Sotheby’s (NYSE:BID) today reported its financial results for the
fourth quarter and year ended 31 December 2015.
President and Chief Executive Officer Tad Smith said, “We are
pleased with the progress we’ve made on our strategic objectives,
which includes significant headway on priorities relating to
developing a compelling growth strategy, leveraging the use of
technology, allocating capital wisely and optimizing talent and
processes within the organization. We look forward to
translating this hard work into tangible results and long-term
value creation for shareholders.”
Mr. Smith continued, “We are incredibly excited about our
prospects. After a year of transition, we have a strong team
with a clear mandate to build a more valuable business for
shareholders and a more responsive one for new and existing
clients. We will likely have one or more difficult quarters
as we ride through the current cycle, but we are being careful on
guarantees and capital commitments, watching our liquidity
carefully, continuing to invest in the people and capabilities that
will drive our future success, and taking the opportunity with our
excess cash to repurchase shares. We are confident in our
future and managing the business to create value for shareholders
and clients,” concluded Mr. Smith.
For the year ended 31 December 2015, Sotheby’s reported Adjusted
Net Income* of $143.1 million, which is comparable to 2014, and
Adjusted Diluted Earnings Per Share* of $2.07, which exceeds the
$2.03 per diluted share earned in 2014 due to share repurchases
made during the year. These results are slightly better than the
high end of the estimated range of results that were pre-announced
on 22 January 2016.
For the year ended 31 December 2015, Sotheby’s reported GAAP net
income of $43.7 million, or $0.63 per diluted share, representing a
decrease of $74.1 million (63%) when compared to net income of
$117.8 million, or $1.68 per diluted share, in 2014. The
lower level of net income is due to a number of charges recorded in
2015, including a $65.7 million non-cash income tax charge related
to the planned repatriation of foreign earnings and an after-tax
charge of $23.6 million related to voluntary separation incentive
programs implemented late in 2015, both recognized in the fourth
quarter of 2015. Also, Consolidated Sales** is $6.72 billion
for 2015 which is virtually identical to 2014.
For the fourth quarter of 2015, Adjusted Net Income* is $80.6
million or $1.19 per diluted share*, representing increases of 3%
and 6%, respectively, when compared to the prior year period.
On a GAAP basis, Sotheby’s reported a fourth quarter 2015 net loss
of ($11.2 million) or ($0.17) per share due to the aforementioned
income tax charge related to the repatriation of foreign earnings
recorded in the period.
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
*Adjusted Net Income and Adjusted Diluted Earnings Per Share are
non-GAAP financial measures. See Appendix B for a description
of these non-GAAP financial measures and reconciliation to the most
comparable GAAP amount.
**Consolidated Sales represents the sum of Aggregate Auction
Sales (the total hammer (sale) price of property sold at auction
plus buyer's premium), Private Sales, and Inventory Sales. For the
purposes of this calculation, when applicable, amounts that are
associated with the sale of Sotheby's inventory at auction and
included in Aggregate Auction Sales are eliminated.
Forward-Looking Statements
This release contains certain “forward-looking statements” (as
such term is defined in Section 21E of the Securities and Exchange
Act of 1934, as amended) relating to future events and the
financial performance of Sotheby’s. Such statements are only
predictions and involve risks and uncertainties, resulting in the
possibility that the actual events or performances will differ
materially from such predictions. Major factors, which
Sotheby’s believes could cause the actual results to differ
materially from the predicted results in the “forward-looking
statements” include, but are not limited to, the overall strength
of the global economy and financial markets, political conditions
in various countries, competition with other auctioneers and art
dealers, the amount and quality property available for consignment
and the marketability at auction of such property. Please
refer to our most recently filed Form 10-Q (and/or 10-K) for a
complete list of Risk Factors.
Investor Relations Information
All Sotheby’s Press Releases and SEC filings are available on
our web site at www.sothebys.com. An outline of the
conference call as well as an accompanying slide presentation will
be available at http://investor.shareholder.com/bid/events.cfm.
