UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION



Washington, DC  20549



FORM 10-Q



[X] Quarterly Report Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934



For the Quarter Ended September 30, 2019



[   ] Transition Report Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934



Commission File Number

001-09071

BBX Capital Corporation

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)







Not Applicable

(Former name, former address and former fiscal year, if changed since last report)



Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.



YES [X]NO [   ]



Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically every Interactive Data File required to be submitted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit such files).



YES [X]NO [   ]



Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer or a smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company,” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.





If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act.[    ]



Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act).



YES [   ]NO [ X ]

The number of shares outstanding of each of the registrant’s classes of common stock as of October 29, 2019 is as follows:

 

Class A Common Stock of $.01 par value,  76,932,065 shares outstanding.
Class B Common Stock of $.01 par value, 18,627,873 shares outstanding.



 

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PART I – FINANCIAL INFORMATION



Item 1. Financial Statements

























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BBX Capital Corporation

Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements - Unaudited





1.    Organization and Basis of Financial Statement Presentation



Organization



BBX Capital Corporation and its subsidiaries (the “Company” or, unless otherwise indicated or the context otherwise requires, “we,” “us,” or “our”) is a Florida-based diversified holding company. BBX Capital Corporation as a standalone entity without its subsidiaries is referred to as “BBX Capital.”



BBX Capital has two classes of common stock. Holders of the Class A common stock are entitled to one vote per share, which in the aggregate represents 22% of the combined voting power of the Class A common stock and the Class B common stock. Class B common stock represents the remaining 78% of the combined vote. The percentage of total common equity represented by Class A and Class B common stock was 84% and 16%, respectively, at September  30, 2019. Class B common stock is convertible into Class A common stock on a share for share basis at any time at the option of the holder.



Basis of Financial Statement Presentation



The accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements of the Company have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”) for interim financial information. Accordingly, these financial statements do not include all of the information and disclosures required by GAAP for complete financial statements.



In management’s opinion, the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements contain all adjustments, which include normal recurring adjustments, that are necessary for a fair statement of the condensed consolidated financial condition of the Company at September  30, 2019; the condensed consolidated results of operations and comprehensive income of the Company for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2019 and 2018; the condensed consolidated changes in equity of the Company for the three and nine months ended September  30, 2019 and 2018; and the condensed consolidated cash flows of the Company for the nine months ended September  30, 2019 and 2018. Operating results for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2019 are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for the year ending December 31, 2019 or any other future period.



These unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements and related notes are presented as permitted by Form 10-Q and should be read in conjunction with the Company’s audited consolidated financial statements and footnotes thereto included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2018 (the “2018 Annual Report”) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) on March 12, 2019. 



The condensed consolidated financial statements include the accounts of BBX Capital’s wholly-owned subsidiaries, other entities in which BBX Capital or its subsidiaries hold controlling financial interests, and any VIEs in which BBX Capital or one of its consolidated subsidiaries is deemed the primary beneficiary of the VIE. All significant inter-company accounts and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.



Certain amounts for prior periods have been reclassified to conform to the presentation for the current period.



Principal Investments



The Company’s principal investments include Bluegreen Vacations Corporation (“Bluegreen” or “Bluegreen Vacations”), BBX Capital Real Estate LLC (“BBX Capital Real Estate”), Renin Holdings, LLC (“Renin”), and IT’SUGAR, LLC (“IT’SUGAR”).



Bluegreen is a leading vacation ownership company that markets and sells VOIs and manages resorts in popular leisure and urban destinations. Bluegreen’s resort network includes 45 Club Resorts (resorts in which owners in the Bluegreen Vacation Club (“Vacation Club”) have the right to use most of the units in connection with their VOI ownership) and 24 Club Associate Resorts (resorts in which owners in Bluegreen’s Vacation Club have the right to use a limited

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number of units in connection with their VOI ownership). Bluegreen markets, sells, and manages VOIs in resorts, which are generally located in popular, high-volume, “drive-to” vacation destinations, including Orlando, Las Vegas, Myrtle Beach, Charleston, and New Orleans, among others. Through its points-based system, the approximately 219,000 owners in Bluegreen’s Vacation Club have the flexibility to stay at units available at its resorts and have access to over 11,350 other hotels and resorts through partnerships and exchange networks. The resorts in which Bluegreen markets, sells, or manages VOIs were either developed or acquired by Bluegreen or were developed and are owned by third parties. Bluegreen earns fees for providing sales and marketing services to third party developers. Bluegreen also earns fees for providing management services to the Vacation Club and homeowners’ associations (“HOAs”), mortgage servicing, VOI title services, reservation services, and construction design and development services. In addition, Bluegreen provides financing to qualified VOI purchasers, which generates significant interest income.



