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Exhibit 99.1

 

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News Release

CONTACT: Investor Relations

Taylor Morrison Home Corporation

(480) 734-2060

investor@taylormorrison.com

Taylor Morrison Reports First Quarter Sales Pace of 2.8 and Earnings per Share of $0.41

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., May 2, 2018 — Taylor Morrison Home Corporation (NYSE: TMHC) today reported first quarter total revenue of $752 million and home closings gross margin, inclusive of capitalized interest, of 18.8 percent leading to diluted earnings per share of $0.41.

First Quarter 2018 Highlights:

 

    Sales per outlet were 2.8

 

    Net sales orders were 2,443

 

    Home closings were 1,547

 

    Total revenue was $752 million

 

    Home closings gross margin, inclusive of capitalized interest, was 18.8 percent

 

    Net income was $47 million with diluted earnings per share of $0.41

“I’m proud of our strong first quarter performance and delighted that we exceeded our expectations in several operating metrics including sales, home closings gross margin and earnings per share,” said Sheryl Palmer, Chairman and CEO of Taylor Morrison. “We closed the quarter with a sales pace of 2.8—our best pace since the first half of 2013—representing a 40 percent two-year growth rate. We recognized these strong paces across our portfolio touching each market, consumer segment and price point. The momentum continued into April which had a sales pace of 2.9.”

For the first quarter, net sales orders were 2,443 with an average community count of 288. The Company ended the quarter with 4,392 units in backlog, a year-over-year increase of 12 percent, with a sales value of more than $2.1 billion.

“Our performance in the quarter drove $0.41 of EPS, a home closings gross margin of 18.8 percent and an EBT margin of 7.9 percent, both improving 80 basis points from this quarter last year,” said Palmer. “I’m pleased to see this accretion in margin rate which is due in part to mix and attributable to the strengthening of our operational efficiencies and cost savings practices.”


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“For the quarter, closings totaled 1,547, three less than our stated guidance,” added Palmer. “Although we over delivered on our expectations in Q4 despite the hurricanes, we underestimated the length of time it would take our impacted markets to recover the lost time on our construction starts. With local access to the trades tightening and the shift in focus to rebuilding efforts, our ability to close and deliver homes to our 100 percent standard of completion was affected. We are not changing our guidance for the year, as this is purely a first-half timing issue.”

“Our earnings before income taxes were $59 million, or 7.9 percent of revenue, and income taxes totaled about $12 million for the quarter, representing an effective rate of 19.8 percent,” said Dave Cone, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. “This is significantly lower than the first quarter of 2017 due in large part to tax reform. In addition, our Q1 tax rate came in more favorable due to legislation passed this February which extended energy tax credits retroactively through the end of 2017. The energy credits resulted in a one-time benefit of $3.8 million in the first quarter.”

Homebuilding inventories were $3.1 billion at the end of the quarter, including 5,053 homes in inventory, compared to 4,396 homes in inventory at the end of the prior year quarter. Homes in inventory at the end of the quarter consisted of 3,132 sold units, 384 model homes and 1,537 inventory units, of which 201 were finished.

The Company finished the quarter with $288 million in cash and a net homebuilding debt to capitalization ratio of 33.1 percent. As of March 31, 2018, Taylor Morrison owned or controlled approximately 37,000 lots, representing 4.7 years of supply, and is focused on securing land for 2020 and beyond.

Quarterly Financial Comparison

($ thousands)

     Q1 2018     Q1 2017     Q1 2018 vs. Q1 2017  

Total Revenue

   $ 752,333     $ 769,090       (2.2 )% 

Home Closings Revenue

   $ 732,959     $ 751,485       (2.5 )% 

Home Closings Gross Margin

   $ 138,053     $ 135,190       2.1
     18.8     18.0     80 bps increase  

SG&A

   $ 87,016     $ 88,745       (1.9 )% 

% of Home Closings Revenue

     11.9     11.8     10 bps increase  


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Second Quarter and Full Year 2018 Business Outlook

Second Quarter 2018:

 

  Average active community count is expected to be between 295 to 300

 

  Home closings are expected to be between 1,800 to 1,900

 

  Home closings margin, inclusive of capitalized interest is expected to be approximately 18 percent

