MINERALS TECHNOLOGIES INC
10-Ks and 10-Qs
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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
FORM
10-Q
OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the quarterly period ended
September 29, 2024
or
OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
Commission File Number
1-11430
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
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(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)
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(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)
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(Address of principal executive offices, including zip code)
(
212
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878-1800
(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)
Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:
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Title of each class
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Trading Symbol
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Name of exchange on which registered
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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.
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No
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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically every Interactive Data File required to be submitted 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 such files).
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No
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Indicate by check mark whether the Registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company, or
and 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.
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Accelerated Filer
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Non-accelerated Filer
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Smaller Reporting Company
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Emerging Growth Company
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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
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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act).
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Yes
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No
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As of October 18, 2024, there were
31,888,720
shares of common stock, par value of $0.10 per share, of the registrant outstanding.
MINERALS TECHNOLOGIES INC.
INDEX TO FORM 10-Q
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Page No.
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PART I. FINANCIAL INFORMATION
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Item 1.
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Financial Statements:
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Condensed Consolidated Statements of Income (Loss)
for the
three-month and nine-month
periods ended
September 29, 2024
and
October 1, 2023
(Unaudited)
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3
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Condensed Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive
Income (Loss)
for the
three-month and nine-month
periods ended
September 29, 2024
and
October 1, 2023
(Unaudited)
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4
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5
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Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows
for the
nine
-month periods ended
September 29, 2024
and
October 1, 2023
(Unaudited)
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6
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Condensed Consolidated Statements of Changes in Shareholders’
Equity
for the three-month periods ended
September 29, 2024
, June 30, 2024 and March 31, 2024 and
October 1, 2023
, July 2, 2023 and April 2, 2023 (Unaudited)
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Item 2.
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20
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Item 3.
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30
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Item 4.
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30
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PART II. OTHER INFORMATION
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Item 1.
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30
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Item 1A.
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30
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Item 2.
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31
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Item 3.
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31
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Item 4.
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31
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Item 5.
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31
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Item 6.
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31
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32
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PART 1. FINANCIAL INFORMATION
ITEM 1. Financial Statements
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF INCOME (LOSS)
(Unaudited)
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Three Months Ended
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Nine Months Ended
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(in millions of dollars, except per share data)
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Sep. 29,
2024
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Oct. 1,
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Sep. 29,
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Oct. 1,
2023
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Net sales
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$
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$
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Cost of goods sold
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Production margin
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Marketing and administrative expenses
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Research and development expenses
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Provision for credit losses
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Restructuring and other items, net
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Impairment of assets
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Acquisition-related expenses
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Litigation expenses
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Income (loss) from operations
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Interest expense, net
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Other non-operating income (deductions), net
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Total non-operating deductions, net
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Income (loss) before tax and equity in earnings
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Provision (benefit) for taxes on income
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Equity in earnings of affiliates, net of tax
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Net income (loss)
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Less:
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Net income attributable to non-controlling interests
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Net income (loss) attributable to Minerals Technologies Inc.
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$
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$
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Earnings (loss) per share:
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Basic:
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Net income (loss) attributable to Minerals Technologies Inc.
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$
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$
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$
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$
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Diluted:
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Net income (loss) attributable to Minerals Technologies Inc.
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$
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$
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$
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$
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Cash dividends declared per common share
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$
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$
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$
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Shares used in computation of earnings per share:
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See accompanying Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME (LOSS)
(Unaudited)
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Three Months Ended
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Nine Months Ended
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(in millions of dollars)
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Sep. 29,
2024
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Oct. 1,
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Oct. 1,
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Net income (loss)
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$
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$
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Other comprehensive income (loss), net of tax:
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Foreign currency translation adjustments
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Pension and postretirement plan adjustments
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Unrealized gains (losses) on derivative instruments
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Total other comprehensive income (loss), net of tax
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Total comprehensive income (loss) including non-controlling interests
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Comprehensive (income) loss attributable to non-controlling interests
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Comprehensive income (loss) attributable to Minerals Technologies Inc.
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$
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$
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See accompanying Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
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(in millions of dollars)
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Sep. 29,
2024*
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Dec. 31,
2023 **
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ASSETS
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Current assets:
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Cash and cash equivalents
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$
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Short-term investments
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Accounts receivable, net
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Inventories
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Prepaid expenses and other current assets
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Total current assets
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Property, plant and equipment
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Less accumulated depreciation and depletion
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Property, plant and equipment, net
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Goodwill
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Intangible assets
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Deferred income taxes
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Other assets and deferred charges
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Total assets
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$
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LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY
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Current liabilities:
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Short-term debt
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Current maturities of long-term debt
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Accounts payable
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Other current liabilities
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Total current liabilities
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Long-term debt, net of unamortized discount and deferred financing costs
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Deferred income taxes
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Accrued pension and post-retirement benefits
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Other non-current liabilities
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Total liabilities
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Commitments and contingencies
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Shareholders’ equity:
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Common stock
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Retained earnings
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Accumulated other comprehensive loss
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Less common stock held in treasury
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Total Minerals Technologies Inc. shareholders’ equity
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Non-controlling interests
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Total shareholders’ equity
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Total liabilities and shareholders’ equity
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$
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See accompanying Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
(Unaudited)
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Nine Months Ended
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(in millions of dollars)
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Sep. 29,
2024
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Oct. 1,
2023
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Operating Activities:
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Net income
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$
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Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by operating activities:
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Depreciation, depletion and amortization
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Provision for credit losses
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Pension funding
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Other non-cash items, net
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Net changes in operating assets and liabilities
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Net cash provided by operating activities
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Investing Activities:
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Purchases of property, plant and equipment, net
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Payments related to acquisition of business, net of cash acquired
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Other investing activities
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Net cash used in investing activities
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Financing Activities:
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Repayment of long-term debt
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Repayment of short-term debt
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Purchase of common stock for treasury
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Proceeds from issuance of stock under option plan
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Dividends paid to non-controlling interests
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Cash dividends paid
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Net cash used in financing activities
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Effect of exchange rate changes on cash and cash equivalents
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Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents
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Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period
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Cash and cash equivalents at end of period
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Supplemental disclosure of cash flow information:
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Interest paid
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Income taxes paid
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$
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Non-cash investing and financing activities:
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Property, plant and equipment additions related to asset retirement obligations
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$
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Treasury stock purchases settled after period end
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$
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Excise tax charged to equity not paid
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$
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$
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See accompanying Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY
(Unaudited)
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Equity Attributable to Minerals Technologies Inc.
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(millions of dollars)
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Common
Stock
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Additional
Paid-in
Capital
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Retained
Earnings
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Accumulated
Other
Comprehensive
Income (Loss)
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Treasury
Stock
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Non-controlling
Interests
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Total
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Balance as of
December 31, 2023
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$
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$
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$
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Net income
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Other comprehensive loss, net
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Dividends declared
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Issuance of shares pursuant to employee stock compensation plans
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Purchase of common stock for treasury
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Stock-based compensation
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Conversion of RSU's for tax withholding
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Balance as of March 31, 2024
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$
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$
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$
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$
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$
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Net income
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Other comprehensive loss, net
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Dividends declared
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Dividends paid to non-controlling interests
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Issuance of shares pursuant to employee stock compensation plans
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Purchase of common stock for treasury
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Stock-based compensation
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Balance as of June 30, 2024
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$
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$
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$
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$
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$
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Net income
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Other comprehensive income, net
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Dividends declared
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Dividends paid to non-controlling interests
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Issuance of shares pursuant to employee stock compensation plans
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Purchase of common stock for treasury
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Stock-based compensation
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Balance as of
September 29, 2024
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$
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$
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$
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$
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See accompanying Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.
MINERALS TECHNOLOGIES INC. AND SUBSIDIARY COMPANIES
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY
(Unaudited)
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Equity Attributable to Minerals Technologies Inc.
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(millions of dollars)
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Common
Stock
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Additional
Paid-in
Capital
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Retained
Earnings
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Accumulated
Other
Comprehensive
Loss
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Treasury
Stock
|
Non-controlling
Interests
|
Total
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
|
Balance as of December 31, 2022
|
$
|
|
$
|
|
$
|
|
$
|
(
|
)
|
$
|
(
|
)
|
$
|
|
$
|
|
||||||||||||
|
Net income
|
|
|
|
|
|
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Other comprehensive income, net
|
|
|
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Dividends declared
|
|
|
(
|
)
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(
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)
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Issuance of shares pursuant to employee stock compensation plans
|
|
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Stock-based compensation
|
|
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Conversion of RSU's for tax withholding
|
|
(
|
)
|
|
|
|
|
(
|
)
|
|||||||||||||||||||
|
Balance as of April 2, 2023
|
$
|
|
$
|
|
$
|
|
$
|
(
|
)
|
$
|
(
|
)
|
$
|
|
$
|
|
||||||||||||
|
Net income
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
|
Other comprehensive loss, net
|
|
|
|
(
|
)
|
|
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
Dividends declared
|
|
|
(
|
)
|
|
|
|
(
|
)
|
|||||||||||||||||||
|
Stock-based compensation
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
|
Balance as of July 2, 2023
|
$
|
|
$
|
|
$
|
|
$
|
(
|
)
|
$
|
(
|
)
|
$
|
|
$
|
|
||||||||||||
|
Net income (loss)
|
|
|
(
|
)
|
|
|
|
(
|
)
|
|||||||||||||||||||
|
Other comprehensive loss, net
|
|
|
|
(
|
)
|
|
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
Dividends declared
|
|
|
(
|
)
|
|
|
|
(
|
)
|
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|
Dividends paid to non-controlling interests
|
|
|
|
|
|
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
|||||||||||||||||||
|
Stock-based compensation
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
|
Balance as of
October 1, 2023
|
$
|
|
$
|
|
$
|
|
$
|
(
|
)
|
$
|
(
|
)
|
$
|
|
$
|
|
||||||||||||
See accompanying Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.
NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(Unaudited)
Note 1. Basis of Presentation and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
The accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared by management of Minerals Technologies Inc. (the
“Company”, “MTI”, “we”, or “us”) in accordance with the rules and regulations of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. Accordingly, certain information and footnote disclosures normally included in financial statements prepared in
accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles have been condensed or omitted. Therefore, these financial statements should be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements and notes thereto contained in the Company’s
Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023. In the opinion of management, all adjustments, consisting solely of normal recurring adjustments necessary for a fair presentation of the financial information for the periods indicated,
have been included. The results for the three-month and nine-month periods ended September 29, 2024 are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for the year ending December 31, 2024.
Company Operations
The Company is a leading, technology-driven specialty minerals company that develops, produces, and markets a broad range of mineral and
mineral-based products, related systems and services. The Company serves globally a wide range of consumer and industrial markets, including household, food and pharmaceutical, paper, packaging, automotive, construction, and environmental.
The Company has
two
reportable
segments: Consumer & Specialties and Engineered Solutions.
|
–
|
The Consumer & Specialties segment serves consumer end markets directly and provides mineral-based solutions and technologies that are
essential to our customers’ products. The
|
|
–
|
The
Engineered Solutions segment combines all engineered systems,
mineral blends, and technologies that are designed to aid in customer processes and projects. The
|
Use of Estimates
The Company employs accounting policies that are in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles and require management
to make estimates and assumptions relating to the reporting of assets and liabilities and the disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the consolidated financial statements and the reported amounts of revenue and expenses during
the reported period. Significant estimates include those related to revenue recognition, valuation of long-lived assets, goodwill and other intangible assets, income taxes, including valuation allowances, contingent liabilities, provision for credit
losses, and pension plan assumptions. Actual results could differ from those estimates.
Allowance for Credit Losses
The allowance for credit losses (ACL) is management's estimate of the current expected credit losses at the balance sheet date. Our credit
exposure includes an unfunded loan commitment. For this exposure, we recognized an ACL associated with the unfunded amount, which is reported as a liability in accrued expenses and other current liabilities on our consolidated balance sheet.
