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Aaron's, Inc. (NYSE:AAN)
F3Q11 Earnings Call
October 24, 2011 5:00 pm ET
Gilbert L. Danielson – Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President & Director
R. Charles Loudermilk, Sr. – Chairman of the Board
Robert C. Loudermilk, Jr. – President, Chief Executive Officer & Director
William K. Butler, Jr. – Chief Operating Officer & Director
David Magee – SunTrust Robinson Humphrey
Analyst for Matthew McCall – BB&T Capital Markets
Analyst for Bud Bugatch – Raymond James
Analyst for Bradley Thomas – KeyBanc Capital Markets
John A. Baugh – Stifel Nicolaus
Welcome to the third quarterly earnings conference call. (Operator Instructions). I would like to introduce your host, Gil Danielson, CFO of Aaron's, Inc. You may proceed Mr. Danielson.
Gilbert L. Danielson
Thank you for joining us this afternoon. The operator is going to read our standard Safe Harbor statement before we get started and then we'll have a few comments, and then after that we'll have a few questions and answers.
The company's earnings release issued today and related Form 8K are available on our website www.AaronsInc.com in the investor's relation section. This webcast will be archived for replay there as well. With us today is Charlie Loudermilk, Chairman; Robert Loudermilk, CEO; Ken Butler, COO; and Gil Danielson, CFO.
Before we discuss the results I would like to read the company's Safe Harbor statement. Except for the historical information the matters discussed today are forward-looking statements of the company. As such, they will involve a number of risks and uncertainties including factors such as changes in general economic conditions, competition, pricing, customer demand, litigation, and other issues that could cause actual results to differ materially from those such statements including the risks and uncertainties discussed under risk factors in the company's 2010 annual report on Form 10K, including, without limitation, in the company's projected revenues, earnings, and store openings, and store acquisitions, and dispositions activity for the future period.
I would now like to pass the conference back over to Mr. Danielson.
Gilbert L. Danielson
Rob, Ken, and Charlie will have a few comments and then I'll add some further information.
Robert C. Loudermilk, Jr.
I appreciate everybody joining the call. We had our release earlier and we once again, recorded strong revenue growth this quarter with same store revenues up 5.3% and customer counts up 6.3% over the third quarter of this last year. In addition, although not revenues of Aaron's, Inc., our franchise stores experienced a 3.1% growth in same store revenues and 3.2% increase in same store customer growth. The total of our corporate and franchise customers were up 9.8% over the same period a year ago.
As noted in the earnings release, even those these gains are outstanding in the current economic conditions, we believe our customers continue to feel the strain of high unemployment and overall economic pressures. Our recession resilient business model has done well through many economic cycles as our large customer base needs a non-credit way to obtain basic home furnishings, and even more so in the current tight credit environment. We have again proved that with proper execution our business can do very well in difficult economic conditions.
Our pre-tax margins were negatively affected this quarter due to the higher depreciation expense of lease merchandise, the cost of rapidly converting over 40 third-party stores acquired and converting the HOMESMART Store concept along with some other increased operating costs due to some positive operational changes we are implementing for future growth and development of the company.
We are quite excited about the experimental HOMESMART weekly pay concept and are consciously ramping up the number of stores. Our current plan is to have approximately 65 HOMESMART stores open by year end and slow down any further openings until we can fully evaluate the store's financial performance and returns.
Excluding a law suit related charge discussed earlier in the second quarter, net earnings for the nine months of 2011 would have been $105.8 million and earnings per share, assuming dilution, excluding the law suit related charges would have been $1.32, a 23% increase over the nine months of last year. Also note, during the third quarter the company received $125 million from an issuance of a senior unsecured note in a private placement. These funds have and will be used for general corporate purposes and for the repurchase of company stock. We repurchased a substantial number of shares of stock during the quarter.
On October 14th the company closed on its previously announced $10 billion British pound investment in Perfect Home Holdings Limited a UK rent-to-own company. We feel this investment of a 11.5% ownership in the company will give us good exposure to the UK market and can be a springboard for possible European and international expansion. We are quite impressed with the Perfect Home management team and owners. We feel that our partnership will be mutually beneficial in the years to come.
Our Woodhaven Manufacturing plants had a slight decrease in production in dollars of 2% in the quarter but had an increase in production in dollars of 17% for the year-to-date, a reflection of the increasing demand by the Aaron's stores for our furniture and bedding products. Woodhaven is on track to have a record year in shipments. Thanks for the support of the company and now I'll turn the call over to Ken for a couple of comments.
William K. Butler, Jr.
This past quarter has been one of the most active quarters that I recall in terms of buying and selling, closing, merging, and moving stores as well as our back office support system. First of all, we moved our Atlantic fulfillment center to a better physical facility and geographic location and this enabled us to move our administrative services into the same location. They, and our last Office Liquidation office store were in the location at I85 and 285 better known as Spaghetti Junction here in Atlanta that many of you may have seen over the last 40 years.
We closed down that facility, moved the last remaining Office Liquidation location into the old fulfillment center in Duluth and when this happened we were able to move the administrative center out of that facility on Northeast into the new fulfillment center. In an even bigger move, we combined our Winston-Salem and Columbia South Carolina fulfillment centers into one location that is operating in Charlotte North Carolina. Additionally, we combined several departments in the home office to create our new associate relations department. All these moves were designed and executed so that we can do a better and more efficient job of supporting our associates in the store.
Right after the end of the, as Rob alluded too, we made an 11.5% investment in the Perfect Home Stores in the UK and we look to exchange ideas and business practices to help both operations in the future, and it's going to give us an opportunity to own, operate, and franchise stores in the European landscape.
With our core Aaron's model we opened 24 new locations, closed approximately 20 underperforming stores, purchased the accounts from various competitors to enhance the customer base, revenue, and profitability of 27 existing locations. Additionally, there were four franchise stores sold from franchisee to franchisee. We also opened up one RIMCO stores and we're seeing very positive results coming in now in that division.
Our new HOMESMART concept is picking up momentum as we opened four new stores, and acquired and successfully converted 37 new locations, bringing out total to 56 stores opened at the end of the quarter. These acquisitions were opportunistic driven and they weren't projected to be in our store count, and we already have another group of new stores in the queue to be opened in the fourth quarter which should bring us to somewhere in the neighborhood of 70 stores by year end.
