Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis
ITEM 7. MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS (U.S. dollars in millions, except per unit data)
You should read the following discussion of our results of operations and financial condition together with our audited consolidated financial statements and accompanying notes included elsewhere in this Annual Report as well as the discussion in “Item 1. Business.” This discussion contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. The forward-looking statements are not historical facts, but rather are based on our current expectations, estimates, assumptions and projections about our industry, business and future financial results. Our actual results could differ materially from the results contemplated by these forward-looking statements due to a number of factors, including those we discuss in “Item 1A. Risk Factors” and “Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements.”
The following discussion and analysis addresses the results of our operations for the twelve months ended December 31, 2022, as compared to the eleven months ended December 31, 2021. In addition, the discussion and analysis addresses our liquidity, financial condition and other matters for these periods.
Company History
KLX Energy Services was initially formed from the combination of seven private oilfield service companies acquired during 2013 and 2014. Each of the acquired businesses was regional in nature and brought one or two specific service capabilities to KLX Energy Services. Once the acquisitions were completed, we undertook a comprehensive integration of these businesses to align our services, our people and our assets across all the geographic regions where we maintain a presence. In November 2018, we expanded our completion and intervention service offerings through the acquisition of Motley Services, LLC (“Motley”), a premier provider of large diameter coiled tubing services, further enhancing our completions business. We successfully completed the integration of the Motley business during Fiscal 2018. On March 15, 2019, the Company acquired Tecton Energy Services (“Tecton”), a leading provider of flowback, drill-out and production testing services, operating primarily in the greater Rocky Mountains. In March 2019, the Company acquired Red Bone Services LLC (“Red Bone”), a premier provider of oilfield services primarily in the Mid-Continent, providing fishing, non-hydraulic fracturing high pressure pumping, thru-tubing and certain other services. We successfully completed the integration of the Tecton and Red Bone businesses during Fiscal 2019. We acquired QES during the second quarter of 2020 and, by doing so, helped establish KLXE as an industry leading provider of asset-light oilfield solutions across the full well lifecycle to the major onshore oil and gas producing regions of the United States.
On July 26, 2020, the Company’s Board approved a 1-for-5 reverse stock split to stockholders that became effective at 12:01 a.m. on July 28, 2020 (the “Reverse Stock Split”). On July 28, 2020, we successfully completed the all-stock Merger with QES.
The Merger of KLXE and QES provided increased scale to serve a blue-chip customer base across the onshore oil and gas basins in the United States. The Merger combined two strong company cultures comprised of highly talented teams with shared commitments to safety, performance, customer service and profitability. The combination leveraged two of the largest fleets of coiled tubing and wireline assets, with KLXE becoming a leading provider of large diameter coiled tubing and wireline services and one of the largest independent providers of directional drilling to the U.S. market. After closing the Merger, the Company integrated personnel, facilities, processes and systems across all functional areas of the organization.
We focused on generating additional cost savings from the Merger and to date have realized such savings through eliminating KLXE's legacy corporate headquarters in Wellington, Florida, rationalizing associated corporate functions to Houston, and capturing operational synergies in the areas of personnel, facilities and rolling stock. The Merger also enhanced the Company’s ability to effect further industry consolidation. Looking ahead, the Company continues to pursue strategic, accretive consolidation opportunities that further strengthen the Company’s competitive positioning and capital structure and drive efficiencies, accelerate growth and create long‑term stockholder value.
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Greene’s Acquisition
On March 8, 2023, the Company completed the acquisition of all of the equity interests of Greene’s Energy Group, LLC (“Greene’s”), including $1.7 million in cash remaining at Greene's (the “Greene’s Acquisition”), pursuant to that certain purchase and sale agreement dated March 8, 2023, between the Company and Greene’s Holding Corporation (the “Purchase Agreement”). Greene's is a provider of wellhead protection, flowback and well testing services. The total consideration for the Greene’s Acquisition under the Purchase Agreement consisted of the issuance of approximately 2.4 million shares of the Company's common stock, par value $0.01 per share, subject to customary post-closing adjustments, representing 14.7% of the fully diluted common stock of the Company with an implied enterprise value of approximately $30.3 million based on a 30-day volume weighted average price as of March 7, 2023 less acquired cash.
Company Overview
We serve many of the leading companies engaged in the exploration and development of onshore conventional and unconventional oil and natural gas reserves in the United States. Our customers are primarily large independent and major oil and gas companies. We currently support these customer operations from over 50 service facilities located in the key major shale basins. We operate in three segments on a geographic basis, including the Southwest Region (the Permian Basin, Eagle Ford Shale and the Gulf Coast as well as in industrial and petrochemical facilities), the Rocky Mountains Region (the Bakken, Williston, DJ, Uinta, Powder River, Piceance and Niobrara basins) and the Northeast/Mid-Con Region (the Marcellus and Utica Shale as well as the Mid-Continent STACK and SCOOP and Haynesville Shale) . Our revenues, operating earnings and identifiable assets are primarily attributable to these three reportable geographic segments. While we manage our business based upon these geographic groupings, our assets and our technical personnel are deployed on a dynamic basis across all of our service facilities to optimize utilization and profitability.
