Taylor Morrison Home : Reports Second Quarter Revenue of $657.8 Million, Net Income of $55.5 Million and an EBT Margin of 12.1%

Taylor Morrison Home Corporation (NYSE:TMHC) today reported second quarter revenue of $657.8 million, net income of $55.5 million and earnings per share of $0.45.

“We had another solid quarter and continue to recognize the benefits from executing on our long-term strategy, which provides us some resilience as the markets continue to normalize,” said Taylor Morrison President and CEO Sheryl Palmer. “We believe our strategy is the right one to profitably grow our business long-term. We continue to maintain the approach of choosing profit over volume, as we believe our land positions in core locations are highly desirable. Additionally, we continue to focus on progressive and relevant consumer targeting while protecting our efficient cost structure that provides us the flexibility and resiliency to respond to expected market ebbs and flows through a cycle.”

2nd Quarter 2014 Key Business Highlights

• Community count increased 24.5% to 214 average communities from 172 year-over-year driven by a 29.9% increase in our U.S. operations
• Consolidated net sales orders increased 7.1% year-over-year to 1,709. Net sales orders in the U.S. increased 9.4% while sales in Canada fell 9.8% due to fewer communities open for sale
• Overall monthly absorption pace was 2.7, flat sequentially quarter-over-quarter and down from 3.1 in the prior year quarter
• The average selling price for homes sold in the quarter increased 16.8% year-over-year
• U.S. backlog increased 4.0% in units and 25.9% in value while Canadian backlog decreased 34.9% in units and 30.1% in value due to a wholly-owned high rise closing in the latter half of 2013
• Consolidated backlog of homes under contract was 3,761 units with a sales value of $1.7 billion as of June 30, 2014, representing a 8.9% decrease in units and a 10.2% increase in value over the prior year quarter
• Cancellations as a percentage of gross sales orders was 12.0%, an improvement from 12.4% in the prior year quarter
• Consolidated home closings increased 7.2% to 1,438. Home closings in our U.S. operations increased 12.2% while closings in our Canadian operations decreased 22.4%
• Consolidated average selling price of homes closed increased 21.0% to $448,000 in the quarter. Average selling price of homes closed in the U.S. increased 18.7% to $452,000 while homes in Canada increased 33.9% to $408,000
• Mortgage operations reported gross profit of $3.5 million on revenue of $8.2 million

We ended the second quarter of 2014 with $300.8 million of cash, not including $18.0 million of restricted cash. Homebuilding inventories at the end of the 2014 second quarter totaled $2.7 billion. We owned or controlled approximately 44,200 lots at June 30, 2014.

Full Year 2014 Business Outlook

• Average community count – expected to be approximately 210 – representing a 27% increase in the U.S. and a net decrease of two communities in Canada
• Home closings – expected to be between 6,700 and 7,000 units
• Home closings margins – expected to be down 50 bps relative to 2013, due to a shift in mix although average margin dollars per unit are expected to increase
• SG&A – continued leverage and expected to be under 10% as a percentage of homebuilding revenue
• Income from unconsolidated joint ventures – expected to be between $21 million and $23 million

Third Quarter 2014 Business Outlook

• Average community count – expected to be consistent with Q2 2014 at 214 average active communities
• Home closings – expected to be between 1,650 and 1,750 units
• Income from unconsolidated joint ventures – expected to be between $10 million and $12 million

Earnings Webcast

A public webcast to discuss second quarter 2014 earnings will be held at 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time on Tuesday, August 5, 2014 on our investor relations website at investors.taylormorrison.com. A webcast replay will also be available on the site later today.

About Taylor Morrison

Headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona, Taylor Morrison Home Corporation (NYSE:TMHC) operates in the U.S. under the Taylor Morrison and Darling Homes brands and in Canada under the Monarch brand. Taylor Morrison is a builder and developer of single-family detached and attached homes, serving a wide array of customers including first-time, move-up, luxury and active adult customers. Taylor Morrison divisions operate in Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida and Texas. Darling Homes serves move-up and luxury homebuyers in Texas. Monarch, Canada’s oldest homebuilder, builds homes for first-time and move-up buyers in Toronto and Ottawa as well as high rise condominiums in Toronto.

For more information about Taylor Morrison, Darling Homes or Monarch, please visit www.taylormorrison.com, www.darlinghomes.com and www.monarchgroup.net.

Forward-Looking Statements

This earnings summary includes "forward-looking statements." These statements are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause our actual results, performance, prospects or opportunities, as well as those of the markets we serve or intend to serve, to differ materially from those expressed in, or implied by, these statements. You can identify these statements by the fact that they do not relate to matters of a strictly factual or historical nature and generally discuss or relate to forecasts, estimates or other expectations regarding future events. Generally, the words "believe," "expect," "intend," "estimate," "anticipate," "project," "may," "can," "could," "might," "will" and similar expressions identify forward-looking statements, including statements related to expected operating and performing results, planned transactions, planned objectives of management, future developments or conditions in the industries in which we participate and other trends, developments and uncertainties that may affect our business in the future.

Such risks, uncertainties and other factors include, among other things: interest rate changes and the availability of mortgage financing; continued volatility in the debt and equity markets; competition within the industries in which we operate; the availability and cost of land and other raw materials used by us in our homebuilding operations; the impact of any changes to our strategy in responding to continuing adverse conditions in the industry, including any changes regarding our land positions; the availability and cost of insurance covering risks associated with our businesses; shortages and the cost of labor; weather related slowdowns; slow growth initiatives and/or local building moratoria; governmental regulation directed at or affecting the housing market, the homebuilding industry or construction activities; uncertainty in the mortgage lending industry, including revisions to underwriting standards and repurchase requirements associated with the sale of mortgage loans; the interpretation of or changes to tax, labor and environmental laws; economic changes nationally or in our local markets, including inflation, deflation, changes in consumer confidence and preferences and the state of the market for homes in general; legal or regulatory proceedings or claims; required accounting changes; terrorist acts and other acts of war; and other factors of national, regional and global scale, including those of a political, economic, business and competitive nature. We undertake no duty to update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or changes in our expectations, except as required by applicable law. In addition, other such risks and uncertainties may be found in Taylor Morrison Home Corporation’s Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Financial Measures

The following tables set forth a reconciliation between our home closings gross margin and our adjusted home closings gross margin as well as between net income and adjusted net income. Adjusted home closings gross margin is a non-GAAP financial measure calculated based on gross margins, excluding impairments and capitalized interest amortization. Management uses adjusted home closings gross margins to evaluate our performance on a consolidated basis as well as the performance of our regions. Adjusted net income is a non-GAAP financial measure calculated based on net income, excluding various charges associated with the early extinguishment of debt, charges related to the reversal of an indemnification receivable and various charges associated with our initial public offering (including charges related to equity compensation, the pre-IPO reorganization and the termination of a management services agreement). We believe adjusted home closings gross margin is useful to investors because it allows investors to evaluate the performance of our homebuilding operations without the often varying effects of interest costs capitalized. We believe adjusted net income is useful to investors because it allows investors to evaluate our performance without the effects of various items we do not believe are characteristic of our ongoing operations.

These measures are considered non-GAAP financial measures and should be considered in addition to, rather than as a substitute for, the comparable U.S. GAAP financial measures as a measure of our operating performance. Although other companies in the homebuilding industry report similar information, the methods used may differ. We urge investors to understand the methods used by other companies in the homebuilding industry to calculate net income and gross margins and any adjustments to such amounts before comparing our measures to those of such other companies.