Recently Issued Accounting Standards
Changes to accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (U.S. GAAP) are established by the Financial
Accounting Standards Board (FASB) in the form of accounting standards updates (ASUs) to the FASB’s Accounting Standards Codification. The Company considers the applicability and impact of all ASUs. ASUs not listed below were assessed and determined to
be either not applicable or are expected to have minimal impact on our consolidated financial position and results of operations.
MINERALS TECHNOLOGIES INC. AND SUBSIDIARY
COMPANIES
NOTES TO CONDENSED
CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(Unaudited)
Segment Reporting (Topic 280): Improvements to Reportable Segment Disclosures
In November 2023, the FASB issued ASU 2023-07, “Segment Reporting (Topic 280): Improvements to Reportable Segment Disclosures”, which
requires entities to report incremental information about significant segment expenses included in a segment’s profit or loss measure, as well as the name and title of the chief operating decision maker. The guidance also requires interim disclosures
related to reportable segment profit or loss and assets that had previously only been disclosed annually. The new standard is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2023 and interim periods within fiscal years beginning after December
15, 2023. The adoption of this standard is not expected to have a material impact on the Company’s financial statements.
Income Taxes (Topic 740): Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures
In December 2023, the FASB issued ASU 2023-09, “Income Taxes (Topic 740): Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures”, that requires entities
to disclose additional information about federal, state, and foreign income taxes primarily related to the income tax rate reconciliation and income taxes paid. The new standard also eliminates certain existing disclosure requirements related to
uncertain tax positions and unrecognized deferred tax liabilities. The new standard is effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2024. The adoption of this standard is not expected to have a material impact on the Company’s financial
statements.
Note 2. Revenue from Contracts with Customers
The following table disaggregates our revenue by major source (product line) for the three and nine-month periods ended September 29, 2024
and October 1, 2023:
|
(in millions of dollars)
|
Three Months Ended
|
Nine Months Ended
|
||||||||||||||
|
Net Sales
|
Sep. 29,
2024
|
Oct. 1,
2023
|
Sep. 29,
2024
|
Oct. 1,
2023
|
||||||||||||
|
Household & Personal Care
|
$
|
|
$
|
|
$
|
|
$
|
|
||||||||
|
Specialty Additives
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||
|
Consumer & Specialties Segment
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||
|
High-Temperature Technologies
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||
|
Environmental & Infrastructure
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||
|
Engineered Solutions Segment
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||
|
Total
|
$
|
|
$
|
|
$
|
|
$
|
|
||||||||
Note 3. Acquisitions
Concept Pet Heimtierprodukte GmbH
On April 29, 2022, the Company completed the acquisition of Concept Pet Heimtierprodukte GmbH (“Concept Pet”), a European supplier of pet
litter products. The purchase of Concept Pet supports the expansion of our European pet care business, as well as providing additional mineral reserves. The purchase price was $
28.0
million and the acquisition was financed through cash on hand. The fair value of the total consideration transferred, net of cash acquired, was $
22.4
million. In the second quarter of 2024, an additional $
4.0
million was paid, which represents the final hold back consideration. The results of Concept Pet are included
within our Household & Personal Care product line in
our Consumer & Specialties segment.
The Company recorded
no
acquisition related transaction and integration costs in the three month period ended October 1, 2023 and
$
0.3
million for the nine-month periods ended October 1, 2023, which are reflected within the acquisition-related expenses line of the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Income. The Company did
no
t record any acquisition related transaction and integration costs during the three and nine-month periods ended September 29, 2024.
Note 4.
Earnings (Loss) per Share (EPS)
Basic earnings (loss) per share are based upon the weighted average number of common shares outstanding during the period. Diluted
earnings (loss) per share are based upon the weighted average number of common shares outstanding during the period, assuming the issuance of common shares for all potentially dilutive common shares outstanding.
MINERALS TECHNOLOGIES INC. AND SUBSIDIARY
COMPANIES
NOTES TO CONDENSED
CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(Unaudited)
The following table sets forth the computation of basic and diluted earnings (loss) per share:
|
Three Months Ended
|
Nine Months Ended
|
|||||||||||||||
|
(in millions of dollars, except per share data)
|
Sep. 29,
2024
|
Oct. 1,
2023
|
Sep. 29,
2024
|
Oct. 1,
2023
|
||||||||||||
|
Net income (loss) attributable to Minerals Technologies Inc.
|
$
|
|
$
|
(
|
)
|
$
|
|
$
|
|
|||||||
|
Weighted average shares outstanding
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||
|
Dilutive effect of stock options and deferred restricted stock units
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||
|
Weighted average shares outstanding, adjusted
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||
|
Basic earnings (loss) per share attributable to Minerals Technologies Inc.
|
$
|
|
$
|
(
|
)
|
$
|
|
$
|
|
|||||||
|
Diluted earnings (loss) per share attributable to Minerals Technologies Inc.
|
$
|
|
$
|
(
|
)
|
$
|
|
$
|
|
|||||||
Of the options outstanding of
1,466,366
and
1,604,217
for the three-month and nine-month periods ended September 29, 2024 and October 1, 2023, respectively, options to purchase
660,373
shares and
1,285,619
shares of common stock for the three-month and nine-month periods ending September 29, 2024 and October 1, 2023, respectively, were not included in the computation of diluted earnings (loss) per share because they were anti-dilutive, as the exercise prices of the options were greater than
the average market price of the common shares.
Note 5. Restructuring and Other Items, net
In the third quarter of 2023, the Company recorded a $
71.7
million non-cash impairment of long-lived assets charge related to its subsidiaries BMI Oldco Inc. (f/k/a Barretts Minerals Inc.) ("Oldco") and Barretts Ventures Texas LLC ("BVT") within
the Consumer & Specialties segment. This impairment was triggered by increased claims and continued increases in legal costs, which led to the voluntary filing for relief under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code to address and comprehensively
resolve Oldco's liabilities associated with the talc claims. See Note 13 to the Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements for further
information.
In the second quarter of 2023, the Company initiated a restructuring and cost savings program to further streamline its cost structure as
a result of organizational efficiencies gained through the Company's resegmentation in the first quarter of 2023. As a result, the Company recorded a charge of $
6.6
million for restructuring and other charges related to severance and other costs. In the third quarter of 2023, an incremental charge of $
0.3
million was recorded relating to this program.
The following table outlines the amount of restructuring charges recorded within the Consolidated Statements of Income
and the segment they relate to:
|
Three Months Ended
|
Nine Months Ended
|
|||||||||||||||
|
(in millions of dollars)
|
Sep. 29,
2024
|
Oct. 1,
2023
|
Sep. 29,
2024
|
Oct. 1,
2023
|
||||||||||||
|
Asset Write-Downs
|
||||||||||||||||
|
Consumer & Specialties
|
$
|
|
$
|
|
$
|
|
$
|
|
||||||||
|
Total asset write-down charges
|
$
|
|
$
|
|
$
|
|
$
|
|
||||||||
|
Severance and other costs
|
||||||||||||||||
|
Consumer & Specialties
|
$
|
|
$
|
|
$
|
|
$
|
|
||||||||
|
Engineered Solutions
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||
|
Corporate
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||
|
Total severance and other employee costs
|
$
|
|
$
|
|
$
|
|
$
|
|
||||||||
|
Total restructuring and other items, net
|
$
|
|
$
|
|
$
|
|
$
|
|
||||||||
At September 29, 2024, the
Company had $
2.5
million included within other current liabilities in the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheet for cash expenditures needed to
satisfy remaining obligations under workforce reduction initiatives. The Company expects to pay these amounts within the next twelve months.
MINERALS TECHNOLOGIES INC. AND SUBSIDIARY
COMPANIES
NOTES TO CONDENSED
CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(Unaudited)
The following table is a reconciliation of our restructuring liability balance as of September 29, 2024:
|
(in millions of dollars)
|
||||
|
Restructuring liability,
December 31, 2023
|
$
|
|
||
|
Cash payments
|
(
|
)
|
||
|
Restructuring liability,
September 29, 2024
|
$
|
|
||
Note 6. Income Taxes
Provision for taxes was $
13.7
million and $
43.2
million during the three-month and nine-month periods ended September 29, 2024. Provision (benefit) for taxes was $(
3.5
) million and $
14.5
million during the three-month and nine-month periods ended October 1, 2023.
The effective tax rate was
23.0
% for the three-month period ended September 29, 2024, as compared with a tax benefit for the three-month period ended October 1, 2023 due to non-cash impairment of assets in the prior year. The effective tax rate was
28.0
% for the nine-month period ended September 29, 2024,
as compared with
24.5
% for the nine-month
period ended October 1, 2023. The higher tax rate for the current year was primarily due to the expected credit loss in connection with the
Debtor-in-Possession Credit Agreement that the Company entered into with its subsidiary Oldco (see Note 13 to the Condensed Consolidated
Financial Statements). Such credit loss is not currently deductible as the loans under such agreement are treated as an equity contribution for tax purposes. The current expected credit loss may become fully deductible in a future period. The timing of
such deductibility is dependent on developments in the bankruptcy proceedings.
As of September 29, 2024,
the Company had approximately $
3.0
million of total unrecognized income tax benefits. Included in this amount were a total of $
2.2
million of unrecognized income tax benefits that, if recognized, would affect the Company’s effective tax rate. While it is expected that the amount of
unrecognized tax benefits will change in the next 12 months, the Company does not expect the change to have a significant impact on the results of operations or the financial position of the Company.
The Company’s accounting policy is to recognize interest and penalties accrued relating to unrecognized income tax or benefit as part of
its provision for income taxes. The Company had a net addition of approximately $
0.1
million during the three-month period ended September 29, 2024 and had an accrued balance of $
0.7
million of interest and penalties as of September 29, 2024.
The Company operates in multiple taxing jurisdictions, both within and outside the U.S. In certain situations, a taxing authority may
challenge positions that the Company has adopted in its income tax filings. The Company, with a few exceptions (none of which are material), is no longer subject to U.S. federal, state, local, and international income tax examinations by tax
authorities for years prior to 2017.
In December 2021, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (“OECD”) released the Pillar Two Model Rules which aim to
reform international corporate taxation rules, including the implementation of a global minimum tax rate. The Company began implementation of the Pillar Two Model Rules in the first quarter of 2024. The Company continues to assess the rules in all
jurisdictions and does not anticipate a material impact to its financial statements.
Note 7. Inventories
The following is a summary of inventories by major category:
|
(in millions of dollars)
|
Sep. 29,
2024
|
Dec. 31,
2023
|
||||||
|
Raw materials
|
$
|
|
$
|
|
||||
|
Work-in-process
|
|
|
||||||
|
Finished goods
|
|
|
||||||
|
Packaging and supplies
|
|
|
||||||
|
Total inventories
|
$
|
|
$
|
|
||||
Note 8. Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets
Goodwill and other intangible assets with indefinite lives are not amortized, but instead are assessed for impairment, at least annually.
The carrying amount of goodwill was $
914.3
million and $
913.6
million as of September 29, 2024 and December 31, 2023, respectively. The net change in
goodwill from December 31, 2023 to September 29, 2024 is attributable to the effects of foreign exchange.
MINERALS TECHNOLOGIES INC. AND SUBSIDIARY
COMPANIES
NOTES TO CONDENSED
CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(Unaudited)
Acquired intangible assets subject to amortization as of September 29, 2024 and December 31, 2023 were as follows:
|
Sep. 29, 2024
|
Dec. 31, 2023
|
|||||||||||||||||||
|
(in millions of dollars)
|
Weighted Average
Useful Life
(Years)
|
Gross
Carrying
Amount
|
Accumulated
Amortization
|
Gross
Carrying
Amount
|
Accumulated
Amortization
|
|||||||||||||||
|
Tradenames
|
|
$
|
|
$
|
|
$
|
|
$
|
|
|||||||||||
|
Technology
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||
|
Patents and trademarks
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||
|
Customer relationships
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||
|
|
$
|
|
$
|
|
$
|
|
$
|
|
||||||||||||
The weighted average amortization period for acquired intangible assets subject to amortization is approximately
29
years. Estimated amortization expense is $
3.0
million for the remainder of 2024, $
46.0
million for 2025–2028 and $
173.1
million thereafter.
