Kodak Reports Third-Quarter 2024 Financial Results

ROCHESTER, N.Y., Nov. 12, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Eastman Kodak Company (NYSE: KODK) today reported financial results for the third quarter 2024.

Third-quarter 2024 highlights include:

• Consolidated revenues of $261 million, compared with $269 million for Q3 2023, a decrease of $8 million or 3 percent
• Gross profit of $45 million, compared with $50 million for Q3 2023, a decrease of $5 million or 10 percent
• Gross profit percentage of 17 percent, compared with 19 percent for Q3 2023, a decrease of 2 percentage points
• GAAP net income of $18 million, compared with net income of $2 million for Q3 2023, an increase of $16 million or 800 percent
• Operational EBITDA of $1 million, compared with $12 million for Q3 2023, a decrease of $11 million or 92 percent
• A quarter-end cash balance of $214 million, compared with $255 million on December 31, 2023, a decrease of $41 million

“In the third quarter, Kodak continued to focus on the fundamentals of our long-term strategic plan: increasing operating efficiency, investing in innovation and driving smart revenue,” said Jim Continenza, Kodak’s Executive Chairman and CEO. “Our Advanced Materials & Chemicals group continues to emerge as a key part of our future and we continue to invest in AM&C growth initiatives, including the cGMP facility for manufacturing pharmaceutical ingredients currently nearing completion at Eastman Business Park. Our legacy AM&C film business is growing rapidly, and we are investing capex to increase capacity to meet demand. In our commercial print business, we recently received an affirmative determination from the U.S. International Trade Commission in our tariff cases concerning imports of aluminum printing plates from Japan and China. This is an important win for the U.S. printing industry and Kodak because it establishes a level playing field in the U.S. plates business which will allow us to continue providing our customers with reliable supplies of high-quality plates. We continue to gain momentum with our groundbreaking continuous inkjet press portfolio. Looking forward, we will continue to invest in streamlining our operations and developing the leading-edge products our customers expect from Kodak.”

For the quarter ended September 30, 2024, revenues were $261 million, a decrease of $8 million or 3 percent compared to the same period in 2023. Excluding the impact of foreign exchange, revenue declined $9 million or 3 percent.

GAAP net income was $18 million for the quarter, compared to $2 million in Q3 2023, an increase of $16 million or 800 percent. Operational EBITDA for the quarter ended September 30, 2024 was $1 million, compared to $12 million in Q3 2023, a decrease of $11 million. The decrease was primarily driven by higher manufacturing costs driven by an increase in aluminum costs, changes in employee benefit reserves, inventory reserve adjustment, as well as an increase in costs associated with certain litigation matters.

Kodak ended the third quarter with a cash balance of $214 million, a decrease of $41 million from December 31, 2023. The decrease was driven by capital expenditures primarily to fund growth initiatives, investments in technology systems and organizational structure and lower profitability from operations, partially offset by improvements in working capital primarily due to cash proceeds of $40 million from brand licensing in the first quarter of 2024.

“Kodak continued to execute on its long-term strategy in the third quarter,” said David Bullwinkle, Kodak’s CFO. “The decline in revenue, which slowed compared to recent quarters, reflects our ongoing focus on generating smart revenue to drive stronger profitability. Kodak ended the quarter with a cash balance of $214 million, compared with $255 million on December 31, 2023, which is in line with our expectations. The decline reflects our continued capex investments in supporting AM&C growth initiatives, along with building working capital in AM&C to allow us to keep customers supplied as we make improvements in our manufacturing facilities. Looking ahead, we plan to invest in increasing operational efficiency and expanding manufacturing capacity to continue delivering reliable value to our customers.”

Revenue and Operational EBITDA by Reportable Segment Q3 2024 vs. Q3 2023

* Total Operational EBITDA is a non-GAAP financial measure. The reconciliation between GAAP and non-GAAP measures is provided in Appendix A of this press release.

** The impact of foreign exchange represents the foreign exchange impact using average foreign exchange rates for the three months ended September 30, 2023, rather than the actual average exchange rates in effect for the three months ended September 30, 2024.

Eastman Business Park segment is not a reportable segment and is excluded from the table above.

About Kodak
Kodak (NYSE: KODK) is a leading global manufacturer focused on commercial print and advanced materials & chemicals. With 79,000 worldwide patents earned over 130 years of R&D, we believe in the power of technology and science to enhance what the world sees and creates. Our innovative, award-winning products, combined with our customer-first approach, make us the partner of choice for commercial printers worldwide. Kodak is committed to environmental stewardship, including industry leadership in developing sustainable solutions for print. For additional information on Kodak, visit us at  kodak.com, or follow us on X  @Kodak and LinkedIn.

Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

This press release includes “forward-looking statements” as that term is defined under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.

Forward-looking statements include statements concerning Kodak’s plans, objectives, goals, strategies, future events, future revenue or performance, capital expenditures, liquidity, investments, financing needs and business trends and other information that is not historical information. When used in this press release, the words “estimates,” “expects,” “anticipates,” “projects,” “plans,” “intends,” “believes,” “predicts,” “forecasts,” “strategy,” “continues,” “goals,” “targets” or future or conditional verbs, such as “will,” “should,” “could,” or “may,” and similar words and expressions, as well as statements that do not relate strictly to historical or current facts, are intended to identify forward-looking statements. All forward-looking statements, including management’s examination of historical operating trends and data, are based upon Kodak’s current expectations and assumptions. Forward-looking statements are subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from historical results or those expressed in or implied by such forward-looking statements.

