Q2 2021 Quanex Building Products Corp Earnings Call
Thank you for standing by and welcome to the Quanex building products Corporation second quarter 2021 earnings Conference call. At this time all participants are in listen only mode. After the speaker's presentation. There will be a question and answer session to ask the question during the session you'll need the press star 1 on your telephone as a reminder, today's program is being recorded.
And now I'd like to introduce your host for today's program, Scott Zuehlke Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer. Please go ahead Sir.
Thanks for joining the call. This morning on the call with me today is George Wilson, our President and CEO of this conference call will contain forward looking statements and some discussion of non-GAAP measures forward looking statements and guidance discussed on this call and and our earnings release are based on current expectations acts.
<unk> results or events may differ materially from such statements and guidance and quanex undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward looking statement to reflect new information or events for.
For a more detailed description of our forward looking statement disclaimer and the reconciliation of non-GAAP measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measures. Please see our earnings release issued yesterday and posted to our website I will now discuss the financial results.
We generated net sales of $274 million during the second quarter of 2021, which represents an increase of 44, 2% compared to $187.5 million during the second quarter of 2020 the.
The growth of the growth was mainly the result of increased demand for our products across all product lines, coupled with increased pricing mostly related to raw material cost inflation.
More specifically, we posted net sales growth of 4 of.
Of 34, 6% and our North American Fenestration segment, 25, 5% and our North American Cabinet components segment, and 92, 1% and our European Fenestration segment, excluding the foreign exchange impact.
As a reminder, both of our manufacturing facilities and the U K were shut down in late March of 2020 and did not resume operations until mid to late may of last year.
And an effort to provide a more realistic comp on a consolidated basis, we posted revenue growth of 26% and the first half of 2021 compared to the first half of 2019 prior to Covid.
We reported net income of $14.6 million or <unk> 43 per diluted share for the 3 months ended April 32021, compared to $5.5 million or <unk> 17 per diluted share for the 3 months ended April 30 of 2020.
The increase and net income was mostly due to higher volumes and improved operating leverage. However, this improvement was somewhat offset by a $13 million increase and SG&A during the quarter.
$9.7 million of which was related to the valuation of our stock based comp awards and $3.1 million of which was due to higher and more normalized medical claims.
On an adjusted basis EBITDA for the quarter increased by 47, 7% to $32.2 million compared to $21.8 million during the same period of last year.
The improved profitability was again largely due to increased operating leverage from higher volumes.
From a margin standpoint. This increase represents adjusted EBITDA margin expansion of approximately 30 basis points on a consolidated basis.
However, we did realize significant adjusted EBITDA margin expansion and our North American and European Fenestration segments margins were pressured and our North American cabinet components segment, primarily due to hardwood cost inflation.
Moving onto cash flow and the balance sheet.
Cash provided by operating activities was $32.4 million for the 3 months ended April 32021, compared to $6.1 million for the 3 months ended April 32020.
Free cash flow came in at $27.8 million for the quarter compared to essentially zero free cash flow and Q2 of last year.
Year to date as of April 30 of 2021 cash provided by operating activities was $29 million compared to $2.5 million for the same period of last year and.
And free cash flow year to date as of April 32021 was $19.2 million compared to negative $12.8 million during the same period of 2020.
Our strong free cash flow generation during the quarter enabled us to repay $25 million and bank debt and repurchase approximately $2 million of our stock.
Our balance sheet of strong our liquidity position continues to improve and our leverage ratio of net debt to last 12 months adjusted EBITDA improved to 3 times as of April 32021.
We will remain focused on managing working capital and generating cash as the year progresses.
As stated in our earnings release of our outlook is positive and we remain optimistic about the economic recovery.
Based on our strong first half results and ongoing conversations with our customers. We are raising our expectations for the year again, and now expect approximately 20% sales growth and our North American Fenestration segment.
Approximately 15% sales growth and our North American cabinet components segment.
And approximately 40% sales growth and our European Fenestration segment.
We're now comfortable providing the following full year 2021 guidance for modeling purposes.
Net sales of 1.4 to $1.6 billion.
Adjusted EBITDA of $125 million to $130 million.
Depreciation of approximately $33 million amortization.