BBX Capital Real Estate is engaged in the acquisition, development, construction, ownership, financing, and management of real estate and investments in real estate joint ventures. In addition, BBX Capital Real Estate owns a 50% equity interest in The Altman Companies, LLC (the “Altman Companies”), a developer and manager of multifamily apartment communities, and manages the legacy assets acquired in connection with the Company’s sale of BankAtlantic in 2012, including portfolios of loans receivable and real estate properties.



Renin is engaged in the design, manufacture, and distribution of sliding doors, door systems and hardware, and home décor products and operates through its headquarters in Canada and two manufacturing and distribution facilities in the United States and Canada. In addition to its own manufacturing, Renin also sources various products and raw materials from China.



IT’SUGAR is a specialty candy retailer which operates approximately  100 retail locations in over 25 states and Washington D.C. Its products include bulk candy, candy in giant packaging, and novelty items that are sold at its retail locations, which include a mix of high-traffic resort and entertainment, lifestyle, mall/outlet, and urban locations across the United States.



In addition to its principal investments, the Company has investments in various operating businesses, including companies in the confectionery industry.



In 2016, Food for Thought Restaurant Group (“FFTRG”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of BBX Capital, entered into area development and franchise agreements with MOD Super Fast Pizza (“MOD Pizza”) related to the development of up to approximately 60 MOD Pizza franchised restaurant locations throughout Florida. Through 2019, FFTRG had opened nine restaurant locations. As a result of FFTRG’s overall operating performance and the Company’s goal of streamlining its investment verticals, the Company entered into an agreement with MOD Pizza to terminate the area development and franchise agreements and transferred seven of its restaurant locations, including the related assets, operations, and lease obligations, to MOD Pizza during the third quarter of 2019. In addition, the Company closed the remaining two locations and terminated the related lease agreements. In connection with the transfer of the seven restaurant locations to MOD Pizza, the Company recognized an aggregate impairment loss of $4.0 million related to the disposal group, which included property and equipment, intangible assets, and net lease liabilities, during the three months ended September 30, 2019. In addition to the impairment losses recognized during the third quarter of 2019, the Company previously recognized $2.7 million of impairment losses associated with property and equipment at three restaurant locations. Accordingly, the Company recognized $6.7 million of impairment losses associated with its investment in MOD Pizza restaurant locations during the nine months ended September 30, 2019.



Recently Adopted Accounting Pronouncements



The Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) has issued the following Accounting Standards Updates (“ASU”) and guidance relevant to the Company’s operations which were adopted as of January 1, 2019:



ASU No. 2016-02 – Leases (Topic 842). This standard, as subsequently amended and clarified by various ASUs, requires lessees to recognize assets and liabilities for the rights and obligations created by leases of assets. For income statement purposes, the standard retains a dual model which requires leases to be classified as either operating or finance based on criteria that are largely similar to those applied under prior lease accounting but without explicit bright lines. The standard also requires extensive quantitative and qualitative disclosures, including significant judgments and assumptions made by management in applying the standard, intended to provide greater insight into the amount, timing, and uncertainty of cash flows arising from leases.



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The Company adopted the standard on January 1, 2019 and applied the transition guidance as of the date of adoption under the current-period adjustment method. As a result, the Company recognized right-of-use assets and lease liabilities associated with its leases on January 1, 2019, with a cumulative-effect adjustment to the opening balance of accumulated earnings, while the comparable prior periods in the Company’s financial statements have been and will continue to be reported in accordance with Topic 840, including the disclosures of Topic 840. 



