Real Estate Leader Posts Net Revenue of $4.1 Billion; Refinances Near-Term Debt Maturities; CEO and President Richard A. Smith Elected as Chairman of the Board, Effective March 15, 2012
PARSIPPANY, NJ--(Marketwire - Feb 27, 2012) - Realogy Corporation, a global leader in real estate and relocation services, today reported results for the year ended December 31, 2011. Realogy's net revenue for the year was $4.1 billion, which was flat as compared to 2010. Realogy's EBITDA before restructuring and other items for the year was $476 million, a decrease of 11% year-over-year. This was attributable to a decrease in sales volume at both the franchised and company-owned real estate services segments as well as certain beneficial items in 2010 that did not recur in 2011. Realogy's reported EBITDA for the year was $443 million. For the full year, Realogy recorded a net loss attributable to the Company of $441 million, which includes $666 million of interest expense, $186 million of depreciation and amortization and $36 million from the loss on early extinguishment of debt in early 2011.
"The U.S. economy remained weak in 2011, and our business results reflected that weakness," said Richard A. Smith, Realogy's president and chief executive officer. "Despite the difficult macroeconomic headwinds and another challenging housing market in 2011, our revenues were flat year-over-year. While we experienced modest softness in our real estate franchising and brokerage segments, as did the rest of the industry, this was offset by continued growth in our relocation and title services segments."
Earlier today, the Realogy Board of Directors elected Mr. Smith as Chairman of the Board in addition to his ongoing role as Chief Executive Officer and President. Smith's appointment as Chairman will begin March 15, 2012, which is the effective date of Henry Silverman's resignation from his positions as a director and the non-executive chairman of Realogy's Board of Directors. Apollo Global Management, LLC, previously announced Silverman's resignation from all positions he holds at Apollo and its subsidiaries, affiliates and portfolio companies, effective on March 15, 2012. "We wish Henry well, and we thank him for his many contributions through the years," said Smith.
In early February 2012, the Company completed a refinancing transaction that resulted in the issuance of $593 million of 7.625% Senior Secured First Lien Notes due 2020 and $325 million of 9.00% New First and a Half Lien Notes due 2020, the proceeds of which were used to retire outstanding indebtedness.
"We had $918 million of debt maturing in 2013 that we were able to refinance, extending those maturities to 2020," said Anthony E. Hull, Realogy's chief financial officer. "As a result of this proactive transaction, which was well received in the financial markets, we have no substantial corporate debt maturities until 2016."
Looking at Realogy's core business drivers, Realogy Franchise Group (RFG) had a year-over-year 1% decrease in homesale transaction sides and NRT, the company-owned brokerage unit, was flat year-over-year. Average homesale price was flat at RFG and decreased 2% at NRT for the year ended 2011 as compared to 2010, largely from a shift in our business to more sales of comparatively lower-priced homes. Cartus experienced a 3% increase in relocation initiations and a 4% increase in broker referrals, while Title Resource Group experienced a 1% decrease in purchase title and closing units and a 2% increase in the average price per closing unit along with a 1% increase in refinance title and closing units.
"We anticipate first quarter 2012 homesales to increase at a high single-digit pace, and average sales price to be modestly down year-over-year as indicated by our preliminary January and February results," said Hull. "The trend we are seeing currently is that in many of our markets, home affordability, particularly for first-time buyers, is driving activity at the lower end of the housing market. Assuming continuation of favorable employment trends and rising consumer confidence, we are encouraged about the prospects for 2012."
Balance Sheet Information and Covenant Compliance as of December 31, 2011
The Company ended the year with $101 million of readily available cash and $175 million outstanding on its revolving credit facility under its senior secured credit agreement.
A consolidated balance sheet is included as Table 2 of this press release.
As noted above, Realogy refinanced $918 million of debt maturing in 2013 by issuing two series of senior secured notes maturing in 2020. With the proceeds from this transaction, Realogy retired $629 million of first lien term debt and terminated its commitments under its $289 million non-extended revolver. As of February 27, 2012, the Company had $55 million outstanding under its $363 million extended revolving credit facility due 2016 and had available capacity of $227 million (net of outstanding letters of credit). The Company expects substantially all of the current borrowings to be repaid by the end of the March, but consistent with past experience expects to borrow additional funds in April principally to fund interest payments.