Amortization of approximately $14 million.
SG&A of approximately $115 million note. This is higher than previously expected due to an increase and stock based comp expense and more normalized medical costs and.
Interest expense of 2.5% of $3 million.
Tax rate of approximately 27%.
Capex of $30 million to $35 million.
And free cash flow of 60% to $65 million.
If you adjust for the expected increase in SG&A the implied incremental adjusted EBITDA margin is in the low 20% range.
The takeaway here is that we have been successful of passing through price and we are realizing operating leverage through increased volume.
As previously mentioned, we expect the typical seasonality and our business to be less pronounced this year. So we feel it would be helpful to provide some direction on a quarterly basis for the remainder of the year.
From a cadence perspective for Q3 and on a consolidated basis, we expect net sales to be up by 28% to 30% year over year. However, it will be challenging to realize the adjusted EBITDA margin due to a decent comp coupled with inflationary pressures.
Looking ahead to Q4, we will have a very tough comp we do expect net sales growth of approximately 10% year over year during the quarter on a consolidated basis, but we do not expect to realize margin expansion.
To summarize on a consolidated basis for the full year, we now expect to generate net sales growth of approximately 23% year over year to the midpoint of guidance, while maintaining adjusted EBITDA margin and the low 12% range.
I'll now turn the call over to George for his prepared remarks.
Thanks Scott.
And we were pleased to report another quarter of solid results as demand for our products remains strong and exceeded our expectations.
Operational performance performance was excellent across all segments and I'd like to take a moment to thank the entire quanex team for their continued efforts and dedication to our customers and shareholders.
Similar to most others and the building products space, we are facing inflationary pressures and labor shortages and however, we continue to stay focused on operational excellence projects and other initiatives that improve our return on invested capital and our ability to generate cash flow.
We have had success in these areas and believe this focus will continue to generate value for our shareholders.
Prior to discussing the detail by segment.
I'm going to provide some color on the ever changing macroeconomic conditions of the markets and which we serve.
And the North American residential housing market, both new construction and repair and remodel remains strong.
<unk> for Windows and doors remains solid and according to many of our OEM customers lead times to their consumers are being extended well backlogs continue to increase.
Specific the cabinet components, we believe that the semi custom segment, which is the main segment, we serve again outperformed the stock segment.
As we mentioned and our last call.
There was a significant shifts and market share away from the semi custom segment to the stock segment over the previous few years. So the recent Casey of May data is encouraging and that it shows the semi custom segment continuing to outpace the stock segment.
Demand for the products, we manufacture in the UK and Germany also remains strong.
Although markets are slowly beginning to reopen and the UK and Europe continued travel restrictions, coupled with and under built housing market bodes well for demand and our markets.
1 area that we continue to watch as the potential shortage and the supplier of glass in the UK and Europe.
Further demand pressures and supply issues with this commodity could provide headwinds for our products and the second half of the year.
And was the case and our Q1 call we remain optimistic on macroeconomic conditions and all of the markets. We serve however, we faced challenges in the form of inflation and labor shortages.
With respect to inflation I think it is accurate to say that we are seeing pressures and every raw material and freight category.
The most significant pressures are in the PVC resin and chemical feedstocks and hardwood lumber species for cabinet components.
As a reminder for the most part we have contractual pass throughs for the major raw materials, we use and North America, but there is often the contractual lag the can generally be anywhere from 30 to 90 days.
With the rapid rate of inflation today. These timelines are acquiring short term margin pressures.
We do not have these contract contractual pass throughs and Europe, and the UK, So our ability to pass on any increases through.
True price becomes more important and for the most part we continue to be successful in that regard.
And all regions or customer basis, passing along increases to the and consumer and the and the entire supply chain is following and kind.
We're not on an index, we have been successful at keeping inflation neutral so far.
As also discussed on the Q1 call labor shortages have also been of challenge for most U S manufacturing companies and Quanex is no exception.
This continued into Q2 and is ongoing.
We are hopeful but some of the recent government decisions to roll back of unemployment benefits and certain states will have a favorable impact on this front, but at this time, it's just too early to tell and margins are being pressured by overtime utilization rates.
