Brink's Reports Improved Third-Quarter Results

GAAP EPS $.48 vs $.16; Non-GAAP EPS $.64 vs $.40 
Full-Year 2016 Guidance Affirmed

RICHMOND, Va., Oct. 26, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Brink’s Company (NYSE:BCO), a global leader in security-related services, today reported third-quarter earnings.

Third-Quarter Highlights

GAAP:

• 11% organic revenue growth
  
• Operating profit $50 million, operating margin 6.6%, up from 3.3% in 2015 (7.6% in 2016, excluding currency)
  
• Net income $25 million, up from $8 million in 2015
  
• EPS $.48 vs $.16
  
• Currency translation reduced revenue by $75 million, operating profit by $13 million, EPS by $.09
  

Non-GAAP:

• 5% organic revenue growth
  
• Operating profit $61 million, organic growth 64%; operating margin 8.3%, up from 5.0% in 2015 (8.1% in 2016, excluding currency)
  
• Trailing 12-month Adjusted EBITDA $306 million, up 7.6% since June 2016
  
• EPS $.64 vs $.40
  
• Currency translation reduced revenue by $29 million, operating profit by $1 million, EPS by $.01
  

Doug Pertz, president and chief executive officer, said: “We are pleased with the strong third-quarter results and remain on track to achieve our 2016 non-GAAP guidance, which includes earnings per share growth of 15% to 20% to a range between $1.95 and $2.10 and operating profit growth from $157 million in 2015 to a range between $185 and $200 million on revenue of about $2.9 billion.

“Over the last three months, we have conducted a thorough assessment of our global businesses, with a particular emphasis on U.S. operations.  We also visited operations throughout Latin America, Canada and Europe.  We have already begun to implement critical changes to drive improved results and, in the first quarter of 2017, we will communicate a three-year strategic plan that includes specific and measurable actions to accelerate profitable growth, close and surpass the margin gap that exists between Brink’s and its best competitors, and deliver new and differentiated services to our customers.

“I am more confident than ever that Brink’s can deliver substantial growth in earnings, cash flow and shareholder value, and look forward to sharing our plan with all of our stakeholders.”

2016 Guidance

See page 7 for a summary of several items relating to 2016 outlook including revenue, operating profit, income taxes, non-controlling interests, earnings per share, adjusted EBITDA and capital expenditures.

Conference Call

Brink’s will host a conference call on October 26 at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time to review third-quarter results.  Interested parties can listen by calling 888-349-0094 (in the U.S.) or 412-902-0124 (international). Participants should call in at least five minutes prior to the start of the call.  Participants can pre-register at http://dpregister.com/10093154 to receive a direct dial-in number for the call.  The call also will be accessible live via webcast on the Brink’s website (www.brinks.com). To access the webcast and related earnings material, click here.

 A replay of the call will be available through November 26, 2016, at 877-344-7529 (in the U.S.) or (412) 317-0088 (international).  The conference number is 10093152.  An archived version of the webcast will be available online in the Investor Relations section of Brinks.com by clicking here.

About The Brink’s Company

The Brink’s Company (NYSE:BCO) is the world’s premier provider of secure transportation and cash management services.  For more information, please visit The Brink’s Company website at www.Brinks.com or call 804-289-9709.

Amounts may not add due to rounding.

(a) Non-GAAP results are reconciled to the applicable GAAP results on pages 13-17.
(b) Amounts reported are attributable to shareholders of The Brink’s Company and exclude earnings related to noncontrolling interests.
(c) Adjusted EBITDA is defined as non-GAAP income from continuing operations excluding the impact of non-GAAP interest expense, non-GAAP income tax provision and non-GAAP depreciation and amortization. Non-GAAP income from continuing operations is reconciled to net income on page 14.
(d) See "Other Items Not Allocated To Segments" on pages 11-12 for pretax amounts and details.
(e) The effective income tax rate in the interim period is adjusted to be equal to the estimated full-year non-GAAP effective income tax rate of 39.0% for 2016 (compared to 37.0% for 2015).