Note 9. Derivative Financial Instruments
As a multinational corporation with operations throughout the world, the Company is exposed to certain market risks. The Company uses a
variety of practices to manage these market risks, including, when considered appropriate, derivative financial instruments. The Company’s objective is to offset gains and losses resulting from interest rate and foreign currency exposures with gains
and losses on the derivative contracts used to hedge them. The Company uses derivative financial instruments only for risk management and not for trading or speculative purposes.
By using derivative financial instruments to hedge exposures to changes in interest rates and foreign currencies, the Company exposes
itself to credit risk and market risk. Credit risk is the risk that the counterparty will fail to perform under the terms of the derivative contract. When the fair value of a derivative contract is positive, the counterparty owes the Company, which
creates credit risk for the Company. When the fair value of a derivative contract is negative, the Company owes the counterparty, and therefore, it does not face any credit risk. The Company minimizes the credit risk in derivative instruments by
entering into transactions with major financial institutions.
Market risk is the adverse effect on the value of a financial instrument that results from a change in interest rates, currency exchange
rates, or commodity prices. The market risk associated with interest rate and forward exchange contracts is managed by establishing and monitoring parameters that limit the types and degree of market risk that may be undertaken.
Cash Flow Hedges
For derivative instruments that are designated and qualify as cash flow hedges, the Company records the effective portion of the gain or
loss in accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) as a separate component of shareholders’ equity. The Company subsequently reclassifies the effective portion of gain or loss into earnings in the period during which the hedged transaction is
recognized in earnings.
The Company utilizes interest rate swaps to limit exposure to market fluctuations on floating-rate debt. In the second quarter of 2023,
the Company entered into a floating to fixed interest rate swap for a notional amount of $
150
million. The fair value of this swap is a
liability of $
0.9
million at September 29, 2024
and is recorded in other non-current liabilities on the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheet. This interest rate swap is designated as a cash flow hedge. As a result, the gains and losses associated with this interest rate swap are recorded in
accumulated other comprehensive income (loss).
Assets and liabilities measured at fair value are based on one or more of three valuation techniques. The three valuation techniques are
as follows:
|
●
|
Market approach - prices and other relevant information generated by market transactions involving identical or comparable assets or liabilities.
|
|
●
|
Cost approach - amount that would be required to replace the service capacity of an asset or replacement cost.
|
|
●
|
Income approach - techniques to convert future amounts to a single present amount based on market expectations, including present value techniques,
option-pricing and other models.
|
The Company primarily applies the income approach for interest rate derivatives for recurring fair value measurements and attempts to
utilize valuation techniques that maximize the use of observable inputs and minimize the use of unobservable inputs.
The fair value of our interest rate and cross currency rate swap contracts are determined based on inputs that are readily available in
public markets or can be derived from information available in publicly quoted markets and are categorized as Level 2.
MINERALS TECHNOLOGIES INC. AND SUBSIDIARY
COMPANIES
NOTES TO CONDENSED
CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(Unaudited)
Note 10. Long-Term Debt and Commitments
The following is a summary of long-term debt:
|
(
in
millions of dollars)
|
Sep. 29,
2024
|
Dec. 31,
2023
|
||||||
|
Secured Credit Agreement:
|
||||||||
|
Term Loan due
,
net of unamortized deferred financing costs of $
|
$
|
|
$
|
|
||||
|
Senior Notes:
|
||||||||
|
|
|
|
||||||
|
Other debt
|
|
|
||||||
|
Total
|
|
|
||||||
|
Less: Current maturities
|
|
|
||||||
|
Total long-term debt
|
$
|
|
$
|
|
||||
On August 11, 2022, the Company entered into a Refinancing Facility Agreement (the “Amendment”) to amend the Company’s previous credit
agreement (the “Previous Credit Agreement”; the previous credit agreement, as amended by the Amendment, being the “Amended Credit Agreement”). The Amendment provides for, among other things, a new senior secured revolving credit facility with aggregate
commitments of $
300
million (the “Revolving Facility”), a portion of which may be used for the issuance of letters of credit and swingline loans,
and a new senior secured term loan facility with aggregate commitments of $
550
million (the “Term Loan Facility” and, together with the Revolving
Facility, the “Senior Secured Credit Facilities”). The Revolving Facility and the Term Loan Facility replaced the facilities under the Previous Credit Agreement, which provided for, among other things, a $
788
million senior secured floating rate term loan facility and a $
300
million senior secured revolving credit facility. The maturity date for loans under the Senior Secured Credit Facilities is August 11, 2027.
Loans under the
Senior Secured Credit Facilities
will bear interest at a rate equal to, at the election of the Company, Term SOFR plus a credit spread adjustment equal to
0.100
%
plus an applicable margin equal to
1.500
%
per annum or a base rate plus an applicable margin equal to
0.500
%
per annum, subject in each case to (a) an increase of
25
basis points in the event that, and for so long as, the net leverage ratio
(as defined in the Amended Credit Agreement) is greater than or equal to
3.00
to 1.00 as of the last day of the preceding fiscal quarter, (b) a decrease of
12.5
basis points in the event that, and for so long as, the net leverage ratio is less than
2.00
to 1.00 and greater than or equal to
1.00
to 1.00 as of the last day of the preceding fiscal quarter and (c) an decrease of
25
basis points in the event that, and for so long as, the net leverage ratio is less than
1.00
to 1.00 as of the last day of the preceding fiscal quarter. The Company
will pay certain fees under the Amended Credit Agreement, including (a) a commitment fee of
0.250
%
per annum on the undrawn portion of the Revolving Facility (subject to a step-up to
0.300
%
and step-downs to
0.175
%
and
0.150
%
at the same levels described above), (b) a fronting fee of
0.125
%
per annum on the average daily undrawn amount of, plus unreimbursed amounts in respect of disbursements under, letters of credit issued under the Revolving Facility and (c) customary annual administration fees. The obligations of the Company
under the
Senior Secured Credit Facilities
are unconditionally guaranteed jointly and severally by, subject to certain exceptions, all material domestic subsidiaries
of the Company (the “Guarantors”) and secured, subject to certain exceptions, by a security interest in substantially all of the tangible and intangible assets of the Company and the Guarantors. In the third quarter of 2023, the Company's
subsidiaries Oldco and BVT were removed as borrowers under, and Guarantors of, the Senior Secured Credit Facilities.
As of September 29, 2024,
there were $
60.0
million in loans and $
9.2
million in letters of credit outstanding under the Revolving Facility.
On
June 30, 2020
, the Company issued $
400
million aggregate principal amount of
5.0
%
Senior Notes due
2028
(the “Notes”). The Notes were issued pursuant to an indenture, dated as of
June 30, 2020
, between the Company and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as trustee (the “Indenture”). The Notes bear an interest rate of
5.0
%
per annum payable semi-annually on
January 1
and
July 1
of each year, beginning on
January 1, 2021
.
The Notes are unconditionally guaranteed on a senior unsecured basis by each of the Company’s existing and future wholly owned domestic restricted subsidiaries that is a borrower under or that guarantees the Company’s obligations under its Senior
Secured Credit Facilities or that guarantees the Company’s or any of the Company’s wholly owned domestic subsidiaries’ long-term indebtedness in an aggregate amount in excess of $
50
million. In the
third
quarter of
2023
, the Company’s subsidiaries Oldco and BVT were removed as guarantors of the Notes.
The Company may redeem some or all of the Notes at any time and from time to time at the applicable redemption prices listed in
the Indenture, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but excluding, the applicable redemption date.
MINERALS TECHNOLOGIES INC. AND SUBSIDIARY
COMPANIES
NOTES TO CONDENSED
CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(Unaudited)
If the Company experiences a change of control (as defined in
the indenture), the Company is required to offer to repurchase the Notes at
101
%
of the principal amount of such Notes, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but excluding, the date of repurchase.
The Amended Credit Agreement and the
Indenture
both
contain certain customary affirmative and negative covenants that limit or restrict the ability of the Company and its restricted subsidiaries to enter into certain transactions or take certain actions,
as well as customary events of default
. In addition, the Amended Credit Agreement contains financial covenants that require the Company to maintain,
as of the last day of any fiscal quarter,
(x) a maximum net leverage ratio (as defined in the Amended Credit Agreement) of
4.00
to 1.00 for the
four
fiscal quarter period preceding such day (subject to an increase to
5.00
to 1.00 for
four
quarters in connection with certain significant acquisitions)
and (y) a minimum interest coverage ratio (as defined in the Amended Credit Agreement) of
3.00
to 1.00. The Company is in compliance with all
the covenants contained in the Amended Credit Agreement throughout the period covered by this report.
The Company has a committed loan facility in Japan. As of September 29, 2024, $
1.1
million was outstanding under this loan facility. Principal
will be repaid in accordance with the payment schedule ending in 2026. The Company repaid $
0.1
million on this facility during 2024.
As part of the acquisition of Concept Pet Heimtierprodukte GmbH ("Concept Pet") in 2022, the Company assumed $
1.9
million in long-term debt, recorded at fair value, consisting of
two
terms loans,
one
that matures in 2025 and
one
that matures in 2027. Both loans have annual payments and carry a variable interest rate. The Company repaid $
0.1
million on these loans during 2024.
As of September 29, 2024,
the Company had $
25.5
million in uncommitted short-term bank credit lines, of which
none
were in use.
Note 11. Benefit Plans
The Company and its subsidiaries have pension plans covering the majority of its eligible employees on a contributory or non-contributory
basis. The Company also provides postretirement health care and life insurance benefits for the majority of its eligible U.S. retired employees. Disclosures for the U.S. plans have been combined with those outside of the U.S. as the international plans
do not have significantly different assumptions, and together represent less than
21
% of our total benefit obligation.
Components of Net Periodic Benefit Cost
|
Pension Benefits
|
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|
Three Months Ended
|
Nine Months Ended
|
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|
(in millions of dollars)
|
Sep. 29,
2024
|
Oct. 1,
2023
|
Sep. 29,
2024
|
Oct. 1,
2023
|
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|
Service cost
|
$
|
|
$
|
|
$
|
|
$
|
|
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|
Interest cost
|
|
|
|
|
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|
Expected return on plan assets
|
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
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|
Amortization:
|
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|
Prior service cost
|
|
|
|
|
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|
Recognized net actuarial loss
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||
|
Net periodic benefit cost
|
$
|
|
$
|
|
$
|
|
$
|
|
||||||||
|
Post-Retirement Benefits
|
||||||||||||||||
|
Three Months Ended
|
Nine Months Ended
|
|||||||||||||||
|
(in millions of dollars)
|
Sep. 29,
2024
|
Oct. 1,
2023
|
Sep. 29,
2024
|
Oct. 1,
2023
|
||||||||||||
|
Service cost
|
$
|
|
$
|
|
$
|
|
$
|
|
||||||||
|
Interest cost
|
|
|
|
|
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|
Amortization:
|
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|
Recognized net actuarial gain
|
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
||||||||
|
Net periodic benefit cost
|
$
|
(
|
)
|
$
|
|
$
|
(
|
)
|
$
|
(
|
)
|
|||||
Amortization amounts of prior service costs and recognized net actuarial losses are recorded, net of tax, as increases to accumulated
other comprehensive income.
MINERALS TECHNOLOGIES INC. AND SUBSIDIARY
COMPANIES
NOTES TO CONDENSED
CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(Unaudited)
The Company expects to contribute approximately $
12.0
million to its pension plans and $
0.1
million to its other postretirement benefit
plans in 2024. As of September 29, 2024,
$
11.3
million has been contributed to the pension plans and
no
contributions have been made to the other postretirement benefit plans.