I'll now go ahead and provide my comments on performance by segment for our fiscal second quarter.
Our North American Fenestration segment generated revenue of $146.1 million and Q2, which was approximately 30, 35% higher than prior year Q2, and compares favorably to the ducker window shipment growth of 10, 8% for the calendar quarter ending March 31.2021.
Prior year Covid impact combined with strong demand across all product lines share gains and our screens business and increased capacity utilization on our vinyl extrusion assets all contributed to the above market performance.
Adjusted EBITDA of $20.6 million and this segment was approximately 54, 1% higher than prior year Q2.
Nonrecurring COVID-19 impact volume related operating leverage the implementation of annual pricing adjustments and operational improvements and lower SG&A all contributed to the improved performance year over year.
For the first 6 months. This segment had revenue of $274.3 million and adjusted EBITDA of $36.9 million, which represents growth of $25, 2 and 67, 9% respectively.
This also represents adjusted EBITDA margin expansion of approximately 340 basis points.
Our European Fenestration segment generated revenue of $61.7 million and the second quarter, which was $32.5 million of approximately 111% higher than prior year excluding.
Excluding foreign exchange impact this would equate to an increase of approximately 92%.
Strong demand for our products continues and both vinyl extrusion and spacers as the repair and remodel markets and the UK and Continental Europe remained strong.
Adjusted EBITDA of $12.9 million per the quarter was $10 million better than prior year.
But it is important to remember that our UK plants were shut down for part of the prior year comp period.
Also contributing to the strong results were volume related operating leverage and pricing actions, which helped offset inflationary pressures.
On a year to date basis revenue of $110.7 million and adjusted EBITDA of $23.6 million resulted in margin expansion of approximately 840 basis points as compared to the first half of last year.
Our North American Cabinet components segment reported net sales of $63.6 million and Q2, which was $12.9 million or approximately 26% better than prior year.
Note that this growth rate was slightly higher when compared to the latest <unk> data for the semi custom segment, which came in at 24, 2% growth over the same period.
Favorable comps due to the Covid impact in Q2 of last year higher index pricing and higher order demand all contributed to solid revenue growth from the quarter.
Adjusted EBITDA was $3 million and this segment, which was 21, 6% higher than prior year.
Although we are being impacted by the timing lag of our index pricing mechanisms on the hardwood.
Operating leverage from higher volume and incremental pricing on certain products. All contributed the holding adjusted EBITDA margin relatively flat versus prior year Q2.
And first the rapid increase in hardwood prices has impacted adjusted EBITDA by $1.7 million year to date and if we adjust for this inflation, we would have realized approximately 180 basis points of margin expansion and this segment.
On a year to date basis operational improvements and volume related leverage gains have helped offset the timing related material impacts and resulted in margin expansion of approximately 150 basis points.
Unallocated corporate and other costs were $4.3 million for the quarter, which was $7.2 million higher than prior year as Scott mentioned earlier. The primary drivers of this increase were stock based compensation expense operating incentive accruals and more normalized medical expenses as our employees.
And their families of started to feel more comfortable going back to their doctors.
And as I mentioned earlier, our priority has been meeting customer demand furthering our operational excellence programs optimizing our cash flow and improving return on invested capital across all segments of our business.
Slight inflationary headwinds, we continue to make progress in these areas and this work has strengthened our balance sheet by enabling us to further pay down debt during the quarter, while still repurchasing approximately $2 million and treasury stock.
Going forward, our capital deployment strategy will remain intact as we execute on our path to being debt free.
We will opportunistically evaluate stock repurchases and continue to invest and projects that grow revenue and improve our ROIC.
In addition, the board recently approved the capacity expansion project and our spacer plant in Germany, and we're also currently evaluating additional capacity projects and our screens and cabinet components business and North America.
Note that due to the extended lead times of equipment, we don't expect to realize any benefits from these projects until next year at the earliest.
In summary, our outlook on demand for our products remains strong for the remainder of the year.
We are executing on our plan and performing well from an operational standpoint with.
With these points and mind on a consolidated basis, we are confident and our ability to deliver revenue growth from the low 20% range of this year, while maintaining adjusted EBITDA margin and the low 12% range. Despite the increasing inflationary pressures and with that operator, we are now ready to take questions.
