Q4 Net Income of $14 Million, or $0.04 Per Share
Q4 Net Income Includes $66 Million, or $0.17 Per Share, of Mortgage, Land and Debt Repurchase Charges, Partially Offset by $39 Million, or $0.10 Per Share, of Land-Sale Gains and Tax Benefits
Adjusted Q4 Home Sale Gross Margin Increases 200 Basis Points to 18.6%
SG&A Reduced to $117 Million, or 10% of Home Sale Revenues
8% Increase in Q4 Net New Orders Generated from 11% Fewer Communities
Completed $64 Million of Land Divestitures
Repurchased $257 Million of Senior Debt in Q4; Full-Year Debt Retirements of $324 Million
Ended the Year with $1.2 Billion in Cash
BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. - PulteGroup, Inc. (NYSE: PHM) announced today financial results for its fourth quarter ended December 31, 2011. For the quarter, PulteGroup reported net income of $14 million, or $0.04 per share. Reported net income includes charges of $40 million, or $0.10 per share, for potential future loan repurchase obligations, $24 million, or $0.06 per share, for land-related charges, and $2 million, or $0.01 per share, for debt repurchases. These charges were partially offset by $16 million, or $0.04 per share, in land-sale gains and $23 million, or $0.06 per share, of income tax benefits associated with the favorable resolution of certain federal and state tax matters.
In the prior year fourth quarter, PulteGroup reported a net loss of $165 million, or $0.44 per share, inclusive of $196 million, or $0.52 per share, in land-related charges, costs associated with organizational restructurings, debt repurchases and other financing amendments completed in the period, partially offset by $25 million, or $0.07 per share, of income tax benefits.
"We are pleased to report PulteGroup's fourth quarter earnings, which demonstrate the Company's continued progress on our initiatives to expand margins and lower overhead costs," said Richard J. Dugas, Jr., Chairman, President and CEO of PulteGroup. "In addition to our improved operating results, we also successfully sold 23 non-strategic land assets for $64 million and were able to repurchase $257 million par value of our debt for $252 million. These transactions continue to strengthen our balance sheet and will help to improve our return on invested capital over time."
Dugas continued, "The 2011 U.S. housing market demonstrated continued stability, although at extremely low levels of new home sales. Favorable long-term demographic drivers and improvements in a number of underlying housing data reports provide reasons for optimism heading into 2012. Although challenging macroeconomic conditions persist, we believe the progress we have made across our core homebuilding operations should enable the Company to be profitable for the full year of 2012."
Fourth Quarter Results
Revenue from home sales in the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2011, totaled $1.2 billion, an increase of approximately 1% over the prior year's fourth quarter. The increase in revenues was driven by a 3% increase in average selling price to $271,000, which was partially offset by a 2% decrease in closings to 4,303 homes.
Fourth quarter cost of sales related to home sales totaled $1.0 billion, including $11 million of impairments. In the prior year, fourth quarter cost of sales related to home sales totaled $1.1 billion, including $82 million of impairments. Excluding impairments, interest expense and merger-related costs, adjusted home sale gross margin in the fourth quarter 2011 was 18.6%, which represents an increase of 200 basis points over the fourth quarter of 2010 and a 10 basis point increase over the third quarter of 2011.
The Company's selling, general & administrative (SG&A) expense for the period was $117 million, or 10% of home sale revenues. Comparable prior year SG&A expense was $151 million, or 13% of home sale revenues. Prior year SG&A includes $11 million of severance costs associated with an organizational restructuring.
For the quarter, the Company reported 3,084 net new orders. Prior year orders of 3,044 reflect a one-time pick up of 200 signups resulting from a change in the Company's order recognition process. Excluding these 200 orders, PulteGroup realized a year-over-year increase in orders of 8%. For the quarter, the Company operated out of 11% fewer communities in 2011 than in 2010. The Company's contract backlog as of December 31, 2011, was 3,924 homes, with a constructed value of $1.1 billion, which compares with a contract backlog of 3,984 homes, valued at $1.1 billion, as of December 31, 2010.
For the quarter, the Company's financial services operations reported a pretax loss of $27 million, inclusive of a $40 million charge associated with potential future loan repurchase obligations. The increase in the Company's estimated repurchase obligations primarily reflects higher gross repurchase requests received in the second half of the year, coupled with the Company's expectation that such requests will likely continue through 2013, or a year longer than previously estimated.
In the fourth quarter, PulteGroup completed a series of land sales that generated approximately $64 million in revenues, and $16 million in gains. Such gains were partially offset by $10 million in land-related charges resulting in a net gain of $6 million for the quarter. The Company also entered into transactions during the fourth quarter that put under control approximately 2,800 lots, increasing the total lots put under control during the year to approximately 12,000.