Note 12.
Comprehensive Income
The following table summarizes the amounts reclassified out of accumulated other comprehensive loss
attributable to the Company:
|
Three Months Ended
|
Nine Months Ended
|
|||||||||||||||
|
(in millions of dollars)
|
Sep. 29,
2024
|
Oct. 1,
2023
|
Sep. 29,
2024
|
Oct. 1,
2023
|
||||||||||||
|
Amortization of pension items:
|
||||||||||||||||
|
Pre-tax amount
|
$
|
|
$
|
|
$
|
|
$
|
|
||||||||
|
Tax
|
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
||||||||
|
Net of tax
|
$
|
|
$
|
|
$
|
|
$
|
|
||||||||
The pre-tax amounts in the table above are included within the components of net periodic pension benefit cost (see Note 11 to the Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements) and the tax amounts are included within the provision for taxes on income line within the Condensed
Consolidated Statements of Income.
The major components of accumulated other comprehensive loss, net of related tax, attributable to MTI are as follows:
|
(in millions of dollars)
|
Foreign Currency
Translation Adjustment
|
Unrecognized
Pension Costs
|
Net Gain (Loss)
on Derivative Instruments
|
Total
|
||||||||||||
|
Balance as of December 31,
2023
|
$
|
(
|
)
|
$
|
(
|
)
|
$
|
|
$
|
(
|
)
|
|||||
|
Other comprehensive income (loss) before reclassifications
|
(
|
)
|
|
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
|||||||||
|
Amounts reclassified from AOCI
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||
|
Net current period other comprehensive income (loss)
|
(
|
)
|
|
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
|||||||||
|
Balance as of
September 29, 2024
|
$
|
(
|
)
|
$
|
(
|
)
|
$
|
|
$
|
(
|
)
|
|||||
Note 13. Contingencies
The Company is party to a number of lawsuits arising in the
normal course of our business. The Company and certain of the Company’s subsidiaries are among numerous defendants in a number of cases seeking damages for alleged exposure to asbestos-contaminated talc products sold by the Company’s subsidiary
BMI
Oldco Inc. (f/k/a Barretts Minerals Inc.) (“Oldco”)
.
On October 2, 2023 (the “Petition Date”), notwithstanding the Company’s confidence in the safety of Oldco’s talc products, the Company’s
subsidiaries, Oldco and Barretts Ventures Texas LLC ("BVT" and, together with Oldco, the “Chapter 11 Debtors”), filed voluntary petitions for relief under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern
District of Texas (the “Chapter 11 Cases”) to address and comprehensively resolve Oldco’s liabilities associated with talc. Minerals Technologies Inc. and the Company’s other subsidiaries were not included in the Chapter 11 filing.
The Chapter 11 Debtors’ ultimate goal in the Chapter 11 Cases is to confirm a plan of reorganization under Section 524(g) of the U.S.
Bankruptcy Code and utilize this provision of the Bankruptcy Code to establish a trust that will address all current and future talc-related claims. In January 2024, the Chapter 11 Debtors and Minerals Technologies Inc. commenced a court-approved
mediation process with the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors (appointed in the Chapter 11 Cases as the representative of current talc claimants) (the “Committee”) and the Future Claimants Representative (appointed in the Chapter 11 Cases as the
representative of future talc claimants) regarding the terms of a potential consensual plan of reorganization and the ultimate amount to be contributed to any trust. The mediation process is ongoing, and was recently extended through December 11, 2024
(subject to further extensions).
MINERALS TECHNOLOGIES INC. AND SUBSIDIARY
COMPANIES
NOTES TO CONDENSED
CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(Unaudited)
As of
September 29, 2024
, we had
663
open cases related to certain talc products previously sold by Oldco, which is an increase in
volume from previous years. The following table details case activity related to talc products previously sold by Oldco:
|
Three Months Ended
|
Nine Months Ended
|
|||||||||||||||
|
(number of claims)
|
Sep. 29,
2024
|
Oct. 1,
2023
|
Sep. 29,
2024
|
Oct. 1,
2023
|
||||||||||||
|
Claims pending, beginning of period
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||
|
Claims filed
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||
|
Claims dismissed, settled or otherwise resolved
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||
|
Claims pending, end of period
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||
During the pendency of the Chapter 11 Cases, the Company anticipates that the Chapter 11 Debtors will benefit from the operation of the
automatic stay, which stays ongoing litigation in connection with talc-related claims against the Chapter 11 Debtors. In addition, subject to certain exceptions, the filing or continued prosecution of all talc-related claims against the Chapter 11
Debtors’ non-debtor affiliates is temporarily stayed through December 11, 2024 (subject to further extensions), the date on which a hearing is scheduled on the status of the Chapter 11 Cases.
These claims typically allege various theories of liability, including negligence, gross negligence and strict liability and seek
compensatory and, in some cases, punitive damages, but most of these claims do not provide adequate information to assess their merits, the likelihood that the Company will be found liable, or the magnitude of such liability, if any. We are unable to
state an amount or range of amounts claimed in any of these lawsuits because state court pleading practices do not require the plaintiff to identify the amount of the claimed damage. The Company’s position, as stated publicly, is that the talc products
sold by Oldco are safe and do not cause cancer.
The Company records accruals for loss contingencies associated with legal matters, including talc-related litigation, when it is
probable that a liability will be incurred and the amount of the loss can be reasonably estimated. Amounts accrued for legal contingencies often result from a complex series of judgments about future events and uncertainties that rely heavily on
estimates and assumptions including timing of related payments. The ability to make such estimates and judgments can be affected by various factors, including whether damages sought in the proceedings are unsubstantiated or indeterminate, the stage
of the litigation, the factual and legal matters in dispute, the ability to achieve comprehensive settlements, the availability of co-defendants with substantial resources and assets participating in the litigation, and our evaluation of the unique
attributes of each claim.
While costs relating to the talc-related cases have increased concurrently with the volume, the majority of these costs have historically
been borne by Pfizer Inc. ("Pfizer") in connection with certain agreements entered into in connection with the Company’s initial public offering in 1992, and as long as the litigation is subject to the stay under the Chapter 11 Cases (subject to
certain exceptions), the Company will not be required to make any payments in respect thereof. The Company is entitled to indemnification, pursuant to agreement, for liabilities arising from sales prior to the initial public offering. On May 22, 2024,
Pfizer filed a motion in the Chapter 11 Cases seeking permission to file a lawsuit against the Company related to the 1992 agreement. That motion has been adjourned, and Pfizer and the Company have agreed to mediate their disputes. The Company
continues to receive information from Pfizer with respect to potential costs associated with the defense and/or settlement of talc-related cases that Pfizer alleges are not subject to indemnification. Although the Company believes that the talc
products are safe and that claims to the contrary are without merit, Oldco opportunistically settled certain talc-related cases in 2022 and 2023. None of such settlements have been material to the Company.
In the second quarter of 2024, Oldco sold its talc assets under section 363 of the Bankruptcy Code. In addition, in the second quarter of
2024, the Company entered into a Debtor-in-Possession Credit Agreement with Oldco (the “DIP Credit Agreement”) and recorded a provision for credit loss of $
30
million for the maximum principal amount under such Credit Agreement.
Proceeds of the sale of Oldco’s talc assets and funds drawn by Oldco under the DIP Credit Agreement will be used to fund the Chapter 11
Cases. Following the Chapter 11 filing, the activities of the Chapter 11 Debtors are now subject to review and oversight by the bankruptcy court. As a result, the Chapter 11 Debtors were deconsolidated as of the Petition Date, and their assets and
liabilities were derecognized from the Company’s consolidated financial statements on a prospective basis.
On June 25, 2024, the Committee filed a motion to dismiss the Chapter 11 Cases. A hearing on the motion to dismiss, which has been
adjourned
three
times while the parties continue to explore a consensual resolution of issues through the court-approved mediation process, is
scheduled to commence on December 10, 2024 (subject to further adjournments). The Chapter 11 Cases remain pending.
MINERALS TECHNOLOGIES INC. AND SUBSIDIARY
COMPANIES
NOTES TO CONDENSED
CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(Unaudited)
The broader litigation and regulatory environments for talc-related claims continue to evolve. Moreover, although the Chapter 11 Cases are
progressing, it is not possible at this time to predict how the Bankruptcy Court will rule on the pending motion to dismiss, the form of any ultimate resolution, or when an ultimate resolution might occur. Given the foregoing factors, it is reasonably
possible that the Company will incur a loss for liabilities associated with future talc claims in excess of the amount currently recognized. This risk is based on the potential for new talc-related claims that could eventually be asserted together with
their associated disposition cost and related legal costs, despite the automatic stay with respect to claims against the Chapter 11 Debtors, taking into account the portion of such hypothetical claims that may be subject to indemnification by Pfizer,
as well as the inability to estimate the amount that may be necessary to fully and finally resolve all of the Chapter 11 Debtors’ future talc-related claims in connection with a confirmed Chapter 11 plan of reorganization. Accordingly, the Company is
currently unable to provide an estimate or range of the magnitude of any potential loss related to future talc claims. While possible losses associated with future talc claims are not reasonably estimable at this time based on our current knowledge,
in light of the uncertainties involved in such matters, the resolution of, or recognition of additional liabilities in connection with, current or future talc claims could have a material adverse effect on the Company’s results of operations, cash
flows and financial condition.
Note 14. Segment and Related Information
The Company has
two
reportable
segments: Consumer & Specialties and Engineered Solutions. See Note 1 to the Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements. Segment
information for the three and nine-month periods ended September 29, 2024 and October 1, 2023 is as follows:
|
Three Months Ended
|
Nine Months Ended
|
|||||||||||||||
|
(in millions of dollars)
|
Sep. 29,
2024
|
Oct. 1,
2023
|
Sep. 29,
2024
|
Oct. 1,
2023
|
||||||||||||
|
Net Sales
|
||||||||||||||||
|
Consumer & Specialties
|
$
|
|
$
|
|
$
|
|
$
|
|
||||||||
|
Engineered Solutions
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||
|
Total
|
$
|
|
$
|
|
$
|
|
$
|
|
||||||||
|
Income (loss) from Operations
|
||||||||||||||||
|
Consumer & Specialties
|
$
|
|
$
|
(
|
)
|
$
|
|
$
|
|
|||||||
|
Engineered Solutions
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||
|
Total
|
$
|
|
$
|
(
|
)
|
$
|
|
$
|
|
|||||||
A reconciliation of the totals reported for the operating segments to the applicable line items in the condensed
consolidated financial statements is as follows:
|
Three Months Ended
|
Nine Months Ended
|
|||||||||||||||
|
(in millions of dollars)
|
Sep. 29,
2024
|
Oct. 1,
2023
|
Sep. 29,
2024
|
Oct. 1,
2023
|
||||||||||||
|
Income (loss) from operations for reportable segments
|
$
|
|
$
|
(
|
)
|
$
|
|
$
|
|
|||||||
|
Provision for credit losses
|
|
|
(
|
)
|
|
|||||||||||
|
Restructuring and other items, net
|
|
|
|
(
|
)
|
|||||||||||
|
Acquisition-related expenses
|
|
|
|
(
|
)
|
|||||||||||
|
Litigation expenses
|
(
|
)
|
|
(
|
)
|
|
||||||||||
|
Unallocated and other corporate expenses
|
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
||||||||
|
Consolidated income (loss) from operations
|
|
(
|
)
|
|
|
|||||||||||
|
Non-operating deductions, net
|
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
||||||||
|
Income (loss) before tax and equity in earnings
|
$
|
|
$
|
(
|
)
|
$
|
|
$
|
|
|||||||
The Company’s sales by product category are as follows:
|
Three Months Ended
|
Nine Months Ended
|
|||||||||||||||
|
(in millions of dollars)
|
Sep. 29,
2024
|
Oct. 1,
2023
|
Sep. 29,
2024
|
Oct. 1,
2023
|
||||||||||||
|
Household & Personal Care
|
$
|
|
$
|
|
$
|
|
$
|
|
||||||||
|
Specialty Additives
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||
|
High-Temperature Technologies
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||
|
Environmental & Infrastructure
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||
|
Total
|
$
|
|
$
|
|
$
|
|
$
|
|
||||||||
To the Shareholders and Board of Directors
Minerals Technologies Inc.:
Results of Review of Interim Financial Information
We have reviewed the condensed consolidated balance sheet of Minerals Technologies Inc. and subsidiaries (the Company) as of September 29, 2024, the related condensed consolidated statements of income (loss) and comprehensive income (loss) for the three-month and nine-month
periods ended September 29, 2024 and October 1, 2023, the related condensed consolidated statements of cash flows for the nine-month periods ended September 29, 2024 and October 1, 2023, the related condensed consolidated statements of changes in shareholders' equity for the three-month periods ended September 29, 2024, June 30, 2024, and March 31, 2024, and October 1, 2023, July 2, 2023 and April 2, 2023, and the related notes (collectively, the
consolidated interim financial information). Based on our reviews, we are not aware of any material modifications that should be made to the consolidated interim financial information for it to be in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting
principles.
