Consolidated Water Q4 2020 Earnings Report
Key Takeaways
Consolidated Water Co. Ltd. reported a 6% increase in revenue to $72.6 million for the year 2020. The company's net income was $8.6 million, or $0.56 per diluted share. Cash and cash equivalents totaled $43.8 million as of December 31, 2020.
Revenue increased 6% to a record $72.6 million.
Services segment revenue increased to $12.9 million, with $12.5 million of the revenue due to acquiring a 51% controlling interest in PERC Water in October 2019.
Services segment gross profit was $3.2 million versus $0.5 million in 2019.
Net income from continuing operations attributable to stockholders was $8.6 million or $0.56 per diluted share.
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Forward Guidance
Consolidated Water plans to continue expanding its business through organic growth, acquisitions, and new projects, as they further develop and broaden their water solution offerings.
Positive Outlook
- PERC's strong performance, including the expansion of its recurring revenue stream from operating and maintenance contracts, to continue in 2021.
- Conditions in the design-build market are also improving and that project activity will increase significantly in 2021, which should prove quite positive for our PERC business.
- Aerex has been awarded two contracts to manufacture equipment for municipal water treatment projects in Florida.
- Aerex is presently also targeting three additional potential manufacturing projects in Florida.
- Seeing some new opportunities for bidding on seawater desalination projects in the Caribbean.
Challenges Ahead
- The pandemic has adversely effected the finances of many communities across our service areas and they are increasingly looking for innovative public-private partnership arrangements to address their water challenges.
- Aerex’s largest customer informed us last October that it expects to suspend its purchases until the first quarter of 2022 due to inventory management related factors.
- Manufacturing segment revenue to be down in the first part of 2021 as compared to last year.
- Retail revenue declined due to a 13% decrease in the volume of water sold by Cayman Water primarily as a result of the tourism restrictions which were in effect for the last nine months of 2020 on Grand Cayman Island.
- Decrease in bulk water revenue was due to two new water supply contracts that commenced in February and July of 2019 with the Water Authority-Cayman at lower per gallon rates than the contracts they replaced, as well as a decline in revenue of approximately $1.5 million from the company’s Bahamas operations arising from lower energy prices which correspondingly reduced the energy pass-through component of CW-Bahamas’ rates.
Revenue & Expenses
Visualization of income flow from segment revenue to net income