Dana Incorporated Reports 2021 Financial Results, Issues Guidance for 2022

Company Announces Strong Three-year Sales Backlog of $800 Million, Half from Electrified-vehicle Programs

MAUMEE, Ohio, Feb. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ —

Full-year Results

• Sales of $8.9 billion, an increase of $1.8 billion

• Net income attributable to Dana of $197 million, an increase of $228 million

• Diluted EPS of $1.35, an increase of $1.56

• Adjusted EBITDA of $795 million; margin of 8.9 percent of sales

• Diluted adjusted EPS of $1.66, an improvement of $1.27

• Operating cash flow of $158 million

Dana Incorporated (NYSE: DAN) today announced financial results for the fourth quarter and full-year 2021.

“Despite a year of unprecedented challenges impacting the global mobility industry, including substantial supply-chain constraints and cost inflation, Dana had significantly stronger sales, Adjusted EBITDA, and Adjusted EPS in 2021,” said James Kamsickas, Dana chairman and CEO. “As we look forward to 2022, we expect to see some easing later this year of the challenges that have hindered our customers’ ability to produce vehicles, and we are well positioned to benefit from simultaneous recovery in all three of our end markets. In addition to this market recovery and cyclical growth, about half of our $800 million of new business sales backlog is coming online this year, representing above-market growth, with half of our backlog coming from electrification.”

Fourth-quarter 2021 Financial Results

Sales for the fourth quarter of 2021 totaled $2.27 billion, compared with $2.11 billion in the same period of 2020, representing a $165 million increase driven by strong customer demand in our heavy-vehicle markets and the recovery of commodity cost inflation.

Net income attributable to Dana was $25 million for the fourth quarter of 2021, compared with $40 million in the same period of 2020. The year-over-year decline was due to higher input costs for commodities, transportation, labor, and energy combined with production inefficiencies driven by inconsistent customer order patterns. The impact of the period cost related to our new U.S. labor agreement was offset by lower restructuring charges. The fourth quarter of 2021 benefited from a $51 million gain resulting from a facility sale-leaseback transaction.

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Reported diluted earnings per share were $0.18, compared with diluted earnings per share of $0.27 in the fourth quarter of 2020.

Adjusted EBITDA for the fourth quarter of 2021 was $118 million, compared with $192 million for the same period in 2020. Profit margin compression in the fourth quarter of 2021 was primarily driven by higher input costs, including higher commodity costs, and the $17 million of period cost related to our new U.S. labor agreement.

Diluted adjusted earnings per share, which do not include the benefit of the sale-leaseback transaction, were negligible in the fourth quarter of 2021, compared with $0.24 in the same period of the prior year. The lower year-over-year comparison was primarily due to lower earnings resulting from higher input costs and the period cost related to a new U.S. labor agreement.

Operating cash flow in the fourth quarter of 2021 was $139 million, compared with $191 million in the same period of 2020. Free cash flow was a use of $2 million, compared with free cash flow of $46 million in the fourth quarter of 2020. Cash flow use in this year’s fourth quarter was driven by higher working capital requirements, primarily inventory, resulting from customer schedule disruptions and supply-chain challenges.

Full-year 2021 Financial Results

Sales for 2021 were $8.9 billion, compared with $7.1 billion in 2020. The increase of $1.8 billion is primarily attributable to stronger demand across all mobility markets.

The net income attributable to Dana was $197 million, compared with a net loss of $31 million in 2020.

Reported diluted earnings per share were a gain of $1.35, compared with a net loss of $0.21 in 2020.

Adjusted EBITDA for 2021 was $795 million or 8.9 percent of sales, compared with $593 million or 8.3 percent of sales in 2020. Margin headwinds were driven by higher commodity costs, production inefficiencies caused by OEM supply chain disruptions, and cost inflation in transportation, energy, and labor.

Diluted adjusted earnings per share for 2021 were $1.66, compared with $0.39 in 2020.