We continue to closely monitor the results of these stores as well as the results of the nearest Aaron's locations. I made it a point to visit the vast majority of these stores and spent time with our HOMESMART and Aaron's associates at ground level and they see no crossover cannibalization. I get a report daily to match up the results as well and see no sign of it there as well. Although it is still early to be conclusive in the model, one thing we know for sure is that business is brisk in both stores, the Aaron's and the HOMESMART.
Because of this rapid growth we're going to slowdown the opening of the new stores in HOMESMART for a short time as we continue to develop the model, work on the infrastructure as evidenced by our recent move of appointing long time associates Mark Rudnick to VP of Marketing over HOMESMART and RIMCO and as soon as this process is complete I see a major acceleration of growth to the brand through company and franchise acquisitions.
Our core overall Aaron's business remains solid as evidence, the revenues continue to decline to 5.3% on the same store basis for the quarter. At the end of the quarter we had 961,000 corporate active customers and 520,000 franchise customers which represents an increase of 9.8%. In summary, we're making strategic moves to not only help our operations in the short term but also position us to grow and prosper in the years to come.
R. Charles Loudermilk, Sr.
I just want to thank our 11,000 employees for their hard work for the last quarter and the last year. We're on track to continue to grow big time. I see it, from my desk, I see a lot of future growth and I'm very enthused over the HOMESMART concept. Everything I see about that seems to be good and I really don't see any negatives right today and I guess that's my job, to see the positives and negatives. I'm very enthusiastic about where we're going.
Gilbert L. Danielson
I'll give the highlights of the third quarter and the nine month period. Company revenues increased 7% for the quarter to $485.2 million and 8% for the nine months to $1.5 billion in revenues. In addition, our franchisees collectively increased their revenues to $223.9 million for the quarter, a 10% increase over the same period last year and their revenues were up 9% for the nine months to just under $700 million. Revenues of franchisees are not however, revenues of Aaron's, Inc.
Same store revenue was good in the third quarter. For company operated stores it was up 5.3% and it was up 3.8% for stores open over two years old. For stores that were open over five years old at the end of the third quarter, it was up 1.6% over the same period a year ago. The same store revenue growth for the franchise stores was 3.1%. Once again, we're seeing in company stores same store revenues in the third quarter were positive in all parts of the country.
As Ken mentioned, we had 961,000 company operated store customers at the end of September and 520,000 million franchise stores an increase of 9.8%. We now just have a shade under 1.5 million customers in the Aaron's system. I suspect that we will go above 1.5 million at the end of the next quarter. As we mentioned, the customer count on a same store basis for company operated stores was up 6.3% and for franchise stores it was up 3.2% for the third quarter compared to the same quarter of last year. Again, the revenues and customers of franchisees are not the revenues of the company.
Net earnings for the quarter were up 7% to $28 million versus $26.2 million in the same period last year. And net earnings for the nine months were $83.2 million versus $87.6 million last year. Diluted earnings per share for the quarter were $0.36 compared to $0.32 last year and for the nine months the earnings per share were $1.04 for 2011 and $1.70 for 2010. As you'll recall, in the second quarter we had a charge a law suit of $36.5 million which results from a judgment we had in the second quarter. Excluding that charge, net earnings for the nine months would have been $105.8 million and diluted earnings per share $1.32. That'd be a 23% increase over the nine months of last year.
The dollar amount of our low margin non-retail sales which are the sales of new product to our franchisees were up 2% for the quarter. However, the actual number of unit ships from our fulfillment center increased 12%. We had a lot of new store movement as we talked about in the press release, a lot opening HOMESMART stores, and closing some stores, and buying some accounts, so it was a real active quarter for us from that regard.
To talk about new store drag, new store drag for the Aaron's store for the quarter was approximately $0.03 per diluted share this year in this quarter and it was $0.04 last year in 2010. The new store drag on the HOMESMART stores which we rapidly ramped up this quarter was approximately $0.03 per diluted share in the third quarter of this year. We didn't have any HOMESMART stores open at the same period last year.
Margins were affected in the third quarter as a result of an increase in the lower margin early payouts of agreements. Our early payouts went up substantially in the third quarter of this year versus the same period of last year. But it's a lower margin transaction so you see the increase depreciation expense of leased merchandise in the quarter and that's a reflection of that. That's primarily the reason. We did have some product mix too which drills the depreciations up a little bit.
For the three and nine months ended September 30th this year, the company has awarded area development agreements to open [seven to 51] additional franchise stores and at the end of September 2011 there were 247 franchise stores awarded that we expect will be opened over the next several years. At September 30th of this year, Aaron's Sales & Lease Ownership division consisted of 1,135 company operated stores, 693 franchise stores, 13 company operated RIMCO stores, 56 HOMESMART stores, and six franchise RIMCO stores. We do also have the one Aaron's Office Furniture store open so our total store count at the end of September was 1,904 stores.
We did have quite a bit of cash on hand again at the end of September at $219 million of cash on hand. And as we previously mentioned here, we did close on our private placement in July that brought in $125 million of cash for the company on long term debt. These funds that we brought in, in July, will be used for general corporate purposes and has been and will be used from time-to-time for the repurchase of company stock. We did mention we did make the investment in Perfect Home in October as we talked about.
Our guidance for the fourth quarter of this year is to expect revenues of approximately $520 million and diluted earnings per share in the range of $0.41 to $0.45 per share. Our revenue guidance for 2011 is to reach approximately a little bit more than $2 billion in revenues and earnings guidance in the range of $1.73 to $1.77. This is a non-GAAP number and it's updated a little bit from previous guidance. The fiscal year guidance excludes the second quarter $0.28 dilution per share charge from the law suit.
As we historically have done, we have made an initial earnings guidance for the following year, for 2012, and it's to achieve earnings per share in the range of $1.88 to $2.04 per share. We now anticipate our new store growth of between 6% and 8% for 2011 and expect overall new store growth in 2012 to be in the range of 5% to 9% which has been our goal in guidance for the last several years on new store growth.
