Foods : Reports Third Quarter 2020 Financial Results
November 09, 2020 at 04:01 pm EST
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CITY OF INDUSTRY, Calif., Nov. 09, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- HF Foods Group Inc. (NASDAQ: HFFG), a leading food distributor to Asian restaurants across the Southeast, Pacific and Mountain West regions of the United States, reported third quarter and pro forma financial results for the period ended September 30, 2020.
As previously announced in a press release on November 4, 2019, HF Foods merged with B&R Global Holdings (“B&R”). The pro forma results reflect the combined results of HF Foods Group and B&R as if the transaction had occurred on the first day of the prior period presented.
Third Quarter 2020 Financial Summary (which includes the B&R transaction in Q3 2020 but not Q3 2019)
Net revenue increased 85% to $139.9 million compared to $75.7 million in the third quarter of 2019.
Gross profit was $25.2 million, or 18.0% of total revenue, compared to $12.2 million, or 16.1% of total revenue, in the third quarter of 2019.
Net loss was $624,000, or $(0.01) per diluted share. This compares to net income of $1.3 million, or $0.06 per diluted share, in the third quarter of 2019.
Adjusted EBITDA was $6.0 million compared to $2.7 million in the third quarter of 2019.
Pro Forma Third Quarter 2020 Financial Summary
Pro forma net revenue decreased to $139.9 million from $205.1 million.
Pro forma gross profit was $25.2 million, or 18.0% of total revenue, compared to $32.4 million, or 15.8% of total revenue, in the third quarter of 2019.
Pro forma net loss was $624,000, or $(0.01) per diluted share, compared to net income of $1.5 million, or $0.03 per diluted share, in the third quarter of 2019.
Pro forma adjusted EBITDA was $6.0 million compared to $7.3 million in the third quarter of 2019.
“While we have faced substantial challenges since the COVID-19 pandemic began impacting the U.S. in March, our flexible organizational structure and resilient customer base have allowed us to adapt to changing circumstances, stabilize the business, and reposition our organization for long-term success,” said Zhou Min Ni, chairman and Co-CEO of HF Foods. “We operate as a market leader in a highly fragmented industry, which provides us with the unique ability to capitalize on opportunities that will be created in the wake of the current environment. While we cannot predict how COVID-19 or the response to the virus will evolve, we remain optimistic that our scale and our deep understanding of our unique customer base will allow us to return to our long-term growth path when our industry recovers to pre-COVID-19 levels.”
Liquidity & Sales Volumes At the end of the third quarter of 2020, HF Foods had $9.2 million in cash and access to approximately $74.8 million in additional funds through its $100 million line of credit, subject to a borrowing base calculation. The strategic cost management actions undertaken in late March and April 2020 resulted in an overall increase of the available line of credit, ensured the Company could confidently navigate through an unconventional operating environment, and have positioned the company to expand operating margins as the impacts of COVID-19 on the food services industry diminish.
Since late April 2020, the Company has experienced a steady recovery of business volume as fear among consumers began to subside and pent-up demand for restaurant dining began to build. In the months of May and June, weekly sales recovered to over 50% and 60% of pre-COVID-19 levels, and that recovery trend continued into the third quarter. The Company is now experiencing relatively stable sales volumes equivalent to approximately 70% of pre-COVID-19 levels. With current sales volumes and its adjusted cost structure, the Company is generating positive operating cash flows on a weekly basis.
Peter Zhang, Co-CEO, commented, “Since the second quarter, our weekly sales volumes have steadily improved, and today, they are stable at approximately 70% of pre-COVID-19 levels. These sales volumes, combined with the decisive actions we took to reduce our operating costs, have ensured that we operate more efficiently and continue to generate weekly positive operating cash flows. Because of these internal improvements, we believe we are on stronger footing today than before the pandemic and are optimistic that we will realize even greater operational efficiencies as the effects of the pandemic slowly dissipate.”
