Regal Rexnord Corporation (NYSE:RRX) Q1 2023 Earnings Call Transcript

Jeff Hammond: Congrats on all those done. Just on PES and the destocking, I mean, it seemed more stark than what we had in our models, I think, you said in line. I think 2Q typically is seasonally stronger, but you have it still muted. Just trying to understand kind of what you are building in for additional destock? And then just the margin cadence and really or activity — your revenue cadence for this business as you look into the second half?

Louis Pinkham: Yeah. So, Jeff, from a destock perspective, we definitely — well, first of all, for Q1, we think Q1 hit exactly where we expected from a sales perspective for PES. When you think about the overall segment, it really — it will end exactly with our guidance that we had given at the end of Q4. Now specific to what our view is on Q2 and going forward, we still believe there’s destock pressure. We think we are probably in the sixth or seventh inning. We also believe there’s a bit more caution than a couple of years ago in the consumer space and so some underlying demand moderation. You certainly probably have read the — our HVAC OEM customers saying down high-single digits for the year. We are forecasting, because we area component supplier in, we are forecasting more low-teens and so really very much aligned. We expect that Q3 will be slightly better than Q2 and that Q4 will return to orders growth.

Rob Rehard: Let me just add on, if I could, Jeff, for you, just a little bit on your question about margin performance as we move forward. We provided the second quarter look by segment. But let me give you a sense of where we see full year rate. So how we see by segment, each of the segments are performing and where we expect their full year rate to land based on our current guidance. So I will just give you the four segments here. At the AMC, we expect them to be somewhere in the low 20s. So certainly a bit ahead of the second quarter expectations with sequential progression as we move through the year. For IPS, we are thinking mid-20s, again, ahead of second quarter expectations that we laid out with nice progression. PES, which is specific to your question, high-teens for the year with strong sequential progression throughout the year, but more weighted towards the fourth quarter.

And then industrial, low-double digits, again, with nice sequential progression. So, hopefully, that gives you a good sense of the margins that we are expecting as we move through the year.

Jeff Hammond: Rob, that’s very helpful. Just on Altra, I think, they reported their 4Q that was kind of in line with how we were modeling. I think you said 1Q in line. Can you just talk about any puts and takes you are seeing in their businesses, anything acting better or worse? And then just as you look at the accretion, what are you baking in for synergies for that first nine months? I know public company costs kind of come out right away? Thanks.

Louis Pinkham: Yeah. So let me touch on Altra first overall. We couldn’t be more excited. As we closed, as we get to know the teams even more culturally a great fit we feel really good at this point. As you know, we — our integration teams worked together from both the Altra side and the Regal Rexnord side for a few months, getting ready for close. We leverage the playbook from our PMC merger that went so well and we hit the ground running on day one. We are already finding ways early on, on how to collaborate and feel really excited as I said in my prepared remarks. We are not — we are really excited about the $160 million of cost saves. We are more excited about the cross-marketing opportunities between the business and feel that, that’s going to accelerate.