Xerox Reports $1.76B in Revenue, Nearly Flat Year-Over-Year
John Visentin
Xerox Holdings Corp. announced 2021 third-quarter results.
“Our revenue this quarter was essentially flat year-over-year, despite a deterioration in global supply chain conditions and the Delta variant, which caused delays in many of our clients’ plans to return employees to the workplace,” said Xerox Vice Chairman and CEO John Visentin. “As a result of these ongoing challenges, we are revising our revenue guidance lower, but we are maintaining our free cash flow guidance of at least $500 million. Our focus on generating cash allows us to preserve, and in some cases increase, investments in innovation, while continuing to return more than 50% of free cash to shareholders and pursue M&A.
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Non-GAAP Measures
This release refers to the following non-GAAP financial measures:
- Adjusted EPS, which excludes Restructuring and related costs, net, Amortization of intangible assets, non-service retirement-related costs, Transaction and related costs, net and other discrete adjustments from GAAP-EPS, as applicable.
- Adjusted operating margin and income, which exclude the EPS adjustments noted above as well as the remainder of Other expenses, net from pre-tax income and margin.
- Constant currency (CC) revenue change, which excludes the effects of currency translation.
- Free cash flow, which is operating cash flow less capital expenditures.
Refer to the “Non-GAAP Financial Measures” section of this release for a discussion of these non-GAAP measures and their reconciliation to the reported GAAP measures.
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Impact of COVID-19 on Our Business Operations
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we continue to prioritize the health and safety of our employees, customers and partners and support their needs so they can perform their work flawlessly, whether in the office or a remote location.
During the third quarter 2021, our business continued to be impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The prolonged and extensive impact of the Delta variant drove many of our customers to delay their plans to return employees to offices. As a result, while we continued to see a correlation between the roll-out of vaccinations, the return of employees to the office, and the gradual recovery of our post sale revenues, the marginal improvement in our page volume-driven post sale revenues was less than previously anticipated.
In addition, global supply chain issues, created in part by the COVID-19 pandemic, have resulted in an unprecedented level of disruption that has led to shortages and transportation delays of our products and third-party IT hardware. This has resulted in lower than anticipated equipment and IT sales, higher transportation and logistics costs and growth of our order backlog1 at the end of the quarter, as our customers continued to invest in our print technology and services. We expect the ongoing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, including the potential emergence of new variants, as well as the global supply chain disruption, to delay economic recovery and continue to affect our revenues and margins into 2022.
We have a strong balance sheet and sufficient liquidity, including approximately $2.3 billion of cash and cash equivalents and access to our undrawn $1.8 billion revolver. With our Project Own It transformation and cost savings, we have built a leaner and more flexible cost structure. In addition, in response to the COVID 19 pandemic, various governments continue to employ temporary measures to provide aid and economic stimulus directly to companies through cash grants and credits, or indirectly through payments to temporarily furloughed employees. During the third quarter 2021, we recognized savings of $9 million from the use of such measures in the U.S., Canada and Europe. We continue to monitor government programs and actions being implemented, or expected to be implemented, to counter the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The savings from government assistance were recorded as follows in the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Income:
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The preceding press release was provided by a company unaffiliated with In-plant Impressions. The views expressed within do not directly reflect the thoughts or opinions of In-plant Impressions.