Pro Forma Results for the Third Quarter of 2020 On a pro forma basis, revenue in the third quarter of 2020 decreased to $139.9 million compared to $205.1 million in the same period last year. The decrease in revenue was due to a decline in sales to independent restaurants as many experienced forced closures or conversion to a take-out only model in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Pro forma gross profit was $25.2 million (18.0% of total revenue) compared to $32.4 million (15.8% of total revenue) in the third quarter of 2019. The improvement in gross margin was primarily attributable to the Company’s strengthened purchasing power and the elimination of lower margin sales to buffet restaurants, many of which remain severely impacted by the outbreak of COVID-19.
Pro forma distribution, selling and administrative expenses for the third quarter were $25.1 million compared to $29.0 million in the same period last year. The $4.0 million decrease was mainly attributed to a corresponding $5.9 million reduction in distribution and selling costs, which was offset by a non-recurring $1.9 million increase in legal expense. Distribution, selling and administrative expenses also included a substantial straight-line amortization of $2.7 million on intangibles, including tradenames and customer relationships associated with the B&R merger transaction based on U.S. accounting GAAP rules.
Pro forma net loss for the third quarter of 2020 was $624,000, or $(0.01) per diluted share, compared to net income of $1.5 million, or $0.03 per diluted share, in the third quarter of 2019.
Adjusted EBITDA on a pro forma basis in the third quarter of 2020 was $6.0 million compared to $7.3 million in the same period last year. The decline was primarily due to reduced revenues, as described above.
About HF Foods Group Inc. HF Foods Group Inc., headquartered in City of Industry, California, is a leading marketer and distributor of fresh produce, frozen and dry food, and non-food products to primarily Asian/Chinese restaurants and other foodservice customers throughout the Southeast, Pacific and Mountain West regions of the United States. With 14 distribution centers along the U.S. eastern and western seaboards, HF Foods aims to supply the increasing demand for Asian American restaurant cuisine. With an in-house proprietary ordering and inventory control network, more than 10,000 established customers in 21 states, and strong relations with growers and suppliers of food products in the US and China, HF Foods Group is able to offer fresh, high-quality specialty restaurant foods and supplies at economical prices to its large and growing base of customers. For more information, please visit hffoodsgroup.com.
Non-GAAP Financial Measures Adjusted EBITDA: The Company believes that adjusted EBITDA is a useful performance measure and can be used to facilitate a comparison of the Company’s operating performance on a consistent basis from period to period and to provide for a more complete understanding of factors and trends affecting the business than GAAP measures alone can provide. Management believes that adjusted EBITDA is less susceptible to variances in actual performance resulting from depreciation, amortization and other non-cash charges and more reflective of other factors that directly affect our operating performance. Management believes that the use of these non-GAAP financial measures provides an additional tool for investors to use in evaluating ongoing operating results and trends and in comparing the Company’s financial performance with that of other companies in the same industry, many of which present similar non-GAAP financial measures to investors. The Company presents adjusted EBITDA in order to provide supplemental information that the Company considers relevant for the readers of our consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in its reports filed with the SEC, including its current Quarterly Report on Form 10Q, and such information is not meant to replace or supersede U.S. GAAP measures.
