ADT Inc 8-K, filed Mar 24, 2020
ADT Inc. (ADT)
8-K
2020-03-24
For: 2020-03-23
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About this 8-K
ADT Inc filed this 8-K on March 24, 2020, reporting on events of March 23, 2020.
Items reported
- Item 7.01: Regulation FD disclosure
- Item 8.01: Other events
- Item 9.01: Financial statements and exhibits
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
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Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): March 23, 2020
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Item 7.01 Regulation FD Disclosure.
The information set forth in the third, fourth, and fifth full paragraphs in Item 8.01 herein is incorporated by reference into this Item 7.01.
Item 8.01 Other Events.
Share Repurchase Program
On March 23, 2020, the board of directors of ADT Inc. (the “Company” or “ADT”) approved an increase in the Company’s pre-existing share repurchase program, previously approved by the board on February 27, 2019, to a total of $75 million in authorized repurchase amount, to permit the Company to repurchase additional shares of its common stock through March 23, 2021. The Company intends to fund any repurchases through cash on hand, cash flow from operations, and further draws under its revolving credit facility.
The Company may effect these repurchases pursuant to one or more trading plans to be adopted in accordance with Rule 10b5-1 (each, a "10b5-1 plan") under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), in privately negotiated transactions, in open market transactions, or pursuant to an accelerated share repurchase program. The Company is entering an initial 10b5-1 plan, repurchases under which will be administered through an independent broker. This 10b5-1 plan is expected to cover the repurchase of shares commencing no earlier than March 25, 2020 and expiring in May 2020. The Company intends to conduct the share repurchase program and this 10b5-1 plan in accordance with Rule 10b-18 under the Exchange Act. The Company is not obligated to repurchase any of its shares of common stock and the timing and amount of any repurchases will depend on legal requirements, market conditions, stock price, alternative uses of capital, and other factors.
COVID-19 – Operational and Financial Market Impacts on the Company
On March 24, 2020, the Company issued a press release providing an update on how it is maintaining the safety of its customers and employees during the COVID-19 health crisis.
A copy of the press release is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1 and is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
The information contained in Exhibit 99.1 is being furnished and shall not be deemed “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Exchange Act or otherwise subject to the liabilities under that Section and shall not be deemed to be incorporated by reference into any filing of the Company under the Securities Act of 1933 or the Exchange Act.
In connection with such update, the Company has also updated certain of its Risk Factor disclosures as follows:
An event causing a disruption in the ability of our monitoring facilities or customer care resources to operate could materially adversely affect our business.
A disruption in our ability to provide security monitoring services and otherwise serve our customers could have a material adverse effect on our business. A disruption could occur for many reasons, including fire, natural disasters, weather, health epidemics or pandemics, transportation interruption, extended power outages, human or other error, war, terrorism, sabotage, or other conflicts, or as a result of disruptions to internal and external networks or third-party transmission lines. Monitoring and customer care could also be disrupted by information systems and network-related events or cybersecurity attacks, such as computer hacking, computer viruses, worms or other malicious software, distributed denial of service attacks, malicious social engineering, or other destructive or disruptive activities that could also cause damage to our properties, equipment, and data. While our monitoring centers are redundant, a failure of our back-up procedures or a disruption affecting multiple monitoring facilities could disrupt
our ability to provide security monitoring services to our customers. These events could also make it difficult or impossible to receive equipment from suppliers or impair our ability to deliver products and services to customers on a timely basis. If we experience such disruptions, we may experience customer dissatisfaction and potential loss of confidence, and liabilities to customers or other third parties, each of which could harm our reputation and impact future revenues from these customers. We could also be subject to claims or litigation with respect to losses caused by such disruptions. Our property and business interruption insurance and our cyber liability insurance may not be sufficient to fully cover our losses or may not cover a particular event at all.
