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Dana Incorporated (DAN)

Q1 2016 Earnings Call· Thu, Apr 21, 2016

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Operator

Operator

Good morning and welcome to Dana Holding Corporation's First Quarter 2016 Financial Webcast and Conference Call. My name is Brent, and I will be your conference facilitator. Please be advised that our meeting today, both the speakers' remarks and Q&A session will be recorded for replay purposes. There will be a question-and-answer period after the speakers' remarks, and we will take questions from the telephone only. [Operator Instructions] At this time, I would like to begin the presentation by turning the call over to Dana's Director of Investor Relations, Craig Barber. Please go ahead, Mr. Barber.

Craig Barber

Analyst

Thanks Brent. And thank you to everyone on the call for joining us today for Dana’s first quarter 2016 earnings call. Copies of our press release and presentation have been posted on Dana's Investor website. Today's call is being recorded, and the supporting materials are the property of Dana Holding Corporation. They may not be recorded, copied or rebroadcast without our written consent. Today's call will include a Q&A session. In order to allow as many questions as possible, please keep your questions brief. Today's presentation includes forward-looking statements about our expectations for Dana's future performance. Actual results could differ from those suggested by our comments today. Additional information about the factors that could affect future results are summarized in our Safe Harbor statement. These risk factors are also detailed in our public filings, including our reports with the SEC. Presenting this morning is Jim Kamsickas, President and Chief Executive Officer; Jonathan Collins, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer; and joining us for Q&A is Rod Filcek, Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer. With that I'd like to turn the call over to Jim. James Kamsickas Thank you, Craig. Good morning everyone, thank you for joining us. We are pleased to report that we are off to the good start this year. Our focus on customer satisfaction and technology is coming through in a big way this year with new business wins. In our calls earlier this year we talked about a various significant win with one of our global customers and in a few minutes I will update you on two very important programs one of which is significant new business win which we have received since our last call in February. On the financial front for the first quarter sales were $1.45 billion in the quarter,…

Jonathan Collins

Analyst

Thank you, Jim. I am very excited to be a part of the Dana team. The company has an excellent longstanding reputation and a very bright future. Please turn with me to slide 9 for an overview of the first quarter results. The first quarter sales of $1.45 billion were down $159 million or 10% from the same period in 2015 half of the decline is attributable to foreign exchange as the US dollar continue to appreciate against other foreign currencies. Lower demand in the commercial vehicle and off-highway segments more than account for the balance of the decline as we experienced volume growth in the light vehicle and power technologies segments. Adjusted EBITDA for the quarter was $148 million, $28 million lower than last year yielding 10.2% adjusted EBITDA margin. While slightly below last year this presents solid improvement over the fourth quarter and is in line with our expectation. Net income was $45 million, $18 million lower than the first quarter last year as the adjusted EBITDA decline was partially offset by lower tax expense and income from non controlling interests. Capital expenditures were $71 million slightly higher than last year as we increased our investment to support new program launches and deliver our growing backlog. Free cash flow for the quarter was the use of $98 million, while the first use of cash it was a bit higher than last year due to lower earnings, higher cash taxes and increased capital spending partially offset by lower working capital requirements. Slide ten provides a more detailed look at the consolidated sales and adjusted EBITDA changes versus the prior year. As you can see on the left side of the page, sales declined 5% on a constant currency basis as the growth in the light vehicle and power technologies…

Operator

Operator

Thank you. [Operator Instructions] Your first question comes from the line of Brian Johnson with Barclays. Please go ahead.

Brian Johnson

Analyst

Yes. Good morning. A couple of questions. One can you give us some color on the capital spending, we certainly appreciate the new business wins but there seem to be out in 2018 what’s the capital going forward this year?

Jonathan Collins

Analyst

Yes, so Brian this is Jonathan. In order to be prepared for those programs we are going to have to start to make investment on some of the longer lean items so primarily machinery and equipment that we have to kick off and get moving to be able to meet the demand of the program so the incremental amount that we have included is what we have to spend in 2016 to be able to meet the production requirements for the customers.

Brian Johnson

Analyst

Okay. Even though they don't launch for a year or two?

Jonathan Collins

Analyst

That's correct. Yes. So there is a meaningful lag between when they have the initiative the investment and when we will start production.

Brian Johnson

Analyst

Okay. Secondly can you give us some more color around the initiative to make medium duty capacity in light vehicle capacity tangible, couple of things what percentage of the capacity is tangible, are there operational or capital cost as you reflect back and then just more mechanically how are you going to kind of allocate transfer pricing or cost to allocation so we think about the two divisions.