In the fourth quarter, the Company recorded an income tax benefit of $23 million associated with the favorable resolution of certain federal and state tax matters.
The Company used available cash to repurchase $257 million principal value of its senior notes at a cost of $252 million. Although acquired in the open market at a discount, previous acquisition accounting adjustments resulted in a pretax charge of $2.1 million that was recorded in Other expense (income), net. Combined with transactions completed earlier in the year, the Company repurchased an aggregate $310 million principal value of its senior notes during the year for $307 million. These transactions will result in a $16 million reduction in cash paid interest cost in 2012. In addition to debt repurchases completed during the year, PulteGroup retired $14 million of senior notes that matured in the first quarter of 2011.
Full-Year Results
For the year ended December 31, 2011, PulteGroup reported a net loss of $210 million, or $0.55 per share, inclusive of $341 million, or $0.90 per share, of goodwill impairment, land impairment, debt repurchase and mortgage reserve charges, partially offset by $133 million, or $0.35 per share, of land-sale gains and tax benefits. For the prior year, PulteGroup reported a net loss of $1.1 billion, or $2.90 per share, including $931 million, or $2.46 per share, of goodwill and land impairments, insurance and mortgage reserve charges, and costs associated with debt-repurchases and other financing amendments, partially offset by $138 million, or $0.36 per share, of tax benefits.
Revenues from home sales for the period were $4.0 billion, compared with revenues of $4.4 billion in the prior year. Lower revenues for the period were driven primarily by an 11% decrease in closings to 15,275 homes. The decrease in unit closings reflects the pulling ahead of demand created by the 2010 tax credit and the Company's lower community count.
A conference call discussing PulteGroup's fourth quarter results will be held Thursday, February 2, 2012, at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time, and webcast live via www.pultegroupinc.com. Interested investors can access the call via the Company's home page at www.pultegroupinc.com, and are encouraged to download the available slides that provide additional details on the Company's fourth quarter results.
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PulteGroup, Inc. |
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Consolidated Results of Operations |
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($000's omitted, except per share data) |
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(Unaudited) |
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Three Months Ended |
Year Ended |
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December 31, |
December 31, |
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2011 |
2010 |
2011 |
2010 |
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Revenues: |
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|
Homebuilding |
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|
Home sale revenues |
$ 1,167,141 |
$ 1,155,169 |
$ 3,950,743 |
$ 4,419,812 |
|||||
|
Land sale revenues |
63,830 |
2,176 |
82,853 |
27,815 |
|||||
|
1,230,971 |
1,157,345 |
4,033,596 |
4,447,627 |
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Financial Services |
31,374 |
27,925 |
103,094 |
121,663 |
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Total revenues |
1,262,345 |
1,185,270 |
4,136,690 |
4,569,290 |
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Homebuilding Cost of Revenues: |
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|
Home sale cost of revenues |
1,021,873 |
1,099,046 |
3,444,398 |
4,006,385 |
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|
Land sale cost of revenues |
57,497 |
37,145 |
59,279 |
53,555 |
|||||
|
1,079,370 |
1,136,191 |
3,503,677 |
4,059,940 |
||||||
|
Financial Services expenses |
58,836 |
22,789 |
137,666 |
116,122 |
|||||
|
Selling, general, and administrative expenses |
117,204 |
150,738 |
519,583 |
895,102 |
|||||
|
Other expense (income), net |
18,337 |
68,613 |
293,102 |
742,385 |
|||||
|
Interest income |
(1,351) |
(1,859) |
(5,055) |
(9,531) |
|||||
|
Interest expense |
323 |
440 |
1,313 |
2,729 |
|||||
|
Equity in (earnings) loss of unconsolidated entities |
(1,299) |
(1,167) |
(3,296) |
(2,911) |
|||||
|
Income (loss) before income taxes |
(9,075) |
(190,475) |
(310,300) |
(1,234,546) |
|||||
|
Income tax expense (benefit) |
(22,896) |
(25,047) |
(99,912) |
(137,817) |
|||||
|
Net income (loss) |
$ 13,821 |
$ (165,428) |
$ (210,388) |
$ (1,096,729) |
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Per share data: |
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|
