GXO Announces Third Quarter 2021 Results

Highlights

• Thirdquarterrevenueof$2.0billion,up24.6%fromthethirdquarter2020,netincomeof$72million,and adjustedEBITDAof $163 million
• Generated$105millionofcashflowfromoperatingactivitiesandfreecashflowof$50millioninthethirdquarter, equivalentto 31%of adjustedEBITDA
• Newcustomerwinsexpectedtohavea2022incrementalrevenueimpactofapproximately$700million
• E-commerce,omnichannelretailandtechnologyrevenueup22%andreverselogisticsrevenueup21%from thethirdquarter2020
• FY21guidanceraised
• GXOreceivespreliminary‘AA’ESGratingfromMSCI

GREENWICH, Conn., Nov. 01, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- GXO Logistics, Inc. (NYSE: GXO) today announced its financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2021. Revenue increased to $2.0 billion for the third quarter, compared with $1.6 billion for the same period in 2020. Net income attributable to GXO was $72 million for the third quarter, including a benefit of $42 million from the impact of one-time tax items, compared with $18 million for the same period in 2020. Basic earnings per share was $0.63 for the third quarter, compared with $0.16 for the same period in 2020.

Adjusted net income attributable to common shareholders, a non-GAAP measure, was $65 million for the third quarter, compared with $27 million for the same period in 2020. Adjusted diluted earnings per share, a non-GAAP measure, was $0.56 for the third quarter, compared with adjusted diluted earnings per share of $0.23 for the same period in 2020.

Adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (“adjusted EBITDA”), a non-GAAP measure, increased to $163 million for the third quarter, compared with $142 million in pro forma adjusted EBITDA for the same period in 2020. The company reported adjusted EBITDA of $130 million for the third quarter 2020.

For the third quarter 2021, the company generated $105 million of cash flow from operations and $50 million of free cash flow, a non-GAAP measure.

In the third quarter of 2021, GXO won new customer contracts with more than $1 billion in aggregate lifetime value and an expected incremental revenue impact of approximately $200 million in 2022. The company’s expected 2022 incremental revenue impact from the third quarter and prior period wins is approximately $700 million.

Reconciliations of non-GAAP financial measures used in this release are provided in the attached financial tables.

GXODebutswithIndustry-LeadingESGRating

GXO has received an ‘AA’ ESG rating from MSCI. MSCI’s rating places GXO as the highest among its largest industry peers.1 GXO’s environmental targets include achieving carbon neutrality by 2040, using LED lighting in 80% of our global operations by 2025, having 50% of our global electricity consumption from renewable sources by 2030, meeting an 80% global landfill diversion rate by 2025 and achieving a 30% reduction in greenhouse gasses from 2019 to 2030.

GXO was also recognized by the Human Rights Campaign on the Corporate Equality Index for LGBTQ+ inclusion.

GXOGuidance

GXO has updated its pro forma full year 2021 financial targets, as follows:

• Revenue of $7.6 billion to $7.8 billion (previously $7.5 billion to $7.7 billion);
• Adjusted EBITDA of $607 million to $637 million (previously $605 million to $635 million);
• Depreciation and amortization of $240 million to $250 million2;
• Interest expense of $20 million to $25 million;
• Effective tax rate of 25% to 27% (previously 26% to 28%);
• Net capital expenditures of $225 million to $250 million (previously $240 million to $250 million).

GXO’s full year 2022 guidance remains unchanged:

• 8% to 12% organic revenue growth;
• Adjusted EBITDA of $705 million to $740 million;
• Adjusted EBITDAR3 of approximately $1.5 billion.
  

CEOComments

Malcolm Wilson, chief executive officer of GXO, said, “We executed extremely well in the third quarter. We reported strong net income growth, as well as the highest revenue and adjusted EBITDA of any quarter in our operations’ history despite unprecedented near-term global supply chain challenges. Our sales pipeline reached a record level, fueled by significant new customer demand. Looking ahead, we expect continued growth driven by the three massive secular tailwinds of automation, e-commerce and outsourcing.”

“In the third quarter, we won new customer contracts with an aggregate lifetime value of over $1 billion, positioning us well to deliver on our expected 2022 organic revenue growth of 8% to 12%. Our revenue retention rate has improved through 2021 versus the number reported at our investor day, demonstrating our customers’ loyalty to GXO’s value-added solutions.”

