SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Jan. 30, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Taylor Morrison Home Corporation (NYSE:TMHC) today reported fourth quarter total revenue of $1.2 billion, net income of $76 million and earnings per share of $0.63, or $0.65 as adjusted.

Fourth Quarter 2016 Highlights:

• Net sales orders were 1,701, an 18% increase from the prior year quarter
• Home closings were 2,425, a 17% increase from the prior year quarter
• Total revenue was $1.2 billion, a 23% increase from the prior year quarter
• GAAP home closings gross margin, inclusive of capitalized interest, was 17.8%
• Net income from continuing operations for the quarter was $76 million with earnings per share of $0.63, an increase of nearly 19% from the prior year quarter

Full Year 2016 Highlights:

• Net sales orders were 7,504, a 12% increase from the prior year
• Home closings were 7,369, a 17% increase from the prior year
• Total revenue was $3.6 billion, a 19% increase from the prior year
• GAAP home closings gross margin, inclusive of capitalized interest, was 18.2%
• Net income from continuing operations for the year was $207 million with earnings per share of $1.69, an increase of 22% from the prior year

"I am pleased with our organization's performance both for the fourth quarter and the full year," said Sheryl Palmer, President and CEO of Taylor Morrison.  "Our team members demonstrated great commitment to our strategic priorities while keeping our customers' needs at the forefront."  This was proven with the recent announcement of the Company being named America's Most Trusted® Homebuilder, according to Lifestory Research, for the second year in a row.  "At Taylor Morrison, we believe that relationships and trust are the foundation of our success and I am so proud of our team for this well-deserved recognition and achievement." 

For the full year 2016, the Company was able to deliver strong results both operationally and financially. "We finished the year with higher than expected closings, resulting in a 22% increase year-over-year in earnings per share from continuing operations. We closed 7,369 homes, which represented a nearly 17% increase year-over-year, well above the top range of our guidance as we were able to bring forward and close homes that were originally expected to be completed in January 2017," said Sheryl Palmer. "Net sales orders totaled 7,504 for the year, which represented a 12% increase over the prior year.  Closings and net sales orders growth are on top of double-digit growth from the previous year, bringing our two-year growth rate for both metrics to over 30%. Community count was up more than 19% year-over-year to an average of 309 communities.  This brings our two -year growth rate to 50%."

"2016 brings an end to two years of planned transformation for Taylor Morrison.  Looking forward, we believe we are positioned extremely well to mature with the cycle and drive efficiencies from our strategic foundation as we strive to reach our full potential," said Sheryl Palmer.  "We anticipate numerous benefits from these recent investments to flow through our business and ultimately our financials in 2017 with enhanced scale in certain markets, increased qualified traffic, higher conversion and absorption rates of about 2.3, cycle-time reductions and gains in strategic procurement.  This will drive improved EBT dollars and earnings per share year-over-year, while delivering ROE accretion in 2017 and beyond.  January 2017 is off to a strong start, with a monthly absorption rate expected to be about 20% higher year-over-year."

"The 2016 home closings gross margin was 18.3% as adjusted for a $3.5 million impairment charge taken during the fourth quarter, which was isolated to three assets in our Chicago market," said Dave Cone, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.  "Looking to 2017, we anticipate a rising labor cost environment and a higher land basis which will be more than offset by the selling down of our aged completed spec inventory and purchase accounting, leading to accretive home closings gross margin year-over-year in the low to mid 18% range." 

The Company ended the quarter with $300 million in cash and a net homebuilding debt to capitalization ratio of 33.7%.  Our share buy-back program is a tool within our capital allocation strategy that we have used periodically when prices were compelling.  In 2016, the Company re-purchased roughly 1.9 million shares at a cost basis of $14.87.    

Homebuilding inventories were $3.0 billion at the end of 2016, including 3,920 homes in inventory, compared to 3,851 homes in inventory at the end of the prior year.  Homes in inventory at the end of the quarter consisted of 2,322 sold units, 412 model homes and 1,186 inventory units, of which 238 were finished.  The Company owned or controlled approximately 38,300 lots at December 31, 2016, representing 5.2 years of supply and is focused on securing land for 2019 and beyond.

 

First Quarter and Full Year 2017 Business Outlook

First Quarter 2017:

• Average active community count is expected to be generally flat sequentially from the fourth quarter 2016
• Home closings are expected to be between 1,500 to 1,600
• GAAP home closings gross margin, inclusive of capitalized interest, is expected to be about 18%

Full Year 2017:

• Average active community count is expected to be generally flat relative to 2016
• Monthly absorption pace is expected to be about 2.3
• Home closings are expected to be between 7,500 and 8,000
• GAAP home closings gross margin, inclusive of capitalized interest, is expected to be accretive to 2016 and be in the low to mid 18% range
• SG&A as a percentage of homebuilding revenue is expected to leverage year-over-year and be in the low to mid 10% range
• Income from unconsolidated joint ventures is expected to be between $10 million and $12 million
• Land and development spend is expected to be approximately $1 billion
• Effective tax rate expected to be between 34% and 35%
  

About Taylor Morrison

Taylor Morrison Home Corporation (NYSE:TMHC) is a leading national homebuilder and developer that has been recognized as the 2016 and 2017 America's Most Trusted® Home Builder by Lifestory Research. Based in Scottsdale, Arizona we operate under two well-established brands, Taylor Morrison and Darling Homes. We serve a wide array of consumer groups from coast to coast, including first-time, move-up, luxury, and 55 plus buyers. In Texas, Darling Homes builds communities with a focus on individuality and custom detail while delivering on the Taylor Morrison standard of excellence.