James Kamsickas

Analyst

Good morning Brian. This is Jim. Nice to hear your voice and talk to you again. Relative to moving around if you want to call it that the production, just one of the key initiatives where we strike for and continue to work in that direction our making our capacity between our light vehicle group and our commercial vehicle group more flexible the vehicle to support one to another so to answer your question specifically yes we are able to do that particularly on the program that Jonathan referred to earlier today.

Jonathan Collins

Analyst

Yes, and then Brian this is Jonathan your question relating to the cost allocation we are actually moving a business from a CV facility to light vehicle facility so the cost are attribution of those is pretty straight forward.

Brian Johnson

Analyst

Okay. So actually both the cost from the revenue will be over in CV?

James Kamsickas

Analyst

You got it which is why you will see a little bit of other way, yes it's going from CV to LV excuse me.

Brian Johnson

Analyst

Okay. Great. It’s going to be manufacturing light vehicle platforms not medium vehicle platforms?

James Kamsickas

Analyst

Yes, Brian in our business there is a tweaner areas sometimes depending on customer demand and in product requirements etc. sometime we will find that our products need to skew over into our commercial vehicle group and sometimes we will have to skew over in light vehicle this stuff that we are talking about today are skewing from commercial to light. No loss of business actually incremental business but it does fall from CV to LV.

Brian Johnson

Analyst

Okay. Thank you.

Operator

Operator

Your next question comes from the line of Patrick Nolan with Deutsche Bank. Please go ahead.

Patrick Nolan

Analyst · Deutsche Bank. Please go ahead.

Good morning everyone.

James Kamsickas

Analyst · Deutsche Bank. Please go ahead.

Hi Patrick. Morning.

Patrick Nolan

Analyst · Deutsche Bank. Please go ahead.

Two questions. Just wanted to discuss the dynamics of the new business falling through at better margins in the light vehicle business is that going to be similar trend we are going to see over the next couple of years is that the bigger part of your backlog and I mean does that mean we that will be your meaningful improvement on light vehicle drive line business for the next couple of years?

James Kamsickas

Analyst · Deutsche Bank. Please go ahead.

The big picture entry to that one Patrick, good morning again, is that we have some pretty dated older programs that roll on and roll out you get that very, very well that they are naturally there is going to be some improvement it falls in line with what our return and our investment criteria to be able to pay for the investment but punch line to it is they will be improve for all the factors I just mentioned.

Patrick Nolan

Analyst · Deutsche Bank. Please go ahead.

And given the new business wins could you maybe give us a little bit of clarity of how you see that CapEx find turning for the next couple of years?

Jonathan Collins

Analyst · Deutsche Bank. Please go ahead.

Yes, Patrick this is Jonathan given the success that we are having in winning the new business in our growing backlog we think that it's likely that over the next few years we will see a capital spending level in line with what we are projecting for this year which is slightly elevated over what you have seen in last few years so again we think it's a directly attributable to the success we are having in the market.

Patrick Nolan

Analyst · Deutsche Bank. Please go ahead.

Okay back in the queue. Thanks guys.

Operator

Operator

Your next question comes from the line of [Joe Speck] with RBC Capital Market. Please go ahead.

Unidentified Analyst

Analyst

Hi good morning everyone. Thanks for taking question. Speaking with the major new business ones I guess I just wanted to first get some color on the Wrangler because that that's the platform you already on so is there a CPV uptake on that or it's just sort of should we think that more as a continuation of business you already won, get volume up as it changes over?

James Kamsickas

Analyst

Yeas, good morning again Joe. Good question. All good questions. Big picture from where we were at what we kind of projected is our volume assumptions back when we announced in I guess Q3 last year to where we are at today. It's a volume pick up is what we are ultimately getting to. So hopefully that answers your question.

Unidentified Analyst

Analyst

Okay. And then on the I guess still unnamed when I mean, can you talk a little bit about that process was is it something you went after it depends on were you approached by the customer and I guess just given the life of that program, I am a little bit surprised that sort of I think it’s about 1.5 is a life time number I guess some little surprised that this isn't little bit higher so maybe some of the volume assumption associated with that?

James Kamsickas

Analyst

Again, I do want to reinforce you Joe that that's the revenue for both of the two announcements that you want to call that comment one. I can tell you from generally speaking what we saw products for against volume, it's a very good normal program. Good normal program. So it's not a small program by any stretch or the imagination into I guess to your question on that about how do we go about it if that's specifically what it was it's really the blocking and tackling what I told you from day one since I came on we will continue to be laser focused on customer satisfaction and making sure that we are providing that technology to separate ourselves for these key wins and this obviously is a very instrumental and this is a big one for us.

