Mac-Gray Announces Third-Quarter Financial Results

WALTHAM, Mass., Oct. 31, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Mac-Gray Corporation (NYSE: TUC), the nation's premier provider of laundry facilities management services to multi-family housing, today announced its financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2013.

Mac-Gray reported that third quarter of 2013 revenue increased to $79.5 million, compared with $77.9 million in the third quarter of 2012.  Net income for the third quarter of 2013 was $1.5 million, or $0.09 per diluted share, compared with net income of $1.5 million, or $0.10 per diluted share, for the same period in 2012.  Third-quarter 2013 net income includes $420,000 of transaction costs related to the previously announced proposed merger with CSC Fenway, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Spin Holdco Inc., which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of CSC ServiceWorks, Inc., and a pre-tax unrealized gain of $29,000 related to fuel commodity derivatives. Third-quarter of 2012 net income included non-cash unrealized gains related to interest rate and fuel commodity derivative instruments of $125,000, and $67,000, respectively. Excluding these items from both periods, adjusted net income for the third quarter of 2013 increased to $1.7 million, or $0.11 per diluted share, compared with adjusted net income for the third quarter of 2012 of $1.2 million, or $0.08 per diluted share.

Please refer to Table 1, included at the end of this news release, for a reconciliation of net income, as reported, to net income, as adjusted.

For the third quarter of 2013, Mac-Gray's earnings before interest expense, income tax expense, depreciation and amortization expense (EBITDA) was $14.6 million, compared with $15.6 million in the year-earlier quarter.  Excluding from both periods, unrealized gains/losses related to interest rate and fuel commodity derivative instruments as well as transaction costs in the third quarter of 2013, EBITDA was $15.0 million for the third quarter of 2013, compared with $15.4 million in the year-earlier quarter.

Please refer to Table 2, included at the end of this news release, for a reconciliation of net income to EBITDA and EBITDA, as adjusted.

"Results for the third-quarter improved over last year's same period with revenue growth of two percent and our sixth consecutive quarter of increased profitability," said Chief Executive Officer Stewart G. MacDonald. "Same-location multi-housing revenue grew 1% in the third quarter compared with the third quarter of 2012, primarily reflecting the success of our vend management capabilities.  Commercial equipment sales grew 29 percent over last year's third quarter reflecting strength in this sector, despite a reduced scope to only the New England region."

"Our business through the first nine months of the year is stable, with year-to-date revenue and gross margin on par with the same period in 2012," MacDonald said. "During this year we have completed and successfully integrated the tuck-in acquisitions of three small laundry facilities management businesses that have contributed to our performance."

Net income, as adjusted, and EBITDA, as adjusted, exclude unrealized gains/losses related to interest rate derivative instruments and fuel commodity derivatives, and any one-time charges to income.

In light of the pending merger of Mac-Gray with CSC Fenway, the Company will not be hosting a third-quarter financial results conference call and has discontinued its financial guidance. Further, Mac-Gray's previous guidance for 2013 is withdrawn and should not be relied upon.  Mac-Gray will publish further details regarding its third-quarter results in the Management's Discussion and Analysis and consolidated financial statements of its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, which it plans to file next week with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

About Mac-Gray Corporation
Founded in 1927, Mac-Gray derives its revenue principally through the contracting of debit-card- and coin-operated laundry facilities in multi-unit housing facilities such as apartment buildings, college and university residence halls, condominiums and public housing complexes. Mac-Gray manages laundry rooms in 44 states and the District of Columbia. Mac-Gray also sells and services commercial laundry equipment to retail laundromats and other customers through its product sales division. To learn more about Mac-Gray, visit the Company's website at www.macgray.com.