And certainly once again, ladies and gentlemen, if you have a question. Please press Star then 1 of your question has been answered and you'd like to remove yourself from the queue. Please press the pound key our first question comes from the line of Daniel Moore from CJS Securities. Your question. Please.
Good morning, George morning, Scott, Thanks for taking the question.
Hoping you can break down or at least directionally give a little bit more detail in terms of.
Rice versus quantity.
Far as the growth is concerned for each of the 3 segments.
Yes, that's the telephone answer I don't have the data right in front of me.
Volume is definitely the main driver.
Pricing in North America is really pushed through the contractual pass throughs of our major raw materials as you know and then and in Europe, It's the <unk>.
The opposite we don't have contractual pass throughs there so it's all price.
And that we pushed through the customers.
Give me a lot of time to gather more detail and we can talk offline.
Fair enough.
And obviously Europe remains exceptionally strong.
Is it the.
The lack of new of housing stock, that's sort of causing the boom and R&R and.
And qualitatively any commentary and how would you describe your visibility beyond the sort of the next 2 quarters.
I would say right now.
The under built housing market is the main driver.
You couple that with still some restrictions on travel and the increase and discretionary.
The spending income that people have.
And that has continued to bode well and I don't think that thats going to subside and the short term. So those 2 factors are the main driver and.
In terms of visibility.
Outside of the first 2 quarter of the next 2 quarters. It is limited, but I would.
And I would say depending on raw material.
Availability and supply issues and the next 2 quarters look extremely strong and we're very confident and what we see over the next 2 quarters.
Got it and similarly in North America with backlogs for new homes rising until all time highs and benefiting from people choosing to refurbish instead of purchasing.
Purchasing of new home to.
And to the extent that you have until there.
I think what we're seeing is exactly that.
The availability of of new.
New housing starts and I mean, theres, just no builders or lack of builders and the existing <unk>.
Existing home inventory is and all time low home homes are turning over extremely quick so theres no inventories. So so people that want to do something or being forced into the R&R market and we absolutely see that and our customers are seeing it as well.
Just to clarify thank you Ms.
Challenge of getting labor.
And in terms of the labor.
Yeah.
It's a challenge across the board.
For every industry and that's not letting up I mean.
Every aspect of <unk>.
Our supply chain is having a hard time getting labor of our customers are having a hard time getting labor.
It's a challenge for us as well.
And I will tell you the.
And.
We are cautiously optimistic that as I mentioned some of the changes and some of the state unemployment funding levels.
Appear to be.
Peeling and.
And certain areas, we're starting to see some signs of maybe some relief, but still too early to tell.
And you actually answered my next 1 as well so I got 2 birds with 1 sale and lastly.
And the.
Maybe just talk about.
The you met you added glass to the list and growing list for everybody of supply chain challenges.
And any incremental color, there and sort of.
Assume that that's baked into.
Are there challenges baked into the guidance or are you just sort of seeing incremental pressures building any detailed day any color would help.
Sure so for the <unk>.
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The new issue and it's primarily in the UK and Continental Europe, So there and the glass suppliers, there's 2 suppliers that have.
Flow lines that manufacturer of the glass that have gone down and they are on force majeure with the.
The customers on allocation and obviously, we don't buy that but any of our window and door customers that use glass and will impact their ability to manufacture so.
The restricted capacity in both the UK and Europe for glass and it's mainly of European issue.
As it was being relatively new.
Very little of that impact baked into our guidance.
And what's baked into our guidance as what we're being told now so the only comment being as the for that situation worsens and something else sort of happened unexpectedly.
That could have an impact.
And that is not baked into our guidance.
Understood very helpful. Thank you I'll follow up.
Later with any follow ups. Thank you.
Thanks, Dan.
Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Steven Ramsey from Thompson Research. Your question. Please.
Yeah.
Hey, good morning.
And maybe can you talk to can you talk to.
Share gain of share shift.
And any of your segments if it was a contributor.
Q2 results or in the guidance.
So as we see and I won't give you specific numbers I will give you anecdotally what we see is happening and what has been our selling point.
In terms of what we bring to the table is labor continues to be of challenge.
