainties regarding economic, competitive, governmental, and technological factors affecting Trinity’s operations, markets, products, services and prices, and such forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance. For a discussion of such risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements, see “Risk Factors” and “Forward-Looking Statements” in Trinity’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the most recent fiscal year, as may be revised and updated by Trinity’s Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, and Trinity’s Current Reports on Form 8-K.