Safe Harbor Statement

This news release contains certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, including statements regarding the proposed merger with CSC Fenway, including the timing of the transaction.  Mac-Gray intends such forward-looking statements to be covered by the Safe Harbor provisions for forward-looking statements contained in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, and is including this statement for purposes of complying with these Safe Harbor provisions.  Forward-looking statements, which are based on certain assumptions and describe future plans, strategies and expectations of Mac-Gray, may be identified by use of the words "believe," "expect," "intend," "anticipate," "project," or similar expressions.  Investors should not rely on forward-looking statements because they are subject to a variety of risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from such forward-looking statements.  Certain factors which could cause actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, general economic conditions, changes in multi-housing vacancy rates, Mac-Gray's ability to renew long-term customer contracts, the proposed merger with CSC Fenway, the ability to satisfy the closing conditions set forth in the merger agreement, including obtaining stockholder approval and those conditions related to antitrust clearance, the ability of the parties to consummate the proposed transaction and those risks set forth in Mac-Gray's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2012 under "Risk Factors" and in other reports subsequently filed with the SEC. Except as expressly required by law, Mac-Gray undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this news release.  All forward-looking statements in this document are qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement.

To supplement the Company's unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements presented on a generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) basis, management has used a non-GAAP measure of net income.  Management believes that the presentation of "Net income as adjusted" is useful to investors to enhance an overall understanding of our historical financial performance and future prospects.  Net income, as adjusted to exclude certain gains and losses from the comparable GAAP net income, is an indication of our baseline performance before gains, losses or other charges that are considered by management to be outside of our core operating results. These non-GAAP results are among the primary indicators management uses as a basis for evaluating the Company's financial performance as well as for forecasting future periods.  Management establishes performance targets, annual budgets and makes critical operating decisions based upon these metrics. Accordingly, disclosure of these non-GAAP measures provides investors with the same information that management uses to understand the Company's true economic performance year over year.  The presentation of this additional information is not meant to be considered in isolation or as a substitute for net income or other measures prepared in accordance with GAAP.

EBITDA is defined as net income before interest expense, provision for income taxes, and depreciation and amortization expense. EBITDA, as adjusted, is EBITDA further adjusted to exclude the items described in the table above. We have excluded these items because we believe they are not reflective of our ongoing operating performance. EBITDA and EBITDA, as adjusted, are not measures of our liquidity or financial performance under GAAP and should not be considered as alternatives to net income or any other performance measure derived in accordance with GAAP, or as an alternative to cash flows from operating activities as a measure of our liquidity.

Our management believes EBITDA and EBITDA, as adjusted, are useful to investors because they help enable investors to evaluate our business in the same manner as our management.  Management uses EBITDA and EBITDA, as adjusted, as follows: (a) to evaluate the Company's historical and prospective financial performance, (b) to set internal revenue targets and spending budgets, (c) to measure operational profitability and the accuracy of forecasting, and (d) as an important factor in determining variable compensation for management.  In addition, these measures are frequently used by securities analysts, investors and other interested parties in the evaluation of companies with substantial financial leverage.  Moreover, investors have historically requested and the Company has historically reported these non-GAAP financial measures as a means of providing consistent and comparable information with past reports of financial results.

While management believes that these non-GAAP financial measures provide useful supplemental information to investors, there are limitations associated with the use of these non-GAAP financial measures.  These measures are not prepared in accordance with GAAP and may not be directly comparable to similarly titled measures of other companies due to potential differences in the exact method of calculation.  Further, EBITDA and EBITDA, as adjusted, exclude interest expense and depreciation and amortization expense, which represent significant and unavoidable operating costs given the level of indebtedness and the capital expenditures needed to maintain our business.  In addition, our measures of EBITDA and EBITDA, as adjusted, are different from those used in the covenants contained in our senior credit facilities.  Management compensates for these limitations by relying primarily on our GAAP results and by using EBITDA and EBITDA, as adjusted, only supplementally and by reviewing the reconciliations of the non-GAAP financial measures to their most comparable GAAP financial measures.

Non-GAAP financial measures are not in accordance with, or an alternative for, generally accepted accounting principles in the United States.  The Company's non-GAAP financial measures are not meant to be considered in isolation or as a substitute for comparable GAAP financial measures, and should be read only in conjunction with the Company's consolidated financial statements prepared in accordance with GAAP. 

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