Green Brick Partners, Inc. Reports Record Third Quarter 2024 Results

Green Brick Partners, Inc. (NYSE: GRBK) (“we,” “Green Brick” or the “Company”), today reported record results for its third quarter ended September 30, 2024.

“We are pleased to report that we completed our best third quarter in history, highlighted by 25.7% home closings revenues growth year-over-year. During the third quarter, we delivered 956 homes with an average selling price of $546,900, bringing total home closings revenues to $522.9 million. We continued to generate an industry-leading homebuilding gross margin of 32.7%. As a result, diluted EPS increased 27% year-over-year to $1.98 per share, a record for any third quarter. Our year-to-date diluted EPS of $6.12 is up 34.5% year-over year, another record for the company for any year-to-date period through the third quarter,” said Jim Brickman, CEO and Co-Founder.

“Net new orders in the third quarter picked up from the previous quarter and grew 11.3% year-over-year to 877 units,” continued Mr. Brickman. “We were pleased to see a rebound of traffic in September, particularly with Trophy Signature Homes ('Trophy'). Trophy’s net sales represented 52% of the total sales in third quarter vs 41% in the third quarter last year. This growth is a reflection of larger communities in which Trophy was selling in the third quarter and its growth in year-to-date starts, which have increased from 44% of Green Brick’s total starts through September 2023 to 50% of overall starts in 2024. We believe the demographic shifts and housing supply shortage will continue to bolster the industry, especially in our markets, over the long term and are confident Green Brick is well poised to capitalize on pent-up housing demand and industry tailwinds.”

Mr. Brickman added, “We expect to achieve record revenue for fiscal year 2024. This is a testament to our team and their operational effectiveness both currently and for the years prior as we have built out Green Brick’s foundation, including, at its core, our dedicated, experienced, and skilled employees. This is particularly rewarding as we celebrate the 10th anniversary of Green Brick as a public homebuilding company on October 27th. Reflecting the strength of our team, our active selling communities and homes under construction as of the end of the third quarter are up year-over-year 23% and 21%, respectively. We believe our superior land and lot positions will continue to serve as the springboard for our growth. Over 80% of our revenue year-to-date was generated in infill and infill adjacent submarkets where supply is more limited. Our year-to-date homebuilding gross margin of 33.6% is up 290 bps and reflects a record for any year in our history through the third quarter. With the ability to self-develop our lots, we expect finished lot costs as a percentage of home closings revenue to remain essentially flat for 2024 and 2025.”

“Green Brick’s distinctive business model and strategy have yielded impressive results over the past decade. This has translated into exceptional returns for our stockholders, even while carrying land and lots on our balance sheet. Our year-to-date return on equity is 27.0%. This success is underpinned by our conservative balance sheet and financial discipline,” concluded Mr. Brickman. “At the end of the third quarter, our net debt to total capital ratio was 12.5% and our total debt to total capital ratio was only 16.4% with a weighted average pay rate of 3.4%. As we look ahead to the next decade, we remain committed to investing in our business and people to strengthen our platform and propel our growth.”

Earnings Conference Call:

We will host our earnings conference call to discuss our third quarter ended September 30, 2024 at 12:00 p.m. Eastern Time on Thursday, October 31, 2024. The call can be accessed by dialing 1-888-660-6353 for domestic participants or 1-929-203-2106 for international participants and should reference meeting number 3162560. Participants may also join the call via webcast at: https://events.q4inc.com/attendee/478287045

A telephone replay of the call will be available through November 30, 2024. To access the telephone replay, the domestic dial-in number is 1-800-770-2030, the international dial-in number is 1-609-800-9909 and the access code is 3162560, or by using the link at investors.greenbrickpartners.com.

The following table presents additional information on the lots we owned as of September 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023.

Non-GAAP Financial Measures

In this press release, we utilize certain financial measures that are non-GAAP financial measures as defined by the Securities and Exchange Commission. We present these measures because we believe they and similar measures are useful to management and investors in evaluating our operating performance and financing structure. We also believe these measures facilitate the comparison of our operating performance and financing structure with other companies in our industry. Because these measures are not calculated in accordance with U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (“GAAP”), they may not be comparable to other similarly titled measures of other companies and should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for, or superior to, financial measures prepared in accordance with GAAP.

The following table represents the non-GAAP measure of adjusted homebuilding gross margin for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023 and reconciles these amounts to homebuilding gross margin, the most directly comparable GAAP measure.