As of December 31, 2011, the Company's senior secured leverage ratio (SSLR) was 4.44 to 1, or 3.87 to 1 after giving pro forma effect to the February 2012 bond offering and the application of the proceeds, below the 4.75 to 1 maximum ratio required to be in compliance with its senior secured credit agreement. The SSLR is determined by dividing Realogy's senior secured net debt of $2.5 billion at December 31, 2011 (or $2.2 billion on a pro forma basis) by the Company's Adjusted EBITDA of $571 million for the four quarters ended December 31, 2011. (Please see Table 8 for the definition of non-GAAP financial measures, Adjusted EBITDA and EBITDA before restructuring and other items and Tables 6 and 7 for a reconciliation of these non-GAAP measures to their most comparable GAAP financial measure, net loss attributable to Realogy.
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Realogy will hold a Webcast to review its 2011 results on February 27 at 4:00 p.m. (EST). The call will be hosted by Richard A. Smith, president and CEO, and Anthony E. Hull, executive vice president, CFO and treasurer. The conference call, together with corresponding slides, will be made available live via Webcast on the Investor Information section of the Realogy website. A replay of the Webcast also will be available on the website from February 28 through March 6. Realogy plans to file its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2011 later this week.
Realogy Corporation, a global provider of real estate and relocation services, has a diversified business model that includes real estate franchising, brokerage, relocation and title services. Realogy's world-renowned brands and business units include Better Homes and Gardens® Real Estate, CENTURY 21®, Coldwell Banker®, Coldwell Banker Commercial®, The Corcoran Group®, ERA®, Sotheby's International Realty®, NRT LLC, Cartus and Title Resource Group. Collectively, Realogy's franchise system members operate approximately 14,000 offices with 245,800 sales associates doing business in 101 countries and territories around the world. Headquartered in Parsippany, N.J., Realogy is owned by affiliates of Apollo Management, L.P., a subsidiary of Apollo Global Management, LLC, a leading global alternative asset manager.
Certain statements in this press release constitute "forward-looking statements." Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of Realogy Corporation to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Statements preceded by, followed by or that otherwise include the words "believes", "expects", "anticipates", "intends", "projects", "estimates" and "plans" and similar expressions or future or conditional verbs such as "will", "should", "would", "may" and "could" are generally forward-looking in nature and not historical facts. Any statements that refer to expectations or other characterizations of future events, circumstances or results are forward-looking statements.
Various factors that could cause actual future results and other future events to differ materially from those estimated by management include, but are not limited to: our substantial amount of outstanding debt; constraints on the Company's liquidity including but not limited to our ability to access the capital, including debt financing, and/or securitization markets; variable rate indebtedness which subjects the Company to interest rate risk; our ability to comply with the affirmative and negative covenants contained in our debt agreements; adverse developments or the absence of sustained improvement in general business, economic and political conditions; adverse developments or the absence of improvement in the residential real estate markets including but not limited to the lack of sustained improvement in the number of home sales and/or further declines in home prices, low levels of consumer confidence, the impact of slow economic growth or future recessions and related high levels of unemployment in the U.S. and abroad, continuing high levels of foreclosures, seasonal fluctuations in the residential real estate brokerage business; reduced availability of mortgage financing or financing availability at rates not sufficiently attractive to homebuyers; the final resolution or outcomes with respect to Cendant's remaining contingent liabilities; any outbreak or escalation of hostilities on a national, regional or international basis; government regulation as well as legislative, tax or regulatory changes that would adversely impact the residential real estate market, including but not limited to potential reform of the financing of the U.S. housing and mortgage markets and the Internal Revenue Code; the Company's failure to enter into or renew franchise agreements, maintain its brands or the inability of franchisees to survive the current real estate cycle; the Company's inability to realize benefits from future acquisitions; and the Company's inability to sustain improvements in its operating efficiency.
Consideration should be given to the areas of risk described above, as well as those risks set forth under the headings "Forward-Looking Statements" and "Risk Factors" in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2010 and our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended March 31, 2011, June 30, 2011 and September 30, 2011, and in our other periodic reports filed from time to time, in connection with considering any forward-looking statements that may be made by us and our businesses generally. Except for our ongoing obligations to disclose material information under the federal securities laws, we undertake no obligation to release publicly any revisions to any forward-looking statements, to report events or to report the occurrence of unanticipated events unless we are required to do so by law.
This release includes certain non-GAAP financial measures as defined under SEC rules. As required by SEC rules, important information regarding such measures is contained in the Tables attached to this release.
