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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 10-Q

(Mark One)

QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE

SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

FOR THE QUARTERLY PERIOD ENDED SEPTEMBERSeptember 30, 20172022

OR

TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE

SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

FOR THE TRANSITION PERIOD FROM _______ TO _______

 

Commission file number: 001-35479

MRC GLOBAL INC.

MRC Global Inc.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Delaware

20-5956993

(State or Other Jurisdiction of
Incorporation or Organization)

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification No.)

1301 McKinney Street, Suite 2300

Houston, Texas

77010

Fulbright Tower

1301 McKinney Street, Suite 2300

Houston, Texas(Address of Principal Executive Offices)

77010(Zip Code)

(Address of Principal Executive Offices)

(Zip Code)

 

(877) 294-7574
(Registrant’s Telephone Number, including Area Code)Code)

________________

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

Title of each class

Trading symbol(s)

Name of each exchange on which registered

Common Stock, par value $0.01

MRC

New York Stock Exchange

 

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.  Yes [ X] No [   ]

 

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 [X] No [   ]

 

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

 

Large accelerated filer [ X ]  Accelerated filer  [   ] Non-accelerated filer (do not check if a smaller reporting company)  [    ]   

Filer ☒ Accelerated Filer ☐ Non-Accelerated Filer ☐ Smaller reporting company [   ]   Reporting Company ☐ Emerging growth company [   ]Growth Company ☐

 

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) 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).  Yes [   ] No [X]

 

The Company’s common stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “MRC”.   There were 94,533,51383,608,579 shares of the registrant’s common stock (excluding 284,786119,782 unvested restricted shares), par value $0.01 per share, issued and outstanding as of October 27, 2017.November 2, 2022.

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INDEX TO QUARTERLY REPORT ON FORM 10-Q

 

Page

PART I – FINANCIAL INFORMATION

ITEM 1.

financial statements (UNAUDITED)

13

Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets – SEPTEMBER 30, 2017 and December2022 AND DECEMBER 31, 20162021

13

cONdENSED cONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS – THREE AND NINE MONTHS ENDED SEPTEMBER 30, 2022 AND SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

4

Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations – Three AND NINE MONTHS ended SEPTEMBER 30, 2017 AND SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

2

Condensed Consolidated Statements of other cOMPREHENSIVE INCOME (LOSS) – three AND NINE months ended SEPTEMBER 30, 2017 and2022 AND SEPTEMBER 30, 20162021

5

Condensed CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF STOCKHOLDERs’ EQUITY – three AND NINE MONTHS ENDED SEPTEMBER 30, 2022 AND SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

6

Condensed CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF cash flows – NINE MONTHS ENDEd SEPTEMBER 30, 2017 and2022 AND SEPTEMBER 30, 20162021

7

Notes to the Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements – SEPTEMBER30, 20172022

8

ITEM 2.

management’s discussion and analysis of financial condition and

results of operations

14 17

ITEM 3.

quantitative and qualitative disclosures about market risk

27 

29

ITEM 4.

controls and procedures

27 

30

PART II – OTHER INFORMATION

ITEM 1.

LEGAL PROCEEDINGS

28 

31

ITEM 1a.

RISK FACTORS

28 

31

ITEM 2.

UNREGISTERED SALES OF EQUITY SECURITIES AND USE OF PROCEEDS

28 

31

ITEM 3.

Defaults Upon Senior Securities

28 

31

ITEM 4.

MINING SAFETY DISCLOSURES

29 

32

ITEM 5.

other information

29 

32

ITEM 6.

Exhibits

30 

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CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS (UNAUDITED)

MRC GLOBAL INC.

(in millions, except shares)

per share amounts)

 

 

 

 

September 30,

 

December 31,

 

September 30,

 

December 31,

 

2017

 

2016

 

2022

  

2021

 

 

 

 

 

Assets

 

 

 

      

Current assets:

 

 

 

     

Cash

$                    40

 

$               109

 $29  $48 

Accounts receivable, net

578 

 

399  526  379 

Inventories, net

649 

 

561  584  453 

Other current assets

40 

 

48   30   19 

Total current assets

1,307 

 

1,117  1,169  899 

 

 

 

 

Long-term assets:

     

Operating lease assets

 194  191 

Property, plant and equipment, net

 83  91 

Other assets

20 

 

19  23  22 

 

 

 

Property, plant and equipment, net

144 

 

135 

 

 

 

 

Intangible assets:

 

 

 

     

Goodwill, net

486 

 

482  264  264 

Other intangible assets, net

379 

 

411   189   204 

 

 

 

 $1,922  $1,671 

$               2,336

 

$            2,164

 

 

 

 

Liabilities and stockholders' equity

 

 

 

      

Current liabilities:

 

 

 

     

Trade accounts payable

$                  449

 

$               314

 $479  $321 

Accrued expenses and other current liabilities

115 

 

111  96  80 

Operating lease liabilities

 34  33 

Current portion of long-term debt

 

  3   2 

Total current liabilities

567 

 

433  612  436 

 

 

 

 

Long-term obligations:

 

 

 

Long-term liabilities:

     

Long-term debt, net

444 

 

406  338  295 

Operating lease liabilities

 177  177 

Deferred income taxes

172 

 

184  55  53 

Other liabilities

22 

 

23  22  32 

 

 

 

 

Commitments and contingencies

 

 

 

          

 

 

 

 

6.5% Series A Convertible Perpetual Preferred Stock, $0.01 par value; authorized

 

 

 

363,000 shares; 363,000 shares issued and outstanding

355 

 

355 

6.5% Series A Convertible Perpetual Preferred Stock, $0.01 par value; authorized 363,000 shares; 363,000 shares issued and outstanding

 355  355 

 

 

 

 

Stockholders' equity:

 

 

 

     

Common stock, $0.01 par value per share: 500 million shares authorized,

 

 

 

103,051,858 and 102,529,637 issued, respectively

 

Common stock, $0.01 par value per share: 500 million shares authorized, 107,819,492 and 107,284,171 issued, respectively

 1  1 

Additional paid-in capital

1,686 

 

1,677  1,754  1,747 

Retained deficit

(577)

 

(574) (783) (819)

Less: Treasury stock at cost: 8,537,410 and 7,677,580 shares, respectively

(125)

 

(107)

Less: Treasury stock at cost: 24,216,330 shares

 (375) (375)

Accumulated other comprehensive loss

(209)

 

(234)  (234)  (231)

776 

 

763   363   323 

$               2,336

 

$            2,164

 $1,922  $1,671 

See notes to condensed consolidated financial statements.

 

 

 

See notes to condensed consolidated financial statements.

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CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS (UNAUDITED)

MRC GLOBAL INC.

(in millions, except per share amounts)

  

Three Months Ended

  

Nine Months Ended

 
  

September 30,

  

September 30,

  

September 30,

  

September 30,

 
  

2022

  

2021

  

2022

  

2021

 
                 

Sales

 $904  $685  $2,494  $1,980 

Cost of sales

  739   590   2,042   1,670 

Gross profit

  165   95   452   310 

Selling, general and administrative expenses

  120   102   347   304 

Operating income (loss)

  45   (7)  105   6 

Other (expense) income:

                

Interest expense

  (6)  (6)  (17)  (18)

Other, net

  (5)  -   (11)  1 

Income (loss) before income taxes

  34   (13)  77   (11)

Income tax expense (benefit)

  10   (2)  23   (1)

Net income (loss)

  24   (11)  54   (10)

Series A preferred stock dividends

  6   6   18   18 

Net income (loss) attributable to common stockholders

 $18  $(17) $36  $(28)
                 
                 

Basic earnings (loss) per common share

 $0.22  $(0.21) $0.43  $(0.34)

Diluted earnings (loss) per common share

 $0.21  $(0.21) $0.42  $(0.34)

Weighted-average common shares, basic

  83.6   82.7   83.5   82.5 

Weighted-average common shares, diluted

  85.0   82.7   84.8   82.5 

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Three Months Ended

 

Nine Months Ended



September 30,

 

September 30,

 

September 30,

 

September 30,



2017

 

2016

 

2017

 

2016



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sales

$                   959

 

$                   793

 

$                2,743

 

$                2,322

Cost of sales

807 

 

705 

 

2,302 

 

1,976 

Gross profit

152 

 

88 

 

441 

 

346 

Selling, general and administrative expenses

130 

 

124 

 

388 

 

396 

Operating income (loss)

22 

 

(36)

 

53 

 

(50)

Other expense:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interest expense

(9)

 

(9)

 

(24)

 

(26)

Write off of debt issuance costs

(8)

 

 -

 

(8)

 

 -

Other, net

 -

 

 

 -

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Income (loss) before income taxes

 

(42)

 

21 

 

(74)

Income tax expense (benefit)

 

(2)

 

 

(9)

Net income (loss)

 

(40)

 

15 

 

(65)

Series A preferred stock dividends

 

 

18 

 

18 

Net loss attributable to common stockholders

$                     (3)

 

$                   (46)

 

$                     (3)

 

$                   (83)



 

 

 

 

 

 

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Basic loss per common share

$                (0.03)

 

$                (0.48)

 

$                (0.03)

 

$                (0.85)

Diluted loss per common share

$                (0.03)

 

$                (0.48)

 

$                (0.03)

 

$                (0.85)

Weighted-average common shares, basic

94.5 

 

95.9 

 

94.6 

 

98.1 

Weighted-average common shares, diluted

94.5 

 

95.9 

 

94.6 

 

98.1 

See notes to condensed consolidated financial statements.

 

 

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OTHER COMPREHENSIVE INCOME (LOSS) (UNAUDITED)

MRC GLOBAL INC.

(in millions)

  

Three Months Ended

  

Nine Months Ended

 
  

September 30,

  

September 30,

  

September 30,

  

September 30,

 
  

2022

  

2021

  

2022

  

2021

 
                 

Net income (loss)

 $24  $(11) $54  $(10)
                 

Other comprehensive (loss) income

                

Foreign currency translation adjustments

  (5)  (3)  (9)  (3)

Hedge accounting adjustments, net of tax

     1   6   4 

Total other comprehensive (loss) income, net of tax

  (5)  (2)  (3)  1 

Comprehensive income (loss)

 $19  $(13) $51  $(9)

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Three Months Ended

 

Nine Months Ended



September 30,

 

September 30,

 

September 30,

 

September 30,



2017

 

2016

 

2017

 

2016



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net income (loss)

$                    3

 

$                  (40)

 

$                  15

 

$                  (65)



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other comprehensive income

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  Foreign currency translation adjustments

11 

 

 -

 

25 

 

12 

Comprehensive income (loss)

$                  14

 

$                  (40)

 

$                  40

 

$                  (53)



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

See notes to condensed consolidated financial statements.

 

 

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY (UNAUDITED)

MRC GLOBAL INC.

(in millions)

                          

Accumulated

     
          

Additional

              

Other

  

Total

 
  

Common Stock

  

Paid-in

  

Retained

  

Treasury Stock

  

Comprehensive

  

Stockholders'

 
  

Shares

  

Amount

  

Capital

  

(Deficit)

  

Shares

  

Amount

  

(Loss)

  

Equity

 

Balance at December 31, 2021

  106  $1  $1,747  $(819)  (24) $(375) $(231) $323 

Net income

  -   -   -   16   -   -   -   16 

Foreign currency translation

  -   -   -   -   -   -   2   2 

Hedge accounting adjustments

  -   -   -   -   -   -   3   3 

Shares withheld for taxes

  -   -   (2)  -   -   -   -   (2)

Vesting of stock awards

  2   -   -   -   -   -   -   - 

Equity-based compensation expense

  -   -   3   -   -   -   -   3 

Dividends declared on preferred stock

  -   -   -   (6)  -   -   -   (6)

Balance at March 31, 2022

  108  $1  $1,748  $(809)  (24) $(375) $(226) $339 

Net income

  -   -   -   14   -   -   -   14 

Foreign currency translation

  -   -   -   -   -   -   (6)  (6)

Hedge accounting adjustments

  -   -   -   -   -   -   3   3 

Equity-based compensation expense

  -   -   3   -   -   -   -   3 

Dividends declared on preferred stock

  -   -   -   (6)  -   -   -   (6)

Balance at June 30, 2022

  108  $1  $1,751  $(801)  (24) $(375) $(229) $347 

Net income

  -   -   -   24   -   -   -   24 

Foreign currency translation

  -   -   -   -   -   -   (5)  (5)

Equity-based compensation expense

  -   -   3   -   -   -   -   3 

Dividends declared on preferred stock

  -   -   -   (6)  -   -   -   (6)

Balance at September 30, 2022

  108  $1  $1,754  $(783)  (24) $(375) $(234) $363 

                          

Accumulated

     
          

Additional

              

Other

  

Total

 
  

Common Stock

  

Paid-in

  

Retained

  

Treasury Stock

  

Comprehensive

  

Stockholders'

 
  

Shares

  

Amount

  

Capital

  

(Deficit)

  

Shares

  

Amount

  

(Loss)

  

Equity

 

Balance at December 31, 2020

  106  $1  $1,739  $(781)  (24) $(375) $(234) $350 

Net loss

  -   -   -   (3)  -   -   -   (3)

Foreign currency translation

  -   -   -   -   -   -   (1)  (1)

Hedge accounting adjustments

  -   -   -   -   -   -   1   1 

Shares withheld for taxes

  -   -   (2)  -   -   -   -   (2)

Vesting of stock awards

  1   -   -   -   -   -   -   - 

Equity-based compensation expense

  -   -   5   -   -   -   -   5 

Dividends declared on preferred stock

  -   -   -   (6)  -   -   -   (6)

Balance at March 31, 2021

  107  $1  $1,742  $(790)  (24) $(375) $(234) $344 

Net income

  -   -   -   4   -   -   -   4 

Foreign currency translation

  -   -   -   -   -   -   1   1 

Hedge accounting adjustments

  -   -   -   -   -   -   2   2 

Equity-based compensation expense

  -   -   2   -   -   -   -   2 

Dividends declared on preferred stock

  -   -   -   (6)  -   -   -   (6)

Balance at June 30, 2021

  107  $1  $1,744  $(792)  (24) $(375) $(231) $347 

Net loss

  -   -   -   (11)  -   -   -   (11)

Foreign currency translation

  -   -   -   -   -   -   (3)  (3)

Hedge accounting adjustments

  -   -   -   -   -   -   1   1 

Equity-based compensation expense

  -   -   3   -   -   -   -   3 

Dividends declared on preferred stock

  -   -   -   (6)  -   -   -   (6)

Balance at September 30, 2021

  107  $1  $1,747  $(809)  (24) $(375) $(233) $331 

See notes to condensed consolidated financial statements.

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS (UNAUDITED)

MRC GLOBAL INC.

(in millions)

 

 

 

 

Nine Months Ended

 

Nine Months Ended

 

September 30,

 

September 30,

 

September 30,

 

September 30,

 

2017

 

2016

 

2022

  

2021

 

 

 

 

 

Operating activities

 

      

Net income (loss)

$                 15

 

$                   (65)

 $54  $(10)

Adjustments to reconcile net income (loss) to net cash (used in) provided by operations:

 

 

 

     

Depreciation and amortization

16 

 

16  14  14 

Amortization of intangibles

34 

 

35  15  18 

Equity-based compensation expense

12 

 

 9  10 

Deferred income tax benefit

(13)

 

(12) (1) (7)

Amortization of debt issuance costs

 

 1 1 

Write off of debt issuance costs

 

 -

Increase (decrease) in LIFO reserve

19 

 

(7)

Inventory-related charges

 -

 

45 

Foreign currency (gains) losses

(2)

 

Increase in LIFO reserve

 50  47 

Other

 

 12 3 

Changes in operating assets and liabilities:

 

 

 

     

Accounts receivable

(165)

 

88  (159) (81)

Inventories

(100)

 

119  (197) (15)

Other current assets

15 

 

 (11) (11)

Accounts payable

127 

 

11  165  68 

Accrued expenses and other current liabilities

(9)

 

(18)  18   (21)

Net cash (used in) provided by operations

(37)

 

230   (30)  16 

 

 

 

 

Investing activities

 

 

 

      

Purchases of property, plant and equipment

(23)

 

(24) (8) (6)

Proceeds from the disposition of property, plant and equipment

 -

 

Proceeds from the disposition of non-core product line

 -

 

48 

Net cash (used in) provided by investing activities

(23)

 

25 

Other investing activities

  (2)  2 

Net cash used in investing activities

  (10)  (4)

 

 

 

 

Financing activities

 

 

 

      

Payments on revolving credit facilities

(468)

 

(32) (523) (262)

Proceeds from revolving credit facilities

518 

 

32  569  290 

Payments on long-term obligations

(18)

 

(6) (2) (87)

Debt issuance costs paid

(7)

 

 -

 - (3)

Purchase of common stock

(18)

 

(88)

Dividends paid on preferred stock

(18)

 

(18) (18) (18)

Repurchases of shares to satisfy tax withholdings

(3)

 

 -

  (2)  (2)

Net cash used in financing activities

(14)

 

(112)

Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities

  24   (82)

 

 

 

 

(Decrease) increase in cash

(74)

 

143 

Decrease in cash

 (16) (70)

Effect of foreign exchange rate on cash

 

 (3) (2)

Cash -- beginning of period

109 

 

69   48   119 

Cash -- end of period

$                 40

 

$                  213

 $29  $47 

 

 

 

 

Supplemental disclosures of cash flow information:

 

 

 

     

Cash paid for interest

$                 21

 

$                    23

 $16  $16 

Cash paid for income taxes

$                 33

 

$                      8

 $25  $16 

See notes to condensed consolidated financial statements.