The following table sets forth of the calculation of adjusted EBITDA and reconciliation to net income (loss), the closest U.S. GAAP measure:
For the three months ended September 30,
Change
2020
2019
Amount
%
Net income (loss)
$
(396,939
)
$
1,528,671
$
(1,925,610
)
(126.0
)
%
Interest expenses
840,851
482,099
358,752
74.4
%
Income tax provision
(80,910
)
607,142
(688,052
)
(113.3
)
%
Depreciation & Amortization
4,474,892
738,904
3,735,988
505.6
%
EBITDA
4,837,894
3,356,816
1,481,078
44.1
%
Change in fair value of interest rate swap contracts
20,022
—
20,022
100.0
%
COVID-19 bad debt reserve recovery
(750,945
)
—
(750,945
)
100.0
%
Non-recurring (income) expenses*
1,866,415
(625,000
)
2,491,415
(398.6
)
%
Adjusted EBITDA
$
5,973,386
$
2,731,816
$
3,241,570
118.7
%
Percentage of revenue
4.3
%
3.6
%
0.7
%
19.4
%
Forward-Looking Statements All statements in this news release other than statements of historical facts are forward-looking statements which contain our current expectations about our future results. We have attempted to identify any forward-looking statements by using words such as “anticipates,” “believes,” “could,” “expects,” “intends,” “may,” “should” and other similar expressions. Although we believe that the expectations reflected in all of our forward-looking statements are reasonable, we can give no assurance that such expectations will prove to be correct. Such statements are not guarantees of future performance or events and are subject to known and unknown risks and uncertainties that could cause the Company’s actual results, events or financial positions to differ materially from those included within or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such factors include, but are not limited to, unfavorable macroeconomic conditions in the United States, competition in the food service distribution industry, particularly the entry of new competitors into the Chinese/Asian restaurant market niche, increases in fuel costs or commodity prices, disruption of relationships with vendors and increases in product prices, U.S. government tariffs on products imported into the United States, particularly from China, changes in consumer eating and dining out habits, disruption of relationships with or loss of customers, our ability to execute our acquisition strategy, availability of financing to execute our acquisition strategy, control of the Company by our Chief Executive Officer and principal stockholder, failure to retain our senior management and other key personnel, our ability to attract, train and retain employees, changes in and enforcement of immigration laws, failure to comply with various federal, state and local rules and regulations regarding food safety, sanitation, transportation, minimum wage, overtime and other health and safety laws, product recalls, voluntary recalls or withdrawals if any of the products we distribute are alleged to have caused illness, been mislabeled, misbranded or adulterated or to otherwise have violated applicable government regulations, failure to protect our intellectual property rights, any cyber security incident, other technology disruption, or delay in implementing our information technology systems, statements of assumption underlying any of the foregoing, the continuing impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, and other factors disclosed under the caption “Risk Factors” in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2019 and other filings with the SEC. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date made. Except as required by law, we undertake no obligation to disclose any revision to these forward-looking statements.
HF Foods Group Inc. Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets (Unaudited)
As of
September 30, 2020
December 31, 2019
ASSETS
CURRENT ASSETS:
Cash
$
9,180,314
$
14,538,286
Accounts receivable, net
24,511,153
50,027,134
Accounts receivable - related parties, net
883,331
4,202,870
Inventories, net
61,691,395
77,531,854
Advances to suppliers - related parties, net
297,848
745,135
Other current assets
4,704,736
4,374,338
TOTAL CURRENT ASSETS
101,268,777
151,419,617
Property and equipment, net
138,107,128
37,538,147
Security deposits - related parties
—
591,380
Operating lease right-of-use assets
693,982
17,155,584
Long-term investments
2,361,888
2,296,276
Intangible assets, net
178,520,225
186,687,950
Goodwill
68,511,941
406,703,348
Deferred tax assets
75,411
78,993
Other long-term assets
349,662
372,499
TOTAL ASSETS
$
489,889,014
$
802,843,794
CURRENT LIABILITIES:
Bank overdraft
$
5,548,970
$
14,952,510
Lines of credit
25,208,939
41,268,554
Accounts payable
33,685,243
39,689,911
Accounts payable - related parties
2,663,255
4,521,356
Advances from customers - related parties
6,147
—
Current portion of long-term debt, net
7,736,016
2,726,981
Current portion of obligations under finance leases
292,917
280,243
Current portion of obligations under operating leases
264,335
4,322,503
Accrued expenses and other liabilities
5,212,229
2,610,538
Obligations under interest rate swap contracts
1,357,434
73,158
TOTAL CURRENT LIABILITIES
81,975,485
110,445,754
Long-term debt, net
87,372,668
18,535,016
Promissory note payable - related party
7,000,000
—
Obligations under finance leases, non-current
832,973
1,053,166
Obligations under operating leases, non-current
429,647
12,833,081
Deferred tax liabilities
49,144,170
52,320,045
TOTAL LIABILITIES
226,754,943
195,187,062
SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY:
Preferred Stock, $0.0001 par value, 1,000,000 shares authorized , no shares issued and outstanding as of September 30, 2020 and December 31, 2019, respectively
—
—
Common Stock, $0.0001 par value, 100,000,000 shares authorized, 53,050,211 shares issued, and 52,145,096 shares outstanding as of September 30, 2020 and December 31, 2019, respectively
5,305
5,305
Treasury Stock, at cost, 905,115 shares as of September 30, 2020 and December 31, 2019, respectively
(12,038,030
)
(12,038,030
)
Additional paid-in capital
599,617,009
599,617,009
Retained earnings (accumulated deficit)
(328,742,988
)
15,823,661
Total shareholders’ equity attributable to HF Foods Group Inc.