Sotheby’s will host a conference call at 9:00 AM EST on 26
February 2016, to discuss its fourth quarter 2015 financial
results. Please dial 888-371-8897 and for callers outside the
United States, Puerto Rico and Canada, please dial 1-970-315-0479,
approximately 15 minutes before the scheduled start of the
call. The call reservation number is 51884046.
The conference call will also be accessible via
webcast on the Investor Relations section of the Sotheby’s web site
at http://investor.shareholder.com/bid/events.cfm.
About Sotheby’s
Sotheby’s has been uniting collectors with
world-class works of art since 1744. Sotheby’s became the
first international auction house when it expanded from London to
New York (1955), the first to conduct sales in Hong Kong (1973),
India (1992) and France (2001), and the first international fine
art auction house in China (2012). Today, Sotheby’s presents
auctions in nine different salesrooms, including New York, London,
Hong Kong and Paris, and Sotheby’s BidNow program allows visitors
to view all auctions live online and place bids in real-time from
anywhere in the world. Sotheby’s offers collectors the
resources of Sotheby’s Financial Services, the world’s only
full-service art financing company, as well as private sale
opportunities in more than 70 categories, including S|2, the
gallery arm of Sotheby’s Contemporary Art department, and two
retail businesses, Sotheby’s Diamonds and Sotheby’s Wine.
Sotheby’s has a global network of 90 offices in 40 countries and is
the oldest company listed on the New York Stock Exchange (BID).
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Appendix A
SOTHEBY’SCONSOLIDATED
INCOME STATEMENTS(Thousands of dollars, except per
share data)
|
|
UNAUDITED |
|
AUDITED |
|
|
Three Months Ended |
|
Year Ended |
|
|
December 31, 2015 |
|
December 31, 2014 |
|
December 31, 2015 |
|
December 31, 2014 |
Revenues: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Agency commissions and fees |
|
$ |
284,439 |
|
|
$ |
309,582 |
|
|
$ |
791,920 |
|
|
$ |
825,126 |
|
Inventory sales |
|
35,485 |
|
|
28,951 |
|
|
108,699 |
|
|
69,958 |
|
Finance |
|
12,899 |
|
|
10,274 |
|
|
50,489 |
|
|
33,013 |
|
License fees |
|
2,839 |
|
|
1,949 |
|
|
9,820 |
|
|
8,484 |
|
Other |
|
159 |
|
|
468 |
|
|
566 |
|
|
1,472 |
|
Total revenues |
|
335,821 |
|
|
351,224 |
|
|
961,494 |
|
|
938,053 |
|
Expenses: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Agency direct costs |
|
39,194 |
|
|
38,468 |
|
|
91,919 |
|
|
86,524 |
|
Cost of inventory sales |
|
38,710 |
|
|
28,018 |
|
|
111,090 |
|
|
68,037 |
|
Cost of Finance revenues |
|
4,236 |
|
|
3,372 |
|
|
15,780 |
|
|
8,740 |
|
Marketing |
|
6,757 |
|
|
5,793 |
|
|
19,332 |
|
|
16,566 |
|
Salaries and related |
|
74,816 |
|
|
88,457 |
|
|
302,825 |
|
|
310,934 |
|
General and administrative |
|
41,564 |
|
|
45,456 |
|
|
159,148 |
|
|
158,796 |
|
Depreciation and amortization |
|
5,037 |
|
|
5,205 |
|
|
19,481 |
|
|
20,575 |
|
Voluntary separation programs |
|
36,938 |
|
|
— |
|
|
36,938 |
|
|
— |
|
CEO separation and transition
costs |
|
— |
|
|
7,591 |
|
|
4,232 |
|
|
7,591 |
|
Restructuring charges (net) |
|
3 |
|
|
(47 |
) |
|
(972 |
) |
|
14,238 |
|
Special charges (net) |