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EBITDA by segment before restructuring and other items detailed above for the three months ended March 31, 2011 was: RFG $62 million, NRT $(35) million, Cartus $10 million, TRG $2 million and Corporate $(14) million. EBITDA by segment before restructuring and other items detailed above for the three months ended June 30, 2011 was: RFG $97 million, NRT $50 million, Cartus $32 million, TRG $13 million and Corporate $(14) million. EBITDA by segment before restructuring and other items detailed above for the three months ended September 30, 2011 was: RFG $92 million, NRT $50 million, Cartus $50 million, TRG $8 million and Corporate $(13) million. EBITDA by segment before restructuring and other items detailed above for the three months ended December 31, 2011 was: RFG $69 million, NRT $0 million, Cartus $24 million, TRG $7 million and Corporate $(14) million. EBITDA by segment before restructuring and other items detailed above for the corresponding year ended December 31, 2011 was as follows: RFG $320 million, NRT $65 million, Cartus $116 million, TRG $30 million, and Corporate $(55) million.
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EBITDA by segment before restructuring and other items detailed above for the three months ended March 31, 2010 was: RFG $65 million, NRT ($31) million, Cartus $6 million, TRG ($4) million and Corporate ($14) million. EBITDA by segment before restructuring and other items detailed above for the three months ended June 30, 2010 was: RFG $123 million, NRT $86 million, Cartus $28 million, TRG $11 million and Corporate ($14) million. EBITDA by segment before restructuring and other items detailed above for the three months ended September 30, 2010 was: RFG $90 million, NRT $33 million, Cartus $51 million, TRG $8 million and Corporate ($9) million. EBITDA by segment before restructuring and other items detailed above for the three months ended December 31, 2010 was: RFG $74 million, NRT $4 million, Cartus $27 million, TRG $13 million and Corporate ($13) million. EBITDA by segment before restructuring and other items detailed above for the corresponding year ended December 31, 2010 was as follows: RFG $352 million, NRT $92 million, Cartus $112 million, TRG $28 million, and Corporate ($50) million.
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EBITDA is defined by us as net income (loss) before depreciation and amortization, interest (income) expense, net (other than relocation services interest for securitization assets and securitization obligations) and income taxes. EBITDA before restructuring and other items is defined by us as EBITDA adjusted for merger costs, restructuring costs, former parent legacy cost (benefit) items, net, and (gain) loss on the early extinguishment of debt. Adjusted EBITDA is presented to demonstrate our compliance with the senior secured leverage ratio covenant in the senior secured credit facility. We present EBITDA, EBITDA before restructuring and other items and Adjusted EBITDA because we believe EBITDA, EBITDA before restructuring and other items and Adjusted EBITDA are useful as supplemental measures in evaluating the performance of our operating businesses and provides greater transparency into our results of operations. Our management, including our chief operating decision maker, use EBITDA and EBITDA before restructuring and other items as a factor in evaluating the performance of our business. EBITDA, EBITDA before restructuring and other items and Adjusted EBITDA should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for net income or other statement of operations data prepared in accordance with GAAP.
We believe EBITDA facilitates company-to-company operating performance comparisons by backing out potential differences caused by variations in capital structures (affecting net interest expense), taxation, the age and book depreciation of facilities (affecting relative depreciation expense) and the amortization of intangibles, which may vary for different companies for reasons unrelated to operating performance. We believe EBITDA before restructuring and other items also facilitates company-to-company operating performance comparisons by backing out those items in EBITDA as well as certain historical cost (benefit) items which may vary for different companies for reasons unrelated to operating performance. We further believe that EBITDA is frequently used by securities analysts, investors and other interested parties in their evaluation of companies, many of which present an EBITDA measure when reporting their results.
EBITDA and EBITDA before restructuring and other items have limitations as analytical tools, and you should not consider EBITDA or EBITDA before restructuring and other items either in isolation or as substitutes for analyzing our results as reported under GAAP. Some of these limitations are:
Adjusted EBITDA as used herein corresponds to the definition of "EBITDA," calculated on a "pro forma basis," used in the senior secured credit facility to calculate the senior secured leverage ratio.
Like EBITDA and EBITDA before restructuring and other items, Adjusted EBITDA has limitations as an analytical tool, and you should not consider Adjusted EBITDA either in isolation or as a substitute for analyzing our results as reported under GAAP. In addition to the limitations described above with respect to EBITDA and EBITDA before restructuring and other items, Adjusted EBITDA includes pro forma cost savings, the pro forma effect of business optimization initiatives and the pro forma full year effect of acquisitions and new franchisees. These adjustments may not reflect the actual cost savings or pro forma effect recognized in future periods.
Realogy's company-owned real estate brokerage, is the largest residential brokerage company in the United States, operates under several of Realogy's brands and also provides related residential real estate services.