These expansive operating areas provide us with access to a number of nearby unconventional crude oil and natural gas basins, both with existing customers expanding their production footprint and third parties acquiring new acreage. Our proximity to existing and prospective customer activities allows us to anticipate or respond quickly to such customers’ needs and efficiently deploy our assets. We believe that our strategic geographic positioning will benefit us as activity increases in our core operating areas. Our broad geographic footprint provides us with exposure to the ongoing recovery in drilling, completion, production and intervention related service activity and will allow us to opportunistically pursue new business in basins with the most active drilling environments.
We work with our customers to provide engineered solutions across the lifecycle of the well by streamlining operations, reducing non-productive time and developing cost effective solutions and customized tools for our customers’ most challenging service needs, including their most technically complex extended reach horizontal wells. We believe future revenue growth opportunities will continue to be driven by increases in the number of new customers served and the breadth of services we offer to existing and prospective customers.
We offer a variety of targeted services that are differentiated by the technical competence and experience of our field service engineers and their deployment of a broad portfolio of specialized tools and proprietary equipment. Our innovative and adaptive approach to proprietary tool design has been employed by our in-house R&D organization and, in selected instances, by our technology partners to develop tools covered by 30 patents and 8 pending patent applications, which we believe differentiates us from our regional competitors and also allows us to deliver more focused service and better outcomes in our specialized services than larger national competitors that do not discretely dedicate their resources to the services we provide.
We utilize contract manufacturers to produce our products, which, in many cases, our engineers have developed from input and requests from our customers and customer-facing managers, thereby maintaining the integrity of our intellectual property while avoiding manufacturing startup and maintenance costs. This approach leverages our technical strengths, as well as those of our technology partners. These services and related products are modest in cost to the customer relative to other well construction expenditures but have a high cost of failure and are, therefore, mission critical to our customers’ outcomes. We believe our customers
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have come to depend on our decades of field experience to execute on some of the most challenging problems they face. We believe we are well positioned as a company to service customers when they are drilling and completing complex wells, and remediating both newer and older legacy wells.
We invest in innovative technology and equipment designed for modern production techniques that increase efficiencies and production for our customers. North American unconventional onshore wells are increasingly characterized by extended lateral lengths, tighter spacing between hydraulic fracturing stages, increased cluster density and heightened proppant loads. Drilling and completion activities for wells in unconventional resource plays are extremely complex, and downhole challenges and operating costs increase as the complexity and lateral length of these wells increase. For these reasons, E&P companies with complex wells increasingly prefer service providers with the scale and resources to deliver best-in-class solutions that evolve in real-time with the technology used for extraction. We believe we offer best-in-class service execution at the wellsite and innovative downhole technologies, positioning us to benefit from our ability to service the most technically complex wells where the potential for increased operating leverage is high due to the large number of stages per well.
We endeavor to create a next generation oilfield services company in terms of management controls, processes and operating metrics, and have driven these processes down through the operating management structure in every region, which we believe differentiates us from many of our competitors. This allows us to offer our customers in all of our geographic regions discrete, comprehensive and differentiated services that leverage both the technical expertise of our skilled engineers and our in-house R&D team.
Depreciation and Amortization
During the quarter ended October 31, 2021, as a result of increased usage from improving drilling activity levels and changes in the manner and conditions in which various types of our small tools are used, we updated the estimated useful lives of such tools to one to three years, resulting in approximately $2.4 of incremental yearly depreciation on a prospective basis.
Fiscal Year End Change
On September 3, 2021, the Board of the Company adopted the Fourth Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Company, effective as of such date, to change the Company’s fiscal year-end from January 31 to December 31, effective beginning with the year ended December 31, 2021. As a result, the Company’s prior fiscal year 2021 was shortened from 12 months to 11 months and ended on December 31, 2021. The Company has undertaken this change in an effort to normalize our fiscal year-end and improve comparability with our peers.
Recent Trends and Outlook
Demand for services in the oil and natural gas industry is cyclical and subject to sudden and significant volatility. WTI's average daily price per barrel increased by approximately $25.49, or 36.7%, to $94.90 per Bbl during the twelve months ended December 31, 2022, compared to the eleven months ended December 31, 2021's average daily price per barrel of $69.41. As of December 31, 2022, U.S. rig count had reached 779, an increase of 32.9% since December 31, 2021.
Despite the market headwinds experienced in the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021, the Company remained focused on building a leaner and more profitable set of service offerings, which allowed us to make meaningful positive impacts to our revenue, operating margins, cash flows and Adjusted EBITDA. During the twelve months ended December 31, 2022, the oil & gas industry has been increasing drilling and production activity, which is also reflected in the higher demand for our services.
Looking ahead to the year ending December 31, 2023, as economic activity continues to increase and commodity prices remain strong but volatile, we anticipate that our customers will continue to cautiously increase capital and operating expense spending. So far in the year ending December 31, 2023, WTI prices have remained flat, as increased demand for oil and gas products is balanced against expectations of an
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upcoming recession. As of February 3, 2023, U.S. rig count was 759, a decrease of (2.6%) since December 31, 2022.