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(In millions) (Unaudited)

Amounts may not add due to rounding.

(a) Includes operating results and gains/losses on acquisitions and dispositions of assets and of businesses.
(b) The amounts in the “Currency” column consist of the amortization of Venezuela non-monetary assets not devalued under highly inflationary accounting rules and the sum of monthly currency changes. Monthly currency changes represent the accumulation throughout the year of the impact on current period results of changes in foreign currency rates from the prior year period.  
(c) Corporate expenses are not allocated to segment results.  Corporate expenses include salaries and other costs to manage the global business and to perform activities required by public companies.
(d) See pages 11-12 for more information.

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(In millions) (Unaudited)

Amounts may not add due to rounding.

See page 4 for footnote explanations.

Forward-Looking Statements

This release contains forward-looking information. Words such as "anticipate," "assume," "estimate," "expect," “target” "project," "predict," "intend," "plan," "believe," "potential," "may," "should" and similar expressions may identify forward-looking information. Forward-looking information in these materials includes, but is not limited to: 2016 GAAP and non-GAAP outlook, including revenue, organic growth, operating profit, operating profit margin, expected currency impact, tax rate, capital expenditures and adjusted EBITDA, the impact of Venezuela operations and related exchange rates and expected cost savings from Reorganization and Restructuring activities. Forward-looking information in this document is subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and contingencies, which are difficult to predict or quantify, and which could cause actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those that are anticipated.

These risks, uncertainties and contingencies, many of which are beyond our control, include, but are not limited to: our ability to improve profitability in our largest five markets; our ability to identify and execute further cost and operational improvements and efficiencies in our core businesses; our ability to improve service levels and quality in our core businesses; continuing market volatility and commodity price fluctuations and their impact on the demand for our services; our ability to maintain or improve volumes at favorable pricing levels and increase cost and productivity efficiencies, particularly in the United States and Mexico; investments in information technology and adjacent businesses and their impact on revenue and profit growth; our ability to develop and implement solutions for our customers and gain market acceptance of those solutions; our ability to maintain an effective IT infrastructure and safeguard confidential information; risks customarily associated with operating in foreign countries including changing labor and economic conditions, currency restrictions and devaluations, safety and security issues, political instability, restrictions on and cost of repatriation of earnings and capital, nationalization, expropriation and other forms of restrictive government actions; the strength of the U.S. dollar relative to foreign currencies and foreign currency exchange rates; regulatory and labor issues in many of our global operations, including negotiations with organized labor and the possibility of work stoppages; our ability to integrate successfully recently acquired companies and improve their operating profit margins; costs related to dispositions and market exits; our ability to identify evaluate and pursue acquisitions and other strategic opportunities, including those in the home security industry and emerging markets; the willingness of our customers to absorb fuel surcharges and other future price increases; our ability to obtain necessary information technology and other services at favorable pricing levels from third party service providers; variations in costs or expenses and performance delays of any public or private sector supplier, service provider or customer; our ability to obtain appropriate insurance coverage, positions taken by insurers with respect to claims made and the financial condition of insurers, safety and security performance; our loss experience and changes in insurance costs; costs associated with the purchase and implementation of cash processing and security equipment; employee and environmental liabilities in connection with our former coal operations, including black lung claims incidence; the impact of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act on UMWA and black lung liability and the Company's ongoing operations; changes to estimated liabilities and assets in actuarial assumptions due to payments made, investment returns, interest rates and annual actuarial revaluations, the funding requirements, accounting treatment, investment performance and costs and expenses of our pension plans, the VEBA and other employee benefits, mandatory or voluntary pension plan contributions; the nature of our hedging relationships; counterparty risk; changes in estimates and assumptions underlying our critical accounting policies; our ability to realize deferred tax assets; the outcome of pending and future claims, litigation, and administrative proceedings; public perception of the Company's business and reputation; access to the capital and credit markets; seasonality, pricing and other competitive industry factors; and the promulgation and adoption of new accounting standards and interpretations, new government regulations and interpretation of existing regulations.

