LUK Posts Upbeat 1Q - Analyst Blog
May 07 2012 - 4:15AM
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Leucadia National
Corporation (LUK) posted robust first-quarter 2012
earnings per share of $1.97 compared with 5 cents reported in the
year-ago quarter. Results also surpassed the Zacks Consensus
Estimate of 40 cents.
Revenue
In the reported quarter, revenue
reached $2.4 billion compared with $284.0 million in the year-ago
quarter. The massive jump was attributable to addition of revenue
contribution from National Beef Packaging Company, LLC.
Leucadia acquired a controlling
interest in National Beef Packing Company, LLC in December 2011 and
thus the company added a new segment ‘Beef Processing Services’ to
its portfolio.
During the quarter, revenue from
Beef Processing Services segment accounted for 73.9% of total
revenue and settled at roughly $1.8 billion. Revenue from the
Manufacturing segment was approximately $61.7 million, down 3.3%
year over year and accounted for 2.5% of total revenue. Oil and Gas
Drilling segment accounted for about 1.6% of revenue and was $39.0
million.
Revenue generated from the Gaming
Entertainment Operations was roughly 1.3% of total revenue, and
stood at $32.1 million, while revenue of $3.4 million from the
Domestic Real Estate segment accounted for 0.14% of total
revenue.
Revenue from the Medical Product
Development segment was $74 thousand. Proceeds from Other
operations were $19.0 million, up from $16.1 million in the
year-ago quarter and accounted for about 0.78% of total revenue,
while the Corporate segment revenue of $477.0 million accounted for
about 19.7% of total revenue.
Expenses/Margins
Expenses in the quarter showed a
drastic hike from a mere $204.5 million in the first quarter of
2011 to approximately $2.1 billion in the reported quarter. The
massive increase stems from $1.8 billion cost of sale related to
the company’s beef processing services. In relation to revenue,
expenses represented 85.2% compared with 72.0%in the year-ago
quarter.
Balance Sheet
Exiting the first quarter,
Leucadia’s cash and cash equivalents jumped 21.8% sequentially to
$205.3 million while its long-term debt plummeted 24.0% to $1,425.2
million from $1,875.6 million in the previous quarter.
Cash Flow
Cash flow from operating activities
was a net outflow of $42.7 million for the first quarter of 2012,
an increase from $17.8 million outflow reported in the year-ago
quarter. Spending on property, equipment and leasehold improvements
came in at $18.6 million versus $4.1 million in the comparable
quarter last year.
Leucadia is engaged in
manufacturing, telecommunications, oil and gas drilling services,
property management and services, gaming entertainment, real estate
activities, medical product development operations and various
other investment-related activities in the United States. The
company faces competition from other companies like Apollo
Investment Corporation (AINV) and The Blackstone
Group (BX).
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