TAYLOR DEVICES INC - Quarter Report: 2014 February (Form 10-Q)

UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 10-Q

(Mark One)

For the quarterly period ended February 28, 2014

OR

For the transition period from                      to                     

Commission File Number 0-3498

TAYLOR DEVICES, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

716-694-0800

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.

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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically and posted on its corporate Web site, if any, every Interactive Data File required to be submitted and posted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit and post such files). Yes þ     No o

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer” and “smaller reporting company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act).

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As of April 11, 2014, there were outstanding 3,342,816 shares of the registrant’s common stock, par value $.025 per share.

TAYLOR DEVICES, INC.

Index to Form 10-Q

TAYLOR DEVICES, INC.

Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements

Item 2. Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

Cautionary Statement

The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 provides a "safe harbor" for forward-looking statements. Information in this Item 2, "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations," and elsewhere in this 10-Q that does not consist of historical facts, are "forward-looking statements." Statements accompanied or qualified by, or containing, words such as "may," "will," "should," "believes," "expects," "intends," "plans," "projects," "estimates," "predicts," "potential," "outlook," "forecast," "anticipates," "presume," and "assume" constitute forward-looking statements and, as such, are not a guarantee of future performance. The statements involve factors, risks and uncertainties, the impact or occurrence of which can cause actual results to differ materially from the expected results described in such statements. Risks and uncertainties can include, among others, reductions in capital budgets by our customers and potential customers; changing product demand and industry capacity; increased competition and pricing pressures; advances in technology that can reduce the demand for the Company's products; the kind, frequency and intensity of natural disasters that affect demand for the Company’s products; and other factors, many or all of which are beyond the Company's control. Consequently, investors should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements as predictive of future results. The Company disclaims any obligation to release publicly any updates or revisions to the forward-looking statements herein to reflect any change in the Company's expectations with regard thereto, or any changes in events, conditions or circumstances on which any such statement is based.

Results of Operations

A summary of the period to period changes in the principal items included in the condensed consolidated statements of income is shown below:

Sales under certain fixed-price contracts, requiring substantial performance over several periods prior to commencement of deliveries, are accounted for under the percentage-of-completion method of accounting whereby revenues are recognized based on estimates of completion prepared on a ratio of cost to total estimated cost basis. Costs include all material and direct and indirect charges related to specific contracts.

Adjustments to cost estimates are made periodically and any losses expected to be incurred on contracts in progress are charged to operations in the period such losses are determined. However, any profits expected on contracts in progress are recognized over the life of the contract.

For financial statement presentation purposes, the Company nets progress billings against the total costs incurred on uncompleted contracts. The asset, "costs and estimated earnings in excess of billings," represents revenues recognized in excess of amounts billed. The liability, "billings in excess of costs and estimated earnings," represents billings in excess of revenues recognized.

For the nine months ended February 28, 2014 (All figures discussed are for the nine months ended February 28, 2014 as compared to the nine months ended February 28, 2013.)

The Company's consolidated results of operations showed a 25% decrease in net revenues and a decrease in net income of 63%. Revenue in the current period was adversely affected by the movement of all of the Company’s production equipment from its original location at the Company headquarters to the new Buffalo Bolt Way campus in North Tonawanda during October and November. This caused an interruption of production with extensive lost time involved in installation, leveling and set-up of the machines. Revenues recorded in the current period for long-term construction projects (“Project(s)”) were 43% lower than the level recorded in the prior year. We had 36 Projects in process during the current period compared with 52 during the same period last year. Revenues recorded in the current period for other-than long-term construction projects (non-projects) were 6% higher than the level recorded in the prior year. Total sales within the U.S. decreased 16% from the same period last year. Total sales to Asia are down 36% from the same period of the prior year. Sales decreases recorded over the same period last year to customers involved in construction of buildings and bridges (42%) and industrial (11%), were slightly offset by an increase in sales to customers in aerospace / defense (8%). Please refer to the charts, below, which show the breakdown of sales.

Sales of the Company’s products are made to three general groups of customers: industrial, construction and aerospace / defense. A breakdown of sales to the three general groups of customers is as follows:

At February 28, 2013, the Company had 133 open sales orders in our backlog with a total sales value of $11.7 million. At February 28, 2014, the Company has 17% fewer open sales orders in our backlog (110 orders) and the total sales value is $18.5 million or 58% more than the prior year value.