We did buy some shares back during the quarter. During the third quarter we acquired 3.6 million shares of our common stock for about $89.7 million. And during the first nine months of this year we have acquired just over five million shares of the company stock at a cost of about $127 million. We currently have board authorization to purchase an additional almost 5.3 million shares. We generated around $94 million in cash flow from operations in the third quarter and $296 million for the first nine months of 2011.
Just looking at the store level gross revenue, write offs of gross revenues, they were 3.3% in the third quarter of 2011. A little bit higher, which is typical in the summer months, than a year ago in the third quarter the percentage write off as a percentage of gross revenues were 3.4% so slightly better than a year ago.
Those are the prepared comments. We'll certainly take any questions that there may be.
Question-and-Answer Session
(Operator Instructions) Your first question comes from David Magee – SunTrust Robinson Humphrey.
David Magee – SunTrust Robinson Humphrey
Just a couple of questions, one I didn't quite catch what may have driven the early payoff being higher this year versus last. Was there something that drove that?
Gilbert L. Danielson
Well, I think one of the reasons is about a year ago we instituted a 120 days same as cash early payout option and previously it was a 90 day same as cash. You know, I guess people had cash that came in. What happens is you come in and you enter into a lease agreement and then you have up to 120 days if you so desire to basically pay the retail price of the product and catch up on your lease payments and pay the retail price of the product. A lot of people took advantage of it in the quarter so I guess it was certainly a successful program from that side. We got a lot of cash in the door from it, but it is a discounted transaction so it hurts your margins.
David Magee – SunTrust Robinson Humphrey
Is this a program you might continue moving forward?
Gilbert L. Danielson
Obviously it was higher this quarter. I would anticipate it will continue somewhat moving forward. So, if you look at depreciation expense in the fourth quarter, it will probably trend a little bit higher than it has been historically just due to that phenomena; we'll see.
David Magee – SunTrust Robinson Humphrey
Just secondly, when you look at the HOMESMART stores and they started off well here, what are you looking for sort of on the back end to give you confirmation that this is a concept to grow going forward?
Robert C. Loudermilk, Jr.
Well, I think there will be a few things. One, we don't want to hurt the main thing. The main thing is Aaron's so we hope we can open up a model where we can keep the Aaron's stores churning and feel like the margin's big enough we can create another profitable model. That being said, if that can happen, how many more of those stores could we have so that's the big thing. We feel confident. We know how to run the business, it's the rent and collect business. The overheads of the store are less than an Aaron's and the prices are a little bit higher so, you know, theoretically at a barebones minimum we ought to obtain the profitability of an Aaron's stores. So I would think we'd be looking at that as a model.
Gilbert L. Danielson
Yes, I think so. Obviously key, that we've talked about before, we certainly don't want to cannibalize our existing stores or have any negative effect on the Aaron's model so we're watching that carefully.
Your next question comes from Analyst for Matthew McCall – BB&T Capital Markets.
Analyst for Matthew McCall – BB&T Capital Markets
In the release you guys talked a little bit about how that your customers are struggling, which obviously makes sense given the economic environment, but I don't think you've used language that explicit before. So I was just curious if there are any trends you're seeing that give you a little bit of concern about your customer base overall?
Robert C. Loudermilk, Jr.
No, I don't think we do. We just hear the same things as you hear in the market and reading the papers. Our customers do become unemployed, they have issues and you know, they're in a beautiful deal they can turn the product back in with us and have lifetime reinstatement. We feel those struggles and we feel those needs out in the store. On the positive side, I don't think at any time in our history has our traffic never been better and what we've got to do is do a better job of capturing this traffic and converting it into new customers.
I think we're doing some of that. I think that's what's driving some of our same store revenues but bottom line, if we didn't have that new traffic we would be struggling. I mean, you've got high unemployment rates, and customers become unemployed and they can't make their payments.
Analyst for Matthew McCall – BB&T Capital Markets
How did the average ticket trend during the quarter?
Gilbert L. Danielson
It went down a little bit, let me look it up here. The average ticket was $132 in the quarter. It was $134 in the June quarter. You know historically though, and it was down a little bit, I did look at last year's June and September average ticket and it went down about a buck. It was higher in June. So I think some of it might be the reflection of the summer quarter, but it is down a bit so we'll have to watch that and see how that trends. You recall probably the last three of four quarters it's been pretty well stabilized where it's been around that $132 to $134 level.
Analyst for Matthew McCall – BB&T Capital Markets
In your guidance and maybe your outlook on this, as far as an operating leverage stand point I know the early payouts hurt a little bit and then just with the new stores, maybe you could talk a little bit how you view operating leverage? I mean, maybe it will be depressed for the next couple of quarters, but with incremental margin down to I think, about 10% this quarter, where do you see that trending over the next few quarters?
Gilbert L. Danielson
We have guidance for the fourth quarter and the fiscal year that's in our press release. I think same store revenues, they were up 5.3% for the quarter. I mean we've been saying that the mid single digit same store revenues is probably what will happen, between 4% and 6% so I feel that will be the case in the next quarter or two. So I think that will be it. As far as overall revenues, increases from lease revenues, I would think the trends in the fourth quarter will be pretty similar in the third quarter from a percentage increase from year-to-year. So, how do we get leverage? Well, we just again leverage off operating expenses as best we can and then we'll probably be nipped a little bit on increased depreciation expense but if we lever off the operating expense historically the operating expense as a percentage of revenue is always your lowest, or second lowest in the fourth quarter compared to other quarters just because revenues are up.
Your next question comes from Analyst for Bud Bugatch – Raymond James.
Analyst for Bud Bugatch – Raymond James
Ken, you talked about the fact that there weren't too many material changes so to get the customer count back up with all the early payouts you had to be reupping probably an increased number of customers. Am I looking at that the right way, and if so, are you having to entice these customers any more heavily now?
William K. Butler, Jr.
Yes, I think we have to bring more sizzle to the table and I think we've been successful in doing that. We kind of, in our camp, view the customer becoming the owner of the product as a celebration. We think we're pleasing customers and making them happy with the program and if they're happy they're going to tell other people and they're going to re lease something else. Our past history has proven that out.