Net debt to total capitalization is calculated as the total debt less cash and cash equivalents, divided by the sum of total Green Brick Partners, Inc. stockholders’ equity and total debt less cash and cash equivalents. The closest GAAP financial measure to the net debt to total capitalization ratio is the debt to total capitalization ratio. The following table represents a reconciliation of the net debt to total capitalization ratio as of September 30, 2024:

About Green Brick Partners, Inc.

Green Brick Partners, Inc (NYSE: GRBK), the third largest homebuilder in Dallas-Fort Worth, is a diversified homebuilding and land development company that operates through its seven subsidiary homebuilders in Texas, Georgia, and Florida. Green Brick owns five subsidiary homebuilders in Texas (CB JENI Homes, Normandy Homes, Southgate Homes, Trophy Signature Homes, and a 90% interest in Centre Living Homes), as well as a controlling interest in a homebuilder in Atlanta, Georgia (The Providence Group) and an 80% interest in a homebuilder in Port St. Lucie, Florida (GHO Homes). Green Brick also retains interests in related financial services platforms, including Green Brick Title and BHome Mortgage. Green Brick is engaged in all aspects of the homebuilding process, including land acquisition and development, entitlements, design, construction, marketing, and sales for its residential neighborhoods and master-planned communities. For more information about Green Brick Partners Inc.’s subsidiary homebuilders, please visit greenbrickpartners.com/brands-services/

Forward-Looking and Cautionary Statements:

This press release and our earnings call contain “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Act of 1995. These statements concern expectations, beliefs, projections, plans and strategies, anticipated events or trends and similar expressions concerning matters that are not historical facts and typically include the words “anticipate,” “believe,” “consider,” “estimate,” “expect,” “feel,”, “poised,” “intend,” “plan,” “predict,” “seek,” “strategy,” “target,” “will” or other words of similar meaning. Specifically, these statements reflect our beliefs and expectations regarding (i) our strategic advantages, including our focus on owning land and self-developing and on infill and infill-adjacent locations, and the impact on our future results; (ii) our positioning to capture future demand, increase market share and succeed in the current environment, including our ability to maintain industry-leading performance and margins; (iii) our ability to successfully implement our growth strategy, including our expectations for expansion and growth of our Trophy brand, and ancillary business opportunities; (iv) our expectations regarding trends in our markets, such as demographic trends and demand for single-family homes; (v) our business priorities and our strategies to maintain the strength of our balance sheet and financial flexibility, and our positioning in the industry; (vi) the advantages of our lot and land strategies and locations, including the benefits to our returns, margins and ability to scale; (vii) our investments in land, lots and development in 2024, and the impact on our growth; (viii) our expected lot deliveries in 2024; (ix) our flexibility in adjusting home prices; (x) the demand for home ownership in the markets in which we operate and our ability to capitalize on such demand; (xi) the land-light model; (xii) our ability to scale our business and improve our operating leverage; and (xiii) our ability to deliver efficient and cost-effective growth, including our ability to manage costs and cycle times. These risks include, but are not limited to: (1) general economic conditions, seasonality, cyclicality and competition in the homebuilding industry; (2) changes in macroeconomic conditions, including increasing interest rates and inflation that could adversely impact demand for new homes or the ability of potential buyers to qualify; (3) shortages, delays or increased costs of raw materials and increased demand for materials, or increases in other operating costs, including costs related to labor, real estate taxes and insurance, which in each case exceed our ability to increase prices; (4) significant periods of inflation or deflation; (5) a shortage of qualified labor; (6) an inability to acquire land in our markets at anticipated prices or difficulty in obtaining land-use entitlements; (7) our inability to successfully execute our strategies, including the successful development of our communities within expected time frames and the growth and expansion of our Trophy brand; (8) a failure to recruit, retain or develop highly skilled and competent employees; (9) the geographic concentration of our operations; (10) government regulation risks; (11) adverse changes in the availability or volatility of mortgage financing; (12) severe weather events or natural disasters; (13) difficulty in obtaining sufficient capital to fund our growth; (14) our ability to meet our debt service obligations; (15) a decline in the value of our inventories and resulting write-downs of the carrying value of our real estate assets; (16) our ability to adequately self-insure; and (17) changes in accounting standards that adversely affect our reported earnings or financial condition.. Green Brick assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date they are made. For a more detailed discussion of these and other risks and uncertainties applicable to Green Brick please see our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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