Pitch A Tent With Camping World Stock

 | Nov 01, 2021 07:27AM ET

Camping and recreational vehicle (RV) dealer Camping World Holdings (NYSE:CWH) stock has been retracing as the post-pandemic recreation and camping market . Prudent investors seeking exposure in this segment can watch for opportunistic pullbacks in shares of Camping World.

h2 Q2 FY 2021 Earnings Release /h2

On Aug. 3, 2021, Camping World Holdings released its fiscal second-quarter 2021 results for the quarter ending June 2021. The Company reported a profit of $2.51 per share beating analyst estimates for $2.38 per share by $0.13 per share. Revenues rose 25.4% year-over-year (YoY) to $2.01 billion falling short of the $2.08 billion consensus analyst estimates. Adjusted EBITDA hit a record $333.3 million representing a 51% increase, and adjusted EBITDA margin was 16.2%, up from 13.7% in the year ago same period.

The Company repurchased 1.15 million shares at an average of $39.55 under its share repurchase program expiring on Oct. 1, 2022 with approximately $33 million remaining. Camping World CEO Marcus Lemonis commented on raised full-year 2021 guidance, “Our team’s strong performance for the quarter has allowed us to reach a Company high Trailing Twelve-Month Adjusted EBITDA of $831 million. As a result, we are raising our 2021 fiscal year guidance of Adjusted EBITDA of $770 million to $810 million to a revised Adjusted EBITDA of $840 million to $860 million.”

h2 Conference Call Takeaways/h2

CEO Lemonis set the tone,

“As we celebrate Camping World and Good Sam's 55th year in business, we continue to be astounded by the insatiable desire that Americans have for experiential travel, exploration of this country and most importantly a community of connection with others, that desire resulted in our company's best quarter in its history.”

He detailed,

“We ended the quarter with $322 million of cash, consisting of $192 million of cash and cash equivalents and $139 million of cash in our floor plan offset account. Additionally, we had $468 million of working capital with more than half, made up of used RV inventory without a related floor plan financing. And lastly, we have $191 million of real estate without related mortgage financing. With respect to our operational results, we ended June with over 2.2 million Good Sam members. This represents nearly 150,000 additional members compared to June of last year.

"Heading into this year, we knew there was a huge opportunity with our Good Sam credit card. We made a big shift and brought in a specialized team to focus on this area of our business. We set a goal of 10% annual growth. Year-to-date, our file-size has grown to north of a quarter of a million active account holders, an increase of nearly 19% compared to June of 2020. Our Good Sam RV Valuator tool fuels our growth in the used RV inventory and provides what we believe is a huge competitive advantage. We ended June with nearly 216 million of used RV inventory, more than double Q2 of last year.

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CEO Lemonis concluded,

“In the second quarter, we added nine new locations to our footprint. Today, we operate in 187 locations. I couldn't be more excited about our future. We anticipate demand will remain strong in the foreseeable future, as our viewing has become way more mainstream. Our team will execute the operational plan to attract the next generation over the years [to] expand Good Sam and drive innovation in the industry to reach our internal goal of generating $1 billion of annual adjusted EBITDA. As we continue to work towards that goal. Our trailing 12-month annual adjusted EBITDA as of June 30, 2021 was $831 million. We are now increasing our full-year adjusted EBITDA estimates to between $840 million and $860 million.”