Matthew Trerotola
Analyst · Baird. Your line is open
Thanks, Chris. Welcome, everyone. And thanks for joining us for our first earnings call as a MedTech company. We completed the separation of Colfax on April 4, by spinning off our terrific industrial business ESAB into a standalone company, and we renamed our company Enovis, a MedTech innovator with the vision and capabilities to create better outcomes for patients. A great symbol of our new beginning with a ceremonial ringing of the bell, at the New York Stock Exchange with many of our senior leaders. As I visit with our associates around the world, it's incredible how much positive energy has been unlocked through this relaunch of our company. We're really excited about the robust growth prospects we have at Enovis both organic and inorganic. We're confident in achieving our 2024 goals of sustainable high single-digit organic revenue growth, 20% adjusted EBITDA margins and over $2 billion in annual sales. We will be compounding value for our shareholders from growth, margins and acquisitions, all underpinned by our Enovis Growth Excellence business system known as EGX. Our Journey to 2024 includes making significant progress in 2022. And on Slide 4, we share some of our key 2022 strategic priorities. We're a growth company. And you've seen our success over the past few years, strengthening our operating, innovation and commercial engines. The result has been faster growth in our markets, and we expect to continue to outpace the competition this year. Over the past 18 months, we improved our company by acquiring businesses that are accelerating our growth, and the integration of these businesses is on track to deliver the expected results. And we have the financial capacity to support more strategic growth in 2022 and beyond. We're using EGX to support top line and bottom line growth. Through continuous improvement of our operations, we can better serve the customer while improving margins even during the current inflationary environment. The foundation of our success is our associates and I want to thank them for their contributions to Q1. We will continue to invest in our talented teams to drive long-term sustainable competitive advantage. A moment ago, I mentioned acquisitions and on Slide 5, we take a closer look at our progress and success. Our recent acquisitions include Mathys which substantially expanded our fast growing recon segment outside the U.S. and open up many new opportunities for cross selling our leading products. We also acquired three businesses to create a new fast growing foot and ankle platform. And the LiteCure acquisition expanded our P&R offerings into fast growing treatment modalities and adjacencies. These businesses are achieving our strategic objective of increasing Enovis's growth and margins. They collectively had over 15% pro forma growth in Q1 with gross margins in the mid-60s, both significantly higher than our company averages. Our teams are making great progress on integration. We recently launched our EMPOWR 3D knee and AltiVate Reverse Shoulder product into the Mathys sales channel. We remain on track for the $15 million run rate of cost synergies by the end of 2024. I was in Switzerland last week for the celebration of the Mathys 75th anniversary, I was extremely encouraged by what I saw, great excitement and momentum in the Mathys team and seamless collaboration with their U.S. counterparts. I also got to check in on the globalization of LiteCure by our P&R team. We've added sales resources in key countries and have strong revenue momentum and healthy funnels. In our fast growing foot & ankle platform, we've launched two great new products this year, the DynaNail Helix and the Arsenal ankle fracture plating system to support continued strong growth. These examples clearly show how we use acquisitions to accelerate our strategies and shape our portfolio. We have a full and active pipeline of acquisition candidates and expect to remain active on this key dimension of our strategic value creation model. On Slide 6, we share some first quarter highlights including a strong 21% increase in sales to $375 million, reflecting our acquisition successes and organic growth of 7%. Both of our segments again now grew their respective markets. We also achieved 25% growth in EBITDA and expanded margins, despite the external environment challenges including supply chain and inflationary pressure. Overall, we're off to a strong start in our first year as a new med tech company. Slide 7 summarizes our 72% first quarter recon segment growth including double-digit organic growth. This performance is well above market growth rates and includes 20% growth in U.S. hips and knees and 12% in U.S. extremities. Our knee growth was significantly above market rates as we continue to make strong progress in the ASC segment. Overall, recon was well above 2019 levels, reflecting sustained outperformance through the pandemic and a strong start to 2022. We have a terrific surgical portfolio that is gaining momentum, scale, and strength. I commented earlier on the high pro forma growth and our recent acquisitions. The Mathys and Foot & Ankle businesses in recon are performing very well with double-digit growth this quarter. Sales volumes across our recon businesses improved throughout the quarter as COVID related restrictions subsided. We expect continued improvement and elective surgery volumes throughout the year in most regions that will likely encounter some volatility as governments respond to flare ups. Our prevention and recovery business also demonstrated attractive growth as shown on Page 8. Our 6% organic sales growth was better than underlying market growth and in line with our three year plan to create a consistent mid single-digit grower. Part of our success is due to the 2020 like through acquisition a good example of how our acquisitions can complement and strengthen our businesses. We grew faster in U.S. P&R markets, as some international markets still had COVID pressure. Our market leading bracing business grew 7% in the U.S., including benefits from MotionMD clinic penetration. And our P&R business has a strong pipeline of new product launches over the remainder of 2022, and we expect to convert that into healthy vitality numbers. We're selectively deploying customer price increases to help battle inflationary pressure, and we'll continue to dynamically manage this. With that, I'll now turn it over to Chris who will unpack our financial results a little further. Chris?