Pitney Bowes Announces First Quarter 2021 Financial Results

Revenue benefited primarily from growth in volumes across all services. EBIT and EBITDA benefited from improved Cross Border and Digital Delivery Service margins, partly offset by higher costs in Domestic Parcel Services. EBIT and EBITDA improved through the quarter with March being EBITDA positive.

Presort Services

 

First Quarter

($ millions)

2021

2020

% Change
Reported

% Change
Ex Currency

Revenue

$143

 

$141

 

2%

 

2%

EBITDA

$27

 

$23

 

13%

 

 

EBIT

$19

 

$16

 

21%

 

 

Revenue benefited primarily from growth in Marketing Mail. EBIT and EBITDA margins improved over prior year and were the highest margins in five quarters.

SendTech Solutions

 

First Quarter

($ millions)

2021

2020

% Change
Reported

% Change
Ex Currency

Revenue

$359

 

$363

 

(1%)

 

(3%)

EBITDA

$122

 

$116

 

6%

 

 

EBIT

$114

 

$107

 

7%

 

 

Revenue benefited from growth in equipment sales, business services and rentals, partly offset by declines in financing, supplies and support services. EBIT margin improved from prior year and was the highest margin in three quarters.

Full Year 2021 Expectations

The Company’s full year 2021 expectations are consistent with what was communicated last quarter. The Company expects annual revenue to grow in the low-to-mid single digit range, making 2021 the fifth consecutive year of constant currency growth. The Company expects adjusted EPS to grow over prior year driven largely by improvement in Global Ecommerce, which is expected to be EBITDA positive for the full year. The Company also expects lower free cash flow primarily due to specific items that benefited 2020 and are not expected to continue at the same level in 2021.

Conference Call and Webcast

Management of Pitney Bowes will discuss the Company’s results in a broadcast over the Internet today at 8:00 a.m. EST. Instructions for listening to the earnings results via the Web are available on the Investor Relations page of the Company’s web site at www.pitneybowes.com.

About Pitney Bowes

Pitney Bowes (NYSE: PBI) is a global technology company providing commerce solutions that power billions of transactions. Clients around the world, including 90 percent of the Fortune 500, rely on the accuracy and precision delivered by Pitney Bowes solutions, analytics, and APIs in the areas of ecommerce fulfillment, shipping and returns; cross-border ecommerce; office mailing and shipping; presort services; and financing. For 100 years, Pitney Bowes has been innovating and delivering technologies that remove the complexity of getting commerce transactions precisely right. For additional information, visit www.pitneybowes.com.

Use of Non-GAAP Measures

The Company's financial results are reported in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP); however, in its disclosures the Company uses certain non-GAAP measures, such as adjusted earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT), adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA), adjusted earnings per share (EPS), revenue growth on a constant currency basis and free cash flow.

The Company reports measures such as adjusted EBIT, adjusted EBITDA and adjusted EPS to exclude the impact of items like discontinued operations, restructuring charges, gains, losses and costs related to acquisitions and dispositions, asset impairment charges, goodwill impairment charges and other unusual or one-time items. While these are actual Company income or expenses, they can mask underlying trends associated with its business. Such items are often inconsistent in amount and frequency and as such, the non-GAAP measures provide investors greater insight into the underlying operating trends of the business.

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