NYSE:SGU Star Group Q1 2024 Earnings Report $12.71 +0.16 (+1.27%) As of 03:52 PM Eastern This is a fair market value price provided by Polygon.io. Learn more. Earnings History Star Group EPS ResultsActual EPS$0.32Consensus EPS N/ABeat/MissN/AOne Year Ago EPSN/AStar Group Revenue ResultsActual Revenue$528.10 millionExpected RevenueN/ABeat/MissN/AYoY Revenue GrowthN/AStar Group Announcement DetailsQuarterQ1 2024Date2/7/2024TimeN/AConference Call DateThursday, February 8, 2024Conference Call Time11:00AM ETUpcoming EarningsStar Group's Q2 2025 earnings is scheduled for Tuesday, April 29, 2025, with a conference call scheduled on Thursday, May 1, 2025 at 11:00 AM ET. Check back for transcripts, audio, and key financial metrics as they become available.Conference Call ResourcesConference Call AudioConference Call TranscriptPress Release (8-K)Quarterly Report (10-Q)Earnings HistoryCompany ProfilePowered by Star Group Q1 2024 Earnings Call TranscriptProvided by QuartrFebruary 8, 2024 ShareLink copied to clipboard.There are 6 speakers on the call. Operator00:00:00Good day, and welcome to the STAAR Group Fiscal 20 24 First Quarter Results Conference Call and Webcast. Please note that this event is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to Chris Witty, Investor Relations Advisor. Please go ahead, sir. Speaker 100:00:40Thank you and good morning. With me on the call today are Jeff Woosnam, President and Chief Executive Officer and Rich Ambury, Chief Financial Officer. I would now like to provide a brief Safe Harbor statement. This conference call may include forward looking statements that represent the company's expectations and beliefs concerning future events that involve risks and uncertainties and may cause the company's actual performance to be materially different from the performance indicated or implied by such statements. All statements other than statements of historical facts included in this conference call are forward looking statements. Speaker 100:01:13Although the company believes that the expectations reflected in such forward looking statements are reasonable, it can give no assurance that such expectations will prove to have been correct. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the company's expectations are disclosed in this conference call, the company's annual report on Form 10 ks for the year ended September 30, 2023 and the company's other filings with the SEC. All subsequent written and oral forward looking statements attributable to the company or persons acting on its behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by the cautionary statements. Unless otherwise required by law, the company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise Any forward looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, after the date of this conference call. I'd now like to turn the call over to Jeff Woosnam. Speaker 200:02:01Please go ahead, Jeff. Speaker 300:02:03Thanks, Chris, and good morning, everyone. The beginning of fiscal 2024 has provided both challenges and opportunities, which we believe we have navigated well. While product costs declined providing relief to customers, warmer temperatures resulted in lower demand and therefore reduced overall volumes. However, due to cost discipline, a weather hedge benefit and a higher per gallon margins, adjusted EBITDA was nearly equivalent to the prior year period. New customer additions were down from the extraordinary levels we experienced in the Q1 of fiscal 2023. Speaker 300:02:37This was due in part to the mild weather, but also reflected much different market conditions resulting in lower lead activity. Customer losses, however, remained in check for the quarter and more recently we were encouraged by improved net customer attrition results in January versus the same period a year ago. We'll have to see how the remainder of the heating season progresses, but we remain 100% dedicated to providing The best customer service and responsiveness possible. We're pleased to see continued improvement in our internal customer satisfaction indicators, Most notably, our net promoter scores, a well known metric that measures customer loyalty and specifically the willingness to recommend our brands. As previously reported, we completed 2 small heating oil acquisitions during the quarter in November. Speaker 300:03:25And I'm pleased to announce that we closed 2 more businesses just this week. One is a heating oil provider and another a propane dealer. Both are located on Long Island and serves as further strengthen our presence in that market. Our acquisition program continues to be an important part of our growth strategy and we have been very busy of late working on a few other attractive opportunities that we feel would be great additions the organization. While it's too early to say how fiscal 2024 will play out, we remain focused on operational efficiency, controlling expenses and solid margin management and believe we are well positioned to address whatever challenges or opportunity might present themselves going forward. Speaker 300:04:05With that, I'll turn the call over to Rich to provide additional comments on the quarter's financial results. Rich? Speaker 200:04:11Thanks, Jeff, and good morning, everyone. For the