 

 

 

 

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NOTES TO THE CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (UNAUDITED)

MRC GLOBAL INC.

 

NOTE 1 – BACKGROUND AND BASIS OF PRESENTATION

 

Business Operations: MRC Global Inc. is a holding company headquartered in Houston, Texas. Our wholly owned subsidiaries are global distributors of pipe, valves, fittings (“PVF”) and relatedinfrastructure products and services across each of the upstream (exploration, production and extraction of underground oil and gas), midstream (gathering and transmission of oil and gas, gas utilities, and the storage and distribution of oil and gas) and downstream (crude oil refining and petrochemical and chemical processing and general industrials) sectors. following sectors:

gas utilities (storage and distribution of natural gas)
downstream, industrial and energy transition (crude oil refining, petrochemical and chemical processing, general industrials and energy transition projects)
upstream production (exploration, production and extraction of underground oil and gas)
midstream pipeline (gathering, processing and transmission of oil and gas)

We have branchesservice centers in principal industrial, chemical, gas distribution and hydrocarbon producing and refining areas throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, Australasia, and the Middle East and Caspian. OurEast. We obtain products are obtained from a broad range of suppliers.

 

Basis of Presentation: We have prepared our unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements in accordance with Rule 10-0110-01 of Regulation S-XS-X for interim financial statements. These statements do not include all information and footnotes that generally accepted accounting principles ("GAAP") require for complete annual financial statements. However, the information in these statements reflects all normal recurring adjustments which are, in our opinion, necessary for a fair presentation of the results for the interim periods. The results of operations for the three and nine months ended September 30, 20172022, are not necessarily indicative of the results that will be realized for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2017.2022. We have derived our condensed consolidated balance sheet as of December 31, 20162021, from the audited consolidated financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2016.2021. You should read these condensed consolidated financial statements in conjunction with the audited consolidated financial statements and notes thereto for the year ended December 31, 2016.2021.

 

The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of MRC Global Inc. and its wholly owned and majority owned subsidiaries (collectively referred to as the “Company” or by terms such terms as “we,” “our” or “us”). All material intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.

 

Recent

Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements:In May 2014, March 2020, theFinancial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”)issued Accounting Standards Update ASU 2020-04,Reference Rate Reform (Topic 848) ("ASU 2020-04"), which provides optional expedients and exceptions for applying U.S. GAAP to contracts, hedging relationships and other transactions that the discontinuation of certain reference rates, including the London Interbank Offered Rate ("LIBOR"), impacts. The update was effective upon issuance and the expedients and exceptions may be applied prospectively to contract modifications and hedging relationships entered into or evaluated through December 31,2022. We are currently evaluating the impacts of the provisions of ASU 2020-04 on our consolidated financial statements; however, with respect to existing transactions, we do not believe the update will have a comprehensive new revenue recognition standard, which will supersede previous existing revenue recognition guidance. Thematerial impact.

Adoption of New Accounting StandardsIn August 2020, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) also provides guidance on accounting for certain contract costs2020-06,Debt – Debt with Conversion and requires new disclosures. During 2016, the FASB issued additional clarificationOther Options and Derivative Hedging – Contracts in Entity’s Own Equity (Subtopic 815-40) ("ASU 2020-06"), which simplifies guidance on the new revenue recognitiontopics of convertible instruments, derivative contracts and earnings per share calculations. This accounting standard which also included certain scope improvements and practical expedients. The standard (including clarification guidance issued) is effective for fiscal periods beginning after December 15, 2017 and allows for either full retrospective or modified retrospective adoption.  We have completed a formal review of contracts with 36 of our largest customers, based on revenue, which represented 58% of 2016 revenue.  This review encompassed customers from a wide variety of end markets and geographies and involved inquiry of sales and operations personnel responsible for servicing these accounts in addition to review of the contracts.  The balance of our revenue is derived from thousands of customers withupdate, which we generally interact in a transactional relationship where goods are purchased from our branch locations.  Based on our analysis to date, we do not expect the guidance to have a material impact on the timing of our revenue recognition; however, our disclosures will be expanded to address the qualitative and quantitative requirements of the new standard.  We expect to finalize our analysis and related documentation and to adopt the standard in the first quarter of 2018 and have determined that we will utilize the modified retrospective transition method.  We are still assessing the impact of the standard on our internal control processes and information systems.  However, we do not currently believe that significant modifications of our systems will be required.

In February 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-02, Leases, which will replace the existing guidance in ASC 870, Leases.  This ASU requires a dual approach for lessee accounting under which a lessee would account for leases as finance leases or operating leases.  Both finance leases and operating leases will result in the lessee recognizing a right-of-use asset and a corresponding lease liability.  For finance leases, the lessee would recognize interest expense and amortization of the right-of-use asset, and for operating leases, the lessee would recognize a straight-line total lease expense.  This guidance is effective for annual and interim reporting periods of public entities beginning after December 15, 2018.  We are in the process of evaluating the effect of the adoption of ASU 2016-02 on our consolidated financial statements.

In October 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-16, Income Taxes (Topic 740). The guidance requires companies to recognize the income tax effects of intercompany sales and transfers of assets, other than inventory, in the income statement as income tax expense (or benefit) in the period in which the transfer occurs. The effective date will be the first quarter of fiscal year 2018, with early adoption permitted. The changes are required to be applied by means of a cumulative-effect adjustment recorded in retained earningsadopted as of the beginning of the fiscal year of adoption. We do January 1,2022, did not expect the adoption of ASU 2016-16 to have a material impact on our consolidated financial statements.

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In January 2017, the FASB issued ASU No. 2017-04, Simplifying the Test for Goodwill Impairment. The amendments in ASU 2017-04 eliminate the current two-step approach used to test goodwill for impairment and require an entity to apply a one-step quantitative test and record the amount

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NOTE 2 – REVENUE RECOGNITION

 

We recognize revenue when we transfer control of promised goods or services to our customers in an amount that reflects the consideration to which we expect to be entitled in exchange for those goods or services. We recognize substantially all of our revenue when products are shipped or delivered to our customers, and payment is due from our customers at the time of billing with a majority of our customers having 30-day terms. We estimate and record returns as a reduction of revenue. Amounts received in advance of shipment are deferred and recognized when the performance obligations are satisfied. Sales taxes collected from customers and remitted to governmental authorities are accounted for on a net basis and, therefore, we exclude these taxes from sales in the accompanying consolidated statements of operations. Cost of sales includes the cost of inventory sold and related items, such as vendor rebates, inventory allowances and reserves and shipping and handling costs associated with inbound and outbound freight, as well as depreciation and amortization of intangible assets. In May 2017,some cases, particularly with third-party pipe shipments, we consider shipping and handling costs to be separate performance obligations, and as such, we record the FASB issued ASU No. 2017-09,  Compensation – Stock Compensation (Topic 718) Scoperevenue and cost of Modification Accounting which clarifies modification accounting for share-based payment awards should not besales when the performance obligation is fulfilled.

Our contracts with customers ordinarily involve performance obligations that are one year or less. Therefore, we have applied if the fair value, vesting conditions, andoptional exemption that permits the classificationomission of information about our unfulfilled performance obligations as of the modified awardbalance sheet dates.

Contract Balances: Variations in the timing of revenue recognition, invoicing and receipt of payment result in categories of assets and liabilities that include invoiced accounts receivable, uninvoiced accounts receivable, contract assets and deferred revenue (contract liabilities) on the consolidated balance sheets.

Generally, revenue recognition and invoicing occur simultaneously as we transfer control of promised goods or services to our customers. We consider contract assets to be accounts receivable when we have an equity instrumentunconditional right to consideration and only the passage of time is required before payment is due. In certain cases, particularly those involving customer-specific documentation requirements, we delay invoicing until we are able to meet the documentation requirements. In these cases, we recognize a contract asset separate from accounts receivable until those requirements are met, and we are able to invoice the customer. Our contract asset balance associated with these requirements as of September 30, 2022, and December 31, 2021, was $17 million and $12 million, respectively. These contract asset balances are included within accounts receivable in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets.

We record contract liabilities, or deferred revenue, when we receive cash payments from customers in advance of our performance, including amounts that are refundable. The deferred revenue balance at September 30, 2022 and December 31, 2021 was $5 million and $4 million, respectively. During the three and nine months ended September 30, 2022, we recognized $0 million and $3 million of revenue that was deferred as a liability instrumentof December 31,2021. During the three and nine months ended September 30, 2021, we recognized $1 million and $6 million of revenue that was deferred as of December 31, 2020. Deferred revenue balances are included within accrued expenses and other current liabilities in the same before and immediately after the modification. This standard is effective for fiscal years, and interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after December 15, 2017. Adoption will be applied prospectively to awards modified on or after the adoption date. We do not expect the adoptionaccompanying consolidated balance sheets.

 

 

Disaggregated Revenue:

Our disaggregated revenue represents our business of selling PVF to the energy and industrial sectors across each of the gas utilities (storage and distribution of natural gas), downstream, industrial and energy transition (crude oil refining, petrochemical and chemical processing, general industrials and energy transition projects), upstream production (exploration, production and extraction of underground oil and gas) and midstream pipeline (gathering, processing and transmission of oil and gas) sectors, in each of our reportable segments. Varying factors, including macroeconomic environment, commodity prices, maintenance and capital spending and exploration and production activity influence each of our end market sectors and geographical reportable segments. As such, we believe that this information is important in depicting the nature, amount, timing and uncertainty of our contracts with customers.

The following table presents our revenue disaggregated by revenue source (in millions):

Three Months Ended

 

September 30,

 
                 
  

U.S.

  

Canada

  

International

  

Total

 

2022:

                

Gas utilities

 $355  $3  $1  $359 

Downstream, industrial & energy transition

  209   6   61   276 

Upstream production

  118   25   33   176 

Midstream pipeline

  86   3   4   93 
  $768  $37  $99  $904 

2021:

                

Gas utilities

 $269  $2  $  $271 

Downstream, industrial & energy transition

  143   6   48   197 

Upstream production

  82   18   32   132 

Midstream pipeline

  76   4   5   85 
  $570  $30  $85  $685 

Nine Months Ended

 

September 30,

 
                 
  

U.S.

  

Canada

  

International

  

Total

 

2022:

                

Gas utilities

 $934  $9  $1  $944 

Downstream, industrial & energy transition

  576   20   165   761 

Upstream production

  336   83   93   512 

Midstream pipeline

  257   8   12   277 
  $2,103  $120  $271  $2,494 

2021:

                

Gas utilities

 $745  $5  $  $750 

Downstream, industrial & energy transition

  417   15   150   582 

Upstream production

  231   62   109   402 

Midstream pipeline

  219   10   17   246 
  $1,612  $92  $276  $1,980 

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NOTE 23 – INVENTORIES

 

The composition of our inventory is as follows (in millions):



 

 

 



September 30,

 

December 31,



2017

 

2016

Finished goods inventory at average cost:

 

 

 

Line pipe

$                158

 

$              124

Valves, automation, measurement and instrumentation

250 

 

225 

All other products

362 

 

313 



770 

 

662 

Less: Excess of average cost over LIFO cost (LIFO reserve)

(86)

 

(67)

Less: Other inventory reserves

(35)

 

(34)



$                649

 

$              561

In 2016, we experienced reductions in inventory quantities, resulting in a liquidation of a

  

September 30,

  

December 31,

 
  

2022

  

2021

 

Finished goods inventory at average cost:

        

Valves, automation, measurement and instrumentation

 $272  $240 

Carbon steel pipe, fittings and flanges

  216   151 

Gas products

  234   184 

All other products

  147   110 
   869   685 

Less: Excess of average cost over LIFO cost (LIFO reserve)

  (263)  (213)

Less: Other inventory reserves

  (22)  (19)
  $584  $453 

The Company uses the last-in, first out-out (“LIFO”) inventory layer that was carried at a lower cost prevailing from a prior year, as compared with current costs (a “LIFO decrement”). Amethod of valuing U.S. inventories. The use of the LIFO decrement results in the erosion of layers created in earlier years, and, therefore, a LIFO layer is not created for years that have decrements. For the three and nine months ended September 30, 2016,method has the effect of thisreducing net income during periods of rising inventory costs (inflationary periods) and increasing net income during periods of falling inventory costs (deflationary periods). Valuation of inventory under the LIFO decrement decreased costmethod can be made only at the end of sales by approximatelyeach year based on the inventory levels and costs at that time. Accordingly, we base interim LIFO calculations on management’s estimates of expected year-end inventory levels and costs and these estimates are subject to the final year-end LIFO inventory determination. 

NOTE 4 – LEASES

We lease certain distribution centers, warehouses, office space, land and equipment. Substantially all of these leases are classified as operating leases. We recognize lease expense on a straight-line basis over the lease term. Leases with an initial term of 12 months or less are not recorded on the balance sheet.

Many of our facility leases include one or more options to renew, with renewal terms that can extend the lease term from one year to 15 years with a maximum lease term of 30 years, including renewals. The exercise of lease renewal options is at our sole discretion; therefore, renewals to extend the terms of most leases are not included in our right of use (“ROU”) assets and lease liabilities as they are not reasonably certain of exercise. In the case of our regional distribution centers and certain corporate offices, where the renewal is reasonably certain of exercise, we include the renewal period in our lease term. Leases with escalation adjustments based on an index, such as the consumer price index, are expensed based on current rates. Leases with specified escalation steps are expensed based on the total lease obligation ratably over the life of the lease. Leasehold improvements are depreciated over the expected lease term. Non-lease components, such as payment of real estate taxes, maintenance, insurance and other operating expenses, have been excluded from the determination of our lease liability.

As most of our leases do not provide an implicit rate, we use an incremental borrowing rate based on the information available at the commencement date in determining the present value of the lease payments using a portfolio approach. Our lease agreements do not contain any material residual value guarantees or material restrictive covenants.

Expense associated with our operating leases was $10 million and $30 million for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2022, and $9 million and $28 million for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2021, which we have classified in selling, general and administrative expenses. Cash paid for leases recognized as liabilities was $10 million and $31 million for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2022, and $8 million and $11$27 million respectively.  

Infor the third quarter of 2016, we incurred inventory-related charges totaling $45 million.  These charges reflected adjustments necessary to reduce the carrying value of certain products determined to be excess or obsolete to their estimated net realizable value based on our market outlook for certain products at that time.  This amount included $24 million in the International segment primarily related to a restructuring of our Australian businessthree and market conditions in Iraq.  Reserves for excess and obsolete inventory were increased in the U.S. and Canada by $16 million and $5 million, respectively.nine months ended September 30, 2021.

 

The maturity of lease liabilities is as follows (in millions):

 

Maturity of Operating Lease Liabilities

    

Remainder of 2022

 $10 

2023

  38 

2024

  34 

2025

  28 

2026

  23 

After 2026

  191 

Total lease payments

  324 

Less: Interest

  (113)

Present value of lease liabilities

 $211 

 

6The term and discount rate associated with leases are as follows:

 


September 30,

Operating Lease Term and Discount Rate

2022

Weighted-average remaining lease term (years)

13

Weighted-average discount rate

6.7%

Amounts maturing after 2026 include expected renewals for leases of regional distribution centers and certain corporate offices through dates up to 2048. Excluding optional renewals, our weighted-average remaining lease term is 7 years.

