October 21, 2020 TRINITY INDUSTRIES INC 0000099780 false 0000099780 2020-10-21 2020-10-21

UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
FORM 8-K
CURRENT REPORT
Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of Report (Date of Earliest Event Reported): |  | October 21, 2020

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(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Delaware |  | 1-6903 |  | 75-0225040
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation) |  | (Commission File No.) |  | (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

2525 N. Stemmons Freeway,
Dallas, Texas 75207-2401
(Address of Principal Executive Offices, and Zip Code)
(214) 631-4420
Registrant's Telephone Number, Including Area Code
Not Applicable
(Former Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)
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Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

Title of each class | Trading Symbol(s) | Name of each exchange on which registered
Common Stock | TRN | New York Stock Exchange

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Item 2.02 Results of Operations and Financial Condition.
Trinity Industries, Inc. ("Trinity") hereby furnishes the information set forth in its News Release, dated October 21, 2020, announcing operating results for the three month period ended September 30, 2020, a copy of which is furnished as Exhibit 99.1 and incorporated herein by reference. On October 22, 2020, Trinity held a conference call and webcast with respect to its financial results for the three month period ended September 30, 2020. The conference call scripts of Jessica Greiner, Vice President of Investor Relations and Communications; E. Jean Savage, Chief Executive Officer and President; and Eric R. Marchetto, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer; are furnished as Exhibit 99.2, and incorporated herein by reference. Additionally, Trinity posted Supplemental Materials to its website to accompany the conference call; a copy of these materials is furnished as Exhibit 99.3 and incorporated herein by reference.
The conference call and News Release included references to Adjusted Operating Results and Adjusted Earnings Per Share, Free Cash Flow, EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA, which are not calculations based on generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”). Reconciliations of each of these non-GAAP measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measures have been included in the News Release. When forward-looking non-GAAP measures are provided, Trinity does not provide quantitative reconciliations of forward-looking non-GAAP measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measures because it cannot, without unreasonable effort, predict the timing and amounts of certain items included in the computations of each of these measures. These factors include, but are not limited to: the product mix of expected railcar deliveries; the timing and amount of significant transactions and investments, such as railcar sales from the lease fleet, capital expenditures, and returns of capital to shareholders; and the amount and timing of certain other items outside the normal course of our core business operations, such as restructuring activities, pension plan termination charges, and the potential financial and operational impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
This information is not "filed" pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and is not incorporated by reference into any Securities Act of 1933 registration statements. Additionally, the submission of the report on Form 8-K is not an admission of the materiality of any information in this report that is required to be disclosed solely by Regulation FD.
Item 7.01 Regulation FD Disclosure.
See "Item 2.02 — Results of Operations and Financial Condition."
Forward-Looking Statements
Some statements in this release, which are not historical facts, are “forward-looking statements” as defined by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements include statements about Trinity's estimates, expectations, beliefs, intentions or strategies for the future, and the assumptions underlying these forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to, future financial and operating performance, future opportunities and any other statements regarding events or developments that Trinity believes or anticipates will or may occur in the future, including the potential financial and operational impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Trinity uses the words “anticipates,” “assumes,” “believes,” “estimates,” “expects,” “intends,” “forecasts,” “may,” “will,” “should,” “guidance,” “projected,” “outlook,” and similar expressions to identify these forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this release, and Trinity expressly disclaims any obligation or undertaking to disseminate any updates or revisions to any forward-looking statement contained herein to reflect any change in Trinity’s expectations with regard thereto or any change in events, conditions or circumstances on which any such statement is based, except as required by federal securities laws. Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from historical experience or present expectations, including but not limited to risks and uncertainties regarding economic, competitive, governmental, and technological factors affecting Trinity’s operations, markets, products, services and prices, and such forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance. For a discussion of such risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements, see “Risk Factors” and “Forward-Looking Statements” in Trinity’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the most recent fiscal year, as may be revised and updated by Trinity’s Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, and Trinity’s Current Reports on Form 8-K.

Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.
(a) - (c) Not applicable.
(d) Exhibits:

NO. |  | DESCRIPTION
99.1 |  |  | News Release dated October 21, 2020 with respect to the operating results for the three month period ended September 30, 2020.
99.2 |  |  | Conference call script of October 22, 2020.
99.3 |  |  | Q3 2020 Conference Call – Supplemental Materials
101.INS |  | Inline XBRL Instance Document – the instance document does not appear in the Interactive Data File because its XBRL tags are embedded within the Inline XBRL document.
101.SCH |  | Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema Document (filed electronically herewith).
101.CAL |  | Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase Document (filed electronically herewith).
101.LAB |  | Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Label Linkbase Document (filed electronically herewith).
101.PRE |  | Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase Document (filed electronically herewith).
101.DEF |  | Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Definition Linkbase Document (filed electronically herewith).
104 |  | Cover Page Interactive Data File (formatted as Inline XBRL and contained in Exhibit 101).

SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

| Trinity Industries, Inc. |
October 22, 2020 | By: | /s/ Eric R. Marchetto
|  | Name: Eric R. Marchetto
|  | Title: Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer