At this time, I'd like to welcome everyone to the Resideo Technologies First Quarter 2020 Earnings Conference Call. Today’s call is being recorded. All participants will be in a listen-only mode until the formal question-and-answer portion of the call. [Operator Instructions] I would now like to introduce Mr. Matt Giordano, Vice President and Treasurer. Mr. Giordano you may now begin.

Good morning. Thank you for joining us for Resideo's earnings conference call covering the first quarter of 2020. On today's call we have Mike Nefkens and Bob Ryder joined by Andy Teich, our Lead Independent Director. You can find a copy of our earnings release and presentation materials on the Investor Relations page at resideo.com. We’d like to remind you that this morning’s presentation contains forward-looking statements. Statements other than historical facts made during this call may constitute forward-looking statements and are not guarantees of future performance or results and involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements as a result of a number of factors, including those described from time to time in Resideo’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The company assumes no obligation to update any such forward-looking statements. Additionally, during our call today, we will refer to certain non-GAAP financial information. A reconciliation of our GAAP to non-GAAP results is included in the company’s earnings press release and accompanying presentation, both of which can be found on the Investor Relations section of our website. I’ll now turn the call over to Mike.

Thanks Matt and good morning everyone. Thank you for joining us for our first quarter 2020 earnings call. I hope that you and your families are well and safe. Today, I'll begin with some brief comments on the recent events and how Resideo is responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Andy will then go into greater detail on our efforts to support our employees and manage our business during COVID-19. He will also provide an update on the execution and results of our financial and operating review initiatives. Bob will then review our financial performance and liquidity before Andy offers some final remarks. We will then open up the call to your questions. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in March, the primary focus of the entire residual management team and board has been safety. We moved swiftly in response to the COVID-19 pandemic with the goal of best safeguarding our employees, professional installers and customers. Protecting their health and well-being will remain a priority for us combined with business continuity. At the same time, like many others, we are rightsizing our cost structure to reflect today's uncertain times and taking steps to strengthening our liquidity and balance sheet. Much of this work began end of last year resulting from our financial and operations review. So we were able to mobilize quickly. COVID-19 has undoubtedly created economic and business disruption around the globe. However, we remain confident in the actions resulting from our finance and operations review and we have adjusted them to sustain our business through the COVID crisis and come out very strong. This foundation is supported by established global market leadership, recognized and trusted brands and unmatched pro-channel loyalty. With that, I'll now turn it over to Andy.

Thanks, Mike and thanks to everyone for joining us today. I'd like to echo Mike's sentiments and hope all of you and your families are doing well. Let's move to Slide #3 and a review of the various actions we've taken in response of the COVID-19 pandemic. Resideo's Products and Solutions were deemed essential by the United States, Canada and certain other international governments which further underscores the criticality of our Products and Solutions in everyday life and we are proud to be able to support the increased duty cycles on our equipment as a result of the stay-at-home directives around the world today. As a result, we were able to maintain a majority of our production and sales activities. To ensure the health and safety of our employees and customers, we moved quickly to deploy enhanced safety protocols while also focusing on ensuring the continuity of our operations. First, with regards to employee and customer safety, we moved quickly to form a COVID-19 task force. This group is composed of a dedicated team of employees who are actively monitoring the situation through daily assessments and driving the appropriate business and safety response measures. These assessments include monitoring governmental directives and state orders and making any subsequent modifications as deemed necessary to ensure the safety of our employees and safe operation of our sites on a daily basis. One primary area of focus has been establishing direct and constant communication with our employees around the world. Companywide advisories, regional and country specific communications, and a dedicated intranet site are among the many initiatives we put in place. We have also modified our manufacturing locations by applying various social distancing measures, factory layout modifications and installing remote elevated temperature monitoring systems. Many employees have been enabled to work from home with…