This list of risks, uncertainties and contingencies is not intended to be exhaustive. Additional factors that could cause our results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements can be found under "Risk Factors" in Item 1A of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the period ended December 31, 2015, and in our other public filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The forward-looking information included in this document is representative only as of the date of this document and The Brink's Company undertakes no obligation to update any information contained in this document.

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Outlook Summary (Unaudited) 
(In millions except as noted)

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Outlook for 2016

• U.S. operating profit margin of 0.7% to 2%
  
• Mexico operating profit margin of ~6%
  

(a) See pages 13-17 for reconciliation to GAAP.  The 2016 Non-GAAP outlook amounts for provision for income taxes, income (loss) from continuing operations, EPS from continuing operations, effective income tax rate and Adjusted EBITDA cannot be reconciled to GAAP without unreasonable effort. We cannot reconcile these amounts to GAAP because we are unable to accurately forecast the tax impact of Venezuela operations and the related exchange rates used to measure those operations. The impact of Venezuela operations and related exchange rates during the remainder of 2016 could be significant to our full-year GAAP provision for income taxes, and, therefore, to income (loss) from continuing operations, EPS from continuing operations, effective income tax rate and Adjusted EBITDA.
(b) Attributable to Brink’s.
(c) 2016 GAAP outlook includes the actual impact of Venezuela operations through September 30, 2016, but does not include any forecasted amounts from Venezuela operations for the fourth quarter of 2016.
(d) 2015 non-GAAP amounts exclude Venezuela capital expenditures of $4.3 million and Venezuela depreciation and amortization of fixed assets of $3.9 million. Depreciation and amortization of fixed assets does not include intangible asset amortization.
(e) Includes capital leases for newly acquired assets only.
(f) Adjusted EBITDA is defined as non-GAAP income from continuing operations excluding the impact of non-GAAP interest expense, non-GAAP income tax provision and non-GAAP depreciation and amortization.  Non-GAAP income from continuing operations is reconciled to net income on page 14.

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Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations (Unaudited) 
(In millions, except for per share amounts)

(a) Earnings per share may not add due to rounding.

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Supplemental Financial Information (Unaudited) 
(In millions)

Selected Cash Flow Information

(a) Capital expenditures as well as depreciation and amortization related to Venezuela have been excluded from Global Markets.
(b) Represents the amount of property and equipment acquired using capital leases.  Because these assets are acquired without using cash, the acquisitions are not reflected in the consolidated cash flow statement.  Amounts are provided here to assist in the comparison of assets acquired in the current year versus prior years.

The Brink’s Company and subsidiaries 
Segment Results: 2015 and 2016 (Unaudited) 
(In millions, except for percentages)

(a) See pages 11-12 for more information.

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Other Items Not Allocated To Segments (Unaudited)                                                       
(In millions)

Brink’s measures its segment results before income and expenses for corporate activities and for certain other items.  A summary of the other items not allocated to segment results is below.

Other items not allocated to segments

Venezuela operations We have excluded from our segment results all of our Venezuela operating results, including expenses related to currency devaluations of $11.2 million and $30.4 million in the first nine months of 2016 and 2015, respectively, due to management’s inability to allocate, generate or redeploy resources in-country or globally.  In light of these unique circumstances, our operations in Venezuela are largely independent of the rest of our global operations. As a result, the Chief Executive Officer, the Company's Chief Operating Decision Maker ("CODM"), assesses segment performance and makes resource decisions by segment excluding Venezuela operating results.  Additionally, management believes excluding Venezuela from segment results makes it possible to more effectively evaluate the company’s performance between periods. 