Full Year 2018:

 

  Average active community count is expected to be flat compared to 2017

 

  Monthly absorption pace is expected to be between 2.4 to 2.5 per outlet on average

 

  Home closings are expected to be between 8,400 to 8,800

 

  Home closings gross margin, inclusive of capitalized interest, is expected to be accretive to 2017 and be in the mid to high 18 percent range

 

  SG&A as a percentage of homebuilding revenue is expected to be in the low 10 percent range

 

  Income from unconsolidated joint ventures is expected to be between $8 million to $10 million

 

  Land and development spend is expected to be approximately $1.1 billion

 

  Effective tax rate is expected to be between 24 and 26 percent

 

  Diluted share count is expected to be about 114 million


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Earnings Webcast

A public webcast to discuss the first quarter 2018 earnings will be held later today at 8:30 a.m. Eastern time. The participant dial-in is 1 (855) 470-8731 and the passcode is 7285909. More information can be found on the Company’s investor relations website at investors.taylormorrison.com. A webcast replay will also be available on the site later today and will be available for one year from the date of the original earnings call.

About Taylor Morrison

Taylor Morrison Home Corporation (NYSE: TMHC) is a leading national homebuilder and developer that has been recognized as the 2016, 2017 and 2018 America’s Most Trusted® Home Builder by Lifestory Research. Based in Scottsdale, Arizona we operate under two well-established brands, Taylor Morrison and Darling Homes. We serve a wide array of consumer groups from coast to coast, including first-time, move-up, luxury, and 55 plus buyers. In Texas, Darling Homes builds communities with a focus on individuality and custom detail while delivering on the Taylor Morrison standard of excellence.

For more information about Taylor Morrison and Darling Homes please visit www.taylormorrison.com or www.darlinghomes.com.

Forward-Looking Statements

This earnings summary includes “forward-looking statements.” These statements are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause our actual results, performance, prospects or opportunities, as well as those of the markets we serve or intend to serve, to differ materially from those expressed in, or implied by, these statements. You can identify these statements by the fact that they do not relate to matters of a strictly factual or historical nature and generally discuss or relate to forecasts, estimates or other expectations regarding future events. Generally, the words “believe,” “expect,” “intend,” “estimate,” “anticipate,” “project,” “may,” “can,” “could,” “might,” “will” and similar expressions identify forward-looking statements, including statements related to expected operating and performing results, planned transactions, planned objectives of management, future developments or conditions in the industries in which we participate and other trends, developments and uncertainties that may affect our business in the future.

Such risks, uncertainties and other factors include, among other things: changes in general and local economic conditions (including as a result of recent extreme weather conditions); slowdowns or severe downturns in the housing market; homebuyers’ ability to obtain suitable financing; increases in interest rates, taxes or government fees; impacts from the recently enacted tax reform legislation; shortages in, disruptions of and cost of labor; competition in our industry; any increase in unemployment or underemployment; inflation or deflation; the seasonality of our business; our ability to obtain additional performance, payment and completion surety bonds and letters of credit; higher cancellation rates; significant home warranty and construction defect claims; our reliance on


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subcontractors; failure to manage land acquisitions, inventory and development and construction processes; availability of land and lots; decreases in the market value of our land inventory; new or changes in government regulations and legal challenges; our compliance with environmental laws; our ability to sell mortgages we originate and claims on loans sold to third parties; governmental regulation applicable to our mortgage operations and title services business; the loss of any of our important commercial relationships; our ability to use deferred tax assets; raw materials and building supply shortages and price fluctuations; our concentration of significant operations in certain geographic areas; risks associated with our unconsolidated joint venture arrangements; information technology failures and data security breaches; costs to engage in and the success of future growth or expansion of our operations or acquisitions or disposals of businesses; costs associated with our defined benefit and defined contribution pension schemes; damages associated with any major health and safety incident; our ownership, leasing or occupation of land and the use of hazardous materials; material losses in excess of insurance limits; existing or future litigation, arbitration or other claims; negative publicity or poor relations with the residents of our communities; failure to recruit, retain and develop highly skilled, competent people; utility and resource shortages or rate fluctuations; constriction of the capital markets; risks related to our debt and the agreements governing such debt; our ability to access the capital markets; and risks related to our structure and organization. In addition, other such risks and uncertainties may be found in our most recent annual report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) as such factors may be updated from time to time in our periodic filings with the SEC. We undertake no duty to update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or changes in our expectations, except as required by applicable law.


