Pitney Bowes Announces Strong Financial Results for First Quarter 2025 and Continued Progress Across Range of Value Enhancing Initiatives

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Increases Quarterly Dividend From $0.06 to $0.07

Reaffirms Full-Year Financial Guidance Following Strong Q1 Performance for SendTech and Presort

Shares Update on New Cost Reduction and Deleveraging Initiatives to Continue Strengthening the Company’s Financial Position

STAMFORD, Conn., May 07, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Pitney Bowes Inc. (NYSE: PBI) ("Pitney Bowes" or the "Company"), a technology-driven services company that provides SaaS shipping solutions, mailing innovation and financial services to clients around the world, today announced its financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2025. The Company also announced that it is reiterating its full-year outlook, taking additional steps to cut costs and deleverage, and increasing its quarterly dividend for a second consecutive quarter.

First Quarter 2025 Financial Highlights

  • Revenue was $493 million, down 5% year over year and in line with previously disclosed expectations for this point in the Company’s product lifecycle

  • GAAP EPS was $0.19, an improvement of $0.21 year over year

  • Adjusted EPS was $0.33, an improvement of $0.14 or 74% year over year

  • GAAP net income of $35 million, an improvement of $38 million year over year

  • Adjusted EBIT was $120 million, an improvement of $26 million or 28% year over year

  • GAAP cash from operating activities was a use of $17 million and included a $146 million use of working capital in line with seasonal expectations

  • Free Cash Flow, which excludes $13 million of restructuring payments, was a use of $20 million and consistent with the Company’s budget and prior guidance

Capital Allocation Update

  • For the second consecutive quarter, the Company is increasing its quarterly dividend by $0.01, from $0.06 to $0.07. The Board will continue to evaluate potential additional increases on a quarterly basis.

  • In the first quarter, the Company repurchased $15 million of shares under its previously announced $150 million authorization. The Company repurchased an additional $12 million of shares from the end of the first quarter through May 2, 2025.

  • Through the end of Q1, the Company repurchased $23 million of debt in the open market. The Company repurchased an additional $14 million of debt from the end of the first quarter through May 2, 2025. Due to its current debt covenants, the Company is targeting a 3.0x leverage ratio. The Company expects to achieve this target by the third quarter of 2025.

Overview – First Quarter and Full-Year Initiatives

  • The Company eliminated $34 million in annualized costs during the first quarter. This brings the Company’s run-rate at the end of the first quarter to $157 million in net annualized savings. The Company is increasing its target to $180 million to $200 million in net annualized cost savings, up from its previously announced target of $170 million to $190 million, with the remainder to be executed over the next year.

  • The Company continued its execution of the Pitney Bowes Bank (the "Bank") Receivables Purchase Program, which involves the sale of eligible leases to the Bank. These sales reduce parent company interest costs and improve Bank profitability. The Bank held $84 million of associated leases at the end of Q1, and the Company aims to increase that figure to $120 million by the end of 2025. Leadership is actively evaluating low-risk, high-return ways to expand this program.

  • The Company will continue to pursue a disciplined capital allocation strategy that balances high-return investments in SendTech’s shipping business, potential high-return tuck-in acquisitions in Presort, debt reduction and the return of meaningful capital to shareholders.