Operator
Operator
Good morning. My name is Angie, and I will be your conference operator today. At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to the Q2 2015 Earnings Conference Call. After the speakers' remarks there will be a question-and-answer session. Thank you. I would now like to turn the conference over to David Roberts. Please go ahead, sir. David A. Roberts - Chairman & Chief Executive Officer: Thank you, Angie. Good morning, and welcome to Carlisle's Second Quarter 2015 Conference Call. On the phone with me is our Chief Operating Officer, Chris Koch; our Chief Financial Officer, Steven Ford; our Chief Accounting Officer, Kevin Zdimal; and our Treasurer, Julia Chandler. As we did last quarter, I'll review the company's overall performance, Chris will review our segment performance and Steve will review our balance sheet and cash flow statements. Before I begin reviewing second quarter performance, I ask that you turn to slide two, titled forward-looking statements and the use of non-GAAP financial measures. This slide details the risks associated with investing in Carlisle Company. I strongly urge everyone considering an investment in our company to read these statements in detail along with reviewing the financial reports we filed with the SEC before you decide to purchase shares in Carlisle's stock. As I prepare to review the details of our second quarter performance, let me take a few minutes to highlight a few of our accomplishments. Our two largest businesses, CCM and CIT, had very good results in the second quarter. In fact, very good doesn't describe how well we performed at CCM. With the new plant start-up costs, increased raw material costs and truck shortages that we encountered in 2014 behind us, results at CCM were excellent. We grew organically 10% and achieved a major milestone, as we earned more than $100 million for the first time ever in a quarter. With great earnings, comes great ROIC. Our ROIC at CCM in the quarter was 6.3%, an excellent quarter indeed. At CIT during the second quarter, we overcame start-up costs at our new Nogales, Mexico plant, price reductions within aerospace and lower margins at LHi to grow our revenue 22% and generate margins in the high teens. We also made very good progress in organically growing our medical business more than 9% sequentially. It is interesting to note that two of our top 10 CIT customers are now medical equipment manufacturers. We added Carlisle Fluid Technologies on April 1, and generated $62 million in sales in the quarter. Operationally, we generated strong margins, but with $9.3 million in acquisition costs flowing through CFT's income statement, we eliminated all of our profit and reported a $1 million segment loss in the quarter. This was a one-time event, as we accounted for the purchase costs associated with the acquisition of this business. At Brake & Friction, we saw sales volumes decline in the second quarter. Half of the decline was the result of FX, while the other half was a further softening in our markets. CBF remains in a four-year long recession, as each served market, with the exception of aerospace, continued to exhibit volume declines in the second quarter. Consequently, our earnings were soft due to the volume decline. In the second quarter, FoodService saw a 3% sales decline. With each passing month during the second quarter, however, our sales improved with June growing at 5%. Earnings were down $1.2 million compared to 2014, because in 2014, we sold our European Distribution Center for $1.1 million in the second quarter, making it a tough comparison for the quarter. Despite the economic challenges at CBF and CFS, plus the purchase accounting losses at CFT we grew our overall sales 15% and generated record quarterly earnings of $148 million, which were 21% higher than 2014's earnings. But the quarter wasn't only an earnings and sales story. The second quarter also brought excellent cash flow. We ended the quarter with $229 million of cash on hand. That cash was generated while we continued to invest in plant and equipment; completed the acquisition of Fluid Technologies and returned $66 million in capital to our shareholders through share repurchases and dividends. The second quarter was an outstanding quarter and we fully expect the momentum to carry us through the second half of 2015. Let's now turn to slide three. As you review the information on this slide, you'll see that our net quarterly sales were up 15%. 