Lands’ End Announces First Quarter Fiscal 2021 Results

Net Revenue grew 48.1%; Global eCommerce grew income 44.4%, in comparison with the identical interval final 12 monthsNet Income of $2.6 million, in comparison with a Net lack of $20.6 million in the identical interval final 12 monthsAdjusted EBITDA will increase $34.1 million to $22.5 million in comparison with the identical interval final yearRaises Fiscal 2021 Outlook DODGEVILLE, Wis., June 02, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) —  Lands’ End, Inc. (NASDAQ: LE) right this moment introduced monetary outcomes for the primary quarter ended April 30, 2021. Fiscal First Quarter Financial Highlights: For the primary quarter, internet income was $321.3 million, a rise of 48.1% from $217.0 million within the first quarter of fiscal 2020 and a rise of twenty-two.4% from $262.4 million within the first quarter of fiscal 2019. Global eCommerce internet income was $260.0 million, a rise of 44.4% from $180.0 million within the first quarter of fiscal 2020 and a rise of 25.5% from $207.2 million within the first quarter of fiscal 2019. Compared to the primary quarter of final 12 months, U.S. eCommerce elevated 46.6% and International eCommerce grew 37.0%.Outfitters internet income was $40.7 million, a rise of 27.9% from $31.8 million within the first quarter of fiscal 2020 and a lower of 5.6% from $43.1 million within the first quarter of fiscal 2019. Compared to the primary quarter final 12 months, the rise was pushed by stronger demand inside the Company’s travel-related nationwide accounts and faculty uniform prospects.Third Party internet income, which incorporates gross sales on third-party marketplaces and U.S. wholesale revenues, was $11.8 million within the first quarter in comparison with $1.5 million within the first quarter final 12 months. The $10.3 million improve was attributed to the launch of Lands’ End product on Kohls.com and at 150 Kohl’s retail areas in third quarter 2020. Gross margin was 46.0%, increasing roughly 260 foundation factors in comparison with 43.4% within the first quarter of fiscal 2020 and roughly 30 foundation factors in comparison with 45.7% within the first quarter of fiscal 2019. The Gross margin improve was primarily as a result of merchandise margin enlargement within the U.S. eCommerce channel pushed by improved promotional methods and continued use of analytics, offset by elevated transport prices and surcharges in addition to increased gross sales combine from the lower-margin Third Party channel.Selling and administrative bills elevated $19.7 million to $125.5 million or 39.1% of internet income, in comparison with $105.8 million or 48.8% of internet income, within the first quarter of final 12 months. The improve in expense is because of COVID-19 associated actions to scale back working bills and structural prices taken in first quarter of fiscal 2020. The roughly 970 foundation level lower was as a result of leverage from increased gross sales, barely offset by elevated digital advertising bills. This was additionally an roughly 540 foundation level enchancment in contrast with the primary quarter of 2019 regardless of the upper digital advertising bills.Net earnings was $2.6 million or $0.08 per diluted share, as in comparison with internet lack of $20.6 million or ($0.64) per diluted share within the first quarter of fiscal 2020 and internet lack of $6.8 million or ($0.21) per diluted share within the first quarter of fiscal 2019.Adjusted EBITDA was $22.5 million within the first quarter of fiscal 2021, a rise of $34.1 million in comparison with a lack of $11.6 million within the first quarter of fiscal 2020 and a rise of $19.5 million in comparison with earnings of $3.0 million within the first quarter of fiscal 2019. Jerome Griffith, Chief Executive Officer, said, “We are extraordinarily happy with our first quarter outcomes, which exceeded our expectations and illustrate the sustained momentum in our enterprise. Our Global eCommerce enterprise is stronger than ever as we continued to execute our digitally led product and advertising methods whereas the restoration in Outfitters is going on at a sooner tempo than we anticipated. In addition to the higher than anticipated income development within the quarter, via gross margin enlargement and efficient price controls, we delivered a $34.1 million enchancment in Adjusted EBITDA, as we continued to deal with driving profitability. We consider now we have a powerful basis in