Thanks Andy. Let's begin with a review of our Q1 performance on Slide #5. During the quarter, consolidated revenues decreased 3% on a GAAP basis and was down 2% in constant currency. Revenue performance was driven by 6% growth at ADI which was more than offset by revenue decreasing 14% at Products and Solutions. The COVID-19 pandemic began to negatively impact sales performance at both our segments towards the end of the quarter. Consolidated adjusted EBITDA was down 22% in the quarter primarily because of lower sales volume and weaker mix at Products and Solutions due in part to COVID-19. As disclosed in the earnings release footnote, we have modified our definition of adjusted EBITDA. Current and prior quarters adjusted EBITDA now excludes both expense and cash payments associated with the Honeywell reimbursement agreement. These items are not related to the underlying Resideo operating performance and future cash payments will not be as consistent as they were in 2019. In our original guidance for 2020, we assumed $35 million cash payment per quarter for total $140 million cash payments for the year which was deducted in arriving at the previous definition of adjusted EBITDA. We also reclassified research and development costs from cost of goods sold to SG&A in the income statement. This change will be reflected in all years presented. We believe this line item reclassifications better reflects the underlying costs and industry practice. During our Q4 earning call, we provided some context of expected Q1 2020 revenue growth and adjusted EBITDA growth performance. As we expected Q1 financial results as compared to the previous year to be anomalous to our full year 2020 guidance. Our Q1 2020 performance was trending slightly better in the Q1 expectations prior to the impact of COVID-19. Our actual Q1 revenues finished down…

In summary, we delivered Q1 results that were in line with the expectations we laid out on our 2019 year-end call. We have accomplished this despite the negative impact of COVID-19, which began impacting our business in March. Today, we have focused our communications on the measures and actions we took to safeguard our employees and our customers. That has been and will remain our number one priority. I want to reiterate how proud we are of our employees on how they have responded to this unprecedented situation. They've been there for us with 100% commitment and dedication, and I want to underscore our deep level of gratitude for that. We've made some hard decisions to better align our cost structure with the conditions that we are seeing across our business. Near-term visibility into our markets remained limited during the rapidly changing COVID-19 situation. Moving forward, we will continue to actively manage our business with a focus on our cost reduction initiatives and liquidity in the near term. We made great progress thus far implementing our financial and operating review initiatives and remain on track for our full-year goal. We have seen some opportunities to accelerate certain cost and liquidity actions, and we will continue to capitalize on these as they arise. While it's important in difficult times to manage for the short term, it's also important to not lose sight of the longer term. And to that end, we have made great progress on several new product fronts. We look forward to providing more detail on this area in the near future. Resideo remains a company with established global scale, strong brand recognition and an extensive and loyal pro channel. Our products are trusted across the globe; In homes, on the wall, and behind the wall. We believe the actions we have taken to date as well as the ongoing execution of our financial and operating review will best position Resideo to capitalize on the growth opportunities as business conditions begin to normalize. Thanks for your time today and let's open up the call to questions. Operator?

[Operator Instructions] We can now pass to our first question from John Lovallo, Bank of America. Please go ahead.

Hi guys. Thank you for taking my questions today. First one is on liquidity. I'm just curious if you guys have had discussions with the banks on increasing the revolver capacity and perhaps in renegotiating the planned step down in the max leverage ratio I believe ticks down 475 at the end of the year.

Yes, John. This is Andy. Bob, do you want to handle this one?

Yes, Sure. Yes, hi, John. Yes, I mean, look we're always talking to banks on a lot of different things. We have a very good relationship there. As you know, we didn't - we passed our covenants for Q1, we haven't specifically talked to them about increasing any kind of revolver capacity or anything like that. It's more just in the normal course of business that we're having conversations with them.

Okay. And then, understanding that you guys are not providing guidance, just curious how we should think about CapEx this year and maybe your ability to flex it down, it may be helpful if you could provide kind of a maintenance CapEx level.

Yes, good question. So look, when this happened and we started paying attention to - a lot more attention to liquidity, obviously capital spending was part of that, and the business units were great in participating. So until we see, I'd say, a bit more clarity around when COVID will pass, we're kind of just on operating - operating necessity CapEx. So I would probably say, I think last year we spend capital somewhere around $85 million something like that. I think we could probably reduce that down to - you know, until the crisis passes, we could probably cut 25% to 35% off that for this year.

Got it. And then...

Then we finally Looking at... Go ahead, sorry.

No, no, please. Please go ahead.

Look, when we're spending capital, we want high IRR projects, right. So we don't want to defray high IRR projects. So once we see the crisis clearing up, we'll be back to - what are good ideas here and what do we invest in, so more business as usual.