Net income (loss): |
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|
Basic |
$ 0.04 |
$ (0.44) |
$ (0.55) |
$ (2.90) |
|||||
|
Diluted |
$ 0.04 |
$ (0.44) |
$ (0.55) |
$ (2.90) |
|||||
|
Cash dividends declared |
$ - |
$ - |
$ - |
$ - |
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|
Number of shares used in calculation: |
|||||||||
|
Basic |
380,149 |
379,115 |
379,877 |
378,585 |
|||||
|
Diluted |
381,261 |
379,115 |
379,877 |
378,585 |
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PulteGroup, Inc. |
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Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets |
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($000's omitted) |
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(Unaudited) |
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|
December 31, |
December 31, |
|||
|
2011 |
2010 |
|||
|
ASSETS |
||||
|
Cash and equivalents |
$ 1,083,071 |
$ 1,483,390 |
||
|
Restricted cash |
101,860 |
24,601 |
||
|
House and land inventory |
4,636,468 |
4,781,813 |
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|
Land held for sale |
135,307 |
71,055 |
||
|
Land, not owned, under option agreements |
24,905 |
50,781 |
||
|
Residential mortgage loans available-for-sale |
258,075 |
176,164 |
||
|
Investments in unconsolidated entities |
35,988 |
46,313 |
||
|
Income taxes receivable |
27,154 |
81,307 |
||
|
Other assets |
420,444 |
567,963 |
||
|
Intangible assets, net |
162,348 |
175,448 |
||
|
Goodwill |
- |
240,541 |
||
|
$ 6,885,620 |
$ 7,699,376 |
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|
LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY |
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|
Liabilities: |
||||
|
Accounts payable |
$ 196,447 |
$ 226,466 |
||
|
Customer deposits |
46,960 |
51,727 |
||
|
Accrued and other liabilities |
1,411,941 |
1,599,940 |
||
|
Income tax liabilities |
203,313 |
294,408 |
||
|
Senior notes |
3,088,344 |
3,391,668 |
||
|
Total liabilities |
4,947,005 |
5,564,209 |
||
|
Shareholders' equity |
1,938,615 |
2,135,167 |
||
|
$ 6,885,620 |
$ 7,699,376 |
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PulteGroup, Inc. |
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Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows |
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($000's omitted) |
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(Unaudited) |
||||
|
Year Ended |
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|
December 31, |
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|
2011 |
2010 |
|||
|
Cash flows from operating activities: |
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|
Net income (loss) |
$ (210,388) |
$ (1,096,729) |
||
|
Adjustments to reconcile net income (loss) to net cash provided by |
||||
|
(used in) operating activities: |
||||
|
Write-down of land and deposits and pre-acquisition costs |
35,786 |
214,444 |
||
|
Goodwill impairments |
240,541 |
656,298 |
||
|
Amortization and depreciation |
32,098 |
45,660 |
||
|
Stock-based compensation expense |
16,459 |
32,081 |
||
|
Loss on debt repurchases |
5,638 |
38,920 |
||
|
Equity in (earnings) loss of unconsolidated entities |
(3,296) |
(2,911) |
||
|
Distributions of earnings from unconsolidated entities |
7,083 |
5,512 |
||
|
Other, net |
6,718 |
5,862 |
||
|
Increase (decrease) in cash due to: |
||||
|
Restricted cash |
5,940 |
7,775 |
||
|
Inventories |
54,891 |
(28,754) |
||
|
Residential mortgage loans available-for-sale |
(82,113) |
(7,991) |
||
|
Other assets |
133,788 |
102,103 |
||
|
Accounts payable, accrued and other liabilities |
(188,981) |
(188,779) |
||
|
Income taxes receivable |
54,153 |
873,879 |
||
|
Income tax liabilities |
(91,095) |
(66,513) |
||
|
Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities |
17,222 |
590,857 |
||
|
Cash flows from investing activities: |
||||
|
Distributions from unconsolidated entities |
4,531 |
4,231 |
||
|
Investments in unconsolidated entities |
(4,603) |
(22,890) |
||
|
Net change in loans held for investment |
325 |
12,603 |
||
|
Change in restricted cash related to letters of credit |
(83,199) |
- |
||
|
Proceeds from the sale of fixed assets |
10,555 |
1,780 |
||
|
Capital expenditures |
(21,238) |
(15,179) |
||
|
Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities |
(93,629) |
(19,455) |
||
|
Cash flows from financing activities: |
||||
|
Net repayments (borrowings) under Financial Services credit arrangements |
- |
(18,394) |
||
|
Repayment of other borrowings |
(321,076) |
(934,650) |
||
|
Issuance of common stock |
- |
8,668 |
||
|
Stock repurchases |
(2,836) |
(4,023) |
||
|
Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities |
(323,912) |
(948,399) |
||
|
