Mark Harding
Analyst · Scott Asset Management. Please state your question
Thank you, and I would like to welcome you all to our third quarter earnings call. Just some housekeeping issues; as you are all aware, there is a deck for this call. It will be on our website. So, you can find that at purecyclewater.com. There is a couple of places to find it, they will be on the landing page where you can click on the third quarter conference call or you can navigate over to the investor page and I think it's there as well. What I'll try to do is I'll go through the presentation and I'll note the transition of the slides, so you can kind of walk through the presentation with me. Much like our previous calls, I'm going to probably skip over pretty quickly a lot of the history. I think most of you are familiar with the history of the company. To those of you who are new to the company, our website has some pretty good tutorials on that. There's a couple of good webcasts on there that will give you some listening time to get a lot of color about sort of how we got into the business, some of the assets that we've acquired through the years, and how we're kind of undertaking what it is that we're undertaking. So, you can combine that with some of the details on kind of keeping investors current through these quarterly calls. So with that, I'm going to go ahead and start. And as usual, I'm going to get the lawyers out of the room first and talk about our Safe Harbor statement and statements that are not historical facts are contained or incorporated by reference in this presentation are forward-looking statements. I'm sure you're all familiar with the forward-looking statements. Actual results will differ from those contemplated in forward-looking statements. So with that, Page 3, just a brief overview of key assets. We are a water -- wastewater land development company. So, we have a large portfolio of water in a water short area here in Colorado where you can actually own water. So, in addition to the utility function, along the way we've acquired some very valuable land assets and are developing those land assets to provide single-family residential, multifamily lots, commercial, retail, light industrial lots to developers on parcel property located along the I-70 Corridor, which is about four miles South of the airport. So, we have terrific transportation access on the property as well. We also supply a lot of water for oil and gas, although we haven't supplied a lot of water for oil and gas this year. We'll talk a little bit about that and a little bit of color about that later in the presentation. And then we also have some mineral estate where we collect oil and gas royalty revenues from the oil and gas interests that we own on properties that we own. I'm going to -- Slide 4, gives you kind of an overview of some of the water utility assets that we have. The water kind of the sandbox that we're in. We're in the Southeast part of the Denver metropolitan area, some of the infrastructure and the water that we're developing. Slide 5, draw your attention, you know the Master Plan Community has teamed Sky Ranch. It's about 930 acres along the I-70 Corridor, just east of Downtown, directly south of the Denver International Airport. If you look at the project as a whole, the 930 acres, we should be developing something close to about 3,400 single family homes, and And that's going to be a mix between detached paired product, where you have a duplex product or attached product, some townhome product and then some multifamily product. And then we have a little over 2 million square feet of commercial property zone, because we have about a half a mile of frontage along the interstate. So, we'll have a lot of commercial development that also is incorporated in this development plan as well. One of the units of measures that we measure our water utility segment by is something we call single-family equivalent. So, if you just look at Sky Ranch, we have about 5,000 single-family equivalent connections at Sky Ranch. So, let me get into kind of the bulk of the update. Slide 6 will kind of give you a bullet point inventory of the lots that we have in our first phase. We have 506 lots in our first phase. We've delivered finished lots of almost 400 -- 391 of those finished lots. We've completed all of the remaining work for the remaining 115 lots. So, while we have not actually been paid for the remainder of the 115 lots, I would say we're probably within a million dollars of our investment of completing all of the infrastructure, all of the roadways, all the landscaping for this first phase of the project. We have about 120 folks moved into the community and we have about 255 building permits, which is inclusive of that 120. So, if you kind of do the math on those two, we probably have about 135 homes under construction from the three builders that we have. Our three builders in this phase are Richmond American Homes, Taylor Morrison, and KB Home. All three national homebuilders, all have been terrific homebuilders to work with. So, we've been very, very pleased with the working relationship that we have with each of our homebuilders. Both our water and our wastewater systems for this first phase have been completed. Our operating are delivering both water and wastewater service to families, homes that are in this first phase. For sort of a picture illustration of how this has progressed. If you go Slide 7, you can kind of see quarter-over-quarter and just an extraordinary contrast progress of the development in the nine