We use cookies to understand how you use our site and to improve your experience. This includes personalizing content and advertising. To learn more, click here. By continuing to use our site, you accept our use of cookies, revised Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.
You are being directed to ZacksTrade, a division of LBMZ Securities and licensed broker-dealer. ZacksTrade and Zacks.com are separate companies. The web link between the two companies is not a solicitation or offer to invest in a particular security or type of security. ZacksTrade does not endorse or adopt any particular investment strategy, any analyst opinion/rating/report or any approach to evaluating individual securities.
If you wish to go to ZacksTrade, click OK. If you do not, click Cancel.
Molson Coors (TAP) Q1 Earnings Beat Estimates, Sales Down Y/Y
Read MoreHide Full Article
Molson Coors Beverage Company (TAP - Free Report) has reported mixed first-quarter 2020 results, wherein the top line missed estimates but the bottom line beat the same. However, adjusted earnings and sales declined on a year-over-year basis.
Shares of Molson Coors declined nearly 5% in the pre-market trading session. The Zacks Rank #3 (Hold) company’s shares have lost 16.9% in the past three months compared with the industry’s decline of 24.9%.
Delving Deeper
Molson Coors’ underlying adjusted earnings of 35 cents per share declined 32.7% year over year but beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 30 cents. The bottom line was impacted by estimated keg sales returns and finished goods’ obsolescence reserves, which led to incurring $50 million costs as the on-premise were hurt by the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic. Further, lower financial volume, inflation and negative mix led to the decline. However, favorable net pricing, cost savings, and lower marketing, general and administrative (MG&A) expenses partly offset the declines.
The aforementioned factors also led to a decline in the company’s underlying EBITDA, which moved down 16.6% to $352.2 million year over year. Further, underlying EBITDA declined 15.8% year over year in constant currency.
Molson Coors Beverage Company Price, Consensus and EPS Surprise
Net sales declined 8.7% to $2,102.8 million and missed the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $2,173 million. The decline was mainly caused by unfavorable mix as well as keg sales returns and reimbursements of $31.5 million associated with the on-premise impacts of the coronavirus pandemic across major markets. This was partly offset by higher global net pricing. On a constant-currency basis, net sales decreased 8.2%.
Notably, net sales per hectoliter decreased 1.6% on a brand volume basis, owing to estimated on-premise sales returns and reimbursements as well as unfavorable geographic mix.
However, Molson Coors’ worldwide brand volume declined 1.8% to 17.9 million hectoliters and financial volume declined 8.3% to 18.4 million hectoliters. The decline in worldwide brand volume was mainly attributed to declines in Europe due to the impacts of the coronavirus outbreak. Meanwhile, financial volume was hurt by the impacts in North America due to the unfavorable shipment timing in the United States, including brewery downtime-related Milwaukee tragedy, market share declines and lower contract brewing volume.
Segmental Details
The company operates through the following geographical segments.
North America: Molson Coors’ North America net sales declined 7.4% to $1,789.7 million on a reported basis and 7.2% in constant currency, driven by a decline in financial volume and a 1.3% fall in net sales per hectoliter (brand volume basis). North America brand volume rose 0.4%, while financial volume decreased 7.8%. Financial volume decline was attributed to unfavorable shipment timing in the United States, including brewery downtime for the Milwaukee tragedy, lower contract brewing volume, and estimated on-premise keg sales returns and reimbursements of $19.0 million due to the coronavirus outbreak.
Net sales per hectoliter were hurt by unfavorable geographic mix due to growing licensed volume in Mexico and on-premise keg sales returns and reimbursements, partly offset by higher net pricing. Brand volume benefited from favorable timing of trading days versus the prior year as well as March pantry loading, particularly in the United States, partly negated by market share declines in North America. Underlying EBITDA declined 12.7% to $348.7 million, with a constant-currency decline of 11.9%.
Europe: The segment’s reported net sales dropped 15.5% to $317.6 million and 13.4% in constant currency. The net sales decline was attributed to lower volume, drop in net sales per hectoliter and estimated on-premise keg sales returns of $12.5 million due to the coronavirus outbreak. Net sales on brand volume basis fell 5.2%, owing to unfavorable geographic mix mostly in its high-margin U.K. business, partly offset by favorable pricing. Notably, the company’s U.K. business has greater exposure to the on-premise channel, which caused more estimated impacts of on-premise keg sales returns due to the pandemic. Financial volume fell 10% and brand volume was down 8.5% due to the virus spread. The segment reported underlying EBITDA loss of $4.1 million compared with earnings of $13.5 million in the prior-year quarter.
