Dave Stefko
Analyst · Piper Jaffray. Your line is open
Thank you, Brendan. The second quarter net sales decreased 24.1% to $60.7 million versus $80 million in the prior year period. Our wholesale channel sales were down 32.1% to $39.6 million, which reflected the planned reduction in full-price orders related to the transition of product under our new design team. As we have discussed over the last few quarters, we have been selling through the excess inventory and aged product identified last year in the second quarter. This sell-off of product earmarked for the wholesale channel was completed in the second quarter of this year. As we move forward, we expect that the flow of product through this channel will be more in line with our desired level of off-price sales mix. Our direct-to-consumer segment sales decreased 2.8% to $21.1 million in the second quarter as a result of an 18.7% decrease in comparable sales including e-commerce partially offset by the addition of 10 new stores since the second quarter of last year. The decrease in comparable sales was primarily the result of a decline in the number of transactions, which reflected our planned decrease in inventory levels. Gross profit in the second quarter was $27.4 million or 45.1% of net sales. This compares to $20.8 million or 26% of net sales in the second quarter of last year, which includes a $14.4 million charge, associated with the write-down of excess inventory and aged product to expected net realizable value. Excluding the inventory write-down, gross profit in the second quarter of 2015 was $35.2 million or 44% of net sales. Excluding the write-down in the prior year quarter, the increase in gross profit rate for the second quarter of 2016 reflected lower year-over-year inventory reserve adjustments, which were partially offset by an increase in the rate of sales allowances on lower net sales in the quarter. Selling, general and administrative expenses in the quarter were $31.6 million or 52.1% of sales. This compares to $27.3 million or 34.2% of sales in the second quarter of last year, which included $2.9 million of net management transition costs related to executive severance and related costs. Excluding these costs, selling, general and administrative costs in the second quarter of 2015 were $24.5 million or 30.6% of net sales. The increase in SG&A was largely driven by an increase in store labor and occupancy costs associated with 10 new stores openings since the second quarter of fiscal year 2015, increased incentive compensation costs and cost for the consulting arrangement with our co-founders as well as other strategic investments. The resulting operating loss for the quarter was $4.3 million. This compares to an operating loss of $6.5 million for the second quarter of last year. Excluding the inventory write-down and net management transition costs, operating income for the second quarter of fiscal 2015 was $10.8 million. Our tax rate for the second quarter of fiscal year 2016 was 62.8% compared to 41% in last year second quarter. The increased tax rate for the second quarter of 2016 was due to the impact of certain non-deductible executive compensation costs. Under our current guidance, we anticipate our 2016 full year tax rate will approximate this level. Net loss for the second quarter was $2 million or a loss of $0.04 per share compared to a net loss of $5 million or $0.14 per share in the second quarter of last year. Excluding the inventory write-down and net management transition costs, net income for the second quarter of fiscal 2015 was $5.2 million or $0.14 per diluted share. Now moving on to the balance sheet, we ended the quarter with $21.3 million of cash and $55 million of borrowings under our debt agreements. Our debt to leverage ratio at the end of the second quarter of fiscal year 2016 was 3.4x on a reported basis. At the end of the second quarter, we had $33.7 million of availability remaining under our revolving credit facility. Inventory at the end of the quarter was $34.7 million compared to $45.6 million at the end of last year’s second quarter. The year-over-year decrease was primarily driven by more disciplined inventory management, partially offset by the addition of 10 new retail stores since the second quarter of last year. Capital expenditures for the quarter totaled $5.6 million primarily attributable to new stores and IT migration costs. As of today, including our most recent two stores opened in August, the company operates 54 stores in the U.S. including 40 full price stores and 14 outlet stores. Now turning to our outlook for fiscal year 2016, we continue to expect total sales for the year to be between $290 million and $305 million, including revenues from the six new retail stores already opened this year and comparable sales growth inclusive of the e-commerce sales in the flat to low single-digit range. Total sales guidance continues to reflect a flat to positive mid single-digit sales increase in the second half of the year. As Brendan discussed, the full impact of the changes made to our collection by our returning founders will not be reflected until our holiday deliveries, which we believe will therefore have the greater benefit to our comparable sales in the fourth quarter than in the third quarter. We now expect gross margin to be approximately 46.2% for the year due to additional strategic investments both already made and expected during the second half to support our long-term objectives. The higher rate of sales allowances for the first up and the lower mix of full price sales in the first half resulting from lower inventory levels. As a reminder, all of these factors are part of resetting the brand. We now expect SG&A to be between $128 million and $133 million. As one would expect, SG&A would be impacted by the level of annual incentive compensation costs realized based on our financial results. With this, we continued to expect diluted EPS to be flat to $0.06 per share. Capital expenditures are now expected to be between $12.5 million and $14.5 million due to continued branding investments and the costs associated with our IT migration investment. This concludes my comments regarding our second quarter financial performance and outlook for 2016. We will now take your questions, Operator?