How We Generate Revenue and the Costs of Conducting Our Business
Our business strategy seeks to generate attractive returns on capital by providing differentiated services and prudently applying our cash flow to select targeted opportunities, with the potential to deliver high returns that we believe offer superior margins over the long-term and short payback periods. Our services generally require equipment that is less expensive to maintain and is operated by a smaller staff than many other oilfield service providers. As part of our returns-focused approach to capital spending, we are focused on efficiently utilizing capital to develop new products. We support our existing asset base with targeted investments in R&D, which we believe allows us to maintain a technical advantage over our competitors providing similar services using standard equipment.
Demand for services in the oil and natural gas industry is cyclical and subject to sudden and significant volatility. We remain focused on serving the needs of our customers by providing a broad portfolio of product service lines across all major basins, while preserving a solid balance sheet, maintaining sufficient operating liquidity and prudently managing our capital expenditures.
We believe we have strong management systems in place, which will allow us to manage our operating resources and associated expenses relative to market conditions. Historically, we believe our services generated margins superior to our competitors based upon the differential quality of our performance, and that these margins would contribute to future cash flow generation. The required investment in our business includes both working capital (principally for accounts receivable, inventory and accounts payable growth tied to increasing activity) and capital expenditures for both maintenance of existing assets and ultimately growth when economic returns justify the spending. Our required maintenance capital expenditures tend to be lower than other oilfield service providers due to the generally asset-light nature of our services, the lower average age of our assets and our ability to charge back a portion of asset maintenance to customers for a number of our assets.
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Results of Operations
Twelve Months Ended December 31, 2022 Compared to Eleven Months Ended December 31, 2021
Revenue . The following table provides revenues by segment and product line for the periods indicated:
Year Ended Eleven-month Transition Period Ended
December 31, 2022 December 31, 2021 % Change
Revenue:
Rocky Mountains $ 229.0 $ 118.2 93.7 %
Southwest 255.2 160.9 58.6 %
Northeast/Mid-Con 297.4 157.0 89.4 %
Total revenue $ 781.6 $ 436.1 79.2 %
Year Ended Eleven-month Transition Period Ended
December 31, 2022 December 31, 2021 % Change
Revenue:
Drilling $ 218.7 $ 123.2 77.5 %
Completion 393.3 210.3 87.0 %
Production 94.2 59.7 57.8 %
Intervention 75.4 42.9 75.8 %
Total revenue $ 781.6 $ 436.1 79.2 %
For the twelve months ended December 31, 2022, revenues of $781.6 increased by $345.5 or 79.2% as compared with the eleven months ended December 31, 2021. The overall increase in revenues reflects the recovery in economic activity and increase in WTI prices during the year, leading to increased demand for our services and a positive pricing environment, as well as one additional month of revenues. Increased weighted average price contributed to approximately 49% of the $345.5 increase, and increased weighted average volume contributed to the remaining approximately 51%. On a segment basis, Rocky Mountains segment revenue increased by $110.8 or 93.7%. Increased weighted average price contributed to approximately 32% of the dollar increase, and increased weighted average volume contributed to approximately 68%. Southwest segment revenue increased by $94.3 or 58.6%. Increased weighted average price contributed to approximately 51% of the dollar increase, and increased weighted average volume contributed to the remaining approximately 49%. Northeast/Mid-Con segment revenue increased by $140.4 or 89.4% . Increased weighted average price contributed to approximately 61% of the dollar increase, and increased weighted average volume contributed to the remaining 39%.
Cost of sales . For the twelve months ended December 31, 2022, cost of sales was $621.3, or 79.5% of sales, as compared to $389.9, or 89.4% of sales, in the eleven months ended December 31, 2021. The increase in dollar amount was primarily due to increased activity and to a lesser degree, increased pricing due to inflation. The decrease in cost of sales as a percentage of revenues was generally consistent across our segments. The two largest components of cost of sales are labor and repair & maintenance. Although cost of sales as a percentage of revenues decreased, labor costs per employee increased by 26.9% as compared with the eleven months ended December 31, 2021. Repair & maintenance costs as a percentage of revenues increased by 9.3% as compared to the eleven months ended December 31, 2021.
Selling, general and administrative expenses ("SG&A") . SG&A expenses during the twelve months ended December 31, 2022, were $70.4, or 9.0% of revenues, as compared with $54.6, or 12.5% of revenues, in the eleven months ended December 31, 2021. SG&A increased by $15.8 due to increased labor costs and professional fees. SG&A as a percentage of revenues decreased primarily due to better leverage of fixed costs against higher revenues in the current period. R&D costs during the twelve months ended December 31, 2022 were $0.6, as compared to $0.6 in the eleven months ended December 31, 2021,
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reflecting our continued focus on maintaining an in-house R&D function while scaling costs to adjust to current levels of customer demand.
Operating income (loss) . The following is a summary of operating income (loss) by segment:
Year Ended Eleven-month Transition Period Ended
December 31, 2022 December 31, 2021 % Change
Operating income (loss):
Rocky Mountains $ 27.3 $ (13.4) 303.7 %
Southwest 14.5 (15.4) 194.2 %
Northeast/Mid-Con 39.1 (8.7) 549.4 %
Corporate and other (48.4) (26.6) (82.0) %
Total operating income (loss) (1)
$ 32.5 $ (64.1) 150.7 %
(1) Includes reduction to bargain purchase gain of $0.5 during the eleven months ended December 31, 2021.