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Taylor Morrison Home Corporation

Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations

(In thousands, except per share amounts, unaudited)

 

     Three Months Ended
March 31,
 
     2018     2017  

Home closings revenue, net

   $ 732,959     $ 751,485  

Land closings revenue

     5,168       3,356  

Financial services revenue

     14,206       14,249  
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total revenues

     752,333       769,090  

Cost of home closings

     594,906       616,295  

Cost of land closings

     4,281       2,400  

Financial services expenses

     10,044       8,702  
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total cost of revenues

     609,231       627,397  

Gross margin

     143,102       141,693  

Sales, commissions and other marketing costs

     53,698       55,617  

General and administrative expenses

     33,318       33,128  

Equity in income of unconsolidated entities

     (3,246     (1,085

Interest income, net

     (343     (90

Other expense/(income), net

     437       (351
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Income before income taxes

     59,238       54,474  

Income tax provision

     11,706       18,873  
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net income before allocation to non-controlling interests

     47,532       35,601  

Net (income)/loss attributable to non-controlling interests - joint ventures

     (129     9  
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net income before non-controlling interests - Principal Equityholders

     47,403       35,610  
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net income attributable to non-controlling interests - Principal Equityholders

     (2,470     (24,134
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net income available to Taylor Morrison Home Corporation

   $ 44,933     $ 11,476  
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Earnings per common share

    

Basic

   $ 0.42     $ 0.30  

Diluted

   $ 0.41     $ 0.30  

Weighted average number of shares of common stock:

    

Basic

     107,195       38,554  

Diluted

     114,767       120,478  


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Taylor Morrison Home Corporation

Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets

(In thousands)

 

     March 31,
2018
     December 31,
2017
 
     (Unaudited)         

Assets

     

Cash and cash equivalents

   $ 287,970      $ 573,925  

Restricted cash

     1,318        1,578  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash

     289,288        575,503  

Owned inventory

     3,064,520        2,956,709  

Real estate not owned under option agreements

     2,010        2,527  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total real estate inventory

     3,066,530        2,959,236  

Land deposits

     61,961        49,768  

Mortgage loans held for sale

     93,019        187,038  

Hedging assets

     2,453        1,584  

Prepaid expenses and other assets, net

     56,971        72,334  

Other receivables, net

     91,830        94,488  

Investments in unconsolidated entities

     196,695        192,364  

Deferred tax assets, net

     118,032        118,138  

Property and equipment, net

     39,044        7,112  

Intangible assets, net

     1,866        2,130  

Goodwill

     66,198        66,198  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total assets

   $ 4,083,887      $ 4,325,893  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Liabilities

     

Accounts payable

   $ 142,789      $ 140,165  

Accrued expenses and other liabilities

     154,533        201,540  

Income taxes payable

     14,057        4,525  

Customer deposits

     169,823        132,529  

Senior notes, net

     1,240,362        1,239,787  

Loans payable and other borrowings

     123,161        139,453  

Revolving credit facility borrowings

     —          —    

Mortgage warehouse borrowings

     41,522        118,822  

Liabilities attributable to real estate not owned under option agreements

     2,010        2,527  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total liabilities

   $ 1,888,257      $ 1,979,348  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Stockholders’ Equity

     

Total stockholders’ equity

     2,195,630        2,346,545  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity

   $ 4,083,887      $ 4,325,893  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 


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Homes Closed:    Three Months Ended March 31,  
     2018      2017  
(Dollars in thousands)    Homes      Value      Homes      Value  

East

     700      $ 284,436        682      $ 263,101  

Central

     434        213,465        424        203,465  

West

     413        235,058        524        284,919  
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total

     1,547      $ 732,959        1,630      $ 751,485  
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

Net Sales Orders:    Three Months Ended March 31,  
     2018      2017  
(Dollars in thousands)    Homes      Value      Homes      Value  

East

     1,000      $ 416,802        1,050      $ 412,043  

Central

     755        373,506        628        289,055  

West

     688        426,636        747        430,527  
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total