Most recently, we have considered the impacts of a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on our overall operations. While the full impact of this disease and the worldwide reaction to it are not yet known at this time, continued widespread growth in infections, additional travel restrictions or “stay in place” mandates, quarantines or site closures imposed as a result of the disease, could, among other things, impact the ability of our employees to staff call centers, staff customer care centers, be available to install new or repair existing systems within residential homes or commercial operations, or enter such homes or commercial operations. To date, we have experienced, and we may continue to experience, the temporary shutdown of one of our operation support centers, a shift to requiring that our team members work from home to the extent feasible across our operations, a change in policy of emergency responders in certain jurisdictions who may temporarily or permanently decline to respond to certain non-verified burglar alarm calls from our monitoring centers, and bans on business continuation in certain jurisdictions with only limited exceptions. An inability to maintain the full functioning of any of our operation support, customer care, or monitoring facilities, despite redundancies at certain of such facilities, ongoing efforts to sanitize such facilities and efforts to enable certain of our agents within these facilities to work from home, or to accommodate the needs of our broader team member base to work from home, all of whom may also experience distractions unrelated to the Company as a result of other impacts of COVID-19, a continued or expanded unwillingness of emergency responders to respond to calls from our monitoring centers, an inability to keep open our business operations or to satisfy an exception from any such ban for all or any part of a day, or any unwillingness of our service technicians, installers, or sales team members to enter any residential or commercial premises or to be permitted access to enter such premises could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations, and cash flows. In addition, the disease could lead to disruptions in our supply chain, causing shortages or unavailability of equipment necessary to install or repair systems. Any of these outcomes could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations, and cash flows.
Our variable-rate indebtedness subjects us to interest rate risk, which could cause our debt service obligations to increase significantly.
Our variable rate borrowings expose us to interest rate risk. If the one month LIBOR interest rate increases above one percent, the increase in our debt service obligations on most of our variable-rate indebtedness will be neutralized as the Company has entered into interest rate swaps that hedge any increase in the one month LIBOR rate above one percent. If one month LIBOR rates are below one percent, even though the amount borrowed remains the same, our net income and cash flows, including cash available for servicing our indebtedness will decrease by the difference between one percent and the one month LIBOR rate because our variable rate debt has an interest floor of one percent while the corresponding interest rate swaps do not have a LIBOR floor. In addition, in July 2017, the U.K. Financial Conduct Authority announced that it intends to stop collecting LIBOR rates from banks after 2021. The announcement indicates that LIBOR will not continue to exist on the current basis. We are unable to predict the effect of any changes to LIBOR, the establishment and success of any alternative reference rates, or any other reforms to LIBOR or any replacement of LIBOR that may be enacted in the United Kingdom or elsewhere. Such changes, reforms or replacements relating to LIBOR could have an adverse impact on the market for or value of any LIBOR-linked securities, loans, derivatives or other financial instruments or extensions of credit held by us. As such, LIBOR-related changes could affect our overall results of operations and financial condition.
As discussed above, we currently have entered into, and in the future we may continue to enter into, interest rate swaps that involve the exchange of floating for fixed-rate interest payments to reduce interest rate volatility. However, we may not maintain interest rate swaps with respect to all of our variable-rate indebtedness, and any such swaps may not fully mitigate our interest rate risk, may prove disadvantageous, or may create additional risks. Given the recent decrease in interest rates by the Federal Reserve Bank in the United States to bolster the financial markets in response to the uncertainty created by the COVID-19 pandemic, we have examined our interest rate sensitivity. Certain of our variable rate debt instruments, including our first lien term loan and first lien revolving credit facility (the “Credit Facility”), are subject to a one-percent floor on interest rate payments. While we have hedged our interest rate exposure to our variable rate term loan, our hedging instruments do not include a floor and, accordingly, in this current interest rate environment, any 0.125% decrease in LIBOR rates below 1.0% would result in an increase of approximately $3.75 million in annualized interest expense on our variable-rate term loan, including the impact of our interest rate swaps. Any borrowings under our Credit Facility would incur a minimum LIBOR rate of one percent should the one month LIBOR rate be below one percent on the applicable date for the borrowings. In addition, in the event we conclude that our interest rate swaps currently accounted for as qualifying cash flow hedges are no longer highly effective, mark-to-market fair value changes of the instruments will be recorded in earnings in periods for which the interest rate swaps are no longer highly effective cash flow hedges. This may cause ongoing volatility in our reported GAAP financial results.