The company reported operating cash flow of $158 million in 2021. Free cash flow was a use of $211 million, compared with free cash flow of $60 million in 2020. Cash flow use in this year was driven by higher inventory requirements resulting from customer schedule disruptions and supply-chain challenges, compared with lower inventory levels in 2020 due primarily to actions taken to reduce inventory levels, preserving working capital, in response to the COVID pandemic.

“Global supply-chain disruptions, high commodity costs, and labor and semiconductor shortages have continued to disrupt our customers’ production patterns that, in turn, have pressured our margins and limited free cash flow over the past year,” said Timothy Kraus, Dana senior vice president and chief financial officer. “We carried higher levels of inventory in 2021 to protect our ability to supply our customers and mitigate ongoing global supply-chain disruptions and labor shortages. As these challenges begin to subside, we anticipate a sustained recovery period as low end-market inventory levels, combined with strong end-consumer demand, drive higher sales and a more stable production environment, allowing us to drastically reduce our inventory as well as improve margins.”

2022 Financial Targets¹

• Sales of $9.6 to $10.1 billion;

• Adjusted EBITDA of $900 million to $1.0 billion, an implied adjusted EBITDA margin of approximately 9.6 percent at the midpoint of the range;

• Diluted adjusted EPS of $2.05 to $2.55;

• Operating cash flow of approximately 6.5 to 7.5 percent of sales; and

• Free cash flow of approximately 2.5 to 3.5 percent of sales.

¹Net income and diluted EPS guidance are not provided, as discussed below in Non-GAAP Financial Information.

Dana to Host Conference Call at 9 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 23

Dana will discuss its fourth-quarter and full-year results in a conference call at 9 a.m. EST on Wednesday, Feb. 23. Participants may listen to the audio portion of the conference call either through audio streaming online or by telephone. Slide viewing is available online via a link provided on the Dana investor website: www.dana.com/investors. U.S. and Canadian locations should dial 1-888-311-4590 and international locations should call 1-706-758-0054. Please enter conference I.D. 2493396 ask for the “Dana Incorporated’s Financial Webcast and Conference Call.” Phone registration will be available beginning at 8:30 a.m. EST.An audio recording of the webcast will be available after 5 p.m. EST on Feb. 23 by dialing 1-855-859-2056 (U.S. or Canada) or 1-404-537-3406 (international) and entering conference I.D. 2493396. A webcast replay will also be available after 5 p.m. EST and may be accessed via Dana’s investor website.

Non-GAAP Financial Information

This release refers to adjusted EBITDA, a non-GAAP financial measure which we have defined as net income before interest, income taxes, depreciation, amortization, equity grant expense, restructuring expense, non-service cost components of pension and other postretirement benefit costs, and other adjustments not related to our core operations (gain/loss on debt extinguishment, pension settlements, divestitures, impairment, etc.). Adjusted EBITDA is a measure of our ability to maintain and continue to invest in our operations and provide shareholder returns. We use adjusted EBITDA in assessing the effectiveness of our business strategies, evaluating and pricing potential acquisitions and as a factor in making incentive compensation decisions. In addition to its use by management, we also believe adjusted EBITDA is a measure widely used by securities analysts, investors, and others to evaluate financial performance of our company relative to other Tier 1 automotive suppliers. Adjusted EBITDA should not be considered a substitute for income before income taxes, net income or other results reported in accordance with GAAP. Adjusted EBITDA may not be comparable to similarly titled measures reported by other companies.

Diluted adjusted EPS is a non-GAAP financial measure, which we have defined as adjusted net income divided by adjusted diluted shares. We define adjusted net income as net income (loss) attributable to the parent company, excluding any nonrecurring income tax items, restructuring charges, amortization expense, and other adjustments not related to our core operations (as used in adjusted EBITDA), net of any associated income tax effects. We define adjusted diluted shares as diluted shares as determined in accordance with GAAP based on adjusted net income. This measure is considered useful for purposes of providing investors, analysts, and other interested parties with an indicator of ongoing financial performance that provides enhanced comparability to EPS reported by other companies. Diluted adjusted EPS is neither intended to represent nor be an alternative measure to diluted EPS reported under GAAP.