|
— |
|
|
(80 |
) |
|
— |
|
|
20,008 |
|
Total expenses |
|
247,255 |
|
|
222,233 |
|
|
759,773 |
|
|
712,009 |
|
Operating income |
|
88,566 |
|
|
128,991 |
|
|
201,721 |
|
|
226,044 |
|
Interest income |
|
538 |
|
|
444 |
|
|
1,776 |
|
|
1,883 |
|
Interest expense |
|
(7,572 |
) |
|
(8,881 |
) |
|
(32,745 |
) |
|
(35,189 |
) |
Other income
(expense) |
|
2,377 |
|
|
(407 |
) |
|
(1,453 |
) |
|
283 |
|
Income before taxes |
|
83,909 |
|
|
120,147 |
|
|
169,299 |
|
|
193,021 |
|
Equity in (losses)
earnings of investees |
|
(626 |
) |
|
52 |
|
|
5,327 |
|
|
732 |
|
Income tax expense |
|
94,510 |
|
|
46,259 |
|
|
131,145 |
|
|
75,761 |
|
Net (loss) income |
|
(11,227 |
) |
|
73,940 |
|
|
43,481 |
|
|
117,992 |
|
Less: Net (loss) income
attributable to noncontrolling interest |
|
(74 |
) |
|
(63 |
) |
|
(246 |
) |
|
197 |
|
Net (loss) income
attributable to Sotheby's |
|
$ |
(11,153 |
) |
|
$ |
74,003 |
|
|
$ |
43,727 |
|
|
$ |
117,795 |
|
Basic (loss) earnings
per share - Sotheby's common shareholders |
|
$ |
(0.17 |
) |
|
$ |
1.07 |
|
|
$ |
0.64 |
|
|
$ |
1.69 |
|
Diluted (loss) earnings
per share - Sotheby's common shareholders |
|
$ |
(0.17 |
) |
|
$ |
1.06 |
|
|
$ |
0.63 |
|
|
$ |
1.68 |
|
Cash dividends declared
per common share |
|
$ |
0.10 |
|
|
$ |
0.10 |
|
|
$ |
0.40 |
|
|
$ |
4.74 |
|
Appendix B
USE OF NON-GAAP FINANCIAL MEASURES
GAAP refers to generally accepted accounting principles in the
United States of America. Included in this earnings release are
financial measures presented in accordance with GAAP and also on a
non-GAAP basis. The non-GAAP financial measures presented in this
earnings release are: (i) Adjusted Net Income and (ii) Adjusted
Diluted Earnings Per Share. Sotheby's definition of these non-GAAP
financial measures is provided in the following paragraphs.
Adjusted Net Income is defined as Net Income Attributable to
Sotheby's, excluding the after-tax impact of leadership transition
severance costs (recorded within Salaries and Related Costs),
charges related to Sotheby's voluntary separation incentive
programs, CEO Separation and Transition Costs, Restructuring
Charges (net), and Special Charges (net), as well as the income tax
charge associated with the repatriation of pre-2014 foreign
earnings. Adjusted Diluted Earnings Per Share is defined as Diluted
Earnings Per Share excluding the per share impact of leadership
transition severance costs (recorded within Salaries and Related
Costs), charges related to Sotheby's voluntary separation incentive
programs, CEO Separation and Transition Costs, Restructuring
Charges (net), Special Charges (net), as well as the income tax
charge associated with the repatriation of pre-2014 foreign
earnings.
Adjusted Net Income and Adjusted Diluted Earnings Per Share are
important supplemental measures used by the Board of Directors and
management in their financial and operational decision making
processes, for internal reporting, and as part of Sotheby’s
forecasting and budgeting processes, as they provide helpful
measures of Sotheby’s core operations. These measures allow the
Board of Directors and management to view operating trends, perform
analytical comparisons, and benchmark performance between periods.
