Jake Petkovich
Analyst · KeyBanc Capital Markets. Please proceed with your questions
Thanks, Jeff and good morning everyone. Our consolidated net sales for the second quarter increased 141% to $1.02 billion driven by increases in all four primary end markets. While the increase reflects the impact of 6 weeks of shutdowns for many of our plants in the second quarter of 2020, the growth in consolidated net sales for this quarter demonstrates the strength of our business model and our ability to support our customers. Revenue from our leisure lifestyle markets, which are comprised of RV and Marine, increased 190% with RV and marine revenues up 192% and 182% respectively. RV content per unit increased 15% to $3,543 per unit, and estimated marine content per unit increased approximately 60% to $2,841 per unit. Revenues from our housing and industrial markets increased 60% in the quarter, with MH revenues up 54% versus the prior year. Industrial revenues up 69% compared to the prior year. Estimated MH content per unit increased 7% to $4,806 per unit. Gross margin in the second quarter was 20%, increasing 260 basis points compared to the prior year. The gross margin improvement was primarily driven by benefits of strong operating execution and leveraging our fixed cost, realization of production efficiencies and overall continued investment in innovation and delivery of our products. These gains were partially offset by labor cost pressures, which persists in the majority of our operating spaces. Operating expenses were 10.7% of sales compared to 14.5% in 2020, which reflect the realization of capital investment efficiencies and related fixed cost leverage as noted during sales growth expansion of all of our primary end markets. Warehouse and delivery expenses have decreased 140 basis points as we maximize the efficiencies of our transportation and warehousing capabilities during a period of robust demand for our products. SG&A expenses were 5.9% of sales in the quarter a 150 basis point decrease compared to the prior year, again, primarily reflecting the management of our expense base alongside efficiencies driven by investment in processes and people. Operating income of $95.3 million increased 688% in the second quarter and operating margin of 9.3% increased 640 basis points, primarily due to the strong execution in the quarter and comparison to the impact of COVID in the second quarter of 2020. Our diluted earnings per share in the second quarter was $2.52, up from $0.03 in the prior year. Our overall effective tax rate decreased to 26.9% for the second quarter of 2021 compared to 44.4% in the prior year. Second quarter of 2020 reflects the relative impact of changes in taxes against the modest net income generated during the Q2 2020 shutdowns. We expect our overall effective tax rate for the full year 2021 to be between approximately 24% and 25%. Looking to cash flows, we generated approximately $28.4 million of operating cash flows for the second quarter of 2021 compared to $26.2 million for the prior year quarter. Our operating cash flows were impacted by the timing of our fiscal quarter as we collected approximately $26 million in receivables within 2 days after the quarter end. The second quarter of 2020 demonstrated our ability to monetize working capital during a short-term curtailment and activity during COVID disruptions and Q2 2021 reflected the use of our strong liquidity position to finance working capital commitments and aggressively do our best to support the supply of inventory to OEM producers. This was in support of production commitments during a competitive and dynamic supply chain landscape. As we proactively secured and manage inventory in the second quarter of 2021 to maintain production schedules for our OEM customers, we invested in net working capital and therefore, our cash conversion cycle expanded to accommodate demand and ensure that we strategically put ourselves in the best position possible to meet our customers’ production schedules. We believe this dynamic pivot to intervene in an aggressive supply chain environment will play out in operating cash flow expansion in future periods as the supply chain normalizes. In line with our disciplined capital allocation strategy, we invested $12 million in capital expenditures for the quarter to support capacity expansion and automation to support the growing end market demand. Additionally, we deployed $239 million in acquisition capital in the second quarter of 2021. In April, we completed the acquisition of CDEC welcoming their industry-leading proprietary non-slip flooring to the marine OEM and aftermarket to the Patrick family of leading brands. In the same month, we acquired Alpha Systems, whose world-class production facilities provide proprietary roofing adhesive and sealant products, the RV, OEM and aftermarket channels. Both acquisitions further enhance our scale, increase the diversity of our products and solutions, grow our aftermarket presence and expand the depth of our penetration in the leisure lifestyle markets. In second quarter, in accordance with our dividend policy, we returned nearly $7 million to shareholders in the form of quarterly dividends, and we further deployed $22 million in the form of opportunistic share repurchases. In April, in support of our strategic growth plan in alignment with our financing strategy, we issued $350 million of 4.75% senior notes due 2029. Contemporaneously with the issuance of these new notes, we extended the maturity of our credit facility to April 2026 and enhance the flexibility of our credit agreement and increased the aggregate credit facility size to $700 million. At the end of the second quarter, we had approximately $468 million of total liquidity comprised of $58 million of cash on hand, unused capacity on our revolving credit facility of $410 million and a total net leverage ratio of 2.3x. Our comfortable leverage and strong liquidity positions us well to continue to execute on our strategic growth initiatives as well as continue our unyielding support of our customers’ needs. For 2021, RVIA currently estimates an approximate 34% increase in wholesale unit shipments to 576,000 units with an upside range of 586,000 units, and our current estimate points towards the higher end of that range. Based on current market conditions and trends, we are presently estimating RV retail to be up low-double digits for the full year. We currently anticipate marine wholesale to be at 25% to 30% over the 2020 shipment rates on retail that is estimated to be up low single-digits and only constrained at this point by inventory levels. Based on these estimates and the continued strong retail demand expectations, we believe channel inventories in both the RV and marine markets will remain well below recent historic levels and will not be calibrated to a new normal until likely late into 2022 and 2023. In the manufactured housing and industrial markets, we currently expect MH wholesale unit shipments to increase low to mid-double digits in 2021 and new housing starts to continue their strong trajectory of double-digit growth in 2021. We have continued to invest in our capabilities to strive to ensure that we can meet increasing OEM demand as the markets grow at a rapid pace. Geographic diversification and scale will further enable us to support and capture the growth of our addressable end markets. Our strong cash flow and liquidity support investments in our end market platforms. We estimate approximately $300 million of operating cash flow and $50 million to $55 million of capital expenditures for the full year 2021, which reflects increased investment in automation projects to offset the expected continued tight labor market and long-term demand expectations, enabling us to continue to support and drive organic growth across all of our end markets. That completes my remarks. Andy?