MARYVILLE, TN - (BUSINESS WIRE) - Apr. 7, 2016 - Ruby Tuesday, Inc. (NYSE:RT) today announced fiscal third quarter 2016 financial results for the period ended March 1, 2016 and updated its guidance for fiscal year 2016.
Fiscal Third Quarter 2016 Highlights (13 weeks ended March 1, 2016, compared to the 13 weeks ended March 3, 2015):
* Adjusted EBITDA, Adjusted Net (Loss)/ Income and Adjusted Net (Loss)/ Income per share are non-GAAP measures.Reconciliations of Adjusted EBITDA, Adjusted Net (Loss)/ Income and Adjusted Net (Loss)/ Income per share to the most directly comparable financial measures presented in accordance with GAAP are set forth in the schedules accompanying this release. See “Non-GAAP Financial Measures.”
JJ Buettgen, Chairman of the Board, President, and Chief Executive Officer, commented, “Our third quarter was a volatile period affected by weather, softness in the casual dining industry, and increased promotional activity by our peers. Despite this challenging environment, we continue to believe that our key brand initiatives will drive an improvement in guest counts.”
Buettgen continued, “We are encouraged by our early results in attracting and delighting women and young families with our Garden Bar initiative and by the lift we are seeing so far at our remodeled locations. We remain focused on better in-restaurant execution, refining our media and targeting plans, and incorporating what we’ve learned from our Garden Bar and remodel tests into our go forward strategy. This gives us confidence that we can return to same-restaurant sales growth and higher operating profitability. While not yet visible in our results, we believe that we have the right framework in place to attract more women and families and increase visits from our current Ruby Tuesdayguest.”
Total revenue was $271.5 million, a decrease from last year of $14.4 million, or 5.1%, primarily due to a net reduction of 20 corporate-owned restaurants compared to the third quarter last year and a same-restaurant sales decline of 3.1% at corporate-owned Ruby Tuesday restaurants.
Restaurant level margin, excluding franchise revenue, decreased to $46.1 million from $48.9 million in the prior fiscal year’s third quarter. As a percentage of corporate-owned restaurant sales, restaurant level margin declined approximately 10 basis points to 17.1% from 17.2%. The decrease was primarily driven by an increase in cost of goods sold and payroll and related costs, partially offset by a reduction in other restaurant operating costs.
Selling, general & administrative expenses (SG&A) decreased to $27.4 million from $28.9 million in the prior fiscal year’s third quarter. The decrease in SG&A was primarily due to lower G&A expenses, partially offset by increased marketing spend to support new initiatives.
GAAP net loss was $3.1 million, or ($0.05) per diluted share, compared to a net loss of $0.8 million, or ($0.01) per diluted share in the prior fiscal year’s third quarter.
Adjusted Net Income was $1.6 million, or $0.03 per diluted share, a decline of $300,000 compared to Adjusted Net Income of $1.9 million, or $0.03 per diluted share, in the prior fiscal year’s third quarter. Adjusted Net Income for the period excluded after-tax adjustments of $4.7 million, primarily related to closure and impairment charges, compared to after-tax adjustments of $2.6 million in the prior fiscal year’s third quarter. A reconciliation between GAAP net loss and Adjusted Net Income is included in the accompanying financial data.
The Company ended the fiscal 2016 third quarter with cash and cash equivalents totaling $52.5 million and book debt of $229.1 million. This compares to cash and cash equivalents totaling $45.3 million and book debt of $231.9 millionas of December 1, 2015.
As of March 1, 2016, there were 729 Ruby Tuesday restaurants system-wide, of which 649 were corporate-owned, and 16 Lime Fresh Mexican Grills, eight of which were corporate-owned and are in the process of being sold. During the third quarter, six corporate-owned Ruby Tuesday restaurants were closed and two international franchised Ruby Tuesday restaurants were opened.
The Company is updating its full-year Adjusted Net Income per share guidance to $0.05 to $0.08 (vs. $0.12 to $0.17previously) based on the following updated assumptions:
JJ Buettgen, Chairman of the Board, President, and Chief Executive Officer, Sue Briley, Vice President of Finance, as well as Dave Skena, Chief Marketing Officer will host a conference call today to discuss fiscal third quarter 2016 financial results at 5:00 PM Eastern Time. The conference call can be accessed live by dialing 888-359-3624 or for international callers by dialing 719-325-2315. A replay will be available after the call and can be accessed by dialing 877-870-5176 or for international callers by dialing 858-384-5517; the passcode is 9148349. The replay will be available through Saturday, May 7, 2016.
