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FRP Holdings, Inc. (FRPH)

Q2 2018 Earnings Call· Sun, Aug 5, 2018

$21.61

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Operator

Operator

Excuse me, everyone, we now have John Baker in conference, Executive Chairman and CEO of FRP Holdings, Inc. [Operator Instructions]. I would now like to turn today's call over to Mr. John Baker. Sir, you may begin.

John Baker

Analyst

Thank you. Welcome, and as she said, my name is John Baker, and I'm Chairman of FRP Holdings. On the line with me today are David deVilliers, our President; John Milton, our CFO; and John Klopfenstein, our CAO. Before we begin, let me remind you that any statements on this conference call which relate to the future or are, by their nature, subject to risk and uncertainties that could cause actual results and events to differ materially from those indicated in such forward-looking statements. These include risks, listed from time to time in our SEC filings, including, but not limited to, our annual and quarterly reports. As you all have seen, we generated a gain of $165,333,000 before taxes from the sale of our warehouses. We have accrued $44,660,000 in taxes, which we will try to [indiscernible] through 1031 in other departments. This leaves us with a net income of $120,465,000 from the sale and $311,000 of cash before tax payments, which we will begin to deploy. As we stated in our press release, the good news is that we believe we sold at peak values, but we certainly don't want to buy and redeploy our money at peak values. The way we're addressing this is to buy and develop property. This is how we have built our company [Technical Difficulty] Baltimore management team through real core confidence. Let me pause and turn the conversation over to David deVilliers. I've asked him to focus on the strategy for your company going forward. David?

David deVilliers

Analyst

Thank you, John, and good day to those on this call this afternoon. As one can see from John's opening remarks, we had a busy and, I must say, quite a productive quarter in all of our business segments. Relative to our Asset Management segment, I would say something similar to my comments for the previous quarter, which would be that in light of John's comment with regard to the successful culmination of the sale of our warehouse platform, which made up all of this business segment with the exception of 3 office buildings, I'll pass on any furthering mention of the metrics for this quarter as they are somewhat inconsequential. I am, however, happy to provide them during the Q&A, if asked. As to our other business segments, the Mining and Royalty segment enjoyed 12.1% increase in its revenues for the quarter just ended over the same period last year, increasing $222,000 to $2,055,000. Total operating profit in this segment was $1,866,000, an increase of 11.5% also over the same period last year. These positive quarter-over-quarter results were mainly due to multiple increases in tonnages sold at locations throughout our program. The most worthy being the Manassas and Tyrone, combined with the negative adjustments through royalties and tons for the same quarter ended June of 2017, as a result of an overstatement earlier in the year by one of our tenants. We remain positive for this segment. Demand for homes still exceed supply and unemployment remains historically low. This demand for construction combined with full employment translates into labor shortages and a backlog of projects that we believe will keep demand, for aggregate, steady. With respect to the Land Development and Construction, this business segment is the main driver behind our growth. And as John mentioned in his opening…

John Baker

Analyst

Thanks, David. We are excited about these projects that we've identified that, as David mentioned, each requires significant due diligence, which we will be exercising over the next few [indiscernible]. Our new organization is smaller, but it is [indiscernible]. We can do these projects and continue the company's growth. We are very focused on being good stewards of the cash proceeds, sale, and I hope we can find good projects to pursue. The recovery is long in the tooth, however, and if we can't find projects with real potential value, we will return the unused proceeds to our shareholders. Now let me turn it over to you all for questions.

Operator

Operator

[Operator Instructions] And our first question is going to come from [Curtis Johnson].

Unidentified Analyst

Analyst

Question going to Dock 79. I guess, MRP is still there. There interest is still about 33%?

John Baker

Analyst

Yes.

Unidentified Analyst

Analyst

And do you get the sense that they're still happy holders?

John Baker

Analyst

Yes. Yes. They are very, very much long-term holders.

Unidentified Analyst

Analyst

Okay. And can you give us a sense of what kind of the supply and demand fundamentals in terms of multifamily around the Riverfront in, and the yards? And there'd be any little update there?

John Baker

Analyst

David, why don't you answer that?

David deVilliers

Analyst

Certainly. John, Thank you. Extreme traffic, great velocity down there. The Southeast is, still seems to be one of the greater places for the younger world to spend time. The yards was, as you may know, was right next towards doing fairly well. Restaurants, the critical mass continues to grow, which actually helps and supports all of the development that we not only have, but what we look forward to going forward.

Unidentified Analyst

Analyst

Okay. And I guess, in the June quarter, is there a construction loan for, I guess, the Maryland you're calling it now, what I'm still calling Potomac 71, but I guess, it's the Maryland, is it, there is a construction loan at this point?

David deVilliers

Analyst

Yes, sir.

Unidentified Analyst

Analyst

And is that off balance sheet? Or is that on the company's balance sheet?

John Baker

Analyst

It's off balance sheet, but there have not been any draws at this time.

Unidentified Analyst

Analyst

Okay. And what's the total facility?

John Baker

Analyst

$71 million. David, is that right?

David deVilliers

Analyst

Yes, sir.

Unidentified Analyst

Analyst

Okay. And will there be any other financing other than that construction loan to, I'm trying to remember on Dock 79, you also used some supplemental financing to your bank, to your construction loan?

John Baker

Analyst

There was an EB-5 program on Phase 1. There is not one in Phase 2. There is a preferred equity program that's in place that we supply.

Unidentified Analyst

Analyst

Okay. Well, that's great. I guess, just the kind of the last thing is, I, seems, moving out of the Washington area, it seems like a lot of homebuilders are hungry for land these days. Do you have any comments on things in your portfolio that might be of interest to homebuilders looking for land or…

John Baker

Analyst

Well, I can answer part of that, and that is relative up in the Baltimore area. As you could see, we have 2 land development projects that are for residential lots. We have a lot of interest from national homebuilders in both of those. But we still have to go through and complete the entitlement process before we can really get serious with them.

Unidentified Analyst

Analyst

Okay. And I was just sort of thinking maybe down in Florida or other places, whether you see any kind of increased appetite for blocks of plans from homebuilders or anything that could be relevant to stuff that you all owned?

John Baker

Analyst

We really don't have anything that would be relevant. I don't think…

Unidentified Analyst

Analyst

Not at this point. I mean, okay. All right. Keep up the great work. And it's, I think it's a fantastic time to be sitting around with a lot of liquidity. So good for you guys.

John Baker

Analyst

Thanks a lot. Appreciate it.

David deVilliers

Analyst

Thank you, Curtis.

Operator

Operator

[Operator Instructions] There are no further questions in the queue. At this time, I would like to turn today's call back over to Mr. John Baker.

John Baker

Analyst

Thank you all for joining us. We really appreciate your interest in the company, and we look forward to talking to you next quarter.

Operator

Operator

Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. This concludes today's teleconference. You may now disconnect.