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Ingram Micro Reports First Quarter Financial Results

IRVINE, CA--(Marketwired - Apr 29, 2016) - Ingram Micro Inc. (NYSE: IM) today announced financial results for the first quarter ended Apr. 2, 2016.

"We saw stabilization of global IT demand in March, which has continued into April, however, IT spending was muted in the first two months of the year, particularly for high volume categories including PCs, smartphones, servers and storage," said Alain Monié, Ingram Micro CEO. "While we did not capture the full revenue and operating income opportunity available to us in the quarter, our focus on higher value business continues to show results as we delivered a 97 basis point increase in consolidated gross margin, buoyed by strong improvement across all regions. We have also increased the pace of some of our strategic investment as we focus on building and enhancing the global capabilities that will support our mid- and longer-term business objectives. We filed our preliminary proxy yesterday afternoon and our transaction to join HNA Group is on track to close in the second half of 2016."

First Quarter Results of Operations
Worldwide 2016 first quarter sales decreased 12 percent in USD to $9.3 billion, with gross margin of 6.77 percent. This compares to sales of $10.6 billion with gross margin of 5.80 percent in the 2015 first quarter. The translation of foreign currencies versus last year had a negative impact of 3 percentage points on worldwide sales. Approximately $200 million, or 2 percent, of the reduction in 2016 first quarter worldwide sales was related to the company negotiating a favorable change in contract terms with some customers in Europe, as highlighted last quarter, which leads to recognizing these sales on a net basis versus a gross basis as the company did in the first quarter of last year. Additionally, last year's first quarter benefited from approximately $100 million, or 1 percent, in North American mobility distribution business that the company elected to exit this year due to profitability levels that did not meet the company's objectives. The remaining sales decline of 6 percent was primarily related to soft demand for high volume product categories, particularly in consumer markets, which was consistent with the broader overall IT market demand in the quarter. Significantly higher gross margin was the result of a focus on driving a better mix of higher value sales and solid returns on invested capital, as well as recent acquisitions.

Cash flow from operations for the 2016 first quarter significantly improved to $275 million when compared to approximately $60 million last year. Cash flow benefited from strong global execution on the company's working capital improvement program, which helped reduce working capital days at the end of the 2016 first quarter to 23 days, an 8 day improvement year-over-year.