Analyst for Bud Bugatch – Raymond James
Gil, on the new store drag for the HOMESMART stores, obviously the number per store will be a little bit lower than the regular monthly box I guess based on the size and the overhead, but these were already stores in operation. Should we think about it any differently for the organic stores that you're going to open up from scratch?
Gilbert L. Danielson
Well yes, the results in the third quarter of HOMESMART included a lot of things including we bought a couple of chains and we went through and converted most of their stores to HOMESMART stores. So there's lots of activity structuring the division, etc. So I mean we're just into it. Again, we're very encouraged with the concept but we're going to have to wait a quarter or two to see how it really ramps up and that's why we're going to slow down the growth as Ken mentioned. We get these stores opened and we're going to watch the ramp up and see how they compare with our existing Aaron's stores, the costs that are involved and the returns before we move dramatically ahead.
So to answer your question, it's early, we made a huge leap in this quarter, the third quarter. We got a ton of stores open. We now have a lot of critical mass. We've still got some more stores we're going to open here before the end of December. Once we get those opened, the next couple of quarters, I think we'll get a better handle on how they're going to perform compared to Aaron's stores and how they'll perform to other weekly stores out there.
Analyst for Bud Bugatch – Raymond James
The last one for me, on the UK investment, I know it's really early days obviously but our understanding of the market over there, of the rent-to-own guys, is it's a little bit more aspirational market and the stores are pretty markedly more productive on a customers' per box basis. What have you guys learned in the maybe due diligence period that you think you might be able to sort of import over here to try and drive the box productivity of the customers?
Robert C. Loudermilk, Jr.
Well, realistic trip over there it certainly is a different approach to the same customer. They do breakout a lot of the charges here in the states that we bundle together a little more transparent which we like frankly. We think it's pretty interesting how they do it. You learn frankly, that the customers there are the same as the customers here, a lot of them. The UK is very small so there's a limited number of stores, a couple of hundred, I guess you could have there but there's really a platform for potential other expansion throughout other countries in Europe.
But, it is a different model and it's very interesting how it works and how they charge for the different options, the put back and the insurance, and etc. So I think it's really too early to tell. I can tell you that they're having some pretty good quarters and months. They plan to open 10 more stores, I think, in the next 12 months up in Scotland so they're marching on. There's a chain over there called BrightHouse. What do they have over there Ken, 230 stores?
William K. Butler, Jr.
Robert C. Loudermilk, Jr.
They do very well. They have some very good numbers come out so we're very enthused about it. I think there's going to be a lot of, as Ken said, a lot of idea sharing. You know, you kind of get caught up in your own box here and you kind of drink your own kool-aide. It's been a really good experience. We've all been over there and looked at it and we plan to make a number of trips in the next year to really learn. If nothing else, it will be a great learning experience for us to see how they operate and I think we'll bring back a lot of ideas.
Your next question comes from Analyst for Bradley Thomas – KeyBanc Capital Markets.
Analyst for Bradley Thomas – KeyBanc Capital Markets
My first question is if you can into a little more detail, I guess kind of some higher level background into the Perfect Home, is this weekly, or monthly? And kind of what is the competitive landscape to here where it's a lot of mom and pop shops, or are there some dominate players like you and your biggest competitor? Can you guys just go into that a little bit?
William K. Butler, Jr.
I don't think there's a lot of small mom and pops. The first breakthrough company over there was BrightHouse. But you know, the UK's been renting televisions for a long, long period of times. It goes back to the days they had a company called Radio Rentals, they became I think another – whatever the name of the second one. So the consumer over there understands the transaction and they never had the right to own it, and because of the laws you really can't do a rent-to-own transaction in the UK. But, they found a way to make it a retail transaction with an acceptable interest rate along with the right to return and a warranty built in so the customer gets the same thing.
We think the potential is enormous. One thing about the customer base in the UK is it's all – pretty much the entire customer base is on some time of government subsidy. Perfect Home knows all these various subsidies and they put most of their customers on automatic withdrawal out of their account to pay their weekly payments. It's a weekly proposition only because the government subsidies come out every single week.
One thing interesting about Perfect Home is they are kind of like the Aaron's of the UK. They're much smaller than BrightHouse. BrightHouse has done a tremendous job but their stores are larger, larger selection and lower prices and that's kind of the model we've done here in the states and that's kind of why we felt the two companies align themselves very well.
Analyst for Bradley Thomas – KeyBanc Capital Markets
You had mentioned that the HOMESMART stores - I understand the higher revenue. We were thinking that maybe the overhead might be similar to maybe even a little bit more figuring more returns, more calling with the weekly. Can you kind of walk through how we get that lower overhead? Is it just the store size?
William K. Butler, Jr.
Well, the store size is one thing and you know your prices drop your margins too, so our prices are 20% to 25% higher than they are in an Aaron's store. The main issue is the overhead regarding the building itself. The rest of it, you're right, we think there might be a little bit more activity, there's probably more churn and burn, but we'll have to let all that play out. We're doing some things to hopefully be able to model and have better customer retention than a typical weekly store but we'll have to let time tell.
Robert C. Loudermilk, Jr.
I think that's the key, is the keep rate, as we call it in the industry, of the customer is about 50% here in Aaron's and the other weekly rent-to-own shops operate anywhere between 18% to 25%. So the thought is, if you get HOMESMART with a little bit better pricing, newer products, supported by distribution and fulfillment centers, your keep rate will increase which will then, as Ken said, be less churn and burn and therefore lower prices to the customer and then gaining market share. I've always said lower price drives market share, whatever industry you're in. So if we can keep the weekly price lower than the other weekly competitors we should be able to drive market share there.
We have just seen the fallout of the Aaron's customer as we churn, I guess some Aaron's customers they're going somewhere and they've got to get a bed, refrigerator, or TV, why not to a concept that we can control and give them a little bit better proposition than I think is out there today in the marketplace. So that's really the concept but to keep the lower prices, get the keep rate up, that's the experimentation that we'll do. It looks good. I think we're probably on to something here.
Your next question comes from John A. Baugh – Stifel Nicolaus.
John A. Baugh – Stifel Nicolaus
My question was you mentioned mix, I think, affecting depreciation a little bit in the quarter. Can you tell us what you saw?