Free cash flow is a non-GAAP financial measure which we have defined as net cash provided by (used in) operating activities less purchases of property, plant, and equipment. Adjusted free cash flow is a non-GAAP financial measure which we have defined as net cash provided by (used in) operating activities excluding voluntary pension contributions less purchases of property, plant, and equipment. We believe these measures are useful to investors in evaluating the operational cash flow of the company inclusive of the spending required to maintain the operations. Free cash flow and adjusted free cash flow are not intended to represent nor be an alternative to the measure of net cash provided by (used in) operating activities reported under GAAP. Free cash flow and adjusted free cash flow may not be comparable to similarly titled measures reported by other companies.

We have not provided reconciliations of preliminary and projected adjusted EBITDA and diluted adjusted EPS to the most comparable GAAP measures of net income and diluted EPS. Providing net income and diluted EPS guidance is potentially misleading and not practical given the difficulty of projecting event-driven transactional and other non-core operating items that are included in net income and diluted EPS, including restructuring actions, asset impairments, and income tax valuation adjustments. Reconciliations of these non-GAAP measures with the most comparable GAAP measures for historical periods are indicative of the reconciliations that will be prepared upon completion of the periods covered by the non-GAAP guidance. Please reference the “Non-GAAP Financial Information” accompanying our quarterly earnings conference call presentations on our website at www.dana.com/investors for our GAAP results and the reconciliations of these measures, were used, to the comparable GAAP measures.

Forward-Looking Statements

Certain statements and projections contained in this news release are, by their nature, forward-looking within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are based on our current expectations, estimates, and projections about our industry and business, management’s beliefs, and certain assumptions made by us, all of which are subject to change. Forward-looking statements can often be identified by words such as “anticipates,” “expects,” “intends,” “plans,” “predicts,” “believes,” “seeks,” “estimates,” “may,” “will,” “should,” “would,” “could,” “potential,” “continue,” “ongoing,” and similar expressions, and variations or negatives of these words. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future results and are subject to risks, uncertainties, and assumptions that could cause our actual results to differ materially and adversely from those expressed in any forward-looking statement.

Dana’s Annual Report on Form 10-K, subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, recent Current Reports on Form 8-K, and other Securities and Exchange Commission filings discuss important risk factors that could affect our business, results of operations and financial condition. The forward-looking statements in this news release speak only as of this date. Dana does not undertake any obligation to revise or update publicly any forward-looking statement for any reason.

About Dana Incorporated

Dana is a leader in the design and manufacture of highly efficient propulsion and energy-management solutions that power vehicles and machines in all mobility markets across the globe. The company is shaping sustainable progress through its conventional and clean-energy solutions that support nearly every vehicle manufacturer with drive and motion systems; electrodynamic technologies, including software and controls; and thermal, sealing, and digital solutions.

Based in Maumee, Ohio, USA, the company reported sales of $8.9 billion in 2021 with 40,000 associates in 32 countries across six continents. Founded in 1904, Dana was named one of “America’s Most Responsible Companies 2022” by Newsweek for its emphasis on sustainability and social responsibility. The company is driven by a high-performance culture that focuses on valuing others, inspiring innovation, growing responsibly, and winning together, earning it global recognition as a top employer. Learn more at dana.com.

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Amortization of deferred financing charges

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Redemption premium on debt

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Write-off of deferred financing costs

8

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Earnings of affiliates, net of dividends received

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Stock compensation expense

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14

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Impairment of goodwill

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Net cash provided by operating activities

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Investing activities

Purchases of property, plant and equipment

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Proceeds from sale of property, plant and equipment

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11

Acquisition of businesses, net of cash acquired

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Investments in affiliates

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Proceeds from sale of subsidiary, net of cash disposed

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Proceeds from sale of equity affiliate

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21

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