Vail Resorts, Inc. reported net income for fiscal 2006 of $45.8 million, or $1.19 per diluted share, compared to net income of $23.1 million, or 64 cents per diluted share, for the 2005 fiscal year.
Income from operations for the 2006 fiscal year improved $17.0 million, or 19.3%, to $105.3 million compared to $88.3 million for the 2005 fiscal year.
Mountain revenue for the fiscal year ended July 31, 2006 was $620.4 million, a 14.7% increase from $540.9 million for the 2005 fiscal year. Mountain expense increased $51.2 million, or 13.1%, to $443.1 million. Excluding stock-based compensation expense, Mountain expense increased $47.8 million, or 12.2%, to $439.4 million.
Lodging revenue for the 2006 fiscal year decreased $40.5 million, or 20.6%, to $155.8 million compared to the 2005 fiscal year. Lodging expense decreased $34.8 million, or 19.6%, to $142.7 million. Excluding stock-based compensation expense, Lodging expense decreased $36.0 million, or 20.3%, to $141.4 million. In fiscal 2005, the Company sold the assets constituting the Vail Marriott Mountain Resort & Spa (“Vail Marriott”) and The Lodge at Rancho Mirage (“Rancho Mirage”). Additionally, in January 2006, the Company sold the assets constituting the Snake River Lodge & Spa (“SRL&S”). For the fiscal year ended July 31, 2005, the Lodging segment includes revenue of $51.6 million and operating expense of $44.8 million relating to these entities. For the fiscal year ended July 31, 2006, Lodging revenue includes revenue of $5.2 million and operating expense of $4.8 million related to SRL&S prior to its sale in January 2006. In addition, the Company retained management contracts for all three properties. Consequently, Lodging revenue includes incremental management fee revenue of $1.6 million and $60,000 for these properties for the fiscal years ended July 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively. Excluding the impact of sales of hotels and stock compensation expense, for the fiscal year ended July 31, 2006, Lodging revenue (including the incremental management fees) increased $5.9 million, or 4.1%, compared to the prior year period while expense increased $4.0 million, or 3.0%, compared to the prior year period.
Resort revenue, the combination of Mountain and Lodging revenue, for the fiscal year rose $39.0 million, or 5.3%, to $776.2 million, and Resort expense increased 2.9% to $585.8 million, up $16.5 million. Excluding stock-based compensation expense, Resort expense increased $11.8 million, or 2.1%, to $580.8 million.
Reported EBITDA for the Mountain segment improved $29.9 million, or 19.8%, to $181.2 million compared to $151.3 million for the 2005 fiscal year. Reported EBITDA excluding stock-based compensation for the Mountain segment increased $33.4 million, or 22.0%, to $184.9 million compared to $151.5 million for fiscal 2005.
Reported EBITDA for the Lodging segment decreased from $16.2 million in fiscal 2005 to $13.1 million in the current year, a decline of 19.1%. Reported EBITDA excluding stock-based compensation for the Lodging segment decreased $1.8 million, or 11.3%, to $14.4 million compared to $16.3 million for the same period last year. For the fiscal year ended July 31, 2005, Lodging Reported EBITDA includes revenue of $51.6 million and operating expense of $44.8 million related to the Vail Marriott, Rancho Mirage and SRL&S, as well as equity investment loss of $2.7 million in fiscal 2005 related to the Company's 49% interest in the joint venture that owned The Ritz-Carlton, Bachelor Gulch, prior to its sale in December 2005. For the fiscal year ended July 31, 2006, Lodging Reported EBITDA includes revenue of $5.2 million and operating expense of $4.8 million related to the SRL&S prior to its sale in January 2006. Lodging Reported EBITDA also includes incremental management fee revenue of $1.6 million related to management contracts for the Vail Marriott, Rancho Mirage and SRL&S for the fiscal year ended July 31, 2006.
Resort Reported EBITDA rose $26.8 million to $194.3 million, a 16.0% improvement over last year. Resort Reported EBITDA excluding stock-based compensation was $199.3 million, a $31.5 million, or 18.8%, improvement over the $167.8 million reported in the last fiscal year.
Mountain revenue for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2006 was $39.2 million, a 10.7% increase from $35.4 million for the comparable period last year. Mountain expense increased $8.1 million, or 12.8%, to $70.7 million. Excluding stock-based compensation expense, Mountain expense increased $7.1 million, or 11.3%, to $69.7 million.
Lodging revenue for the quarter decreased by $8.7 million, or 17.0%, to $42.5 million. Lodging expense decreased $8.5 million, or 17.0%, to $41.6 million. Excluding stock-based compensation expense, Lodging expense decreased $8.9 million, or 17.7%, to $41.3 million. For the fourth quarter of fiscal 2005, the Lodging segment included revenue of $9.1 million and operating expense of $9.9 million related to the Vail Marriott, Rancho Mirage and SRL&S. Lodging revenue also includes incremental management fee revenue of $0.3 million related to retained management contracts for these properties for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2006. Excluding the impact of the sales of hotels and stock compensation expense, Lodging revenue (including the incremental management fees) increased $0.4 million, or 0.9%, in the fourth quarter as compared to the prior year's fourth quarter while expenses increased $1.0 million, or 2.4% in the fourth quarter as compared to the prior year's fourth quarter.
