Interface Inc. Reports Operating Results (10-K)

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Mar 17, 2011
Interface Inc. (IFSIA, Financial) filed Annual Report for the period ended 2011-01-02.

Interface Inc. has a market cap of $1.06 billion; its shares were traded at around $16.4125 with a P/E ratio of 26.8 and P/S ratio of 1.1. The dividend yield of Interface Inc. stocks is 0.5%. Interface Inc. had an annual average earning growth of 5.1% over the past 10 years.

Highlight of Business Operations:

Aggregate market value of the voting and non-voting stock held by non-affiliates of the registrant as of July 2, 2010 (assuming conversion of Class B Common Stock into Class A Common Stock): $607,508,423 (57,747,949 shares valued at the last sales price of $10.52 on July 2, 2010). See Item 12.

We are a worldwide leader in design, production and sales of modular carpet, and a manufacturer, marketer and servicer of select other floorcovering products for the commercial, institutional and residential markets. In recent years, modular carpet sales growth in the floorcovering industry has significantly outpaced the growth of the overall industry, as architects, designers and end users increasingly recognized the unique and superior attributes of modular carpet, including its dynamic design capabilities, greater economic value (which includes lower costs as a result of reduced waste in both installation and replacement), and installation ease and speed. Our Modular Carpet segment sales, which do not include modular carpet sales in our Bentley Prince Street segment, grew from $763.7 million to $862.3 million during the 2006 to 2010 period, representing a 3% compound annual growth rate.

Capitalizing on our leadership in modular carpet for the corporate office segment, we are executing a market diversification strategy to increase our presence and market share for modular carpet in non-corporate office market segments, such as government, education, healthcare, hospitality and retail space, which combined are almost twice the size of the approximately $1 billion U.S. corporate office segment. Our diversification strategy also targets the approximately $11 billion U.S. residential market segment for carpet. As a result of our efforts, our mix of corporate office versus non-corporate office modular carpet sales in the Americas was 44% and 56%, respectively, for 2010. Company-wide, our mix of corporate office versus non-corporate office sales was 56% and 44%, respectively, in 2010. We believe the appeal and utilization of modular carpet is growing in each of these non-corporate office segments, and we are using our considerable skills and experience with designing, producing and marketing modular products that make us the market leader in the corporate office segment to support and facilitate our penetration into these segments around the world.

Strong Operating Leverage Position. Our operating leverage, which we define as our ability to realize profit on incremental sales, is strong and allows us to increase earnings at a higher rate than our rate of increase in net sales. Our operating leverage position is primarily a result of (1) the specified, high-end nature and premium positioning of our principal products in the marketplace, and (2) the mix of fixed and variable costs in our manufacturing processes that allow us to increase production of most of our products without significant increases in capital expenditures or fixed costs. For example, while net sales from our Modular Carpet segment increased from $646.2 million in 2005 to $930.7 million in 2007 (a period in which our industry and business were recovering from a prior downturn), our operating income from that segment increased from $77.4 million (12.0% of net sales) in 2005 to $133.7 million (14.4% of net sales) in 2007.

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