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Park Aerospace Corp. Reports Third Quarter Results
Source: Nasdaq GlobeNewswire / 14 Jan 2025 16:10:18 America/New_York
NEWTON, Kan., Jan. 14, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Park Aerospace Corp. (NYSE-PKE) reported results for the 2025 fiscal year third quarter ended December 1, 2024. The Company will conduct a conference call to discuss its financial results and other matters at 5:00 p.m. EST today. A live audio webcast of the event, along with presentation materials, will be available at https://edge.media-server.com/mmc/p/7jbapomd at 5:00 p.m. EST today. The presentation materials will also be available at approximately 4:15 p.m. EST today at https://parkaerospace.com/shareholders/investor-conference-calls/ and on the Company’s website at www.parkaerospace.com under “Investor Conference Calls” on the “Shareholders” page.
Park reported net sales of $14,408,000 for the 2025 fiscal year third quarter ended December 1, 2024 compared to $11,639,000 for the 2024 fiscal year third quarter ended November 26, 2023 and $16,709,000 for the 2025 fiscal year second quarter ended September 1, 2024. Park’s net sales for the nine months ended December 1, 2024 were $45,087,000 compared to $39,671,000 for the nine months ended November 26, 2023. Net earnings for the 2025 fiscal year third quarter were $1,577,000 compared to $1,203,000 for the 2024 fiscal year third quarter and $2,066,000 for the 2025 fiscal year second quarter. Net earnings were $4,636,000 for the current year’s first nine months compared to $4,803,000 for last year’s first nine months.
Net earnings before special items for the 2025 fiscal year third quarter were $1,577,000 compared to $1,203,000 for the 2024 fiscal year third quarter and $2,092,000 for the 2025 fiscal year second quarter. Net earnings before special items for the nine months ended December 1, 2024 were $5,450,000 compared to $5,356,000 for last fiscal year’s first nine months.
Adjusted EBITDA for the 2025 fiscal year third quarter was $2,415,000 compared to $1,808,000 for the 2024 fiscal year third quarter and $3,206,000 for the 2025 fiscal year second quarter. Adjusted EBITDA for the current year’s first nine months was $8,231,000 compared to $7,788,000 for last year’s first nine months.
During the 2025 fiscal year first nine months, the Company recorded $1,098,000 of pre-tax charges related to storm damage to the Company’s facilities in Newton Kansas. During the 2024 fiscal year’s first nine months, the Company recorded $570,000 of pre-tax activist shareholder defense costs, $65,000 of pre-tax losses on sales of investments to fund the $1.00 per share special cash dividend paid on April 6, 2023 to shareholders of record on March 9, 2023 and a $109,000 pre-tax charge for the modification of previously granted stock options in connection with the special cash dividend in the 2024 fiscal year first quarter.
Park reported basic and diluted earnings per share of $0.08 for the 2025 fiscal year third quarter compared to $0.06 for the 2024 fiscal year third quarter and $0.10 for the 2025 fiscal year second quarter. Basic and diluted earnings per share before special items were $0.08 for the 2025 fiscal year third quarter compared to $0.06 for the 2024 fiscal year third quarter and $0.10 for the 2025 fiscal year second quarter.
Park reported basic and diluted earnings per share of $0.23 for the 2025 fiscal year’s first nine months compared to $0.24 for the 2024 fiscal year’s first nine months. Basic and diluted earnings per share before special items were $0.27 for the 2025 fiscal year’s first nine months compared to $0.26 for the 2024 fiscal year’s first nine months.
The Company will conduct a conference call to discuss its financial results at 5:00 p.m. EST today. Forward-looking and other material information may be discussed in this conference call. The conference call dial-in number is (877) 407-3982 in the United States and Canada, and (201) 493-6780 in other countries. The required passcode for attendance by phone is 13750836.
For those unable to listen to the call live, a conference call replay will be available from approximately 8:00 p.m. EST today through 11:59 p.m. EST on Tuesday, January 21, 2025. The conference call replay will be available at https://edge.media-server.com/mmc/p/7jbapomd and on the Company’s website at www.parkaerospace.com under “Investor Conference Calls” on the “Shareholders” page. It can also be accessed by dialing (844) 512-2921 in the United States and Canada, and (412) 317-6671 in other countries. The required passcode for accessing the replay by phone is 13750836.