Resort revenue decreased $4.9 million, or 5.7%, to $81.6 million. Resort expense decreased 0.4% to $112.4 million, down $0.5 million. Excluding stock-based compensation expense, Resort expense decreased $1.8 million, or 1.6%, to $111.0 million.
Loss from operations for the quarter increased $5.3 million, or 13.4%, to a loss of $45.0 million compared to a loss of $39.7 million for the same period last year.
Reported EBITDA for the Mountain segment decreased $3.8 million, or 13.9%, to a loss of $30.8 million compared to a loss of $27.0 million for the comparable period last year. Reported EBITDA excluding stock-based compensation for the Mountain segment decreased $2.8 million, or 10.3%, to a loss of $29.7 million compared to a loss of $27.0 million for the prior year's fourth quarter.
Reported EBITDA for the Lodging segment decreased $0.2 million, or 17.0%, from $1.0 million in the fourth quarter of the last fiscal year to $0.8 million in the current fiscal year fourth quarter. Reported EBITDA excluding stock-based compensation for the Lodging segment increased $0.2 million, or 15.6%, to $1.2 million compared to $1.0 million for the same period last year. As mentioned previously, the results for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2006 do not reflect the operations of the sold assets constituting the Vail Marriott, Rancho Mirage and SRL&S. For the fourth quarter of fiscal 2005, Lodging Reported EBITDA included revenue of $9.1 million and operating expense of $9.9 million relating to the Vail Marriott, Rancho Mirage and SRL&S. Lodging Reported EBITDA also includes incremental management fee revenue of $0.3 million related to retained management contracts for the Vail Marriott, Rancho Mirage and SRL&S for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2006.
Fourth quarter Resort Reported EBITDA decreased $3.9 million to a loss of $29.9 million, a 15.2% decline over the comparable period last year. Resort Reported EBITDA excluding stock-based compensation decreased $2.6 million, or 10.1%, to a loss of $28.5 million, as compared to a loss of $25.9 million reported in the fourth fiscal quarter of last year.
The Company reported a fourth quarter net loss of $31.3 million, or a loss of $0.80 per diluted share, compared to a net loss of $36.4 million, or a loss of $1.00 per diluted share, for the same period last year, an improvement of 14.2%. Excluding stock-based compensation expense required to be recorded pursuant to the adoption of SFAS 123R in fiscal 2006, the Company's net income for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2006 would have been a loss of $30.1 million, or a loss of $0.78 per diluted share compared to a loss of $36.4 million excluding stock-based compensation recorded pursuant to APB 25, or a loss of $1.00 per diluted share, for the same period last year, an improvement of 17.2%.
Robert Katz, Chief Executive Officer, commented “I am extremely pleased with our results for fiscal 2006. In the fourth quarter our Mountain, Lodging and Real Estate segments performed at the upper end of our expectations. For the fiscal year, we had record Resort Reported EBITDA results, which were realized primarily due to an approximate 15% increase in Mountain revenues, a significant portion of which flowed through to our bottom line. These revenue increases were caused by a combination of a 5.9% increase in skier visitation and a 6.4% increase in our effective ticket price, which included a 12.3% increase in season pass revenues. Additionally, our ancillary businesses including ski school, dining and retail/rental, also had significant revenue increases. While our Lodging revenues and Reported EBITDA were down due to the strategic sale of several hotels, we were pleased with the results from our owned hotels on a same store basis, which experienced a 6.1% increase in occupancy, a 3.9% increase in our average daily rate and a 10.4% increase in revenue per available room. As a result of all of these very positive trends, our net income nearly doubled, improving by 97.8% over our record results in the prior fiscal year, buoyed by an increase of 16% in Resort Reported EBITDA, or 18.8% excluding stock compensation expense. Clearly a portion of our strong performance was due to good early season snowfall in Colorado. However, our performance in fiscal 2006 is the third consecutive record performance in Resort EBITDA for our Company. We believe these results are primarily due to the many improvements we have made to our resorts and the continuous focus by our employees on enhancing the guest experience. Also, in the fourth quarter, we commenced repurchasing shares under the previously announced share repurchase program, resulting in the repurchase of 315,100 shares at an average price of $34.37 for a total amount of $10.8 million.”
“While we certainly have enjoyed our results of the past year, we have been busy in our efforts to continue our success in fiscal 2007. We are well along on our sales of season passes, which last year comprised 23% of our total lift revenues. To date, season pass sales have increased 22% in units and 35% in sales dollars over the same period last year. Additionally, we have launched our marketing efforts for the 2006/2007 ski season and have been seeing a significantly higher level of activity to this point, with bookings through our central reservations systems for our five mountain resorts up 24% in room nights and 32% in sales dollars. While this is clearly very strong pre-season performance, we believe that much of this strength represents earlier purchases, rather than incremental purchases.”
