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Teekay Corporation (TK)

Q4 2021 Earnings Call· Thu, Feb 24, 2022

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Operator

Operator

00:05 Welcome to Teekay Corporation's Fourth Quarter and Fiscal 2021 Earnings Results Conference Call. During the call, all participants will be in a listen-only mode. Afterwards, you will be invited to participate in a question-and-answer session. [Operator Instructions] As a reminder, this call is being recorded. 00:32 Now, for opening remarks and introductions, I would like to turn the call over to the company. Please go ahead.

Ryan Hamilton

Analyst

00:39 Before we begin, I would like to direct all participants to our website at www.teekay.com, where you will find a copy of the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2021 earnings presentation. Teekay’s President and CEO, Kenneth Hvid and Teekay’s CFO, Vince Lok will review this presentation during today’s conference call. 00:57 Please allow me to remind you that our discussion today contains forward-looking statements. Actual results may differ materially from results projected by those forward-looking statements. Additional information concerning factors that could cause actual results to materially differ from those in the forward-looking statements is contained in the fourth quarter fiscal year 2021 earnings release and presentation available on our website. With that, I will now turn the call over to Vince to begin.

Vince Lok

Analyst

01:22 Thanks, Ryan. Good morning, everyone and thank you for joining us today for Teekay Corporation's fourth quarter and fiscal 2021 earnings conference call. Before I hand the call over to Kenneth, I will briefly review our financial results. 01:36 Starting with the recent highlights on slide 3 of the presentation. In the fourth quarter, we reported a consolidated adjusted profit of $8 million or $0.08 per share, up from $95,000 in the prior quarter. We also generated total adjusted EBITDA of $182 million, up from $165 million in the previous quarter. Our Q4 results were stronger mainly due to a modest improvement in spot tanker rates. In fiscal year 2021, we reported a consolidated adjusted net profit of $20 million or $0.19 per share compared to $83 million or $0.82 per share in the prior year, and generated total adjusted EBITDA of $721 million compared to $1.1 billion in the prior year. This decrease primarily reflects the exceptionally strong tanker market in the first half of 2020. 02:35 Please note that our consolidated net income and total adjusted EBITDA results for Q4 and fiscal 2021 include Teekay LNG, even though Teekay LNG's results are presented as discontinued operations in our financial statements. On January 13 of this year we successfully completed the sale of all of our interest in Teekay LNG to Stonepeak, bringing in gross cash proceeds of approximately $641 million to Teekay Parent. Upon closing the sale, we expeditiously eliminated approximately $330 million of high-cost debt ranging between 5% and 9.25%. Teekay Parent is now largely debt free with a net cash position of over $300 million. 03:25 Looking ahead to Q1, we expect our consolidated results to be lower as a result of the sale of our interest in Teekay LNG in mid-January 2022, partially offset by significantly lower interest expense due to Teekay Parent now being largely debt free. For guidance on our first quarter results, please refer to the appendix of this presentation. 03:48 With that, I will now turn the call over to Kenneth.

Kenneth Hvid

Analyst

03:53 Thanks, Vince. And good morning everyone. Turning to Slide 4, I will comment on the steps we have taken the past year to position Teekay for the future. We expanded our asset light marine services business in Australia through a new strategic long-term contract with the Australian Government Department of Defense in September last year. We've had a presence in Australia since 1997 and we are now providing services for 9 Australian government vessels, which provides a solid and profitable foundation to further grow this business. 04:26 We continue to wind down our FPSO business, starting with the balance of the decommissioning of the unit is now completed and we are nearing completion of the recycling of the unit in Europe. We're now planning for the decommissioning of our remaining 2 FPSOs, we received the formal notifications from our customers and expect the contracts to end of -- on the Hummingbird and Foinaven in May and August 2022, respectively. Hummingbird’s decommissioning process is well advanced and relatively straightforward. The Foinaven decommissioning and recycling cost is expected to be largely covered by contractual payment from the customer. 05:02 As Vince mentioned earlier, we completed the sale of all our interest in Teekay LNG to Stonepeak with Teekay Parent realizing total shareholder return of 203% and an annual IRR of 12.5% since TGP’s IPO in 2005. Since announcing the TGP Stonepeak merger in early October last year, the team has been working very hard on separating TGP from the rest of the Teekay Group and setting up both companies for future success. We have now transitioned all the gas employees to TGP, which is being rebranded as CP, and we expect the remaining restructuring and transition activities to be completed throughout 2022. Lastly, we have now transformed our balance sheet and…

Operator

Operator

09:37 All right -- Please go ahead.

Kenneth Hvid

Analyst

09:44 Any questions [indiscernible].

Operator

Operator

9:46 [Operator Instructions] And there are no questions in the queue at this time. We just had a late question, would you like to take that question?

Kenneth Hvid

Analyst

10:04 Thank you for listening today. And please tune in [indiscernible] earnings conference call following this call with TNKs CEO and CFO. Thank you.

Operator

Operator

10:19 And this does conclude today's call. We do thank you again for your participation and you may now disconnect. End of Q&A :