place and an increasing complete addressable market, and I’m extraordinarily excited for our important alternatives that lie forward.” Fiscal First Quarter Business Highlights: Total Global eCommerce buyer file expanded by 27% with 71% development in new prospects.Recovery in Outfitters enterprise exceeded expectations led by travel-related nationwide accounts and faculty uniform prospects.Data analytics drove increased merchandise margin via value optimization and stock administration.The variety of manufacturers obtainable on Lands’ End Marketplace continued to develop, increasing buyer attain. Balance Sheet and Cash Flow Highlights Cash and money equivalents have been $36.2 million as of April 30, 2021, in comparison with $59.1 million as of May 1, 2020. Net money utilized in operations was $38.7 million for the 13 weeks ended April 30, 2021, in comparison with $80.2 million for the 13 weeks ended May 1, 2020. Inventories, internet, have been $394.3 million as of April 30, 2021, and $383.2 million as of May 1, 2020. As of April 30, 2021, the Company had $80.0 million of borrowings and $178.1 million of availability beneath its asset-based senior secured credit score facility. Additionally, as of April 30, 2021, the Company had $268.1 million of Term Loan Facility debt. Outlook Jim Gooch, President and Chief Financial Officer, said, “We are more than happy with the robust first quarter outcomes as we proceed to deal with worthwhile development and sustaining a wholesome steadiness sheet. As we glance forward, we’re very assured with our skill to execute our long-term development methods given the continued momentum in our international eCommerce enterprise and faster-than-expected restoration in our Outfitters enterprise. Using the robust basis now we have put in place, we are going to proceed to make use of a data-driven method as we deal with driving long-term worthwhile development.”  For the second quarter of fiscal 2021 the Company now expects: Net income to be between $345.0 million and $355.0 million.Net earnings to be between $1.5 million and $4.0 million, and diluted earnings per share to be between $0.05 and $0.12.Adjusted EBITDA within the vary of $20.0 million to $23.0 million. For fiscal 2021 the Company now expects: Net income to be between $1.61 billion and $1.65 billion.Net earnings to be between $27.5 million and $34.0 million, and diluted earnings per share to be between $0.84 and $1.04.Adjusted EBITDA within the vary of $114.0 million to $122.0 million.Capital Expenditures of roughly $26.0 million. Conference Call The Company will host a convention name on Wednesday, June 2, 2021, at 8:30 a.m. ET to evaluation its first quarter monetary outcomes and associated issues. The name could also be accessed via the Investor Relations part of the Company’s web site at http://investors.landsend.com or by dialing (866) 753-5836. About Lands’ End, Inc. Lands’ End, Inc. (NASDAQ:LE) is a number one uni-channel retailer of informal clothes, equipment, footwear and residential merchandise. Operating out of America’s heartland, we consider our imaginative and prescient and values make a powerful reference to our core prospects. We provide merchandise on-line at www.landsend.com, on third celebration on-line marketplaces and thru our personal Company Operated shops, in addition to, third-party retail areas. We are a basic American life-style model with a ardour for high quality, legendary service and actual worth, and search to ship timeless type for ladies, males, children and the house.Forward-Looking Statements This press launch incorporates forward-looking statements that contain dangers and uncertainties, together with statements relating to the Company’s evaluation of the sustained momentum in its enterprise and the power of its international eCommerce enterprise; the Company’s evaluation of its skill to proceed to execute, and the anticipated outcomes of its long-term development methods; the tempo of restoration of the Outfitters enterprise; the Company’s continued deal with driving profitability; the Company’s deal with worthwhile development and sustaining a wholesome steadiness sheet and driving long-term worthwhile development; the Company’s perception of an increasing complete addressable market and important future alternatives; and the Company’s outlook and expectations as to internet income, internet earnings, earnings per share and Adjusted EBITDA for the second quarter of fiscal 2021 and for the complete 12 months