Katz added, “We have been making many capital improvements over the summer, including installing the new gondola at Breckenridge that will connect one of the best ski towns in the country to Peaks 7 and 8 of the second most visited ski resort in the United States. We recently received approval from the USDA Forest Service to expand our terrain at Keystone, enabling us to offer an additional 278 skiable acres of advanced and expert terrain this upcoming ski season. We are completing a major renovation at the Village of Breckenridge hotel, and have otherwise been completing many other capital investments at all of our resorts, including improvements to our on mountain dining and snowmaking capabilities. On the real estate front, we continue to make progress on our construction efforts for the Arrabelle at Vail Square, which remains on track for completion in the fall of 2007. We began closing on one of the first major developments of Vail's New Dawn, Gore Creek Place, with six townhomes closed in fiscal 2006 and the remaining ten townhomes to be closed in fiscal 2007. We also now have contracts on 10 of the 13 Lodge at Vail chalets, at an average sales price of nearly $2,400 per square foot, and construction is in full swing. We are still anticipating a launch for our Peaks of Breckenridge development this ski season, and we anticipate making significant progress on our development plans for West Lionshead, including possibly launching our first project in the upcoming year.”
Katz concluded, “We would like to take this opportunity to announce full year guidance for fiscal 2007. Given our very strong performance in fiscal 2006, we are anticipating more modest growth in fiscal 2007. Based on our current estimates, we expect full year Resort Reported EBITDA, the combination of our Mountain and Lodging segments, to range from $200 million to $210 million, and Resort Reported EBITDA excluding stock based compensation expense to range from $207 million to $217 million. The Resort guidance includes a range for Mountain Reported EBITDA of $187 million to $197 million, and Mountain Reported EBITDA excluding stock based compensation expense of $192 million to $202 million, while we expect Lodging Reported EBITDA to range from $10 million to $17 million and Lodging Reported EBITDA excluding stock based compensation expense to range from $12 million to $19 million. Fiscal 2007 for our Real Estate segment will be a construction year, with the major projects forecast to close in fiscal 2008 and beyond. As a result, our guidance is for Real Estate Reported EBITDA to range from $1 million to $5 million and Real Estate Reported EBITDA excluding stock based compensation expense to range from $3 million to $7 million. Finally, based on our current estimates, we expect net income to range from $48 million to $57 million and net income excluding stock based compensation expense to range from $53 million to $63 million.”
Vail Resorts, Inc.
Consolidated Condensed Statements of Operations
(In thousands, except per share amounts)
(Unaudited)
Three Months Ended
July 31,
2006 2005
Net revenue:
Mountain $39,163 $35,371
Lodging 42,486 51,202
Real estate 42,378 33,452
Total net revenue 124,027 120,025
Segment operating expense:
Mountain 70,729 62,679
Lodging 41,644 50,187
Real estate 32,853 25,315
Total segment operating expense 145,226 138,181
Other operating expense:
Depreciation and amortization (22,802) (20,580)
Relocation and separation charges (1,317) --
Asset impairment charges (75) (977)
Mold remediation credit 559 --
Loss on disposal of fixed assets, net (200) (9)
Loss from operations (45,034) (39,722)
Mountain equity investment income, net 792 300
Real estate equity investment income, net 711 5
Investment income, net 2,605 623
Interest expense, net (8,690) (9,565)
Loss on sale of businesses, net -- (13,043)
Contract dispute charges (2,467) --
(Loss) gain on put options, net (1,133) 417
Minority interest in loss of consolidated
subsidiaries, net 1,966 1,742
Loss before benefit for income taxes (51,250) (59,243)
Benefit for income taxes 19,987 22,808
Net loss $(31,263) $(36,435)
Per share amounts:
Basic net loss per share $(0.80) $(1.00)
Diluted net loss per share $(0.80) $(1.00)
Other Data:
Mountain Reported EBITDA $(30,774) $(27,008)
Mountain Reported EBITDA excluding
stock-based compensation $(29,742) $(26,958)
Lodging Reported EBITDA $842 $1,015
Lodging Reported EBITDA excluding
stock-based compensation $1,193 $1,032
Resort Reported EBITDA $(29,932) $(25,993)
Resort Reported EBITDA excluding
stock-based compensation $(28,549) $(25,926)
Real Estate Reported EBITDA $10,236 $8,142
Real Estate Reported EBITDA excluding
stock-based compensation $10,677 $8,160
Skier Visits
Vail -- -- 0.0% 1,676 1,568 6.9%
Breckenridge -- -- 0.0% 1,620 1,471 10.1%
Heavenly -- 7 (100.0)% 1,023 1,065 (3.9)%
Keystone -- -- 0.0% 1,094 1,021 7.1%
Beaver Creek -- -- 0.0% 875 815 7.4%
Total Skier
Visits -- 7 (100.0)% 6,288 5,940 5.9%