Other Financial Updates
Molson Coors ended the first quarter with cash and cash equivalents of $666.1 million, and total debt of $9,477 million. This resulted in net debt of $8,811 million at the end of the quarter.
The company used net cash of $18.1 million in operating activities in the first quarter, with used underlying free cash flow of $216.6 million.
Cost-Saving Update
During 2019, Molson Coors delivered cost savings of nearly $230 million, resulting in a total savings of $725 million under the 2017-2019 program. The three-year savings were ahead of the company’s latest guidance of $700 million and initial guidance of $550 million. As part of the savings program, it incurred total one-time costs of $31 million in 2019 and nearly $208 million for the 2017-2019 period.
Going forward, the company remains committed to delivering more cost savings under its next-generation cost-saving program, which began in 2020. It expects the current program to generate cost savings of $600 million over the three years ending 2022. The cost savings include $150 million related to the revitalization plan.
Further, the company expects to incur one-time costs of $120-$180 million for generating savings from the revitalization plan.
Coronavirus Update
The company expects the coronavirus pandemic to have significant impacts on its performance in the second quarter as well as 2020 results. Consequently, it withdrew its guidance for 2020. The impacts are expected to primarily relate to the closure of on-premise sales channels in almost all markets as well as other impacts of the pandemic.
The company notes that the coronavirus pandemic continues to hurt the on-premise channel in April 2020 due to extended closures. However, it notes that the benefits of pantry loading, which aided North America performance in March, have not continued in April.
Don’t Miss These Better-Ranked Consumer Staples Stocks
The Clorox Company (CLX - Free Report) has a long-term earnings growth rate of 5.2%. The company presently flaunts a Zacks Rank #1.
Reeds, Inc. (REED - Free Report) , with a long-term earnings growth rate of 20%, currently carries a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy).
Today's Best Stocks from Zacks
Would you like to see the updated picks from our best market-beating strategies? From 2017 through 2019, while the S&P 500 gained and impressive +53.6%, five of our strategies returned +65.8%, +97.1%, +118.0%, +175.7% and even +186.7%.
This outperformance has not just been a recent phenomenon. From 2000 – 2019, while the S&P averaged +6.0% per year, our top strategies averaged up to +54.7% per year.
Image: Bigstock
Molson Coors (TAP) Q1 Earnings Beat Estimates, Sales Down Y/Y
Molson Coors Beverage Company (TAP - Free Report) has reported mixed first-quarter 2020 results, wherein the top line missed estimates but the bottom line beat the same. However, adjusted earnings and sales declined on a year-over-year basis.
Shares of Molson Coors declined nearly 5% in the pre-market trading session. The Zacks Rank #3 (Hold) company’s shares have lost 16.9% in the past three months compared with the industry’s decline of 24.9%.
Delving Deeper
Molson Coors’ underlying adjusted earnings of 35 cents per share declined 32.7% year over year but beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 30 cents. The bottom line was impacted by estimated keg sales returns and finished goods’ obsolescence reserves, which led to incurring $50 million costs as the on-premise were hurt by the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic. Further, lower financial volume, inflation and negative mix led to the decline. However, favorable net pricing, cost savings, and lower marketing, general and administrative (MG&A) expenses partly offset the declines.
The aforementioned factors also led to a decline in the company’s underlying EBITDA, which moved down 16.6% to $352.2 million year over year. Further, underlying EBITDA declined 15.8% year over year in constant currency.
Molson Coors Beverage Company Price, Consensus and EPS Surprise
Molson Coors Beverage Company price-consensus-eps-surprise-chart | Molson Coors Beverage Company Quote
Net sales declined 8.7% to $2,102.8 million and missed the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $2,173 million. The decline was mainly caused by unfavorable mix as well as keg sales returns and reimbursements of $31.5 million associated with the on-premise impacts of the coronavirus pandemic across major markets. This was partly offset by higher global net pricing. On a constant-currency basis, net sales decreased 8.2%.
Notably, net sales per hectoliter decreased 1.6% on a brand volume basis, owing to estimated on-premise sales returns and reimbursements as well as unfavorable geographic mix.