For the twelve months ended December 31, 2022, operating income was $32.5, as compared to operating loss of $64.1 in the eleven months ended December 31, 2021, largely driven by an improvement in revenues due to increased activity . For the twelve months ended December 31, 2022 and the eleven months ended December 31, 2021, there were $0.0 and $0.8 in impairments of long-lived assets, respectively.
For the twelve months ended December 31, 2022, each of our segments demonstrated significant improvement in operating income (loss) compared to the eleven months ended December 31, 2021, driven by the increase in pricing and utilization outpacing increases in operating costs and labor in the twelve months ended December 31, 2022. Rocky Mountains segment operating income (loss) improved by $40.7 or 303.7% from a loss of $(13.4) in the eleven months ended December 31, 2021 to income of $27.3 in the twelve months ended December 31, 2022. Southwest segment operating income (loss) improved by $29.9 or 194.2% from a loss of $(15.4) in the eleven months ended December 31, 2021 to income of $14.5 in the twelve months ended December 31, 2022. Northeast/Mid-Con segment operating income (loss) improved by $47.8 or 549.4% from a loss of $(8.7) in the eleven months ended December 31, 2021 to income of $39.1 in the twelve months ended December 31, 2022. The 82.0% increase in operating loss in our Corporate and other segment in the twelve months ended December 31, 2022 was primarily driven by higher professional service fees and incentive bonus costs.
Income tax expense . Income tax expense was $0.6 for the twelve months ended December 31, 2022, as compared to income tax expense of $0.3 in the eleven months ended December 31, 2021, and was comprised primarily of state and local taxes. The Company did not recognize a tax benefit on its year-to-date losses because it has a valuation allowance against its deferred tax balances.
Net loss . Net loss for the twelve months ended December 31, 2022 was $3.1, as compared to net loss of $93.8 in the eleven months ended December 31, 2021, primarily due to increased pricing and improved margins for our services.
Liquidity and Capital Resources
Overview
We require capital to fund ongoing operations, including maintenance expenditures on our existing fleet and equipment, organic growth initiatives, debt service obligations, investments and acquisitions. Our primary sources of liquidity to date have been capital contributions from our equity and note holders, borrowings under the Company’s ABL Facility and cash flows from operations. At December 31, 2022, we had $57.4 of cash and cash equivalents and $44.4 available on the ABL Facility.
We have taken several actions to continue to improve our liquidity position, including closing our Florida legacy corporate headquarters and relocating all key functions to Houston, elimination of redundancies and
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duplicative functions throughout our operations following the merger with QES, equity issuances under our ATM program, debt for equity exchanges that have reduced interest burden and monetized non-core and obsolete assets. We actively manage our capital spending and are focused primarily on required maintenance spending. Additionally, increasing oil prices have resulted in an increase in demand for our services and an improvement in our operating cash flow, which became positive in the third and fourth quarters of 2022. We believe based on our current forecasts, our cash on hand, the ABL Facility availability, together with our cash flows, will provide us with the ability to fund our operations, including planned capital expenditures, for at least the next twelve months.
We have substantial indebtedness. As of December 31, 2022, we had total outstanding long-term indebtedness of $283.4 under our ABL Facility and Senior Notes as described in greater detail under “— ABL Facility” and “—Senior Notes” below. Our ability to pay the principal and interest on our long-term debt and to satisfy our other liabilities will depend on our future operating performance and ability to refinance our debt as it becomes due. Our future operating performance and ability to refinance such indebtedness will be affected by prevailing economic and political conditions, the level of drilling, completion, production and intervention services activity for North American onshore oil and natural gas resources, the continuation of the COVID-19 pandemic, the willingness of capital providers to lend to our industry and other financial and business factors, many of which are beyond our control.
Our ability to refinance our debt will depend on the condition of the public and private debt markets and our financial condition at such time, among other things. Any refinancing of our debt could be at higher interest rates and may require us to comply with covenants, which could further restrict our business operations. A rising interest rate environment could have an adverse impact on the price of our shares, or our ability to issue equity or incur debt to refinance our existing indebtedness, for acquisitions or other purposes. In addition, incurring additional debt in excess of our existing outstanding indebtedness would result in increased interest expense and financial leverage, and issuing common stock may result in dilution to our current stockholders.
Our ABL Facility matures in September 2024 and we intend to work with our existing lenders or other sources of capital to refinance the ABL Facility. If we are unable to refinance the ABL Facility over the next twelve months and uncertainty around our ability to refinance our existing long-term debt still exists, that could result in our auditors issuing a “going concern” or like qualification or exception as early as our audit opinion with respect to the year ending December 31, 2023. The delivery of an audit opinion with such a qualification would result in an event of default under our ABL Facility. If an event of default occurs, the lenders under the ABL Facility would be entitled to accelerate any outstanding indebtedness, terminate all undrawn commitments and enforce liens securing our obligations under the ABL Facility. Further, the acceleration of indebtedness under our ABL Facility could cause an event of default under our Senior Notes, entitling the requisite holders of the Senior Notes to accelerate our indebtedness in respect thereof and enforce liens securing our obligations under the Senior Notes. If our lenders or noteholders accelerate our obligations under the affected debt agreements, we may not have sufficient liquidity to repay all of our outstanding indebtedness then due and payable.