Gilbert L. Danielson
I think about two thirds of the change in depreciation was the buyouts. The other third was the mix. We did more computers this quarter than we have in previous quarters as to mix. Computers are just about our least profitable item that we have that we lease so that was primarily the major switch between mix, between computers and TVs.
John A. Baugh – Stifel Nicolaus
Then in the $0.03 drag comment on HOMESMART, obviously there's a ton of stuff going on there, you're adding staff, you made an acquisition, you opened new stores. But you're now at 50 odd stores, you'll be at 70 odd, I'm kind of wondering what the burn rate might be on that drag say, I don't know, in the March quarter or something when you've more or less opened the 70 you're going to open and you're going to let it sit for a little while?
Gilbert L. Danielson
I think for the fourth quarter, again we've got a few more stores we're opening here, we will probably have a new store drag similar in the fourth quarter that we had in the third quarter for the HOMESMART stores. But then you get into the first quarter of the year, which as you know obviously historically, the best quarter of the year with the most revenue. I would suspect then that that new store drag will start declining at that stage. Then we'll get through the first quarter, we'll see how it performs with the good months, then we get into April and I think we'll have a better handle on the numbers.
John A. Baugh – Stifel Nicolaus
I know there's not enough stores to influence it Gil, but they should have a lower depreciation rate than your monthly stores, correct?
Gilbert L. Danielson
That's correct. The volume in the HOMESMART this quarter was like $5.8 million or something like that, but they don't have any revenues at the moment. But as they get more revenues, yes the depreciation rate will be lower but I don't think you'll see anything dramatic as that until next year.
John A. Baugh – Stifel Nicolaus
Then just clarity, the $41.5 million of commitments and contingencies that's on the balance sheet, what is that again?
Gilbert L. Danielson
That's that $36.5 million judgment. We have $5 million insurance on the judgment so that's just how it's presented on the balance sheet. The $41.5 million and then we have $5 million of insurance as a receivable so then that's the net $36.5 million.
There are currently no additional questions.
Gilbert L. Danielson
Thank you very much for joining us today. We appreciate it very much.
Ladies and gentlemen thank you for attending the Aaron's, Inc. third quarterly conference call. This will now conclude the conference. Enjoy the rest of your day.
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New York's Rattlestick Theater Plans L.A. 'Experiment'
New York's Rattlestick Playwrights Theater is readying its first Los Angeles production, and if the "experiment" pays off, it could lead to a permanent West Coast home.
New York's Rattlestick Theater Plans L.A. 'Experiment'
New York's Rattlestick Playwrights Theater is readying its first Los Angeles production, and if the "experiment" pays off, it could lead to a permanent West Coast home.
5 Actors That Bowed Out of a Show Early (Slideshow)
Shia LaBeouf ("Transformers") has dropped out of the Broadway revival of "Orphans," producers announced on Wednesday, and the show is to begin previews on March 19.
Casting Directors to Reveal the Secret to Becoming a Working Actor
Casting directors James Calleri, Tara Rubin, and Bernie Telsey will guest on "Theater Talk" Feb. 23.
Melodrama Is 'Really Really' Unpersuasive
Paul Downs Colaizzo's "Really Really," from MCC Theater, is a glaringly manipulative "Did it happen or didn't it?" melodrama about contemporary college students behaving badly.
This Meta 'Iphigenia in Aulis' Is a bit Much
Powerful performances help this overly directed, aggressively modernized version of Euripides' "Iphigenia in Aulis," at La MaMa, which references Eric Shanower's "Age of Bronze."
'Ladyhouse Blues' Doesn't Sing as It Should
Kevin O'Morrison's 1979 drama "Ladyhouse Blues," about a working-class woman holding her four daughters close after World War I, gets an uneven production from Andak Stage Company.
'Donnybrook!,' What Have They Done to Ye?
Irish Rep's revised, pared-down version of "Donnybrook!," the 1961 Broadway musical adaptation of "The Quiet Man," lurches by in fastforward despite Johnny Burke's lilting score.
'Sketches From the National Lampoon' Is Delightfully Outrageous
Matty Simmons' "Sketches From the National Lampoon," at the Hayworth Theatre, pokes ridiculously skewed fun at everything and anyone unlucky enough to come into its crosshairs.
'Caged' Reveals Much About the World We Live In
Charles A. Duncombe's "Caged," at City Garage, is full of sharp, funny, and touching observations about the human species but is more a fascinating study than a compelling drama.
'A Family Thing' Prefers Telling Over Showing
Gary Lennon's "A Family Thing," about a trio of troubled brothers, from Echo Theater Company, relies too heavily on clichés and stereotypes, giving the actors little to work with.


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Blarggggggggghhh, I dont event want to talk about this costume because it was a pain the rear to make and its still not finished to my standards yet. I am always tweaking this and that to get it to look right but I just cant seem to be satisfied with this costume. Shaina is my favorite character from the Saint Seiya pantheon though yeah she does come off as a bit of biotch on the anime. I feel that she is a very complicated character since she is one of two female saints in a world of dominated by testosterone.....so I wanted to give her a shot. The armor is made out of 3 different mediums, air dry clay, polystyrene and craft foam. The entire front part is airdry clay that is glossed over with polyester resin while the back is polystyrene and craft foam overlay. I wanted to make the entire thing out of clay BUT my wallet is not that deep and I really had to budget how much I put into this costume financially. The head gear shaped like a snake is all airdry clay hot glued into a plastic headband. The gauntlets are airdry clay on the fists, airdry clay on the arms and the snake is craft foam covered over with polyester resin gloss. Everything was spray painted purple. All fabric items were bought via ebay, I did not have time to sew anything so Hi ho Hi ho its off to ebay I go. I am still working on the wig, it wasnt really the one that I wanted but it was the only one I could afford so I need to style it a bit more to get more volume to it. This costume still needs some more work.....its a never ending battle....
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What Is The Most Asinine Topic You've Had To Talk About?