Factors considered by management in excluding Venezuela results include:

• Continued inability to repatriate cash to redeploy to other operations or dividend to shareholders 
• Highly inflationary environment
• Fixed exchange rate policy 
• Continued currency devaluations and
• Difficulty raising prices and controlling costs

Reorganization and Restructuring Brink’s reorganized and restructured its business in December 2014, eliminating the management roles and structures in its former Latin America and EMEA regions and implementing a plan to reduce the cost structure of various country operations by eliminating approximately 1,700 positions across its global workforce.  Severance costs of $21.8 million associated with these actions were recognized in 2014.  An additional $1.2 million was recognized in the first nine months of 2015 related to the 2014 restructuring.  The restructuring saved annual direct costs of approximately $50 million in 2015 compared to 2014, excluding charges for severance, lease termination and accelerated depreciation.  Brink's initiated an additional restructuring of its business in the third quarter of 2015.  We recognized $5.3 million of costs in the first nine months of 2016 related to employee severance, contract terminations and lease terminations associated with the 2015 restructuring, which is expected to reduce the global workforce by approximately 1,100 positions and is projected to result in $20 to $25 million in 2016 cost savings.  In the fourth quarter of 2015, we recognized $1.8 million in charges related to Executive Leadership and Board of Directors restructuring actions, which were announced in January 2016.  We recognized $4.3 million in charges in the first nine months of 2016 related to the Executive Leadership and Board of Directors restructuring actions.  Due to the unique circumstances around these charges, they have not been allocated to segment results and are excluded from non-GAAP results.

U.S. and Mexican retirement plans Because our U.S. retirement plans are frozen, costs related to these plans have not been allocated to segment results.  Mexico is the only operating segment in which employee termination benefits are accounted for as retirement benefits under FASB ASC Topic 715, Compensation — Retirement Benefits. As a result, settlement charges related to these termination benefits have not been allocated to segment results.

Acquisitions and dispositions Certain acquisition and disposition items that are not considered part of the ongoing activities of the business and are special in nature are consistently excluded from non-GAAP results.  Due to management's decision in the first quarter of 2016 to exit the Republic of Ireland, the prospective impacts of shutting down this operation are included in items not allocated to segments and are excluded from the operating segments effective March 1, 2016.  This activity is also excluded from the consolidated non-GAAP results.  Beginning May 1, 2016, due to management's decision to also exit Northern Ireland, the results of shutting down these operations are treated similarly to the Republic of Ireland.  Revenues from both Ireland operations to be shut down in 2016 were approximately $20 million in 2015.  Charges included in our GAAP results include $4.8 million in severance costs, $2.0 million in property impairment charges, lease restructuring charges of $0.5 million and an additional $5.3 million in operating and other exit costs.  These costs have been excluded from our segment and our consolidated non-GAAP results.  International shipments to and from Ireland will continue to be provided through Brink's Global Services ("BGS").  We also recognized a $2.0 million loss related to the sale of corporate assets in the second quarter of 2016.

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Non-GAAP Results Reconciled to GAAP (Unaudited) 
(In millions, except for percentages and per share amounts)

Non-GAAP results described in this press release are financial measures that are not required by or presented in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”).  The purpose of the Non-GAAP results is to report financial information from the primary operations of our business by excluding the effects of certain income and expenses that do not reflect the ordinary earnings of our operations.  The specific items excluded have not been allocated to segments, are described in detail on pages 11-12, and are reconciled to comparable GAAP measures below.

Non-GAAP results adjust the quarterly Non-GAAP tax rates so that the Non-GAAP tax rate in each of the quarters is equal to the full-year estimated Non-GAAP tax rate.  The full-year Non-GAAP tax rate in both years excludes certain pretax and income tax amounts.  Amounts reported for prior periods have been updated in this report to present information consistently for all periods presented.

The 2016 Non-GAAP outlook amounts for provision for income taxes, income (loss) from continuing operations, EPS from continuing operations, effective income tax rate and Adjusted EBITDA cannot be reconciled to GAAP without unreasonable effort. We cannot reconcile these amounts to GAAP because we are unable to accurately forecast the tax impact of Venezuela operations and the related exchange rates used to measure those operations. The impact of Venezuela operations and related exchange rates during the remainder of 2016 could be significant to our full-year GAAP provision for income taxes, and, therefore, to income (loss) from continuing operations, EPS from continuing operations, effective income tax rate and Adjusted EBITDA.

