Pitney Bowes (NYSE: PBI), a global shipping and mailing company that provides technology, logistics, and financial services, today announced its financial results for the first quarter 2022.

“Our first quarter performance was very good and marks a continuation of the trend that we were on for most of last year,” said Marc B. Lautenbach, President and CEO of Pitney Bowes. “We saw substantial margin expansion in our Global Ecommerce business and excellent execution in our SendTech and Presort businesses. Importantly, Global Ecommerce recorded its highest quarterly gross margin ever and SendTech and Presort, in aggregate, once again grew top line in the first quarter.”

Financial Highlights

• Revenue in the quarter was $927 million, an increase of 1 percent from the comparable quarter in 2021
• GAAP EPS in the quarter was $0.12; Adjusted EPS was $0.08 versus $0.07 in first quarter 2021
• Adjusted EBIT in the quarter was $53 million, an increase of 6 percent from the comparable quarter in 2021
• GAAP cash from operations in the quarter was $11 million
• Free cash flow was a net use of $30 million versus a net use of $1 million in first quarter 2021; year-over-year decrease was driven primarily by changes in working capital
• Debt reduced by $99 million during the quarter, primarily through the early redemption of the 2023 Notes

Business Highlights

• Improved Global Ecommerce EBIT margins by over 300 basis points on a year-over-year basis with positive EBITDA
• Processed 41 million domestic standard delivery and return parcels through our Global Ecommerce network in the quarter compared to 42 million parcels in first quarter 2021
• Implemented additional network enhancements in Global Ecommerce that are expected to drive meaningful service and efficiency benefits
• Grew Presort revenue 12 percent on a year-over-year basis
• Processed 4.4 billion pieces through our Presort network in the quarter
• Launched a new state-of-the-art Presort facility in Las Vegas capable of processing all portfolio products
• Reported SendTech revenue decline of 3 percent, with a 3 percent increase in equipment revenue from the comparable quarter in 2021
• Increased shipping-related revenue in SendTech 26 percent on year-over-year basis
• Launched PitneyShip Pro, a new enterprise-oriented, cloud-based sending solution with combined shipping and mailing capabilities

Earnings per share results are summarized in the table below

* The sum of the earnings per share may not equal the totals due to rounding.

Business Segment Reporting

Global Ecommerce

Global Ecommerce provides business to consumer logistics services for domestic and cross border delivery, returns and fulfillment.

Revenue growth benefited from better pricing, partially offset by lower volumes. Improvements in EBITDA and EBIT were primarily driven by higher domestic parcel revenues as well as efficiency gains in transportation and improvements in labor productivity.

Presort Services

Presort Services provides sortation services to qualify large volumes of First Class Mail, Marketing Mail, Marketing Mail Flats and Bound Printed Matter for postal workshare discounts.

Revenue growth driven by continued improvement in net revenue per piece along with expansion in marketing mail volumes. EBITDA and EBIT margins declined in the quarter due to higher labor and transportation costs.

SendTech Solutions

Sending Technology Solutions offers physical and digital mailing and shipping technology solutions, financing, services, supplies and other applications for small and medium businesses to help simplify and save on the sending, tracking and receiving of letters, parcels and flats.

A 3 percent increase in Equipment sales and 26 percent increase in shipping-related revenue were more than offset by a 7 percent decrease in both Financing and Support Services. The decline in high-margin Financing and Support Services revenue resulted in lower EBITDA and EBIT.

2022 Expectations

The Company continues to expect annual revenue and adjusted EBIT to grow over prior year in the low-to-mid single digit range. Additionally, we expect to generate similar levels of free cash flow in 2022 as 2021.

The Company will adjust 2022 guidance should macroeconomic conditions warrant.

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. EDT. 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 shipping and mailing company that provides technology, logistics, and financial services to more than 90 percent of the Fortune 500. Small business, retail, enterprise, and government clients around the world rely on Pitney Bowes to remove the complexity of sending mail and parcels. 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.

Adjusted EBIT, Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted EPS exclude the impact of discontinued operations, restructuring charges, gains, losses and costs related to acquisitions and dispositions, asset and goodwill impairment charges, and other unusual or one-time items. Such items are often inconsistent in amount and frequency and as such, the Company believes that these non-GAAP measures provide investors greater insight into the underlying operating trends of the business.

In addition, revenue growth is presented on a constant currency basis to exclude the impact of changes in foreign currency exchange rates since the prior period under comparison. Constant currency is calculated by converting the current period non-U.S. dollar denominated revenue using the prior year’s exchange rate for the comparable quarter. We believe that excluding the impacts of currency exchange rates provides investors a better understanding of the underlying revenue performance.

Free cash flow adjusts cash from operations calculated in accordance with GAAP for discontinued operations, capital expenditures, restructuring payments, changes in customer deposits held at the Pitney Bowes Bank, transaction costs and other special items. The Company reports free cash flow to provide investors insight into the amount of cash that management could have available for other discretionary uses.

Segment EBIT is the primary measure of profitability and operational performance at the segment level and is determined by deducting from segment revenue the related costs and expenses attributable to the segment. Segment EBIT excludes interest, taxes, unallocated corporate expenses, restructuring charges, asset and goodwill impairment charges, and other items not allocated to a segment. The Company also reports segment EBITDA as an additional useful measure of segment profitability and operational performance.

Complete reconciliations of non-GAAP measures to comparable GAAP measures can be found in the attached financial schedules and at the Company's web site at www.pb.com/investorrelations

This document contains “forward-looking statements” about the Company’s expected or potential future business and financial performance. Forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements about future revenue and earnings guidance and future events or conditions. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. In particular, we continue to navigate the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic (Covid-19), and the effect that its unpredictability is having on our, and our client’s business, financial performance and results of operations. Other factors which could cause future financial performance to differ materially from expectations, and which may also be exacerbated by Covid-19 or a negative change in the economy, include, without limitation, declining physical mail volumes; changes in postal regulations or the operations and financial health of posts in the U.S. or other major markets or changes to the broader postal or shipping markets; the loss of, or significant changes to, our contractual relationships with the United States Postal Service (USPS) or USPS’ performance under those contracts; our ability to continue to grow and manage volumes, gain additional economies of scale and improve profitability within our Global Ecommerce segment; changes in labor and transportation availability and costs; and other factors as more fully outlined in the Company's 2021 Form 10-K Annual Report and other reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Pitney Bowes assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements contained in this document as a result of new information, events or developments.

Note: Consolidated statements of income; revenue, EBIT and EBITDA by business segment; and reconciliations of GAAP to non-GAAP measures for the three months ended March 31, 2022 and 2021, and consolidated balance sheets at March 31, 2022 and December 31, 2021 are attached.

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