And many of our product lines.
We have external customers, but some of our some of our customers also how our vertically integrated and have the ability to manufacture of the same products as they are looking.
And to find ways to better increase their output.
And they're looking at potentially outsourcing non critical components and.
So where we say share gain in many cases it is.
Customers deciding to outsource some product.
And Thats, primarily and screens and cabinets is where we'll see the biggest impact of those types of share gains.
You can also see that and volume of although that's a little more complicated.
You still there Steven.
It sounded like when they have lost Steven.
His line is still connected.
But we're not hearing him Hello.
Hey.
Hey, guys, sorry, sorry quick question for you.
Under a scenario of of multiyear.
Strength in the housing market.
Do you foresee a stronger shift.
Beyond the current supply chain challenges to outsourcing that would drive results and a pretty strong way over the next.
And 2 to 3 years.
I think what we.
And would see and we've stated all along that we have seen that trend even before COVID-19.
As people look to optimize their output minimized.
The capacity expansion in terms of their footprint and then also the labor.
The trend will continue to challenge, we think of it as a big upside yes.
Great. Thank you.
Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of room and Gardner from benchmark. Your question. Please.
Thank you and good morning, everybody and congrats on the quarter guys.
Okay.
Maybe just to start on the North American fenestration.
The strength that you saw you mentioned the ducker numbers and obviously you guys had the screens business.
I think help you grow above and beyond the market is it.
How do we think about your customers building inventories that happened at all.
In other words, if they haven't been able to keep up with demand is there any risk that they've built the inventory of your products to be re.
Ready for what they expect to see over the next 6 months or so or does it not work like that with most of your <unk>.
Products.
I think what we're seeing right now there is really no.
No ability for anyone to build inventory Ruben and right now because of supply chain pressures, even if you wanted to build.
Some excess inventory and finished goods or anything.
And not enough supply or labor to be able to do that so I'm really doubtful that there's anyone being able to build up significant levels of inventories.
Okay, and then sort.
Sort of and a related vein if theres been a lot of talk about maybe that this level of housing starts of 1516 or even $1.7 it's sort of the best the market can do in terms of materials and labor and an environment where.
The starts level is kind of flattish and in 2022 or even in your fiscal 'twenty..2 do you guys think because of your exposure to R&R because windows in particular has been such a tight product category that you'd still be able to grow and that kind of set up because youre still all of the backlog that you've talked about and other.
The initiatives that you have and maybe just touch on initiatives you have to grow above and beyond the market.
Maybe if there's anything else other than screens that you could you could elaborate on.
Sure.
The answer that I will answer it in 2 segments and in terms of our growth expectations on a go forward basis, and we'll obviously try to give further guidance and future meetings on that.
We are very confident and the macroeconomic data points that we see the.
This cycle.
It does.
And the extended length of time and.
Even if the new construction side of it were to drop again, the same fundamentals and R&R that you just mentioned.
So we're pretty confident and the outlook and the near to mid term and through our strategic planning period and the.
And the other things that we're doing in terms of initiatives.
We've been so focused and we talk about it on return on invested capital was also finding ways to optimize existing assets that we have and we're pursuing other other markets with some adjacency products for example, and.
If you were to look at either of our rubber extrusion and our spacer business, where we're pursuing other markets for extrusion and as well as vinyl extrusion, where.
And the need for capacity and other people that extrude vinyl.
It was very much out there. So we are becoming a supplier to Oems and.
And different markets.
We're just planning those seeds so.
The impact of that on todays numbers are not meaningful, but we believe that there is opportunity to grow potentially different markets organically and we're working very hard on that.
Great. That's very helpful and last 1 from me is.
This is probably the question for Scott you mentioned.
Some.
Whether it's price cost or difficult comps or what have you reasons why margin expansion might be tough in the back half.
Move out into the next year I know, it's a little bit early but just from modeling purposes. Do you think that we kind of get past those pressures based on what we know today and you can get back into it extending margins as you grow the business.
Yes, I think there is some some confidence that we'll be able to do that specifically and.
The North American Cabinet components segment, where we've been chasing hardwood costs higher and at some point is that of stabilizer of perhaps come down we should benefit from a margin perspective, So I think youre right, we should expect that.