The Non-GAAP information is intended to provide information to assist analysts and investors with comparability and estimates of future performance.  Brink’s believes these measures are helpful in assessing operations and estimating future results and enable period-to-period comparability of financial performance.  In addition, Brink’s believes the measures will help analysts and investors assess the ongoing operations of both our consolidated business and individual segments.  Management uses non-GAAP results to evaluate our period-over-period operating performance because our management believes this provides a more comparable measure of our continuing business.  Additionally, non-GAAP results are utilized as performance measures in certain management incentive compensation plans.

Non-GAAP Results Reconciled to GAAP

Amounts may not add due to rounding.

(a) See footnote (b) on page 4 for currency definition and calculation between periods.  For non-GAAP EPS on a constant currency basis, EPS is calculated for the most recent period at the prior period's foreign currency rates to eliminate the currency impact on EPS.
(b) See “Other Items Not Allocated To Segments” on pages 11-12 for pretax amounts and details.  Other Items Not Allocated To Segments for noncontrolling interests, income from continuing operations attributable to Brink's and EPS are the effects of the same items at their respective line items of the consolidated statements of operations.
(c) Non-GAAP income from continuing operations and non-GAAP EPS have been adjusted to reflect an effective income tax rate in each interim period equal to the full-year non-GAAP effective income tax rate. The full-year non-GAAP effective tax rate is estimated at 39.0% for 2016 and was 37.0% for 2015.

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Non-GAAP Results Reconciled to GAAP (Unaudited) - continued
(In millions, except for percentages and per share amounts)

Amounts may not add due to rounding.

See page 13 for footnote explanations.

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Adjusted EBITDA (Unaudited) 
(In millions)

(a) Non-GAAP amounts exclude the impact of "Other Items Not Allocated to Segments" on the respective line items on the consolidated statements of operations.
(b) See page 14 for reconciliation of 2015 and 2016 non-GAAP revenue and non-GAAP income from continuing operations to GAAP revenue and GAAP net income (loss). See page 16 for reconciliation of 2014 non-GAAP revenue and non-GAAP income from continuing operations to GAAP revenue and GAAP net income (loss).

The Brink’s Company and subsidiaries  
Non-GAAP Results Reconciled to GAAP - Other (Unaudited)  
(In millions)

(a) Refer to the 2015 Fourth Quarter press release exhibit 99.1 on Form 8-K filed February 4, 2016 for details.
(b) Non-GAAP income from continuing operations has been adjusted to reflect an effective income tax rate in each interim period equal to the full-year non-GAAP effective income tax rate. The full-year non-GAAP effective tax rate was 45.7% for 2014.

The Brink’s Company and subsidiaries 
Reconciliation of Non-GAAP to GAAP 2016 Outlook (Unaudited) 
(In millions, except for percentages and per share amounts)

Amounts may not add due to rounding.

(a) Non-GAAP outlook excludes the impacts of Venezuela operations and acquisitions and dispositions.
(b) Non-GAAP outlook excludes the impacts of Venezuela operations, reorganization and restructuring, U.S. and Mexican retirement plans, and acquisitions and dispositions.
(c) Non-GAAP outlook excludes the impacts of Venezuela operations.
(d) The 2016 Non-GAAP outlook amounts for provision for income taxes, income (loss) from continuing operations, EPS from continuing operations, and the effective income tax rate cannot be reconciled to GAAP without unreasonable effort. We cannot reconcile these amounts to GAAP because we are unable to accurately forecast the tax impact of Venezuela operations and the related exchange rates used to measure those operations. The impact of Venezuela operations and related exchange rates during the remainder of 2016 could be significant to our full-year GAAP provision for income taxes, and, therefore, to income (loss) from continuing operations, EPS from continuing operations, and the effective income tax rate.