Q2 2020 Invacare Corp Earnings Call
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First I'd like to start today's call by expressing my gratitude for all our associates, who remained so committed keeping our workplaces save some productive and you've done certain times.
There's a company, whose central focus is to make like experience as possible you a hard work creativity and dedication has been inspired <unk>.
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We benefit as a company from the diversity a R T different views of individual and inspiring differences the people who rely on their products with a D. V lives [music] what pieces are performance and the second quarter, achieving 11th Kentucky to a quarter of yoga your improvement and adjusted EBITDA as well as sequential improvement and it just the cheeseburger.
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During the quarter, we also overcame tremendous supply chain challenges primarily related to a respiratory products, which limited our ability to meet the extremely high demand for these products, which are used for pandemic related care.
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This quarter delivering in 84% improvement and adjusted EBITDA.
Profitability glue as a result of stronger gross margin from favorable feels me cost savings from continues in prison initiatives and reduced F. She makes sense.
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Beginning of late first quarter, we saw strunk them in a respiratory category for both stationary and portable oxygen concentrated.
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We've got a smaller peaked in demand for bad systems in our lifestyles category at this point for the most part that peeking bed demanded past the timing of the returned to more normal sales repeat the knicks for these product groups are still to be determined based on the course of depend on it takes root beer.
Immobility and feeding the good momentum we had an first quarter begin to slow and it really parts of second quarter is public health restrictions limited access to conditions for custom city, which would you say it.
Looking ahead between encouraging signs that demand for mobility and seating products is starting to recover that's third quarter quote and order rates are improving your second quarter London.
It's unreasonable second quarter will be the low point for sales ear cause it coincides with the most restricted savings that'd be global lock them.
Based on reasonable assumptions and other loose medium public health restriction.
Need to access to health care facility, we anticipate feels will begin to normalize over the next two to three quarters.
We're confident that are diverse park portfolio geographic coverage continuous improvement initiatives and balance sheet lemonade left in there. There's a business three depend on it can accelerate are returned to grow.
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Second quarter results show that are transformation is working importantly, North America returned so profitability and generated for $8 million, an operating income unprecedentedly cut market.
As a reminder, the north American segment has been undergoing a multiyear transformation after the impact of national competitive bidding and sales restrictions related Yep, you consent decree, which combines insignificant review sales and profitability started doing a decade ago.
In terms of our business optimization plans, we continue to make good progress on our I T modernization program in North America, and quit consolidations in Germany.
Which are expected to drive significant coffees in 2021.
It's new products are key drivers is hills Grove, it's important to have a vibrant are the python and we do.
I'm proud of the team staying on track to develop and launched innovative new products at the same teeth and keeping to the prepaying dunnock schedule, which highlights are R&D strikes.
Over the past few quarters, we've had lunch three need your power wheelchairs, all of which is achieved steady growth and they're short time in the market.
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N P S minimax wheelchair standing capabilities for small drivers, which is eligible for for reimbursement within the U S group three category.
Are definitely switch labs division, which could do some sophisticated alternative controls for wheelchair drivers with hardly he wants a great new Henry.
And in July in North America relaunched this move one a terrific power add unfamiliar wheelchairs, which is already achieved great success in Europe.
All these products as well as a very full pipeline of innovation all categories will continue to support groups wherever people need durable health care solutions.
During the pin debit card to you sound creative ways to support our customers and to drive C O by leveraging Oh perfect technology.
The weeks wheelchair control system helps us performed contactless wheelchair delivery.
Assurance program offers a fifth guarantee getting customers with confidence to choose into your power wheelchairs, when clinical business or restricted.
Europe, we upgraded our online presence I want you to a digital catalog I forgot product visit wiser and a new website.
These are just a few of the way our commercial team has maintained hi customer engagement, while complying with the public health matters.
I'm proud of the continued progress we've made.
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Turning to fly date reported that sales decreased 16.8 per cent and constant currency and that spelled decreased 12, 90 per cent, primarily driven by girlfriend respiratory and more than all set by declines and mobility in savings and non bed lifestyle products.
Gross profit increase 130 basis points to 20th 29%, primarily due to a favorable product mix and lower material and for a class personally offset by unfavorable foreign exchange.
I'm, sorry currency SG&A decreased 13th two per cent or eight $8 million driven by reduced employment class and lower commercial expensive.
Lower unemployment costs included the benefit of reduced to work hours and furloughs enabled by government based programs to mitigate the impact of the pandemic.