6% of our growth was organic while 10% came from the acquisitions of Finishing Brands and LHi. As with the first quarter, FX reduced our sales 2%. Very encouraging in the second quarter was that our EBIT was up 21% over 2014, as I said earlier, setting a new record as we generated $148 million in EBIT with margins of 15%. Included in our EBIT was $10.7 million of acquisition costs with $9.3 million occurring at CFT and $1.4 million at Corporate. If we were to pro forma our profitability, eliminating the impact of one-time acquisition costs, margins would have been 16.1% compared to the 14.2% in the second quarter of 2014. EPS was $1.43, 24% higher than 2014. Looking at our sales bridge on slide four, you will see the price was negative 1% mainly due to negative pricing at CIT. Volume and mix were positive 7.2%. The acquisitions of CFT and LHi contributed 10.4% to our growth, and previously mentioned, FX had a negative impact of 2%. Organic sales by business were 10% at Construction Materials, 5% at CIT. We were also negative 7% at Brake & Friction and 3% at FoodService. Slide five details our EBIT bridge. On the slide, you will see the positives on EBIT were price compared to raw material costs, a positive 1.8%. Volume was positive 0.3% and COS improved EBIT by 0.8%. Negative impacts were acquisitions at 1.5% and mix/other, negative 0.6%. During the second quarter, we earned $148 million which is a record for any quarter in our history. While it's enjoyable to talk about record earnings and sales, this seems to be a good place to stop and ask Chris to go through the details of the individual business segments. Chris? D. Christian Koch - President & Chief Operating Officer: Thanks, Dave. Good morning. Please turn to slide six, as we begin our review of the second quarter segment performance. We'll begin with Construction Materials. As Dave stated in his opening remarks, CCM had an excellent quarter. CCM sales grew 9.9% in the second quarter offset 2.1% by negative foreign exchange fluctuations. CCM achieved very strong growth in its commercial insulation applications reflecting demand for increased product thickness tied to building code changes, driving improved energy efficiency. We also had solid sales growth in our roofing membrane categories reflecting an overall healthy market for commercial roofing. Selling price was slightly lower but not very impactful to our results in the second quarter. CCM sales into Europe, while lower due to currency fluctuations, grew 5% on a constant currency basis. CCM's EBIT increased 38% in the second quarter to a record $112 million. EBIT margin was 19.4%, an outstanding 430 basis point improvement. CCM strong margin performance resulted from lower raw material cost, higher sales volume, and savings from the Carlisle Operating System. Our outlook for CCM for the remainder of 2015 remains very positive. Slide seven reviews CIT's performance for the quarter. CIT sales grew 22% in the second quarter, consisting of both 17% increase in sales from the acquisition of LHi and 5% organic sales growth. CIT's aerospace business continues to see solid demand with sales growing 5% in the second quarter. Aerospace sales volume grew 7% on record demand for in-flight entertainment and connectivity applications. This was offset by contractual selling price reductions with a significant OEM that kept the overall growth in the mid-single digits. CIT sales into the military market were up 7%, test and measurement sales were up 13%, sales into the industrial market declined 15%, reflecting continued weakness in the heavy machinery industrial market. As mentioned earlier, the LHi acquisition, which establishes us firmly in the medical technology arena added $28 million or 17% to CIT's net sales. Performance by LHi continues to improve with respect to both sales and EBIT margin as we develop new customers, develop new products and drive factory improvements with the Carlisle Operating System. CIT's EBIT increased 6% in the second quarter. EBIT margin declined 280 basis points due to the dilutive impact of the LHi acquisition and selling price reductions. Despite the impact of these items on margin, CIT achieved an EBIT margin of 18.2% this quarter through its continued success with the Carlisle Operating System and organic sales volume growth. Another highlight for the quarter at CIT was the completion of the new Nogales factory. We incurred about $400,000 in relocation cost during the second quarter, as we completed the startup and prepared the factory for production. We expect to yield benefits from this investment in future quarters, as we add more volume and gain efficiencies from this state-of-the-art factory. On slide eight, we introduce results for our newest segment, Carlisle Fluid Technologies, or CFT. CFT was formed with the recent acquisition of the Finishing Brands business. Finishing Brands is a leading producer of advanced finishing solutions and is a supplier to diverse and attractive end markets, including the transportation industry, with sales to global automotive manufacturers and Tier 1 suppliers. They also sell to automotive refinishing and industrial manufacturing. Over 50% of Fluid Technologies sales are outside the United States. CFT sales in the second quarter were $61.7 million. CFT reported a loss of $1 million before interest and taxes due to the $9.3 million