The Hollywood Reporter Roundtable video: Comedy Actresses. Stacey Wilson sits down with The Big Bang Theory's Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting, New Girl's Zooey Deschanel, Nurse Jackie's Edie Falco,The Mindy Project's Mindy Kaling, Shameless' Emmy Rossum, and Orange Is the New Black's Taylor Schilling, to talk about stupid questions from the media, disastrous auditions, odd fan interactions, the crazy stuff people tell them, and the state of American TV. (1:03:14, highlight transcription available)
It's easier to return to the past when you are happy with the present.
While at college I yearned to feel connected, to be a part of something larger, something that involved more than bricks and mortarboards. I never managed it. Now, two decades later, I felt a familiar ambivalence. Those bright college years are so influential, so much a part of who we become, that revisiting them brings up a host of conflicting, tumultuous emotions. Going back stirs the pot. Maybe that's a good thing.Author and columnist Rachel Toor on mixed feelings about going to a class reunion when you haven't exactly become successful in the traditional sense. (This essay also appeared in a 2004 issue of the Chronicle Review, the essays and opinions insert of the trade periodical The Chronicle of Higher Education.)
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Regaining Your Balance
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Welcome to Android Central! Are you rooted or unrooted? Are you getting any notifications at all? Are you actually getting the emails and text messages in the app, just without notifications?
Open the email and messaging apps individually, and check their respective menus. Make sure the notifications are set to your preference. If they are, then go to Settings>Apps>All, and select each app. Make sure "Show Notifications" is checked on.
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It's looking like a great year for apples and wine across Iowa.Video Transcript
But farmers who grow other crops are doing pretty well this summer. And, as Eric Hanson explains, their harvest isn't far off. eric. After an awful season in orchards and vineyards last year, this one started with potential. And has transitioned into smiles. IN IOWA'S CORN AND SOYBEAN FIELDS, BILLIONS OF BUSHELS COULD USE A DRINK BEFORE HARVEST. BUT JUST DOWN THE ROAD-- There's a bushel of apples right there - there's 40 pounds hanging on this branch. RICK MOTZKO'S BUSHELS ARE DOING SO GOOD, THEY'RE BENDING HIS BRANCHES. We're real happy with the way it's going. HAPPY APPLE'S RED TREES ARE LOADED DOWN AND THE YELLOW ONES ARE GROWING JUST AS FAST. A CROP THEY NEEDED AFTER LAST YEAR WHEN A FREEZE KILLED ALL BUT ABOUT 10 PERCENT OF THE CROP. A FEW NICE RAINS THE NEXT FEW WEEKS WOULD STILL HELP-- Swell the fruit with more juices, more flavor. It makes it better all the way around for eating, for cooking and for having fun with. BUT THEY'RE, APPROPRIATEL Y, HAPPY-- Well actually, it's been good. JUST LIKE JEAN GROBEN AT JASPER WINERY WHO SAYS IOWA'S REDS AND WHITES ARE ALSO LIKING WHAT MOTHER NATURE'S GIVING US. And so this dryness is making the sugar levels of the grapes come up, which we want. That's called the bricks and then the acid levels go down. THEY - AND SEVERAL OTHER WINERIES - WILL START PICKING NEXT WEEK. AND UNLIKE LAST YEAR'S CROP THAT WAS HALF NORMAL, THEY'RE EXPECTING PLENTY OF GRAPES. I think this year's going to be great. There's going to be a lot of grapes. WHATEVER YOU'RE GROWING, HARVEST SEASON'S BUSY-- So it's kind of a high stress level, but it's really a lot of excitement. BUT THEY'LL PICK A BUSY BUMPER CROP OVER A BUMMER OF A CROP EVERY YEAR. These trees are built to be solid and hence, that way they hold this fruit. ERIC HANSON, KCCI 8 NEWS, IOWA'S NEWS LEADER. Apple producers say a half inch of rain a week would just make their apples that much bigger by their mid- September harvest. Grape growers say the only thing that could be better is a little less humidity. Otherwise, they're set to make a lot of wine. Thanks, Eric.
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Werth exits with hamstring cramp, "hopefully it'll be nothing"
By Mike Fiammetta / MLB.com
WASHINGTON — Jayson Werth exited Saturday's 10-9 loss to the Cardinals prior to the ninth inning with a hamstring cramp.
With the score tied 9-9 as the Nationals took the field, Eury Perez — called up earlier in the day as rosters expanded to 40 players– made his Major League-debut in center field as Werth remained in the dugout. Werth finished the game 1-for-5 with one run scored and two strikeouts, lowering his batting average to .313.
Perez never got to bat, though he did field a fly ball for the final out of the ninth.
"It just felt intelligent not to play any longer, so [manager Davey Johnson] took me out," Werth said. "It's been a long time since I've cramped up during a game, so hopefully it'll be nothing and I'll be back by [Sunday], but we'll see. I don't think it's too serious, though."
Werth added it's been "four or five years" since he's cramped up during a game, but Johnson confirmed the issue wasn't anything serious.
"He was cramping real bad," he said. "He didn't pull nothing, so he should be OK."
Harper heating up, benefiting from Werth leading off
By Mike Fiammetta / MLB.com
WASHINGTON — All of a sudden, Bryce Harper is heating up.
After seeing his batting average dip to .250 during the Nationals' five-game road trip last week, the young center fielder is 5-for-14 (.357) with three home runs and six RBI over his last three games. Harper's struggles had magnified his recent displays of emotion on the field, most recently his 9th-inning ejection on Wednesday after slamming his helmet into the ground following a double play.
Thursday night in the series-opening 8-1 win over the Cardinals, Harper hit his 15th home run of the season in the first inning of a 2-for-3 day at the plate. He nearly added another dinger in the third, sending Jon Jay leaping into the center-field wall before hauling in a deep fly ball.
"I'm just trying to stay within myself," Harper said. "I'm just trying to use my hands and work up there, see some pitches and get the pitch I can drive."
After batting .282 in the first half of the season, Harper has seen an increasing amount of outside and off-speed pitches aimed at forcing the rookie out of his comfort zone. Given his outbursts on the field, common thought suggested that Harper's struggles at the plate were indeed making him over-extend himself at the plate.
"He's all in all the time," manager Davey Johnson said. "But he's gotten a little calmer with his lower half. He can get real aggressive with his lower half, and he's calmed down quite a bit. That's when you get antsy, and that doesn't help your swing."