Forward Looking Statements
ADT has made statements in this filing and other reports, filings, and other public written and verbal announcements that are forward-looking and therefore subject to risks and uncertainties. All statements, other than statements of historical fact, included in this document are, or could be, “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and are made in reliance on the safe harbor protections provided thereunder. These forward-looking statements relate to anticipated financial performance, management’s plans and objectives for future operations, business prospects, outcome of regulatory proceedings, market conditions, and other matters. Any forward-looking statement made in this filing speaks only as of the date on which it is made. ADT undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise. Forward-looking statements can be identified by various words such as “expects,” “intends,” “will,” “anticipates,” “believes,” “confident,” “continue,” “propose,” “seeks,” “could,” “may,” “should,” “estimates,” “forecasts,” “might,” “goals,” “objectives,” “targets,” “planned,” “projects,” and similar expressions. These forward-looking statements are based on management’s current beliefs and assumptions and on information currently available to management. ADT cautions that these statements are subject to risks and uncertainties, many of which are outside of ADT’s control and could cause future events or results to be materially different from those stated or implied in this document, or to not occur at all, including among others, risk factors that are described in this filing and in the ADT Annual Report on Form 10-K and other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the sections entitled “Risk Factors” and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” contained therein.
Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.
| Date: | March 24, 2020 | ADT Inc. | ||||||||||||
| By: | /s/ Jeffrey Likosar | |||||||||||||
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ADT PROVIDES UPDATE ON MAINTAINING THE SAFETY OF OUR CUSTOMERS AND EMPLOYEES DURING THE COVID-19 HEALTH CRISIS
BOCA RATON, Fla. – March 24, 2020 – ADT Inc. (NYSE: ADT), a leading provider of security, automation, and smart home solutions serving consumer and business customers in the United States, today provided an update on the measures it is taking to respond to the COVID-19 health crisis.
“As COVID-19 is testing our nation’s resolve, it’s also bringing out the best in many people and businesses, and this is especially true at ADT. Since we began preparing for the potential impact of COVID-19, I’ve seen a tremendous outpouring of compassion and commitment from our team members to support each other and help keep our customers safe,” said Jim DeVries, President and CEO at ADT. “With the hard work of the ADT team and the support of state and local governments, we remain open for business and continue to secure our more than 6 million residential and commercial customers throughout the country.”
Continuing To Provide Protection When It Matters Most
ADT provides services that are essential to maintain the life safety and security of the public in their residences and businesses. We connect first responders to customers for police, fire, and health emergency services. ADT employees provide critical alarm and fire system monitoring, along with repair and maintenance services to restore the safety and security systems of our customers, who rely on ADT to help protect their property and lives. For these reasons, ADT is an essential business under shelter-in-place orders recently issued in several states and locales.
We’ve taken swift and proactive steps to ensure that we can continue to provide 24/7 professional security, fire and life safety monitoring and service to our 6 million customers. ADT utilizes a network of nine monitoring centers, which are geographically distributed throughout the United States, and include redundancies which provide backup services for critical functions such as professional monitoring and customer care. This feature of our network provides strength in times like these. Additionally, we have recently deployed tools to enable many of our employees to work remotely, and we now have nearly 2,000 ADT monitoring and customer care professionals working from remote locations.