Unidentified Analyst

Analyst

Okay. And then last question just with relation to your full year guidance which was I guess good to see obviously at least versus where the street was, the quarter was a little bit light so can you just help us a little bit with some of the cadence especially since you have a big program of the Super View which is going to explain some downtime here in second and third quarter so should we be thinking more of the growth is fourth quarter related versus over the next two?

Jonathan Collins

Analyst

Joe this is Jonathan. I have a couple of things. In the light vehicle segment it is the fact that we have new business coming out in the improved margins as we just mentioned a moment ago and you will see that program referring to launching about midyear but it's also the fact that you remember you follow this business we sometimes have different timing associated with commercial recoveries. And as it turns out the commercial recoveries that we had in the first quarter relative to what we expect for the balance of the year will be different so that - those are the real main drivers of the improvement in the margin within light vehicle between the first quarter and the balance of the year. And then just the second thing I would note when you look at power technologies we mentioned the fact that we started to see little bit of inefficiencies as we ramped up production very quickly but we made progress on confirming our cost more towards standard and becoming more efficient and that's going to play out in the balance for the year as well. So when you look at each of the segments those are the two items that drive most of the improvement in the margin and the balance for the year.

Unidentified Analyst

Analyst

Great, that's helpful. Thanks.

Operator

Operator

Your next question comes from the line of Colin Langan with UBS. Please go ahead.

Colin Langan

Analyst · UBS. Please go ahead.

Great thanks for taking my question just a follow-up on your comment on power technologies I mean what’s the driver of the $6 million of negative performance did you had I am trying to understand the margin on higher sale what was the exact issue for the quarter?

Jonathan Collins

Analyst · UBS. Please go ahead.

Yes, to a lesser extent we experienced incremental engineering investment in the quarter the larger issue we saw though was performance related dealing with material conversion labor and those types of issues as we ramped up to a higher production level. So often times it jumps off pretty quickly it can catch us a little bit off guard well little bit inefficient but the reality is as I mentioned we have taken steps and made improvements to get those costs in line and that's what you will see a big driver of the improvement in the balance of the year and then also we had a little bit of timing on recovery. You remember in that segment of the business we have recovery for material cost that can be somewhat on a lag and also depressed first quarter results as well.

Colin Langan

Analyst · UBS. Please go ahead.

Any color on in commercial vehicle how your share with [ProQuest] has been trending I mean it was an issue in Q1 is that stable now at this point or and at what point would you start anniversary and sort of the share issue?

James Kamsickas

Analyst · UBS. Please go ahead.

Good morning Colin, thank you for the questions. It's we have been running it in a pretty solid trajectory obviously there is the impact to deal overall market that’s out there but it all relates to share we are about where we had been to get to a clear clean if everything stayed the same when would that level itself you are talking about Q4 this year.

Colin Langan

Analyst · UBS. Please go ahead.

Okay. And just lastly I mean looking at commercial vehicle decremented is actually pretty low on the lower volume so is that how we should think about you could actually manage pretty what is driving sort of strong performance in the margin?

Jonathan Collins

Analyst · UBS. Please go ahead.

Colin, this is Jonathan certainly the management of the cost structure is part of that equation but you also remember in the past we had experienced some higher cost associated with performance issues last year which we made improvement on which has helped to improve the situation and make our ability to flex cost even greater. So combination normal operating and dealing with some of the anomalies issues from last year.

Colin Langan

Analyst · UBS. Please go ahead.

Okay. Thank you very much.

Operator

Operator

Your next question comes from the line of Justin Long with Stephens. Please go ahead.

Unidentified Analyst

Analyst · Stephens. Please go ahead.

Hi, good morning guys. This is actually Brian calling on the line for Justin. So first question looking at your end market expectations for this year in kind of what’s embedded within your guidance which area is do you guys see the best chance for upside and then also where do you see the most risk based on how things progress for this year.

James Kamsickas

Analyst · Stephens. Please go ahead.

Good morning Brian. Thanks for the questions. I guess if I frame those terms I would say risk might be a bit of a strong word but for lack of better word I will use that as well that we are cautious on the I will we are cautious on the highway side of the business agriculture remains depressed, I am talking on a global I am not going to get these segments too much in construction I would say it's flat but stable so that one I would say it's too early in the year to tell I think I said I know I said in my comments just at the event which is just the biggest event in construction industry last week so certainly a lot of Intel or perspective from lot of people but I think everybody is just cautious but still it's too early to tell beyond the risk side and I think on the opportunity side big picture I think everybody still pretty bullish particularly in the truck market where we play so much in light vehicle so hopefully that answers your question.