of fiscal 2021 and capital expenditures for fiscal 2021. The following essential elements and uncertainties, amongst others, may trigger precise outcomes to vary materially from these described in these forward-looking statements: the impression of COVID-19 on operations, buyer demand and the Company’s provide chain, in addition to its consolidated outcomes of operation, monetary place and money flows; the Company could also be unsuccessful in implementing its strategic initiatives, or its initiatives might not have their desired impression on its enterprise; the Company’s skill to supply merchandise and providers that prospects wish to buy; modifications in buyer desire from the Company’s branded merchandise; the Company’s outcomes could also be materially impacted if tariffs on imports to the United States improve and it’s unable to offset the elevated prices from present or future tariffs via pricing negotiations with its vendor base, shifting manufacturing out of nations impacted by the tariffs, passing via a portion of the price will increase to the shopper, or different financial savings alternatives; prospects’ use of the Company’s digital platform, together with buyer acceptance of its efforts to boost its eCommerce web sites, together with the Outfitters web site; buyer response to the Company’s advertising efforts throughout all forms of media; the Company’s upkeep of a strong buyer listing; the Company’s retail retailer technique could also be unsuccessful; the Company’s relationship with Kohl’s might not develop as deliberate or have its desired impression; the Company’s dependence on info know-how and a failure of data know-how methods, together with with respect to its eCommerce operations, or an incapability to improve or adapt its methods; fluctuations and will increase in prices of uncooked supplies; impairment of the Company’s relationships with its distributors; the Company’s failure to take care of the safety of buyer, worker or firm info; the Company’s failure to compete successfully within the attire trade; authorized, regulatory, financial and political dangers related to worldwide commerce and people markets through which the Company conducts enterprise and sources its merchandise; the Company’s failure to guard or protect the picture of its manufacturers and its mental property rights; will increase in postage, paper and printing prices; failure by third events who present the Company with providers in reference to sure points of its enterprise to carry out their obligations; the Company’s failure to well timed and successfully receive shipments of merchandise from its distributors and ship merchandise to its prospects; reliance on promotions and markdowns to encourage buyer purchases; the Company’s failure to effectively handle stock ranges; unseasonal or extreme climate situations; the antagonistic impact on the Company’s status if its unbiased distributors don’t use moral enterprise practices or adjust to relevant legal guidelines and laws; assessments for added state taxes; incurrence of prices as a result of impairment of goodwill, different intangible belongings and long-lived belongings; the impression on the Company’s enterprise of antagonistic worldwide financial and market situations, together with financial elements that negatively impression client spending on discretionary gadgets; potential indemnification liabilities to Sears Holdings pursuant to the separation and distribution settlement in reference to the Company’s separation from Sears Holdings; the flexibility of the Company’s principal shareholders to exert substantial affect over the Company; potential liabilities beneath fraudulent conveyance and switch legal guidelines and authorized capital necessities; and different dangers, uncertainties and elements mentioned within the “Risk Factors” part of the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-Okay for the fiscal 12 months ended January 29, 2021. The Company intends the forward-looking statements to talk solely as of the time made and doesn’t undertake to replace or revise them as extra info turns into obtainable, besides as required by legislation. CONTACTS Lands’ End, Inc.James GoochPresident and Chief Financial Officer(608) 935-9341 Investor Relations:ICR, Inc.Jean Fontana(646) [email protected] -Financial Tables Follow- LANDS’ END, INC.Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets(Unaudited) (in hundreds, besides per share information) April 30, 2021  May 1, 2020  January 29,2021* ASSETS            Current belongings            Cash and money equivalents $36,181  $59,134  $33,933 Restricted money  2,327   1,953   1,861 Accounts receivable, internet  41,350   35,381   37,574 Inventories, internet  394,287   383,163   382,106 Prepaid bills and different present belongings  36,527   46,221   40,356 Total present belongings  510,672   525,852   495,830 Property and tools, internet  139,991   155,511   145,288 Operating lease right-of-use asset  34,258   38,621   35,475 Goodwill  106,700   106,700   106,700 Intangible asset, internet  257,000   257,000   257,000 Other belongings  4,056   4,651   5,215 TOTAL ASSETS $1,052,677  $1,088,335  $1,045,508 LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY            Current liabilities            Current borrowings on ABL Facility $—  $75,000  $— Current portion of long-term debt  13,750   382,858   13,750 Accounts payable  105,597   101,445   134,007 Lease legal responsibility – present  4,962   5,867   5,183 Other present liabilities  145,206   82,904   161,982 Total present liabilities  269,515   648,074   314,922 Long-term borrowings on ABL Facility  80,000   —   25,000 Long-term debt, internet  242,790   —   245,632 Lease legal responsibility – long-term  36,693   41,388   37,811 Deferred tax liabilities  47,441   65,446   47,346 Other liabilities  6,085   5,529   5,094 TOTAL LIABILITIES  682,524   760,437   675,805 Commitments and contingencies            STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY            Common inventory, par worth $0.01 licensed: 480,000 shares;issued and excellent: 32,977, 32,596 and 32,614, respectively  330   326   326 Additional paid-in capital  366,868   362,072   369,372 Retained earnings (amassed deficit)  13,865   (20,253)  11,226 Accumulated different complete loss  (10,910)  (14,247)  (11,221)TOTAL STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY  370,153   327,898   369,703 TOTAL LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY $1,052,677  $1,088,335  $1,045,508  *Derived from the audited consolidated monetary statements included within the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-Okay for the fiscal 12 months ended January 29, 2021. LANDS’ END, INC.Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations(Unaudited)   13 Weeks Ended (in hundreds, besides per share information) April 30,2021  May 1,2020 Net income $321,297  $217,008 Cost of gross sales (excluding depreciation and amortization)  173,560   122,853 Gross revenue  147,737   94,155          Selling and administrative  125,522   105,796 Depreciation and amortization  9,904   8,786 Other working expense, internet  443   4,285 Operating earnings (loss)  11,868   (24,712)Interest expense  9,060   5,311 Other earnings, internet  (167)  (173)Income (loss) earlier than earnings taxes  2,975   (29,850)Income tax expense (profit)  336   (9,207)NET INCOME (LOSS) $2,639  $(20,643)NET INCOME (LOSS) PER COMMON SHARE        Basic: $0.08  $(0.64)Diluted: $0.08  $(0.64)         Basic weighted common frequent shares excellent  32,769   32,448 Diluted weighted common frequent shares excellent  33,712   32,448  Use and Definition of Non-GAAP Financial Measures Adjusted EBITDA – In addition to our Net earnings (loss) decided in accordance with GAAP, for functions of evaluating working efficiency, the Company makes use of an Adjusted EBITDA metric. Adjusted EBITDA is computed as Net earnings (loss) showing on the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations internet of Income tax expense/(profit), Interest expense, Depreciation and amortization and sure important gadgets as set forth beneath. Our administration makes use of Adjusted EBITDA to judge the working efficiency of our enterprise for comparable intervals, in addition to the premise for an govt compensation metric. The strategies utilized by the Company to calculate its non-GAAP monetary measures might differ considerably from strategies utilized by different corporations to compute comparable measures. As a consequence, any non-GAAP monetary measures offered herein is probably not similar to comparable measures offered by different corporations. Adjusted EBITDA shouldn’t be utilized by buyers or different third events as the only real foundation for formulating funding choices because it excludes a number of essential money and non-cash recurring gadgets. While Adjusted EBITDA is a non-GAAP measurement, administration believes that it is a crucial indicator