Strong Financial Foundation to Continue to Serve Our Customers
Despite the challenges to the global economy presented by COVID-19, ADT’s recurring revenue business model and cash generation profile provides a solid financial foundation from which to continue to serve our customers and communities. Our business benefits from a strong recurring monthly revenue stream and a highly variable subscriber acquisition cost model. As such, we anticipate having sufficient liquidity to weather the current challenging macroeconomic environment and the slowdown brought on by COVID-19. Moreover, given the nature of our business model, in which slower gross adds lead to lower cash expenditures, we continue to expect to generate strong free cash flow before special items, even in the case of reduced near-term demand. Finally, we have no significant debt maturities until October 2021 and substantial room under any applicable financial covenants. As a result, we expect to continue to be in a strong position to serve customers and communities during this difficult time.
Protecting Our Customers And Our Communities
Our commitment to helping keep our communities safe means we sometimes need to interact with customers in-person to repair and install home security and life safety systems. ADT is also the security, fire protection and life safety provider for essential businesses and facilities in our communities, which include hospitals, distribution centers, grocery stores, financial institutions and restaurants. To continue providing safety and peace of mind to our customers, we are taking these measures:
•Our call centers are phone screening all residential customers, before setting in-home appointments, to ensure they can provide a safe work environment for our team members, and to ensure the safety of all customers.
•We are equipping our customer-facing employees with additional cleaning, sanitation, and protective tools to help protect them and our customers. We are also asking our field teams to conduct daily personal wellness checks before reporting to work.
•Our field staff are taking additional steps to help protect our customers, including the following: practicing social distancing, reconfirming that the customer household is healthy before arriving, using sanitizer and hand-washing before and after the consultation, and conducting all business through digital confirmation (e-signature).
•ADT is leading the industry in temporarily ceasing all unsolicited, door-to-door sales practices.
Promoting Supportive Work Environments For Our Team Members
ADT instituted a number of policies and practices to support our team members who are facing very challenging times. These policies, which have already gone into effect, provide immediate relief due to missed work, lost wages, and concerns about team member wellbeing.
•We have implemented a temporary, company-wide remote working mandate for positions that can begin remote work immediately.
•We have implemented flexibility in our attendance policy, including access to paid time off, that encourages employees to stay home if they feel ill or need to care for at-home children.
•ADT will pay employees 100% of regular compensation for up to two weeks if they’re required to be quarantined due to the COVID-19 illness.
More information regarding ADT’s actions can be found at https://www.adt.com/coronavirus.
ABOUT ADT
ADT is a leading provider of security, automation, and smart home solutions serving consumer and business customers through more than 200 locations, nine monitoring centers, and the largest network of security professionals in the United States. The Company offers many ways to help protect customers by delivering lifestyle-driven solutions via professionally installed, do-it-yourself, mobile, and digital-based offerings for residential, small business, and larger commercial customers. For more information, please visit www.adt.com or follow on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram.
FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
ADT has made statements in this press release and other reports, filings, and other public written and verbal announcements that are forward-looking and therefore subject to risks and uncertainties. All statements, other than statements of historical fact, included in this press release are, or could be, “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and are made in reliance on the safe harbor protections provided thereunder. These forward-looking statements relate to anticipated financial performance, management’s plans and objectives for future operations, business prospects, outcome of regulatory proceedings, market conditions and other matters. Any forward-looking statement made in this press release speaks only as of the date on which it is made. ADT undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise. Forward-looking statements can be identified by various words such as “expects,” “intends,” “will,” “anticipates,” “believes,” “confident,” “continue,” “propose,” “seeks,” “could,” “may,” “should,” “estimates,” “forecasts,” “might,” “goals,” “objectives,” “targets,” “planned,” “projects,” and similar expressions. These forward-looking statements are based on management’s current beliefs and assumptions and on information currently available to management. ADT cautions that these statements are subject to risks and uncertainties, many of which are outside of ADT’s control, and could cause future events or results to be materially different from those stated or implied in this press release, including among others, risk factors that are described in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K and other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the sections entitled “Risk Factors” and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” contained therein.
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