DENVER, Jan. 08, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Simply Good Foods Company (Nasdaq: SMPL) ("Simply Good Foods,” or the "Company”), a developer, marketer and seller of branded nutritional foods and snacking products, today reported financial results for the thirteen weeks ended November 30, 2024. The acquisition of Only What You Need, Inc. ("OWYN") was completed on June 13, 2024. Therefore, the Company's year ago performance for the thirteen weeks ended November 25, 2023, does not include results of the OWYN business. The reference to "organic" or "legacy" Simply Good Foods in this press release encompasses Simply Good Foods' business excluding OWYN.
First Quarter Summary:(1)
- Net sales of $341.3 million versus $308.7 million
- Net income of $38.1 million versus $35.6 million
- Earnings per diluted share ("EPS”) of $0.38 versus $0.35
- Adjusted Diluted EPS(2) of $0.49 versus $0.43
- Adjusted EBITDA(3) $70.1 million versus $62.0 million
- Net sales expected to increase 8.5% to 10.5%
- Adjusted EBITDA(3) expected to increase 4% to 6%
- The fifty-third week in fiscal year 2024 comparison year is about a 2-percentage point headwind to both Net Sales and Adjusted EBITDA growth in fiscal year 2025 and is incorporated in the outlook above.
"As we exited the first quarter, Quest chips capacity returned to optimal levels, and we now have the capability to support merchandising and programming as well as increased distribution for these products. We have strong marketing plans in place to support all our brands in the upcoming "New Year, New You" season that should result in solid overall volume driven growth. With three uniquely positioned brands aligned with the aforementioned consumer megatrends and world class innovation and sales capabilities, we continue to believe Simply Good Foods is well positioned to drive sustainable growth and increase shareholder value."
First Quarter 2025 Results
Net sales increased $32.6 million, or 10.6%, to $341.3 million. OWYN net sales were $32.3 million and slightly greater than estimates. Legacy(5) net sales in the first quarter of fiscal year 2025 were about the same as the year ago period and affected by the timing of shipments that occurred subsequent to the end of the first quarter.
Total Simply Good Foods first quarter retail takeaway(6) in the combined U.S. measured and unmeasured channels increased about 8% driven by strong Quest and OWYN point-of-sales growth of about 10% and 67%, respectively. Atkins retail takeaway was off about 4% and was slightly better than estimates.
Gross profit was $130.5 million for the first quarter of fiscal year 2025, an increase of $15.4 million from the year ago period. The increase in gross profit was driven by favorable legacy input costs and the inclusion of OWYN, partially offset by a $1.0 million non-cash inventory purchase accounting step-up adjustment related to the OWYN acquisition. As a result, gross margin was 38.2%, a 90 basis points increase versus last year, inclusive of a 30 basis points headwind related to the aforementioned non-cash inventory purchase accounting step-up.
In the first quarter of fiscal year 2025, the Company reported net income of $38.1 million compared to $35.6 million for the comparable period of fiscal year 2024.
Operating expenses of $75.9 million increased $12.6 million versus the comparable period of 2024. Selling and marketing expenses increased $1.0 million to $33.0 million primarily due to the inclusion of OWYN. General and administrative ("G&A") expenses of $38.1 million increased $11.1 million compared to the year ago period primarily due to higher employee-related costs and corporate expenses as well as the inclusion of OWYN. Excluding stock-based compensation of $3.8 million and integration expenses of $4.9 million, first quarter fiscal year 2025 G&A increased $6.8 million to $29.5 million.
In the first quarter of fiscal year 2025, the Company incurred one-time costs related to the OWYN acquisition of $0.6 million.
Net interest income and interest expense was $7.1 million, an increase of $2.1 million versus the first quarter of fiscal year 2024. The interest expense component increase was primarily driven by a higher debt balance due to the OWYN acquisition.
Adjusted EBITDA(3), a non-GAAP financial measure used by the Company that makes certain adjustments to net income calculated under GAAP, was $70.1 million versus $62.0 million in the year ago period.