Net increase (decrease) in cash and equivalents |
(400,319) |
(376,997) |
||
|
Cash and equivalents at beginning of period |
1,483,390 |
1,860,387 |
||
|
Cash and equivalents at end of period |
$ 1,083,071 |
$ 1,483,390 |
||
|
Supplemental Cash Flow Information: |
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|
Interest paid (capitalized), net |
$ (9,623) |
$ 18,367 |
||
|
Income taxes paid (refunded), net |
$ (62,167) |
$ (941,283) |
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|
PulteGroup, Inc. |
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|
Segment Data |
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|
($000's omitted) |
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|
(Unaudited) |
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|
Three Months Ended |
Year Ended |
|||||||
|
December 31, |
December 31, |
|||||||
|
2011 |
2010 |
2011 |
2010 |
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|
HOMEBUILDING: |
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|
Home sale revenues |
$ 1,167,141 |
$ 1,155,169 |
$ 3,950,743 |
$ 4,419,812 |
||||
|
Land sale revenues |
63,830 |
2,176 |
82,853 |
27,815 |
||||
|
Total Homebuilding revenues |
1,230,971 |
1,157,345 |
4,033,596 |
4,447,627 |
||||
|
Home sale cost of revenues |
1,021,873 |
1,099,046 |
3,444,398 |
4,006,385 |
||||
|
Land sale cost of revenues |
57,497 |
37,145 |
59,279 |
53,555 |
||||
|
Selling, general, and administrative expenses |
117,204 |
150,738 |
519,583 |
895,102 |
||||
|
Equity in (earnings) loss of unconsolidated entities |
(1,263) |
(1,044) |
(3,194) |
(2,843) |
||||
|
Other (income) expense, net |
18,337 |
68,613 |
293,102 |
742,385 |
||||
|
Interest (income) expense, net |
(1,028) |
(1,419) |
(3,742) |
(6,802) |
||||
|
Income (loss) before income taxes |
$ 18,351 |
$ (195,734) |
$ (275,830) |
$ (1,240,155) |
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|
FINANCIAL SERVICES: |
||||||||
|
Income (loss) before income taxes |
$ (27,426) |
$ 5,259 |
$ (34,470) |
$ 5,609 |
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|
CONSOLIDATED: |
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|
Income (loss) before income taxes |
$ (9,075) |
$ (190,475) |
$ (310,300) |
$ (1,234,546) |
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|
PulteGroup, Inc. |
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Segment Data, continued |
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($000's omitted) |
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|
(Unaudited) |
|||||||||
|
Three Months Ended |
Year Ended |
||||||||
|
December 31, |
December 31, |
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|
2011 |
2010 |
2011 |
2010 |
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|
Home sale revenues |
$ 1,167,141 |
$ 1,155,169 |
$ 3,950,743 |
$ 4,419,812 |
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|
Closings (units) |
|||||||||
|
Northeast |
649 |
603 |
1,880 |
2,083 |
|||||
|
Southeast |
739 |
752 |
2,771 |
3,095 |
|||||
|
Florida |
596 |
629 |
2,251 |
2,224 |
|||||
|
Texas |
822 |
817 |
3,327 |
3,563 |
|||||
|
North |
742 |
764 |
2,579 |
3,055 |
|||||
|
Southwest |
755 |
840 |
2,467 |
3,075 |
|||||
|
4,303 |
4,405 |
15,275 |
17,095 |
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|
Average selling price |
$ 271 |
$ 262 |
$ 259 |
$ 259 |
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|
Net new orders - units |
|||||||||
|
Northeast |
371 |
366 |
1,749 |
1,650 |
|||||
|
Southeast |
534 |
589 |
2,642 |
2,747 |
|||||
|
Florida |
470 |
390 |
2,314 |
2,046 |
|||||
|
Texas |
597 |
628 |
3,278 |
3,129 |
|||||
|
North |
586 |
533 |
2,635 |
2,716 |
|||||
|
Southwest |
526 |
538 |
2,597 |
2,860 |
|||||
|
3,084 |
3,044 |
15,215 |
15,148 |
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|
Net new orders - dollars (a) |
$ 828,154 |
$ 765,915 |
$ 3,953,829 |
$ 3,898,950 |
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|
As of |
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|
December 31, |
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|
2011 |
2010 |
||||||||
|
Unit backlog |
|||||||||
|
Northeast |
425 |
556 |
|||||||
|
Southeast |
602 |
731 |
|||||||
|
Florida |
658 |
595 |
|||||||
|
Texas |
825 |
874 |
|||||||
|
North |
709 |
653 |
|||||||
|
Southwest |
705 |
575 |
|||||||
|
3,924 |
3,984 |
||||||||
|
Dollars in backlog |
$ 1,059,649 |
$ 1,056,563 |
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|
(a) |
Net new order dollars represent a composite of new order dollars combined with other movements of the dollars in backlog related to cancellations and change orders. |
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PulteGroup, Inc. |
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Segment Data, continued |
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($000's omitted) |
