Penske Automotive Group Inc PAG

Revenue Increases 3% to $7.7 Billion, a Quarterly Record

Record Retail Automotive Service and Parts Revenue of $753 Million, up 10%

Earnings Before Taxes of $326 Million and Earnings Per Share of $3.61

Sequential Improvement in Earnings Before Taxes and Earnings Per Share of 10% and 12%, Respectively, from First Quarter of 2024

BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich., July 31, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Penske Automotive Group, Inc. (NYSE: PAG), a diversified international transportation services company and one of the world's premier automotive and commercial truck retailers, today announced quarterly results for the second quarter of 2024. For the quarter, revenue increased 3% from the second quarter of 2023 to $7.7 billion. Net income attributable to common stockholders was $241.2 million compared to $300.8 million in the prior year period, and related earnings per share was $3.61 compared to $4.41 for the same period in 2023. Foreign currency exchange negatively impacted revenue by $0.8 million, net income attributable to common stockholders by $0.4 million, and had no impact on earnings per share.

Second Quarter 2024 Operating Highlights Compared to Second Quarter 2023

• New and Used Retail Automotive Units Delivered – increased 2%
  • New Vehicle +4%; Used Vehicle flat
• Retail Automotive Same-Store Revenue – decreased 1%
  • New Vehicle +2%; Used Vehicle -6%; Finance & Insurance -4%; Service & Parts +5%
• Retail Automotive Same-Store Gross Profit – decreased 5%
  • New Vehicle -15%; Used Vehicle -7%; Finance & Insurance -4%; Service & Parts +4%
• New and Used Retail Commercial Truck Units – flat
  • New Vehicle -1%; Used Vehicle +9%
• Retail Commercial Truck Same-Store Revenue – decreased 7%
  • New Vehicle -4%; Used Vehicle -10%; Finance & Insurance -22%; Service & Parts -9%
• Retail Commercial Truck Same-Store Gross Profit – decreased 5%
  • New Vehicle flat; Used Vehicle -5%; Finance & Insurance -22%; Service & Parts -5%

Second Quarter 2024 Performance

The Company's financial performance for the three months ended June 30, 2024, was driven by its diversification which included continued strong performance of the retail automotive and commercial truck businesses. Highlights during the second quarter included record total quarterly revenue of $7.7 billion, which included a 10% increase in quarterly retail automotive service and parts revenue to $753 million, which is also a quarterly record. In addition, on a sequential basis, retail automotive gross profit per new vehicle retailed improved by $73 and equity earnings from the Company's investment in Penske Transportation Solutions increased 63%. As a result, when compared to the first quarter of 2024, earnings before taxes increased 10% and earnings per share increased 12%.

Commenting on the Company's financial results, Chair and CEO Roger Penske said, "I am pleased to see that our service and parts business remains strong and contributed to our record total quarterly revenue of $7.7 billion. In addition, our focus on efficiency and controlling costs drove a sequential decline in selling, general, and administrative expenses as a percentage of gross profit by 50 basis points to 70.2%."

For the six months ended June 30, 2024, revenue increased 2% to $15.1 billion. Net income attributable to common stockholders was $456.4 million compared to $599.1 million in the prior year period, and related earnings per share was $6.81 compared to $8.72 for the same period in 2023. Foreign currency exchange positively impacted revenue by $97.3 million, net income attributable to common stockholders by $1.0 million, and earnings per share by $0.01.

Retail Automotive Dealerships

For the three months ended June 30, 2024, total new and used units delivered increased 2% to 126,653, and total retail automotive revenue increased 3% to $6.6 billion. Same-store new and used units delivered decreased 1% to 120,486, and same-store revenue decreased 1%. Same-store service and parts revenue and gross profit increased 5% and 4%, respectively. Total retail automotive gross profit decreased 1% to $1.1 billion, including a 5% decrease on a same-store basis.