 

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NOTE 35 – LONG-TERM DEBT

The components of our long-term debt are as follows (in millions):

 

 

 

 

 

September 30,

 

December 31,

 

September 30,

 

December 31,

 

2022

  

2021

 

2017

 

2016

Senior Secured Term Loan B, net of discount and issuance costs of $3 and $4, respectively

$              397

 

$              414

Senior Secured Term Loan B, net of discount and issuance costs of $1

 $296  $297 

Global ABL Facility

50 

 

 -

  45    

447 

 

414   341   297 

Less: current portion

 

  3   2 

$              444

 

$              406

 $338  $295 

Senior Secured Term Loan B:    In September 2017, the Company entered into We have a Refinancing Amendment and Successor Administrative Agent Agreement relating to the Term Loan Credit Agreement, dated as of November 9, 2012, by and among the Company, MRC Global (US) Inc., as the borrower, the other subsidiaries of the Company from time to time party thereto as guarantors, the several lenders from time to time party thereto, Bank of America, N.A., as administrative agent, and U.S. Bank National Association, as collateral trustee. Pursuant to the amendment, the parties thereto agreed to appoint JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. as the new administrative agent for the lenders.  As amended, the Term Loan Agreement provides for a $400 million seven-yearSenior Secured Term Loan B (the “Term Loan”) with an original principal amount of $400 million, which maturesamortizes in equal quarterly installments of 1% per year with the balance payable in September 2024.2024, when the facility matures. The Term Loan has an applicable interest rate margin of 300 basis points in the case of loans incurring interest based on LIBOR, and 200 basis points in the case of loans incurring interest based on the base rate. The Term Loan allows for incremental increases in facility size by up to an aggregate of $200 million, plus an additional amount such that the Company’s first lien leverage ratio (as defined under the Term Loan) would not exceed 4.00 to 1.00. MRC Global (US) Inc. is the borrower under this facility, which is guaranteed by MRC Global Inc. as well as all of its wholly owned U.S. subsidiaries.subsidiaries guarantees. In addition, itthe Term Loan is secured by a second lien on the assets securing our Global ABL Facility, defined below (which includes accounts receivable inventory and related assets)inventory) and a first lien on substantially all of the other assets of MRC Global Inc. and those of its U.S. subsidiaries as well as a pledge of all of the capital stock of our domestic subsidiaries and 65% of the capital stock of first tier, non-U.S. subsidiaries. In addition, the Term Loan contains a number of customary restrictive covenants. We are required to repay the Term Loan with the proceeds from certain asset sales and certain insurance proceeds, certain debt proceeds andproceeds. In addition, on an annual basis, we are required to repay an amount equal to 50% of excess cash flow, as defined in the Term Loan, (reducingreducing to 25% if our first lien leverage ratio is no more than 2.75 to 1.00 and 0%1.00. No payment of excess cash flow is required if our the first lien leverage ratio is no moreless than or equal 2.50 to 1.00).  In addition,1.00. The amount of cash used in the Term Loan contains a numberdetermination of customary restrictive covenants.the senior secured leverage ratio is limited to $75 million. 

The interest rate for the Term Loan, including the amortization of original issue discount and debt issuance costs, was 4.85%as of September 30, 2017 and 5.51% at December 31, 2016.

Global ABL Facility: In September 2017, 2021, the Company entered into a ThirdFourth Amended and Restated Loan, Security and Guarantee Agreement (the “Global ABL Facility”) by and among the Company, thecertain of its subsidiaries, of the Company from time to time party thereto as borrowers and guarantors, the severalits lenders from time to time party thereto and Bank of America, N.A. as administrative agent, security trustee and collateral agent.As part of the amendment, the multi-currency global asset-based revolving credit facility was re-sizedreduced to $800$750 million from $1.05 billion$800 million and the maturity was extended to September 2022 2026 from July 2019.  This facilitySeptember 2022. The Global ABL Facility is comprised of $675$705 million in revolver commitments in the United States, $65which includes a $30 million insub-limit for Canada, $18$12 million in Norway, $15$10 million in Australia, $13$10.5 million in the Netherlands, $7$7.5 million in the United Kingdom and $7$5 million in Belgium. ItThe Global ABL Facility contains an accordion feature that allows us to increase the principal amount of the facility by up to $200$250 million, subject to securing additional lender commitments. MRC Global Inc. and each of its current and future wholly owned material U.S. subsidiaries guarantee the obligations of our borrower subsidiaries under the Global ABL Facility. Additionally, each of our non-U.S. borrower subsidiaries guarantees the obligations of our other non-U.S. borrower subsidiaries under the Global ABL Facility. Outstanding obligations are generally secured by a first priority security interest in accounts receivable, inventory and related assets. U.S. borrowings under the facility bear interest at LIBOR plus a margin varying between 1.25% and 1.75% based on our fixed charge coverage ratio. Canadian borrowings under the facility bear interest at the Canadian Dollar Bankers' Acceptances Rate ("BA Rate") plus a margin varying between 1.25% and 1.75% based on our fixed charge coverage ratio. Borrowings under our foreign borrower subsidiaries bear interest at a benchmark rate, which varies based on the currency in which such borrowings are made, plus a margin varying between 1.25% and 1.75% based on our fixed charge coverage ratio. Availability is dependent on a borrowing base comprised of a percentage of eligible accounts receivable and inventory, which is subject to redetermination from time to time. Excess Availability, as defined under our Global ABL Facility, was $489$612 million as of September 30, 2017.  

The interest rate for the Global ABL Facility was 4.92% as of September 30, 2017.  We had no borrowings on our Global ABL Facility at December 31, 2016.2022.

 

NOTE 4 – INCOME TAXES

In the first quarter of 2017, we adopted ASU 2016-09, Compensation - Stock CompensationInterest on Borrowings: The interest rates on our outstanding borrowings at September 30, 2022 and December 31, 2021, which simplified the accounting for taxes relatedincluding a floating to stock based compensation. Under the standard, excess tax benefits and certain tax deficienciesfixed interest rate swap, are no longer recorded in additional paid-in capital (“APIC”), and APIC pools are eliminated.  Instead, all excess tax benefits and tax deficiencies are recorded as income tax expense or benefit in the income statement.  In addition, excess tax benefits are presented as operating activities rather than financing activities in the statement of cash flows.    For the three and nine months

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September 30,

  

December 31,

 
  

2022

  

2021

 

Senior Secured Term Loan B

  5.90%  5.41%

Global ABL Facility

  4.87%  -%

Weighted average interest rate

  5.77%  5.41%

 

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ended September 30, 2017, we recorded a tax benefit of $0 million and $2 million, respectively, related to the vesting of stock awards. The impacts of this standard are reflected in the consolidated financial statements on a prospective basis.

For interim periods, our income tax expense is computed based upon our estimated annual effective tax rate. Our effective tax rates for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2017 were 40% and 29%, respectively. The effective tax rates for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2016 were 5% and 12%, respectively.  Our rates generally differ from the U.S. federal statutory rate of 35% as a result of state income taxes and differing, generally lower, foreign income tax rates.  The effective tax rate for the nine months ended September 30, 2017 was lower than our U.S. federal statutory rate primarily due to the discrete impact of the implementation of ASU 2016-09 and a benefit related to foreign currency exchange losses.  Our 2016 effective tax rates were significantly lower than our U.S. federal statutory rate due to forecasted pre-tax losses across all segments including significant pre-tax losses in jurisdictions where there was no corresponding tax benefit.

NOTE 56 – REDEEMABLE PREFERRED STOCK

Preferred Stock Issuance

In June 2015, we issued 363,000 shares of Series A Convertible Perpetual Preferred Stock (the “Preferred Stock”) and received gross proceeds of $363 million. The Preferred Stock ranks senior to our common stock with respect to dividend rights and rights on liquidation, winding-up and dissolution. The Preferred Stock has a stated value of $1,000 per share, and holders of Preferred Stock are entitled to cumulative dividends payable quarterly in cash at a rate of 6.50% per annum. In June 2018, the holders of Preferred Stock designated one member to our board of directors. If we fail to declare and pay the quarterly dividend for an amount equal to six or more dividend periods, the holders of the Preferred Stock would be entitled to designate an additional member to our board of directors. Holders of Preferred Stock are entitled to vote together with the holders of the common stock as a single class, in each case, on an as-converted basis, except where law requires a separate class vote of the common stockholders is required by law.stockholders. Holders of Preferred Stock have certain limited special approval rights, including with respect to the issuance of pari passu or senior equity securities of the Company.

The Preferred Stock is convertible at the option of the holders into shares of common stock at an initial conversion rate of 55.9284 shares of common stock for each share of Preferred Stock, which represents an initial conversion price of $17.88 per share of common stock, subject to adjustment. On or after the fifth anniversary of the initial issuance of the Preferred Stock, theThe Company will havecurrently has the option to redeem, in whole but not in part, all the outstanding shares of Preferred Stock at par value, subject to certain redemption price adjustments on the basis of the date of the conversion.adjustments. We may elect to convert the Preferred Stock, in whole but not in part, into the relevant number of shares of common stock on or after the 54th month after the initial issuance of the Preferred Stock if the last reported sale price of the common stock has been at least 150% of the conversion price then in effect for a specified period. The conversion rate is subject to customary anti-dilution and other adjustments.

 

Holders of the Preferred Stock may, at their option, require the Company to repurchase their shares in the event of a fundamental change, as defined in the agreement. The repurchase price is based on the original $1,000$1,000 per share purchase price except in the case of a liquidation, in which case theythe holders would receive the greater of $1,000$1,000 per share and the amount that would be received if they held common stock converted at the conversion rate in effect at the time of the fundamental change. Because this feature could require redemption as a result of the occurrence of an event not solely within the control of the Company, the Preferred Stock is classified as temporary equity on our balance sheet.

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Table Of ContentsNOTE 7 – STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY

 

NOTE 6 – STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY

Share Repurchase Program

In November 2015, the Company’s board of directors authorized a share repurchase program for common stock up to $100 million, which was increased in November 2016 to $125 million.  In the first quarter of 2017, the Company completed the repurchase of all shares authorized under the program. 



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Summary of share repurchase activity under the repurchase program:

 

 

 

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Three Months Ended

 

Nine Months Ended



September 30,

 

September 30,

 

September 30,

 

September 30,



2017

 

2016

 

2017

 

2016

Number of shares acquired on the open market

 -

 

1,121,111 

 

859,830 

 

6,399,385 

Average price per share

$                    -

 

$             14.92

 

$             20.54

 

$             13.82

Total cost of acquired shares (in millions)

$                    -

 

$                  17

 

$                  18

 

$                  88

In total, we have acquired 8,537,410 shares under this program at an average price per share of $14.64 for a total cost of $125million.  There were 94,514,448 shares  of common stock outstanding as of September 30, 2017.

Equity Compensation Plans

Our 2011

The Company's Omnibus Incentive Plan originally had 3,250,000 shares reserved for issuance under the plan.  In April 2015, our shareholders approved an additional 4,250,000 shares for reservation for issuance under the plan.  The plan permits the issuance of stock options, stock appreciation rights, restricted stock, restricted stock units, performance shares, performance units and other stock-based and cash-based awards. Since the adoption of the 2011 Omnibus Incentive Plan, the Company’s Boardboard of Directorsdirectors has periodically granted stock options, restricted stock awards, restricted stock units and performance share units to directors and employees.employees, but no other types of awards have been granted under the plan. Options and stock appreciation rights may not be granted at prices less than the fair market value of our common stock on the date of the grant, nor for a term exceeding ten years. For employees, vesting generally occurs ratably over a three to five year-year period on the anniversaries of the date specified in the employees’ respective stock option, restricted stock award, restricted stock unit and performance share unit award agreements, subject to accelerated vesting under certain circumstances set forth in the agreements.agreements, and in any event, no less than one year. Vesting for directors generally occurs on the one-yearone-year anniversary of the grant date. In 2017,  164,0982022, 90,015 shares of restricted stock, 423,896 performance share unit awards 544,918 restricted stock units,  and 63,2721,014,213 shares of restricted stock units have been granted to employees and members of our board of directors.  To date, since the plan’s inception in 2011, before consideration of forfeitures, 5,860,597 shares have been granted toexecutive management, members of our boardBoard of directorsDirectors and key employeesemployees. To date, 12,582,372 shares have been granted under this plan. A Black-Scholes option-pricing model is used to estimate the fair value of the stock options. A Monte Carlo simulation is completed to estimate the fair value of performance share unit awards with a stock price performance component. We expense the fair value of all equity grants, including performance share unit awards, on a straight-line basis over the vesting period.

 

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Accumulated Other Comprehensive Loss

Accumulated other comprehensive loss in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets consists of the following (in millions):

  

September 30,

  

December 31,

 
  

2022

  

2021

 

Currency translation adjustments

 $(234) $(225)

Hedge accounting adjustments

  1   (5)

Other adjustments

  (1)  (1)

Accumulated other comprehensive loss

 $(234) $(231)



 

 

 



 

 

 



September 30,

 

December 31,



2017

 

2016



 

 

 

Currency translation adjustments

$             (208)

 

$             (233)

Pension related adjustments

(1)

 

(1)

Accumulated other comprehensive loss

$             (209)

 

$             (234)

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Earnings per Share

 

Earnings per share are calculated in the table below (in millions, except per share amounts):



 

 

 

 

 

 

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Three Months Ended

 

Nine Months Ended



September 30,

 

September 30,

 

September 30,

 

September 30,



2017

 

2016

 

2017

 

2016



 

 

 

 

 

 

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net income (loss)

$                    3

 

$                 (40)

 

$                  15

 

$                 (65)

Less: Dividends on Series A Preferred Stock

 

 

18 

 

18 

Net loss attributable to common stockholders

$                   (3)

 

$                 (46)

 

$                   (3)

 

$                 (83)



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Weighted average basic shares outstanding

94.5 

 

95.9 

 

94.6 

 

98.1 

Effect of dilutive securities

 -

 

 -

 

 -

 

 -

Weighted average diluted shares outstanding

94.5 

 

95.9 

 

94.6 

 

98.1 



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net loss per share:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  Basic

$              (0.03)

 

$              (0.48)

 

$              (0.03)

 

$              (0.85)

  Diluted

$              (0.03)

 

$              (0.48)

 

$              (0.03)

 

$              (0.85)

  

Three Months Ended

  

Nine Months Ended

 
  

September 30,

  

September 30,

  

September 30,

  

September 30,

 
  

2022

  

2021

  

2022

  

2021

 

Net income (loss)

 $24  $(11) $54  $(10)

Less: Dividends on Series A Preferred Stock

  6   6   18   18 

Net income (loss) attributable to common stockholders

 $18  $(17) $36  $(28)
                 

Weighted average basic shares outstanding

  83.6   82.7   83.5   82.5 

Effect of dilutive securities

  1.4   -   1.3   - 

Weighted average diluted shares outstanding

  85.0   82.7   84.8   82.5 
                 

Net income (loss) per share:

                

Basic

 $0.22  $(0.21) $0.43  $(0.34)

Diluted

 $0.21  $(0.21) $0.42  $(0.34)

 

Equity awards and shares of Preferred Stock are disregarded in the calculation of diluted earnings per share if they are determined to be anti-dilutive. For the three and nine months ended September 30, 2017 2022 and 2016,2021, all of the shares of the Preferred Stock were anti-dilutive. For the three and nine months ended September 30, 2017,2022, we had approximately 3.61 million and 2.11.3 million anti-dilutive stock options, respectively.restricted stock units, and performance units. For the three and nine months ended September 30, 2016,2021, we had approximately 3.74.2 million and 3.64.1 million anti-dilutive stock options, respectively.  There were 1.2 million anti-dilutive restricted stock restricted units, orand performance stock unit awards for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2017. There were 1.0 million and 0.8 million anti-dilutive restricted stock, restricted units or performance stock unit awards for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2016 respectively.units.

 

NOTE 78 – SEGMENT INFORMATION

Our business is comprised of fourthree operating and reportable segments: U.S. Eastern Region and Gulf Coast, U.S. Western Region,, Canada and International. Our International segment consists of our operations outside of the U.S. and Canada. These segments represent our business of selling PVF to the energy sector across each of the gas utilities, downstream, industrial and energy transition, upstream (exploration, production and extraction of underground oil and gas), midstream (gathering and transmission of oil and gas, gas utilities, and the storage and distribution of oil and gas) and downstream (crude oil refining and petrochemical and chemical processing and general industrials) markets. Our two U.S. operating segments have been aggregated into a single reportable segment based on their economic similarities.  As a result, we report segment information for the U.S., Canada and International.pipeline sectors.

 

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The following table presents financial information for each reportable segment (in millions):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Three Months Ended

 

Nine Months Ended

 

Three Months Ended

  

Nine Months Ended

 

September 30,

 

September 30,

 

September 30,

 

September 30,

 

September 30,

 

September 30,

 

September 30,

 

September 30,

 

2017

 

2016

 

2017

 

2016

 

2022

  

2021

  

2022

  

2021

 

Sales

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

        

U.S.

$              759

 

$              590

 

$             2,145

 

$             1,747

 $768  $570  $2,103  $1,612 

Canada

77 

 

70 

 

223 

 

188  37  30  120  92 

International

123 

 

133 

 

375 

 

387   99   85   271   276 

Consolidated sales

$              959

 

$              793

 

$             2,743

 

$             2,322

 $904  $685  $2,494  $1,980 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Operating income (loss)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

        

U.S.

$                21

 

$                 (4)

 

$                  53

 

$                    (2)

 $40  $(7) $99  $(1)

Canada

 

(4)

 

 

(7) -  (1) (1) (1)

International

(3)

 

(28)

 

(8)

 

(41)  5   1   7   8 

Total operating income (loss)

22 

 

(36)

 

$                  53

 

$                  (50)

 45  (7) 105  6 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interest expense

(9)

 

(9)

 

(24)

 

(26)  (6)  (6)  (17)  (18)

Other, net

(8)

 

 

(8)

 

  (5)  -  (11)  1 

Income (loss) before income taxes

$                  5

 

$               (42)

 

$                  21

 

$                  (74)

 $34  $(13) $77  $(11)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

September 30,

 

December 31,

 

 

 

 

2017

 

2016

Total assets

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

U.S.

 

 

 

 

$             2,001

 

$             1,862

Canada

 

 

 

 

152 

 

139 

International

 

 

 

 

183 

 

163 

Total assets

 

 

 

 

$             2,336

 

$             2,164

 

  

September 30,

  

December 31,

 
  

2022

  

2021

 

Total assets

        

U.S.