quarter, our home heating oil and propane volume decreased by 9,000,000 gallons or 10% to approximately 80,000,000 gallons as the additional volume provided from acquisitions was more than offset by the impact of warmer weather, net customer attrition and other factors. Temperatures in STAAR's geographic areas of operations for the 3 months ending December 31, 2023 were 9.6 warmer than the 3 months ending December 31, 2022 and 13.8 percent warmer than normal. Our product gross profit fell by $5,600,000 or 4 percent to approximately $145,000,000 as the impact of an increase in per gallon margins was more than offset by the decline in volume sales. We did realize a combined gross profit from service and installation $4,400,000 for the 3 months ending December 31, 2023 compared to a gross profit of 1,700,000 for the 3 months ending December 31, 2022, a $2,700,000 increase in profitability. Speaker 200:05:21Branch, Delivery and G and A expenses decreased by $3,000,000 or 3 percent to $101,000,000 During the first quarter of fiscal 2024, the company recorded a benefit under its weather hedge of $1,000,000 compared to a charge of $400,000 in the prior year's comparable period accounting for a $1,400,000 favorable change in expense year over year. Delivery expense declined by $2,900,000 or 9% due to the 10% decline in home heating oil and propane volume. Sales and marketing costs also declined by $1,000,000 reflecting a lower level of customer gains and related expenses. However, Insurance expense rose by $2,300,000 largely due to higher premiums and expected claim costs. During the Q1 of fiscal 2024, we recorded $19,000,000 non cash charge related to the change in the fair value of our derivative instruments. Speaker 200:06:24By comparison, in the Q1 of fiscal 2023, we recorded a $17,600,000 charge. Net income decreased by $600,000 in the quarter The $13,000,000 as the aforementioned unfavorable change in the fair market value of derivative instruments of $1,400,000 and higher depreciation and Exaction expense of $600,000 was only partially offset by lower interest expense of $1,100,000 Adjusted EBITDA was unchanged at approximately $49,000,000 as an increase in home heating oil and propane per gallon margins, Higher service and installation profitability and lower operating costs were offset by the decline in home heating oil and propane volume of 10%. And with that, I'd like to turn the call back over to Jeff. Speaker 300:07:27Thanks, Chris. At this time, we're pleased to address any Questions you may have. Chris, can you please open the phone lines for questions? Operator00:08:10Today's first question comes from Tim Mullen with Laurelton Management. Please go ahead, sir. Speaker 400:08:17Hey, thanks for taking my questions. Just two quick questions. First is just in terms of Creditworthiness of customers, have you seen anything change kind of over the past few quarters? Obviously, Prices have come down, which I assume has been helpful on the margin, but anything any kind of color or commentary on that front would be appreciated. And then the second question just revolves around the buyback activity, obviously slowing quite a bit without I mean activity in November December, it looks like. Speaker 400:08:51Obviously, that program is the buyback is somewhat programmatic, but Do you anticipate any changes kind of based where the stock price is now? And if so, when would those be announced? Thanks. Speaker 200:09:06Well, I'll answer the second question first. We don't expect any changes to the unit repurchase plan. I believe it does expire in the next couple of months. So I imagine we're going to roll it over like we always have in the past. And again, that's a program that we're not really directing on a day to day basis. Speaker 200:09:29It's automatic depending on where The share prices and we buy as many units in as we can under the calculations. With regard to customer credit, I think we're in a little bit better shape this year than last year. The receivables are down on a comparable basis December, December, Customer credit balances are up. So I don't believe we're going to see any further Not that there was a whole heck of a lot of deterioration in the customer base, but a significant increase in charge offs for delinquent accounts. But it is the economy is a little tight when it comes to credit as we all do kind of know. Operator00:10:25Our next question comes from Michael Prouting with 10 ks Capital. Please go ahead, sir. Speaker 500:10:33Good morning, guys. Speaker 300:10:35Good morning. Good morning, Michael. Speaker 500:10:38So, Jeff, I'll surprise you by starting off with a Question on churn or customer attrition. So normally, I believe you guys see customer gains In the 1st fiscal quarter, whereas you had, Albeit very small, but you had some customer losses in the past quarter. So just wanted to get your commentary around that and Also your expectations for attrition for the current fiscal year? And then the other question I had was on the acquisition front. By the way, congratulations on the recent acquisitions. Speaker 500:11:22I guess, three questions around acquisitions. First, if you could just characterize the pipeline right now. 2nd, as always, curious to know if there's any larger deals that