MGP Ingredients Inc. (MGPI, Financial) filed Annual Report for the period ended 2010-06-30.
Mgp Ingredients Inc. has a market cap of $116.4 million; its shares were traded at around $6.99 with a P/E ratio of 8.6 and P/S ratio of 0.5. MGPI is in the portfolios of Jim Simons of Renaissance Technologies LLC, Chuck Royce of Royce& Associates.
· During fiscal 2010, we sold certain assets of our flour mill facility in Atchison for $671. We also sold certain assets related to our wheat gluten and wheat starch processing facility in Pekin, Illinois for approximately $1,000.
We are concentrating our efforts on the development, production and commercialization of value-added ingredient solutions, consisting of specialty, value-added wheat proteins and wheat starches, and high quality beverage and food grade industrial alcohol. The steps that we have taken to focus our business on the production of value-added products have improved our operating performance. As a result of the measures we have taken, combined with lower raw material and natural gas costs, operating costs have been reduced, and cash flows from operating activities have increased from $3,158 in fiscal 2009 to $32,667 in fiscal 2010. As a result of the improvement in our operating cash flow, combined with proceeds from the sale of our Kansas City facility and a 50% interest in ICP, tax refunds that we received in fiscal 2010 and proceeds from sales of assets from our closed Atchison flour mill and former Pekin protein and starch facility, we have been able to reduce our outstanding indebtedness from $30,612 on July 1, 2009 to $2,771 on June 30, 2010.
In June 2010 our Board approved a capital project designed to provide environmental benefits at our Atchison, Kansas distillery operations. This project consists of the installation of a new, state-of-the-art process water cooling system to replace older equipment used to supply water for multiple components of the distillation process. The project began in the summer of fiscal 2010 and is expected to be completed by the end of September 2011. We originally estimated that this project would cost $7,400, but currently estimate the total cost at $8,500.
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Mgp Ingredients Inc. has a market cap of $116.4 million; its shares were traded at around $6.99 with a P/E ratio of 8.6 and P/S ratio of 0.5. MGPI is in the portfolios of Jim Simons of Renaissance Technologies LLC, Chuck Royce of Royce& Associates.
Highlight of Business Operations:
· On November 20, 2009 we completed a series of transactions whereby we contributed our Pekin plant to a newly-formed company, ICP, and then sold 50% of the membership interest in this company to ICP Holdings, an affiliate of SEACOR Energy, Inc., for $15,000 cash ($13,951 net of closing costs). ICP reactivated distillery operations at the Pekin facility during the third quarter ended March 31, 2010. We purchase food grade alcohol products manufactured by ICP, and SEACOR Energy, Inc. purchases fuel grade alcohol products manufactured by it. By entering the joint venture arrangement, we recovered a portion of our investment in the Pekin plant and enhanced our ability to supply our food grade alcohol customers with quality product. Although we retain some exposure to the volatility of the fuel grade alcohol market through our investment in ICP, we have an opportunity to participate when the economics of that market are good, and we believe that the extent of our exposure to bad markets is significantly less than when we operated Pekin ourselves. Further, we have the ability, through the termination provisions in the limited liability company agreement, to limit our operating losses by causing ICP to shut down the plant if losses reach specified amounts. See - Joint Ventures.· During fiscal 2010, we sold certain assets of our flour mill facility in Atchison for $671. We also sold certain assets related to our wheat gluten and wheat starch processing facility in Pekin, Illinois for approximately $1,000.
We are concentrating our efforts on the development, production and commercialization of value-added ingredient solutions, consisting of specialty, value-added wheat proteins and wheat starches, and high quality beverage and food grade industrial alcohol. The steps that we have taken to focus our business on the production of value-added products have improved our operating performance. As a result of the measures we have taken, combined with lower raw material and natural gas costs, operating costs have been reduced, and cash flows from operating activities have increased from $3,158 in fiscal 2009 to $32,667 in fiscal 2010. As a result of the improvement in our operating cash flow, combined with proceeds from the sale of our Kansas City facility and a 50% interest in ICP, tax refunds that we received in fiscal 2010 and proceeds from sales of assets from our closed Atchison flour mill and former Pekin protein and starch facility, we have been able to reduce our outstanding indebtedness from $30,612 on July 1, 2009 to $2,771 on June 30, 2010.
In June 2010 our Board approved a capital project designed to provide environmental benefits at our Atchison, Kansas distillery operations. This project consists of the installation of a new, state-of-the-art process water cooling system to replace older equipment used to supply water for multiple components of the distillation process. The project began in the summer of fiscal 2010 and is expected to be completed by the end of September 2011. We originally estimated that this project would cost $7,400, but currently estimate the total cost at $8,500.
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