Makes sense. And then finally on the search for a new CEO and CFO. Curious if you guys have narrowed it down to a small number of candidates and then if Bob - if your hats in the ring for the potential CEO role.

So this is, Andy. Yes, we are progressing in that process, and I'm pleased with the way that it's going. Obviously we can't talk about exactly where we are in the process until we have an agreement in place, but it is moving forward. Well, our partners in this - are doing a great job. So we will certainly be back to you as soon as we have a candidate selected.

Okay, thanks guys.

We can now take our next question from Jeff Kessler, Imperial Capital.

Thank you. Could you discuss a little bit of that incorporating your leverage - your leverage in covenant discussions into the Honeywell reimbursement agreement, don't need the - obviously you're not going to give us complete details, but I'd like to hear a little bit more about how you're getting perhaps some leeway on those agreements with regard to your position with Honeywell.

Hi Jeff. It's Andy. Yes. Bob, why don't you go ahead and provide an update on the discussions to date.

Yes, sure. I mean I look, Jeff, the discussions to date were more along our short-term, right. When the crisis started, we are in conversations with Honeywell, and I would say, in a pretty good partnership mentality. We were able to defray the second quarter payments because as everyone knows that where the pandemic is going to hit everyone's financials is in the second quarter and so Honeywell allowed us to defray the licensing fee payment and the indemnity payment for the second quarter. And in addition, they agreed that the adjusted EBITDA leverage covenant ratios that we agreed with the banks last year in the fall will also be adopted by Honeywell. So we're all working off the same EBITDA leverage covenant. So we're on the same page. I think, so that was good news from a partnership mentality. And I think we just decided. We have a lot of interconnectivity between the two companies. So what we're hoping is that we can just continue these productive conversations going forward, and make sure we're on the same page. So not mush - the only thing that's agreed with those specific things that were in the press release and then we just continue ongoing discussions.

Alright, is it because there's so much interconnectivity between the two companies that they're allowing you to deal with the leverage agreements, both the above that - the reimbursement line to Honeywell.

I'm not sure if I understand that, I but obviously we know there's a lot of inter connectivity, right. We buy some of their products, we're still making things for them. There is a reasonable amount of TSA agreements still ongoing, we do make these payments to them and as you know, the agreement last for 25 years or so, right. So they have a vested interest in making sure we're thriving business. So I think that's probably why we came to those resolutions in the second quarter.

Okay. And actually to the question around that is that your banks have agreed - to your banks have agreed to - It's called define - define your EBITDA as pre-reimbursement to Honeywell EBITDA.

Matt, do you want to take that one?

Yes. With this, nothing we agreed to change, the definition of the bank definition of EBITDA leverage, right. The fact that we defrayed this payment - the $35 million does help that calculation quite a bit because that will impact the EBITDA portion of the calculation.

And one question on operations, can you - clearly in the first quarter, while you were down, you were not down 40% or 50%. What areas are you actually seeing continued ongoing - where are you actually continuing to let into do large or ongoing projects or even small projects, what areas are continuing to do relatively well for you in the - in the business and all and those - and is any of that in the Residential or is most of that in the commercial area.

Yes, great question - go ahead Andy, sorry.

Yes. So generally you know - the most of our ADI locations are open and as you know that that's one of the main portals to our customers, and in that area. I would say even during the periods of the greatest reduction in sales, we still found that the larger commercial projects - the projects are typically longer term, it's work that is bid under contract and so forth that those were ongoing and obviously based on the particular state where the project was going on in terms of what the Governor's of those states were allowing. And then we also on the P&S side, many of our OEMs had businesses that are deemed essential and their demand continues as well, and we continue to monitor - we've already seen some improvements in the daily sales, but also still a fair degree of variability day to day. So I think it's hard to call it beyond the data that we provided for the month of April at this point.

Okay. Thank you.

Thanks, Jeff.

I now pass to our next question from Craig Irwin, Roth Capital Partners. Please go ahead.

Good morning and thanks for taking my questions. I hope you're all well in this environment. First thing I wanted to ask about is the accrued liabilities in your cash flow, $80 million was a very large chunk of your cash use in the quarter. Accrued liabilities can be a little black box for investors, can you maybe describe what the changes were there that drove the $80 million in cash use and is this something that has potential to reverse or are there potential cash puts into this grill over the next couple of quarters.