might be on the horizon. And then thirdly, I'm wondering if you can just give us some thoughts around pricing of acquisitions, particularly Given the history we've seen of warmer weather the last few years, how you Back to that into your acquisition pricing? Thanks. Speaker 300:11:59You bet, So in terms of attrition, I think we were in a very good position to take advantage of a lot of market activity in the Q1 of 2023. And I think we've commented on this before, but We believe the factors that contributed to that certainly were a combination of A tremendous price volatility. There were some isolated supply concern in the marketplace. And of course, we had colder weather. This year, those conditions just simply did not exist and weather was 14% warmer than normal, I think 9%, 9.5% warmer than the prior year. Speaker 300:12:50And we've seen some receding in the cost of product and some stability in the cost. So those conditions overall just didn't exist and That certainly affected the lead activity and opportunity in the marketplace this quarter. As I mentioned in my comments, we were able to hold losses in check, and even on a percentage of count basis, I think they were slightly lower. So from that standpoint, I think it kind of explains the quarter to quarter difference. And going forward, we were encouraged by improved net customer attrition this January as compared to January a year ago and we're just going to have see how the rest of the year progresses. Speaker 500:13:45Okay, great. Thanks. Speaker 300:13:49And on the acquisition front, I would just tell you that we're very pleased that we closed 2 strategic deals in November, 2 more this week And we do have a number of attractive opportunities in the pipeline. We've probably Our team is probably as busy as it's been in a few years. And that's very encouraging to us. It's as you know, it's a long and detailed process and we'll have to see how which of those opportunities come to fruition. Speaker 500:14:33Okay, fair enough. And then how do you factor in The warmer weather trends when you look at pricing on an acquisition? Speaker 300:14:45We just look at each opportunity and Individual, Michael, and on an individual basis and we certainly Whether adjusts and make considerations in our valuation and Again, we just look at each opportunity on its own merit. Speaker 500:15:07Okay, fair enough. And just curious then, have you seen or what trends you might around pricing on acquisitions and I'll leave it at that. Thanks. Speaker 300:15:20I don't know that I've seen any significant change in valuations recently. Speaker 500:15:26Okay. All right. Thanks. Operator00:15:42At this time, we are showing no further questioners in the queue and this does conclude our question and answer session. Would now like to turn the call back over to Jeff Woosnam for any closing remarks. Speaker 300:15:55Well, thank you for taking the time to join us today and your ongoing interest in Star Group. We look forward to sharing our 2024 fiscal 2nd quarter results Thanks, everybody. Operator00:16:11The conference has now concluded. 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There are 6 speakers on the call. Operator00:00:00Good day, and welcome to the STAAR Group Fiscal 20 24 First Quarter Results Conference Call and Webcast. Please note that this event is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to Chris Witty, Investor Relations Advisor. Please go ahead, sir. Speaker 100:00:40Thank you and good morning. With me on the call today are Jeff Woosnam, President and Chief Executive Officer and Rich Ambury, Chief Financial Officer. I would now like to provide a brief Safe Harbor statement. This conference call may include forward looking statements that represent the company's expectations and beliefs concerning future events that involve risks and uncertainties and may cause the company's actual performance to be materially different from the performance indicated or implied by such statements. All statements other than statements of historical facts included in this conference call are forward looking statements. Speaker 100:01:13Although the company believes that the expectations reflected in such forward looking statements are reasonable, it can give no assurance that such expectations will prove to have been correct. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the company's expectations are disclosed in this conference call, the company's annual report on Form 10 ks for the year ended September 30, 2023 and the company's other filings with the SEC. All subsequent written and oral forward looking statements attributable to the company or persons acting on its behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by the cautionary statements. Unless otherwise required by law, the company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise Any forward looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, after the date of this conference call. I'd now like to turn the call over to Jeff Woosnam. Speaker 200:02:01Please go ahead, Jeff. Speaker 300:02:03Thanks, Chris, and good morning, everyone. The beginning of fiscal 2024 has provided both challenges and opportunities, which we believe we have navigated well. While product costs declined providing relief