Perfect. Thanks, guys, Congrats again and have a nice weekend.
Thank you.
Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Julio Romero from Sidoti and company. Your question. Please.
Hey, good morning, George Good morning, Scott.
Morning.
So I wanted to start on the European segment, you saw very strong sales growth and Europe. I know you had the shutdowns and the second quarter of last year, what kind of exit sales growth rate did Europe due in April.
Year over year.
It was stronger than the the about the average of the quarter, we're still doing very well and Europe.
If you think about it April and May of last year, we were shut down some in Europe, so and.
And the year over year call it right and that's right yes, okay.
Makes sense, Okay, and maybe can you speak the pricing in Europe I know you don't have the contractual price pass throughs there but.
And what's your confidence level, there that you can continue to kind of.
Pass through any price in Europe.
The market is so different and I think the understanding of the Oems.
The cost structure of.
And the products has made it.
The pricing is never an easy discussion, but when you go with data and transparent and your raw material cost.
It's a much more.
Rational type of discussion with the customer. So I think we're very confident and our ability to continue to get price when needed and the with the understanding that 1 price comes back.
We also share at that point too so.
I think we're confident in being able to keep up with inflation and as long as you show it is not necessarily of margin.
Yes.
Maybe switching over to the cabinet segment can.
Can you maybe remind us what the lag is.
With price increases contractually effective.
And when you see that price is it for hardwood is it closer to 30 days or 90 days for hardwood and so the.
The pricing index of the way it works for cabinets was typically a 90 day lag before it triggers and Theres a certain percentage. So the price of just to go up a certain percentage of them and it triggers and thats usually on the 90 day lag and.
The part that gets to be an issue because we are buying from from the mills, which tend to have a very short time period for us and everyone else that buys of lumber as youre typically paying and 5 to 10 days so.
Net 80 day.
GAAP between when you are paying the new price and when Youre getting the pass it along to the customer and then.
And when you take into account further and further escalation of price during that timeframe, we're chasing right now and.
At some point when that when that flattens and goes back down there'll be of benefit to us.
And.
And with the same time periods, but until that happens, we're chasing and it's pretty significant with the rate of inflation that we see today.
That makes sense, but since their contractual I mean, they are automatically triggered it's just a matter of.
The time lag at the moment, the 90 day time lag before the catch up.
That is correct okay.
And I guess, maybe just my last 1 here and just sticking with the cabinets is.
Obviously demand is strong.
Is there any strategic kind of.
Dave or components of.
Taking orders and even with maybe the the overtime you might have to pay out.
Because of the Incrementals there.
You saw this quarter aren't great right. So I don't know if theres any strategic to you may be taking orders that those incremental margins are or is it just pricing catching up or is it ramping up labor and.
Banking on lower overtime costs once you secure that labor.
I think right now.
For us to minimize some of the overtime and Thats. The biggest challenge from a margin perspective, Thats non index related.
And.
We are evaluating.
The capacity expansion and have the potential to add.
And some different capacity and the different region that not only we will grow our revenue, but also take pressure off of both.
And the inner plant freight cost as well as the amount of labor time utilized and we're working very hard at this point to assess our options on that.
But I would think that thats, an opportunity and in the very near future for us to to announce something there.
Understood. Thanks for taking the questions.
Sure. Thank you.
Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Ken <unk> from Keybanc. Your question. Please.
Good morning, gentlemen.
Good morning, and good morning.
Yeah.
So.
Things are coming back all of lots of demand.
In the fenestration business you actually yes.
All of these price index as I was trying to look back to see which year you guys Didnt have those locked in and it was and Scott.
It wasn't good, but obviously spacers and screens I think are doing quite well I just wanted to touch on as we think about.
Next year, which is getting closer and closer there as the earlier question about can you have margin expansion and Scott I think you said.
Probably cabinets.
Where are you going to do that and you guys kind of of the 2% margin EBIT target I think if my recollection of that industry. So that's going to be <unk>.
As I look at next year. The corporate expense you are calling out the stock comp and stuff can you give us what you think.
It was kind of a normalized corporate expense rate for the company.
Either annually or how should we think about that.