 $1,596  $1,427 

Canada

  90   53 

International

  236   191 

Total assets

 $1,922  $1,671 

 

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Our sales by product line are as follows (in millions):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Three Months Ended

 

Nine Months Ended

 

Three Months Ended

  

Nine Months Ended

 

 

September 30,

 

September 30,

 

September 30,

 

September 30,

 

September 30,

 

September 30,

 

September 30,

 

September 30,

 

Type

 

2017

 

2016

 

2017

 

2016

 

2022

  

2021

  

2022

  

2021

 

Line pipe

 $173  $103  $417  $268 

Carbon fittings and flanges

  119   96   335   269 

Total carbon pipe, fittings and flanges

 292  199  752  537 

Valves, automation, measurement and instrumentation

 290  230  821  714 

Gas products

 205  169  587  465 

Stainless steel and alloy pipe and fittings

 53  35  147  100 

General products

  64   52   187   164 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 $904  $685  $2,494  $1,980 

Valves, automation, measurement and instrumentation

 

$                338

 

$                296

 

$                987

 

$                894

Line pipe

 

201 

 

117 

 

517 

 

345 

Gas products

 

150 

 

124 

 

427 

 

332 

Carbon steel fittings and flanges

 

143 

 

117 

 

405 

 

353 

Stainless steel and alloy pipe and fittings

 

45 

 

60 

 

136 

 

155 

Other

 

82 

 

79 

 

271 

 

243 

 

$                959

 

$                793

 

$             2,743

 

$             2,322

 

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NOTE 89 – FAIR VALUE MEASUREMENTS

From time to time, we use derivative financial instruments to help manage our exposure to interest rate risk and fluctuations in foreign currencies. All

Interest Rate Swap: In March 2018, we entered into a five-year interest rate swap that became effective on March 31, 2018, with a notional amount of our$250 million from which the Company receives payments at 1-month LIBOR and makes monthly payments at a fixed rate of 2.7145% with settlement and reset dates on or near the last business day of each month until maturity. The fair value of the swap at inception was zero.

We have designated the interest rate swap as an effective cash flow hedge utilizing the guidance under ASU 2017-12. As such, the valuation of the interest rate swap is recorded as an asset or liability, and the gain or loss on the derivative instrumentsis recorded as a component of other comprehensive income (loss). Interest rate swap agreements are freestandingreported on the accompanying balance sheets at fair value utilizing observable Level 2 inputs such as yield curves and accordingly, changes in their fair marketother market-based factors. We obtain dealer quotations to value are recorded in earnings.  As of September 30, 2017, we did not have anyour interest rate swap agreements. The fair value of our interest rate swap is estimated based on the present value of the difference between expected cash flows calculated at the contracted interest rates and the expected cash flows at current market interest rates. The fair value of the interest rate swap was an asset of $2 million and a liability of $7 million as of September 30, 2022, and December 31, 2021, respectively.

Foreign Exchange Forward Contracts: Foreign exchange forward contracts and options are reported at fair value utilizing Level 2 inputs, as the fair value is based on broker quotes for the same or similar derivative instruments. Our foreign exchange derivative instruments are freestanding, and we have not designated them as hedges; accordingly, we have recorded changes in their fair market value in earnings. The total notional amount of our forward foreign exchange contracts and options was approximately $45$4 million and $36$0 million at September 30, 20172022 and December 31, 2016,2021, respectively. We had approximately $0 million recorded as liabilities on our consolidated balance sheets as of September 30, 20172022 and December 31, 2016.  

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With the exception of long-term debt, the fair values of our financial instruments, including cash and cash equivalents, accounts receivable, trade accounts payable and accrued liabilities, approximate carrying value. The carrying value of our debt was $447$341 million and $414$297 million at September 30, 20172022 and December 31, 2016,2021, respectively. We estimate the fair value of the Term Loan using Level 2 inputs, or quoted market prices. The fair value of our debt was $448$331 million and $417$296 million at September 30, 20172022 and December 31, 2016,2021, respectively.

 

NOTE 910 – COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES

Litigation 

Litigation

Asbestos Claims.  We are one of many defendants in lawsuits that plaintiffs have brought seeking damages for personal injuries that exposure to asbestos allegedly caused. Plaintiffs and their family members have brought these lawsuits against a large volume of defendant entities as a result of the defendants’ manufacture, distribution, supply or other involvement with asbestos, asbestos containing-products or equipment or activities that allegedly caused plaintiffs to be exposed to asbestos. These plaintiffs typically assert exposure to asbestos as a consequence of third-partythird-party manufactured products that our MRC Global (US) Inc. subsidiary purportedly distributed. As of September 30, 2017,2022, we are named a defendant in approximately 543571 lawsuits involving approximately 1,1631,136 claims. No asbestos lawsuit has resulted in a judgment against us to date, with a majority being settled, dismissed or otherwise resolved. Applicable third-partythird-party insurance has substantially covered these claims, and insurance should continue to cover a substantial majority of existing and anticipated future claims. Accordingly, we have recorded a liability for our estimate of the most likely settlement of asserted claims and a related receivable from insurers for our estimated recovery, to the extent we believe that the amounts of recovery are probable. It is not possible to predict the outcome of these claims and proceedings. However, in our opinion, the likelihood that the ultimate disposition of any of these claims and legal proceedings will have a material adverse effect on our consolidated financial statements is remote.

Other Legal Claims and Proceedings.  From time to time, we have been subject to various claims and involved in legal proceedings incidental to the nature of our businesses. We maintain insurance coverage to reduce financial risk associated with certain of these claims and proceedings. It is not possible to predict the outcome of these claims and proceedings. However, in our opinion, the likelihood that the ultimate disposition of any of these claims and legal proceedings will have a material adverse effect on our consolidated financial statements is remote.

Product Claims.  From time to time, in the ordinary course of our business, our customers may claim that the products that we distribute are either defective or require repair or replacement under warranties that either we or the manufacturer may provide to the customer. These proceedings are, in the opinion of management, ordinary and routine matters incidental to our normal business. Our purchase orders with our suppliers generally require the manufacturer to indemnify us against any product liability claims, leaving the manufacturer ultimately responsible for these claims. In many cases, state, provincial or foreign law provides protection to distributors for these sorts of claims, shifting the responsibility to the manufacturer. In some cases, we could be required to repair or replace the products for the benefit of our customer and seek our recovery from the manufacturer for our expense. In our opinion, the likelihood that the ultimate disposition of any of these claims and legal proceedings will have a material adverse effect on our consolidated financial statements is remote.

Weatherford Claim.  In addition to PVF, our Canadian subsidiary, Midfield Supply (“Midfield”), now known as MRC Global (Canada) ULC, also distributed progressive cavity pumps and related equipment (“PCPs”) under a distribution agreement with Weatherford Canada Partnership (“Weatherford”) within a certain geographical area located in southern Alberta, Canada.  In late 2005 and early 2006, Midfield hired new employees, including former Weatherford employees, as part of Midfield’s desire to expand its PVF business into northern Alberta.  Shortly thereafter, many of these employees left Midfield and formed a PCP manufacturing, distribution and service company named Europump Systems Inc. (“Europump”) in 2006.  The distribution agreement with Weatherford expired in 2006.  Midfield supplied Europump with PVF products that Europump distributed along with PCP pumps.  In April 2007, Midfield purchased Europump’s distribution branches and began distributing and servicing Europump PCPs.

Pursuant to a complaint that Weatherford filed on April 11, 2006 in the Court of Queen’s Bench of Alberta, Judicial Bench of Edmonton (Action No. 060304628), Weatherford sued Europump, three of Europump’s part suppliers, Midfield, certain current and former employees of Midfield, and other related entities, asserting a host of claims including breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, misappropriation of confidential information related to the PCPs, unlawful interference with economic relations and conspiracy.  The Company denies these allegations and contends that Midfield’s expansion and subsequent growth was the result of fair competition. 

In June 2017, Midfield and Europump and certain individual defendants and related entities settled the case.  As part of the settlement, MRC Global (Canada) ULC agreed to pay $6 million in exchange for a release from Weatherford and agreement to dismiss the case.  The Company had previously recorded a reserve of $3 million.  As a result of the settlement, an additional charge of $3 million was recorded in the second quarter of 2017.

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Customer Contracts

 

We have contracts and agreements with many of our customers that dictate certain terms of our sales arrangements (pricing, deliverables, etc.etc.). While we make every effort to abide by the terms of these contracts, certain provisions are complex and often subject to varying interpretations. Under the terms of these contracts, our customers have the right to audit our adherence to the contract terms. Historically, any settlements that have resulted from these customer audits have not been material to our consolidated financial statements.

 

Purchase Commitments

We have purchase obligations consisting primarily of inventory purchases made in the normal course of business to meet operating needs. While our vendors often allow us to cancel these purchase orders without penalty, in certain cases, cancellations may subject us to cancellation fees or penalties depending on the terms of the contract.

 

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ITEM 2. MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

 

You should read the following discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations in conjunction with our financial statements and related notes included elsewhere in this report. This discussion and analysis contains forward-looking statements that involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions. As used in this Form 10-Q, unless otherwise indicated or the context otherwise requires, all references to the “Company”,“Company,” “MRC Global”, “we”,Global,” “we,” “our” or “us” refer to MRC Global Inc. and its consolidated subsidiaries.

 

Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations (as well as other sections of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q) contain forward-looking statementswithin the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”). Forward-looking statements include those preceded by, followed by or including the words “will,” “expect,” “intended,” “anticipated,” “believe,” “project,” “forecast,” “propose,” “plan,” “estimate,” “enable,”“enable” and similar expressions, including, for example, statements about our business strategy, our industry, our future profitability, growth in the industry sectors we serve, our expectations, beliefs, plans, strategies, objectives, prospects and assumptions, and estimates and projections of future activity and trends in the oil and natural gas industry. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance. These statements are based on management’s expectations that involve a number of business risks and uncertainties, any of which could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in or implied by the forward-looking statements. These statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, most of which are difficult to predict and many of which are beyond our control, including the factors described under “Risk Factors”,Factors,” that may cause our actual results and performance to be materially different from any future results or performance expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. Such risks and uncertainties include, among other things:

decreases in oil and natural gas prices;

decreases in oil and natural gas industry expenditure levels, which may result from decreased oil and natural gas prices or other factors;

increased usage of alternative fuels, which may negatively affect oil and natural gas industry expenditure levels;

U.S. and international general economic conditions;

our ability to compete successfully with other companies in our industry;

the risk that manufacturers of the products we distribute will sell a substantial amount of goods directly to end users in the industry sectors we serve;

unexpected supply shortages;

cost increases by our suppliers;

our lack of long-term contracts with most of our suppliers; 

suppliers’ price reductions of products that we sell, which could cause the value of our inventory to decline;

decreases in steel prices, which could significantly lower our profit;

increases in steel prices, which we may be unable to pass along to our customers which could significantly lower our profit;

our lack of long-term contracts with many of our customers and our lack of contracts with customers that require minimum purchase volumes;

changes in our customer and product mix;

risks related to our customers’ creditworthiness;

the success of our acquisition strategies;

the potential adverse effects associated with integrating acquisitions into our business and whether these acquisitions will yield their intended benefits;

our significant indebtedness;

the dependence on our subsidiaries for cash to meet our obligations;

changes in our credit profile;

a decline in demand for certain of the products we distribute if import restrictions on these products are lifted;

environmental, health and safety laws and regulations and the interpretation or implementation thereof;

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decreases in capital and other expenditure levels in the industries that we serve;

U.S. and international general economic conditions;

decreases in oil and natural gas prices;
unexpected supply shortages;

loss of third-party transportation providers;

cost increases by our suppliers and transportation providers;

increases in steel prices, which we may be unable to pass along to our customers which could significantly lower our profit;

our lack of long-term contracts with most of our suppliers;

suppliers’ price reductions of products that we sell, which could cause the value of our inventory to decline;

decreases in steel prices, which could significantly lower our profit;

a decline in demand for certain of the products we distribute if tariffs and duties on these products are imposed or lifted;
holding more inventory than can be sold in a commercial time frame;
significant substitution of renewables and low-carbon fuels for oil and gas, impacting demand for our products;
risks related to adverse weather events or natural disasters;
environmental, health and safety laws and regulations and the interpretation or implementation thereof;
changes in our customer and product mix;
the risk that manufacturers of the products we distribute will sell a substantial amount of goods directly to end users in the industry sectors we serve;
failure to operate our business in an efficient or optimized manner;
our ability to compete successfully with other companies in our industry;

our lack of long-term contracts with many of our customers and our lack of contracts with customers that require minimum purchase volumes;

 

 

inability to attract and retain our employees or the potential loss of key personnel;

adverse health events, such as a pandemic;

interruption in the proper functioning of our information systems;

the occurrence of cybersecurity incidents;

risks related to our customers’ creditworthiness;

the success of our acquisition strategies;

the potential adverse effects associated with integrating acquisitions into our business and whether these acquisitions will yield their intended benefits;

impairment of our goodwill or other intangible assets;

adverse changes in political or economic conditions in the countries in which we operate;

our significant indebtedness;
the dependence on our subsidiaries for cash to meet our parent company's obligations;
changes in our credit profile;
potential inability to obtain necessary capital;
the sufficiency of our insurance policies to cover losses, including liabilities arising from litigation;
product liability claims against us;
pending or future asbestos-related claims against us;
exposure to U.S. and international laws and regulations, regulating corruption, limiting imports or exports or imposing economic sanctions;

risks relating to ongoing evaluations of internal controls required by Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act; and

risks related to changing laws and regulations, including trade policies and tariffs.

 

the sufficiency of our insurance policies to cover losses, including liabilities arising from litigation;

product liability claims against us;

pending or future asbestos-related claims against us;

the potential loss of key personnel;

interruption in the proper functioning of our information systems;

the occurrence of cybersecurity incidents;

loss of third-party transportation providers;

potential inability to obtain necessary capital;

risks related to adverse weather events or natural disasters;

impairment of our goodwill or other intangible assets;

adverse changes in political or economic conditions in the countries in which we operate;

exposure to U.S. and international laws and regulations, including the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the U.K. Bribery Act and other economic sanctions programs;

risks associated with international instability and geopolitical developments;

risks relating to ongoing evaluations of internal controls required by Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act; 

the impact on us of changes in U.S. generally accepted accounting principles or tax laws;

our intention not to pay dividends; and

the impact of U.S government policies.

Undue reliance should not be placed on our forward-looking statements. Although forward-looking statements reflect our good faith beliefs, reliance should not be placed on forward-looking statements because they involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, which may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from anticipated future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. We undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events, changed circumstances or otherwise, except to the extent law requires.

Overview

We are the largestleading global industrial distributor based on sales, of pipe, valves, and fittings (“PVF”("PVF") and relatedother infrastructure products and services to thediversified energy, industryindustrial and holdgas utility end-markets. We provide innovative supply chain solutions, technical product expertise and a robust digital platform to customers globally through our leading position in our industry across each of our diversified end-markets including the upstream (exploration, production and extraction of underground oil and natural gas), midstream (gathering and transmission of oil and natural gas, natural gas utilities and the storage and distribution of oil and natural gas) and downstream (crude oil refining, petrochemical and chemical processing and general industrials) sectors. Our business is segregated into three geographic reportable segments, consisting of our U.S., Canada and International operations. We serve our customers from approximately 300 service locations. following sectors:

gas utilities (storage and distribution of natural gas)

downstream, industrial and energy transition (crude oil refining, petrochemical and chemical processing, general industrials and energy transition projects)

upstream production (exploration, production and extraction of underground oil and gas)

midstream pipeline (gathering, processing and transmission of oil and gas)

We offer a wideover 250,000 SKUs, including an extensive array of PVF, oilfield supply, valve automation and oilfield supplies encompassing a complete line ofmodification, measurement, instrumentation and other general and specialty products from our global network of over 12,000suppliers to10,000 suppliers. With over 100 years of experience, our more than 17,000 customers. We are diversified by geography, the industry sectorsover 2,700 employees serve approximately 10,000 customers through 206 service locations including regional distribution centers, branches, corporate offices and third-party pipe yards, where we serve and the products we sell. We seek to provide best-in-class service to our customers by satisfying the most complex, multi-site needs of many of the largest companies in the energy sector as their primary PVF supplier. We believe the critical role we play in our customers’ supply chain, together with our extensive product offering, broad global presence, customer-linked scalable information systems and efficient distribution capabilities, serve to solidify our long-standingoften deploy pipe near customer relationships and drive our growth. As a result, we have an average relationship of over 25 years with our 25 largest customers.

