Triumph Group Inc. Reports Operating Results (10-Q)

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Aug 06, 2010
Triumph Group Inc. (TGI, Financial) filed Quarterly Report for the period ended 2010-06-30.

Triumph Group Inc. has a market cap of $1.25 billion; its shares were traded at around $74.83 with a P/E ratio of 14.3 and P/S ratio of 1. The dividend yield of Triumph Group Inc. stocks is 0.2%. Triumph Group Inc. had an annual average earning growth of 7.3% over the past 10 years.TGI is in the portfolios of Private Capital of Private Capital Management, Arnold Schneider of Schneider Capital Management, Richard Pzena of Pzena Investment Management LLC, Chuck Royce of Royce& Associates, Bruce Kovner of Caxton Associates, Kenneth Fisher of Fisher Asset Management, LLC, Steven Cohen of SAC Capital Advisors.

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Segment operating income increased by $14.3 million, or 32.2%, to $58.5 million for the quarter ended June 30, 2010 from $44.3 million for the quarter ended June 30, 2009. The segment operating income increase was a direct result of contributions from the acquisition of Vought and the fiscal 2010 acquisitions ($8.7 million), as well as improvement in organic gross margin ($3.0 million), decreased legal expenses ($2.0 million) including the net recovery of $0.8 million of prior legal costs and a favorable settlement of a retroactive pricing agreement, offset by costs related to the signing of a collective bargaining agreement.

Corporate expenses increased by $19.3 million, or 301.5%, to $25.7 million for the quarter ended June 30, 2010 from $6.4 million for the quarter ended June 30, 2009. Corporate expenses included $17.4 million of non-recurring acquisition-related transaction and integration costs associated with the acquisition of Vought. The remaining corporate expense increase was impacted by higher salaries and bonus ($3.4 million) due to increased corporate head count as compared to the prior year period and an increase of $0.2 million of start up costs related to the Mexican facility compared to the prior year period.

Loss from discontinued operations before income taxes was $0.3 million for the quarter ended June 30, 2010 compared with a loss from discontinued operations before income taxes of $5.4 million, for the quarter ended June 30, 2009, which includes an impairment charge of $2.5 million. The benefit for income taxes was $0.1 million for the quarter ended June 30, 2010 compared to a benefit of $1.9 million in the prior year period.

Aerospace Systems: The Aerospace Systems segment net sales increased by $86.9 million, or 33.4%, to $346.9 million for the quarter ended June 30, 2010 from $260.0 million for the quarter ended June 30, 2009. The increase was primarily due to the additional sales associated with the acquisition of Vought and fiscal 2010 acquisitions of $83.5 million, in addition to organic sales growth of $3.4 million.

Aerospace Systems segment operating income increased by $12.6 million, or 30.0%, to $54.4 million for the quarter ended June 30, 2010 from $41.8 million for the quarter ended June 30, 2009. Operating income increased due to contributions from the acquisition of Vought and the fiscal 2010 acquisitions ($8.7 million), as well as decreases in litigation ($2.0 million) and a favorable settlement of a retroactive pricing agreement, offset by costs related to the signing of a collective bargaining agreement.

Aftermarket Services segment operating income increased by $1.7 million, or 70.1%, to $4.1 million for the quarter ended June 30, 2010 from $2.4 million for the quarter ended June 30, 2009. Operating income increased primarily due to increased sales volume as described above, as well as an increase in gross margin of approximately 1% as a result of increased efficiencies in production associated with the higher volume of work and decreased salaries ($0.7 million) due to lower headcounts. In addition, the prior year period included $0.3 million in expenses incurred to shut down a service facility in Austin, Texas. The results of our Phoenix, Arizona APU operations were accretive to the segments results.

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