Unidentified Analyst

Analyst · Stephens. Please go ahead.

Yes absolutely. That's helpful. Thank you and then secondly just on CapEx you guys have given the new target $320 billion to $340 billion if you stress test the model and assume that demand weakens more than your current expectations could you speak to your ability to take that CapEx number lower?

Jonathan Collins

Analyst · Stephens. Please go ahead.

Hey Brian this is Jonathan. There is certainly some flexibility there not only on the capital spending side but also on our operating expenditures given where the market goes but in many cases we need to make sure that we deliver for our customers and we follow their productions schedule but we certainly have some control over the timing but we could influence that.

Unidentified Analyst

Analyst · Stephens. Please go ahead.

Okay great. Thanks for taking my questions.

Jonathan Collins

Analyst · Stephens. Please go ahead.

Sure.

Operator

Operator

Your next question comes from the line of Brian Sponheimer with Gabelli & Company. Please go ahead.

Brian Sponheimer

Analyst · Gabelli & Company. Please go ahead.

Hi, good morning. Welcome Jonathan.

Jonathan Collins

Analyst · Gabelli & Company. Please go ahead.

Thank you.

Brian Sponheimer

Analyst · Gabelli & Company. Please go ahead.

Yes, I guess just one most of my questions have been answered but just you mentioned some timing of recoveries in light vehicle in the first quarter anyway you can quantify that?

Jonathan Collins

Analyst · Gabelli & Company. Please go ahead.

In terms of sequentially it was noticeable from the end of last year. It will be noticeable but we have not given the specifics in the balance of the year but it will have a noticeable impact on the margin profile.

Brian Sponheimer

Analyst · Gabelli & Company. Please go ahead.

Okay. And one thing I have asked few times over the last year and half or so with regarding the super duty change over and expected downtime and I mean can you measure kind of looking at this large platform going to aluminum what’s the confidence level that you are not going to see a major disruption in your own light vehicle business as you kind of head down the path this year that change over.

James Kamsickas

Analyst · Gabelli & Company. Please go ahead.

Thank you Brian. Nice talking to you again. I am bullish. I am and I tell you otherwise you know me by now I am bullish that falls in pretty good shape as it relates to launch date. They put a lot of focus energy resources and other into their ability to launch over the last two or three years we have seen the evolution coming off of some fusion just talking with North America fusion platforms was the challenge they would be the first one to say it too two three years ago or two much better success as it relates to the up series, up 150 -- with a couple of snaps here and there okay and whatever not the two substantial but they know a lot of things right things I think to put themselves in the good position as it relates to our releases you understand that well in terms of what we are seeing. They are still in line with our forecast and I feel pretty confident I mean any manufacturing company would be the first one to say this you never know that something can come up and bite you, but they certainly have pulled a lot of their activities, AP, QP activities and focus on their launches. So I feel pretty good about it.

Brian Sponheimer

Analyst · Gabelli & Company. Please go ahead.

Alright. Great and with the increase CapEx any changes on capital to shareholders given the need to effectively be there for your customers over the course of next several years?

Jonathan Collins

Analyst · Gabelli & Company. Please go ahead.

Yes, not necessarily Brian we still have the ability of more than sufficient liquidity to be able to continue our share repurchase programs so in the balance of the year we will continue to evaluate the market and continue to execute on that opportunistically.

Brian Sponheimer

Analyst · Gabelli & Company. Please go ahead.

Alright. Thank you.

James Kamsickas

Analyst · Gabelli & Company. Please go ahead.

Thanks Brian.

Operator

Operator

Your next question comes from the line of Christopher Van Horn with FBR & Company, please go ahead.

Christopher Van Horn

Analyst · FBR & Company, please go ahead.

Good morning guys. Thanks for taking my question. Could you highlight the new business wins as you talked about in commercial and in light vehicle and even maybe off-highway could you give us a sense of the mix of what were kind of conquest wins versus maybe the OEM moving from doing it themselves to going outside and then on the Jeep wrangler I know you were incumbent there but was there was that a competitive bid or was that just kind of you guys rebidding on the existing contract?

James Kamsickas

Analyst · FBR & Company, please go ahead.

Let me take that you have got a lot of -- Chris or Christopher?

Christopher Van Horn

Analyst · FBR & Company, please go ahead.

Chris is fine thanks.

James Kamsickas

Analyst · FBR & Company, please go ahead.

