The AZEK Company Inc. (NYSE:AZEK) Q4 2022 Earnings Call Transcript

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Peter Clifford: Yeah, high-level numbers. I mean obviously, you can do the math on the volume and the under-utilization. I think in that bucket for people and overhead inflation, look, you should think about $8 million of energy inflation and about $5 million of property insurance. And then on the all-other, you’re really dealing with the update and the change in process on inventory, coupled with the change in SG&A.

Jesse Singh: Yeah, I think Ketan — I think the other key component here, and it starts to get kind of — I think we’ll probably add a little bit where we started. You can start to see why we feel confident about our ability to manage as we move into the back half of the year. I — your comments related to some of the positives that we have are all there. I think the challenge we have with those positive, not challenge, there is a timing component, right. So if you think about the introduction of recycle and you think about the opportunity we have with meaningful a stabilization in our raw material pricing that we talked about, there’s a 4.5 month lag on those components, which is why we’re talking about sometime during Q2 as we move into Q3, you start to see the profile of the business to reflect some of these components that you’re talking about.

So the way — the component, I would add on top of that is, there’s a timing component where you’ve got some components that have a 4.5 month delay.

Ketan Mamtora: Got it. That’s helpful. And then can you talk a little bit about the trends that you’re seeing on the exteriors business?

Jesse Singh: Yeah, the exterior side of the business, it has been steady, consistent with what we’ve described, which is modestly negative unit volume and positive dollar, as we’ve gone through. We’ve continued to launch new products. We continue to drive penetration, which has hit of a buffer against modest changes in the market. I think on the exteriors business, when we talk about our exposure to new construction, the exteriors business has some exposure to new construction and so as we extrapolate out, once again we feel really good about our ability to continue to drive market penetration and wood conversion and new products between our Versatex and our AZEK business there. But as new housing starts start to slow down, a portion of that business will be impacted and so if there is a slowdown on exteriors, we would probably expect to see it sometime as we move through the second and third quarter.

Ketan Mamtora: Got it. That’s helpful. I’ll turn it over.

Operator: This concludes our Q&A session for today. I now would like to turn the call back to Jesse Singh.

Jesse Singh: Thank you all once again for taking the time this evening to have a dialog with us. We look forward to both the follow up questions and sessions and also to chatting with you again early next year. Thanks and have a great evening.

Operator: That concludes today’s conference call. Thank you for attending. You may now disconnect.

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