Yes. Thanks, Craig. This is Andy. Bob, why don't you go ahead and cover that to the extent that we can.

Yes, sure. Yes. So you're looking at the, the operating cash flow statement, and it's a use of cash, I mean, the other accruals - and I agree with you, other accruals can be a bit of a catch-all account, but essentially the big change to prior year - the biggest thing was a tax payment that we made in Q1 and the other - the other big thing would have been the funding of our 401-k, we're in the previous years and tax payments move around throughout the year depending on the jurisdiction, so that was different in the previous year. And in the previous year. I believe Honeywell funded our 401-k. So they were the two biggest things that that accounts for like 70% to 80% of that cash.

Okay, so then this $80 million accrual should be dramatically reduced now quarter, that's fair to expect.

Yes, so the accruals gone right because we paid the taxes, right. So that's what you're seeing on the cash flow statement.

Excellent, excellent. So then the environment, right - you made specific comments on April and then some comments on trend since then. As we look at our models and try - try and figure out is this a Swoop, is this a V or a U what the potential rebound is it both ADI and products, can you maybe point us to what you're looking at for indicators of business activity that you used to manage the business? And can you maybe describe for us any changes to short-term trends in there on a weekly basis or or daily basis that you feel might be indicative of a broader activity for your business?

So Craig, I'll handle the first piece, this is Andy. And then I'll ask Bob to - I'm sorry, I am going to handle the second part of your question, I'll ask Bob to talk about how we're looking at this from a modeling standpoint. But the issue that we've seen is more variability in the data, so it's too hard to call what the recovery is going to look like at this point, there's just kind of a bigger data around the number, but I would say the average, you know, the April numbers at this point, we don't have data better than that in terms of trying to peg an average for the quarter. I think we've just got to let these various states open up and get more operating locations specifically for ADI was functioning. Bob, do you want to talk a little bit about the full-year planning at this point?

Yes. And just to follow up on you Andy; look, we're all tracking daily sales and we always have to pay more attention to it, I'd say, we've both at ADI and P&S. The business leaders there and the commercial function really staying in contact with the customers, even more than before. I'd also say we did this survey that indicates when the state's open up to Andy's points that these projects should return, and look surveys are surveys, it's extrapolations right, but it was good news for us when this came back that people don't intend on just canceling - canceling these projects that they had planned, the wide majority of them will probably happen in the foreseeable future. I would also say that May sales trends aren't much different than what we saw in April. And back to Andy's point, right, we pulled guidance, most companies pull guidance because the future is just so opaque as to when the states will open up, and then in general, how will consumers respond, how much money will they have, and when do they feel safe going out into society like normal. But the good news is, we think our industry is in a little bit better shape than most on that end, which is what the survey confirm for us.

That's really, that's really good to hear. One of the things clients have been asking me for over the last number of weeks is your - your sales mix on the commercial side at ADI, I mean resi is actually pretty easy to follow, but you know, the two-third of the business at ADI really isn't commercial markets. Are you predominantly into things selling into things like strip malls and small office buildings or is this a more universal broad coverage across the commercial construction base?

Yeah, Craig, I don't think we're going to, we're in a position to provide that level of detail at this point. and like I said, there's been more variability, the one thing that we have seen as I had mentioned address question is more staying power with regard to the larger commercial products - projects.

Understood, understood. Thanks again for taking my questions and stay well.

Thank you. You too.

We can now move to our next question from Ian Zaffino, Oppenheimer. Please go ahead.

Hi, great, thank you very much. I just wanted to focus on some of the year-over-year numbers on the revenue side, can you give us maybe a sense of really the best performers, the worst performers? Also, maybe if you could parse out, if you could - I know there some weather movements going on the RTS side, maybe if you could help us quantify that or what happen as far as products being end of life and now lapping those. Could you give us any more granularity on that or maybe the categories, that would be helpful? Thanks.

Thank you. Yeah, I think we can cover some of the data within P&S. Bob, do you want to do that?