Retail Commercial Truck Dealerships

As of June 30, 2024, Premier Truck Group operated 48 North American retail commercial truck locations. New truck demand continues to be driven by replacement purchases. For the three months ended June 30, 2024, retail unit sales were flat. Revenue was $892.3 million compared to $919.2 million in the same period last year. Earnings before taxes was $51.7 million compared to $55.5 million in the same period in 2023. For the six months ended June 30, 2024, revenue was $1.7 billion compared to $1.8 billion in the same period last year. Earnings before taxes was $102.2 million compared to $112.6 million in the same period in 2023.

Penske Transportation Solutions Investment

Penske Transportation Solutions ("PTS") is a leading provider of full-service truck leasing, truck rental, contract maintenance, and logistics services. PTS operates a managed fleet with over 446,000 trucks, tractors, and trailers under lease, rental and/or maintenance contracts. Penske Automotive Group has a 28.9% ownership interest in PTS and accounts for its ownership interest using the equity method of accounting. For the three and six months ended June 30, 2024, the Company recorded $52.9 million and $85.4 million in earnings compared to $73.3 million and $154.1 million for the same periods in 2023. Equity earnings increased by 63% sequentially as full-service leasing continued to perform well and rental utilization improved when compared to the three months ended March 31, 2024.

Corporate Development, Capital Allocation, Liquidity, and Leverage

During the six months ended June 30, 2024, we repurchased 0.4 million shares of common stock for approximately $58.1 million under our securities repurchase program and also acquired 0.1 million shares of our common stock for $18.3 million from employees in connection with a net share settlement feature of employee equity awards. As of June 30, 2024, $157.4 million remained available under the Company's existing repurchase authority. Additionally, the Board of Directors approved a quarterly dividend of $1.07 per share representing an 11%, or $0.11 per share, increase and represents the third increase to the Company's dividend in 2024 and the 15^th consecutive quarterly increase. The dividend is payable September 4, 2024, to shareholders of record as of August 15, 2024. Including this dividend distribution and the Company's securities repurchases, the Company will have returned approximately $271 million to shareholders in 2024.

During June 2024, we acquired three full-service Freightliner and Western Star dealerships and two independent repair facilities operating in Minnesota and Wisconsin from River States Truck and Trailer, representing $200 million in estimated annualized revenue. In July 2024, we announced the acquisition of Bill Brown Ford, representing $550 million in estimated annualized revenue. Year-to-date 2024, Penske Automotive Group has completed acquisitions representing nearly $2 billion in estimated annualized revenue.

As of June 30, 2024, the Company had approximately $1.7 billion in liquidity, including $115 million in cash and $1.6 billion of availability under its U.S. and international credit agreements. The Company's leverage ratio at June 30, 2024 was 1.2x.

Conference Call

Penske Automotive Group will host a conference call discussing financial results relating to the second quarter of 2024 on Wednesday, July 31, 2024, at 2:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time. To listen to the conference call, participants must dial (877) 692-8955 [International, please dial (234) 720-6979] using access code 8247256. The call will also be simultaneously broadcast over the Internet, available through the Investors section of the Penske Automotive Group website. Additionally, an investor presentation relating to the second quarter 2024 financial results has been posted to the Investors section of the Company's website. To access the presentation or to listen to the Company's webcast, please refer to www.penskeautomotive.com.

About Penske Automotive

Penske Automotive Group, Inc., (NYSE: PAG) headquartered in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, is a diversified international transportation services company and one of the world's premier automotive and commercial truck retailers. PAG operates dealerships in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, Italy, Japan, and Australia and is one of the largest retailers of commercial trucks in North America for Freightliner. PAG also distributes and retails commercial vehicles, diesel and gas engines, power systems, and related parts and services principally in Australia and New Zealand. PAG employs over 28,850 people worldwide. Additionally, PAG owns 28.9% of Penske Transportation Solutions ("PTS"), a business that employs over 44,000 people worldwide, manages one of the largest, most comprehensive and modern trucking fleets in North America with over 446,000 trucks, tractors, and trailers under lease, rental, and/or maintenance contracts and provides innovative transportation, supply chain, and technology solutions to its customers. PAG is a member of the S&P Mid Cap 400, Fortune 500, Russell 1000, and Russell 3000 indexes. For additional information, including the Company's 2023 Corporate Responsibility Report highlighting its corporate responsibility strategies, activities, and certain metrics, visit the Company's website at www.penskeautomotive.com.