In the first quarter of fiscal year 2025, the Company reported earnings per diluted share ("Diluted EPS”) of $0.38 versus $0.35 in the year ago period. The diluted weighted average total shares outstanding in the first quarter of fiscal year 2025 was approximately 101.5 million versus 101.1 million in the year ago period.
Adjusted Diluted EPS(2), a non-GAAP financial measure used by the Company that makes certain adjustments to Diluted EPS calculated under GAAP, was $0.49 versus $0.43 in the year ago period.
Balance Sheet and Cash Flow
At the end of the first quarter of fiscal year 2025, the Company had cash of $121.8 million. Cash flow from operations was about $32.0 million versus $47.5 million in the year ago period. The decline was primarily due to higher net working capital related to the OWYN Acquisition. During the quarter, the Company repaid $50.0 million of its term loan debt, and at the end of the quarter, the outstanding principal balance was $350.0 million.
As of November 30, 2024, the Company's trailing twelve-month Net Debt to Adjusted EBITDA ratio was 0.8x(7).
Outlook(4)
Due to solid retail takeaway, visibility into second quarter orders and strong Adjusted EBITDA growth to start the year, the Company reaffirms its fiscal year 2025 outlook. The Company expects organic sales growth to be driven primarily by volume and has strong advertising and marketing plans in place, as well as innovation, merchandising and promotions that should enable it to achieve its objectives. As discussed last quarter, in fiscal year 2025, the Company expects input cost inflation. There is no material change to the Company's gross margin outlook and efforts are focused on productivity and cost savings initiatives that are expected to partially offset the increase of these higher costs.
Therefore, the Company anticipates the following in fiscal year 2025:
- Net Sales expected to increase 8.5% to 10.5%
- OWYN fiscal year 2025 Net Sales expected to be in the $135-145 million range
- Adjusted EBITDA(3) expected to increase 4% to 6%
- The fifty-third week in fiscal year 2024 comparison year is about a 2-percentage point headwind to both Net Sales and Adjusted EBITDA growth in fiscal year 2025 and incorporated in the outlook above
- Assuming a comparable full year of OWYN results are included in fiscal year 2024, as well as the exclusion of the fifty-third week in fiscal year 2024, fiscal year 2025 is expected to be in line with the Company's long-term algorithm; net sales growth in the 4-6% range and Adjusted EBITDA growth slightly greater than the net sales increase
| (1) | All comparisons for the first quarter ended November 30, 2024, versus the first quarter ended November 25, 2023. |
| (2) | Adjusted Diluted Earnings Per Share is a non-GAAP financial measure. The Company excludes acquisition-related costs, such as business transaction costs, integration expense and depreciation and amortization expense in calculating Adjusted Diluted Earnings Per Share. Please refer to "Reconciliation of Adjusted Diluted Earnings Per Share" in this press release for an explanation and reconciliation of this non-GAAP financial measure. |
| (3) | Adjusted Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization ("EBITDA") is a non-GAAP financial measure. Please refer to "Reconciliation of EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA" in this press release for an explanation and reconciliation of this non-GAAP financial measure. |
| (4) | The Company does not provide a forward-looking reconciliation of Adjusted Diluted Earnings Per Share to Earnings Per Share or Adjusted EBITDA to Net Income, the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures, expected for fiscal year 2025, because we are unable to provide such a reconciliation without unreasonable effort due to the unavailability of reliable estimates for certain components of consolidated net income and the respective reconciliations, and the inherent difficulty of predicting what the changes in these components will be throughout the fiscal year. As these items may vary greatly between periods, we are unable to address the probable significance of the unavailable information, which could significantly affect our future financial results. |
| (5) | Legacy Simply Good Foods refers to performance of the combined Quest and Atkins brands |
| (6) | Combined Quest, Atkins, and OWYN IRI MULO + C store and Company unmeasured channel estimate for the 13-weeks ending December 1, 2024, vs. the comparable year ago period. |
| (7) | Net Debt to Adjusted EBITDA is a non-GAAP financial measure which Simply Good Foods defines as the total debt outstanding under our credit agreement with Barclays Bank PLC and other parties ("Credit Agreement"), reduced by cash and cash equivalents, and divided by the Company's trailing twelve month Adjusted EBITDA, as previously defined. The Company does not provide a forward-looking reconciliation of Net Debt to Adjusted EBITDA to Net Debt to Consolidated Net Income, the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures, expected for 2025, because we are unable to provide such a reconciliation without unreasonable effort due to the unavailability of reliable estimates for certain components of consolidated net income and the respective reconciliations, and the inherent difficulty of predicting what the changes in these components will be throughout the fiscal year. As these items may vary greatly between periods, we are unable to address the probable significance of the unavailable information, which could significantly affect our future financial results. |