in acquisition-related costs. Excluding these costs, CFT's pro forma EBIT was $8.3 million and EBIT margin was 13.5%. Measuring CFT on a pro forma basis, which provides a comparison as if Carlisle had owned CFT in both the prior year and current period, CFT sales results in the second quarter declined 8%, versus the prior year. The majority of the sales decline was due to a negative 6% currency impact from the stronger U.S. dollar. Additionally, 2% of the lower sales were attributable to year-over-year timing differences on the sale of large automotive finishing system projects. We expect our sales volume in the second half of 2015 will increase as a result of the completion of some of these larger system projects. CFT's pro forma EBIT margin of 13.5% in the current quarter increased 20 basis points from the prior year driven by higher selling prices. We also expect CFT's EBIT margin to improve in 2016, as integration activities take hold and robust Carlisle Operating System implementation continues across the business. Slide nine is a review of CBF's results for the quarter. Sales in the second quarter declined 13%, reflecting a 6% decline due to currency fluctuations and a 7% sales volume decline. Demand in our key markets of agriculture, mining and construction were all down double digits. This is due to the continued weakness in the commodity markets and lower demand in China. We do not expect much of a recovery in these markets from current levels until well into next year. CBF was able however to offset some of the declines through higher sales growth in its aerospace business as well as some of its smaller market segments. As a result of the lower sales volume and the impact of currency fluctuations, CBF's EBIT declined 25% in the quarter and EBIT margin declined 160 basis points. CBF maintained a 9.5% EBIT margin through cost reduction efforts. CBF's margin is expected to decline from current levels in the second half of the year due to product mix as well as fourth quarter seasonality. On slide 10, we review Carlisle FoodService results for the second quarter. Carlisle FoodService sales declined 3% in the quarter. Sales in the FoodService segment declined by 4% primarily on lower international sales. Selling price was also lower due to increased rebates on higher sales to larger volume customers. In healthcare, sales were down 7% largely due to the timing of capital equipment sales that occurred in the prior year. We are expecting higher contribution from capital equipment sales in the second half of the year. And CFS Jan/San sales grew in the second quarter by 9% on increasing conversion at the larger customers. Carlisle FoodService EBIT declined 14% in the second quarter primarily due to the non-recurrence of a $1.1 million gain from the sale of the European distribution facility in the Netherlands that was recorded last year. FoodService did a nice job maintaining a margin of 11.6% in the second quarter despite the lower sales volume, and much of the improvement was driven by the ongoing cost savings initiatives at Carlisle FoodService. This concludes my review of our segment performance in the second quarter. Steve will now review our balance sheet, cash flow and working capital. Steve? Steven J. Ford - CFO, Secretary, Vice President & General Counsel: Thanks, Chris. Good morning. Please turn to slide 11 of the presentation. As Dave and Chris noted, on April 1, we acquired the Finishing Brands business for $590 million using cash on hand. At the end of the quarter and following the Finishing Brands acquisition, we had $229 million of cash on hand. We continue to have all $600 million of availability under our credit facility, leaving us ample liquidity to further pursue our long-term growth objectives and return capital to our shareholders. During the first half of 2015, we returned $66 million to our shareholders in a combination of dividends and share repurchases. We expect to return a similar amount in the second half of 2015. Our balance sheet remains strong. At June 30, our debt-to-capital ratio was 18%. Our net debt-to-EBITDA ratio was 0.9 times and our EBITDA-to-interest ratio was 17.4 times. Turning to slide 12, our free cash flow from operations for the three months ended June 30 was $84.6 million, compared to a negative $20.7 million for the second quarter 2014. This $105 million improvement is attributable to higher earnings, as well as $25 million of lower capital expenditures this year. Turning to slide 13, our average working capital as a percentage of annualized sales for the second quarter 2015 was 18.7%, a 70 basis point increase from the 18% reported for the second quarter 2014, in part reflecting higher inventory to meet higher demand in 2015. And with those remarks, I'll turn the call back over to Dave. David A. Roberts - Chairman & Chief Executive Officer: Thanks, Steve. Angie, can you open the floor for questions, please?