     2,443      $ 1,216,944        2,425      $ 1,131,625  
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

Sales Order Backlog:    As of March 31,  
     2018      2017  
(Dollars in thousands)    Homes      Value      Homes      Value  

East

     1,813      $ 781,273        1,589      $ 676,054  

Central

     1,372        675,944        1,162        589,305  

West

     1,207        728,056        1,176        660,024  
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total

     4,392      $ 2,185,273        3,927      $ 1,925,383  
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

Average Active Selling Communities:    Three Months
Ended

March 31,
 
     2018      2017  

East

     124        125  

Central

     115        116  

West

     49        57  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total

     288        298  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

Average Selling Price of Homes Closed:    Three Months
Ended

March 31,
 
(Dollars in thousands)    2018      2017  

East

   $ 406      $ 386  

Central

     492        480  

West

     569        544  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total

   $ 474      $ 461  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 


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Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Financial Measures

The following tables set forth reconciliations of: (i) EBITDA and adjusted EBITDA to net income before allocation to non-controlling interests and (ii) net homebuilding debt to total capitalization ratio.

Adjusted EBITDA is a non-GAAP financial measure that measures performance by adjusting net income to exclude interest amortized to cost of sales and interest income, net, income taxes, depreciation and amortization, non-cash compensation expense and loss on extinguishment of debt, if any. Net homebuilding debt to capitalization is a non-GAAP financial measure we calculate by dividing (i) total debt, less unamortized debt issuance costs and mortgage warehouse borrowings, net of unrestricted cash and cash equivalents, by (ii) total capitalization (the sum of net homebuilding debt and total stockholders’ equity).

Management uses these non-GAAP financial measures to evaluate our performance on a consolidated basis, as well as the performance of our regions, and to set targets for performance-based compensation. We also use the ratio of net homebuilding debt to total capitalization as an indicator of overall leverage and to evaluate our performance against other companies in the homebuilding industry. In the future, we may include additional adjustments in the above described non-GAAP financial measures to the extent we deem them appropriate and useful to management and investors.

We believe adjusted EBITDA provides useful information to investors regarding our results of operations because it allows investors to evaluate our performance without the effects of various items we do not believe are characteristic of our ongoing operations or performance and because it assists both investors and management in analyzing and benchmarking the performance and value of our business. Adjusted EBITDA also provides an indicator of general economic performance that is not affected by fluctuations in interest rates or effective tax rates, levels of depreciation or amortization, or non-recurring items. Because we use the ratio of net homebuilding debt to total capitalization to evaluate our performance against other companies in the homebuilding industry, we believe this measure is also relevant and useful to investors for that reason.

These non-GAAP financial measures and should be considered in addition to, rather than as a substitute for, the comparable U.S. GAAP financial measures of our operating performance or liquidity. Although other companies in the homebuilding industry may report similar information, their definitions may differ. We urge investors to understand the methods used by other companies to calculate similarly-titled non-GAAP financial measures before comparing their measures to ours.


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Adjusted EBITDA Reconciliation

 

     Three Months Ended
March 31,
 
(Dollars in thousands)    2018     2017  

Net income before allocation to non-controlling interests

   $ 47,532     $ 35,601  

Interest income, net

     (343     (90

Amortization of capitalized interest

     14,848       20,297  

Income tax provision

     11,706       18,873  

Depreciation and amortization

     1,033       1,071  
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

EBITDA

   $ 74,776     $ 75,752  

Non-cash compensation expense

     3,543       3,012  
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Adjusted EBITDA

   $ 78,319     $ 78,764  
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net Homebuilding Debt to Capitalization Ratio Reconciliation

 

(Dollars in thousands)    As of
March 31,
2018
 

Total debt

   $ 1,405,045  

Unamortized debt issuance costs

     9,638  

Less mortgage warehouse borrowings

     41,522  
  

 

 

 

Total homebuilding debt

   $ 1,373,161  

Less cash and cash equivalents

     287,970  
  

 

 

 

Net homebuilding debt

   $ 1,085,191  

Total equity

     2,195,630  
  

 

 

 

Total capitalization

   $ 3,280,821  
  

 

 

 

Net homebuilding debt to capitalization ratio

     33.1