of working efficiency, and helpful to buyers, as a result of: EBITDA excludes the results of financings, investing actions and tax construction by eliminating the results of curiosity, depreciation and earnings tax.Other important gadgets, whereas periodically affecting our outcomes, might fluctuate considerably from interval to interval and have a disproportionate impact in a given interval, which impacts comparability of outcomes. We have adjusted our outcomes for this stuff to make our statements extra comparable and subsequently extra helpful to buyers because the gadgets should not consultant of our ongoing operations. For the 13 weeks ended May 1, 2020 we excluded the impression of the non-cash write-down of sure goodwill and long-lived belongings.For the 13 weeks ended April 30, 2021 we excluded amortization of transaction associated prices related to Third Party channel.For the 13 weeks ended April 30, 2021 and May 1, 2020 we excluded the impacts of loss on property and tools as administration considers the features or losses on asset valuation to consequence from investing choices slightly than ongoing operations. Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Financial Information to GAAP(Unaudited)   13 Weeks Ended   April 30, 2021  May 1, 2020 (in hundreds) $’s  % ofNet income  $’s  % ofNet income Net earnings (loss) $2,639   0.8% $(20,643)  (9.5)%Income tax expense (profit)  336   0.1%  (9,207)  (4.2)%Other earnings, internet  (167)  0.0%  (173)  (0.1)%Interest expense  9,060   2.8%  5,311   2.4%Operating earnings (loss)  11,868   3.7%  (24,712)  (11.4)%Depreciation and amortization  9,904   3.1%  8,786   4.0%Goodwill and long-lived asset impairment  —   —%  3,444   1.6%Other  250   0.1%  —   —%Loss on property and tools  443   0.1%  842   0.4%Adjusted EBITDA $22,465   7.0% $(11,640)  (5.4)% Second Quarter Fiscal 2021 Guidance    13 Weeks Ended (in hundreds of thousands)    July 30, 2021 Net earnings    $1.5 —$4.0 Depreciation, curiosity, different earnings, taxes and different changes    18.5 — 19.0 Adjusted EBITDA    $20.0 —$23.0  Fiscal 2021 Guidance    52 Weeks Ended (in hundreds of thousands)    January 28, 2022 Net earnings    $27.5 —$34.0 Depreciation, curiosity, different earnings, taxes and different changes    86.5 — 88.0 Adjusted EBITDA    $114.0 —$122.0  LANDS’ END, INC.Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows(Unaudited)   13 Weeks Ended (in hundreds) April 30, 2021  May 1, 2020 CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES        Net earnings (loss) $2,639  $(20,643)Adjustments to reconcile internet earnings (loss) to internet money utilized in working actions:        Depreciation and amortization  9,904   8,786 Amortization of debt issuance prices  775   429 Loss on property and tools  443   842 Stock-based compensation  2,513   1,828 Deferred earnings taxes  8   8,132 Goodwill impairment  —   3,300 Other  276   821 Change in working belongings and liabilities:        Accounts receivable  (3,915)  15,568 Inventories  (11,932)  (8,502)Accounts payable  (28,545)  (54,084)Other working belongings  4,820   (8,666)Other working liabilities  (15,688)  (28,009)Net money utilized in working actions  (38,702)  (80,198)CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES        Purchases of property and tools  (4,942)  (10,789)Net money utilized in investing actions  (4,942)  (10,789)CASH FLOWS FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES        Proceeds from borrowings beneath ABL Facility  75,000   75,000 Payments of borrowings beneath ABL Facility  (20,000)  — Principal funds on long-term debt, internet  (3,438)  (1,288)Payments of worker withholding taxes on share-based compensation  (5,013)  (410)Payment of debt-issuance prices  (35)  — Net money offered by financing actions  46,514   73,302 Effects of trade charge modifications on money, money equivalents and restricted money  (156)  (525)NET INCREASE (DECREASE) IN CASH, CASH EQUIVALENTS AND RESTRICTED CASH  2,714   (18,210)CASH, CASH EQUIVALENTS AND RESTRICTED CASH, BEGINNING OF PERIOD  35,794   79,297 CASH, CASH EQUIVALENTS AND RESTRICTED CASH, END OF PERIOD $38,508  $61,087 SUPPLEMENTAL CASH FLOW DATA        Unpaid legal responsibility to accumulate property and tools $3,227  $4,707 Income taxes paid, internet of refunds $(5,152) $(1,210)Interest paid $7,911  $4,667 Lease liabilities arising from acquiring Operating lease right-of-use belongings $—  $3,074   

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