Any additional material financial or statistical data disclosed in the conference call, including the investor presentation, will also be available at the time of the conference call on the Company's website at
https://parkaerospace.com/shareholders/investor-conference-calls/.Park believes that an evaluation of its ongoing operations would be difficult if the disclosure of its operating results were limited to accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”) financial measures, which include special items, such as a charge related to storm damage, activist shareholder defense costs, losses on sales of investments and charges for modification of previously granted stock options. Accordingly, in addition to disclosing its operating results determined in accordance with GAAP, Park discloses non-GAAP measures, including Adjusted EBITDA, and operating results that exclude special items in order to assist its shareholders and other readers in assessing the Company’s operating performance, since the Company’s on-going, normal business operations do not include such special items. The detailed operating information presented below includes a reconciliation of the non-GAAP operating results before special items to earnings determined in accordance with GAAP and a reconciliation of GAAP pre-tax earnings to Adjusted EBITDA. Such non-GAAP financial measures are provided to supplement the results provided in accordance with GAAP.
Park Aerospace Corp. develops and manufactures solution and hot-melt advanced composite materials used to produce composite structures for the global aerospace markets. Park’s advanced composite materials include film adhesives (Aeroadhere®) and lightning strike protection materials (Electroglide®). Park offers an array of composite materials specifically designed for hand lay-up or automated fiber placement (AFP) manufacturing applications. Park’s advanced composite materials are used to produce primary and secondary structures for jet engines, large and regional transport aircraft, military aircraft, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs commonly referred to as “drones”), business jets, general aviation aircraft and rotary wing aircraft. Park also offers specialty ablative materials for rocket motors and nozzles and specially designed materials for radome applications. As a complement to Park’s advanced composite materials offering, Park designs and fabricates composite parts, structures and assemblies and low volume tooling for the aerospace industry. Target markets for Park’s composite parts and structures (which include Park’s proprietary composite SigmaStrut™ and AlphaStrut™ product lines) are, among others, prototype and development aircraft, special mission aircraft, spares for legacy military and civilian aircraft and exotic spacecraft. Park’s objective is to do what others are either unwilling or unable to do. When nobody else wants to do it because it is too difficult, too small or too annoying, sign us up.
Additional corporate information is available on the Company’s website at www.parkaerospace.com
Contact: Donna D’Amico-Annitto
486 North Oliver Road, Bldg. Z
Newton, Kansas 67114
(316) 283-6500Performance table, including non-GAAP information (in thousands, except per share amounts –unaudited):
13 Weeks Ended 13 Weeks Ended 13 Weeks Ended 39 Weeks Ended December 1, 2024 November 26, 2023 September 1, 2024 December 1, 2024 November 26, 2023 Sales $ 14,408 $ 11,639 $ 16,709 $ 45,087 $ 39,671 Net Earnings before Special Items1 $ 1,577 $ 1,203 $ 2,092 $ 5,450 $ 5,356 Special Items, Net of Tax: Activist Shareholder Defense Costs - - - - (570 ) Stock Option Modification - - - - (109 ) Loss on Sale of Marketable Securities - - - - (65 ) Storm Damage Charge - - (46 ) (1,098 ) - Income Tax Effect on Pretax Special Items - - 20 284 191 Net Earnings $ 1,577 $ 1,203 $ 2,066 $ 4,636 $ 4,803 Basic Earnings per Share: Basic Earnings before Special Items1 $ 0.08 $ 0.06 $ 0.10 $ 0.27 $ 0.26 Special Items: Activist Shareholder Defense Costs - - - - (0.03 ) Stock Option Modification - - - - - Loss on Sale of Marketable Securities - - - - - Storm Damage Charge - - - (0.05 ) - Income Tax Effect on Pretax Special Items - - - 0.01 0.01 Basic Earnings per Share $ 0.08 $ 0.06 $ 0.10 $ 0.23 $ 0.24 Diluted Earnings before Special Items1 $ 0.08 $ 0.06 $ 0.10 $ 0.27 $ 0.26 Special Items: Activist Shareholder Defense Costs - - - - (0.03 ) Stock Option Modification - - - - - Loss on Sale of Marketable Securities - - - - - Storm Damage Charge - - - (0.05 ) - Income Tax Effect on Pretax Special Items - - - 0.01 0.01 Diluted Earnings per Share $ 0.08 $ 0.06 $ 0.10 $ 0.23 $ 0.24 Weighted Average Shares Outstanding: Basic 19,982 20,250 20,216 20,150 20,323 Diluted 20,077 20,355 20,291 20,246 20,406 1 Refer to "Reconciliation of non-GAAP financial measures" below for information regarding Special Items. Comparative balance sheets (in thousands):
December 1, 2024 March 3, 2024 Assets (unaudited) Current Assets Cash and Marketable Securities $ 70,042 $ 77,211 Accounts Receivable, Net 9,687 12,381 Inventories 10,592 6,404 Prepaid Expenses and Other Current Assets 2,243 2,849 Total Current Assets 92,564 98,845 Fixed Assets, Net 21,479 23,499 Operating Right-of-use Assets 320 95 Other Assets 9,859 9,870 Total Assets $ 124,222 $ 132,309 Liabilities and Shareholders' Equity Current Liabilities Accounts Payable $ 5,532 $ 3,514 Accrued Liabilities 1,427 1,986 Operating Lease Liability 39 53 Income Taxes Payable 5,258 4,105 Total Current Liabilities 12,256 9,658 Long-term Operating Lease Liability 328 82 Non-current Income Taxes Payable - 5,259 Deferred Income Taxes 3,034 3,222 Other Liabilities 1,246 1,174 Total Liabilities 16,864 19,395 Shareholders’ Equity 107,358 112,914 Total Liabilities and Shareholders' Equity $ 124,222 $ 132,309 Additional information Equity per Share $ 5.39 $ 5.58 Comparative statements of operations (in thousands – unaudited):
13 Weeks Ended 13 Weeks Ended 13 Weeks Ended 39 Weeks Ended December 1, 2024 November 26, 2023 September 1, 2024 December 1, 2024 November 26, 2023 Net Sales $ 14,408 $ 11,639 $ 16,709 $ 45,087 $ 39,671 Cost of Sales 10,580 8,470 11,952 32,403 27,590 Gross Profit 3,828 3,169 4,757 12,684 12,081 % of net sales 26.6 % 27.2 % 28.5 % 28.1 % 30.5 % Selling, General & Administrative Expenses 1,982 1,804 2,140 6,139 6,272 % of net sales 13.8 % 15.5 % 12.8 % 13.6 % 15.8 % Earnings from Operations 1,846 1,365 2,617 6,545 5,809 Storm Damage Charge - - (46 ) (1,098 ) - Interest and Other Income: Interest Income 290 261 245 874 724 Earnings from Operations before Income Taxes 2,136 1,626 2,816 6,321 6,533 Income Tax Provision 559 423 750 1,685 1,730 Net Earnings $ 1,577 $ 1,203 $ 2,066 $ 4,636 $ 4,803 % of net sales 10.9 % 10.3 % 12.4 % 10.3 % 12.1 % Reconciliation of non-GAAP financial measures (in thousands – unaudited):
Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Financial Measures Reconciliation of GAAP Net Earnings to Adjusted EBITDA 13 Weeks Ended 13 Weeks Ended 13 Weeks Ended 39 Weeks Ended 39 Weeks Ended December 1, 2024 November 26, 2023 September 1, 2024 December 1, 2024 November 26, 2023 GAAP Net Earnings $ 1,577 $ 1,203 $ 2,066 $ 4,636 $ 4,803 Adjustments: Income Tax Provision 559 423 750 1,685 1,730 Interest Income (290 ) (261 ) (245 ) (874 ) (789 ) Depreciation 464 339 488 1,391 984 Stock Option Expense 105 104 101 295 316 Special Items: Activist Shareholder Defense Costs - - - - 570 Stock Option Modification Charge (a) - - - - 109 Pre-tax Losses on Sales of Investments (b) - - - - 65 Storm Damage Charge - - 46 1,098 - Adjusted EBITDA $ 2,415 $ 1,808 $ 3,206 $ 8,231 $ 7,788 (a) pre-tax charge for the modification of previously granted stock options in connection with the special dividend in the 2024 fiscal year first quarter (b) to fund the $1.00 per share special dividend paid on April 6, 2023 to shareholders of record on March 9, 2023 