Harper has also benefited from the return of Jayson Werth, who has looked very comfortable batting in the leadoff spot. When batting first in the lineup this season, Werth is batting .350 with a .797 OPS (.350 on-base percentage, .447 slugging.) For the season, Werth is boasting a .825 OPS (.384 on-base percentage, .441 slugging).
"I really like guys that can get on base and also produce runs," Johnson said of Werth and Harper atop his lineup. "Both can run, both basically make [opposing pitchers] throw it over. It's great."
While Harper denied seeing a change in how opposing pitchers have attacked him — both during his recent hot streak and with Werth batting in front of him — he did admit to benefiting from Werth's patient, productive presence.
"I think having Werth hit in front of me just gets me going and he sets the tone," Harper said. "It just calms down and just lets me go up and there just swing it."
Game 117: Nationals at Giants
Adam Berry here on the shores of McCovey Cove, pinch-hitting for Bill Ladson. For more news and notes and in-game updates, check out Nationals.com and follow me on Twitter @adamdberry.
A few quick updates from AT&T Park…
-The Nationals have a potential return date set for shortstop Ian Desmond, and it's a bit sooner than expected. Washington's All-Star shortstop will be activated for Friday's series opener against the Mets, provided he gets through his full pregame workouts Tuesday and Wednesday and a simulated game Thursday without incident.
"I plan on, unless Mike Rizzo ties my hand behind my back, activating him. So I'll keep my fingers crossed," Nats manager Davey Johnson said. "He's a horse. I want him back. We all want him back."
-Jayson Werth is back in the Nats' starting lineup. Werth reported to AT&T Park with his right ankle feeling much better than it did yesterday, when he was a late scratch from the lineup.
-Michael Morse, meanwhile, was held out of the lineup with a jammed right thumb, which caused him to leave last night's game early. Johnson hoped to have him back for Wednesday's series finale, assuming he's in full health by then, but mentioned that he might not return until Friday.
-Desmond's sim game on Thursday will be pitched by Chien-Ming Wang, who was recently pulled off his rehab assignment. If he looks fine there, Wang will "more than likely" restart his rehab assignment, Johnson said.
-Speaking of players who will likely join the Nats roster in September, Johnson said Anthony Rendon, promoted earlier today to Double-A Harrisburg, could be a candidate to be called up once the active rosters expand.
"He might be. We'll see how he finishes up," Johnson said. "This is the year of the young guys all around baseball, and he's another one right in that mold."
As for tonight's lineups…
Nationals (72-44)
Danny Espinosa SS
Bryce Harper CF
Ryan Zimmerman 3B
Jayson Werth RF
Adam LaRoche 1B
Tyler Moore LF
Jesus Flores C
Steve Lombardozzi 2B
Jordan Zimmermann RHP
Giants (63-53)
Angel Pagan CF
Marco Scutaro 2B
Melky Cabrera LF
Buster Posey C
Pablo Sandoval 3B
Hunter Pence RF
Brandon Belt 1B
Brandon Crawford SS
Madison Bumgarner LHP
Game 114: Nationals at D-backs
Adam Berry here, pinch-hitting for Bill Ladson. For more news and notes and in-game updates, check out Nationals.com and follow me on Twitter @adamdberry.
-Nats manager Davey Johnson told us last night that Bryce Harper would be out of tonight's lineup, and indeed he has the day off. Johnson wanted to get Tyler Moore a start against Arizona lefty Wade Miley, so the outfield will be Moore-Werth-Morse tonight. Harper will be back in the lineup Sunday.
-Werth is leading off tonight. He's batting .400/.500/.500 in nine games since coming off the disabled list, and the Nats haven't lost a game he's played in. His overall batting line this season is .305/.403/.453, and Johnson said the biggest change in his approach is that he's willing to use every part of the field after trying too hard to always go to the opposite field last season.
"He's attacking the ball. He's much more of a threat. I like his swing better this year. Everything about him has been great," Johnson said. "Everybody in the lineup now is swinging like I know they're capable of doing. That's why it's fun to watch this team now. We've got a chance to score some runs."
-In other news, Ian Desmond was scheduled to take his first swings in the cage since hitting the DL with a torn left oblique. He's still scheduled to come back in late August or early September. Johnson wants the Nats' medical staff to play it as safe as possible with Desmond, but he's certainly eager to have him back in the lineup.
"When that man's ready, I want him back," Johnson said. "Arguably he's been the most dynamic player this year."
Here are tonight's lineups…
Nationals (70-43)
Jayson Werth CF
Danny Espinosa SS
Ryan Zimmerman 3B
Michael Morse RF
Adam LaRoche 1B
Tyler Moore LF
Jesus Flores C
Steve Lombardozzi 2B
Edwin Jackson RHP
D-backs (57-56)
Stephen Drew SS
Aaron Hill 2B
Jason Kubel LF
Paul Goldschmidt 1B
Justin Upton RF
Miguel Montero C
Chris Johnson 3B
Gerardo Parra CF
Wade Miley LHP
Harper: Having Werth as mentor has been 'huge'
Nationals outfielder Bryce Harper said recently that he missed his mentor, outfielder Jayson Werth, who is currently on the disabled list with a broken left wrist.
Harper said Werth has been the guy who showed him the ropes ever since Harper's first Spring Training in 2011. In fact, after he was called up to the big leagues on April 28th of this year, Harper remembered that Werth was the guy who made him feel welcomed.
"J-Dub has been in this game for a long time and ever since the first day of Spring Training in my first year, he has always helped me out," Harper said. "He has been there for me. Anything that I ever needed, [he was there].
"When I went into L.A. inside the locker room, Werth was sitting there. He really took me under his wing and he said, 'Follow me, let's get this thing done.' He has taught me a lot about running the bases, playing the outfield, hitting and what pitchers do. Just a lot of things rookies need to learn. He has been there since day 1. .. He wants what's best for the whole team. He tries to help everybody on this club. It has been huge to have him."
Harper said Werth will text him once in a while to go over what Harper did during a game, whether it's getting thrown out while running the bases or how he felt at the plate during a particular night.