Operating lock improved by $2.3 million driven by reduced SG&A expensive personally I'll stop by lowering up sales and higher restructuring costs.
I just need a dog was $669 up nearly 84% driven by reduced SG&A expense and improve gross profit as a percentage of sales.
The company's free cash flow usage was $1.9 million, an inquiry for 2.1 million due to hire capital expenditures.
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Well I'll mobility and sitting that sales decline the company expect sequential growth as quotes and orders and the third quarter had been higher than the run right achieved and the second quarter of 2020.
Within the lifestyles Prada category higher sales a pandemic related bad system sold in the home care market, where offset by lower sales of other lifestyle products. As a result of limited access to healthcare institutions, including long term care facility.
And a respiratory the company realize higher demand for both stationary and portable oxygen concentrated what sales one day by global supply chain challenges, which Stamford manufacturing capacity.
The company expects elevated demand for respiratory products to continue through the third quarter, if possible to clients in Culver 19 infections lessons.
I need to 510 during the second quarter net sales were negatively impacted by strict quarantine measures and the company's key European market <unk>.
Primarily the UK, France and Germany.
As a result reported that sells in Europe decreased 24 per cent and constant currency in that sounds decreased 27 per cent driven by declines himself immobility in savings and non bad lifestyle products.
Gross profit decreased 90 basis points driven by unfavorable product next.
Operating income decreased $3.3 million due to reduce gross profit from the war, where net sales and unfavorable foreign exchange, partially offset by reduced SG&A expenses and again recognize on the sale of a German facility.
Lower SG&A expensive included the benefit of furloughs and reduced work hours implemented at a majority of the Europeans location.
We're going to slide 11th the company was not as impactful I'm sorry, the pandemic was not a impactful in North America as compared to Europe.
The U S was never fully shut down.
Reported that sales decreased three three per cent and constant currency net sales decreased three per cent with grilled and respiratory products more than offset by declined and mobility in savings and non bad lifestyle products.
Within mobility and seating higher value power mobility products were resilience only experiencing a slight decline of one per cent.
The North America segment realized a favorable mixed shift towards higher acuity products as end users. What's more severe name continue to access health care well less urgent electric <unk> was more often delayed.
Gross profit increased 230 basis points or $2.4 million, driven by favorable product mix and lower operational costs.
Clothing reduce material and Frey costs as a result of previous transformation initiative.
The North America segment returned a profitability with operating income of four $8 million, an improvement of six $1 million driven primarily by lower SG&A expensive, primarily unemployment costs and the benefit of reduced operational costs.
Her name is July 12th followed her which comprises the sales in Asia Pacific region increased by eight one per cent on a constant currency basis.
Bye bye higher sales of lifestyle mobility and sitting products.
Operating lost increased by $300000 driven by higher corporate SG&A expense, primarily related to equity compensation.
Partially I'll set by improved operating income and the Asia Pacific business attributable to lower SG&A expense.
Moving to slide 13th as of June 30th 20th 20th accompany had total that a $319 million, excluding operating was obligations of $15.9 million capitalized on the balance sheet.
At the end of the quarter the company at approximately $104 million of cash on its balance shakes.
Increase was primarily the result of cash borrowed on the company's credit facilities proteins from the sale of dynamic controls and government loan programs, partially offset by cashiers to fond operation and yesterday to extend a portion of the convertible desk.
And the second quarter the company extended the maturity of a significant portion of the 2021 convertible notes and a portion of the 2022 convertible notes to new maturity day of November 24th.
With term substantially similar to the existing 2024 notes, we're very pleased to have executed this transaction during a turbulent market.
I'm fly 14th we are reintroducing new for your guidance for 2020.
Sounded loosening of public health restrictions and renewed access to health care facilities. The company anticipates reported net sales and the range of $810 million to $840 million.
Or just the neighbors are similar to the prior year and a range of $20 million to $30 million and free cash flow usage in line with the prior year in the range of $7 million to $10 million.
This guidance of seems consolidated net sales to improve sequentially Saint below the prior year.
The more stringent quarantine programs and the company's key markets in Europe net sales are expected to recover slowly.
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In North America that sales are expected to be below the prior year in the range of low single digit declines.
Just as EBITA is expected to improve sequentially and for the full year achieve resolved similar to 2019.
Lower net sales due to the pandemic.
I will now turn the call back over to me.
Thank you Kathy.
