Brian Schopfer
Analyst · Citigroup. Please go ahead
Thanks, Tom, and good morning everyone. To kick off my commentary, I will ask you to please turn to slide six to take a deeper dive into our fourth quarter and full year results. Looking at the fourth quarter, total company adjusted revenue was up 20.5% and adjusted EBITDA was up 25.9%. Total revenue in the quarter was $217.9 million and organic growth was 19.1%. Adjusted EBITDA totaled $56.4 million in the quarter, with margin expanding 110 basis points to 25.9%. During the fourth quarter, we realized approximately 5% growth from price, offset by inflation and one-time costs associated with accounts receivable reserves, as well as a one-time supply chain reserve relating to circuit boards. Looking at the full year, total company adjusted revenue was $717.8 million, featuring 5.1% reported growth with organic growth of 5.7%. Adjusted EBITDA was down slightly compared to 2021 finishing at $164.7 million with adjusted EBITDA margin contracting 130 basis points compared to 2021 to 22.9%. As a reminder, year-over-year adjusted EBITDA perform -- margin performance was negatively impacted by approximately $12 million of public company costs in 2022 or approximately 170 basis points. This was our last time comping against a period without public company costs. Fourth quarter adjusted free cash flow was $19.5 million, much more representative of the go-forward expectation for the company. Higher interest rates and net working capital requirements continue to be a challenge, but I am encouraged by the progress exiting the year. As a result, we saw leverage reduced to 4.4 times as of December 31st, slightly ahead of what we guided on our third quarter call. Looking forward, our operating teams are very focused on achieving Tom’s leverage target of 4 times or lower by the end of 2023. I’d also like to note that foreign currency exchange dynamics continue to be an important area of focus for Mirion. While we have recently seen positive trends in the euro to U.S. dollar exchange rate, FX headwinds impacted adjusted revenue performance by 5% in the fourth quarter and 4.5% for 2022. As we disclosed in our third quarter call, we have been actively hedging our interest rate exposure through fixed price cross currency hedges on our third-party debt. We have executed to hedges, bringing our total fixed debt to approximately 30%, which we expect to offset approximately $4 million of cash interest on an annualized basis. Before getting into the segment details, I’d like to take a minute on slide seven to reflect on the key variables impacting our topline in 2022. There was no shortage of headwinds in 2022. We had to overcome challenges stemming from the Russia-Ukraine conflict, foreign exchange pressure and record inflation. Our topline was affected by approximately $50 million of headwinds from lost Russian related revenue and negative foreign exchange impacts, totaling approximately 8% of reported revenue growth. We were able to replace $12 million of the lost Russian related volume, supplemented with $6 million of incremental pricing actions, while successfully acquiring and integrating the Collins acquisition. Let’s now take a deeper dive into segment performance. Please turn to slide eight for our Medical segment. Starting with fourth quarter performance, adjusted revenue grew 25.4%, with organic growth of 23.6%, driven by double-digit organic growth from all three end markets. nuclear medicine led the way again this quarter, as integration efforts continue to deliver good results and the team converted more of our backlog into revenue. Medical adjusted EBITDA margin was 33.4% in the quarter, a 90-basis-point expansion compared to the same period last year. For the full year Medical adjusted revenue grew 19.2% with organic growth of 15.2%. Adjusted EBITDA was up 23.3% to $86.8 million. Margin improved by 110 basis points, supported by strong price realization in the integration of Capitec and Biodex. These growth numbers are outstanding and I’d like to commend our medical team on their great work throughout the year. As we look forward Medical’s first half of 2023 will see a more normalized growth trend in line with our long-term algorithm with tougher comps in the back half of the year. Let’s now turn over to slide nine for the Industrial Segment. Adjusted revenue grew by 17.9% for the quarter with organic growth of 16.8%. We set strong but achievable expectations for Industrial in the fourth quarter and I am proud of the effort our team put in to deliver. Performance was principally driven by strong execution. Adjusted EBITDA for the Industrial segment was up almost 22% in the quarter and margin expanded 100 basis points to 30.2%. While I am pleased to report margin expansion, performance was limited by the incurrence of one-offs transitory costs related to increased accounts receivable provisions and one-time supply chain expenses, as I noted earlier. Looking at Industrial full year performance, adjusted revenue was down 2% with organic growth of 0.9%. Revenue performance was principally hindered by foreign exchange headwinds and lost Russian related revenue. A revenue impact of roughly 11% for the year on the Industrial Segment. Adjusted EBITDA was down 5% and margin compressed by 90 basis points from 2021. Margin performance was impacted by volume absorption, product mix and inflation. Additionally, dilution from the Collins acquisition negatively impacted Industrial adjusted EBITDA margin by nearly 40 basis points on its own. Finally, I’d like to walk through the guidance we have issued today. Turning over to slide 10. We are projecting organic growth of 4% to 7% supported by mid-single-digit organic growth from both Medical and Industrial. I’d like to note that Medical is comping a very strong year, and as a result, we are moderating our growth expectations versus what we saw in 2022. Given recent trends in the U.S. dollar to euro exchange rate, we are anticipating FX to positively impact topline growth by about 0.5%. Net inorganic revenue impact -- the net in organic revenue impact from Collins and Biodex is expected to be 1.5%. To provide a quick update on the physical medicine divestiture from our Biodex business, originally announced in November, we expect the deal to close during the first quarter of 2023. As a reminder, we purchased Biodex and Capitec for a combined $41 million, representing approximately $60 million of revenue and less than $2 million of adjusted EBITDA at deal closure. Today, the combined business post synergy multiple is below 2 times. It is accretive to Mirion’s consolidated adjusted EBITDA margin. The physical medicine component of Biodex is non-core to our category leadership in this segment. For 2023, we are expecting adjusted EBITDA between $172 million and $182 million with margin -- with margins likely remaining unchanged to 2022 at the mid-point of guidance. Pricing, cost inflation are estimated to be neutral for the year. Thinking through the sequence of the year, we expect more modest performance in the first half as we work through product and customer mix headwinds, mainly stemming from our sensing business within the Industrial Segment. We anticipate these mixed pressures to ease as we get into the second half of the year with adjusted EBITDA margin improving sequentially. I’d also like to note the dynamics coming from our inorganic contributions. We expect the Biodex divestiture to be accretive to margins, but the Collins acquisition more than offsetting these benefits. As a result, we project net inorganic impact to our adjusted EBITDA margin of approximately negative 50 basis points in 2023. Saying this differently, we would expect 50 basis points of better margin rates than what the mid-point suggests had we not done both of these deals. We are anticipating adjusted EPS of $0.28 to $0.34 and adjusted free cash flow of $50 million to $70 million, with an expectation of positive contribution from net working capital for the year. To help with modeling considerations, we are utilizing our share count as of December 31, 2022 to calculate EPS. We expect our effective tax rate to be between 25% to 27% and are assuming a U.S. dollar to euro exchange rate of 1.07. Note that there is an additional guidance slide in the appendix of our presentation, laying these out, as well as a bridge around our revenue assumptions. With that, I will pass the call back to Tom to close things out.