Realizing 20 was low.
'twenty one's higher ex and Stockholm, Sydney and normalized range as we think about the kind of next year.
Are you talking about SG&A.
And on a consolidated basis, yes.
Yeah.
Well for SG&A just on the income statement, we guided to about $115 million. This year. The prior guidance was I think.
100 of $100.105 million. The main driver of the increase now is when we gave the prior guidance our stock was trading at 19 and $22 and and now we're up closer to 27.28. So that was the big Delta there along with the more normalized medical expenses that we're seeing now.
And also incentives are also combined and there. So we're obviously having a good year. So the incentive accruals are higher so on a more normalized basis going forward at target and I would assume somewhere between.
The <unk> 90, and $100 million on an annual basis for SG&A.
Okay appreciate that.
And then.
Because you just called out cabinets are responded I guess and the question was about margin expansion.
Yes.
And obviously are there issues of our ceilings that youre seeing and the fenestration business Europe.
North America next.
And next year, obviously, and you talked about glass in Europe, and I understand that but is there.
Something.
In screens and the U S spacers.
You know the extrusion that we should be aware of that as kind of a ceiling of and you. Obviously just had really good margin expansion.
This year.
It's not over.
And I guess.
Is there something that would keep this year's margin from not going higher in North America fenestration structurally debt U.
And would want to call out or talk about the different businesses because it seems like the demand is and there you should still be getting.
Favorable incrementals as well yes.
And that's definitely a possibility the.
The transparency and this business as you know is pretty limited.
And in an inflationary environment right now.
And if and when that subsides or trends of the other way and we should benefit from a margin perspective as long as volume stay up because of our operating leverage as we have demonstrated is pretty good and we would expect that to continue and.
And we think the opportunities for continued volume with the product lines that we have.
When you Ken as you know with our spacer business.
Hi, efficient as we continue.
To identify ways to.
And improve energy efficiency throughout our whole nation U S tends to be significantly behind Europe.
Yes, we think that there is also growth opportunities just on the product line and so because of <unk>.
Where we think that the U S market will ultimately go in terms of pushing energy efficient products.
The year I understood and I guess.
Yeah.
Pricing is kind of funny right, you've got the index and is running through the extrusion staffing and the other businesses cabinets.
Almost hardwood.
So <unk>.
Given those lags I guess it is it reasonable to assume huge your business and total.
Could grow 20% organic incrementals.
Except for the fact that when you get price right if the coverage cost its actually margin dilutive.
Is there anything besides that component because it seems like your prices the cost inflations covered on let's say a 2 quarter of forward basis right.
Items is what it is because that means we're entering FY 'twenty 2 with your price is covered and volume set to go up and so.
Of that.
The price at a little margin headwind is that really the only thing that causes you guys issues. When you think about where the next year could go because youre leverages low you're obviously expanding your business, which is great to have.
Capital deployment opportunities.
Just seems like they did and it's a pretty constructive base that youre exiting the year and if you've covered your call.
I think we've been.
And by design, we have been very.
And methodical in terms of staying on our roadmap.
And for the last 2 to 3 years and.
We've put into place the operational improvements.
We've focused on trying to.
AD technology and capacity in certain areas and we'll continue to do that I think right now inflation.
Is the biggest issue that were of the headwind that we are fighting and it's the 1 thing of the challenged without that piece.
Although we still have opportunities and there's a lot of projects award and we feel we're positioned fairly well and the we've done a good job of preparing our balance sheet for that point and capitalizing on any opportunity and it does come on line. So.
And the inflation has been a it's tough for us and everyone else to deal with because of consume so much energy, but I think.
What we've done over the course of the last couple of years I think has positioned us extremely loan and.
We're very.
We're very excited about the opportunities that lie ahead of us.
Understood. Thank you very much gentlemen.
Thank you.
Thank you. This does conclude the question and answer session of today's program I'd like to hand, the program back to George Wilson CEO for any further remarks.
We'd like to thank everyone for taking time out and joining us today and we look forward to providing you all with an update on our next earnings call in early September. Thank you.
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Thank you, ladies and gentlemen for your participation in today's conference. This does conclude the program you may now disconnect good day.
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And the fourth quarter.
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