Yes, sure, I mean, when you see the queue, we call it, I think inter-segment revenue, right. But from - look, all three lines of business were down to prior year. I would say security held up the best and then probably the worst was RTS, and I'd say there's a lot of stuff going on RTS is more I guess impulse oriented. I'd say the RTS sales that happen were more along the OEM, which is a lower margin channel. And as you know, we have had much warmer weather this year than prior year and that tends to be a reasonable indicator for RTS. On comfort, we had some of the continuing product transition issues away from the traditional non-connected thermostats to the more connected thermostats, which were also kind of lower margin. But we saw reasonable sales tail off there. And on security, I think we saw the lease sales tail off, but maybe that people take that more seriously if there is an issue there or if they really want to enhance the security in their homes and their offices, they take that more seriously than comfort and RTS and maybe that's why those sales held up a little bit, a little bit more. But we also saw a negative mix shift there with the last year's launch of GRIP had a pretty high sales amount and this year was a little less and that GRIP product as we've spoken to before us is probably up in the lower margin side. So it's kind of negative profit mix.

Okay, great.

This is. Andy. Again, I'll just add one other comment to that and this is more of a thesis rather than a forecast, but then we touched upon it briefly in the prepared remarks that fundamentally we do know there's a pretty strong correlation between demand for our products and duty cycle on the overall systems that we serve, and the stay at home orders certainly are going to increase duty cycles and the equipment within homes and fundamentally that should drive demand longer term for us.

Okay, great. And then just a follow-up on the Honeywell negotiations - It's great that you guys are actually having this discussion and broadening the relationship. You touched upon you know, the amount of the done with vacation payments with Honeywell, has that subject been broached? Just given that the earnings profile of the company is different than it was during the spin, and just given the economy has been somewhat cooperative with you guys, is there room to get even more cooperation? Thanks.

Yeah, and we'd love to see that but we haven't had in depth conversations about that at this point, but it's certainly on our radar, but we have no feeling in terms of what kind of yardage we would get there.

Okay, great. Thank you very much.

Thank you

We may now pass for our next question from Jeff Kessler, Imperial Capital. Please go ahead.

Just one quick follow up. Given what you've seen so far in terms of what is selling, and what is not selling through your - through your channels and what is selling and what's not selling to ADI, assuming we come out of this at some point in time over the next 12 months, are there areas of your business that have - that have margin and have IRR's that you think are going to be more on your dashboard to be sold and more emphasized going forward as opposed to what types of products are you looking at that have - now and the past, have lower margins, ultimately lower IRR when you when you invested in them. And have you probably been looking at what has sold and what has not sold, how much you invested in, how much you did invest in bottom line is - going forward a year, taking a look at what you've got in your portfolio, where are you going to be putting your sales and marketing investments to the - both to the channel, and hopefully the channel to the end users going forward that we can kind of take a look at.

Hey, Jeff, this is Andy. And that's it. That's a great question and it really goes to the heart of the number one issue in the F&O review that we're doing, which is improving revenue and gross margin. And as part of that review, we touched upon and a little bit in the prepared remarks that we have eliminated some skews of underperforming products or products that had poor gross margin and some of that manifested itself in the inventory write downs for Q1, which were higher than they will be for the rest of the year. But to that end, a couple of things on there. Number one is we are investing - Bob mentioned on the CapEx front that we're investing on things that have quick and high IRRs and one of those is tools on the e-Commerce front because our e-commerce sales through ADI have a higher margin and we want to drive that business. We want to grow that part of the business and also it's consistent with - today's ways of - doing business in today's world. The other thing is - is our investment in new products - the new products that we have in the pipeline now generate gross margins at or above total gross margins for the company or products that they're replacing within the product lines. So we're really focused on that aspect. And I would say the last thing is - is the point that I made at the tail end of Craigs comment there that we do think that what's going on here is going to drive higher duty cycles on equipment that we serve within homes and that's going to drive more replacements in our, our aftermarket parts business in general has higher gross margins than our OEM business does. So to the extent that there is a correlation there, we feel that would be positive to the business.

Okay, thank you very much.

I would now like to hand the call back over to Matt Giordano for concluding remarks. Thank you.

Thanks, operator, and thanks to our participants for joining us today. This concludes our call. The materials covered today can be available - can be found on our website, and feel free to reach out to me if you have any further questions. Stay safe and we look forward to seeing you next quarter. Thank you.

Ladies and gentlemen, that will conclude the Resideo Technologies first quarter 2020 earnings call. Thank you for your participation. You may now disconnect.