Executives
John F. Rishton – Chief Executive Officer, Executive Director and Chairman of Risk Committee
Mark Morris – Chief Financial Officer, Executive Director and Member of Risk Committee
Analysts
Robert Stallard – RBC Capital Markets, LLC, Research Division
Christian A. Laughlin – Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., LLC., Research Division
Benjamin Fidler – Deutsche Bank AG, Research Division
Celine Fornaro – BofA Merrill Lynch, Research Division
Harry W. Breach – Westhouse Securities Limited, Research Division
Rami Myerson – Investec Securities (UK), Research Division
Sandy Morris – Jefferies LLC, Research Division
Rolls Royce Holdings (OTCPK:RYCEY) H1 2014 Earnings Call July 31, 2014 3:31 AM ET
Operator
Hello, and welcome to the 2014 Half Year Results Conference Call for Rolls-Royce Holdings plc. [Operator Instructions] And just to remind you, this conference call is being recorded.
And before we start, some words about Safe Harbor. Please remember today’s call will include some forward-looking statements about the Rolls-Royce’s group and its businesses. These statements are based on the management team’s current views and assumptions but, of course, change over time.
So you should consider the statements in this light.
Today, I’m pleased to present John Rishton, Chief Executive Officer; and Mark Morris, Chief Financial Officer. Gentlemen, please begin.
John F. Rishton – Chief Executive Officer, Executive Director and Chairman of Risk Committee
Thanks very much, Hugh. Good morning, everyone. Thanks for joining us today. It’s good to have you listening in.
I’m going to give you the headlines, and then I’m going to hand over to Mark, who’s going to take you through the details. Mark will speak probably for about 15 minutes or so, and then we’ll go straight to Q&A or wrap the Q&A up no later than 8:25 and then I’ll wrap the call up — at 9:25, I’m sorry, I’ll wrap the call up.
So looking at the headlines, first of all, the first half performance was in line with guidance. And we maintained our full year guidance and continue to expect growth in 2015. We increased the shareholder payment by 5% to 9p, so I think the key financials where we said we would be.
In terms of the first half, we delivered our first XWB engines to Airbus for Qatar Airlines, launch customer — to launch later this year. We’ve run, for the first time, the large XWB engine, the XWB 97K that will power the A350-1000 aircraft and we’ll also run the Trent 1000-TEN engine in the 787.
And you also all will be well aware that at Farnborough, Airbus announced the launch of the A330neo. And we’re the exclusive engine provider with our Trent 7000 engine, with draws on technology from the Trent 1000 and the Trent XWB engines. And I’m delighted we already have 127 aircraft commitments, and that provides even more confidence about strong growth in the future.
Now I hand over to Mark, who’s going to take you through the details of the first half and our views about the second half. Thanks, Mark.
Mark Morris – Chief Financial Officer, Executive Director and Member of Risk Committee
Thank you, John, and good morning to you. So we’ll start with some of the key group highlights in the first half. Let’s just remind ourselves of what we said at the prelims: Revenue and profit for the group will be flat with a similar free cash flow for the year, and that our performance will be weighted to the second half.
As John has said, our H1 results are largely as we expected. As usual, my comments will be restricted to the underlying performance. Now we will go through these results in a little more detail. But before we do, it’s worth mentioning foreign exchange as the pounds has depreciated against a number of currencies, which has impacted our results. You can find a lot more detail in our press release, but across all our currencies, the strengthening pound has reduced revenue by GBP 226 million and profit by GBP 21 million.
Turning to our order book. It remains strong and provides good visibility, over GBP 70 billion, albeit a slight reduction from the year end. Revenue and profit, I will come unto shortly.
On cash, we started the year with GBP 1.9 billion and ended the period with GBP 1.2 billion, a reduction of GBP 762 million, which reflects growth in working capital, continued investment and shareholder payments. And finally, we’ve increased the half year payment to shareholders by 5% to 9p, reflecting our continued confidence in the business.
Let’s take a look now at group revenue. I’ve broken down here the 3 main components of the change in revenue. Original Equipment is down around GBP 200 million, driven predominantly by our Defense and Marine businesses. Defense is down 40%, and Marine is down 15%, mainly on Offshore and Merchant. This is partially offset by OE growth in civil.
Services were also down GBP 57 million, and reductions in every business except Defense, which saw good growth of 9%. And finally, FX, which I’ve mentioned already.
And as we look at it to the second half, we’re looking at around 20% increase in revenue from both higher OE deliveries and a higher run rate of services. And we’ll come back to this later on.
Turning to group profit. Volume is down 4% in constant FX, and that’s reduced operating profit by GBP 89 million. You’re aware of the Marine one-off charge relating to a product quality issue. R&D is GBP 36 million higher, reflecting increased spend in civil programs and lower capitalization as the XWB and 4K [ph] approaches entry into service.
Within other trading, we see the benefit of C&A as a result of indirect headcount reductions made last year, some trading mix impact and aftermarket life cycle cost improvements in Aerospace.
Restructuring spend was GBP 67 million in the first half, which is a GBP 32 million increase over last year as we continue to improve operational efficiency and reduce both direct and indirect costs. These costs are mainly severance costs and site restructuring.
Turning to cash flow. As usual, I’ll just pick out the major [indiscernible] themes in this chart that you’re all familiar with. Networking capital increased by GBP 634 million, which is about a GBP 200 million lower increase than we saw in the first half to 2013. This reflects higher inventory of GBP 195 million, as we prepare for the increase in H2 volumes. The TotalCare net debtor has increased GBP 165 million, reflecting the sale of engines we linked to aftermarket contracts, mainly Trent 700. Deposits were also lower in Defense and Marine, reflecting deliveries in the period.
Cash outflow and CapEx was GBP 303 million, up GBP 20 million on last year as we continue to invest in capacity and capability. Intangibles of GBP 239 million primarily includes GBP 40 million of software; GBP 28 million of contractual aftermarket rights, formerly known as recoverable engine costs, and again, mainly Trent 1000; GBP 91 million of participation payments on civil programs; and GBP 57 million of capitalized development costs.
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