It was a good quarter and tough times, we I could decisively to ensure the safety of are so cute some customers while protecting our business against the near turned in fact could depend on it. This resulted in continued improvement and profitability a sweet tea you forget the cheapest unprecedented country.
Cause I look further up I'm confident that the actions we've taken to improve our competitiveness reduce our cost structure and strengthen her balance sheet, except the foundation for longterm profitable group.
Was the direct result of the mummy quarters of hard work that enabled our team took a lizard a strong result this quarter.
Plan to unlock additional value for years ago.
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Oh sure just had a question on gross margins, just where do you see the opportunity over the next 12 months, maybe by region, specifically, how much room do you have in North America and part two if you could also just talk about cost savings by region, where do you see the opportunities.
You're a good questions. Peter you know a couple of things were doing in general.
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Interesting consequences of the pandemic was that people, who really needed health care.
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And that's going to resolve based on how the pandemic progressive root beer and in addition, or a new product generally provide more valuable clinically.
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There's some mixing that gross margin that's going to persist and of course, if they received with all due to a more normal mixed we're still gonna be continuing to work. So you're all set that would cost reductions, which are part of our one pinpoint. It. So I don't know that I can really guide you too precise you know where gross margins Gonna go but you wanted to set a marker out there that said.
During the pandemic summer that'd be interesting gross margin per cent wasn't only due to the ongoing cost reduction.
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I would say based on that it's relatively hard to predict the difference between North American Europe.
Previously indicated the value of our German please consolidation.
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About $5000 between the amount maybe five quarters ago, roughly Oh, that's on track pretty much to the day in terms of implementation. So we should see that really hit the P. M. L. At the very end of this year and definitely the all the 2021 is what we're looking for the I T improvements that'll drive <unk>.
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Lots of the tools for productivity inside the company. So that's really what's he played for 2021, probably beyond please until guidance.
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Yeah, great. Thanks, and just one more for me any an update on the upper recipe on the new product lunch in terms of trying our expectations.
Oh, great expectations with a fantastic new product coming out and third quarter. So, we'll we'll be doing that you're pretty shortly.
It's progressed surprisingly well independent with so many people working remotely.
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Everyone around the world is figuring out new ways to do work in one of the.
Questions what type of innovation progress when you normally have people congregating around prototypes fiddling with cards and collaborating on design and despite entirely remote during this period, we've had no cheese and the respiratory political lunchtime one work for the lunchtime right or any of our products me great. Afterwards, the team for figuring out.
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Oh very helpful. Thank you and congrats again on the corner.
Thanks Peter.
We'll take our next question from roster I was born with Stevens.
Good morning, and this is your all sound Procrit Congrats my great corner.
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More color on how mobility and seating kind of fits into the overall geographic trims that'd be great.
You will get some amount of color. It turns out maybe predictably your understandably different like country different countries have different social circumstances in different public responses to be appealing demick, which is absolutely affected access to health care of the airport feels of our products root as it turns out to be different by country.
If we start with Europe. There are certain places of course, you can imagine didn't even screen add a very really downturn because they really close your economy.
Germany, and France, what kind of in the Middle I would say in terms of getting after it really shutting down their economies and access to things like electric care and have started to improve maybe you carry a surprise me just had quite a significant impact as maybe latest.
Let me go public health restrictions and the recovery with your economy and at the other end of the spectrum. The Nordic markets continued kind of quite unchanged and principally that was because the way our part of health care is delivered.
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Two feet enough signals and the return mobility to figure if not just a statistical aberration to the short term. We wanted to see your consisted pattern of a bunch of months.
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Yeah. Good questions, you know, calling calling the P. P is really calling the pynzenyk, which is hard for us to do we've been really please that.
Customers around the world have trusted us with their urgent demand for respiratory products, both things Fisher and portable devices to help because their clients or patients with cause it's sweetened.
And that continues in N out very high for for those products M. Do you expect it to continue.
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In terms of supply chain issues.
When we started in the second quarter to do to fulfill this to me and we had challenges getting components from our global suppliers, because they're all over the world zero across Europe. The states in the United States in Asia Pacific.
If we had a component in Italy, you can imagine how hard it was gonna get that component March and April and that's that's been resolved, but as we got into equal and made certain states are locked down here are industrial looking components weren't coming from businesses needs a French windows businesses have the clothes or figure out other ways to operate so <unk>.
