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Category: Bassett Furniture (BSET)
Date: 5 April 2021 Stock price of Bassett Furniture (BSET) : $24.18 Market Capital of Bassett Furniture: $240.6 million We take a a look at the 1st quarter 2021 earnings report of Basset Furniture Industries a leading manufacturer and marketer of high quality home furnishings, Bassett also has a traditional wholesale business with more than 700 accounts on the open market, across the United States and internationally and a logistics business specializing in home furnishings.
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We are extremely proud of what we have accomplished this year and how the strategic changes we have made to our business position us for accelerated growth across retail, wholesale and CarMax Auto Finance,” said Bill Nash, president and chief executive officer."
More About Bassett Furniture Industries (BSET)
Bassett Furniture Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ:BSET), is a leading manufacturer and marketer of high quality home furnishings. With 97 company- and licensee-owned stores at the time of this release, Bassett has leveraged its strong brand name in furniture into a network of corporate and licensed stores that focus on providing consumers with a friendly environment for buying furniture and accessories. Bassett’s retail strategy includes stylish, custom-built furniture that features the latest on-trend furniture styles, free in-home design visits, and coordinated decorating accessories. Bassett also has a traditional wholesale business with more than 700 accounts on the open market, across the United States and internationally and a logistics business specializing in home furnishings.
Overview of Bassett 1st quarter 2021 earnings
!st quarter 2021 financial highlights
Sales Operating Income
Sales Operating Income
- Consolidated: $113.7 $112.1 $1.6 1.4% $6.0 5.3% $2.2 2.0%
- Wholesale: $70.3 $65.0 $5.2 8.3% $4.8 6.8% $2.7 4.2%
- Retail: $60.4 $65.8 $(5.5) -8.3% $1.1 1.8% $ (1.2) -1.9%
- Logistical Services $20.1 $21.3 $(1.2) -5.8% $0.5 2.3% $0.8 3.9%
Bassett Furniture management commentary on their 1st quarter 2021 earnings
Our “sell, then make” model has put us at somewhat of a disadvantage during the COVID months of 2020 and early 2021. Expanding on that thought, 80% of our furniture products are selected by our consumers before they have been manufactured. This is in stark contrast to the vast majority of U.S. furniture retailers that derive most of their revenue from goods that have already been made and reside in their warehouses ready for delivery. Upon receipt of the sales order, our merchandise is scheduled and entered into production. Prior to the outbreak of the pandemic, our production cycle on these custom-made goods was generally 2-3 weeks. Unfortunately, the combination of surging orders and the inability of our long-time suppliers to reliably provide us with fabric, foam, birch plywood, etc. has ballooned our wholesale backlog to $67.5 million at quarter end, or 362% more than last year at this time. Continued strong orders have elevated the backlog by another 8% through four weeks of March.
Reinforcing our commitment to a “Made in America” strategy, we unveiled an expansion of our Bench Made sub-brand in late February. The Bench Made label will now be affixed to all of our domestically manufactured premium products; bedroom, dining, occasional, entertainment, stationary upholstery, and motion upholstery products that are crafted with our best materials and artisanship. Our thinking is driven by the viscerally positive reaction that we have seen from our customers and retail designers to our authentic story of a 119 year old American manufacturer that survived the devastating effects of globalization and recommitted to “Made in America.” Our “makers” who actually craft our products are the stars of the marketing campaign, which will ultimately encompass other tenets of the Bench Made brand including environmental stewardship and sustainability. The expanded Bench Made first appeared on our website on February 25th, was featured in March in our “Makers Sale,” and will be showcased in a consumer catalog in early May.
To address our growing backlog, we have made the commitment to open another upholstery manufacturing facility in Newton, NC, adjacent to our existing 500,000 square foot complex. Production from this additional 123,000 square foot facility should begin by June 1 and will be dedicated to our successful “Everyday Value” product range that features the opening price points in our assortment. The added space will also allow us to expand our thriving Bench Made motion program, previously referred to as Magnificent Motion, that has exceeded our sales projections since its debut in early 2020. I am very grateful for the hard work that our associates have put in and the many weeks of extended work schedules that they have been willing to undertake in order for us to service our customers as best we can under these unprecedented circumstances. We believe that a significant amount of sold orders will break free and begin to ship in late May as long-awaited componentry begins to arrive and is put into production.
Despite generating strong written sales growth for the period, our delivered sales in our corporate store network declined by 8.3% due to the aforementioned industry supply chain situation coupled with six fewer stores in operation compared to last year. Pandemic related cost reductions and this quarter’s gross margin expansion combined to produce $1.1 million of retail operating profit, significant in what has historically been our toughest quarter of the year. As is the case in our wholesale segment, there is significant operating profit embedded in our large unfulfilled retail backlog that will begin to bleed out late in the second quarter and throughout the back half of the year. Noteworthy in the period is the acceleration of our customer acquisition efforts, which contributed an additional one million visitors to our website. Eschewing most of the traditional media used in the past, our digital media strategy took off in the pandemic and drove double digit increases in keyword impressions in the first quarter.
Combining our corporate retail stores, the licensed store network, and the 100 strong Bassett Design Centers located within traditional furniture stores, our dedicated distribution strategy accounted for 74% of Bassett-branded quarterly wholesale orders. The shared synergies of our marketing efforts and our website are combining to make our advertising calendar and our merchandising programs universal. All told, wholesale orders from our “open market’” customers grew by 98% in the quarter. In addition to the Bassett Design Centers, the momentum generated by our Bassett Club Level motion program was a major factor in this tremendous growth.