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(Unaudited) |
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|
Three Months Ended |
Year Ended |
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|
December 31, |
December 31, |
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|
2011 |
2010 |
2011 |
2010 |
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|
MORTGAGE ORIGINATIONS: |
||||||||
|
Origination volume |
2,815 |
2,817 |
9,482 |
10,770 |
||||
|
Origination principal |
$ 622,473 |
$ 599,793 |
$ 1,986,225 |
$ 2,273,394 |
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|
Capture rate percentage |
81.8% |
80.7% |
78.5% |
77.5% |
||||
|
Supplemental Information |
||||||||
|
($000's omitted) |
||||||||
|
(Unaudited) |
||||||||
|
Three Months Ended |
Year Ended |
|||||||
|
December 31, |
December 31, |
|||||||
|
2011 |
2010 |
2011 |
2010 |
|||||
|
Interest in inventory, beginning of period |
$ 365,343 |
$ 329,915 |
$ 323,379 |
$ 239,365 |
||||
|
Interest capitalized |
53,704 |
60,953 |
221,071 |
264,932 |
||||
|
Interest expensed |
(63,979) |
(67,489) |
(189,382) |
(180,918) |
||||
|
Interest in inventory, end of period |
$ 355,068 |
$ 323,379 |
$ 355,068 |
$ 323,379 |
||||
|
Interest incurred |
$ 53,704 |
$ 60,953 |
$ 221,071 |
$ 266,474 |
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Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Financial Measures |
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This report contains information about our home sale gross margins reflecting certain adjustments. This measure is considered a non-GAAP financial measure under the SEC's rules and should be considered in addition to, rather than as a substitute for, the comparable GAAP financial measure as a measure of our operating performance. Management and our local divisions use this measure in evaluating the operating performance of each community and in making strategic decisions regarding sales pricing, construction and development pace, product mix, and other daily operating decisions. We believe it is a relevant and useful measure to investors for evaluating our performance through gross profit generated on homes delivered during a given period and for comparing our operating performance to other companies in the homebuilding industry. Although other companies in the homebuilding industry report similar information, the methods used may differ. We urge investors to understand the methods used by other companies in the homebuilding industry to calculate gross margins and any adjustments thereto before comparing our measure to that of such other companies. The following tables set forth a reconciliation of this non-GAAP financial measure to the GAAP financial measure that management believes to be most directly comparable ($000's omitted): |
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|
Home Sale Gross Margin |
||||||||||||
|
Three Months Ended |
||||||||||||
|
December 31, |
September 30, |
June 30, |
March 31, |
December 31, |
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|
Home sale revenues |
$ 1,167,141 |
$ 1,101,368 |
$ 899,763 |
$ 782,471 |
$ 1,155,169 |
|||||||
|
Home sale cost of revenues |
(1,021,873) |
(947,817) |
(789,678) |
(685,030) |
(1,099,046) |
|||||||
|
Home sale gross margin |
145,268 |
153,551 |
110,085 |
97,441 |
56,123 |
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|
Add: |
||||||||||||
|
Impairments (a) |
7,885 |
526 |
2,046 |
41 |
67,880 |
|||||||
|
Capitalized interest amortization (a) |
63,979 |
48,693 |
41,894 |
34,816 |
67,489 |
|||||||
|
Merger-related costs (b) |
493 |
591 |
366 |
280 |
282 |
|||||||
|
Adjusted home sale gross margin |
$ 217,625 |
$ 203,361 |
$ 154,391 |
$ 132,578 |
$ 191,774 |
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|
Home sale gross margin as a percentage |
||||||||||||
|
of home sale revenues |
12.4% |
13.9% |
12.2% |
12.5% |
4.9% |
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Adjusted home sale gross margin as a |
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percentage of home sale revenues |
18.6% |
18.5% |
17.2% |
16.9% |
16.6% |
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(a) |
Write-offs of capitalized interest related to impairments are reflected in capitalized interest amortization. |
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(b) |
Home sale gross margin was adversely impacted by the amortization of a fair value adjustment to homes under construction inventory acquired with the Centex merger. This fair value adjustment is being amortized as an increase to cost of sales over the related home closings. |
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Source: PulteGroup, Inc.
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