to customers, warmer temperatures resulted in lower demand and therefore reduced overall volumes. However, due to cost discipline, a weather hedge benefit and a higher per gallon margins, adjusted EBITDA was nearly equivalent to the prior year period. New customer additions were down from the extraordinary levels we experienced in the Q1 of fiscal 2023. Speaker 300:02:37This was due in part to the mild weather, but also reflected much different market conditions resulting in lower lead activity. Customer losses, however, remained in check for the quarter and more recently we were encouraged by improved net customer attrition results in January versus the same period a year ago. We'll have to see how the remainder of the heating season progresses, but we remain 100% dedicated to providing The best customer service and responsiveness possible. We're pleased to see continued improvement in our internal customer satisfaction indicators, Most notably, our net promoter scores, a well known metric that measures customer loyalty and specifically the willingness to recommend our brands. As previously reported, we completed 2 small heating oil acquisitions during the quarter in November. Speaker 300:03:25And I'm pleased to announce that we closed 2 more businesses just this week. One is a heating oil provider and another a propane dealer. Both are located on Long Island and serves as further strengthen our presence in that market. Our acquisition program continues to be an important part of our growth strategy and we have been very busy of late working on a few other attractive opportunities that we feel would be great additions the organization. While it's too early to say how fiscal 2024 will play out, we remain focused on operational efficiency, controlling expenses and solid margin management and believe we are well positioned to address whatever challenges or opportunity might present themselves going forward. Speaker 300:04:05With that, I'll turn the call over to Rich to provide additional comments on the quarter's financial results. Rich? Speaker 200:04:11Thanks, Jeff, and good morning, everyone. For the quarter, our home heating oil and propane volume decreased by 9,000,000 gallons or 10% to approximately 80,000,000 gallons as the additional volume provided from acquisitions was more than offset by the impact of warmer weather, net customer attrition and other factors. Temperatures in STAAR's geographic areas of operations for the 3 months ending December 31, 2023 were 9.6 warmer than the 3 months ending December 31, 2022 and 13.8 percent warmer than normal. Our product gross profit fell by $5,600,000 or 4 percent to approximately $145,000,000 as the impact of an increase in per gallon margins was more than offset by the decline in volume sales. We did realize a combined gross profit from service and installation $4,400,000 for the 3 months ending December 31, 2023 compared to a gross profit of 1,700,000 for the 3 months ending December 31, 2022, a $2,700,000 increase in profitability. Speaker 200:05:21Branch, Delivery and G and A expenses decreased by $3,000,000 or 3 percent to $101,000,000 During the first quarter of fiscal 2024, the company recorded a benefit under its weather hedge of $1,000,000 compared to a charge of $400,000 in the prior year's comparable period accounting for a $1,400,000 favorable change in expense year over year. Delivery expense declined by $2,900,000 or 9% due to the 10% decline in home heating oil and propane volume. Sales and marketing costs also declined by $1,000,000 reflecting a lower level of customer gains and related expenses. However, Insurance expense rose by $2,300,000 largely due to higher premiums and expected claim costs. During the Q1 of fiscal 2024, we recorded $19,000,000 non cash charge related to the change in the fair value of our derivative instruments. Speaker 200:06:24By comparison, in the Q1 of fiscal 2023, we recorded a $17,600,000 charge. Net income decreased by $600,000 in the quarter The $13,000,000 as the aforementioned unfavorable change in the fair market value of derivative instruments of $1,400,000 and higher depreciation and Exaction expense of $600,000 was only partially offset by lower interest expense of $1,100,000 Adjusted EBITDA was unchanged at approximately $49,000,000 as an increase in home heating oil and propane per gallon margins, Higher service and installation profitability and lower operating costs were offset by the decline in home heating oil and propane volume of 10%. And with that, I'd like to turn the call back over to Jeff. Speaker 300:07:27Thanks, Chris. At this time, we're pleased to address any Questions you may have. Chris, can you please open the phone lines for questions? Operator00:08:10Today's first question comes from Tim Mullen with Laurelton Management. Please go ahead, sir. Speaker 400:08:17Hey, thanks for taking my questions. Just two quick questions. First is just in terms of Creditworthiness of customers, have you seen anything change kind of over the past few quarters? Obviously, Prices have come down, which I assume has been helpful on the margin, but anything any kind of color or commentary on that front would be appreciated. And then the second question just revolves around the buyback activity, obviously