Okay Chris, thanks for the questions. I will try to get all these make sure you tell me if I miss one here. So let’s go to the last one first. On the wrangler I would tell you that nothing to free passing any of our businesses and so certainly the customers could have chosen to do different things I don't know if they had any dialog with any of our competitors but I know we are in a good position to take on the incremental volumes so I would call it more fleet towards the volume side of that to answer that question that we fill online. The as it relates to your CV questions as it relates to the conquest -- moving to supplier it's a combination of all of the above when you look at the I announced three different words one being with the Spartan no wonder I think falls into more it could be often, I am pretty sure that it falls on the new platforms in general. The two that I mentioned down in Brazil one was conquest one was caped at supply moving out into the base which of course is Dana.

Christopher Van Horn

Analyst · FBR & Company, please go ahead.

Got it. Got it and then one last one as you look kind of the portfolio is there anything that looks interesting from a possible divestiture standpoint or a do you see you think you talked about in the past gaps that could be filled from possible acquisition is that still on the radar for you or just given the CapEx ramp maybe that's on pause for a little while?

James Kamsickas

Analyst · FBR & Company, please go ahead.

Again thanks Chris. Divestitures I don't see anything in there I very much like the way Dana fits together I hope the risk not be redundant anything I said in the past we are not talking about a company that's trying to putting hole bumpers with seats with tiers with whatever. We are very much linear from the engine back to the rear axle and everything in between and we see lot of internal benefits with our customers because of that and of course all of our drive lines stuff goes cost to the four platforms. So I feel very good about that at least for today. Anything is possible in terms of change but nothing -- to do list on that one. As it relates to the inorganic side when you go there I think anybody work themselves, running a company has to see that as one of the levers of opportunity all depending on what does strategically the price point of what you maybe so we keep them on the radar like any good sophisticated company would.

Christopher Van Horn

Analyst · FBR & Company, please go ahead.

Got it. Thanks again for taking my call.

James Kamsickas

Analyst · FBR & Company, please go ahead.

Thanks Chris.

Operator

Operator

Your next question comes from the line of Irina Hodakovsky with KeyBanc. Please go ahead.

Irina Hodakovsky

Analyst · KeyBanc. Please go ahead.

Good morning Jim, Jonathan, Rod and Craig.

James Kamsickas

Analyst · KeyBanc. Please go ahead.

Hi Brad how are you.

Irina Hodakovsky

Analyst · KeyBanc. Please go ahead.

Good. Why don’t you talk a little bit about the $1.5 billion in new business first question would simply be how do we can you quantify the impact on the 2018 backlog?

Jonathan Collins

Analyst · KeyBanc. Please go ahead.

Yes, the impact on 2018 backlog is quite small most of the volumes for these program ramp up in 2019 and beyond so that's where you start to see the impact which is why we referenced the total program volumes rather than the backlog period that we are currently measuring.

Irina Hodakovsky

Analyst · KeyBanc. Please go ahead.

Fair enough and then specifically with reference to the new trucks and utility program can you quantify the annual revenue impact?

James Kamsickas

Analyst · KeyBanc. Please go ahead.

We haven't provided that but what I can tell you is that the program by sales that make up the majority of what we announced today for that program.

Irina Hodakovsky

Analyst · KeyBanc. Please go ahead.

Got it and is that program steel or aluminum by chance?

James Kamsickas

Analyst · KeyBanc. Please go ahead.

Yes, so we are not sure we can disclose it at this point.

Irina Hodakovsky

Analyst · KeyBanc. Please go ahead.

Fair enough and then I presume it seems like a very large program I presume it's as is the case with most of the programs that rolling on it at this point in time I assume that it's higher margin in your current core related vehicle business is that a fair assessment or is it more likely to be in line with your current core margin structure?

James Kamsickas

Analyst · KeyBanc. Please go ahead.

Yes, we have not commented on the margin profile of the business well out into the future.

Irina Hodakovsky

Analyst · KeyBanc. Please go ahead.

Fair enough. Thank you very much gentlemen.

James Kamsickas

Analyst · KeyBanc. Please go ahead.

Okay. I think that's it for the presentation and question and comments so thank you everyone for joining the call. Just a quick summary sort of to the, at least the window when I came here almost nine months now one of the key things many of us have talked about is about we need to get the top-line headed in the right direction to me that's always a result of the actions the actions or course our customers satisfaction and being the supplier of the choice and certainly I am very proud of the Dana team for putting us in that position to be able and also things we announced today. Certainly staying the path and doing the right thing so I hope that comes through loud and clear. But, we are still very comfortable with where we are at for the year thank you for your attendance today.

Operator

Operator

Thank you that concludes today's conference call, you may now disconnect.