The standard includes a number of optional practical expedients under the transition guidance. The Company elected the package of practical expedients which allowed the Company to not reassess prior conclusions about lease identification, lease classification, and initial direct costs. The Company also made accounting policy elections by class of underlying asset to not apply the recognition requirements of the standard to leases with terms of 12 months or less and to not separate non-lease components from lease components. Consequently, each separate lease component and the non-lease components associated with that lease component is accounted for as a single lease component for lease classification, recognition, and measurement purposes.



Upon adoption of the standard on January 1, 2019, the Company recognized a lease liability of $123.2 million and a right-of-use asset of $113.2 million. The difference between the lease liability and right-of-use asset primarily reflects the reclassification of accrued straight-line rent and unamortized tenant allowances from other liabilities in the Company’s statement of financial condition to a reduction of the right-of-use asset. In addition, the Company recognized an impairment loss of $3.4 million in connection with the recognition of right-of-use assets for certain IT’SUGAR retail locations as a cumulative-effect adjustment to the opening balance of accumulated earnings. The implementation of the standard did not have a material impact on the Company’s statement of operations and comprehensive income or statement of cash flows. See Note 12 for additional information regarding the Company’s lease agreements.



Future Adoption of Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements



The FASB has issued the following accounting pronouncements and guidance relevant to the Company’s operations which had not been adopted by the Company as of September  30, 2019: 



ASU No. 2016-13, Financial Instruments - Credit Losses (Topic 326), Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial Instruments (as subsequently amended and clarified by various ASUs).  This standard introduces an approach of estimating credit losses on certain types of financial instruments based on expected losses and expands the disclosure requirements regarding an entity’s assumptions, models, and methods for estimating its allowance for credit losses. In addition, the standard requires entities to disclose the amortized cost balance for each class of financial asset by credit quality indicator, disaggregated by the year of origination (i.e., by vintage year). The standard also allows entities to irrevocably elect to measure certain financial instruments within the scope of the standard at fair value upon the adoption of the standard. This standard will be effective for the Company on January 1, 2020. The Company is currently evaluating the impact that ASU 2016-13 may have on its consolidated financial statements. 



ASU No. 2018-13, Fair Value Measurement (Topic 820), Disclosure Framework – Changes to the Disclosure Requirements for Fair Value Measurement. This standard modifies the disclosure requirements in Topic 820 related to the valuation techniques and inputs used in fair value measurements, uncertainty in measurement, and changes in measurements applied. This standard will be effective for the Company on January 1, 2020. The Company believes that this standard will not have a material impact on its consolidated financial statements and disclosures.











2.    Consolidated Variable Interest Entities 



Bluegreen sells VOI notes receivable through special purpose finance entities. These transactions are generally structured as non-recourse to Bluegreen and are designed to provide liquidity for Bluegreen and to transfer the economic risks and benefits of the notes receivable to third parties. In a securitization, various classes of debt securities are issued by the special purpose finance entities that are generally collateralized by a single tranche of transferred assets, which consist of VOI notes receivable. Bluegreen services the securitized notes receivable for a fee pursuant to servicing agreements negotiated with third parties generally based on market conditions at the time of the securitization.



In these securitizations, Bluegreen generally retains a portion of the securities and continues to service the securitized notes receivable. Under these arrangements, the cash payments received from obligors on the receivables sold are generally applied monthly to pay fees to service providers, make interest and principal payments to investors, and fund required reserves, if any, with the remaining balance of such cash retained by Bluegreen; however, to the extent

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the portfolio of receivables fails to satisfy specified performance criteria (as may occur due to, among other things, an increase in default rates or credit loss severity) or other trigger events occur, the funds received from obligors are required to be distributed on an accelerated basis to investors. Depending on the circumstances and the transaction, the application of the accelerated payment formula may be permanent or temporary until the trigger event is cured. As of September  30, 2019, Bluegreen was in compliance with all material terms under its securitization transactions, and no trigger events had occurred.