The Company's backlog, revenues, commission expense, gross margins, gross profits, and net income fluctuate from period to period. The changes in the current period, compared to the prior period, are not necessarily representative of future results.

Net revenue by geographic region, as a percentage of total net revenue for the nine month periods ended February 28, 2014 and February 28, 2013 is as follows:

Selling, General and Administrative Expenses

Selling, general and administrative expenses decreased by 31% from the prior year. Outside commission expense decreased by 23% from last year's level. This fluctuation was primarily due to the significant decrease in commissionable sales in the current year. Other selling, general and administrative expenses decreased 33% from last year to this. This decrease is primarily due to a decrease in air-freight charges incurred last year in order to meet contractual obligations to deliver products on schedule along with a decrease in estimated incentive compensation expense from the prior period related to the lower level of sales and operating results.

The above factors resulted in operating income of $1,020,000 for the nine months ended February 28, 2014, down 66% from the $3,000,000 in the same period of the prior year.

For the three months ended February 28, 2014 (All figures discussed are for the three months ended February 28, 2014 as compared to the three months ended February 28, 2013.)

The Company's consolidated results of operations showed a 16% decrease in net revenues and a decrease in net income of 64%. Revenues recorded in the current period for long-term construction projects (“Project(s)”) were 42% lower than the level recorded in the prior year. We had 20 Projects in process during the current period compared with 27 during the same period last year. Revenues recorded in the current period for other-than long-term construction projects (non-projects) were 16% higher than the level recorded in the prior year. Total sales within the U.S. increased 15% from the same period last year. Total sales to Asia are down 41% from the same period of the prior year. Sales decreases recorded over the same period last year to customers involved in construction of buildings and bridges (42%) were slightly offset by an increase in sales to customers in aerospace / defense (23%). Please refer to the charts, below, which show the breakdown of sales.

Sales of the Company’s products are made to three general groups of customers: industrial, construction and aerospace / defense. A breakdown of sales to the three general groups of customers is as follows:

Net revenue by geographic region, as a percentage of total net revenue for the three month periods ended February 28, 2014 and February 28, 2013 is as follows:

Selling, General and Administrative Expenses

Selling, general and administrative expenses decreased by 14% from the prior year. Outside commission expense increased by 11% from last year's level. This fluctuation was primarily due to an increase in commissionable sales in the current period while, in the prior period, there is a higher percentage of Project sales sold through our Asian Representatives net of commissions. Other selling, general and administrative expenses decreased 18% from last year to this. This decrease is primarily due in estimated incentive compensation expense from the prior period related to the lower level of sales and operating results.

The above factors resulted in operating income of $342,000 for the three months ended February 28, 2014, down 63% from the $933,000 in the same period of the prior year.

Stock Options

The Company has a stock option plan which provides for the granting of nonqualified or incentive stock options to officers, key employees and non-employee directors. Options granted under the plan are exercisable over a ten year term. Options not exercised at the end of the term expire.

The Company expenses stock options using the fair value recognition provisions of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Accounting Standards Codification (ASC). The Company recognized $43,000 and $36,000 of compensation cost for the nine month periods ended February 28, 2014 and February 28, 2013.

The fair value of each stock option grant has been determined using the Black-Scholes model. The model considers assumptions related to exercise price, expected volatility, risk-free interest rate, and the weighted average expected term of the stock option grants. Expected volatility assumptions used in the model were based on volatility of the Company's stock price for the thirty month period ending on the date of grant. The risk-free interest rate is derived from the U.S. treasury yield. The Company used a weighted average expected term.

The following assumptions were used in the Black-Scholes model to estimate the fair market value of the Company's stock option grants:

The ultimate value of the options will depend on the future price of the Company's common stock, which cannot be forecast with reasonable accuracy.

A summary of changes in the stock options outstanding during the nine month period ended February 28, 2014 is presented below:

Capital Resources, Line of Credit and Long-Term Debt

The Company's primary liquidity is dependent upon the working capital needs. These are mainly inventory, accounts receivable, costs and estimated earnings in excess of billings, accounts payable, accrued commissions, and billings in excess of costs and estimated earnings. The Company's primary source of liquidity has been operations and bank financing.

Capital expenditures for the nine months ended February 28, 2014 were $1,300,000 compared to $2,164,000 in the same period of the prior year. These expenditures were primarily construction costs to renovate buildings housing the Company’s machining operations, as discussed below. As of February 28, 2014, the Company has commitments for capital expenditures of $30,000 during the next twelve months.

The substantial renovations and modifications to the buildings acquired in 2011 have been completed at a total construction cost of $3 million. The subsequent relocation of the production machinery from the Company’s Tonawanda Island site was completed in the autumn of 2013. This move allows the former machining areas at the existing Tonawanda Island site to house greatly expanded assembly and product testing areas. All corporate and engineering offices are unaffected by the change and will remain on Tonawanda Island. The Company believes it is carrying adequate insurance coverage on its facilities and their contents.

The Company has available a $6,000,000 bank demand line of credit, with interest payable at the Company's option of 30, 60, 90 or 180 day LIBOR rate plus 2.5%, or the bank's prime rate less .25%. There is no balance outstanding as of February 28, 2014 or as of May 31, 2013. The line is secured by accounts receivable, equipment, inventory, and general intangibles, and a negative pledge of the Company’s real property. This line of credit is subject to the usual terms and conditions applied by the bank, is subject to renewal annually, and is not subject to an express requirement on the bank’s part to lend. The outstanding balance on the line of credit fluctuates as the Company's various long-term projects progress.

The Company is in compliance with restrictive covenants under the line of credit. In these covenants, the Company agrees to maintain the following minimum levels of the stated item:

All of the $6,000,000 unused portion of our line of credit is available without violating any of our debt covenants.

NOTE: Inventory turnover is annualized for the nine month period ended February 28, 2014.

Inventory, at $8,966,000 as of February 28, 2014, is $158,000, or 2%, lower than the prior year-end level of $9,124,000. Approximately 89% of the current inventory is work in process, 5% is finished goods, and 6% is raw materials.

Maintenance and other inventory represent stock that is estimated to have a product life cycle in excess of twelve months. This stock represents certain items the Company is required to maintain for service of products sold and items that are generally subject to spontaneous ordering. This inventory is particularly sensitive to technological obsolescence in the near term due to its use in industries characterized by the continuous introduction of new product lines, rapid technological advances and product obsolescence. Management of the Company has recorded an allowance for potential inventory obsolescence. The provision for potential inventory obsolescence was $135,000 for each of the nine month periods ended February 28, 2014 and February 28, 2013. The Company continues to rework slow-moving inventory, where applicable, to convert it to product to be used on customer orders.

Accounts Receivable, Costs and Estimated Earnings in Excess of Billings (CIEB"), and Billings in Excess of Costs and Estimated Earnings ("BIEC")

The Company combines the totals of accounts receivable, the current asset CIEB, and the current liability, BIEC, to determine how much cash the Company will eventually realize from revenue recorded to date. As the accounts receivable figure rises in relation to the other two figures, the Company can anticipate increased cash receipts within the ensuing 30-60 days.

Accounts receivable of $2,897,000 as of February 28, 2014 includes approximately $285,000 of amounts retained by customers on Projects. It also includes $42,000 of an allowance for doubtful accounts (“Allowance”). The accounts receivable balance as of May 31, 2013 of $2,245,000 included an Allowance of $42,000. The number of an average day's sales outstanding in accounts receivable (“DSO”) increased from 39 days at May 31, 2013 to 54 at February 28, 2014. The DSO is a function of 1.) the level of sales for an average day (for example, total sales for the past three months divided by 90 days) and 2.) the level of accounts receivable at the balance sheet date. The level of sales for an average day in the third quarter of the current fiscal year is 7% less than in the fourth quarter of the prior year. The level of accounts receivable at the end of the current fiscal quarter is 29% more than at the end of the prior year. The combined effect of these two factors caused the DSO to increase from last year end to this quarter-end. A primary reason for the significant increase in the level of accounts receivable from last year end to this quarter-end is, there was a significant increase in billings to customers in the final month of the current quarter (February 2014) as compared to the final month of the prior year-end (May 2013). Billings to customers in February 2014 accounted for 52% of the total billed to customers for the quarter as compared to May 2013, in which 23% of that fourth quarter’s billings to customers were recorded. It is expected that the retained amounts will be released in the normal course of the business in accordance with the related contracts. The Company expects to collect the net accounts receivable balance, including the retainage, during the next twelve months.