slowing quite a bit without I mean activity in November December, it looks like. Speaker 400:08:51Obviously, that program is the buyback is somewhat programmatic, but Do you anticipate any changes kind of based where the stock price is now? And if so, when would those be announced? Thanks. Speaker 200:09:06Well, I'll answer the second question first. We don't expect any changes to the unit repurchase plan. I believe it does expire in the next couple of months. So I imagine we're going to roll it over like we always have in the past. And again, that's a program that we're not really directing on a day to day basis. Speaker 200:09:29It's automatic depending on where The share prices and we buy as many units in as we can under the calculations. With regard to customer credit, I think we're in a little bit better shape this year than last year. The receivables are down on a comparable basis December, December, Customer credit balances are up. So I don't believe we're going to see any further Not that there was a whole heck of a lot of deterioration in the customer base, but a significant increase in charge offs for delinquent accounts. But it is the economy is a little tight when it comes to credit as we all do kind of know. Operator00:10:25Our next question comes from Michael Prouting with 10 ks Capital. Please go ahead, sir. Speaker 500:10:33Good morning, guys. Speaker 300:10:35Good morning. Good morning, Michael. Speaker 500:10:38So, Jeff, I'll surprise you by starting off with a Question on churn or customer attrition. So normally, I believe you guys see customer gains In the 1st fiscal quarter, whereas you had, Albeit very small, but you had some customer losses in the past quarter. So just wanted to get your commentary around that and Also your expectations for attrition for the current fiscal year? And then the other question I had was on the acquisition front. By the way, congratulations on the recent acquisitions. Speaker 500:11:22I guess, three questions around acquisitions. First, if you could just characterize the pipeline right now. 2nd, as always, curious to know if there's any larger deals that might be on the horizon. And then thirdly, I'm wondering if you can just give us some thoughts around pricing of acquisitions, particularly Given the history we've seen of warmer weather the last few years, how you Back to that into your acquisition pricing? Thanks. Speaker 300:11:59You bet, So in terms of attrition, I think we were in a very good position to take advantage of a lot of market activity in the Q1 of 2023. And I think we've commented on this before, but We believe the factors that contributed to that certainly were a combination of A tremendous price volatility. There were some isolated supply concern in the marketplace. And of course, we had colder weather. This year, those conditions just simply did not exist and weather was 14% warmer than normal, I think 9%, 9.5% warmer than the prior year. Speaker 300:12:50And we've seen some receding in the cost of product and some stability in the cost. So those conditions overall just didn't exist and That certainly affected the lead activity and opportunity in the marketplace this quarter. As I mentioned in my comments, we were able to hold losses in check, and even on a percentage of count basis, I think they were slightly lower. So from that standpoint, I think it kind of explains the quarter to quarter difference. And going forward, we were encouraged by improved net customer attrition this January as compared to January a year ago and we're just going to have see how the rest of the year progresses. Speaker 500:13:45Okay, great. Thanks. Speaker 300:13:49And on the acquisition front, I would just tell you that we're very pleased that we closed 2 strategic deals in November, 2 more this week And we do have a number of attractive opportunities in the pipeline. We've probably Our team is probably as busy as it's been in a few years. And that's very encouraging to us. It's as you know, it's a long and detailed process and we'll have to see how which of those opportunities come to fruition. Speaker 500:14:33Okay, fair enough. And then how do you factor in The warmer weather trends when you look at pricing on an acquisition? Speaker 300:14:45We just look at each opportunity and Individual, Michael, and on an individual basis and we certainly Whether adjusts and make considerations in our valuation and Again, we just look at each opportunity on its own merit. Speaker 500:15:07Okay, fair enough. And just curious then, have you seen or what trends you might around pricing on acquisitions and I'll leave it at that. Thanks. Speaker 300:15:20I don't know that I've seen any significant change in valuations recently. Speaker 500:15:26Okay. All right. Thanks. Operator00:15:42At this time, we are showing no further questioners in the queue and this does conclude our question and answer session. Would now like to turn the call back over to Jeff Woosnam for any closing remarks. Speaker 300:15:55Well, thank you for taking the time to join us today and your ongoing interest in Star Group. We look forward to sharing our 2024 fiscal 2nd quarter results Thanks, everybody. Operator00:16:11The conference has now concluded. 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