In light of our substantial leverage position, as market conditions warrant and subject to our contractual restrictions, liquidity position and other factors, we may access the public or private debt and equity markets or seek to recapitalize, refinance or otherwise restructure our capital structure. Some of these alternatives may require the consent of current lenders, stockholders or noteholders, and there is no assurance that we will be able to execute any of these alternatives on acceptable terms or at all.
ABL Facility
We entered into a $100.0 ABL Facility on August 10, 2018. The ABL Facility became effective on September 14, 2018 and is scheduled to mature in September 2024. Borrowings under the ABL Facility bear interest at a rate equal to Term SOFR (as defined in the ABL Facility) plus the applicable margin (as defined). The ABL Facility is tied to a borrowing base formula and has no maintenance financial covenants as long as the minimum level of borrowing availability is maintained. The ABL Facility is secured by, among other things,
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a first priority lien on the Company’s accounts receivable and inventory and contains customary conditions precedent to borrowing and affirmative and negative covenants. $50.0 was outstanding under the ABL Facility as of December 31, 2022. The effective interest rate under the ABL Facility was approximately 7.42% on December 31, 2022.
On September 22, 2022, the Company entered into a Third Amendment to the ABL Facility, with certain of its subsidiaries party thereto, as guarantors, with JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as administrative agent and an issuing lender, and the other lenders and issuing lenders party thereto from time to time (the “Amendment”).
The Amendment, among other things, (i) extends the maturity date of the ABL Facility by a year from September 14, 2023 to September 15, 2024, (ii) increases the applicable margin by 0.50%, (iii) replaces LIBOR as the benchmark rate with Term SOFR, (iv) provides the Company with the ability to redeem, repurchase, defease or otherwise satisfy its outstanding Senior Notes using proceeds of equity issuances or by converting or exchanging Senior Notes for equity, (v) resets consolidated EBITDA solely for purposes of calculating the springing fixed charge coverage ratio (“FCCR”) to be annualized beginning with the fiscal quarter ended as of June 30, 2022 until the fourth fiscal quarter ended thereafter (provided that fixed charges will continue to be calculated on a trailing-twelve month basis), (vi) requires that, after giving effect to any borrowing and the use of proceeds thereof, the Company not have more than $35.0 in excess cash on its balance sheet and (vii) increases the availability trigger for a cash dominion event.
The ABL Facility includes a springing financial covenant which requires the Company’s FCCR to be at least 1.0 to 1.0 if availability falls below the greater of $15.0 or 20% of the borrowing base. At all times during the year ended December 31, 2022, availability exceeded this threshold, and the Company was not subject to this financial covenant. As of December 31, 2022, the FCCR was above 1.0 to 1.0. The Company was in full compliance with its credit facility as of December 31, 2022.
The ABL Facility includes financial, operating and negative covenants that limit our ability to incur indebtedness, to create liens or other encumbrances, to make certain payments and investments, including dividend payments, to engage in transactions with affiliates, to engage in sale/leaseback transactions, to guarantee indebtedness and to sell or otherwise dispose of assets and merge or consolidate with other entities. It also includes a covenant to deliver annual audited financial statements that are not qualified by a “going concern” or like qualification or exception. A failure to comply with the obligations contained in the ABL Facility could result in an event of default, which could permit acceleration of the debt, termination of undrawn commitments and enforcement against any liens securing the debt.
Senior Notes
In conjunction with the acquisition of Motley in 2018, we issued $250.0 principal amount of 11.5% senior secured notes due 2025 (the "Senior Notes") offered pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act and to certain non-U.S. persons outside the United States in compliance with Regulation S under the Securities Act. On a net basis, after taking into consideration the debt issuance costs for the Senior Notes, total debt as of December 31, 2022 was $233.4. The Senior Notes bear interest at an annual rate of 11.5%, payable semi-annually in arrears on May 1 and November 1. Accrued interest as of December 31, 2022 was $4.6.
The Indenture contains customary affirmative and negative covenants restricting, among other things, the Company’s ability to incur indebtedness and liens, pay dividends or make other distributions, make certain other restricted payments or investments, sell assets, enter into restrictive agreements, enter into transactions with the Company’s affiliates, and merge or consolidate with other entities or sell substantially all of the Company’s assets.
The Indenture also contains customary events of default including, among other things, the failure to pay interest for 30 days, failure to pay principal when due, failure to observe or perform any other covenants or agreement in the Indenture subject to grace periods, cross-acceleration to indebtedness with an aggregate principal amount in excess of $50.0, material impairment of liens, failure to pay certain material judgments and certain events of bankruptcy.
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During the year ended December 31, 2022, we entered into debt for equity exchange agreements (the “Exchange Agreements” and each, an “Exchange Agreement”) with certain holders (the “Noteholders”) of our Senior Notes. Pursuant to the Exchange Agreements, the Noteholders exchanged $12.8 in aggregate principal amount of the Company’s outstanding Senior Notes for an aggregate of 777,811 shares of our common stock (the "Exchanges" and each, an “Exchange”).