months. If you really just take a look at how quickly we're selling homes in this first phase, it's stunningly impressive for what it is that we're doing. A couple of statistics. We took a look at the metro associated realtors and got a note from them just yesterday that they're reporting their June contracts were up 27% from a year ago. So, I think June 2020 is one of the largest year of contracts in the Metro area. While we had that stay-at-home -- statewide stay-at-home order here in Colorado, which was in place in April and most of May, we did have construction continuing. We didn't have a lot of traffic through the community, but what we saw was a lot of that was deferred to that June timeframe. So, all three of our builders had just an enormous June in terms of both traffic through the model homes and the community itself as well as sales. So, both those things are remaining high through the building season. We are cyclical while we sell and construct homes year round. We do have a season here, which really extends from about February through October here in Colorado. Moving on to Slide 8, just to kind of give you an illustration of the balance of the project. If you take a look at that graphic illustration, the first 500 home is in that neighborhood B, which is under construction. And then we are at kind of the latter stages of finishing up all of our development plans for our second phase. Our second phase will include about 480 acres. So it differentiates itself from the light blue right along the interstate there, which is going to be mostly commercial retail type development. And then the darker blue, which is going to be more single-family. We'll have a little bit more density in there. We'll have about 950 units in that phase. We'll probably look at four sub phases. We're negotiating contracts with four different developers. I won't be able to tell you which developers are yet, because we haven't finalized those contracts yet, but they are again for national developers. We showed it to eight national developers and I had eight developers or eight home builders interested in the project. So I think that's a testament to the success of our team and the success of our current builders out there on really the absorption. As you saw from slide 6 of what our, how quickly our community has really made a dent in the metropolitan area. For the second phase, we're looking at starting our grading probably in the October, November timeframe. So late fall this year, we'll do some of the site work on grading, some of the prep work on that to be able to start delivering those lots sometime in the fall of '21. So it takes about 9, 10 months to do some of the overlap grading and the site prep work before you start getting into a lot of the finished lot deliveries. Moving on to kind of the next slides, that'll be a little more color on how this next residential components going to be laid out. So you've got a, a variety of product mixes, which really is going to segment the market out for a much more diverse price range of single-family homes that are going to be a paired duplex lots, townhome lots, and then just some standard single-family detached lots of varying configurations. Some of them are going to be bigger lot, some of them are going to be relatively small with some alley load products and things like that. So love the design of it. I think it's going to continue to feel of community out there and really carry forward all of the good work that we've done on the first days of this thing. Moving on to Slide 10, talk a little bit about oil and gas. Well, I'll sort of refer to oil and gas. There's not a lot to talk about. Don't have a lot of guidance for you on our industrial water demand segment still. The oil and gas price of oil has certainly recovered. Like to see that starting with the four, or would like to see it starting with five or even a six. I'm sure some of our operators would as well. They're still pretty cautious. I haven't gotten a lot of guidance from them about when they're going to start back some of their operations, but we will continue to monitor that. As you'll see in the numbers specifically, there'll be a stark absence of revenue from the sale of water too, even though we’re -- we do anticipate setting records for revenue as well as profitability this year. So most of that's going to come from operations other than oil and gas. Slide 11. So we'll talk a little bit about some of the numbers. Talk a little bit about water investments. We continue to add to the water infrastructure in our portfolio during '20. So about a $5 million increase there. Cash and liquidity starting to build that from sale and monetization of our lots. So we have about 17 million in liquid cash investments. That's a bit misleading because we've got about 2.5 million of collateral cash to the various governmental agencies. While we're finishing up the infrastructure that we're going to turn over to them this summer and we'll get that cash back from them. So that's a -- you see it on the balance sheet, but it's not reported as cash. So the liquidity is actually slightly better than our cash position would be. Moving on to Slide 12, gives you kind of a snapshot of our operating revenues. So, year-to-date three quarters about $16 million in operating revenues, earnings per shares about $0.25 per share. And then our net income after tax about $6.1 million. So as you're looking at sort of the revenue to our net income, very healthy metrics for us on that, which kind of proved to all the investment community, some