Management also believes that these measures may be used by
securities analysts, investors, financial institutions, and other
interested parties in their evaluation of Sotheby's.
Management cautions users of Sotheby's financial statements that
amounts presented in accordance with its definitions of these
non-GAAP financial measures may not be comparable to similar
measures disclosed by other companies because not all companies and
analysts calculate such measures in the same manner.
A reconciliation of each of these non-GAAP financial measures to
the most comparable GAAP amount is presented in the following
tables (in thousands of dollars, except per share data):
|
|
Three Months Ended |
|
Year Ended |
|
|
December 31, 2015 |
|
December 31, 2014 |
|
December 31, 2015 |
|
December 31, 2014 |
Net (loss) income
attributable to Sotheby's |
|
$ |
(11,153 |
) |
|
$ |
74,003 |
|
|
$ |
43,727 |
|
|
$ |
117,795 |
|
Add: Leadership
transition severance costs, net of tax |
|
2,326 |
|
|
— |
|
|
8,084 |
|
|
— |
|
Add: Voluntary
separation incentive program charges, net of tax |
|
23,640 |
|
|
— |
|
|
23,640 |
|
|
— |
|
Add: CEO separation and
transition costs, net of tax |
|
17 |
|
|
4,453 |
|
|
2,581 |
|
|
4,453 |
|
Add: Restructuring
charges (net), net of tax |
|
28 |
|
|
(411 |
) |
|
(633 |
) |
|
9,017 |
|
Add: Special charges
(net), net of tax |
|
— |
|
|
85 |
|
|
— |
|
|
11,133 |
|
Add: Income tax expense
related to repatriation of pre-2014 foreign earnings
|
|
65,732 |
|
|
— |
|
|
65,732 |
|
|
— |
|
Adjusted Net Income |
|
$ |
80,590 |
|
|
$ |
78,130 |
|
|
$ |
143,131 |
|
|
$ |
142,398 |
|
Variance versus prior period -
$ |
|
$ |
2,460 |
|
|
|
|
$ |
733 |
|
|
|
Variance versus prior period -
% |
|
3 |
% |
|
|
|
1 |
% |
|
|
|
|
Three Months Ended |
|
Year Ended |
|
|
December 31, 2015 |
|
December 31, 2014 |
|
December 31, 2015 |
|
December 31, 2014 |
Diluted (loss) earnings
per share |
|
$ |
(0.17 |
) |
|
$ |
1.06 |
|
|
$ |
0.63 |
|
|
$ |
1.68 |
|
Add: Leadership
transition severance costs, per share |
|
0.03 |
|
|
— |
|
|
0.11 |
|
|
— |
|
Add: Voluntary
separation incentive program charges, per share |
|
0.35 |
|
|
— |
|
|
0.34 |
|
|
— |
|
Add: CEO separation and
transition costs, per share |
|
— |
|
|
0.06 |
|
|
0.04 |
|
|
0.06 |
|
Add: Restructuring
charges (net), per share |
|
— |
|
|
— |
|
|
(0.01 |
) |
|
0.13 |
|
Add: Special charges
(net), per share |
|
— |
|
|
— |
|
|
— |
|
|
0.16 |
|
Add: Income tax expense
related to repatriation of pre-2014 foreign earnings, per
share |
|
0.98 |
|
|
— |
|
|
0.96 |
|
|
— |
|
Adjusted Diluted Earnings Per
Share |
|
$ |
1.19 |
|
|
$ |
1.12 |
|
|
$ |
2.07 |
|
|
$ |
2.03 |
|
Variance versus prior period -
$ |
|
$ |
0.07 |
|
|
|
|
$ |
0.04 |
|
|
|
Variance versus prior period -
% |
|
6 |
% |
|
|
|
2 |
% |
|
|
New York
Lauren Gioia
Jennifer Park
Lauren.Gioia@Sothebys.com
Jennifer.Park@Sothebys.com
+1 212 606 7176
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