The Company’s shares of common stock issued in connection with the Exchanges were not registered under the Securities Act, and were issued to existing holders of the Company’s securities without commission in reliance on the exemption from registration provided by Section 3(a)(9) of the Securities Act.
The Senior Notes exchanged represent approximately 5.1% of the outstanding principal amount of outstanding Senior Notes prior to the Exchanges. Following the Exchanges, approximately $237.3 in aggregate principal amount of Senior Notes remained outstanding.
Capital Expenditures
Our capital expenditures were $35.6 during the twelve months ended December 31, 2022, compared to $11.0 in the eleven months ended December 31, 2021. Based on current industry conditions and our significant investments in capital expenditures over the past several years, we expect to incur between $60.0 and $70.0 in capital expenditures for the year ending December 31, 2023, out of which $45.0 to $50.0 for maintenance capital spending. The nature of our capital expenditures is comprised of a base level of investment required to support our current operations and amounts related to growth and Company initiatives. Capital expenditures for growth and Company initiatives are discretionary. We continually evaluate our capital expenditures, and the amount we ultimately spend will depend on a number of factors, including expected industry activity levels and Company initiatives.
Equity Distribution Agreement
On June 14, 2021, the Company entered into an Equity Distribution Agreement (the “Equity Distribution Agreement”) with Piper Sandler & Co. as sales agent (the “Agent”). Pursuant to the terms of the Equity Distribution Agreement, the Company may sell from time to time through the Agent (the “ATM Offering”) the Company’s common stock, par value $0.01 per share, having an aggregate offering price of up to $50.0 (the “Common Stock”).
Any Common Stock offered and sold in the ATM Offering will be issued pursuant to the Company’s shelf registration statement on Form S-3 (Registration No. 333-256149) filed with the SEC on May 14, 2021 and declared effective on June 11, 2021 (the “Registration Statement”), the prospectus supplement relating to the ATM Offering filed with the SEC on June 14, 2021 and any applicable additional prospectus supplements related to the ATM Offering that form a part of the Registration Statement. Sales of Common Stock under the Equity Distribution Agreement may be made in any transactions that are deemed to be “at the market offerings” as defined in Rule 415 under the Securities Act.
The Equity Distribution Agreement contains customary representations, warranties and agreements by the Company, indemnification obligations of the Company and the Agent, including for liabilities under the Securities Act, other obligations of the parties and termination provisions. Under the terms of the Equity Distribution Agreement, the Company will pay the Agent a commission equal to 3% of the gross sales price of the Common Stock sold.
The Company plans to use the net proceeds from the ATM Offering, after deducting the Agent’s commissions and the Company’s offering expenses, for general corporate purposes, which may include, among other things, paying or refinancing all or a portion of the Company’s then-outstanding indebtedness, and funding acquisitions, capital expenditures and working capital.
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During the three and twelve months ended December 31, 2022, the Company sold 976,808 and 2,803,007 shares of Common Stock, respectively, in exchange for gross proceeds of approximately $15.0 and $25.1, respectively, through its at-the-market offering and paid legal and administrative fees of $0.1 and $0.3, respectively. During the two and eleven months ended December 31, 2021, the Company sold 250,289 and 1,380,505 shares of Common Stock, respectively, in exchange for gross proceeds of approximately $1.1 and $6.6, respectively, and paid fees to the sales agent and other legal and accounting fees of $0.1 and $0.8, respectively, to establish the ATM Offering.
Cash Flows
At December 31, 2022, we had $57.4 of cash and cash equivalents. Cash on hand at December 31, 2022 increased by $29.4 during the year then ended, mainly due to $15.7 of cash flows provided by operating activities and $32.4 of cash flows provided by financing activities, partially offset by $18.7 of cash flows used in investing activities. Our liquidity requirements consist of working capital needs, debt service obligations and ongoing capital expenditure requirements. Our primary requirements for working capital are directly related to the activity level of our operations.
This Annual Report includes net working capital, which is a “non-GAAP financial measure” as defined in the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”). Net working capital is calculated as current assets, excluding cash, less current liabilities, excluding accrued interest, operating lease obligations and finance lease obligations. We believe that net working capital provides useful information to investors because it is an important indicator of the Company's liquidity. Our computations of net working capital may not be comparable to other similarly titled measures of other companies.
The following table sets forth the reconciliation of current assets and current liabilities to net working capital:
As of
December 31, 2022 December 31, 2021
Current assets $ 254.7 $ 164.7
Less: Cash 57.4 28.0
Net current assets 197.3 136.7
Current liabilities 154.4 122.7
Less: Accrued interest 4.8 5.0
Less: Operating lease obligations 14.2 15.9
Less: Finance lease obligations 10.2 5.6
Net current liabilities 125.2 96.2
Net Working Capital $ 72.1 $ 40.5
Net working capital as of December 31, 2022 was $72.1, an increase of $31.6 as compared to net working capital of $40.5 as of December 31, 2021. Net working capital is calculated as current assets, excluding cash, less current liabilities, excluding accrued interest, operating lease obligations and finance lease obligations. As of December 31, 2022, total current assets excluding cash increased by $60.6 and total current liabilities excluding accrued interest, operating lease obligations and finance lease obligations increased by $29.0. The increase in current assets was primarily related to accounts receivable-trade, net increase of $51.1, a $6.2 increase in prepaid expenses and other current assets and an increase of $3.3 in inventory. The increase in total current liabilities was due to a $12.1 increase in accounts payable and a $16.9 increase in accrued liabilities.