In accordance with the applicable accounting guidance for the consolidation of VIEs, Bluegreen analyzes its variable interests, which may consist of loans, servicing rights, guarantees, and equity investments, to determine if an entity in which Bluegreen has a variable interest is a VIE. The analysis includes a review of both quantitative and qualitative factors. Bluegreen bases its quantitative analysis on the forecasted cash flows of the entity and its qualitative analysis on the structure of the entity, including its decision-making ability and authority with respect to the entity, and relevant financial agreements. Bluegreen also uses qualitative analysis to determine if Bluegreen must consolidate a VIE as the primary beneficiary. In accordance with the applicable accounting guidance, Bluegreen has determined these securitization entities to be VIEs of which Bluegreen is the primary beneficiary and, therefore, Bluegreen consolidates the entities into its financial statements.



Under the terms of certain VOI note sales, Bluegreen has the right to repurchase or substitute a limited amount of defaulted notes for new notes at the outstanding principal balance plus accrued interest. Bluegreen’s voluntary repurchases and substitutions of defaulted notes for the nine months ended September 30, 2019 and 2018 were $8.4 million and $4.4 million, respectively. Bluegreen’s maximum exposure to loss relating to its non-recourse securitization entities is the difference between the outstanding VOI notes receivable and the notes payable, plus cash reserves and any additional residual interest in future cash flows from collateral.



The table below sets forth information regarding the assets and liabilities of Bluegreen’s consolidated VIEs included in the Company’s condensed consolidated statements of financial condition (in thousands):









The restricted cash and the securitized notes receivable balances disclosed in the table above are restricted to satisfy obligations of the VIEs.

 





3.    Notes Receivable



The table below sets forth information relating to Bluegreen’s notes receivable and related allowance for loan losses (in thousands):









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The weighted-average interest rate charged on Bluegreen’s notes receivable was 14.9% and 15.1% at September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, respectively. Bluegreen’s VOI notes receivable bear interest at fixed rates and are generally secured by property located in Florida, Missouri, Nevada, South Carolina, Tennessee,  and Wisconsin.



Credit Quality of Notes Receivable and the Allowance for Loan Losses



Bluegreen monitors the credit quality of its receivables on an ongoing basis. Bluegreen holds large amounts of homogeneous VOI notes receivable and assesses uncollectibility based on pools of receivables as Bluegreen does not believe that there are significant concentrations of credit risk with any individual counterparty or groups of counterparties. In estimating loan losses, Bluegreen does not use a single primary indicator of credit quality but instead evaluates its VOI notes receivable based upon a static pool analysis that incorporates the aging of the respective receivables, default trends, and prepayment rates by origination year, as well as the FICO scores of the borrowers.



The activity in Bluegreen’s allowance for loan losses (including notes receivable secured by homesites) was as follows (in thousands):





The table below sets forth information regarding the percentage of gross notes receivable outstanding by FICO score of the borrower at the time of origination:







The table below sets forth information regarding the delinquency status of Bluegreen’s VOI notes receivable (in thousands):





 





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4.     Trade Inventory



The Company’s trade inventory consisted of the following (in thousands):













5.     VOI Inventory



Bluegreen’s VOI inventory consisted of the following (in thousands):











6.    Real Estate  



The Company’s real estate consisted of the following (in thousands):







In April 2019, the Company sold its remaining land parcels located at PGA Station in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida for net proceeds of $8.3 million and recognized a gain on sale of real estate of $1.8 million during the nine months ended September 30, 2019. In connection with the sale, the Company invested $2.1 million of the proceeds in the PGA Lender, LLC joint venture as described in Note 7 below.



In May 2019, the Company transferred RoboVault, a self-storage facility located in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, from property and equipment to real estate held-for-sale following a buyer’s completion of due diligence on the property and subsequently sold it to the buyer for net proceeds of $11.8 million. As a result of the sale, the Company recognized a gain on sale of real estate of $4.8 million during the nine months ended September 30, 2019. 



In June 2019, the Company sold a land parcel located in St. Cloud, Florida that was previously held for investment for net proceeds of $8.7 million and recognized a gain on sale of real estate of $3.0 million during the nine months ended September 30, 2019. 



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7.     Investments in Unconsolidated Real Estate Joint Ventures 



As of September 30, 2019, the Company had equity interests in unconsolidated real estate joint ventures involved in the development of multifamily apartment and townhome communities, as well as single-family master planned communities. In addition, the Company own