More to keep those vendors open and we had to make special arrangements to make sure that those components could get to us and during the entire pandemic of problems with every company that produces a product and grilled knows that logistics cost and logistics availability is that'd be hungry problematic.
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It's less but you know it takes 100 per cent of components to still make a product and while we may be had problems with lots of components really you still have a few usage things that we're dealing with everyday or or every week. It's certainly much more meal large, but there are still things that are for giving us from meetings are elevated than the end of the.
Immediately usually like we're still working on a great team working on it we've got a small army of people everyday that try to put up the fire that's come in for the day.
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Well. Thank our next question from Mike Napkins need them.
Yeah, Hi, good morning. This is David Faxing on from Mike Thanks for taking the questions.
You'll get a few this yeah hi, just a few this morning, just wanted the cost reduction initiatives. When you think about them are there any that are more durable that could allow you to become a silly your company after the pandemic.
And then can you quantify that benefit some temporary cost reductions EBITA.
Yeah, It's Hershey.
Durable cost reductions.
It's interesting so certainly everybody who's found new ways to be productive whether it's it'll be go down the piano whether it's.
Salespeople that work from home that more productive because they're spending less wheelchair time are certainly gonna try to make that more durable excuse me found more useful ways to engage with customers that are more convenient for customers and a delightful for customers that should persist certainly we're not spending money on your fair like we've had and you're maybe maybe other forms of physically.
Getting together to be training and customer and beach I'm into your user kinds of activities will persist.
I'm the supply two side, we continue to work against the 28 P. M tariffs and those things are very durable improvements an order by quarter, we keep.
Lemonade as the final remaining dollars that should improve gross margin N. As we look at other.
Supply chain solution that allow us to continue to produce during this period will probably going to find some some gross margin in Houston work better for us everybody's been stretched a little bit of this time, you're exactly right. We've got to find wait for this.
Most or all of that snake now some of the cost reductions are activity based so as volume went down in some of our products like you're talking about C. D and the ability we reduce the variable causes some of those variable costs will come back as long you increases.
Some of those costs are fixed in nature, you might have coffee the facility they get spread over whether the facility is working 80 per cent of 100 per cent. So what we're gonna try to do is manage how much those snapped back and then S. T. N 80 of course, you a sewing coffee to go download feels go down cause condition payments or lower and there's a lot of GMA activities. That's <unk>.
Could be beef accounting customer reviews, invoicing collection things like that.
Which is starting to come up but we found a lot of productive ways to make those activities occurred with fewer people.
So you right to observe that there's a likelihood that those coffees could be durable vanilla what we appointment we just don't have a way right now to predict how much favorably those are and what we're gonna do for the next two to three quarters of feels recover is try to nearly should keep those down as the pressure.
Elevated activity in sales comes back which is going to try to increase in so our goal for the next two to three quarters is to keep large with a property babies close to the C. As a as he pets and maybe Kathy can talk about the.
Programs could've helped us V. P M is profitability around the world.
Yeah, primarily in Europe. Many other governments offered assistance to company. So we were able to take advantage of a lower reduced work hours for our employees as the volume came down and cute too as well as furlough. So that was a benefits to the P. N L for love some European perspective of roughly.
$2 million in the quarter is mad as mentioned as the business comes back though some of those costs will be added back as people come back on board with the increased volume that we have seen in Q3. So obviously that was a temporary benefit that we're talking to you too, but a good benefits as we were making our way through the pandemic and coming out of that was higher.
I am in Q3, that'd, probably and stuff and most significant I would have to say because as you can see if I'm in North America.
Performance, we actually had nice volume on the respiratory side of the house, we had my time on the power mobility side of the house and so while we did rant down some costs on the North America tide. It wasn't as prevalent as the European business, which you can see the European sales way down and I'll say about 20% in the corner.
Great. That's helpful. And then when when you were thinking about your portfolio are there any other opportunity to do some more to turn out of control.
It might help you ma'am, you're saying balance sheet, and then I just wanna muscle though.
Yeah, the balance sheet I think we're pretty comfortable with the balance sheet now getting a souza pandemic getting us three obligations that are forecast it over the forecast period. So I really no no vacation is there anything I would I would say different we were very comfortable with the actions that we took.
To get us to this 0.2nd quarter was a tough market to do equity that deals and we we executed I think pretty nice thing on behalf of shareholders to to meet somebody like that out to 2024 at a very good price premium.
So that was really good I think we're fun pronounce Catholic does it come over here.