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The following table sets forth our cash flows for the periods presented below:
Year Ended Eleven-month Transition Period Ended
December 31, 2022 December 31, 2021
Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities $ 15.7 $ (55.6)
Net cash (used in) provided by investing activities (18.7) 4.5
Net cash provided by financing activities 32.4 32.0
Net change in cash 29.4 (19.1)
Cash balance end of period $ 57.4 $ 28.0
Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities
Net cash provided by operating activities was $15.7 for the twelve months ended December 31, 2022, as compared to net cash used in operating activities of $55.6 for the eleven months ended December 31, 2021. The increase in operating cash flows was primarily attributable to the increase in revenues across all operating segments and most service and related product lines driven by a broader recovery in industry activity.
Net cash (used in) provided by investing activities
Net cash used in investing activities was $18.7 for the twelve months ended December 31, 2022, as compared to net cash provided by investing activities of $4.5 for the eleven months ended December 31, 2021. The cash used in investing activities for the twelve months ended December 31, 2022 was primarily driven by increased maintenance and growth capital spending to support our growing business operations.
Net cash provided by financing activities
Net cash provided by financing activities was $32.4 for the twelve months ended December 31, 2022, compared to net cash provided by financing activities of $32.0 for the eleven months ended December 31, 2021. During the twelve months ended December 31, 2022, the Company borrowed $20.0 under the ABL facility, sold stock as part of its Equity Distribution Agreement for proceeds of $24.8 and received proceeds from finance lease refinancing of $1.4, which were partially offset by payments on finance lease obligations of $9.7, payment on note payable of $2.1, payments on debt issuance costs of $1.7 and purchase of treasury stock of $0.3.
Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements
Indemnities, Commitments and Guarantees
In the normal course of our business, we make certain indemnities, commitments and guarantees under which we may be required to make payments in relation to certain transactions. These include indemnities to various lessors in connection with facility leases for certain claims arising from such facility or lease and indemnities to other parties to certain acquisition agreements. The duration of these indemnities, commitments and guarantees varies and, in certain cases, is indefinite. Many of these indemnities, commitments and guarantees provide for limitations on the maximum potential future payments we could be obligated to make. However, we are unable to estimate the maximum amount of liability related to our indemnities, commitments and guarantees because such liabilities are contingent upon the occurrence of events that are not reasonably determinable. Our management believes that any liability for these indemnities, commitments and guarantees would not be material to our financial statements. Accordingly, no significant amounts have been accrued for indemnities, commitments and guarantees.
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Critical Accounting Estimates
The discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations are based upon our consolidated financial statements, which have been prepared in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles ("GAAP"). The preparation of our financial statements requires us to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, revenues and expenses and related disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities. Certain accounting policies involve judgments and uncertainties to such an extent that there is a reasonable likelihood that materially different amounts could have been reported under different conditions, or if different assumptions had been used. We evaluate our estimates and assumptions on a regular basis. We base our estimates on historical experience and various other assumptions that are believed to be reasonable under the circumstances, the results of which form the basis for making judgments about the carrying values of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources. Actual results may differ from these estimates and assumptions used in preparation of our financial statements.
Emerging Growth Company Status
We are an “emerging growth company” and are entitled to take advantage of certain relaxed disclosure requirements. We intend to operate under certain reduced reporting requirements and exemptions, including the longer phase-in periods for the adoption of new or revised financial accounting standards, until we are no longer an emerging growth company. Our election to use the phase-in periods permitted by this election may make it difficult to compare our consolidated financial statements to those of non-emerging growth companies and other emerging growth companies that have opted out of the longer phase-in periods and who will comply with new or revised financial accounting standards. If we were to subsequently elect instead to comply with these public company effective dates, such election would be irrevocable.
Accounts Receivable
We perform ongoing credit evaluations of our customers and adjust credit limits based upon payment history and the customer’s current creditworthiness, as determined by our review of their current credit information. We continuously monitor collections and payments from our customers and maintain an allowance for estimated credit losses based upon our historical experience and any specific customer collection issues that we have identified. The allowance for doubtful accounts at December 31, 2022 and December 31, 2021 was $5.7 and $6.4, respectively.
Goodwill and Intangible Assets, Net
Under Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) ASC Topic 350, Intangibles—Goodwill and Other, goodwill and indefinite-lived intangible assets are reviewed at least annually for impairment. Acquired intangible assets with definite lives are amortized over their individual useful lives. As of December 31, 2022 and December 31, 2021, there were net intangible assets with definite lives of $2.1 and $2.2, respectively, and Goodwill of nil and nil, respectively.
