Charles Merdian
Analyst · Deutsche Bank. Your line is open
Thanks, Eric. Home sales revenues for the quarter were $174 million, based on 934 homes closed, which represented a 67.7% increase over the third quarter of 2014. Our average sales price was $186,248 for the third quarter, a 12.1% year-over-year increase. Increased average home sale prices have contributed to our strong revenue performance. This increase in average sales price year-over-year reflects changes in product mix, a favorable pricing environment and new or replacement communities, added during 2014 and the first nine months of 2015 that have higher price points. Sales prices realized from homes closed during the third quarter range from the 130s to the 470s. This includes 10 homes in our [Toronto] communities which had an average net sales price of approximately $410,000. Excluding [Toronto], we experienced third quarter year-over-year price appreciation of 10.7%. Adjusted gross margin was 27.5% this quarter, compared to 28.3% for the third quarter of 2014 which is within our expected range. This primarily reflects the net impact of increase construction cost, slightly higher developed cost, investments in new markets and the transition between communities with an existing markets all offset by higher average home sale prices. Adjusted gross margin excludes approximately $1.8 million of capitalized interest charges in cost of sales during the quarter, representing 105 basis points and we expect this to ranges between 100 to 125 basis points for the fourth quarter. Combined selling, general and administrative expenses for the third quarter were 13.2% of revenues and 14.1% for the nine months ended September 30. As a percentage of revenues we believe that SG&A will be between 13% and 14.5% in the fourth quarter of this year, primarily depending on fourth quarter home sales revenue. Selling expenses were 14.1 million or 8.1% of home sales revenue compared to 9.2 million or 10% of home sales revenue for the third quarter of 2014, a 190 basis point improvement. Selling expenses have the percentage of home sales revenue improved 30 basis points from the previous quarter, primarily as a result of operating leverage realized related to advertising cost. General and administrative expenses were 5.1% of home sales revenue compared to 6.6% of home sales revenue for the third quarter of 2014, a 150 basis point improvement and consistent with the second quarter of this year. Pre-tax income for the quarter was 23.2 million or 13.3% of home sales revenue, an increase of 190 basis points over the same quarter in 2014 and 360 basis points over the first quarter of this year. We had net income of $15.4 million or 8.9% of home sales revenue for the third quarter, which represents earnings per share of $0.77 per basic share and $0.76 per diluted share. Third quarter net orders were 908, ending backlog for September was 755 units and the cancellation rate for the third quarter was 29.1%. We ended the quarter with a portfolio of approximately 23,400 owned and controlled lots. We believe our lot inventory generally represents three to five years of supply in our current markets and we remain disciplined in our evaluation of our land acquisitions and expansion opportunities. At September 30, approximately 11,000 of our 16,700 owned lots are either raw or under development. As of September 30, we had approximately 36 million in cash, 460 million of real estate inventory and total assets of 547 million. In addition, we had 170 million outstanding under our $225 million revolving credit facility and 51.6 million available to borrow. Our credit facility has $75 million accordion feature that enables us to increase this facility to 300 million and we expect to add this additional capacity as it becomes available to us. In addition we have $85 million of our convertible notes outstanding at the end of the quarter. Our gross debt to capitalization was approximately 52% and net debt to capitalization was approximately 49%. During the quarter we filed the universal self-registration statement were up to $300 million certain types of security. In September we issued perspectives under the shelf to issue up to $30 million of our common stock from time-to-time and aftermarket program. During September we issued 100,000 shares of our common stock under the program and received net proceeds of approximately 2.8 million. Going forward we expect to utilize the aftermarket program as needed to manage our balance sheet. As mentioned on previous calls weighted shares outstanding for the purpose of calculating diluted earnings per share are impacted by the convertible notes. Prior to April 30th we used if the converted method and subsequently we have been able to use treasury stock method to calculate the dilutive effect of these notes. Under the treasury stock method the convertible notes are dilutive if the market price of our stock exceeds the $21.52 per share conversion price of the notes. In the third quarter our average stock price was [23.59] exceeding the [21.52] conversion price and therefore the convertible notes were determined to be dilutive. This resulted in an approximately 347,000 share increased to the weighted average shares outstanding for the diluted EPS calculation. For the nine months ended September 30, the convertible notes were not considered to be dilutive under the treasury segment because the average stock price from May through September was less than the conversion price. Consequently diluted EPS for the nine months ended September was only impacted by the effect of if converted method. 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