However, Molson Coors’ worldwide brand volume declined 1.8% to 17.9 million hectoliters and financial volume declined 8.3% to 18.4 million hectoliters. The decline in worldwide brand volume was mainly attributed to declines in Europe due to the impacts of the coronavirus outbreak. Meanwhile, financial volume was hurt by the impacts in North America due to the unfavorable shipment timing in the United States, including brewery downtime-related Milwaukee tragedy, market share declines and lower contract brewing volume.
Segmental Details
The company operates through the following geographical segments.
North America: Molson Coors’ North America net sales declined 7.4% to $1,789.7 million on a reported basis and 7.2% in constant currency, driven by a decline in financial volume and a 1.3% fall in net sales per hectoliter (brand volume basis). North America brand volume rose 0.4%, while financial volume decreased 7.8%. Financial volume decline was attributed to unfavorable shipment timing in the United States, including brewery downtime for the Milwaukee tragedy, lower contract brewing volume, and estimated on-premise keg sales returns and reimbursements of $19.0 million due to the coronavirus outbreak.
Net sales per hectoliter were hurt by unfavorable geographic mix due to growing licensed volume in Mexico and on-premise keg sales returns and reimbursements, partly offset by higher net pricing. Brand volume benefited from favorable timing of trading days versus the prior year as well as March pantry loading, particularly in the United States, partly negated by market share declines in North America. Underlying EBITDA declined 12.7% to $348.7 million, with a constant-currency decline of 11.9%.
Europe: The segment’s reported net sales dropped 15.5% to $317.6 million and 13.4% in constant currency. The net sales decline was attributed to lower volume, drop in net sales per hectoliter and estimated on-premise keg sales returns of $12.5 million due to the coronavirus outbreak. Net sales on brand volume basis fell 5.2%, owing to unfavorable geographic mix mostly in its high-margin U.K. business, partly offset by favorable pricing. Notably, the company’s U.K. business has greater exposure to the on-premise channel, which caused more estimated impacts of on-premise keg sales returns due to the pandemic. Financial volume fell 10% and brand volume was down 8.5% due to the virus spread. The segment reported underlying EBITDA loss of $4.1 million compared with earnings of $13.5 million in the prior-year quarter.
Other Financial Updates
Molson Coors ended the first quarter with cash and cash equivalents of $666.1 million, and total debt of $9,477 million. This resulted in net debt of $8,811 million at the end of the quarter.
The company used net cash of $18.1 million in operating activities in the first quarter, with used underlying free cash flow of $216.6 million.
Cost-Saving Update
During 2019, Molson Coors delivered cost savings of nearly $230 million, resulting in a total savings of $725 million under the 2017-2019 program. The three-year savings were ahead of the company’s latest guidance of $700 million and initial guidance of $550 million. As part of the savings program, it incurred total one-time costs of $31 million in 2019 and nearly $208 million for the 2017-2019 period.
Going forward, the company remains committed to delivering more cost savings under its next-generation cost-saving program, which began in 2020. It expects the current program to generate cost savings of $600 million over the three years ending 2022. The cost savings include $150 million related to the revitalization plan.
Further, the company expects to incur one-time costs of $120-$180 million for generating savings from the revitalization plan.
Coronavirus Update
The company expects the coronavirus pandemic to have significant impacts on its performance in the second quarter as well as 2020 results. Consequently, it withdrew its guidance for 2020. The impacts are expected to primarily relate to the closure of on-premise sales channels in almost all markets as well as other impacts of the pandemic.
The company notes that the coronavirus pandemic continues to hurt the on-premise channel in April 2020 due to extended closures. However, it notes that the benefits of pantry loading, which aided North America performance in March, have not continued in April.
Don’t Miss These Better-Ranked Consumer Staples Stocks
National Beverage Corp. (FIZZ - Free Report) has delivered a positive earnings surprise of 2.9%, on average, in the trailing four quarters. It currently sports a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy). You can see the complete list of today’s Zacks #1 Rank stocks here.
The Clorox Company (CLX - Free Report) has a long-term earnings growth rate of 5.2%. The company presently flaunts a Zacks Rank #1.
Reeds, Inc. (REED - Free Report) , with a long-term earnings growth rate of 20%, currently carries a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy).
Today's Best Stocks from Zacks
Would you like to see the updated picks from our best market-beating strategies? From 2017 through 2019, while the S&P 500 gained and impressive +53.6%, five of our strategies returned +65.8%, +97.1%, +118.0%, +175.7% and even +186.7%.
This outperformance has not just been a recent phenomenon. From 2000 – 2019, while the S&P averaged +6.0% per year, our top strategies averaged up to +54.7% per year.
See their latest picks free >>