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About The Simply Good Foods Company
The Simply Good Foods Company (Nasdaq: SMPL), headquartered in Denver, Colorado, is a consumer packaged food and beverage company that is bringing nutritious snacking with ambitious goals to raise the bar on what food can be with trusted brands and innovative products. Our product portfolio consists primarily of protein bars, ready-to-drink (RTD) shakes, sweet and salty snacks, and confectionery products marketed under the Atkins, Quest, and OWYN brands. We are a company that aims to lead the nutritious snacking movement and is poised to expand our healthy lifestyle platform through innovation, organic growth, and investment opportunities in the snacking space. To learn more, visit http://www.thesimplygoodfoodscompany.com.
Investor Contact
Mark Pogharian
Vice President, Investor Relations, Treasury and Business Development
The Simply Good Foods Company
mpogharian@simplygoodfoodsco.com
Josh Levine
Vice President, Investor Relations and Treasury (effective February 1, 2025)
The Simply Good Foods Company
Forward Looking Statements
Certain statements made herein are not historical facts but are forward-looking statements for purposes of the safe harbor provisions under The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements generally are accompanied by or include words such as "will”, "expect”, "intends” or other similar words, phrases or expressions. These statements relate to future events or our future financial or operational performance and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause our actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievement to differ materially from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. We caution you that these forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions that are difficult to predict. You should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. These statements reflect our current views with respect to future events, are based on assumptions and are subject to risks and uncertainties. These risks and uncertainties relate to, among other things, our ability to achieve our estimates of OWYN's net sales and Adjusted EBITDA and our anticipated synergies from the OWYN acquisition, our net leverage ratio post-acquisition, our Adjusted EPS post-acquisition, our ability to maintain OWYN personnel and effectively integrate OWYN, our operations being dependent on changes in consumer preferences and purchasing habits regarding our products, a global supply chain and effects of supply chain constraints and inflationary pressure on us and our contract manufacturers, our ability to continue to operate at a profit or to maintain our margins, the effect pandemics or other global disruptions on our business, financial condition and results of operations, the sufficiency of our sources of liquidity and capital, our ability to maintain current operation levels and implement our growth strategies, our ability to maintain and gain market acceptance for our products or new products, our ability to capitalize on attractive opportunities, our ability to respond to competition and changes in the economy including changes regarding inflation and increasing ingredient and packaging costs and labor challenges at our contract manufacturers and third party logistics providers, the amounts of or changes with respect to certain anticipated raw materials and other costs, difficulties and delays in achieving the synergies and cost savings in connection with acquisitions, changes in the business environment in which we operate including general financial, economic, capital market, regulatory and geopolitical conditions affecting us and the industry in which we operate, our ability to maintain adequate product inventory levels to timely supply customer orders, changes in taxes, tariffs, duties, governmental laws and regulations, the availability of or competition for other brands, assets or other opportunities for investment by us or to expand our business, competitive product and pricing activity, difficulties of managing growth profitably, the loss of one or more members of our management team, potential for increased costs and harm to our business resulting from unauthorized access of the information technology systems we use in our business, expansion of our wellness platform and other risks and uncertainties indicated in the Company's Form 10-K, Form 10-Q, and Form 8-K reports (including all amendments to those reports) filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission from time to time. In addition, forward-looking statements provide the Company's expectations, plans or forecasts of future events and views as of the date of this communication. Except as required by law, the Company undertakes no obligation to update such statements to reflect events or circumstances arising after such date and cautions investors not to place undue reliance on any such forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing the Company's assessments as of any date subsequent to the date of this communication.