Our entry into the outdoor furniture space has gathered steam over the past two years, culminating in a combined written sales increase of 81% for our Lane Venture and Bassett Outdoor lines. Although the disruptions caused by tariffs on our Chinese woven frames and the delivery problems that we have experienced with our largest outdoor fabric supplier have compressed margins and slowed production, we believe that our quality and service have helped us capture market share and we look forward to doing more in the future.
On the whole, we got off to a promising start in 2021 over the first 90 days. Our margins suffered somewhat as a result of rampant material increases. In December and January our manufacturing facilities battled high rates of COVID related absenteeism. The inability to reliably obtain the necessary raw materials for furniture production made each day unpredictable. Nevertheless, our backlogs are very strong and our incoming business has remained substantial in March. Therefore, we are optimistic about our business for the remainder of 2021.
Robert H. Spilman, Jr., Chairman and CEO
Reinforcing our commitment to a “Made in America” strategy, we unveiled an expansion of our Bench Made sub-brand in late February. The Bench Made label will now be affixed to all of our domestically manufactured premium products; bedroom, dining, occasional, entertainment, stationary upholstery, and motion upholstery products that are crafted with our best materials and artisanship. Our thinking is driven by the viscerally positive reaction that we have seen from our customers and retail designers to our authentic story of a 119 year old American manufacturer that survived the devastating effects of globalization and recommitted to “Made in America.” Our “makers” who actually craft our products are the stars of the marketing campaign, which will ultimately encompass other tenets of the Bench Made brand including environmental stewardship and sustainability. The expanded Bench Made first appeared on our website on February 25th, was featured in March in our “Makers Sale,” and will be showcased in a consumer catalog in early May.
To address our growing backlog, we have made the commitment to open another upholstery manufacturing facility in Newton, NC, adjacent to our existing 500,000 square foot complex. Production from this additional 123,000 square foot facility should begin by June 1 and will be dedicated to our successful “Everyday Value” product range that features the opening price points in our assortment. The added space will also allow us to expand our thriving Bench Made motion program, previously referred to as Magnificent Motion, that has exceeded our sales projections since its debut in early 2020. I am very grateful for the hard work that our associates have put in and the many weeks of extended work schedules that they have been willing to undertake in order for us to service our customers as best we can under these unprecedented circumstances. We believe that a significant amount of sold orders will break free and begin to ship in late May as long-awaited componentry begins to arrive and is put into production.
Despite generating strong written sales growth for the period, our delivered sales in our corporate store network declined by 8.3% due to the aforementioned industry supply chain situation coupled with six fewer stores in operation compared to last year. Pandemic related cost reductions and this quarter’s gross margin expansion combined to produce $1.1 million of retail operating profit, significant in what has historically been our toughest quarter of the year. As is the case in our wholesale segment, there is significant operating profit embedded in our large unfulfilled retail backlog that will begin to bleed out late in the second quarter and throughout the back half of the year. Noteworthy in the period is the acceleration of our customer acquisition efforts, which contributed an additional one million visitors to our website. Eschewing most of the traditional media used in the past, our digital media strategy took off in the pandemic and drove double digit increases in keyword impressions in the first quarter.
Combining our corporate retail stores, the licensed store network, and the 100 strong Bassett Design Centers located within traditional furniture stores, our dedicated distribution strategy accounted for 74% of Bassett-branded quarterly wholesale orders. The shared synergies of our marketing efforts and our website are combining to make our advertising calendar and our merchandising programs universal. All told, wholesale orders from our “open market’” customers grew by 98% in the quarter. In addition to the Bassett Design Centers, the momentum generated by our Bassett Club Level motion program was a major factor in this tremendous growth.
Our entry into the outdoor furniture space has gathered steam over the past two years, culminating in a combined written sales increase of 81% for our Lane Venture and Bassett Outdoor lines. Although the disruptions caused by tariffs on our Chinese woven frames and the delivery problems that we have experienced with our largest outdoor fabric supplier have compressed margins and slowed production, we believe that our quality and service have helped us capture market share and we look forward to doing more in the future.
On the whole, we got off to a promising start in 2021 over the first 90 days. Our margins suffered somewhat as a result of rampant material increases. In December and January our manufacturing facilities battled high rates of COVID related absenteeism. The inability to reliably obtain the necessary raw materials for furniture production made each day unpredictable. Nevertheless, our backlogs are very strong and our incoming business has remained substantial in March. Therefore, we are optimistic about our business for the remainder of 2021.
Robert H. Spilman, Jr., Chairman and CEO
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Latest stock valuation of Bassett Furniture
So what is Bassett Furniture stock worth based on their 1st quarter 2021 earnings report? Based on their earnings report our valuation model provides a target price (full value price) for Bassett Furniture at $26.70 a stock
We therefore believe the stock of Bassett Furniture is close to being fully valued at its current price of $24.18
We usually recommend long term fundamental or value investors look to enter a stock at least 10% below our target price (full value price), which in this case is $24.18 thus a good entry point into Bassett Furniture would be at $21.80 or below.
We expect the stock of Bassett Furniture to trade in a narrow range in coming weeks and months around our target price (full value price), as their stock is price is close to being fully valued
We therefore believe the stock of Bassett Furniture is close to being fully valued at its current price of $24.18
We usually recommend long term fundamental or value investors look to enter a stock at least 10% below our target price (full value price), which in this case is $24.18 thus a good entry point into Bassett Furniture would be at $21.80 or below.
We expect the stock of Bassett Furniture to trade in a narrow range in coming weeks and months around our target price (full value price), as their stock is price is close to being fully valued
Next earnings release of Bassett Furniture
It is expected that Bassett Furniture will release their 2nd quarter 2021 earnings report in early July 2021
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