"To have him be here for me anytime I need him is great," Harper said.
Nats' Johnson concerned about offense
Although the Nationals won their 44 game of the season Tuesday night, manager Davey Johnson is concerned about the offense.
It's more than just the .233 batting average that bothers Johnson. The team is below average when it comes to runners in scoring position. During Tuesday's game against the Cubs, for example, Washington went 2-for-11.
However, Johnson remains hopeful that the team will break out of its slump.
"It's almost like there is a little pressure going through [the players] and they can't quite get it off them," Johnson said. "I'm a positive manager. Good things are coming. We are winning games when we are not running on all cylinders. It makes it interesting."
One of the players who is not running on all cylinders at the plate is right fielder Jayson Werth, who went 0-for4 with two strikeouts and has seen his batting average go down to .221. Johnson acknowledged after the game that Werth has hit rock bottom at the plate.
"I think he has bottomed out," Johnson said about Werth. "I thought he was in a good frame of mind during the last two to three days. I think he is comfortable. I think earlier in the year, he played mentor a little more than he needed to for some of the young guys. But he is a heck of a ballplayer and I know he is going to start doing things that he is capable of doing."
Werth leaves Sunday's game with wrist injury
Nationals right fielder Jayson Werth had to leave Sunday's game against the Pirates after being hit by a pitch on the left wrist. He is listed as day-to-day.
With the Nationals losing 9-2, Werth led off the sixth inning and was behind in the count, 1-2, when he struck by the pitch thrown by right-hander Kevin Correia.
Werth slammed his bat to the ground and walked to first base before he was taken out of the game in favor of Brian Bixler.
Werth is having one of the worst seasons of his career, hitting .223 with 10 home runs and 27 RBIs.
Nationals react to revamped lineup
The Nationals are last in the Major Leagues in offense, so manager Jim Riggleman decided to revamp the lineup before the team's 2-1 victory over the Padres on Saturday.
Outfielder Jayson Werth hit leadoff, pitcher John Lannan hit eighth followed by left fielder Brian Bixler.
Only Bixler did anything worth talking about, going 2-for-2 with a walk. Werth and Lannan went a combined 0-for-6.
Shortstop Ian Desmond thought Riggleman made a great decision because the team needs to score runs.
"That's a great idea. That's unbelievable managing. Bixler plays nine innings, has a great game, runs the bases well," Desmond said. "We have been looking for a leadoff hitter. If you take the contract away and just think about the baseball player, Jayson actually fits there pretty well. He is a smart base runner, he steals bases, he gets on base, he sees a lot of pitches. It's nice to have him up there."
Lannan didn't know he was batting eighth until he arrived at the ballpark. Before the game, Lannan was hitless in 23 at-bats.
"It was different, but it worked," he said. "At first, I just heard that Werth was leading off and then I found out I was batting eighth and I said, 'OK, that's different.' But it worked out."
The last time Werth hit leadoff was June 2, 2010 against the Braves. Before Saturday's lineup was announced, the leadoff spot had been a disaster this season, hitting .209 with a .267 on-base percentage entering Saturday's action.
"I feel comfortable hitting anywhere in the lineup," Werth said before the game. "We need to freshen up the lineup with [Ryan Zimmerman] not being here. We try to mix it up a little bit and see if we can put up a bunch of crooked numbers. You are only leading off the first time."
Werth most likely will lead off again against the Padres on Sunday, but Riggleman seemed to have doubts that right-hander Jordan Zimmermann would bat eighth. The Nationals will face right-hander Tim Stauffer.
"I'm not sure what we will do tomorrow. It's different against the righty," Riggleman said. "It will be a little different on how we will put it together. We are thinking ahead to getting Zim [Ryan Zimmerman] back next week. We'll thinking about how we'll put it together with him, too. I'm going to give it some thought tonight."
Hairston, Werth injured, listed as day to day
Nationals third baseman Jerry Hairston Jr. left Tuesday's 2-1 victory against the Giants with lower-back spasms. He is listed as day to day.
In the fifth inning, Hairston was in the batter's box and in pain while swinging the bat. After walking to load the bases, Hairston left the game and was seen walking gingerly into the clubhouse.
Hairston said the back problems occurred when he woke up Tuesday morning. He went to AT&T Park early to get treatment, but his back stiffened up by the middle of the game.
"I must have slept on my back wrong. I woke up pretty stiff. I tried to loosen it. I just couldn't do it," Hairston said. "During the game, it got worse and worse."
Hairston most likely will not play against the Giants on Wednesday afternoon. He hopes to be in the lineup when the Nationals play the Padres on Thursday at Petco Park.
In the other news, right fielder Jayson Werth was a late scratch Tuesday night because of a right ankle injury that he hurt the previous night while chasing a ball near the bullpen mound. He, too, is listed as day to-day.
Werth was able to take batting practice and entered the game as a pinch hitter in the eighth inning. Facing reliever Javier Lopez, Werth grounded out and ran gingerly to first base.
Elbow injury forces Werth sit out Friday's game
Nationals right fielder Jayson Werth sat out Friday's game against D-backs after being hit on his left elbow by a pitch during Washington's' 6-1 victory over Arizona the previous day.
In the ninth inning, with Roger Bernadina on third and right-hander Aaron Heilman the mound, Werth was hit on a 2-0 pitch. In pain, Werth walked slowly to first as manager Jim Riggleman and head athletic trainer Lee Kuntz came to Werth's aid.
Werth stayed in the ballgame, but he was not ready to play Friday because the elbow was stiff. It didn't help that the ball hit the ulnar nerve. The team is hoping Werth will be playing on Saturday.
"I really made the decision not to play him. He is pretty stiff," Riggleman said. 'That was my call. I didn't want him to be vulnerable to another shot like that. He was hit in a bad area. He will get treatment now."
Werth said there wasn't a need to have an MRI on the elbow because the injury is not considered serious.
"It's just a contusion," Werth said. "The issue last night was that it hit the ulnar nerve, so it was like hitting your funny bone really hard. Today we are dealing with just the swelling of the impact, which doesn't always come down so quickly. … It makes you think a little bit how remarkable Cal Ripken streak actually was."


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