We have previously audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB), the consolidated
balance sheet of the Company as of December 31, 2023, and the related consolidated statements of income, comprehensive income, changes in
shareholders’ equity, and cash flows for the year then ended (not presented herein); and in our report dated February 16, 2024, we expressed
an unqualified opinion on those consolidated financial statements. In our opinion, the information set forth in the accompanying condensed consolidated balance sheet as of December 31, 2023 is fairly stated, in all material respects, in relation to the consolidated balance sheet from which it has been derived.
Basis for Review Results
This consolidated interim financial information is the responsibility of the Company’s management. We are a public accounting firm registered with the PCAOB
and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.
We conducted our reviews in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. A review of consolidated interim financial information consists principally of
applying analytical procedures and making inquiries of persons responsible for financial and accounting matters. It is substantially less in scope than an audit conducted in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB, the objective of which is the
expression of an opinion regarding the financial statements taken as a whole. Accordingly, we do not express such an opinion.
/s/ KPMG LLP
New York, New York
October 25, 2024
Executive Summary
Our consolidated sales for the third
quarter of 2024 were $524.7
million, a decrease of 4% as compared with $547.8
million in the prior year. Income (loss) from operations was $76.6 million, as compared with $(7.9) million in the prior year. Included in income from operations for the third
quarter of 2024 was $2.6 million of
litigation expenses incurred in connection with the bankruptcy of the Company's subsidiaries, BMI Oldco Inc. (f/k/a Barretts Minerals Inc.) ("Oldco") and Barretts Ventures Texas LLC ("BVT" and together with Oldco, the "Chapter 11 Debtors"). Included in
loss from operations for the third quarter of 2023 was a non-cash impairment charge of $71.7 million for Oldco's fixed assets and $12.9 million of litigation expenses in connection with Oldco's bankruptcy filing and by Oldco to defend against and restore its reserve for claims
associated with certain talc products.
Net income (loss) was $46.7
million, as compared to $(19.2) million in the third
quarter of 2023. Diluted earnings (loss) in the third quarter ended September 29, 2024 were $1.45 per share, as compared with $(0.59) per share in the third quarter of 2023.
Our balance sheet continues to be strong. Cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments were $324.5 million as of September 29, 2024 and the Company had more than
$500 million of available liquidity, including cash on hand as well as availability under its revolving credit facility. We believe that these factors will allow us to meet our anticipated funding requirements.
Outlook
The Company will also continue to focus on innovation and new product development and other opportunities for sales growth from our
existing businesses in 2024, as follows:
Consumer & Specialties Segment
| ● |
Increase our presence and market share in global pet litter products, including in emerging markets.
|
| ● |
Deploy new products in pet care such as lightweight litter.
|
| ● |
Increase our sales of calcium carbonate products by further penetration into filling and coating applications in the paper and packaging markets.
|
| ● |
Promote the Company's expertise in crystal engineering by developing crystal morphologies that help our customers achieve functional benefits.
|
| ● |
Deploy new calcium carbonate products in paint, coating and packaging applications.
|
| ● |
Continue developing products and processes for waste management and recycling opportunities to reduce the environmental impact for our customers by reducing energy
consumption and improving the sustainability of their products.
|
| ● |
Continue to develop innovative applications for our bleaching earth products for edible oil and biofuel industries.
|
| ● |
Develop new mineral-based solutions for personal care applications.
|
| ● |
Increase our presence and market share globally for retinol delivery technology for personal care applications.
|
| ● |
Expand our product solutions for animal health applications.
|
| ● |
Increase our presence and market share in fabric care, including in emerging markets.
|
Engineered Solutions Segment
| ● |
Increase our presence and gain penetration of our bentonite-based foundry solutions for the metalcasting industry in emerging markets.
|
| ● |
Deploy value-added formulations of refractory materials that not only reduce costs but improve performance.
|
| ● |
Deploy our laser measurement technologies into new applications.
|
| ● |
Expand our refractory maintenance model to other steel makers globally.
|
| ● |
Continue the development and market penetration of our FLUORO-SORB
®
products which address PFAS contamination in soil, groundwater, drinking water sources,
landfill leachate and wastewater.
|
| ● |
Pursue opportunities for the expanded use of our products in environmental, building and construction, infrastructure and oil and gas drilling and water treatment
globally.
|
| ● |
Increase our presence and market share for geosynthetic clay liners globally.
|
All Segments
| ● |
Further operational excellence principles into all aspects of the organization, including system infrastructure and lean principles.
|
| ● |
Continue to explore selective acquisitions to fit our competencies in minerals and our core technologies.
|
However, there can be no assurance that we will achieve success in implementing any one or more of these opportunities.
Results of Operations
Three months ended September 29, 2024 as compared with three months ended October 1, 2023
Consolidated Income Statement Review
|
Three Months Ended
|
||||||||||||
|
(in millions of dollars)
|
Sep. 29,
2024
|
Oct. 1,
2023
|
%
Change
|
|||||||||
|
Net sales
|
$
|
524.7
|
$
|
547.8
|
(4
|
)%
|
||||||
|
Cost of sales
|
389.5
|
414.7
|
(6
|
)%
|
||||||||
|
Production margin
|
135.2
|
133.1
|
2
|
%
|
||||||||
|
Production margin %
|
25.8
|
%
|
24.3
|
%
|
||||||||
|
Marketing and administrative expenses
|
50.1
|
50.9
|
(2
|
)%
|
||||||||
|
Research and development expenses
|
5.9
|
5.2
|
13
|
%
|
||||||||
|
Restructuring and other items, net
|
—
|
0.3
|
*
|
|||||||||
|
Impairment of assets
|
—
|
71.7
|
*
|
|||||||||
|
Litigation expenses
|
2.6
|
12.9
|
(80
|
)%
|
||||||||
|
Income (loss) from operations
|
76.6
|
(7.9
|
)
|
*
|
||||||||
|
Operating margin %
|
14.6
|
%
|
(1.4
|
)%
|
||||||||
|
Interest expense, net
|
(14.0
|
)
|
(15.3
|
)
|
(8
|
)%
|
||||||
|
Other non-operating income (deductions), net
|
(3.1
|
)
|
0.6
|
*
|
||||||||
|
Total non-operating deductions, net
|
(17.1
|
)
|
(14.7
|
)
|
16
|
%
|
||||||
|
Income (loss) before tax and equity in earnings
|
59.5
|
(22.6
|
)
|
*
|
||||||||
|
Provision (benefit) for taxes on income
|
13.7
|
(3.5
|
)
|
*
|
||||||||
|
Effective tax rate
|
23.0
|
%
|
15.5
|
%
|
||||||||
|
Equity in earnings of affiliates, net of tax
|
1.9
|
1.0
|
90
|
%
|
||||||||
|
Net income (loss)
|
47.7
|
(18.1
|
)
|
*
|
||||||||
|
Net income attributable to non-controlling interests
|
1.0
|
1.1
|
(9
|
)%
|
||||||||
|
Net income (loss) attributable to Minerals Technologies Inc.
|
$
|
46.7
|
$
|
(19.2
|
)
|
*
|
||||||
| * |
Not meaningful
|
Net Sales
|
Three Months Ended
Sep. 29, 2024
|
Three Months Ended
Oct. 1, 2023
|
|||||||||||||||||||
|
(in millions of dollars)
|
Net Sales
|
% of Total Sales
|
% Change
|
Net Sales
|
% of Total Sales
|
|||||||||||||||
|
U.S.
|
$
|
268.3
|
51.1
|
%
|
(8
|
)%
|
$
|
291.6
|
53.2
|
%
|
||||||||||
|
International
|
256.4
|
48.9
|
%
|
0
|
%
|
256.2
|
46.8
|
%
|
||||||||||||
|
Total sales
|
$
|
524.7
|
100.0
|
%
|
(4
|
)%
|
$
|
547.8
|
100.0
|
%
|
||||||||||
|
Consumer & Specialties Segment
|
$
|
280.3
|
53.4
|
%
|
(4
|
)%
|
$
|
291.2
|
53.2
|
%
|
||||||||||
|
Engineered Solutions Segment
|
244.4
|
46.6
|
%
|
(5
|
)%
|
256.6
|
46.8
|
%
|
||||||||||||
|
Total sales
|
$
|
524.7
|
100.0
|
%
|
(4
|
)%
|
$
|
547.8
|
100.0
|
%
|
||||||||||
Worldwide net sales decreased 4%
to $524.7 million in the third
quarter from $547.8 million in the prior year. Included in sales from the prior year were $13.8 million of sales related to Oldco, which was
deconsolidated in the fourth quarter of 2023 and primarily impacted sales in the United States.
Net sales in the United States were $268.3
million in the third quarter of 2024,
as compared to $291.6 million in the prior year, a decrease of 8%. International sales increased slightly to $256.4 million from $256.2 million in the prior year.
Operating Costs and Expenses
Cost of sales was $389.5
million and represented 74.2% of sales for the three month period ended September 29, 2024, as compared with $414.7 million and 75.7% of sales in the prior year. Production margin increased from 24.3% of sales in the prior year to 25.8% of sales in the third quarter of 2024. This increase was
primarily due to price and cost management as well as productivity improvements.
Marketing and administrative costs were $50.1
million and 9.5% of sales for the three months ended September 29, 2024, as compared to $50.9 million and 9.3% of sales in the prior year.
Research and development expenses were $5.9
million and represented 1.1% of sales for the three months ended September 29, 2024, as compared with $5.2 million and 0.9% of sales in the prior year.
T
he Company recorded litigation expenses
in
connection with Oldco's bankruptcy filing
of $
2.6
million during the three-months ended September 29, 2024.
In the third quarter of 2023, the Company recorded a $71.7 million non-cash impairment of assets charge related to Oldco's fixed assets within the Consumer & Specialties segment associated with Oldco's bankruptcy filing. The Company also
recorded litigation expenses of $12.9 million during the three months ended October 1, 2023, in connection with Oldco's bankruptcy filing and by Oldco to defend against and restore its reserve for claims associated with certain talc products.
Income (Loss) from Operations
The Company recorded income (loss) from operations of $76.6 million as compared to $(7.9) million in the prior year. Operating income (loss)
includes litigation expenses in connection with Oldco's bankruptcy filing of $2.6 million during the three months ended September 29, 2024. In addition, operating income (loss) for the three months ended October 1, 2023 includes a $71.7 million non-cash impairment of assets charge related
to Oldco's fixed assets within the Consumer & Specialties segment associated with the bankruptcy filing. T
he Company also recorded litigation expenses of $12.9 million
during the three months ended October 1, 2023
, in connection with Oldco's bankruptcy filing and by Oldco to defend against and restore its reserve for claims associated with certain talc products.