Leases
The Company adopted Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) No. 2016-02, Leases ASC Topic 842 effective February 1, 2021. We elected the modified retrospective transition method under ASC Topic 842 and as such information prior to February 1, 2021 has not been restated and continues to be reported under the accounting standards in effect for the period (ASC Topic 840-Leases). We carried forward the historical lease classifications and assessment of initial direct costs, account for lease and non-lease components as a single component, and exclude leases with an initial term of less than 12 months in the lease assets and liabilities. For leases entered into after February 1, 2021, the Company determines if an arrangement is a lease at inception and evaluates identified leases for operating or finance lease treatment. Operating or finance lease right-of-use assets and liabilities are recognized at the commencement date based on the present value of lease payments over the lease term. We use our incremental borrowing rate based on the information
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available at the commencement date in determining the present value of lease payments. Lease terms may include options to renew; however, we typically cannot determine our intent to renew a lease with reasonable certainty at inception.
Long‑Lived Assets
Long-lived assets, such as property and equipment and purchased intangibles subject to amortization, are tested for impairment when there is evidence that events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of an asset may not be recovered. An impairment loss is recognized when the undiscounted cash flows expected to be generated by an asset (or group of assets) is less than its carrying amount. Any required impairment loss is measured as the amount by which the asset’s carrying value exceeds its fair value and is recorded as a reduction in the carrying value of the related asset and a charge to operating results. For the twelve months ended December 31, 2022 and eleven months ended December 31, 2021, there were $0.0 and $0.8 impairments of long-lived assets.
Revenue Recognition
Revenue is recognized upon the customer obtaining control of promised goods or services, in an amount that reflects the consideration which is expected to be received in exchange for those goods or services. To determine revenue recognition for arrangements within the scope of ASC Topic 606, the following five steps are performed: (i) identify the contract(s) with a customer; (ii) identify the performance obligations in the contract; (iii) determine the transaction price; (iv) allocate the transaction price to the performance obligations in the contract; and (v) recognize revenue when (or as) the Company satisfies a performance obligation. Revenue is recognized in the amount of the transaction price that is allocated to the respective performance obligation when (or as) the performance obligation is satisfied. Service revenues are recorded over time throughout and for the duration of the service period pursuant to a master services agreement (“MSA”) combined with a completed field ticket or a work order. Revenues from product sales are recognized when the customer obtains control of the product, which occurs at a point in time, typically upon delivery in accordance with the terms of the field ticket or work order.
Recent Accounting Pronouncements
See Note 2 “Recent Accounting Pronouncements” to our consolidated financial statements for a discussion of recently issued accounting pronouncements. As an “emerging growth company” under the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (the “JOBS Act”), we are offered an opportunity to use an extended transition period for the adoption of new or revised financial accounting standards. We operate under the reduced reporting requirements and exemptions, including the longer phase-in periods for the adoption of new or revised financial accounting standards, until we are no longer an emerging growth company. Our election to use the phase-in periods permitted by this election may make it difficult to compare our financial statements to those of non-emerging growth companies and other emerging growth companies that have opted out of the longer phase-in periods under Section 107 of the JOBS Act and who will comply with new or revised financial accounting standards. If we were to subsequently elect instead to comply with these public company effective dates, such election would be irrevocable pursuant to Section 107 of the JOBS Act.
How We Evaluate Our Operations
Key Financial Performance Indicators
We recognize the highly cyclical nature of our business and the need for metrics to (1) best measure the trends in our operations and (2) provide baselines and targets to assess the performance of our managers.
The measures we believe most effective to achieve the above stated goals include:
• Revenue
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• Adjusted Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization ("EBITDA") : Adjusted EBITDA is a supplemental non-GAAP financial measure that is used by management and external users of our financial statements, such as industry analysts, investors, lenders and rating agencies. Adjusted EBITDA is not a measure of net earnings or cash flows as determined by GAAP. We define Adjusted EBITDA as net earnings (loss) before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, further adjusted for (i) goodwill and/or long-lived asset impairment charges, (ii) stock-based compensation expense, (iii) restructuring charges, (iv) transaction and integration costs related to acquisitions and (v) other expenses or charges to exclude certain items that we believe are not reflective of ongoing performance of our business.
• Adjusted EBITDA Margin: Adjusted EBITDA Margin is defined as Adjusted EBITDA, as defined above, as a percentage of revenue.
We believe Adjusted EBITDA is useful because it allows us to supplement the GAAP measures in order to evaluate our operating performance and compare the results of our operations from period to period without regard to our financing methods or capital structure. We exclude the items listed above in arriving at Adjusted EBITDA (Loss) because these amounts can vary substantially from company to company within our industry depending upon accounting methods, book values of assets, capital structures and the method by which the assets were acquired. Adjusted EBITDA should not be considered as an alternative to, or more meaningful than, net (loss) earnings as determined in accordance with GAAP, or as an indicator of our operating performance or liquidity. Certain items excluded from Adjusted EBITDA are significant components in understanding and assessing a company’s financial performance, such as a company’s cost of capital and tax structure, as well as the historic costs of depreciable assets, none of which are components of Adjusted EBITDA. Our computations of Adjusted EBITDA may not be comparable to other similarly titled measures of other companies.
ITEM 7A. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK
As a smaller reporting company, we are not required to provide the information required by Item 305 of Regulation S-K.
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