Non-GAAP Financial Measures

This release contains certain non-GAAP financial measures as defined under SEC rules, such as earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ("EBITDA"), adjusted EBITDA, and leverage ratio. The Company has reconciled these measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measures in the release. The Company believes that these widely accepted measures of operating profitability improve the transparency of the Company's disclosures and provide a meaningful presentation of the Company's results from its core business operations excluding the impact of items not related to the Company's ongoing core business operations and improve the period-to-period comparability of the Company's results from its core business operations. These non-GAAP financial measures are not substitutes for GAAP financial results and should only be considered in conjunction with the Company's financial information that is presented in accordance with GAAP.

Caution Concerning Forward Looking Statements

Statements in this press release may involve forward-looking statements, including forward-looking statements regarding Penske Automotive Group, Inc.'s financial performance and future plans. Actual results may vary materially because of risks and uncertainties that are difficult to predict. These risks and uncertainties include, among others, our ability to successfully complete pending acquisitions and satisfy applicable closing conditions, our ability to successfully integrate acquired dealerships into our existing operations and obtain certain contemplated synergies, those related to macro-economic, geo-political and industry conditions and events, including their impact on new and used vehicle sales, the availability of consumer credit, changes in consumer demand, consumer confidence levels, fuel prices, demand for trucks to move freight with respect to PTS and PTG, personal discretionary spending levels, interest rates, and unemployment rates; our ability to obtain vehicles and parts from our manufacturers, especially in light of supply chain disruptions due to natural disasters, the shortage of vehicle components, international conflicts, including the war in Ukraine, challenges in sourcing labor, or labor strikes or work stoppages, or other disruptions; changes in the retail model either from direct sales by manufacturers, a transition to an agency model of sales, sales by online competitors, or from the expansion of electric vehicles; disruptions to the security and availability of our information technology systems and our third party providers, which systems are increasing threatened by ransomware and other cyber attacks, the effects of a pandemic on the global economy, including our ability to react effectively to changing business conditions in light of any pandemic; the rate of inflation, including its impact on vehicle affordability; changes in interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates; our ability to consummate, integrate, and realize returns on acquisitions; with respect to PTS, changes in the financial health of its customers, labor strikes or work stoppages by its employees, a reduction in PTS' asset utilization rates, continued availability from truck manufacturers and suppliers of vehicles and parts for its fleet, changes in values of used trucks which affects PTS' profitability on truck sales and regulatory risks and related compliance costs, our ability to realize returns on our significant capital investments in new and upgraded dealership facilities; our ability to navigate a rapidly changing automotive and truck landscape; our ability to respond to new or enhanced regulations in both our domestic and international markets relating to dealerships and vehicles sales, including those related to the sales process or emissions standards, as well as changes in consumer sentiment relating to commercial truck sales that may hinder our or PTS' ability to maintain, acquire, sell, or operate trucks; the success of our distribution of commercial vehicles, engines, and power systems; natural disasters; recall initiatives or other disruptions that interrupt the supply of vehicles or parts to us; the outcome of legal and administrative matters, and other factors over which management has limited control. These forward-looking statements should be evaluated together with additional information about Penske Automotive Group's business, markets, conditions, risks, and other uncertainties, which could affect Penske Automotive Group's future performance. The risks and uncertainties discussed above are not exhaustive and additional risk and uncertainties are addressed in Penske Automotive Group's Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023, its Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended March 31, 2024, and its other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. This press release speaks only as of its date, and Penske Automotive Group disclaims any duty to update the information herein.

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