Important factors that could cause actual events or results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements include, among others, the risks and uncertainties described in more detail in Kodak’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023 under the headings “Business,” “Risk Factors,” “Legal Proceedings,” and/or “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations–Liquidity and Capital Resources,” in the corresponding sections of Kodak’s Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended March 31, 2024, June 30, 2024 and September 30, 2024, and in other filings Kodak makes with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission from time to time, as well as the following:   Kodak’s ability to improve and sustain its operating structure, cash flow, profitability and other financial results; Kodak’s ability to achieve strategic objectives, cash forecasts, financial projections, and projected growth; Kodak’s ability to achieve the financial and operational results contained in its business plans; Kodak’s ability to obtain additional or alternate financing if and as needed, Kodak’s continued ability to manage world-wide cash through inter-company loans, distributions and other mechanisms, and Kodak’s ability to provide or facilitate financing for its customers; Kodak’s ability to fund continued investments, capital needs and collateral requirements and service its debt and Series B Preferred Stock and Series C Preferred Stock; Changes in foreign currency exchange rates, commodity prices, interest rates and tariff rates; the impact of the global economic environment, including inflationary pressures, geopolitical issues such as the war in Ukraine and conflicts involving Israel, medical epidemics, and Kodak’s ability to effectively mitigate the associated increased costs of aluminum and other raw materials, energy, labor, shipping, delays in shipment and production times, and fluctuations in demand; Kodak’s ability to effectively compete with large, well-financed industry participants or with competitors whose cost structure is lower than Kodak’s; the performance by third parties of their obligations to supply products, components or services to Kodak and Kodak’s ability to address supply chain disruptions and continue to obtain raw materials and components available from single or limited sources of supply, which may be adversely affected by the war in Ukraine, the conflicts involving Israel, and residual effects of the COVID-19 pandemic; Kodak’s ability to comply with the covenants in its various credit facilities; Kodak’s ability to effectively anticipate technology and industry trends and develop and market new products, solutions and technologies, including products based on its technology and expertise that relate to industries in which it does not currently conduct material business; Kodak’s ability to effect strategic transactions, such as investments, acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures and similar transactions, or to achieve the benefits sought to be achieved from such strategic transactions; Kodak’s ability to discontinue, sell or spin-off certain non-core businesses or operations, or otherwise monetize assets; the impact of the investigations, litigation and claims arising out of the circumstances surrounding the announcement on July 28, 2020, by the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation of the signing of a non‐binding letter of interest to provide a subsidiary of Kodak with a potential loan to support the launch of an initiative for the manufacture of pharmaceutical ingredients for essential generic drugs; and the potential impact of force majeure events, cyber‐attacks or other data security incidents or information technology outages that could disrupt or otherwise harm Kodak’s operations.

Future events and other factors may cause Kodak’s actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements. All forward-looking statements attributable to Kodak or persons acting on its behalf apply only as of the date of this press release and are expressly qualified in their entirety by the cautionary statements included or referenced in this press release. Kodak undertakes no obligation to update or revise forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances that arise after the date made or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events, except as required by law.

APPENDICES

In this third quarter 2024 financial results news release, reference is made to the following non-GAAP financial measures:

• Operational EBITDA; and
• Revenues on a constant currency basis.

Kodak believes that these non-GAAP measures represent important internal measures of performance. Accordingly, where they are provided, it is to give investors the same financial data management uses with the belief that this information will assist the investment community in properly assessing the underlying performance of Kodak, its financial condition, results of operations and cash flow.

Kodak’s segment measure of profit and loss is an adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (“Operational EBITDA”). Operational EBITDA represents the earnings from operations excluding the provision for income taxes; non-service cost components of pension and other postemployment benefits income; depreciation and amortization expense; restructuring costs and other; stock-based compensation expense; consulting and other costs; interest expense; loss on extinguishment of debt; and other (income) charges, net.

The change in revenues on a constant currency basis, as presented in this financial results news release, is calculated by using average foreign exchange rates for the three months ended September 30, 2023, rather than the actual average exchange rates in effect for the three months ended September 30, 2024.

The following table reconciles the most directly comparable GAAP measure of Net Income to Operational EBITDA for the three months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023, respectively:

Footnote Explanations:

(1) Restructuring costs and other for the three months ended September 30, 2023 included $1 million which was reported as Restructuring costs and other and $2 million representing inventory write-downs which was reported as Cost of revenues.

(2) Consulting and other costs are primarily professional services and internal costs associated with certain corporate strategic initiatives, investigations and litigation. Consulting and other costs included $1 million of income in the three months ended September 30, 2023, representing insurance reimbursement of legal costs previously paid by the Company associated with investigations and litigation matters.

(3) As reported in the Consolidated Statement of Operations.

1. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
   

The notes accompanying the financial statements contained in the Company’s third quarter 2024 Form 10-Q are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

The notes accompanying the financial statements contained in the Company’s third quarter 2024 Form 10-Q are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

The notes accompanying the financial statements contained in the Company’s third quarter 2024 Form 10-Q are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

Media Contact:
Kurt Jaeckel, Kodak, +1 585-490-8646, kurt.jaeckel@kodak.com

Investor Contact:
Anthony Redding, Kodak, +1 585-724-4053, shareholderservices@kodak.com