As noted above, CIEB represents revenues recognized in excess of amounts billed. Whenever possible, the Company negotiates a provision in sales contracts to allow the Company to bill, and collect from the customer, payments in advance of shipments. Unfortunately, provisions such as this are often not possible. The $2,939,000 balance in this account at February 28, 2014 is 20% more than the prior year-end. The Company expects to bill the entire amount during the next twelve months. 35% of the CIEB balance as of the end of the last fiscal quarter, November 30, 2013, was billed to those customers in the current fiscal quarter ended February 28, 2014. The remainder will be billed as the Projects progress, in accordance with the terms specified in the various contracts.

The balances in this account are comprised of the following components:

As noted above, BIEC represents billings to customers in excess of revenues recognized. The $736,000 balance in this account at February 28, 2014 is up significantly from the $172,000 balance at the end of the prior year. This increase is the result of normal flow of the projects through production with billings to the customers as permitted in the related contracts.

The balance in this account fluctuates in the same manner and for the same reasons as the account “costs and estimated earnings in excess of billings”, discussed above. Final delivery of product under these contracts is expected to occur during the next twelve months.

The balances in this account are comprised of the following components:

Summary of factors affecting the balances in CIEB and BIEC:

The Company's backlog of sales orders at February 28, 2014 is $18.5 million, up 41% from $13.1 million at the end of the prior year. $8.5 million of the current backlog is on Projects already in progress.

Other Balance Sheet Items

Accounts payable, at $1,057,000 as of February 28, 2014, is 13% less than the prior year-end. Commission expense on applicable sales orders is recognized at the time revenue is recognized. The commission is paid following receipt of payment from the customers. Accrued commissions as of February 28, 2014 are $379,000, down 13% from the $437,000 accrued at the prior year-end. The Company expects the current accrued amount to be paid during the next twelve months. Other current liabilities decreased 32% from the prior year-end, to $1,180,000. This is primarily due to a lower level of accrued incentive compensation expense. Payments on these liabilities will take place as scheduled within the next twelve months.

Management believes the Company's cash flows from operations and borrowing capacity under the bank line of credit are sufficient to fund ongoing operations, capital improvements and share repurchases (if any) for the next twelve months.

Item 3. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk

Smaller reporting companies are not required to provide the information called for by this item.

Item 4. Controls and Procedures

(a) Evaluation of disclosure controls and procedures.

The Company's principal executive officer and principal financial officer have evaluated the Company's disclosure controls and procedures as of February 28, 2014 and have concluded that as of the evaluation date, the disclosure controls and procedures were effective to ensure that information required to be disclosed in the reports that we file or submit under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported, within the time periods specified in the Commission’s rules and forms and that information required to be disclosed in the reports we file or submit under the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our chief executive officer and chief financial officer to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.

(b) Changes in internal control over financial reporting.

There have been no changes in the Company's internal controls over financial reporting that occurred during the fiscal quarter ended February 28, 2014 that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, the Company's control over financial reporting.

Part II - Other Information

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

The Board of Directors and Stockholders

Taylor Devices, Inc.

We have reviewed the accompanying condensed consolidated balance sheet of Taylor Devices, Inc. and Subsidiary as of February 28, 2014, the related condensed consolidated statements of income for the three and nine months ended February 28, 2014 and 2013 and cash flows for the nine months ended February 28, 2014 and 2013. These interim financial statements are the responsibility of the Company's management.

We conducted our reviews in accordance with standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). A review of interim financial information consists principally of applying analytical procedures and making inquiries of persons responsible for financial and accounting matters. It is substantially less in scope than an audit conducted in accordance with standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States), the objective of which is the expression of an opinion regarding the financial statements taken as a whole. Accordingly, we do not express such an opinion.

Based on our reviews, we are not aware of any material modifications that should be made to the accompanying interim condensed consolidated financial statements referred to above for them to be in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

We have previously audited, in accordance with standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States), the consolidated balance sheet as of May 31, 2013, and the related consolidated statements of income, changes in stockholders' equity, and cash flows for the year then ended (not presented herein); and in our report dated August 2, 2013, we expressed an unqualified opinion on those financial statements. In our opinion, the information set forth in the accompanying condensed consolidated balance sheet as of May 31, 2013 is fairly stated, in all material respects, in relation to the balance sheet from which it has been derived.

Lumsden & McCormick, LLP

Buffalo, New York

April 11, 2014

TAYLOR DEVICES, INC.

Signatures

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.