Other Non-Operating Income (Deductions), net
In the third quarter of 2024, non-operating deductions were $17.1
million, as compared with $14.7 million in the prior year. Included in other non-operating deductions in the third quarter of 2024 was net interest
expense of $14.0 million, as compared to $15.3
million in the third quarter of the prior year.
Provision (Benefit) for Taxes on Income
Provision for taxes on income was $13.7
million, as compared to a tax benefit of $(3.5) million in the prior year. The effective tax rate was 23.0%, as compared with a tax benefit in the prior year. The higher tax rate was primarily due to the benefit recorded on the non-cash impairment of assets in the prior year.
Net Income (Loss) Attributable to MTI Shareholders
Net income attributable to MTI shareholders was $46.7 million for the three months ended September 29, 2024, as compared with a loss of $19.2 million
in the prior year.
Segment Review
The following discussions highlight the operating results for each of our two segments.
|
Three Months Ended
|
||||||||||||
|
Consumer & Specialties Segment
|
Sep. 29,
2024
|
Oct. 1,
2023
|
%
Change
|
|||||||||
|
(in millions of dollars)
|
||||||||||||
|
Net Sales
|
||||||||||||
|
Household & Personal Care
|
$
|
130.9
|
$
|
128.9
|
2
|
%
|
||||||
|
Special Additives
|
149.4
|
162.3
|
(8
|
)%
|
||||||||
|
Total net sales
|
$
|
280.3
|
$
|
291.2
|
(4
|
)%
|
||||||
|
Income (loss) from operations
|
$
|
41.7
|
$
|
(46.6
|
)
|
*
|
||||||
|
% of net sales
|
14.9
|
%
|
*
|
|||||||||
Net sales in the Consumer & Specialties segment was $280.3 million for the three months ended September 29, 2024, as compared with $291.2 million in the prior year. Household & Personal Care sales increased 2% to $130.9 million, as compared with $128.9 million in the prior year driven by sales in pet care and other consumer-oriented products. Sales in Specialty Additives decreased $12.9 million, or 8% as compared with prior year. Included in sales from the prior year were $13.8 million of sales related to Oldco, which was deconsolidated in the
fourth quarter of 2023.
Income (loss) from operations was $41.7
million, as compared to $(46.6) million in the prior year. Included in the third quarter of 2023, are a non-cash impairment of assets charge of
$71.7 million and litigation expenses of $12.9
million in connection with Oldco's bankruptcy filing and by Oldco to defend against and restore its reserve for claims associated with certain talc products.
|
Three Months Ended
|
||||||||||||
|
Engineered Solutions Segment
|
Sep. 29,
2024
|
Oct. 1,
2023
|
%
Change
|
|||||||||
|
(in millions of dollars)
|
||||||||||||
|
Net Sales
|
||||||||||||
|
High-Temperature Technologies
|
$
|
174.8
|
$
|
177.4
|
(1
|
)%
|
||||||
|
Environmental & Infrastructure
|
69.6
|
79.2
|
(12
|
)%
|
||||||||
|
Total net sales
|
$
|
244.4
|
$
|
256.6
|
(5
|
)%
|
||||||
|
Income from operations
|
$
|
38.8
|
$
|
40.6
|
(4
|
)%
|
||||||
|
% of net sales
|
15.9
|
%
|
15.8
|
%
|
||||||||
Net sales in the Engineered Solutions segment decreased 5% to $244.4 million from $256.6 million in the prior year. High-Temperature Technologies sales decreased 1% to
$174.8 million, as compared with $177.4
million in the prior year due to softer demand in some industrial end markets. Environmental & Infrastructure sales decreased 12% to $69.6 million, as compared with $79.2 million
in the prior year due to continued weakness in commercial construction markets and large-scale environmental project activity.
Income from operations was $38.8
million and 15.9% of sales as compared with $40.6
million and 15.8% of sales in the prior year as the impact from lower volumes was mitigated by improved input costs and pricing.
Nine months
ended September 29, 2024 as compared with nine
months ended October 1, 2023
Consolidated Income Statement Review
|
Nine Months Ended
|
||||||||||||
|
(in millions of dollars)
|
Sep. 29,
2024
|
Oct. 1,
2023
|
%
Change
|
|||||||||
|
Net sales
|
$
|
1,600.4
|
$
|
1,645.4
|
(3
|
)%
|
||||||
|
Cost of sales
|
1,185.4
|
1,263.6
|
(6
|
)%
|
||||||||
|
Production margin
|
415.0
|
381.8
|
9
|
%
|
||||||||
|
Production margin %
|
25.9
|
%
|
23.2
|
%
|
||||||||
|
Marketing and administrative expenses
|
156.4
|
155.0
|
1
|
%
|
||||||||
|
Research and development expenses
|
17.3
|
16.1
|
7
|
%
|
||||||||
|
Provision for credit losses
|
30.0
|
—
|
*
|
|||||||||
|
Restructuring and other items, net
|
—
|
6.9
|
*
|
|||||||||
|
Impairment of assets
|
—
|
71.7
|
*
|
|||||||||
|
Acquisition-related expenses
|
—
|
0.3
|
*
|
|||||||||
|
Litigation expenses
|
8.9
|
26.8
|
(67
|
)%
|
||||||||
|
Income from operations
|
202.4
|
105.0
|
93
|
%
|
||||||||
|
Operating margin %
|
12.6
|
%
|
6.4
|
%
|
||||||||
|
Interest expense, net
|
(43.8
|
)
|
(44.0
|
)
|
—
|
|||||||
|
Other non-operating deductions, net
|
(4.4
|
)
|
(1.9
|
)
|
132
|
%
|
||||||
|
Total non-operating deductions, net
|
(48.2
|
)
|
(45.9
|
)
|
5
|
%
|
||||||
|
Income before tax and equity in earnings
|
154.2
|
59.1
|
161
|
%
|
||||||||
|
Provision for taxes on income
|
43.2
|
14.5
|
198
|
%
|
||||||||
|
Effective tax rate
|
28.0
|
%
|
24.5
|
%
|
||||||||
|
Equity in earnings of affiliates, net of tax
|
5.2
|
3.0
|
73
|
%
|
||||||||
|
Consolidated net income
|
116.2
|
47.6
|
144
|
%
|
||||||||
|
Net income attributable to non-controlling interests
|
3.1
|
3.2
|
(3
|
)%
|
||||||||
|
Net income attributable to Minerals Technologies Inc.
|
$
|
113.1
|
$
|
44.4
|
155
|
%
|
||||||
| * |
Not meaningful
|
Net Sales
|
Nine Months Ended
Sep. 29, 2024
|
Nine Months Ended
Oct. 1, 2023
|
|||||||||||||||||||
|
(in millions of dollars)
|
Net Sales
|
% of Total Sales
|
% Growth
|
Net Sales
|
% of Total Sales
|
|||||||||||||||
|
U.S.
|
$
|
824.7
|
51.5
|
%
|
(6
|
)%
|
$
|
874.3
|
53.1
|
%
|
||||||||||
|
International
|
775.7
|
48.5
|
%
|
1
|
%
|
771.1
|
46.9
|
%
|
||||||||||||
|
Total sales
|
$
|
1,600.4
|
100.0
|
%
|
(3
|
)%
|
$
|
1,645.4
|
100.0
|
%
|
||||||||||
|
Consumer & Specialties Segment
|
$
|
861.5
|
53.8
|
%
|
(2
|
)%
|
$
|
878.8
|
53.4
|
%
|
||||||||||
|
Engineered Solutions Segment
|
738.9
|
46.2
|
%
|
(4
|
)%
|
766.6
|
46.6
|
%
|
||||||||||||
|
Total sales
|
$
|
1,600.4
|
100.0
|
%
|
(3
|
)%
|
$
|
1,645.4
|
100.0
|
%
|
||||||||||
Total sales decreased 3%
from the previous year to $1,600.4 million.
Included in
sales from the prior year were $40.6 million of sales related to Oldco, which was deconsolidated in the fourth quarter of 2023 and primarily impacted sales in the United States. Net sales in the United States decreased 6% to $824.7 million from $874.3 million in the
prior year. International sales increased by 1% to $775.7 million from $771.1 million in the prior year.
Operating Costs and Expenses
Cost of sales decreased 6%
from the prior year and was 74.1% of sales, as compared with 76.8% in the prior year. Gross margin increased to 25.9% of sales as compared with 23.2% of sales in the prior year. This increase was primarily due to price and cost management as well as productivity improvements.
Marketing and administrative costs were $156.4
million and 9.8% of sales for the nine
months ended September 29, 2024, as compared to $155.0 million and 9.4% of sales in the prior year.
Research and development expenses were $17.3
million and represented 1.1% of sales for the nine
months ended September 29, 2024, as compared with $16.1 million and 1.0% of sales in the prior year.
In the second quarter of 2024, the Company recorded a $30.0 million provision for credit loss in connection with the DIP Credit Agreement. In addition, during the nine months ended September 29, 2024, the Company recorded litigation expenses of $8.9 million in connection with Oldco's bankruptcy filing.
In the third quarter of 2023, the Company recorded a $71.7 million non-cash impairment of assets charge related to Oldco's fixed assets within the Consumer & Specialties segment associated with the bankruptcy filing. During the nine months ended October 1, 2023, the
Company recorded litigation expenses of $26.8 million in connection with Oldco's bankruptcy filing and by Oldco to defend against and restore
its reserve for claims associated with certain talc products. In addition, the Company recorded $6.9 million of restructuring and other charges
for the nine months ended October 1, 2023 to streamline our cost structure as a result of the organizational efficiencies gained from the
Company's 2023 resegmentation.
Income from Operations
The Company recorded income from operations of $202.4 million for the nine months ended September 29, 2024, as compared to $105.0 million in the prior year.
Operating income was 12.6% and 6.4%
of sales for the nine months ended September 29, 2024 and October 1, 2023, respectively. Operating income includes a $30.0 million charge related to a provision for credit losses in connection with the DIP Credit Agreement during the nine months ended September 29, 2024.
In addition, operating income during the nine
months ended September 29, 2024 includes $8.9
million of litigation expenses in connection with Oldco's bankruptcy filing. Operating income during the nine months ended October 1, 2023 includes $26.8 million of litigation expenses in connection with Oldco's bankruptcy filing and by Oldco to defend
against and restore its reserve for claims associated with certain talc products and $6.9 million of restructuring charges.
Other Non-Operating Income (Deductions), net
The Company recorded non-operating deductions of $48.2 million for the nine months ended September 29, 2024, as compared with $45.9 million in the prior
year. Included in non-operating deductions for the nine months ended September 29, 2024 is $43.8 million of net interest expense. Included in
non-operating deductions for the nine months ended October 1, 2023 was $44.0 million of net interest expense.
Provision for Taxes on Income
Provision for taxes was $43.2
million as compared to $14.5 million in the prior year. The effective tax rate was 28.0% as compared to 24.5% in the prior year. The higher tax rate was primarily due
to the benefit recorded on the non-cash impairment of assets charge in the prior year and the impact in the current year of the expected credit loss in connection with the DIP Credit Agreement. Such credit loss is not currently deductible as the DIP
Credit Agreement is being treated as an equity contribution for tax purposes.
The current expected credit loss may become fully deductible in a future period. The timing of
such deductibility is dependent on developments in the bankruptcy proceedings.
Consolidated Net Income Attributable to MTI Shareholders
Consolidated net income was $113.1
million during the nine months ended September 29, 2024, as compared with $44.4 million in the prior year.