The conference call will also be webcast live and later archived on the Investor Relations page of Ruby Tuesday’s corporate website at www.rubytuesday.com under the ‘Events & Presentations’ section.
Ruby Tuesday, Inc. owns and franchises Ruby Tuesday and Lime Fresh brand restaurants. As of March 1, 2016, there were 729 Ruby Tuesday restaurants in 44 states, 13 foreign countries, and Guam, and there were 16 Lime Fresh restaurants in two states. Of those restaurants, we owned and operated 649 Ruby Tuesday restaurants and franchised 80 Ruby Tuesday restaurants, comprised of 28 domestic and 52 international restaurants. We also owned and operated eight Lime Fresh restaurants and franchised eight Lime Fresh domestic restaurants. Our corporate-owned and operated restaurants are concentrated primarily in the Southeast, Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, and Midwest of the United States, which we consider to be our core markets. For more information about Ruby Tuesday, please visitwww.rubytuesday.com. Ruby Tuesday, Inc. is traded on the New York Stock Exchange (Symbol: RT).
This press release contains various forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Forward-looking statements represent our expectations or beliefs concerning future events, including one or more of the following: future financial performance (including our estimates of changes in same-restaurant sales, average unit volumes, operating margins, expenses, and other items), future capital expenditures, the effect of strategic initiatives (including statements relating to cost savings initiatives and the benefits of our marketing), the opening or closing of restaurants by us or our franchisees, sales of our real estate or purchases of new real estate, future borrowings and repayments of debt, availability of financing on terms attractive to the Company, compliance with financial covenants in our debt instruments, payment of dividends, stock and bond repurchases, restaurant acquisitions and dispositions, and changes in senior management and in the Board of Directors. We caution the reader that a number of important factors and uncertainties could, individually or in the aggregate, cause our actual results to differ materially from those included in the forward-looking statements, including, without limitation, the risks and uncertainties described in the Risk Factors included in Part I, Item A of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended June 2, 2015.
The Company believes excluding certain items from its financial results provides investors with a clearer understanding of the Company’s operating performance and comparison to prior-period results. In addition, management uses these non-GAAP financial measures and ratios to assess the results of the Company’s operations.
We have included EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA, Adjusted Net (Loss)/ Income and Adjusted Net (Loss)/Income per share to provide investors with supplemental measures of our operating performance. We believe these are important supplemental measures of operating performance because they eliminate items that have less bearing on our Company-wide operating performance and thus highlight trends in our core business that may not otherwise be apparent when relying solely on financial measures in accordance with United States Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP). We also believe that securities analysts, investors and other interested parties frequently use EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA, Adjusted Net (Loss)/ Income and Adjusted Net (Loss)/ Income per share in evaluating issuers. Because other companies in some cases calculate EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA, Adjusted Net (Loss)/ Income, or Adjusted Net (Loss)/ Income per share differently from the way we calculate such measures, these metrics may not be comparable to similarly titled measures reported by other companies. Additionally, supplemental non-GAAP financial measures should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for measures of performance prepared in accordance with GAAP.
The use of these measures permits a comparative assessment of the Company's operating performance relative to its performance based on GAAP results, while isolating the effects of certain items that vary from period to period without correlation to core operating performance and certain items that vary widely among similar companies. However, the inclusion of these adjusted measures should not be construed as an indication that future results will be unaffected by unusual or infrequent items or that the items for which the adjustments have been made are necessarily unusual or infrequent.
Available in this release is the reconciliation of Net (Loss)/ Income, the most directly comparable GAAP measure, to EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA, Adjusted Net (Loss)/ Income and Adjusted Net (Loss)/ Income per share, all of which are non-GAAP financial measures. The Company defines EBITDA as income before interest, taxes, and depreciation and amortization and Adjusted EBITDA as EBITDA, excluding certain non-cash and/or non-recurring expenses/(income) including, but not limited to, Closures and Impairments, Trademark Impairment and Executive Transition. Adjusted Net (Loss)/ Income is defined as Net (Loss)/ Income, excluding certain non-cash and/or non-recurring expenses/(income) as detailed in Adjusted EBITDA, net of tax as well as adjustments related to Debt Prepayment Penalties, Deferred Financing Fees, and Income Tax (Benefit)/Provision Adjusted to the Statutory Rate. Adjusted Net (Loss)/ Income per share is defined as Adjusted Net (Loss)/ Income divided by diluted shares outstanding.
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Our Company-owned and operated restaurants are concentrated primarily in the Southeast, Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, and Midwest of the United States, which we consider to be our core markets.