Yeah, No I think we're very happy with the portfolio that we have you know we've seen nicer for isn't in the margins related to each of the three named product categories. There's no a discreet business similar to like D. C. L. A that you'd say alright, you'd want to monetize I think we're we're very happy with the purchase portfolio that we have right now.
Okay, and then lastly, just saw my purse margins.
I mean during the cord or was it was a double double you remodeling. So just wondering if you can call me on kind of how we should think about the third and fourth quarters.
Thanks, so much.
Yeah, So and yeah, you're absolutely right. When we gave guidance at the end of the first quarter, we had anticipated that margins would decline in cute too.
And what we actually sign Q too was Ah moved to a higher value products higher and power wheelchairs higher and beds.
For the Covid higher and respiratory product as well so that was a pleasant surprise I'm gonna be we're happy to see that as the business continues to rebounding Q3, Q for we're anticipating that the product mixed will come down slightly just given let security products that we're gonna sell into Q3 in Q4.
And so because of that we would anticipate an unfavorable product mix.
That would hit margins and can you throw in two for it not significant but it would be down versus the benefit that we would've seen in two to we also saw nice improvement year-over-year immaterial costs for that cause of tariffs with a portion of that as well as fry costs, and we would <unk> M. S. We would assume that that would continue.
Sure two three and two four as well to offset that product next so we we're anticipating that Martin told me down slightly not significantly there will be puts it takes to it but overall should be down primarily just because of the mix and the mixed with a product like within the business.
Great. Thanks for taking the questions.
No problem.
Hello, Thank our next question from Matt Michelle with Keybank.
Hey assistance breath, Michigan on for that thanks, very much for taking the questions. Just wanted to start off by following up on some of the dynamics in Europe.
You are a little bit surprised by how different because that would be performance was there compared to you in the U S. I'm just wondering if you could provide some more detail on what the biggest differences were but for you that you <unk>. If there were any beyond just timing and the magnitude of the shut down and then how we should be thinking about European recovery each of 2021 <unk>.
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We're pretty organized and their responses pandemic and the results that we see in terms of less T V catastrophe with because they were more her medical field. They took more cohesive actually zero actions were more complete across the economy's and the benefit to to fewer sick humans was tupperware economy.
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Italy, Spain, or if it lets say Iberia <unk>.
Germany, France in the United Kingdom, and those are major markets for a certainly Germany, France, United Kingdom, they're all important to us, but those three in particular, you're severely shut down which would probably wise needs to be.
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Root beer economies, it should be able to recover because you get beyond the consequences.
So you expect that European markets, we come back in an orderly fashion deeper down for a sugar period of time and more quickly back is probably you'll be with four cats.
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No. They gotta get the only other thing I was going to add is that the European business has a pretty significant scooter business that would be part of mobility and stating that is more of a seasonal business and so obviously this season is probably cute too and Q3.
So that also would've been an impact that you would've seen for Europe, it's not in the U S. Because we really don't sell Tomatoes in New York.
Alright, thank that color and then move into the balance sheet noticed a fairly material step up in inventory I'm. Just wondering an order of magnitude if that was more of a reflection of building inventory in areas, where demand as expected to be stronger where it gets more related to areas.
I have been a little bit slower and they are built off during the corner.
More of a ladder.
Areas like respiratory or beds, where demand has been strong b inventory turned quite quickly.
And so that's gonna be consequences, it's really about are relatively long supply chain, because we had so many customized products, which need a large variety of components to be ready for order and assembly.
You couldn't turn that off as quickly as soon as Keene down, but the good news is having that inventory and it's good inventory for good products that we expect to be part of the recovery of the company will allow us to let them be fulfilled demand as it comes back in.
And hopefully be especially good provider to our customers around the world with great responsiveness visitors out. So we expect to look the date that over the recovery period should be fine.
Alright, and then just last last quick one off for me can you just provide the effects assumptions you're using for the remainder of 2020.
It'd be guidance, just given how fast it's been moving recently.
Yeah, our modeling has utilized the rates that we're in effect at the end up to two of 20.
So that's what we've modeled the second half of it you're at sending those rates.
Roughly like figure out would be out like a 110.
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Thank you alright, thank you.
City is there are no further questions at this time, let's see I'd like to have a conference back to you for any additional are closing remarks.
Okay Sir.
Thanks, everyone for their time this morning, Kathy little familiar available for and follow up questions, which you can coordinate to loosen have a good day.
This concludes today's call. Thank you for your participation you may know disconnect.
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