Segment Review
The following discussions highlight the operating results for each of our two segments.
|
Nine Months Ended
|
||||||||||||
|
Consumer & Specialties Segment
|
Sep. 29,
2024
|
Oct. 1,
2023
|
%
Change
|
|||||||||
|
(in millions of dollars)
|
||||||||||||
|
Net Sales
|
||||||||||||
|
Household & Personal Care
|
$
|
396.1
|
$
|
383.6
|
3
|
%
|
||||||
|
Specialty Additives
|
465.4
|
495.2
|
(6
|
)%
|
||||||||
|
Total net sales
|
$
|
861.5
|
$
|
878.8
|
(2
|
)%
|
||||||
|
Income from operations
|
$
|
127.6
|
$
|
5.0
|
*
|
|||||||
|
% of net sales
|
14.8
|
%
|
0.6
|
%
|
||||||||
Net sales in the Consumer & Specialties segment decreased 2% to $861.5 million from $878.8 million in the prior year. Household & Personal Care sales increased 3% to
$396.1 million as compared to $383.6
million in the prior year
on continued strong demand for our pet litter products as well as growth in other high-margin consumer-oriented products
. Sales in Specialty
Additives decreased 6% to $465.4
million as compared to $495.2 million in the prior year.
Included
in Specialty Additives' sales from the prior year were $40.6 million of sales related to Oldco, which was deconsolidated in the fourth quarter of 2023.
Income from operations was $127.6
million and 14.8% of sales as compared to $5.0
million and 0.6% of sales in the prior year. Included in income from operations for the nine months ended October 1, 2023 are a $71.7 million non-cash impairment of assets charge related to Oldco's fixed assets and litigation expenses of $26.8 million in connection with Oldco's bankruptcy filing and by Oldco to defend against and restore its reserve for claims associated with certain talc product.
|
Nine Months Ended
|
||||||||||||
|
Engineered Solutions Segment
|
Sep. 29,
2024
|
Oct. 1,
2023
|
%
Change
|
|||||||||
|
(in millions of dollars)
|
||||||||||||
|
Net Sales
|
||||||||||||
|
High-Temperature Technologies
|
$
|
536.8
|
$
|
538.6
|
—
|
|||||||
|
Environmental & Infrastructure
|
202.1
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228.0
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(11
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)%
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Total net sales
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$
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738.9
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$
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766.6
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(4
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)%
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Income from operations
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$
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122.0
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$
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111.1
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10
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%
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||||||
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% of net sales
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16.5
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%
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14.5
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%
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Worldwide sales in the Engineered Solutions segment decreased to $738.9 million from $766.6 million in the prior year. High-Temperature Technologies'
sales remained flat at $536.8 million as compared to $538.6 million in the prior year. Environmental & Infrastructure sales decreased 11%
to $202.1 million from $228.0
million in the prior year
due to continued weakness in commercial construction markets and large-scale environmental project activity.
Income from operations was $122.0
million and 16.5% of net sales as compared to $111.1
million and 14.5% of sales in the prior year. Included in income from operations for the nine months ended October 1, 2023 are $3.2 million of restructuring
expenses.
Liquidity and Capital Resources
Cash provided from operations during the nine
months ended September 29, 2024, was approximately $166.0 million. Cash flows provided from operations during the first nine months of 2024
were principally used to fund capital expenditures, repay debt, repurchase shares, and to pay the Company’s dividend to common shareholders. The aggregate maturities of long-term debt are as follows: remainder of 2024 - $10.8 million; 2025 - $31.7 million; 2026 - $41.9 million; 2027 - $443.7 million; 2028 - $400.0 million; thereafter - $0.0 million.
On August 11, 2022, the Company entered into a Refinancing Facility Agreement (the “Amendment”) to amend the Company’s previous credit
agreement (the “Previous Credit Agreement”; the previous credit agreement, as amended by the Amendment, being the “Amended Credit Agreement”). The Amendment provides for, among other things, a new senior secured revolving credit facility with aggregate
commitments of $300 million (the “Revolving Facility”), a portion of which may be used for the issuance of letters of credit and swingline loans, and a new senior secured term loan facility with aggregate commitments of $550 million (the “Term Loan
Facility” and, together with the Revolving Facility, the “Senior Secured Credit Facilities”). The Revolving Facility and the Term Loan Facility replace the facilities under the Previous Credit Agreement, which provided for, among other things, a $788
million senior secured floating rate term loan facility and a $300 million senior secured revolving credit facility. The maturity date for loans under the Senior Secured Credit Facilities is August 11, 2027.
Loans under the
Senior Secured Credit Facilities
will bear interest at a rate equal to, at the election of the Company, Term SOFR plus a credit spread adjustment equal to 0.100% plus an applicable margin equal to 1.500% per
annum or a base rate plus an applicable margin equal to 0.500% per annum, subject in each case to (a) an increase of 25 basis points in the event that, and for so long as, the net leverage ratio (as defined in the Amended Credit Agreement) is greater
than or equal to 3.00 to 1.00 as of the last day of the preceding fiscal quarter, (b) a decrease of 12.5 basis points in the event that, and for so long as, the net leverage ratio is less than 2.00 to 1.00 and greater than or equal to 1.00 to 1.00 as
of the last day of the preceding fiscal quarter and (c) an decrease of 25 basis points in the event that, and for so long as, the net leverage ratio is less than 1.00 to 1.00 as of the last day of the preceding fiscal quarter. The Company will pay
certain fees under the Amended Credit Agreement, including (a) a commitment fee of 0.250% per annum on the undrawn portion of the Revolving Facility (subject to a step-up to 0.300% and step-downs to 0.175% and 0.150% at the same levels described
above), (b) a fronting fee of 0.125% per annum on the average daily undrawn amount of, plus unreimbursed amounts in respect of disbursements under, letters of credit issued under the Revolving Facility and (c) customary annual administration fees.
The obligations of the Company under the
Senior Secured Credit Facilities
are unconditionally guaranteed jointly and severally by, subject to certain exceptions, all
material domestic subsidiaries of the Company (the “Guarantors”) and secured, subject to certain exceptions, by a security interest in substantially all of the tangible and intangible assets of the Company and the Guarantors. In the third quarter of
2023, the Company’s subsidiaries Oldco and BVT were removed as borrowers under, and Guarantors of, the
Senior Secured Credit Facilities
.
As of September 29, 2024,
there were $60.0 million in loans and $9.2
million in letters of credit outstanding under the Revolving Facility.
On June 30, 2020, the Company issued $
400
million aggregate principal amount of
5.0%
Senior Notes due 2028 (the “Notes”). The Notes were issued pursuant to
an indenture, dated as of June 30, 2020, between the Company and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as trustee (the “Indenture”). The Notes bear an interest rate of
5.0%
per annum payable semi-annually on January 1 and July 1 of each year, beginning on January 1, 2021. The Notes
are unconditionally guaranteed on a senior unsecured basis by each of the Company’s existing and future wholly owned domestic restricted subsidiaries that is a borrower under or that guarantees the Company’s obligations under its Senior Secured
Credit Facilities or that guarantees the Company’s or any of the Company’s wholly owned domestic subsidiaries’ long-term indebtedness in an aggregate amount in excess of $
50
million. In the third quarter of 2023, the Company’s subsidiaries Oldco and BVT were removed as guarantors of
the Notes.
The Company may redeem some or all of the Notes at any time and from time to time at the applicable redemption prices listed in
the Indenture, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but excluding, the applicable redemption date.
If the Company experiences a change of control (as defined
in the indenture), the Company is required to offer to repurchase the Notes at
101%
of the principal amount of such Notes, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but excluding, the date of repurchase.
The Amended Credit Agreement and the
Indenture
both
contain certain customary affirmative and negative covenants that limit or restrict the ability of the Company and its restricted subsidiaries to enter into certain transactions or take certain actions,
as well as customary events of default
. In addition, the Amended Credit Agreement contains financial covenants that require the Company to maintain,
as of the last day of any fiscal quarter,
(x) a maximum net leverage ratio (as defined in the Amended Credit Agreement) of 4.00 to 1.00 for the four fiscal quarter period preceding such day (subject to an increase to 5.00 to
1.00 for four quarters in connection with certain significant acquisitions) and (y) a minimum interest coverage ratio (as defined in the Amended Credit Agreement) of 3.00 to 1.00. The Company is in compliance with all the covenants contained in the
Amended Credit Agreement throughout the period covered by this report.
The Company has a committed loan facility in Japan. As of September 29, 2024, $1.1 million was outstanding under this loan facility. Principal
will be repaid in accordance with the payment schedule ending in 2026. The Company repaid $0.1 million on this facility during 2024.
As part of the Concept Pet acquisition, the Company assumed $1.9 million in long-term debt, recorded at fair value, consisting of two terms loans,
one that matures in 2025 and one that matures in 2027. Both loans have annual payments and carry a variable interest rate. The Company repaid $0.1
million on these loans during 2024.
As of September 29, 2024,
the Company had $25.5 million in uncommitted short-term bank credit lines, of which none were in use.
The credit lines are primarily outside the U.S. and are generally one year in term at competitive
market rates at large, well-established institutions. The Company typically uses its available credit lines to fund working capital requirements or local capital spending needs.
We anticipate that capital expenditures for
2024
should be about $90 million, principally related to opportunities to
improve our operations and meet our strategic growth objectives.
In the second quarter of 2023, the Company entered into a new floating to fixed interest rate swap for a notional amount of $150 million.
The fair value of this instrument at September 29, 2024 is a liability of $0.9 million.
On October 18, 2023, the Company’s Board of Directors authorized the Company’s management to repurchase, at its discretion, up to $75
million of the Company’s shares over a one-year period. As of September 29, 2024, 990,510 shares have been repurchased under this program for $71.6 million, or an
average price of approximately $72.30 per share. This program has been completed in October 2024.
On October 16, 2024, the Company's Board of Directors authorized the Company's management to repurchase, at its discretion, up to $200
million of the Company's shares.
On October 16, 2024, the Company's Board of Directors declared a regular quarterly dividend on its common stock of $0.11 per share. No
dividend will be payable unless declared by the Board and unless funds are legally available for payment thereof.
The Company is required to make future payments under various contracts, including debt agreements and lease agreements. The Company also
has commitments to fund its pension plans and provide payments for other postretirement benefit plans. During the nine months ended September 29, 2024, there were no material changes in the Company’s contractual obligations.
The Company and certain of the Company’s subsidiaries are
among numerous defendants in over six hundred cases seeking damages for alleged exposure to asbestos-contaminated talc products sold by the Company’s subsidiary Oldco. The Company’s position is that these cases are meritless and all talc products
sold by Oldco are safe. On October 2, 2023 (the “Petition Date”), notwithstanding the Company’s confidence in the safety of Oldco’s talc products, the Chapter 11 Debtors filed voluntary petitions for relief under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy
Code in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas (the “Chapter 11 Cases”) to address and comprehensively resolve Oldco’s liabilities associated with talc. Minerals Technologies Inc. and the Company’s other subsidiaries
were not included in the Chapter 11 filing.
In the second quarter of 2024, Oldco sold its talc assets under section 363 of the
U.S.
Bankruptcy Code. In
addition, in the second quarter of 2024, the Company entered into a Debtor-in-Possession Credit Agreement with Oldco (the "DIP Credit Agreement") and recorded a provision for credit loss of $30 million for the maximum principal amount under such DIP
Credit Agreement.
Proceeds of the sale of Oldco's talc assets, as well as the funds drawn by Oldco under the DIP Credit Agreement, will be used to fund the Chapter 11 Cases.
