Alaska Communications off 5% in post-earnings late trading

• Alaska Communications (NASDAQ:ALSK) issued solid earnings guidance and beat revenue expectations during a quarter in which it worked to unload a wireless business that had presented a debt overhang.
• Loss on impairment of goodwill of $6M helped push the firm to an operating loss of $884K. Net loss was $5.36M. Adjusted EBITDA was $22.3M (up 34%), beating an expected $20.7M.
• The company's guiding to "continued top line performance, steady deleveraging and achieving run rate adjusted EBITDA exiting 2015 through targeted synergies."
• More specifically, it expects total wireline revenue of $220M, in line with expectations, and EBITDA of $54M-$56M vs. expectations of about $40M.
• Shares have turned lower after hours, -5.3%.
• Conference call at 5 p.m. ET.
• Press release
• Previously: Alaska Communications wraps sale of wireless business (Feb. 02 2015)