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Key Drivers of Our Business

Our

We derive our revenue is predominantly derived from the sale of PVF and other oilfield and industrial supplies to the energy, sectorindustrial and gas utility customers globally. Our business is therefore dependent upon both the current conditions and future prospects in the energy industrythese industries and, in particular, our customers' maintenance and expansionary operating and capital expenditures by our customers in the upstream, midstream and downstream sectors of the industry. We saw customer spending fall off significantly beginning in late 2014 and continuing through 2016 as a result of lower oil and natural gas prices.   However, customer spending has increased in 2017 as oil and natural gas prices have improved from the lows of the past two years.  Long-term growth in spending has been driven by several factors, including underinvestment in global energy infrastructure, growth in shale and unconventional exploration and production (“E&P”) activity, and anticipated strength in the oil, natural gas, refined products and petrochemical sectors.expenditures. The outlook for future oil, natural gas, refined products and petrochemical PVF spending is influenced by numerous factors, including the following:

 

Oil and Natural Gas Prices. Sales of PVF and related products to the oil and natural gas industry constitute over 90%

Energy Infrastructure Integrity and Modernization. Ongoing maintenance and upgrading of existing energy facilities, pipelines and other infrastructure equipment is a meaningful driver for business across the sectors we serve. This is particularly true for gas utilities, which is currently our largest sector by sales. Activity with customers in this sector is driven by upgrades of existing infrastructure as well as new residential and commercial development. Continual maintenance of an aging network of pipelines and local distribution networks is a critical requirement for these customers irrespective of broader economic conditions. As a result, this business tends to be more stable over time and moves independently of commodity prices.

Oil and Natural Gas Demand and Prices. Sales of PVF and infrastructure products to the oil and natural gas industry constitute a significant portion of our sales. As a result, we depend upon the maintenance and capital expenditures of oil and natural gas companies to explore for, produce and process oil, natural gas and refined products. Demand for oil and natural gas, current and projected commodity prices and the costs necessary to produce oil and gas impact customer capital spending, additions to and maintenance of pipelines, refinery utilization and petrochemical processing activity. Additionally, as these participants rebalance their capital investment away from traditional, carbon-based energy toward alternative sources, we expect to continue to supply them and enhance our product and service offerings to support their changing requirements, including in areas such as carbon capture utilization and storage, biofuels, offshore wind and hydrogen processing.

Economic Conditions. Changes in the general economy or in the energy sector (domestically or internationally) can cause demand for fuels, feedstocks and petroleum-derived products to vary, thereby causing demand for the products we distribute to materially change.

Manufacturer and Distributor Inventory Levels of PVF and Related Products. Manufacturer and distributor inventory levels of PVF and related products can change significantly from period to period. Increased inventory levels by manufacturers or other distributors can cause an oversupply of PVF and related products in the industry sectors we serve and reduce the prices that we are able to charge for the products we distribute. Reduced prices, in turn, would likely reduce our profitability. Conversely, decreased manufacturer inventory levels may ultimately lead to increased demand for our products and often result in increased revenue, higher PVF pricing and improved profitability.

Steel Prices, Availability, Supply and Demand. Fluctuations in steel prices can lead to volatility in the pricing of the products we distribute, especially carbon steel line pipe products, which can influence the buying patterns of our customers. A majority of the products we distribute contain various types of steel. The worldwide supply and demand for these products and other steel products that we do not supply, impact the pricing and availability of our products and, ultimately, our sales and operating profitability. Additionally, supply chain disruptions with key manufacturers or in markets in which we source products can impact the availability of inventory we require to support our customers. Furthermore, logistical challenges, including inflation and availability of freight providers and containers for shipping can also significantly impact our profitability and inventory lead-times.

Recent Trends and Outlook

During the three months ended September 30, 2022, revenue increased 7% sequentially from the three months ended June 30, 2022, supporting our strong growth outlook for 2022. Despite near-term risk related to a potential global economic slowdown, market fundamentals in the industries we support remain strong. As a result, our customers have increased their spending levels, as evidenced by our 49% growth in backlog from December 31, 2021 to September 30, 2022. We expect revenue growth in 2022 compared to 2021 to exceed 25%, which assumes a seasonal decline in revenues of approximately 5% in the fourth quarter of 2022.

Gas Utilities
Our gas utility business continues to be our largest sector, making up 38% of our total company revenue with a 26% increase in sales compared to the nine months ended September 30, 2021. This sector is expected to have continued strong growth in 2022 due to long-term market drivers including distribution integrity upgrade programs as well as new home construction. The majority of the work
we depend uponperform with our gas utility customers are multi-year programs where they continually evaluate, monitor and implement measures to improve their pipeline distribution networks, ensuring the oilsafety and naturalthe integrity of their system. As of 2021, which is the most recently available information, the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) estimates approximately 37% of the gas industrydistribution main and its abilityservice line miles are over 40 years old or of unknown origin. This infrastructure requires continuous replacement and willingnessmaintenance as these gas distribution networks continue to make maintenanceage. We supply many of the replacement products including valves, line pipe, smart meters, risers and capital expendituresother gas products. A large percentage of the line pipe we sell is sold to exploreour gas utilities customers for produceline replacement and process oil, naturalnew sections of their distribution network. Additionally, as our gas utility customers connect new homes and refinedbusinesses to their gas distribution network, the growth in the housing market creates new revenue opportunities for our business to supply the related infrastructure products. OilWhile new housing market starts have started to decline with interest rate increases, we do not anticipate this to have a significant impact, as customers will generally reallocate their budgets towards integrity upgrade projects. The compound annual growth rate since 2010 for this sector is 11% and natural gas prices, both currentbased on market fundamentals and projected, along with the costs necessary to produce oil and gas, impact other driversnew market share opportunities, we expect this area of our business including capital spending by customers, additionsto continue to have steady growth. Additionally, this sector has proven historically to be less sensitive to a scenario of economic slowdown due to its reduced dependency on energy demand and maintenance to pipeline mileage, refinery utilizationcommodity prices.

Downstream, Industrial and petrochemical processing activity.

Economic Conditions. The demand for the products we distribute is dependent on the general economy, the energyEnergy Transition (DIET)
DIET, our second largest
sector, and other factors. Changes in the general economy or in the energy sector (domestically or internationally) can cause demand for the products we distribute to materially change.

Manufacturer and Distributor Inventory Levels of PVF and Related Products. Manufacturer and distributor inventory levels of PVF and related products can change significantly from period to period. Increased inventory levels by manufacturers or other distributors can cause an oversupply of PVF and related products in the industry sectors we serve and reduce the prices that we are able to charge for the products we distribute. Reduced prices, in turn, would likely reduce our profitability. Conversely, decreased manufacturer inventory levels may ultimately lead to increased demand for our products and would likely result in increased sales volumes and overall profitability.

•  Steel Prices, Availability and Supply and Demand. Fluctuations in steel prices can lead to volatility in the pricing of the products we distribute, especially carbon steel tubular products, which can influence the buying patternsgenerated 30% of our customers. A majority of the products we distribute contain various types of steel. The worldwide supplytotal company revenue and demand for these products, or other steel products that we do not supply, impacts the pricing and availability of our products and, ultimately, our sales and operating profitability.

Recent Trends and Outlook

Duringgrew 31% from the first nine months of 2017,2021. We continue to expect this sector to deliver strong growth in 2022 driven by increased customer activity levels related to new energy transition related projects, maintenance, repair and operations ("MRO") activities, and project turnaround activity in refineries and chemical plants. 


Industrial Info Resources (IIR) estimates for US petroleum refining spending, updated August 2022, continue to project a double-digit increase for both MRO activities and projects in 2022 over 2021. The energy transition portion of our business is growing rapidly, particularly for biofuels refinery projects. The outlook for energy transition projects in
the average oil pricecoming years is robust, as pressure to decarbonize the economy rises and government incentives and policy such as those in the Inflation Reduction Act of West Texas Intermediate (“WTI”) increased2022 begin to $49.30 per barrel from $41.35 per barrelsupport the development of carbon energy alternatives. We are well-positioned to grow our energy transition business through our long-standing customer relationships as well as our product and global supply chain expertise.


Upstream Production and Midstream Pipeline
The upstream production and midstream pipeline sectors of our business are the most cyclical, and
in the first nine months of 2016.2022 these sectors represented about one-third of our company revenues. The upstream production sector revenue increased 27% from the nine months ended September 30, 2021, to the nine months ended September 30, 2022, while the midstream pipeline sector increased 13% over the same period. Sell-side equity research analysts currently estimate upstream spending in 2022 to increase approximately 30%, and initial estimates for 2023 suggest an additional double-digit level of growth. During the third quarter of 2022, Brent crude oil price averaged over $100 per barrel and West Texas Intermediate ("WTI") oil prices averaged approximately $93 per barrel. Although, oil prices have recently declined from earlier highs, recent OPEC+ production cuts have maintained prices at levels that support continued growth in drilling and completion activity by our customers. Natural gas prices increased to an average pricealso drive customer activity and despite recent volatility in various parts of $3.01/Mcf (Henry Hub) for the first nine months of 2017world, current prices remain significantly elevated compared to $2.34/Mcf (Henry Hub) forprior year.

There is the first nine months of 2016.North American drilling rig activity increased 80%expectation that shale producers in the first nine monthsU.S. could increase drilling and production above levels already planned leading into 2023 to offset the reduced supply from Russia. Many customers have expressed a desire to remain consistent with their commitments to their budgets, maintaining returns to their shareholders and operating within their cash flow requirements. However, given supportive commodity prices and growing public pressure, there is the potential for this posture to shift.

To the extent completion activity and related production increases, this could have the impact of 2017 asimproving our revenue opportunities in our upstream production and midstream pipeline sectors. Higher production levels are driving the need for additional gathering and processing infrastructure benefitting our midstream business. New well completions are correlated more closely to our upstream revenue rather than rig count. Furthermore, since the U.S. rig count reached a low in the second quarter of 2020, private operators, who historically have represented a smaller portion of our upstream revenue, have driven the majority of the rig count increases. As such, our company upstream revenue may trend lower compared to the first nine months of 2016.  U.S. well completions were up 36%projected market improvements in the first nine months of 2017 comparedU.S. upstream spending estimates.

Russia-Ukraine War
On February 24, 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine, which has had several consequences
to the same periodbroader economy, global attitudes toward energy security and the pace of the energy transition. Government actions to reduce dependency on Russian fuels through embargoes and encourage an end to the conflict through sanctions on Russia have spurred a commodity price spike, supply constraints and various policy changes to address energy security. While we have no operations or sales in 2016.
Ukraine, Belarus or Russia, the conflict has impacted several macro energy trends.

 

In recent years, there has beenAs Europe looks to replace Russian natural gas with more stable sources, liquified natural gas ("LNG") with its related infrastructure is being considered as an increase in the global supply of crude oil, including the contribution of U.S. shale oil, at a pace exceeding demand growth.  This increase combinedalternative to Russian gas supplies, with a hesitance on the part of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (“OPEC”) to curb production triggered a dramatic decline in oil prices that began in late 2014 and continued throughout 2016.  This low price environment, in turn, resulted in a dramatic decline in E&P capital spending by our customers, which directly impacted our business.  In 2016, customer spending fell by 27%, following a 21% decline in 2015, which brought spending to its lowest levels since 2009.  This marked the first time in nearly 30 years that global spending has been down in consecutive years.  However, since its November 2016 announcement, OPEC has attempted to enforce production cuts, and we have been encouraged by stability in oil prices and increased drilling activity.  As a result, our 2017 revenue will be higher than 2016 and prominent E&P spending surveys, which include many of our customers, indicate that spending will continue to increase in North America in 2018 and 2019, while forecasts outside of North America are more subdued.  We expect our business to follow the same trend.  However, in the short-term, oil prices remain volatile and changes in oil prices could impact customer spending levels.

Beginning in 2015, the international segment has seen customer spending continue to decline, even as the U.S. and Canadian segment sales have increased from improved spending by our customer base in 2017. We took actions in 2016 to reduce our international footprint and cost structure and yet we have been unable to return to profitability. For the first nine months of

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2017 our international segment is reporting an operating loss of $8 million. As such, we are in the process of further reducing our headcount and cost structure in the international segment and expect to record a severance and restructuring charge in the fourth quarter of 2017.

In January 2017, a new U.S. President took office and  a new U.S. Congress was seated.   They have publicly made statements regarding the desire to support United States energy producers, refocus the EPA on its core mission, focus on United States interests first and lessen the regulatory burden on businesses to create job growth.  These statements have been further supported by the approval of a number of pipeline projects. They have also announced an aggressive policy agenda to change the tax system, modify the relationships between the United States and other countries, cancel or modify trade treaties and remake relationships with other countries. Until specific laws are passed, executive actions are taken or federal regulatory action is enacted, it is unclear what impact these policies will have on our business.  While at first impression these policies could decrease the regulatory and tax burden on our business and the businesses of our U.S. customers, increase oil and gas productionprojects being considered in the U.S. and Europe. To the extent new LNG infrastructure is built, our midstream pipeline and our DIET sectors are well-positioned to benefit from this growth.


Supply Chain and Labor
We continue to closely monitor the ability of our suppliers and transportation providers to continue the functioning of our supply chain, particularly in cases where there are limited alternative sources of supply. Lead-times for purchases of certain products have extended substantially and we expect continued disruptions related to both lead-times and logistics for the foreseeable future. Our strong inventory position has allowed us to continue to supply most customers with little interruption despite the delays from transportation providers. In those instances where there is interruption, we work with our customers to limit the impacts on their business and maintain an ongoing dialogue regarding the status of impacted orders. We have experienced significant increases in transportation costs
as the economies of the U.S. and other countries recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, although sequentially, transportation costs have begun to decline.

We continue to experience inflation for certain product categories. Although inflation causes the prices we pay for products to increase, we are generally able to leverage long-standing relationships with our suppliers and the high volume of our purchases to achieve market competitive pricing and preferential allocations of limited supplies. In addition, our contracts with customers generally allow us to pass price increases along to customers within a result,reasonable time after they occur. To the extent further pricing fluctuations impact our U.S. business activityproducts, the impact on our revenue and increasecost of goods sold, which is determined using the saleslast-in, first-out ("LIFO") inventory costing methodology, remains subject to uncertainty and volatility. However, our supply chain expertise, relationships with our key suppliers and inventory position has allowed us to manage the supply chain for both inflationary and deflationary pressures.

There has been little impact to our supply chain directly from the conflict in Ukraine. However, the COVID-19 lockdowns in China are constraining the global supply chain and has the potential to impact the availability of product fromcomponent parts, particularly for valves and meters.

Globally, we are being impacted by labor constraints as the post-pandemic recovery has lowered unemployment rates and created increased competition among companies to attract and retain personnel, which has increased our U.S. suppliers, it is not clear that all impacts would be positive.  However,selling, general and administrative expense. We proactively monitor market trends in the absenceareas where we have operations and, due to our efficient sourcing practices, we have experienced little to no disruption supporting our customers.

COVID-19 Pandemic
We continue to monitor the COVID-19 pandemic as the number
of specificscases and givenhospitalizations have recently increased. If we were to develop a COVID-19 outbreak at one of our facilities, we have plans to isolate those in contact with potentially infected employees and to either staff the government’s generally supportive stancefacility with employees from other facilities or supply product to customers from other facilities. We monitor guidelines of the U.S. Centers for the oilDisease Control ("CDC") and gas industry, and basedother authorities on E&P spending surveys andan ongoing basis. As various governmental isolation orders evolve, we continue to review our customers’ current outlook for oil and gas supply and demand, we expectoperational plans to continue operating our business to increase in 2017while addressing the health and 2018.safety of our employees and those with whom our business comes into contact.

 

Backlog

We determine backlog by the amount of unshipped customer orders, either specific or general in nature, which the customer may revise or cancel in certain instances. The table below details our backlog by segment (in millions):

 

 

 

 

 

 

September 30,

 

December 31,

 

September 30,

 

September 30,

 

December 31,

 

September 30,

 

2017

 

2016

 

2016

 

2022

  

2021

  

2021

 

U.S.

$              520

 

$              472

 

$              411

 $576  $350  $297 

Canada

35 

 

36 

 

29  47  35  30 

International

247 

 

241 

 

219   150   135   113 

$              802

 

$              749

 

$              659

 $773  $520  $440 

Approximately 20% and 28% of our September 30, 2017 and December 31, 2016 ending backlog, respectively, was associated with one customer in our U.S. segment as the result of a significant ongoing customer project.  

There can be no assurance that the backlog amounts will ultimately be realized as revenue or that we will earn a profit on the backlog of orders, but we expect that substantially all of the sales in our backlog will be realized in the nextwithin twelve months.

Key Industry Indicators

The following table shows key industry indicators for the three and nine months ended September 30, 20172022 and 2016:2021:

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Three Months Ended

 

Nine Months Ended



September 30,

 

September 30,

 

September 30,

 

September 30,



2017

 

2016

 

2017

 

2016

Average Rig Count (1):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

United States

946 

 

479 

 

861 

 

482 

Canada

208 

 

121 

 

207 

 

112 

Total North America

1,154 

 

600 

 

1,068 

 

594 

International

947 

 

936 

 

948 

 

965 

Total

2,101 

 

1,536 

 

2,016 

 

1,559 



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Average Commodity Prices (2):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WTI crude oil (per barrel)

$           48.18

 

$           44.85

 

$             49.30

 

$             41.35

Brent crude oil (per barrel)

$           52.10

 

$           45.80

 

$             51.75

 

$             41.86

Natural gas ($/Mcf)

$             2.95

 

$             2.88

 

$               3.01

 

$               2.34



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Average Monthly U.S. Well Permits (3)

3,877 

 

2,678 

 

3,553 

 

2,260 

U.S. Wells Completed (2)

3,370 

 

2,287 

 

8,913 

 

6,531 

3:2:1 Crack Spread (4)

$           19.77

 

$           13.61

 

$             17.52

 

$             15.38

(1) Source-Baker Hughes (www.bhge.com) (Total rig count includes oil, natural gas and other rigs.)

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Three Months Ended

  

Nine Months Ended

 
  

September 30,

  

September 30,

  

September 30,

  

September 30,

 
  

2022

  

2021

  

2022

  

2021

 

Average Rig Count (1):

                

United States

  761   496   706   448 

Canada

  199   151   170   122 

Total North America

  960   647   876   570 

International

  857   772   832   735 

Total

  1,817   1,419   1,708   1,305 
                 

Average Commodity Prices (2):

                

WTI crude oil (per barrel)

 $93.06  $70.58  $98.96  $65.05 

Brent crude oil (per barrel)

 $100.71  $73.51  $105.00  $67.89 

Natural gas ($/MMBtu)

 $8.03  $4.35  $6.74  $3.61 
                 

New Privately-Owned Housing Units Started(3):

                

Total units (in thousands)

          1,439   1,559 
                 

Average Monthly U.S. Well Permits (4)

  3,605   2,620   3,336   2,115 

U.S. Wells Completed (2)

  2,908   2,336   8,606   6,834 

3:2:1 Crack Spread (5)

 $37.17  $20.78  $37.54  $19.38 

 


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(1) Source-Baker Hughes (www.bakerhughes.com) (Total rig count includes oil, natural gas and other rigs.)

(2) Source-Department of Energy, EIA (www.eia.gov) (As revised)

(3) Source-U.S. Census Bureau and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, New Residential Construction

(4) Source-Evercore ISI Research

(3) Source-Rig Data (U.S.)(5) Source-Bloomberg

(4) Source- Bloomberg

 

Results of Operations

Three Months Ended September 30, 20172022 Compared to the Three Months Ended September 30, 20162021

The breakdown of our sales by sector for the three months ended September 30, 20172022 and 20162021 was as follows (in millions):



 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Three Months Ended



September 30, 2017

 

September 30, 2016

Upstream

$          269

 

28% 

 

$         224

 

28% 

Midstream

437 

 

46% 

 

327 

 

41% 

Downstream

253 

 

26% 

 

242 

 

31% 



$          959

 

100% 

 

$         793

 

100% 



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

Three Months Ended

 
  

September 30, 2022

  

September 30, 2021

 

Gas utilities

 $359   40% $271   40%

Downstream, industrial and energy transition

  276   31%  197   29%

Upstream production

  176   19%  132   19%

Midstream pipeline

  93   10%  85   12%
  $904   100% $685   100%

For the three months ended September 30, 20172022 and 2016,2021, the following table summarizes our results of operations (in millions):

 

  

Three Months Ended

         
  

September 30,

  

September 30,

         
  

2022

  

2021

  

$ Change

  

% Change

 

Sales:

                

U.S.

 $768  $570  $198   35%

Canada

  37   30   7   23%

International

  99   85   14   16%

Consolidated

 $904  $685  $219   32%
                 

Operating income (loss):

                

U.S.

 $40  $(7) $47   N/M 

Canada

  -   (1)  1   (100)%

International

  5   1   4   N/M 

Consolidated

  45   (7)  52   N/M 
                 

Interest expense

  (6)  (6)  -   N/M 

Other, net

  (5)  -   (5)  N/M 

Income tax (expense) benefit

  (10)  2   (12)  N/M 

Net income (loss)

  24   (11)  35   N/M 

Series A preferred stock dividends

  6   6   -   N/M 

Net income (loss) attributable to common stockholders

 $18  $(17) $35   N/M 
                 

Gross profit

 $165  $95  $70   74%

Adjusted Gross Profit (1)

 $198  $137  $61   45%

Adjusted EBITDA (1)

 $82  $39  $43   N/M 

(1) Adjusted Gross Profit and Adjusted EBITDA are non-GAAP financial measures. For a reconciliation of these measures to an equivalent GAAP measure, see pages 23-24 herein.



 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Three Months Ended

 

 

 

 



September 30,

 

September 30,

 

 

 

 



2017

 

2016

 

$ Change

 

% Change

Sales:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

U.S.

$                   759

 

$                   590

 

$            169

 

29% 

Canada

77 

 

70 

 

 

10% 

International

123 

 

133 

 

(10)

 

(8%)

Consolidated

$                   959

 

$                   793

 

$            166

 

21% 



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Operating income (loss):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

U.S.

$                     21

 

$                     (4)

 

$              25

 

N/M

Canada

 

(4)

 

 

N/M

International

(3)

 

(28)

 

25 

 

N/M

Consolidated

22 

 

(36)

 

58 

 

N/M



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interest expense

(9)

 

(9)

 

 -

 

0% 

Other (expense) income

(8)

 

 

(11)

 

N/M

Income tax (expense) benefit

(2)

 

 

(4)

 

N/M

Net income (loss)

 

(40)

 

43 

 

N/M

Series A preferred stock dividends

 

 

 -

 

0% 

Net loss attributable to common stockholders

$                     (3)

 

$                   (46)

 

$              43

 

N/M



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gross profit

$                   152

 

$                     88

 

$              64

 

73% 

Adjusted Gross Profit (1)

$                   182

 

$                   103

 

$              79

 

77% 

Adjusted EBITDA (1)

$                     56

 

$                     24

 

$              32

 

N/M

22

(1)

Adjusted Gross Profit and Adjusted EBITDA are non-GAAP financial measures. For a reconciliation of these measures to an equivalent GAAP measure, see pages 19-21 herein.

Sales.    Sales include the revenue recognized from the sale of products we distribute,  services we provide and freight billings to customers, less cash discounts taken by customers in return for their early payment.  Our sales were $959 million for the 

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three months ended September 30, 2017 as compared to $793$904 million for the three months ended September 30, 2016, an increase of $166million, or 21%.  

U.S. Segment—Our U.S. sales increased2022, as compared to $759$685 million for the three months ended September 30, 2017 from $5902021, an increase of $219 million, or 32%.

U.S. Segment—Our U.S. sales increased to $768 million for the three months ended September 30, 2016. This $169 million, or 29%, increasereflected a $49 million increase in the upstream sector, a $110 million increase in the midstream sector and a $10 million increase in the downstream sector.  The increase in the midstream sector is related to increased activity in the gas utility and transmission and gathering subsectors with several of our customers, and the increase in the upstream sector is related to the increase in rig count and well completions.  We estimate that business disruption2022, from hurricanes negatively impacted sales by $8 million in the third quarter of 2017.

Canada Segment—Our Canada sales increased to $77$570 million for the three months ended September 30, 2017 from $702021. This $198 million, or 35%, increase reflected an $86 million improvement in the gas utilities sector driven by increased activity levels related to our customers' integrity upgrade programs, smart meter programs and seasonal demand. Downstream, industrial and energy transition sales increased $66 million due to increased renewable biofuel projects and additional turnaround project and maintenance spending for refining, mining and chemical customers. Upstream production sales increased $36 million primarily due to increased customer spending for well completions. Midstream pipeline sales improved $10 million driven by new gathering and processing infrastructure as a result of increased production levels.

Canada Segment—Our Canada sales increased to $37 million for the three months ended September 30, 2016.  This $7 million, or 10%,  increase was primarily due to the upstream business as a result of an increase in rig count and well completions offset by a decrease in the midstream sector.  Canadian sales were favorably impacted by $3 million, or  4%, as a result of the stronger Canadian dollar relative to the U.S. dollar.

International Segment—Our International sales decreased to $1232022, from $30 million for the three months ended September 30, 20172021. The $7 million, or 23%, increase was primarily driven by the upstream production sector as customers increased capital budgets.

International Segment—Our International sales increased to $99 million for the three months ended September 30, 2022, from $133$85 million for the same period in 2016.  The $102021. In local currency, sales increased $27 million, or 8%16%, decreaseand was primarily due to a $24 million decrease indriven by the upstream business, related to one of our project customers in Norway,downstream, industrial and energy transition sector.  The increase was offset by a $12 million Australian line pipe sale in the midstream sector.  The strengtheningweakening of foreign currencies in areas where we operate outside ofrelative to the U.S. dollar, favorably impactedunfavorably impacting sales by $3$13 million, or 2%13%.

 

Gross Profit.  Our gross profit was $152$165 million (15.8%(18.3% of sales) for the three months ended September 30, 20172022, as compared to $88$95 million (11.1%(13.9% of sales) for the three months ended September 30, 2016.  Third2021, an increase of $70 million. The inflationary impact, especially in our line pipe products, has been a significant driver of the higher gross margins reported this quarter. As compared to average cost, our LIFO inventory costing methodology increased cost of sales by $24 million for the third quarter 2016 gross profit was negatively impacted by $45 million of inventory-related charges2022 compared to reduce the carrying value of certain excess and obsolete inventory items to their net realizable value.    Aside from the impact of this charge, the $64a $32 million increase was primarily attributable to the increase in cost of sales volumes.  Excluding this charge, the reduction in gross profit percentage for the three months ended September 30, 2017, compared to the same period in 2016, was the result of  our last-in, first-out (“LIFO”) inventory costing methodology which resulted in an increase in cost of sales of $13 million and a reduction of cost of sales of $3million in the third  quarter of 2017 and 2016, respectively2021.

 

Certain purchasing costs and warehousing activities (including receiving, inspection and stocking costs), as well as general warehousing expenses, are included in selling, general and administrative expenses and not in cost of sales.  As such, our gross profit may not be comparable to others that may include these expenses as a component of cost of sales.  Purchasing and warehousing costs were $7 million and $8 million for the three months ended September 30, 2017 and 2016, respectively. 

Adjusted Gross Profit.  Adjusted Gross Profit increased to $182$198 million (19.0%(21.9% of sales) for the three months ended September 30, 20172022, from $103$137 million (13.0%(20.0% of sales) for the three months ended September 30, 2016,2021, an increase of $79$61 million. Third quarter 2016 Adjusted Gross Profit included the impact of the $45 million of inventory-related charges discussed above. Adjusted Gross Profit is a non-GAAP financial measure. We define Adjusted Gross Profit as sales, less cost of sales, plus depreciation and amortization, plus amortization of intangibles, plus inventory-related charges incremental to normal operations and plus or minus the impact of our LIFO inventory costing methodology. We present Adjusted Gross Profit because we believe it is a useful indicator of our operating performance without regard to items, such as amortization of intangibles that can vary substantially from company to company depending upon the nature and extent of acquisitions. Similarly, the impact of the LIFO inventory costing method can cause results to vary substantially from company to company depending upon whether they elect to utilize LIFO and depending upon which method they may elect. We use Adjusted Gross Profit as a key performance indicator in managing our business. We believe that gross profit is the financial measure calculated and presented in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles that is most directly comparable to Adjusted Gross Profit.

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The following table reconciles Adjusted Gross Profit, a non-GAAP financial measure, with gross profit, as derived from our financial statements (in millions):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Three Months Ended

 

Three Months Ended

 

September 30,

 

Percentage

 

September 30,

 

Percentage

 

September 30,

 

Percentage

 

September 30,

 

Percentage

 

2017

 

of Revenue

 

2016

 

of Revenue

 

2022

  

of Revenue*

  

2021

  

of Revenue*

 

Gross profit, as reported

$           152

 

15.8% 

 

$             88

 

11.1%  $165 18.3% $95 13.9%

Depreciation and amortization

 

0.5% 

 

 

0.8%  5 0.6% 4 0.6%

Amortization of intangibles

12 

 

1.3% 

 

12 

 

1.5%  4 0.4% 6 0.9%

Increase (decrease) in LIFO reserve

13 

 

1.4% 

 

(3)

 

(0.4%)

Increase in LIFO reserve

  24  2.7%  32  4.7%

Adjusted Gross Profit

$           182

 

19.0% 

 

$           103

 

13.0%  $198  21.9% $137  20.0%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*Does not foot due to rounding

Selling, General and Administrative (“SG&A”) Expenses.    Costs such as salaries, wages, employee benefits, rent, utilities, communications, insurance, fuel and taxes (other than state and federal income taxes) that are necessary to operate our branch and corporate operations are included in SG&A.  Also contained in this category are certain items that are nonoperational in nature, including certain costs of acquiring and integrating other businesses.  Our SG&A expenses were $130$120 million (13.3% of sales) for the three months ended September 30, 2022, as compared to $102 (14.9% of sales) million for the three months ended September 30, 20172021. The $18 million increase in SG&A was driven by higher employee-related costs resulting from an overall improvement in business activity, as comparedwell as hiring additional resources to $124support the growth in our business.

Operating Income (Loss). Operating income was $45 million for the three months ended September 30, 2016.   Severance and restructuring charges for the three months ended September 30, 2016 totaled $3 million. No such expenses were incurred for the three months ending September 30, 2017.  The increase in SG&A is primarily related2022, as compared to an increase in volume-related activity.     

Operating Income (Loss).   Operating income was $22operating loss of $7 million for the three months ended September 30, 2017, as compared to a $36million operating loss for the three months ended September 30, 2016,2021, an improvementincrease of $58$52 million.

U.S. SegmentOperating income for our U.S. segment was $21$40 million for the three months ended September 30, 20172022, compared to a $4 millionan operating loss for the three months ended September 30, 2016.  The $25 million improvement in operating income  was driven, in part, by higher sales.  In addition, in 2016, we recorded $16 million of inventory-related charges to reduce the carrying value of certain obsolete and excess inventory items to their net realizable value.

Canada SegmentOperating income for our Canada segment was $4$7 million for the three months ended September 30, 2017 as compared2021, a $47 million increase. The $47 million increase was attributable to a $4 million operatinghigher revenues and improved gross profit percentage due to product mix.

Canada Segment—Operating loss for the three months ended September 30, 2016.  The $8 million improvementour Canada segment was driven, in part, by higher sales. In addition, in 2016, we recorded $5 million of inventory-related charges to reduce the carrying value of certain obsolete and excess inventory items to their net realizable value.

International SegmentOur International segment incurred an operating loss of $3$0 million for the three months ended September 30, 20172022, as compared to an operating loss of $28$1 million for the three months ended September 30, 2016.  In2021.

International Segment—Operating income for our International segment was $5 million for the third quarterthree months ended September 30, 2022, as compared to operating income of 2016, we recorded $24$1 million of inventory-related chargesfor the three months ended September 30, 2021. The $4 million increase was primarily due to reduce the carrying value of certain obsolete and excess inventory items to their net realizable value. No such charges were recorded in the third quarter of 2017.higher revenues.

Interest Expense. Our interest expense was $9$6 million and $6 million for the three month periodsmonths ended September 30, 20172022 and 2016. 2021, respectively. 

Other, (Expense) Income.   Our other expensenet. Other, net was $8$5 million for the three month period ended September 30, 2017 as compared to other income of $3 million for the three month period ending September 30, 2016.    Other expense for the three months ended September 30, 2017 included an $8 million charge for the write off of debt issuance costs associated with the refinancing of our Term Loan and Global ABL Facility.  Other income for the three months ended September 30, 2016 included  $1 million of foreign currency gains.

Income Tax (Expense)  Benefit.   Our income tax expense was $22022 compared to $0 million for the three months ended September 30, 2017,2021. The increase in other expense was primarily related to unfavorable foreign exchange rate impacts.

Income Tax Expense (Benefit). Our income tax expense was $10 million for the three months ended September 30, 2022 as compared to  a $2 million benefit for the three months ended September 30, 2016.  For interim periods, our income tax expense is computed based upon our estimated annual effective tax rate.2021 primarily due to increased profitability. Our effective tax rates were 40%29% and 5%15% for the three months ended September 30, 20172022 and 2016,2021, respectively. Our rates generally differ from the U.S. federal statutory rate of 35%21% as a result of state income taxes, non-deductible expenses and differing generally lower, foreign income tax rates. The 2016 effective tax rate for the three months ended September 30, 2022 was significantly lower than our federal statutory ratehigher primarily due to forecasted pre-tax losses across all segments including significant pre-tax losses in jurisdictions where there was no corresponding tax benefit.unbenefited foreign losses.

Net Income (Loss). Our net income was $3$24 million for the three months ended September 30, 20172022, as compared to a net loss of $40$11 million for the three months ended September 30, 2016,  an improvement of $43 million.

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Adjusted EBITDA. Adjusted EBITDA, a non-GAAP financial measure, was $56$82 million (5.8%(9.1% of sales) for the three months ended September 30, 20172022, as compared to $24$39 million (3.0%(5.7% of sales) for the three months ended September 30, 2016.  2021.

We define Adjusted EBITDA as net income plus interest, income taxes, depreciation and amortization, amortization of intangibles and certain other expenses, including non-cash expenses (suchsuch as equity-based compensation, severance and restructuring, changes in the fair value of derivative instruments, andlong-lived asset impairments including inventory)(including goodwill and intangible assets), inventory-related charges incremental to normal operations and plus or minus the impact of our LIFO inventory costing methodology.