“We’re pleased that GXO has been recognized by MSCI with a ‘AA’ ESG rating, affirming our industry leadership. As a business, we want to set the benchmark for ESG across the supply chain and we’re making good progress on our targets for 2025 and beyond. We look forward to implementing more carbon negative warehouses and empowering our team members with our automated solutions.”

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1 MSCI ESG Research provides MSCI ESG Ratings on companies on a scale of AAA (leader) to CCC (laggard), according to exposure to industry-specific ESG risks and the ability to manage those risks relative to peers.
2 Excludes acquisition-related amortization expense of $60 million, acquisition-related depreciation of $16 million, and the impact of depreciation expense allocated by XPO of $16 million through August 2, 2021.
3 Adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, amortization and rent, a non-GAAP measure.

“GXO leads the industry in warehouse technology. As of September 30, 2021, total technology and automated systems in our warehouses were up 139% from the prior year. We believe our technology and scale will continue to differentiate our business, while delivering significant benefits to our shareholders, customers and team members.

Wilson concluded, “With our clear recent momentum, we’ve raised expectations for our full year revenue and pro forma adjusted EBITDA targets. While we remain vigilant given the tough environment, our 2022 forecast remains unchanged.”

LiquidityPosition

As of September 30, 2021, GXO had approximately $1.1 billion of total liquidity and $974 million of total debt. The company’s net leverage was 1.3x, calculated as net debt of $757 million, divided by the last twelve months adjusted EBITDA of $583 million for the period ended September 30, 2021.

ConferenceCall

GXO will hold a conference call on Tuesday, November 2, 2021, at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time. Participants can call toll-free (from US/Canada) 877-407-8029; international callers dial +1 201-689-8029. Conference ID: 13723355. A live webcast of the conference will be available on the Investor Relations area of the company’s website, investors.gxo.com. The conference will be archived until November 16, 2021. To access the replay by phone, call toll-free (from US/Canada) 877-660-6853; international callers dial +1 201-612-7415. Use participant passcode 13723355.

About GXO Logistics

GXO Logistics, Inc. (NYSE: GXO) is the world’s largest pure-play contract logistics provider in a $430 billon total addressable market that is benefitting from the rapid growth of ecommerce, automation and outsourcing. GXO is committed to providing a diverse, world-class workplace for approximately 95,000 team members across more than 860 warehouse locations totaling approximately 200 million square feet. The company partners with the world’s leading blue-chip companies to solve complex logistics challenges with technologically advanced supply chain and ecommerce solutions, at scale and with speed. GXO corporate headquarters is in Greenwich, Connecticut, USA. Visit GXO.com for more information and connect with GXO on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube.

Non-GAAPFinancialMeasures

As required by the rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), we provide reconciliations of the
non-GAAP financial measures contained in this press release to the most directly comparable measure under GAAP, which are set forth in the financial tables below.

GXO’s non-GAAP financial measures used in this press release include: adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (“adjusted EBITDA”), adjusted EBITDA margin, adjusted pro forma EBITDA, adjusted EBITDA before rent expense (“adjusted EBITDAR”), free cash flow, adjusted net income attributable to common shareholders and adjusted earnings per share (basic and diluted) (“adjusted EPS”), organic revenue, organic revenue growth, net leverage and net debt.

We believe that the above adjusted financial measures facilitate analysis of our ongoing business operations because they exclude items that may not be reflective of, or are unrelated to, GXO’s core operating performance, and may assist investors with comparisons to prior periods and assessing trends in our underlying businesses. Other companies may calculate these non-GAAP financial measures differently, and therefore our measures may not be comparable to similarly titled measures of other companies. These non-GAAP financial measures should only be used as supplemental measures of our operating performance.

Adjusted EBITDA, pro forma adjusted EBITDA, adjusted EBITDAR, adjusted net income attributable to common shareholders and adjusted EPS include adjustments for transaction and integration costs, as well as restructuring costs and other adjustments as set forth in the financial tables below. Transaction and integration adjustments are generally incremental costs that result from an actual or planned acquisition, divestiture or spin-off and may include transaction costs, consulting fees, retention awards, and internal salaries and wages (to the extent the individuals are assigned full-time to integration and transformation activities) and certain costs related to integrating and separating IT systems. Restructuring costs primarily relate to severance costs associated with business optimization initiatives.