| The Simply Good Foods Company and Subsidiaries Consolidated Balance Sheets (Unaudited, dollars in thousands, except share and per share data) | ||||||||
| November 30, 2024 | August 31, 2024 | |||||||
| Assets | ||||||||
| Current assets: | ||||||||
| Cash | $ | 121,759 | $ | 132,530 | ||||
| Accounts receivable, net | 149,666 | 150,721 | ||||||
| Inventories | 155,327 | 142,107 | ||||||
| Prepaid expenses | 6,665 | 5,730 | ||||||
| Other current assets | 10,571 | 9,192 | ||||||
| Total current assets | 443,988 | 440,280 | ||||||
| Long-term assets: | ||||||||
| Property and equipment, net | 23,681 | 24,830 | ||||||
| Intangible assets, net | 1,332,733 | 1,336,466 | ||||||
| Goodwill | 591,687 | 591,687 | ||||||
| Other long-term assets | 42,348 | 42,881 | ||||||
| Total assets | $ | 2,434,437 | $ | 2,436,144 | ||||
| Liabilities and stockholders' equity | ||||||||
| Current liabilities: | ||||||||
| Accounts payable | $ | 58,827 | $ | 58,559 | ||||
| Accrued interest | 76 | 265 | ||||||
| Accrued expenses and other current liabilities | 46,090 | 49,791 | ||||||
| Total current liabilities | 104,993 | 108,615 | ||||||
| Long-term liabilities: | ||||||||
| Long-term debt, less current maturities | 347,990 | 397,485 | ||||||
| Deferred income taxes | 169,386 | 166,012 | ||||||
| Other long-term liabilities | 35,524 | 36,546 | ||||||
| Total liabilities | 657,893 | 708,658 | ||||||
| See commitments and contingencies (Note 10) | ||||||||
| Stockholders' equity: | ||||||||
| Preferred stock, $0.01 par value, 100,000,000 shares authorized, none issued | - | - | ||||||
| Common stock, $0.01 par value, 600,000,000 shares authorized, 103,393,159 and 101,929,868 shares issued at November 30, 2024 and August 31, 2024, respectively | 1,034 | 1,025 | ||||||
| Treasury stock, 2,365,100 shares and 2,365,100 shares at cost at November 30, 2024 and August 31, 2024, respectively | (78,451 | ) | (78,451 | ) | ||||
| Additional paid-in-capital | 1,331,000 | 1,319,686 | ||||||
| Retained earnings | 525,387 | 487,265 | ||||||
| Accumulated other comprehensive loss | (2,426 | ) | (2,039 | ) | ||||
| Total stockholders' equity | 1,776,544 | 1,727,486 | ||||||
| Total liabilities and stockholders' equity | $ | 2,434,437 | $ | 2,436,144 | ||||
| The Simply Good Foods Company and Subsidiaries Consolidated Statements of Income and Comprehensive Income (Unaudited, dollars in thousands, except share and per share data) | ||||||||
| Thirteen Weeks Ended | ||||||||
| November 30, 2024 | November 25, 2023 | |||||||
| Net sales | $ | 341,268 | $ | 308,678 | ||||
| Cost of goods sold | 210,782 | 193,560 | ||||||
| Gross profit | 130,486 | 115,118 | ||||||
| Operating expenses: | ||||||||
| Selling and marketing | 32,994 | 31,990 | ||||||
| General and administrative | 38,064 | 26,950 | ||||||
| Depreciation and amortization | 4,160 | 4,358 | ||||||
| Business transaction costs | 643 | - | ||||||
| Total operating expenses | 75,861 | 63,298 | ||||||