We believe Adjusted EBITDA provides investors a helpful measure for comparing our operating performance with the performance of other companies that may have different financing and capital structures or tax rates. We believe it is a useful indicator of our operating performance without regard to items, such as amortization of intangibles, thatwhich can vary substantially from company to company depending upon the nature and extent of acquisitions. Similarly, the impact of the LIFO inventory costing method can cause results to vary substantially from company to company depending upon whether they elect to utilize LIFO and depending upon which method they may elect. We use Adjusted EBITDA as a key performance indicator in managing our business. We believe that net income is the financial measure calculated and presented in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles that is most directly comparable to Adjusted EBITDA.

 

The following table reconciles Adjusted EBITDA, a non-GAAP financial measure, with net income, (loss), as derived from our financial statements (in millions):

  

Three Months Ended

 
  

September 30,

  

September 30,

 
  

2022

  

2021

 

Net income (loss)

 $24  $(11)

Income tax expense (benefit)

  10   (2)

Interest expense

  6   6 

Depreciation and amortization

  5   4 

Amortization of intangibles

  4   6 

Increase in LIFO reserve

  24   32 

Equity-based compensation expense

  3   3 

Foreign currency losses

  6   1 

Adjusted EBITDA

 $82  $39 

 



 

 

 



Three Months Ended



September 30,

 

September 30,



2017

 

2016

Net income (loss)

$                   3

 

$                 (40)

Income tax expense (benefit)

 

(2)

Interest expense

 

Depreciation and amortization

 

Amortization of intangibles

12 

 

12 

Increase (decrease) in LIFO reserve

13 

 

(3)

Inventory-related charges

 -

 

40 

Change in fair value of derivative instruments

 

(2)

Equity-based compensation expense

 

Write off of debt issuance costs

 

 -

Severance and restructuring charges

 -

 

Foreign currency gains

 -

 

(1)

Adjusted EBITDA

$                 56

 

$                 24



 

 

 

Nine Months Ended September 30, 20172022 Compared to the Nine Months Ended September 30, 20162021

 

The breakdown of our sales by sector for the nine months ended September 30, 20172022 and 20162021 was as follows (in millions):

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Nine Months Ended



September 30, 2017

 

September 30, 2016

Upstream

$          772

 

28% 

 

$         666

 

29% 

Midstream

1,228 

 

45% 

 

897 

 

38% 

Downstream

743 

 

27% 

 

759 

 

33% 



$       2,743

 

100% 

 

$      2,322

 

100% 

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Nine Months Ended

 
  

September 30, 2022

  

September 30, 2021

 

Gas utilities

 $944   38% $750   38%

Downstream, industrial and energy transition

  761   30%  582   29%

Upstream production

  512   21%  402   20%

Midstream pipeline

  277   11%  246   13%
  $2,494   100% $1,980   100%

 


For the nine months ended September 30, 20172022 and 2016,2021, the following table summarizes our results of operations (in millions):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nine Months Ended

 

 

 

 

 

Nine Months Ended

       

September 30,

 

September 30,

 

 

 

 

 

September 30,

 

September 30,

      

2017

 

2016

 

$ Change

 

% Change

 

2022

  

2021

  

$ Change

  

% Change

 

Sales:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

        

U.S.

$                2,145

 

$                1,747

 

$            398

 

23%  $2,103  $1,612  $491  30%

Canada

223 

 

188 

 

35 

 

19%  120  92  28  30%

International

375 

 

387 

 

(12)

 

(3%)  271   276   (5) (2)%

Consolidated

$                2,743

 

$                2,322

 

$            421

 

18%  $2,494  $1,980  $514  26%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Operating income (loss):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

        

U.S.

$                     53

 

$                     (2)

 

$              55

 

N/M

 $99 $(1) $100 N/M 

Canada

 

(7)

 

15 

 

N/M

 (1) (1) - 0%

International

(8)

 

(41)

 

33 

 

N/M

  7   8   (1) (13)%

Consolidated

53 

 

(50)

 

103 

 

N/M

 105 6 99 N/M 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interest expense

(24)

 

(26)

 

 

(8%) (17) (18) 1  (6)%

Other (expense) income

(8)

 

 

(10)

 

N/M

Other, net

 (11) 1 (12) N/M 

Income tax (expense) benefit

(6)

 

 

(15)

 

N/M

  (23)  1  (24)  N/M 

Net income (loss)

15 

 

(65)

 

80 

 

N/M

 54 (10) 64 N/M 

Series A preferred stock dividends

18 

 

18 

 

 -

 

0%   18  18  -  0%

Net loss attributable to common stockholders

$                     (3)

 

$                   (83)

 

$              80

 

N/M

Net income (loss) attributable to common stockholders

 $36 $(28) $64  N/M 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gross profit

$                   441

 

$                   346

 

$              95

 

27%  $452  $310  $142  46%

Adjusted Gross Profit (1)

$                   510

 

$                   390

 

$            120

 

31%  $531  $389  $142  37%

Adjusted EBITDA (1)

$                   136

 

$                     58

 

$              78

 

N/M

 $195  $99  $96  97%

 

(1)Adjusted Gross Profit and Adjusted EBITDA are non-GAAP financial measures. For a reconciliation of these measures to an equivalent GAAP measure, see pages 23-2526-27 herein.

Sales.  Our sales were $2,743$2,494 million for the nine months ended September 30, 20172022, as compared to $2,322$1,980 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2016,2021, an increase of $421$514 million, or 18%26%.

U.S. Segment—Our U.S. sales increased to $2,145$2,103 million for the nine months ended September 30, 20172022, from $1,747$1,612 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2016.2021. This $398$491 million, or 23%30%, increase reflected a $118$189 million increase in the upstreamgas utilities sector driven by the full implementation of $295 million increase in the midstream sectornew customer contract, increased activity levels and a $15 million decrease in the downstream sector.  The increase in the midstream sector is primarily related to a large, ongoing transmission project with onecontinued execution of our customers while the decrease in the downstreamcustomers' integrity upgrade programs, smart meter programs and seasonal demand. Downstream, industrial and energy transition sector wassales increased $159 million due to increased renewable biofuels projects and additional turnaround project and maintenance spending for both refining and chemicals customers. Upstream production sales increased $105 million primarily due to increased customer spending for well completions. Midstream pipeline sales improved $38 million driven by new gathering and processing infrastructure as a result of the conclusion of a large petrochemical project in 2016.  The increase in the upstream sector is related to the increase in rig count andincreased well completions.completion activity.

Canada Segment—Our Canada sales increased to $223$120 million for the nine months ended September 30, 20172022, from $188$92 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2016.  This $352021. The $28 million, or 19%30%, increase was primarily due to the increase indriven by the upstream business as a result of the increase in rig count and well completions.  production sector from increased customer capital budgets based on improved commodity prices.

International Segment—Our International sales decreased to $375$271 million for the nine months ended September 30, 20172022, from $387$276 million for the same period in 2016.2021. The $12$5 million, or 3%2%, decrease was primarily due to a $58 million decline related to onethe weakening of our project customersforeign currencies in Norway offset by a $50 million increase in the midstream sector relatedareas where we operate relative to the Australian line pipe sale. U.S. dollar, unfavorably impacting sales by $28 million, or 10%.

 

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Gross Profit.  Our gross profit was $441$452 million (16.1%(18.1% of sales) for the nine months ended September 30, 20172022, as compared to $346$310 million (14.9%(15.7% of sales) for the nine months ended September 30, 2016.2021. The $95 million increase was primarily attributable toinflationary impact, especially in our line pipe products, has been a significant driver of the increase in sales volumes.    In addition,higher gross profit for the nine months ended September 30, 2016 was negatively impacted by $45 million of inventory-related charges to reduce the carrying value of certain obsolete and excess inventory items to their realizable value. Excluding the 2016 charge, the reduction in gross profit percentage for the nine months ended September 30, 2017margins reported this year. As compared to the same period in 2016 was the result ofaverage cost, our LIFO inventory costing methodology which resulted in anincreased cost of sales by $50 million for the first nine months of 2022 compared to a $47 million increase in cost of sales of $19 million and a reduction  in cost of sales of $7 million in the first nine months of 2017 and 2016, respectively. 2021. 

 

Certain purchasing costs and warehousing activities (including receiving, inspection and stocking costs), as well as general warehousing expenses, are included in selling, general and administrative expenses and not in cost of sales.  As such, our gross profit may not be comparable to others that may include these expenses as a component of cost of sales.  Purchasing and warehousing costs  were $22 million and $23 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2017 and 2016, respectively.

Adjusted Gross Profit.  Adjusted Gross Profit increased to $510$531 million (18.6%(21.3% of sales) for the nine months ended September 30, 20172022, from $390$389 million (16.8%(19.6% of sales) for the nine months ended September 30, 2016,2021, an increase of $120$142 million. Adjusted Gross Profit for the nine months ended September 30, 2016 included the impact of the $45 million of inventory-related charges discussed above. Adjusted Gross Profit is a non-GAAP financial measure. We define Adjusted Gross Profit as sales, less cost of sales, plus depreciation and amortization, plus amortization of intangibles, plus inventory-related charges incremental to normal operations and plus or minus the impact of our LIFO inventory costing methodology. We present Adjusted Gross Profit because we believe it is a useful indicator of our operating performance without regard to items, such as amortization of intangibles that can vary substantially from company to company depending upon the nature and extent of acquisitions. Similarly, the impact of the LIFO inventory costing method can cause results to vary substantially from company to company depending upon whether they elect to utilize LIFO and depending upon which method they may elect. We use Adjusted Gross Profit as a key performance indicator in managing our business. We believe that gross profit is the financial measure calculated and presented in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles that is most directly comparable to Adjusted Gross Profit.

The following table reconciles Adjusted Gross Profit, a non-GAAP financial measure, with gross profit, as derived from our financial statements (in millions):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nine Months Ended

 

Nine Months Ended

 

September 30,

 

Percentage

 

September 30,

 

Percentage

 

September 30,

 

Percentage

 

September 30,

 

Percentage

 

2017

 

of Revenue

 

2016

 

of Revenue

 

2022

  

of Revenue

  

2021

  

of Revenue*

 

Gross profit, as reported

$           441

 

16.1% 

 

$           346

 

14.9%  $452  18.1% $310  15.7%

Depreciation and amortization

16 

 

0.6% 

 

16 

 

0.7%  14  0.6% 14  0.7%

Amortization of intangibles

34 

 

1.2% 

 

35 

 

1.5%  15  0.6% 18  0.9%

Increase (decrease) in LIFO reserve

19 

 

0.7% 

 

(7)

 

(0.3%)

Increase in LIFO reserve

  50   2.0%  47   2.4%

Adjusted Gross Profit

$           510

 

18.6% 

 

$           390

 

16.8%  $531   21.3% $389   19.6%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*Does not foot due to rounding

Selling, General and Administrative (“SG&A”) Expenses.  Our SG&A expenses were $388$347 million (13.9% of sales) for the nine months ended September 30, 2022, as compared to $304 million (15.4% of sales) for the nine months ended September 30, 2021. The $43 million increase in SG&A was driven by higher employee-related costs resulting from an overall improvement in business activity offset by a $2 million payroll tax benefit from the Employee Retention Credit in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act and the Taxpayer Certainty and Disaster Relief Act. For the nine months ended September 30, 2021, personnel costs included $2 million of employee separation costs.

Operating Income (Loss). Operating income was $105 million for the nine months ended September 30, 20172022, as compared to $396an operating income of $6 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2016. The $8 million decline in SG&A is attributable to 2016 cost reduction measures including headcount reductions and associated severance costs offset by volume-related increases. Severance and restructuring charges for the nine months ended September 30, 2016 totaled $122021, an increase of $99 million. No such expenses were incurred for the nine months ending September 30, 2017.      

Operating Income (Loss).

U.S. SegmentOperating income for our U.S. segment was $53$99 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2017, as2022, compared to a $50millionan operating loss for the nine months ended September 30, 2016, an improvement of $103  million.

U.S. SegmentOperating income for our U.S. segment was $53$1 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2017 compared2021, a $100 million increase. The $100 million increase was attributable to a  $2 million operatinghigher revenues and improved gross profit percentage due to product mix.

Canada Segment—Operating loss for the nine months ended September 30, 2016.  The $55our Canada segment was $1 million improvement was primarily driven by higher sales.  Severance costs included in operating expenses were $5and $1 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2016.  No such expenses were incurred for the nine months ended September 30, 2017. In addition, in 2016, we recorded $16million of inventory-related charges to reduce the carrying value of certain obsolete2022 and excess inventory items to their net realizable value.2021, respectively.

Canada

International SegmentOperating income for our Canadainternational segment was $8$7 million for the nine months ended September 30, 20172022, as compared to a $7 million operating loss for the nine months ended September 30, 2016.  The $15 million improvement was primarily a result of higher sales volume. In addition, in 2016 we recorded $5 million of inventory-related charges to reduce the carrying value of certain obsolete and excess inventory items to their net realizable value.

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International SegmentOur International segment incurred an operating lossincome of $8 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2017 as compared to an operating loss of $412021.

Interest Expense. Our interest expense was $17 million and $18 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2016.  In 2016, we recorded $242022 and 2021. 

Other, net. Other, net was $11 million of inventory-related chargesexpense for the nine months ended September 30, 2022 compared to reduce$1 million income for the carrying value of certain obsolete and excess inventory items to their net realizable value.nine months ended September 30, 2021. The improvement of $33 millionchange was primarily duerelated to these prior year charges combined with lower SG&A attributable to 2016 cost reduction measures including headcount reductions and associated severance costs.    Severance costs included in operating expenses were $0 million and $6unfavorable foreign exchange rate impacts.

Income Tax Expense (Benefit). Our income tax expense was $23 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2017 and 2016, respectively. 

Interest Expense.   Our interest expense was $24 million for the nine month period ended September 30, 20172022 as compared to $26$1 million benefit for the nine months ended September 30, 2016.  This represented a decrease of $2 million resulting from lower average debt levels. 

Other (Expense) Income.2021 primarily due to increased profitability. Our other expense was $8 million for the nine month period ended September 30, 2017 as compared to other income of $2 million for the nine month period ended September 30, 2016.  For the nine months ended September 30, 2017, other expense included an $8 million charge for the write off of debt issuance costs associated with the refinancing of our Term Loaneffective tax rates were 30% and Global ABL Facility.

Income Tax  (Expense) Benefit.   Our income tax expense was $6 million9% for the nine months ended September 30, 2017 as compared to a benefit of $9 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2016.  For interim periods, our income tax expense is computed based upon our estimated annual effective tax rate. Our effective tax rates were 29%2022 and 12% for the nine months ended September 30, 2017 and 2016,2021, respectively. Our rates generally differ from the U.S. federal statutory rate of 35%21% as a result of state income taxes, non-deductible expenses and differing generally lower, foreign income tax rates. InThe 30% tax rate for the first nine months of 2017, we adopted ASU 2016-09, Compensation - Stock Compensation, which requires all excess tax benefits and tax deficiencies are recorded as income tax expense or benefit in the income statement on a prospective basis.  In the first nine months of 2017, we recorded a tax benefit of $2 million related to the vesting of stock awards.The 2017 effective tax rate is lower than our federal statutory rateended September 30, 2022 was higher primarily due to this discrete tax benefit and a benefit related tounbenefited foreign currency exchange losses. The 2016 effective tax rate was significantly lower than our federal statutory rate due to forecasted pre-tax losses across all segments including significant pre-tax losses in jurisdictions where there was no corresponding tax benefit.

Net Income (Loss). Our net income was $15$54 million for the nine months ended September 30, 20172022, as compared to a net loss of $65$10 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2016, an improvement of $80 million.2021.

Adjusted EBITDA.Adjusted EBITDA, a non-GAAP financial measure, was $136$195 million (7.8% of sales) for the nine months ended September 30, 2022, as compared to $99 million (5.0% of sales) for the nine months ended September 30, 2017 as compared to $58 million (2.5% of sales) for the nine months ended September 30, 2016.  2021.

We define Adjusted EBITDA as net income plus interest, income taxes, depreciation and amortization, amortization of intangibles and certain other expenses, including non-cash expenses (suchsuch as equity-based compensation, severance and restructuring, changes in the fair value of derivative instruments, andlong-lived asset impairments including inventory)(including goodwill and intangible assets), inventory-related charges incremental to normal operations and plus or minus the impact of our LIFO inventory costing methodology.

We believe Adjusted EBITDA provides investors a helpful measure for comparing our operating performance with the performance of other companies that may have different financing and capital structures or tax rates. We believe it is a useful indicator of our operating performance without regard to items, such as amortization of intangibles, thatwhich can vary substantially from company to company depending upon the nature and extent of acquisitions. Similarly, the impact of the LIFO inventory costing method can cause results to vary substantially from company to company depending upon whether they elect to utilize LIFO and depending upon which method they may elect. We use Adjusted EBITDA as a key performance indicator in managing our business. We believe that net income is the financial measure calculated and presented in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles that is most directly comparable to Adjusted EBITDA.

