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Educational Development Corporation (EDUC)

Q1 2020 Earnings Call· Wed, Jul 17, 2019

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Operator

Operator

Good day, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Educational Development, First Quarter Fiscal Year 2020 Results Conference Call.At this time all participants are in a listen-only mode. Later we will conduct the question-and-answer session and instructions will follow at that time. [Operator Instructions]. As a reminder, this conference call is being recorded.I would now like to turn the conference over to your host, Mr. Randall White, Chief Executive Officer and President. Sir, you may begin.

Randall White

Analyst

Thank you, Valarie. Welcome to the call gentlemen and ladies. Here with me today, I want to introduce Craig White, our Chief Operating Officer and also Dan O'Keefe, our Chief Financial Officer, and I think we are going to start with Dan. He’ll give you a highlight of the previous earnings release.

Dan O'Keefe

Analyst

Thank you, Randall. As a recap of our earnings for the quarter, net revenues for the first quarter of fiscal 2020 were approximately $27.6 million, down $2.4 million or 8% from approximately $30 million reported in the first quarter of fiscal 2019.Earnings before income taxes totaled approximately $1.8 million, a decrease of $0.6 million or 26% from approximately $2.5 million in the first quarter of fiscal 2019.Pre-tax profit as a percentage of net revenues were 6.7% in the first quarter of fiscal 2020, compared to 8.3% reported in the first quarter of fiscal 2019. Net earnings in the first quarter of fiscal 2020 totaled approximately $1.4 million, a decrease of $0.4 million or 25% from approximately $1.8 million in the first quarter of fiscal 2019.Earnings per share on a fully diluted basis decreased $0.05 a share or 23% from $0.22 per share reported in the first quarter of fiscal 2019 to $0.17 per share reported in the first quarter of fiscal 2020.This concludes our earnings results and I’ll pass the call back to Randall.

Randall White

Analyst

Okay Dan, thanks. Well, investors this is a first quarter that I've had report reclined [ph] sales in a very long time. This is not an indication of where we're headed for the fiscal year beyond, I don't think, because we continue to expect grow in both divisions of the company actually.The decline, was in the – to explain what happened, the decline resulted from a very successful recruiting program in February of 2018 which was in the quarter we are comparing to and we had 8,800 new consultants that month and pretty much that resulted in the 10% of revenue built for the quarter.So we actually grew our average consultants between quarter four last year and quarter one of this year. So that big negative comparison in the first quarter is not likely in the remaining quarters. But as I told you guys before, the average number of active consultants is not exactly a firm number, but it is a guideline. But we’ll tell you that we've had a very successful current recruiting effort and so far halfway through the month we are up about, more like 400% over the same month last year, July. So we are having another very nice surge in recruiting and I think it's coming from the fact that we had a very successful national convention.The commission unit also this year, which we have it every year, we had attendance; it was up about 40% at 1,700 people here. That's pretty significant in the fact that of course they pay their way to come here, that’s all expense to the consultant to attend, so that’s 1,700 people who want to do better, apparently.So that’s very encouraging that that’s up 40% over last year, and again the recruiting special. We left them with encouraging reports…

Randall White

Analyst

So I must have answered every question you ever want to know about the company in the quarter and where we’re headed.Okay, I hope that’s the answer and not lack of interest. We're optimistic here guys. It's a tough business, a lot tougher than it used to be. We have to fact things that have nothing to do with us like other companies in the industry that have had different problems than we do and we don't have those kind of problems. There are other companies in the industry that may not operate as effectively as we do and that’s having effects on us, but when you're in the direct selling industry sometimes we get painted with the same brush.So apparently there's no questions. So guys, thank you very much for listening and we'll report on our next quarter.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, this does conclude today’s conference. Thank you for your participation. You may all disconnect.

Randall White

Analyst

Thank you, Valarie.

Operator

Operator

You’re welcome. Have a great day!