For more information about Taylor Morrison and Darling Homes please visit www.taylormorrison.com or www.darlinghomes.com.

Forward-Looking Statements

This earnings summary includes "forward-looking statements." These statements are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause our actual results, performance, prospects or opportunities, as well as those of the markets we serve or intend to serve, to differ materially from those expressed in, or implied by, these statements. You can identify these statements by the fact that they do not relate to matters of a strictly factual or historical nature and generally discuss or relate to forecasts, estimates or other expectations regarding future events. Generally, the words "believe," "expect," "intend," "estimate," "anticipate," "project," "may," "can," "could," "might," "will" and similar expressions identify forward-looking statements, including statements related to expected operating and performing results, planned transactions, planned objectives of management, future developments or conditions in the industries in which we participate and other trends, developments and uncertainties that may affect our business in the future.

Such risks, uncertainties and other factors include, among other things: changes in general and local economic conditions; slowdowns or severe downturns in the housing market; homebuyers' ability to obtain suitable financing; shortages in, disruptions of and cost of labor; our ability to obtain additional performance, payment and completion surety bonds and letters of credit; higher cancellation rates; competition in our industry; any increase in unemployment or underemployment; increases in taxes, government fees or interest rates; inflation or deflation; the seasonality of our business; significant home warranty and construction defect claims; our reliance on subcontractors; failure to manage land acquisitions, inventory and development and construction processes; availability of land and lots; decreases in the market value of our land inventory; new or changes in government regulations and legal challenges; our ability to sell mortgages we originate and claims on loans sold to third parties; the loss of any of our important commercial relationships; our ability to use deferred tax assets; raw materials and building supply shortages and price fluctuations; our concentration of significant operations in certain geographic areas; risks associated with our unconsolidated joint venture arrangements; information technology failures and data security breaches; costs to engage in and the success of future growth or expansion of our operations or acquisitions or disposals of businesses; costs associated with our defined benefit and defined contribution pension schemes; damages associated with any major health and safety incident; our ownership, leasing or occupation of land and the use of hazardous materials; material losses in excess of insurance limits; existing or future litigation, arbitration or other claims; negative publicity or poor relations with the residents of our communities; failure to recruit, retain and develop highly skilled, competent people; utility and resource shortages or rate fluctuations; constriction of the capital markets; risks related to our debt and the agreements governing such debt; our ability to access the capital markets; and risks related to our structure and organization. We undertake no duty to update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or changes in our expectations, except as required by applicable law. In addition, other such risks and uncertainties may be found in Taylor Morrison Home Corporation's Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Financial Measures

The following tables set forth a reconciliation between our home closings gross margin and our adjusted home closings gross margin, our net income from continuing operations and EBITDA and adjusted EBITDA, our net income from continuing operations to our adjusted net income from continuing operations, our earnings per share and adjusted earnings per share, and a reconciliation of our net homebuilding debt to total capitalization ratio.  Adjusted home closings gross margin is a non-GAAP financial measure calculated based on home closings gross margin, excluding impairments, if any, and, separately excluding both impairments, if any, and capitalized interest amortization.  Adjusted EBITDA is a non-GAAP financial measure that measures performance by adjusting net income from continuing operations to exclude interest amortized to cost of sales and interest income (net), income taxes, depreciation and amortization, non-cash compensation expense and loss on extinguishment of debt, if any.  Adjusted net income from continuing operations is a non-GAAP financial that measures performance by adjusting net income from continuing operations to exclude impairments (if any) net of tax benefit.  Adjusted earnings per share is a non-GAAP financial measure that measures performance by adjusting to exclude impairments (if any) net of tax benefit. Net homebuilding debt to capitalization, which we calculate by dividing (i) total debt, less unamortized debt issuance costs and mortgage warehouse borrowings, net of unrestricted cash and cash equivalents, by (ii) total capitalization (the sum of net homebuilding debt and total stockholders' equity), is a non-GAAP financial measure.  Management uses these non-GAAP financial measures to evaluate our performance on a consolidated basis as well as the performance of our regions.  We use the ratio of net homebuilding debt to total capitalization as an indicator of overall leverage.  In the future we may include additional adjustments in the above described non-GAAP financial measures, to the extent we deem them appropriate and useful to management and investors.

We believe adjusted home closings gross margin is useful to investors because it allows investors to evaluate the performance of our homebuilding operations without the often varying effects of interest costs capitalized. We believe adjusted EBITDA, adjusted net income from continuing operations, and adjusted earnings per share each provide useful information to investors regarding our results of operations because each allows investors to evaluate our performance without the effects of various items we do not believe are characteristic of our ongoing operations or performance and also because each assists both investors and management in analyzing and benchmarking the performance and value of our business.  Adjusted EBITDA provides an indicator of general economic performance that is not affected by fluctuations in interest rates or effective tax rates, levels of depreciation or amortization, or non-recurring items. We use the ratio of net homebuilding debt to total capitalization to evaluate our performance against other companies in the homebuilding industry and believe it is also relevant and useful to investors for that reason.

These measures are considered non-GAAP financial measures and should be considered in addition to, rather than as a substitute for, the comparable U.S. GAAP financial measures as a measure of our operating performance or liquidity. Although other companies in the homebuilding industry report similar information, the methods used may differ. We urge investors to understand the methods used by other companies in the homebuilding industry to calculate net income, gross margins and total debt to capitalization and any adjustments to such amounts before comparing our measures to those of such other companies.

 

 

 

 

CONTACT: Investor Relations
Taylor Morrison Home Corporation
(480) 734-2060
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