The Chapter 11 Debtors' ultimate goal in the Chapter 11 Cases is to confirm a plan of reorganization under Section 524(g) of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code and utilize this provision of the Bankruptcy Code to establish a trust that will address all current
and future talc-related claims. In January 2024, the Chapter 11 Debtors and Minerals Technologies Inc. commenced a court-approved mediation process with the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors (appointed in the Chapter 11 Cases as the
representative of current talc claimants) and the Future Claimants Representative (appointed in the Chapter 11 Cases as the representative of future talc claimants) regarding the terms of a potential consensual plan of reorganization and the ultimate
amount to be contributed to any trust. The mediation process is ongoing, and was recently extended through December 11, 2024 (subject to further extensions). During the pendency of the Chapter 11 Cases, the Company anticipates that the Chapter 11
Debtors will benefit from the operation of the automatic stay, which stays ongoing litigation in connection with talc-related claims against Oldco. In addition, subject to certain exceptions, the filing or continued prosecution of all talc-related
claims against Oldco’s non-debtor affiliates is temporarily stayed through December 11, 2024 (subject to further extensions), the date on which a hearing is scheduled on the status of the Chapter 11 Cases. The Chapter 11 Debtors have been
deconsolidated from the Company’s financial statements since the Petition Date. Although the Chapter 11 Cases are progressing, it is not possible to predict the form of any ultimate resolution or when an ultimate resolution might occur at this time.
Accordingly, the amount that will be necessary to fully and finally resolve all of the Chapter 11 Debtors' current and future talc-related claims in connection with a confirmed Chapter 11 plan of reorganization cannot be estimated with certainty at
this time. See Note
13
to the Condensed Consolidated
Financial Statements included in this report for more information.
Cautionary Statement for “Safe Harbor” Purposes under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995
The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 provides a safe harbor for forward-looking statements made by or on behalf of the
Company. This report contains statements that the Company believes may be “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, particularly statements relating to the Company’s objectives, plans or
goals, future actions, future performance or results of current and anticipated products, sales efforts, expenditures, and financial results. From time to time, the Company also provides forward-looking statements in other publicly-released materials,
both written and oral. Forward-looking statements provide current expectations and forecasts of future events such as new products, revenues and financial performance, and are not limited to describing historical or current facts. They can be
identified by the use of words such as “outlook,” “forecast,” “believes,” “expects,” “plans,” “intends,” “anticipates,” and other words and phrases of similar meaning.
Forward-looking statements are necessarily based on assumptions, estimates and limited information available at the time they are made. A
broad variety of risks and uncertainties, both known and unknown, as well as the inaccuracy of assumptions and estimates, can affect the realization of the expectations or forecasts in these statements. Many of these risks and uncertainties are
difficult to predict or are beyond the Company’s control. Consequently, no forward-looking statement can be guaranteed. Actual future results may vary materially. Significant factors that could affect the expectations and forecasts include worldwide
general economic, business, and industry conditions; the cyclicality of our customers’ businesses and their changing regional demands; our ability to compete in very competitive industries; consolidation in customer industries, principally paper,
foundry and steel; our ability to renew or extend long term sales contracts for our satellite operations; our ability to generate cash to service our debt; our ability to comply with the covenants in the agreements governing our debt; our ability to
effectively achieve and implement our growth initiatives or consummate the transactions described in the statements; our ability to successfully develop new products; our ability to defend our intellectual property; the increased risks of doing
business abroad; the availability of raw materials and access to ore reserves at our mining operations, or increases in costs of raw materials, energy, or shipping; compliance with or changes to regulation in the areas of environmental, health and
safety, and tax; risks and uncertainties related to the voluntary petitions for relief under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code filed by our subsidiaries BMI Oldco Inc. (f/k/a Barretts Minerals Inc.) and Barretts Ventures Texas LLC; claims for
legal, environmental and tax matters or product stewardship issues; operating risks and capacity limitations affecting our production facilities; seasonality of some of our businesses; cybersecurity and other threats relating to our information
technology systems; and other risk factors set forth under “Item 1A — Risk Factors” in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023, and in Exhibit 99 to this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.
The Company undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances that arise after the date
hereof. Investors should refer to the Company’s subsequent filings under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 for further disclosures.
Recently Issued Accounting Standards
Changes to accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (U.S. GAAP) are established by the Financial
Accounting Standards Board (FASB) in the form of accounting standards updates (ASUs) to the FASB’s Accounting Standards Codification. The Company considers the applicability and impact of all ASUs. ASUs not listed below were assessed and determined to
be either not applicable or are expected to have minimal impact on our consolidated financial position and results of operations.
Segment Reporting (Topic 280): Improvements to Reportable Segment Disclosures
In November 2023, the FASB issued ASU 2023-07, “Segment Reporting (Topic 280): Improvements to Reportable Segment Disclosures”, which
requires entities to report incremental information about significant segment expenses included in a segment’s profit or loss measure, as well as the name and title of the chief operating decision maker. The guidance also requires interim disclosures
related to reportable segment profit or loss and assets that had previously only been disclosed annually. The new standard is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2023 and interim periods within fiscal years beginning after December
15, 2023. The adoption of this standard is not expected to have a material impact on the Company’s financial statements.
Income Taxes (Topic 740): Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures
In December 2023, the FASB issued ASU 2023-09, “Income Taxes (Topic 740): Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures”, that requires entities
to disclose additional information about federal, state, and foreign income taxes primarily related to the income tax rate reconciliation and income taxes paid. The new standard also eliminates certain existing disclosure requirements related to
uncertain tax positions and unrecognized deferred tax liabilities. The new standard is effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2024. The adoption of this standard is not expected to have a material impact on the Company’s financial
statements.
Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates
Our discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations are based upon our consolidated financial statements,
which have been prepared in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles. The preparation of these financial statements requires us to make estimates and judgments that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, revenues and
expenses, and related disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities.
On an ongoing basis, we evaluate our estimates and assumptions, including those related to revenue recognition, valuation of long-lived
assets, goodwill and other intangible assets, income taxes, including valuation allowances and pension plan assumptions. We base our estimates on historical experience and on other assumptions that we believe to be reasonable under the circumstances,
the results of which form the basis for making judgments about the carrying values of assets and liabilities that cannot readily be determined from other sources. There can be no assurance that actual results will not differ from those estimates.
There have been no material changes to the critical
accounting estimates that our accounting policies require us to make in the preparation of our consolidated financial statements, as described in the
2023
Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Market risk represents the risk of loss that may impact our financial position, results of operations or cash flows due to adverse changes
in market prices and foreign currency and interest rates. We are exposed to market risk because of changes in foreign currency exchange rates as measured against the U.S. dollar. We do not anticipate that near-term changes in exchange rates will have a
material impact on our future earnings or cash flows. However, there can be no assurance that a sudden and significant decline in the value of foreign currencies would not have a material adverse effect on our financial condition and results of
operations. A portion of our long-term bank debt bears interest at variable rates; therefore, our results of operations would be affected by interest rate changes to the extent of such outstanding bank debt. An immediate 10 percent change in interest
rates would have a material effect on our results of operations over the next fiscal year. A one-percent change in interest rates, inclusive of the impact of our interest rate derivatives, would result in $4.4 million in incremental interest charges on
an annual basis.
We do not enter into derivatives or other financial instruments for trading or speculative purposes. When appropriate, we enter into
derivative financial instruments, such as forward exchange contracts, hedges and interest rate swaps, to mitigate the impact of foreign exchange rate movements and interest rate movements on our operating results. The counterparties are major financial
institutions. Such forward exchange contracts, hedges and interest rate swaps would not subject us to additional risk from exchange rate or interest rate movements because gains and losses on these contracts would offset losses and gains on the assets,
liabilities, and transactions being hedged.
In the second quarter of 2023, the Company entered into a floating to fixed interest rate swap for a notional amount of $150 million. The
fair value of this instrument at September 29, 2024 is a liability of $0.9 million.
Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures
As of the end of the period covered by this report, and under the supervision and with participation of the Company’s management,
including the Chief Executive Officer and the Chief Financial Officer, the Company carried out an evaluation of the effectiveness of the design and operation of the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures, pursuant to Exchange Act Rule 13a-15(b).
Based upon that evaluation, the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer concluded that as of the end of the period covered by this report the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures were effective.
Changes in Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
There were no changes in the Company’s internal controls over financial reporting during the quarter ended September 29, 2024 that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.
PART II – OTHER INFORMATION
From time to time, the Company and its subsidiaries are the
subject of various legal actions and claims arising in the ordinary course of their businesses. The most significant litigation facing the Company is the asbestos-related chapter 11 cases of
BMI Oldco Inc. (f/k/a Barretts Minerals Inc.) and
Barretts Ventures Texas LLC.
Additional information regarding legal proceedings is disclosed in Note
13 to the Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements included elsewhere in this report, which disclosure is incorporated herein by reference.
For a description of Risk Factors, see Exhibit 99 attached to this report. There have been no material changes to our risk factors from
those disclosed in our 2023 Annual Report on Form 10-K.
|
Total
Number
of Shares
Purchased
|
Average
Price Paid
Per Share
|
Total Number of
Shares Purchased as
Part of the Publicly
Announced Program
|
Dollar Value of
Shares that May
Yet be Purchased
Under the Program
|
|||||||||||||
|
July 1 - July 28
|
71,400
|
$
|
84.82
|
763,822
|
$
|
20,141,317
|
||||||||||
|
July 29 - August 25
|
132,100
|
$
|
73.92
|
895,922
|
$
|
10,376,089
|
||||||||||
|
August 26 - September 29
|
94,588
|
$
|
73.93
|
990,510
|
$
|
3,383,547
|
||||||||||
|
Total
|
298,088
|
$
|
76.53
|
|||||||||||||
On October 18, 2023, the Company’s Board of Directors authorized the Company’s management to repurchase, at its discretion, up to $75
million of the Company’s shares over a one-year period. As of September 29, 2024, 990,510 shares have been repurchased under this program for $71.6 million, or an
average price of approximately $72.30 per share. This program has been completed.
On October 16, 2024, the Company's Board of Directors authorized the Company's management to repurchase, at its discretion, up to $200
million of the Company's shares.
Not applicable.
The information concerning mine safety violations or other regulatory matters required by Section 1503(a) of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street
Reform and Consumer Protection Act and Item 104 of Regulation S-K is included in Exhibit 95 to this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.
During the three months ended September 29, 2024, none of our directors or executive officers
adopted
or
terminated
any Rule 10b5-1 trading arrangement or any non-Rule 10b5-1 trading arrangement
(as such terms are defined
in Item 408 of Regulation S-K).
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Exhibit Title
|
|
|
Letter Regarding Unaudited Interim Financial Information.
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|
Rule 13a-14(a)/15d-14(a) Certification executed by the Company’s principal executive officer.
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Rule 13a-14(a)/15d-14(a) Certification executed by the Company’s principal financial officer.
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||
|
Section 1350 Certifications.
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Information concerning Mine Safety Violations
|
||
|
Risk Factors
|
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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.
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Minerals Technologies Inc.
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By:
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/s/ Erik C. Aldag
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Erik C. Aldag
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Senior Vice President, Finance and Treasury,
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Chief Financial Officer
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October 25, 2024
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Part 1. Financial InformationItem 1. Financial StatementsNote 1. Basis Of Presentation and Summary Of Significant Accounting PoliciesNote 2. Revenue From Contracts with CustomersNote 3. AcquisitionsNote 4. Earnings (loss) Per Share (eps)Note 5. Restructuring and Other Items, NetNote 6. Income TaxesNote 7. InventoriesNote 8. Goodwill and Other Intangible AssetsNote 9. Derivative Financial InstrumentsNote 10. Long-term Debt and CommitmentsNote 11. Benefit PlansNote 12. Comprehensive IncomeNote 13. ContingenciesNote 14. Segment and Related InformationItem 2. Management S Discussion and Analysis Of Financial Condition and Results Of OperationsItem 3. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market RiskItem 4. Controls and ProceduresPart II Other InformationItem 1. Legal ProceedingsItem 1A. Risk FactorsItem 2. Unregistered Sales Of Equity Securities and Use Of ProceedsItem 3. Default Upon Senior SecuritiesItem 4. Mine Safety DisclosuresItem 5. Other InformationItem 6. Exhibits