 

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The following table reconciles Adjusted EBITDA, a non-GAAP financial measure, with net income, (loss), as derived from our financial statements (in millions):

 

  

Nine Months Ended

 
  

September 30,

  

September 30,

 
  

2022

  

2021

 

Net income (loss)

 $54  $(10)

Income tax expense (benefit)

  23   (1)

Interest expense

  17   18 

Depreciation and amortization

  14   14 

Amortization of intangibles

  15   18 

Employee separation

  -   1 

Increase in LIFO reserve

  50   47 

Equity-based compensation expense

  9   10 

Foreign currency losses

  13   2 

Adjusted EBITDA

 $195  $99 

 



 

 

 



Nine Months Ended



September 30,

 

September 30,



2017

 

2016

Net income (loss)

$                 15

 

$                 (65)

Income tax expense (benefit)

 

(9)

Interest expense

24 

 

26 

Depreciation and amortization

16 

 

16 

Amortization of intangibles

34 

 

35 

Increase (decrease) in LIFO reserve

19 

 

(7)

Inventory-related charges

 -

 

40 

Change in fair value of derivative instruments

 

 -

Equity-based compensation expense

12 

 

Write off of debt issuance costs

 

 -

Severance and restructuring charges

 -

 

12 

Litigation settlement

 

 -

Foreign currency (gains) losses

(2)

 

Adjusted EBITDA

$               136

 

$                 58



 

 

 

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Liquidity and Capital Resources

Our primary credit facilities consist of a Term Loan maturing in September 2024 with an original principal amount of $400 million and a $750 million Global ABL Facility. As of September 30, 2022, the outstanding balance on our Term Loan, net of original issue discount and issuance costs, was $296 million. On an annual basis, we are required to repay an amount equal to 50% of excess cash flow, as defined in the Term Loan agreement, reducing to 25% if the Company’s senior secured leverage ratio is no more than 2.75 to 1.00. No payment of excess cash flow is required if the Company’s senior secured leverage ratio is less than or equal to 2.50 to 1.00. Under the terms of the Term Loan, the amount of cash used in the determination of the senior secured leverage ratio is limited to $75 million. Based on our senior secured leverage ratio at the end of 2021, we are not required to make an excess cash flow payment for 2021 in 2022.


In September 2021, we amended and renewed our Global ABL Facility. The Global ABL Facility now matures in September 2026 and provides $705 million in revolver commitments in the United States (with a $30 million sublimit in Canada), $12 million in Norway, $10 million in Australia, $10.5 million in the Netherlands, $7.5 million in the United Kingdom and $5 million in Belgium. The Global ABL Facility contains an accordion feature that allows us to increase the principal amount of the facility by up to $250 million, subject to securing additional lender commitments. U.S. borrowings under the facility bear interest at LIBOR plus a margin varying between 1.25% and 1.75% based on our fixed charge coverage ratio. Canadian borrowings under the facility bear interest at the Canadian Dollar Bankers' Acceptances Rate ("BA Rate") plus a margin varying between 1.25% and 1.75% based on our fixed charge coverage ratio. Borrowings under our foreign borrower subsidiaries bear interest at a benchmark rate, which varies based on the currency in which such borrowings are made, plus a margin varying between 1.25% and 1.75% based on our fixed charge coverage ratio. Availability is dependent on a borrowing base comprised of a percentage of eligible accounts receivable and inventory which is subject to redetermination from time to time. As of September 30, 2022, we had $45 million borrowings outstanding and $612 million of Excess Availability, as defined under our Global ABL Facility.

 

Our primary sources of liquidity consist of cash generated from our operating activities, existing cash balances and borrowings under our global asset-based lending facility (“Global ABL Facility”).  At September 30, 2017, our total liquidity, including cash on hand, was $529 million.Facility. Our ability to generate sufficient cash flows from our operating activities will continue to be primarily dependent on our sales of products and services to our customers at margins sufficient to cover our fixed and variable costs.expenses. At September 30, 2022, our total liquidity, consisting of cash on hand and amounts available under our Global ABL Facility, was $641 million. As of September 30, 20172022 and December 31, 2016,2021, we had cash and cash equivalents of $40$29 million and $109$48 million, respectively.  Asrespectively, a significant portion of September 30, 2017 and December 31, 2016, $40 million and $61 million of our cash and cash equivalents, respectively, werewhich was maintained in the accounts of our various foreign subsidiaries.  If these amounts weresubsidiaries and, if transferred among countries or repatriated to the U.S., such amounts may be subject to additional tax liabilities, which would be recognized in our financial statements in the period during which suchthe transfer decision would bewas made.  We have the intent and ability to indefinitely reinvest the cash held by our foreign subsidiaries, and there are currently no plans that require the repatriation of this cash.

 

Our primary credit facilities consist of a seven-year Term Loan maturing in September 2024 with an original principal amount of $400 million and a five-year $800 million Global ABL Facility that provides a $675 million in revolver commitments in the United States, $65 million in Canada, $18 million in Norway, $15 million in Australia, $13 million in the Netherlands, $7million in the United Kingdom and $7 million in Belgium.  As of September 30, 2017, the outstanding balance on our Term Loan, net of original issue discount and issuance costs, was $397 million.  The Global ABL Facility, which was re-sized to $800 million from $1.05 billion in our September 2017 amendment, matures in September2022.  The Global ABL Facility contains an accordion feature that allows us to increase the principal amount of the facility by up to $200 million, subject to securing additional lender commitments.  As of  September 30, 2017, we had $50million of borrowings outstanding and $489million of Excess Availability, as defined under our Global ABL Facility.  Availability is dependent on a borrowing base comprised of a percentage of eligible accounts receivable and inventory which is subject to redetermination from time to time.

Our credit ratings are below “investment grade” and, as such, could impact both our ability to raise new funds as well as the interest rates on our future borrowings. In the first quarter of 2021, Moody's Investor Services changed our ratings outlook from negative to stable and, in the second quarter of 2021, Standard & Poor's Global Ratings revised the Company's outlook to stable. Our existing obligations restrict our ability to incur additional debt is restricted by our existing obligations.debt. We were in compliance with the covenants contained in our various credit facilities as of and during the nine months ended September30,2017. 2022, and based on our current forecasts, we expect to remain in compliance. We plan to transition from a LIBOR-based borrowing rate to a rate based on the Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR) on the Global ABL Facility by the end of the year. We do not believe this transition will result in a material impact to the financial statements.

 

We believe our sources of liquidity will be sufficient to satisfy the anticipated cash requirements associated with our existing operations for at least the next twelve months.foreseeable future. However, our future cash requirements could be higher than we currently expect as a result of various factors. Additionally, our ability to generate sufficient cash from our operating activities depends on our

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future performance, which is subject to general economic, political, financial, competitive and other factors beyond our control. We may, from time to time, seek to raise additional debt or equity financing or re-price or refinance existing debt in the public or private markets, based on market conditions. Any such capital markets activities would be subject to market conditions, reaching final agreement with lenders or investors, and other factors, and there can be no assurance that we would successfully consummate any such transactions.

 

In November 2015, the Company’s board

 

In October 2017, the Company’s board of directors authorized a new share repurchase program for common stock of up to $100 million.  The program is scheduled to expire December 31, 2018. The shares may be repurchased at management’s discretion in the open market.  Depending on market conditions and other factors, these repurchases may be commenced or suspended from time to time without prior notice.Cash Flows

 

Cash Flows

The following table sets forth our cash flows for the periods indicated below (in millions):

 

 

 

 

Nine Months Ended

 

Nine Months Ended

 

September 30,

 

September 30,

 

September 30,

 

September 30,

 

2017

 

2016

 

2022

  

2021

 

Net cash (used in) provided by:

 

 

 

     

Operating activities

$           (37)

 

$          230

 $(30) $16 

Investing activities

(23)

 

25  (10) (4)

Financing activities

(14)

 

(112)  24   (82)

Net (decrease) increase in cash and cash equivalents

$           (74)

 

$          143

 

 

 

Net decrease in cash and cash equivalents

 $(16) $(70)

Operating Activities

Net cash used in operating activities was $37$30 million during the nine months ended September 30, 20172022, compared to $230$16 million provided by operating activities during the nine months ended September 30, 2016.2021. The decreasechange in operating cash provided by operationsflows was primarily the result of working capital expansion in response to thean increase in sales activity in the first nine months of 2017 as compared to a working capital contraction in the first nine months of 2016.  Working capital growth used cash of $132 million in the first nine months of 2017 compared to the working capital contraction providing cash of $201 million in the first nine months of 2016. In particular, growth in accounts receivable utilized $165  million of cash in the first nine months of 2017 as a result of the 18% increase in sales relative to the first nine months of 2016 when accounts receivable contraction provided cash of $88 million.  Growth in inventory requiredpurchases and other expenses to support higher sales levels utilized $100 million of cash in the first nine months of 2017 as compared to cash provided of $119 million in the same period of 2016. These uses of cash weregrowing market activity offset by $127 million generated from an increase in accounts payable, which was attributable to higher purchasing activities and the timing of payments to our suppliers.improved profitability.

Investing Activities

Net cash used in investing activities was $23primarily comprised of capital expenditures totaling $8 million and $6 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2017,2022 and 2021, respectively.

Financing Activities

Net cash provided by financing activities was $24 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2022, compared to $25$82 million provided by investingused in financing activities for the nine months ended September 30, 2016.  The $482021, primarily due to net proceeds from revolving credit facilities of $46 million increase in cash usedthe first nine months of 2022 compared to $28 million in investing activities is the first nine months of 2021. In the first nine months of 2021, we made a payment of $86 million on our Term Loan as a result of $48excess cash flow generation in 2020. We used $18 million in proceeds from the disposition of our U.S. OCTG product line in February 2016.  Our capital expenditures were $23million and $24 million for of the nine months ended September 30, 2017 and 2016, respectively. 

Financing Activities

Net cash used in financing activities was $14 millionto pay dividends on preferred stock for the nine months ended September 30, 2017 compared to $112million for the nine months ended September 30, 2016.   In the first nine months of 20172022 and 2016, we used $18 million and $88million to fund purchases of our common stock, respectively.   

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Critical Accounting Policies

The preparation of financial statements, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America, requires management to make judgments, estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, revenuesrevenue and expensesexpense in the financial statements. Management bases its estimates on historical experience and other assumptions, which it believes are reasonable. If actual amounts are ultimately different from these estimates, the revisions are included in our results of operations for the period in which the actual amounts become known.

Accounting policies are considered critical when they require management to make assumptions about matters that are highly uncertain at the time the estimates are made and when there are different estimates that management reasonably could have made, which would have a material impact on the presentation of our financial condition, changes in our financial condition or results of operations. For a description of our critical accounting policies, see “Item 7: “Management’sManagement’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results fromof Operations” in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2016.2021. 

 

ITEM 3. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK

 

We are primarily exposed to the market risk associated with unfavorable movements in interest rates, foreign currencies and steel price volatility. There have been no material changes to our market risk policies or our market risk sensitive instruments and positions as described in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2016.  2021.

 

ITEM 4. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES

 

Evaluation of disclosure controls and procedures.

 

As of September 30, 2017,2022, we have reviewed, under the direction of our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures, as defined in Exchange Act Rule 13a-15(e). Based upon and as of the date of that review, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer concluded that the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures were effective to ensure that information required to be disclosed in the reports that the Company files or submits under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms, and that such information is accumulated and communicated to the Company’s management, including the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, as appropriate, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosures.

As part of a continuing effort to improve the Company’s business processes, management is evaluating its internal controls and may update certain controls to accommodate any modifications to its business processes or accounting procedures.

Changes in internal control over financial reporting.

 

The Company has undertaken a multi-year enterprise resource planning (“ERP”) project to migrate certain systems to SAP software.  During the second quarter of 2016, we completed the SAP implementation in our Asia Pacific-based businesses. During the second quarter of 2017, we completed the implementation effort in our European and Middle Eastern businesses.  During the third quarter of 2017, we completed the implementation effort in our Nordic businesses. As a part of these implementations, various controls over financial reporting for the international segment changed during the third quarter.

Other than described above, thereThere were no changes in our internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the first nine monthsthird quarter of 20172022 that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.

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Table Of ContentsPart IIother information

 

Part IIother information

ITEM 1. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS

From time to time, we have been subject to various claims and involved in legal proceedings incidental to the nature of our businesses. We maintain insurance coverage to reduce financial risk associated with certain of these claims and proceedings. It is not possible to predict the outcome of these claims and proceedings. However, in our opinion, there are no pending legal proceedings that are likely to have a material effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations or cash flows, although it is possible that the resolution of certain actual, threatened or anticipated claims or proceedings could have a material adverse effect on our results of operations in the period of resolution.

Also, from time to time, in the ordinary course of our business, our customers may claim that the products that we distribute are either defective or require repair or replacement under warranties that either we or the manufacturer may provide to the customer. These proceedings are, in the opinion of management, ordinary and routine matters incidental to our normal business. Our purchase orders with our suppliers generally require the manufacturer to indemnify us against any product liability claims, leaving the manufacturer ultimately responsible for these claims. In many cases, state, provincial or foreign law provides protection to distributors for these sorts of claims, shifting the responsibility to the manufacturer. In some cases, we could be required to repair or replace the products for the benefit of our customer and seek recovery from the manufacturer for our expense. In the opinion of management, the ultimate disposition of these claims and proceedings is not expected to have a material adverse effect on our financial condition, results of operations or cash flows.

For information regarding asbestos cases in which we are a defendant and other claims and proceedings, see Note 9 - Commitments“Note 10-Commitments and ContingenciesContingencies” to our unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.

 

Item 1A.  Risk Factors

 

We are affected by risks specific to us as well as factors that affect all businesses operating in a global market. The significant factors known to us that could materially adversely affect our business, financial condition or operating results are described in Part I, Item 2 of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q and in Part I, Item 1A of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 20162021 under “Risk Factors”.

 

Item 2.  Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A summary of our purchases of MRC Global Inc. common stock during the third quarter of fiscal year 2017 is as follows:



 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Total Number of Shares Purchased (1)

 

Average Price Paid per Share

 

Total number of Shares Purchased as Part of Publicly Announced Plans or Programs

 

Maximum Dollar Value of Shares that May Yet Be Purchased Under the Plans or Programs

Jul 1 - Jul 31

15 

 

$              16.18

 

 -

 

$                                           -

Aug 1 - Aug 31

569 

 

$              16.10

 

 -

 

$                                           -

Sep 1 - Sep 30

88 

 

$              16.49

 

 -

 

$                                           -



672 

 

 

 

 

 

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(1) We purchased 672 shares in connection with funding employee income tax withholding obligations arising upon the lapse of restrictions on restricted shares. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

None.

Item 3.  Defaults Upon Senior Securities

 

None.

 

Item 4.  MINING SAFETY DISCLOSURES

 

None.

 

Item 5.  Other Information

 

None.

 

 

Item 6.  Exhibits

 

Number

Description

3.1

Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of MRC Global Inc. dated April 11, 2012. (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K of MRC Global Inc. filed with the SEC on April 17, 2012, File No. 001-35479).

3.2

Amended and Restated Bylaws of MRC Global Inc. dated November 7, 2013. (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K of MRC Global Inc. filed with the SEC on November 13, 2013, File No. 001-35479).

3.3

Certificate of Designations, Preferences, Rights and Limitations of Series A Convertible Perpetual Preferred Stock of MRC Global Inc. (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K of MRC Global Inc. filed with the SEC on June 11, 2015, File No. 001-35479).

31.1*

Certification of the Chief Executive Officer pursuant to Rules 13a-14(a) and 15d-14(a) promulgated under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and Item 601(b)(31) of Regulation S-K, as adopted pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

31.2*

Certification of the Chief Financial Officer pursuant to Rules 13a-14(a) and 15d-14(a) promulgated under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and Item 601(b)(31) of Regulation S-K, as adopted pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

32**

Certification of the Chief Executive Officer and the Chief Financial Officer pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 20022002..

100*101*

The following financial information from MRC Global Inc.’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended September 30, 2017,2022, formatted in Inline Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL)(iXBRL): (i) the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets at September 30, 20172022 and December 31, 2016,2021, (ii) the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations for the three and nine month periodsmonths ended September 30, 20172022 and 2016,2021, (iii) the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income for the three and nine month periodsmonths ended September 30, 20172022 and 2016,2021, (iv) the Condensed Statements of Stockholders’ Equity for the nine months ended September 30, 2022 and 2021, (v) the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the nine month periodsmonths ended September 30, 20172022 and 20162021 and (v)(vi) Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.

101*104*

Interactive data file.The cover page from the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2022 formatted in Inline XBRL.

* Filed herewith.

** Furnished herewith.

 

*     Filed herewith.

**  Furnished herewith.SIGNATURES

 

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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.

Date: November 9, 2022

 

MRC GLOBAL INC.

By: /s/ James E.  Braun/s/ Kelly Youngblood  

James E. BraunKelly Youngblood
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

 

Date:  November 3, 2017

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