258,841,296
603,407,945
Noncontrolling interests
4,292,775
4,248,787
TOTAL SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY
263,134,071
607,656,732
TOTAL LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY
$
489,889,014
$
802,843,794
HF Foods Group Inc. Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations (Unaudited)
For the three months ended September 30,
For the nine months ended September 30,
2020
2019
2020
2019
Net revenue - third parties
$
137,631,565
$
70,568,373
$
409,375,346
$
211,520,517
Net revenue - related parties
2,287,377
5,130,504
10,907,028
13,697,588
TOTAL NET REVENUE
139,918,942
75,698,877
420,282,374
225,218,105
Cost of revenue - third parties
112,535,923
58,598,428
335,147,332
174,634,207
Cost of revenue - related parties
2,220,161
4,908,301
10,384,355
13,172,741
TOTAL COST OF REVENUE
114,756,084
63,506,729
345,531,687
187,806,948
GROSS PROFIT
25,162,858
12,192,148
74,750,687
37,411,157
DISTRIBUTION, SELLING AND ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES
25,050,419
9,969,785
79,549,580
31,428,998
INCOME (LOSS) FROM OPERATIONS
112,439
2,222,363
(4,798,893
)
5,982,159
Other Income (Expenses)
Interest income
133
113,930
396
418,397
Interest expenses
(840,851
)
(482,099
)
(3,116,739
)
(1,207,217
)
Goodwill impairment loss
—
—
(338,191,407
)
—
Other income
270,452
281,619
940,832
905,149
Change in fair value of interest rate swap contracts
(20,022
)
—
(1,284,276
)
—
Total Other Income (Expenses), net
(590,288
)
(86,550
)
(341,651,194
)
116,329
INCOME (LOSS) BEFORE INCOME TAX PROVISION (BENEFIT)
(477,849
)
2,135,813
(346,450,087
)
6,098,488
PROVISION (BENEFIT) FOR INCOME TAXES
(80,910
)
607,142
(2,052,426
)
1,715,532
NET INCOME (LOSS)
(396,939
)
1,528,671
(344,397,661
)
4,382,956
Less: net income attributable to noncontrolling interests
226,865
181,106
168,988
339,683
NET INCOME (LOSS) ATTRIBUTABLE TO HF FOODS GROUP INC.
$
(623,804
)
$
1,347,565
$
(344,566,649
)
$
4,043,273
Earnings (loss) per common share - basic and diluted
HF Foods Group Inc. is a marketer and distributor of fresh produce, frozen and dry food, and non-food products to primarily Asian/Chinese restaurants and other foodservice customers throughout the United States. The Company's business features approximately 18 distribution centers and cross-docks with over one million square feet of warehouse space and a fleet of over 400 vehicles to provide a variety of products with a focus on Asian specialty food ingredients essential for Asian cooking. The Company offers over 2,000 different products to its customers. Its product categories include seafood, Asian specialty, meat and poultry, fresh produce, packaging and other, and commodity. Its seafood category includes lobster, shrimp, crab, scallops and fish, such as tuna and Alaskan salmon. The Company's fresh produce category includes seasonal fruits and vegetables, such as celery, Chinese cabbage and winter melon. Its meat and poultry category includes beef, pork, chicken and duck.