DOWNERS GROVE, Ill., April 21, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Dover (NYSE: DOV) announced today that for the first quarter ended March 31, 2016, revenue was $1.6 billion, a decrease of 5% from the prior year. Organic revenue declined 7% and foreign exchange had an unfavorable impact of 1%. Acquisition revenue, net of dispositions, provided 3% growth in the quarter. Earnings from continuing operations were $99.4 million, a decrease of 15% as compared to $117.2 million for the prior year period. Diluted earnings per share from continuing operations ("EPS") for the first quarter ended March 31, 2016 were $0.64, compared to $0.72 EPS in the prior year period, representing a decrease of 11%. EPS from continuing operations for the first quarter of 2016 included discrete tax benefits of $0.05 and a gain on a disposition of $0.07. Excluding these items, adjusted EPS from continuing operations for the first quarter of 2016 was $0.52, a decrease of 28% over a comparative EPS of $0.72 in the prior year period. EPS for the first quarter ended March 31, 2016 and 2015 includes restructuring costs of $0.07 EPS and $0.10 EPS, respectively.

Robert A. Livingston, Dover's President and Chief Executive Officer, said, "Our first quarter results were well below our initial expectations, driven by significant further reductions in activity and capital spending within our US oil & gas related end-markets. These conditions primarily impacted our Energy results, and to a lesser extent our Fluids results. The markets served by Engineered Systems and Refrigeration & Food Equipment remained solid, resulting in organic growth of 3% in each segment.

"In response to these historically weak oil & gas markets, we have lowered our full year revenue growth expectations for our Energy and Fluids segments, resulting in reduced EPS guidance for the full year. We have also increased our restructuring activities, and expect full year restructuring costs to be approximately $40 million, an increase of $20 million over our prior forecast.  Substantially all of these actions and costs will occur by the end of the second quarter.

"In all, we expect full year revenue to decline 2% to 5%, a three point reduction from our previous forecast. Within this forecast, organic revenue is anticipated to decline 5% to 8%, four points below our prior expectations. Acquisition revenue, net of dispositions, is unchanged and will provide approximately 4% growth, while FX has been reduced a point and is now expected to be a 1% headwind. In total, full year EPS is expected to be in the range of $3.51 to $3.66, as compared to the prior forecast of $3.85 to $4.05. This updated range includes approximately $0.18 of restructuring charges, and also includes $0.05 of discrete tax benefits and a $0.07 gain on a disposition."

Net earnings for the first quarter ended March 31, 2016, were $99.4 million, or $0.64 EPS, compared to net earnings of $209.5 million, or $1.28 EPS, for the same period of 2015, which included earnings from discontinued operations of $92.3 million, or $0.57 EPS.

Dover will host a webcast of its first quarter 2016 conference call at 10:00 A.M. Eastern Time (9:00 A.M. Central Time) on Thursday, April 21, 2016. The webcast can be accessed on the Dover website at www.dovercorporation.com. The conference call will also be made available for replay on the website. Additional information on Dover's first quarter results and its operating segments can also be found on the Company's website.

About Dover:

Dover is a diversified global manufacturer with annual revenue of approximately $7 billion. We deliver innovative equipment and components, specialty systems and support services through four major operating segments: Energy, Engineered Systems, Fluids, and Refrigeration & Food Equipment. Dover combines global scale with operational agility to lead the markets we serve.  Recognized for our entrepreneurial approach for 60 years, our team of 26,000 employees takes an ownership mindset, collaborating with customers to redefine what's possible.  Headquartered in Downers Grove, Illinois, Dover trades on the New York Stock Exchange under "DOV." Additional information is available at www.dovercorporation.com.

Forward-Looking Statements:

This press release contains "forward-looking" statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, as amended. Such statements relate to, among other things, operating and strategic plans, income, earnings, cash flows, foreign exchange, changes in operations, acquisitions, industries in which Dover businesses operate, anticipated market conditions and our positioning, global economies, and operating improvements. Forward-looking statements may be indicated by words or phrases such as "anticipates," "expects," "believes," "suggests," "will," "plans," "should," "would," "could," and "forecast", or the use of the future tense and similar words or phrases. Forward-looking statements are subject to inherent risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from current expectations, including, but not limited to, oil and natural gas demand, production growth, and prices; changes in exploration and production spending by Dover's customers and changes in the level of oil and natural gas exploration and development; changes in customer demand and capital spending; economic conditions generally and changes in economic conditions globally and in markets served by Dover businesses, including well activity and U.S. industrials activity; Dover's ability to achieve expected savings from integration and other cost-control initiatives, such as lean and productivity programs as well as efforts to reduce sourcing input costs; the impact of interest rate and currency exchange rate fluctuations; the ability of Dover's businesses to expand into new geographic markets; Dover's ability to identify and successfully consummate value-adding acquisition opportunities or planned divestitures; the impact of loss of a significant customer, or loss or non-renewal of significant contracts; the ability of Dover's businesses to develop and launch new products, timing of such launches and risks relating to market acceptance by customers; the relative mix of products and services which impacts margins and operating efficiencies; increased competition and pricing pressures; the impact of loss of a single-source manufacturing facility; short-term capacity constraints; increases in the cost of raw materials; domestic and foreign governmental and public policy changes or developments, including environmental regulations, conflict minerals disclosure requirements, tax policies, and export/import laws; protection and validity of patent and other intellectual property rights; the impact of legal matters and legal compliance risks; conditions and events affecting domestic and global financial and capital markets; and a downgrade in Dover's credit ratings which, among other matters, could make obtaining financing more difficult and costly. Dover refers you to the documents that it files from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission, such as its reports on Form 10-K, Form 10-Q and Form 8-K, for a discussion of these and other risks and uncertainties that could cause its actual results to differ materially from its current expectations and from the forward-looking statements contained herein. Dover undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statement, except as required by law.

Non-GAAP Disclosures

This release and investor supplement contain non-GAAP measures of adjusted earnings from continuing operations used in calculating adjusted diluted earnings per common share, as management believes this information is useful to investors to better understand the company's ongoing profitability and facilitates easier comparisons of the company's profitability to prior and future periods and to its peers. The company has also disclosed herein a number of non-GAAP measures related to free cash flow and organic revenue growth. Management believes these metrics are important measures of the company's liquidity. Free cash flow information provides both management and investors a measurement of cash generated from operations that is available to fund acquisitions, pay dividends, repay debt and repurchase common stock.  We believe that reporting organic revenue and organic revenue growth, which exclude the impact of foreign currency exchange rates and the impact of acquisitions and divestitures, provides a useful comparison of our revenue performance and trends between periods.

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SOURCE Dover Corporation

Investor: Paul Goldberg, Vice President - Investor Relations, (212) 922-1640, peg@dovercorp.com, Media: Adrian Sakowicz, Vice President - Communications, (630) 743-5039, asakowicz@dovercorp.com