Austin Singleton
Analyst · KeyBanc Capital Markets. Please go ahead.
Yeah. I don’t really think health is the right word. I think it’s motivation. And what we’ve seen -- what we saw at the very beginning of COVID was you had a lot of mature dealers out there that were like, oh boy, what is this leading to? I’m not going to go through another 2008, 2009, something like that. And I think what ends up happening, or I say this a lot, when we started this whole thing, me and Anthony, it was the exit strategy. What’s the exit strategy for the premier dealers in the country that are in their, 60 years old to 64 years old? Well, that was 10 years ago. And so what you end up looking at or what I think we’ll end up seeing and we saw a couple of these already this year, is you’re going to have some more mature dealers that, from maybe an age perspective, they -- regardless of what the number is, they’re going to be like, all right, I’m just not going to fight through this again. I’ll just take my chips off the table and they won’t be as many as I could have gotten during the middle of COVID or in 2017 or 2018 or something, whatever. And they’re just going to say, okay, now’s the time. And it’s not health as much as just tightness and having to really work through and survive a winter versus the last three years have been pretty simple through the winter. I’m not really worried about the health of the industry as a whole or as a majority, because, again, I talk to Wells all the time and they’re very comfortable with where inventory is, the trend, where inventory is heading and I think we’re all in really good shape to set up for 2025, and I think that’s what’s kind of a little bit of excitement for us is that, this quarter wasn’t good. The quarter we’re in right now is probably going to be flat, slightly down, slightly up. It’s not going to be a game buster. And probably the Q1, going in through the winter is a tougher quarter for us now that it’s gone back to more seasonality. But by the time we roll into boat show season next year, inventory will be in the right spot. So we expect to see some sort of margin uptick on new boats and then there’s a bunch of other green shoots that we talked about in the script. It kind of has us really looking forward and thinking 2025 is going to be a little bit of a rebound year.