of the things that we've been talking about for years on being able to acquire these highly valuable assets. And then we really -- the market has started to catch up with us on the value proposition of our land and water assets. Page 13, we'll review some of these revenues by segment. So if you take a look at our land development, the delivery of lots of Q3, 2011 and a $0.5 million compared to $6 million in '19, and then what I've tried to do is give you a foreshadow of what's left, as we've incurred all the costs associated with that. So we've got some dollars that you'll see in inventory. So that's going to be work in --, that is our WIP, our work in process. So we've got about $7 million remaining. And I think it's about 115 lots, not 110 of the remaining 115 lots. And I would say three quarters of those will close in August from two builders. That's what our contracts calling for. So you'll see some of that revenue come in on year-end and then our fiscal year end, and then the balance of those we'll close out by calendar year end. And some of that's been -- actually all of that has been pulled forward and all of our builders, their original contracts had these extending into 2022. So we're actually getting these much, much sooner than originally anticipated. And I think that's a function of, we're hitting the right segment of the market. We've got an entry level product that looks fantastic. That builders are able to deliver to homeowners that -- that's been well received. Taking a look at our water segment revenues. So, we have two components of that. We have tap fee revenue, which is going to be the capital component of that. And so Q3 revenues in $23.8 million compared to $1.8 in '19. And then if you try and segment out what we have remaining in the first phase of Sky Ranch, that first 506 slots, we have been paid for 255 taps. So we have about 251 task remaining. And we're getting on average between water and sewer, right around that $30,000. Some more, some less, depending on the size of the lots and the size of the house. So again, that's going to be another $7.5 billion of revenue that we've already made, all the investment for within the community. So when you start to look at, where we're headed with the investment that we've got on the balance sheet, you're going to see probably another $14 million come in attributable to that. So some very healthy revenue still yet to come to balance out the $35 million investment that we've got into the phase one infrastructure. Industrial water sales have been the hardest step from the virus related impacts. And that's basically because of demand for travel and oil and gas in general. So we've had no real fracs or water sales attributable to that. Some small deliveries relative to pad construction and maintenance issues and things like that. But we'll continue to monitor that, that's a variable delivery for us. So fortunately for us, we have a fixed investment into our infrastructure and then we can dial up or dial down that system as appropriate and we don't have a lot of inventory that goes away. I mean -- there are water supplies will continue to be available for those users. And then lastly, our oil and gas royalties. So those are a little bit stronger this year, and that's mostly because we've had new Wells that were developed in our mineral interest. These Wells are actually developed in our one eighth pooling interest, as opposed to we have really one square mile where we have one eight of a two square mile pooling and then three eights in another pooling. This actually -- these wells were actually in the smaller mineral segment of that. So those have been healthy for us this year. We enjoy that. Slide 14 and 15 really start to get into what's in the queue itself. You've got the balance sheet, good liquidity, no liability. I'm very proud of kind of our stewardship of investor capital where we've been able to accumulate these assets. We're very hawkish on our denominator for shares outstanding. The company has not issued shares since 2010. And we're very -- we take very serious our fiduciary role for your capital and make sure that we're putting those assets to use. And we don't leverage this up. We do have leverage ability within the balance sheet and if there's an opportunity that will call for something like that, an acquisition or something like that, that may interest us. We have the ability to do that. But if anything, this the virus issues and the downturn in an economy like this, our strong healthy balance sheet certainly has -- proven, a very strong stewardship for these company and our assets. So we’re very pleased to be able to present a very clean balance sheet. And then also a very profitable income statement, if you take a look at that. For those who keep track of how our assets are performing without the accounting principles and our favorite government taxes, we do show that non-GAAP EBITDA measure. And you take a look at if we're at $9.5 million on $15 million of revenues, that's tremendous asset potential, tremendous earning potential from some very long lived assets that’s the company has been accumulating. So we're continuing to manage those assets. We're continuing to monetize those assets and bring delivery to those. So that's kind of the end of the prepared remarks. What I'd like to do is kind of turn the call over to the moderator and then open it up to questions for folks. If you'd like me to drill down on any specific color, I'd be happy to do that if I can. So with that, I'll turn that back over to you, Diego.