Adjusted pro forma EBITDA includes adjustments for allocated corporate expenses and public company standalone costs. Allocated corporate expenses are those expenses that were allocated to the Combined financial statements on a carve-out basis in accordance with U.S. GAAP. Public company standalone costs are estimated costs of operating GXO as a public standalone company following its spin-off from XPO Logistics, Inc. effective as of August 2, 2021 and represents the midpoint of our estimated corporate costs.

Adjusted EBITDAR excludes rent expense from adjusted EBITDA and is useful to management and investors in evaluating GXO’s performance because adjusted EBITDAR considers the performance of GXO’s operations, excluding decisions made with respect to capital investment, financing and other non-recurring charges. Adjusted EBITDAR is also a measure commonly used by management, research analysts and investors to value companies in the logistics industry. Since adjusted EBITDAR excludes interest expense and rent expense, it allows management, research analysts and investors to compare the value of different companies without regard to differences in capital structures and leasing arrangements.

We believe that free cash flow is an important measure of our ability to repay maturing debt or fund other uses of capital that we believe will enhance stockholder value. We calculate free cash flow as net cash provided by operating activities, less payment for purchases of property and equipment plus proceeds from sale of property and equipment. We believe that adjusted EBITDA, adjusted EBITDA margin, pro forma adjusted EBITDA and adjusted EBITDAR improve comparability from period to period by removing the impact of our capital structure (interest and financing expenses), asset base (depreciation and amortization), tax impacts and other adjustments as set out in the attached tables that management has determined are not reflective of core operating activities and thereby assist investors with assessing trends in our underlying businesses. We believe that adjusted net income attributable to common shareholders and adjusted EPS improve the comparability of our operating results from period to period by removing the impact of certain costs and gains that management has determined are not reflective of our core operating activities, including amortization of acquisition-related intangible assets. We believe that organic revenue and organic revenue growth are important measures because they exclude the impact of foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations and revenue from acquired businesses. We believe that net leverage and net debt are important measures of our overall liquidity position and are calculated by removing bank overdrafts and cash and cash equivalents from our reported total debt and reporting net debt as a ratio of our last twelve-month reported adjusted EBITDA.

Management uses these non-GAAP financial measures in making financial, operating and planning decisions and evaluating GXO’s ongoing performance.

With respect to our financial targets for full year pro forma 2021 adjusted EBITDA as well as full year 2022 adjusted EBITDA, adjusted EBITDAR and organic revenue growth, a reconciliation of these non-GAAP measures to the corresponding GAAP measures is not available without unreasonable effort due to the variability and complexity of the reconciling items described above that we exclude from these non-GAAP target measures. The variability of these items may have a significant impact on our future GAAP financial results and, as a result, we are unable to prepare the forward-looking statement of income prepared in accordance with GAAP that would be required to produce such a reconciliation.

Forward-LookingStatements

This press release includes forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. All statements other thanstatements of historical fact are, or may be deemed to be, forward-looking statements, including our full year proforma 2021 financial targets for revenue, adjusted EBITDA, depreciation and amortization (excluding acquisition-related amortization expense), interest expense, effective tax rate and net capital expenditures; our 2022 financialtargets for organic revenue growth, adjusted EBITDA and adjusted EBITDAR; and the expected incrementalrevenue impact of new customer contracts in 2022. In some cases, forward-looking statements can be identified bythe use of forward-looking terms such as “anticipate,” “estimate,” “believe,” “continue,” “could,” “intend,”“may,”“plan,”“potential,”“predict,”“should,”“will,”“expect,”“objective,”“projection,”“forecast,”“goal,”“guidance,” “outlook,” “effort,” “target,” “trajectory” or the negative of these terms or other comparable terms.However, the absence of these words does not mean that the statements are not forward-looking. These forward-looking statements are based on certain assumptions and analyses made by the company in light of its experienceand its perception of historical trends, current conditions and expected future developments, as well as other factorsthecompanybelievesareappropriatein thecircumstances.

Theseforward-lookingstatementsaresubjecttoknownandunknownrisks,uncertaintiesandassumptionsthatmaycause actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from any futureresults,levelsofactivity,performanceorachievementsexpressedorimpliedbysuchforward-lookingstatements.

Factors that might cause or contribute to a material difference include, but are not limited to, the risks discussed inour filings with the SEC and the following: the severity, magnitude, duration and aftereffects of the COVID-19pandemic and government responses to the COVID-19 pandemic; economic conditions generally; supply chainchallenges, including labor shortages; competition and pricing pressures; our ability to align our investments incapital assets, including equipment, service centers and warehouses, to our customers’ demands; our ability tosuccessfully integrate and realize anticipated synergies, cost savings and profit improvement opportunities withrespect to acquired companies; acquisitions may be unsuccessful or result in other risks or developments thatadversely affect our financial condition and results; our ability to develop and implement suitable informationtechnology systems and prevent failures in or breaches of such systems; our ability to raise debt and equity capital;litigation; labor matters, including our ability to manage our subcontractors, and risks associated with labordisputes at our customers and efforts by labor organizations to organize our employees; risks associated withdefined benefit plans for our current and former employees; fluctuations in currency exchange rates; fluctuations infixed and floating interest rates; issues related to our intellectual property rights; governmental regulation,including trade compliance laws, as well as changes in international trade policies and tax regimes; governmentalor political actions, including the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union; natural disasters, terroristattacks or similar incidents; a material disruption of GXO’s operations; the inability to achieve the level of revenuegrowth, cash generation, cost savings, improvement in profitability and margins, fiscal discipline, or strengtheningof competitiveness and operations anticipated or targeted; the impact of potential cyber-attacks and informationtechnology or data security breaches; the inability to implement technology initiatives successfully; the expectedbenefits of the separation, and uncertainties regarding the separation, including the risk that the separation will notproduce the desired benefits; a determination by the IRS that the distribution or certain related separationtransactions should be treated as taxable transactions; expected financing transactions undertaken in connectionwith the separation and risks associated with additional indebtedness; the risk that dis-synergy costs, costs ofrestructuring transactions and other costs incurred in connection with the separation will exceed our estimates; andthe impact of the separation on our businesses, our operations, our relationships with customers, suppliers,employeesandotherbusinesscounterparties,andtheriskthattheseparationmaybemoredifficult,time-consumingor costly than expected, which could result in additional demands on our resources, systems, procedures andcontrols, disruptionof ourongoingbusiness, anddiversionofmanagement’sattentionfrom otherbusinessconcerns.

Allforward-lookingstatementssetforthinthispressreleasearequalifiedbythesecautionarystatementsandtherecan be no assurance that the actual results or developments anticipated by us will be realized or, even ifsubstantially realized, that they will have the expected consequences to or effects on us or our business oroperations. Forward-looking statements set forth in this press release speak only as of the date hereof, and we donot undertake any obligation to update forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent events or circumstances,changesinexpectationsortheoccurrenceofunanticipatedevents,excepttotheextentrequiredbylaw.

InvestorContact

Chris Jordan
+1 (203) 536 8493
chris.jordan@gxo.com

MediaContact

Matthew Schmidt
+1 (203) 307 2809
matt.schmidt@gxo.com

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Key Data
DisaggregationofRevenues

We disaggregate our revenue by geographic area. Our revenue disaggregated by geographical area, based on sales office location, was as follows:

Our revenue can also be disaggregated by various verticals, reflecting our customers’ principal industry sector. Our revenue disaggregated by industry sector was as follows:



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(1) See the “Non-GAAP Financial Measures” section of the press release.
(2) Adjusted EBITDA margin is calculated as Adjusted EBITDA divided by Revenue.

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(a) For all periods prior to August 2, 2021, these expenses include allocated expenses from XPO Corporate as prepared under carve-out financials. No impact to the Adjusted EBITDA.
(b) Excludes impact of adjusted items and allocated interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization expense from XPO Corporate
(c) Estimated costs of operating GXO as a standalone public company
(d) Refer to GXO’s Form 10 for further information on our pro-forma financial information

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(1) See the “Non-GAAP Financial Measures” section of the press release.
(2) Organic revenue growth is calculated as the relative change in year-over-year organic revenue, expressed as a percentage of 2020 organic revenue.

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