Michael Carlet
Analyst · Erik Woodring with Morgan Stanley
Sure. Sure, Erik. I'll kick it off, and I'll let Rob and Tom join in if they want to correct anything or want to add on to it. Clearly, in the quarter, when we talk about margin expansion, there's both gross margin and the operating margin. So really pleased with continued gross margin expansion. Despite the fact that the headwinds at P&S and the HVAC market, as Tom said, our HVAC margins are very robust. So as we think about that having a headwind, it flows through the bottom line at a different rate than the overall blended rate, a bit higher. So that does compress it. So that transitory nature does compress the bottom line despite which we still saw margin improvement. At ADI, as Rob talked about the impacts of the ERP implementation, as we work through that, there was incremental costs, whether that was overtime in the warehouses, whether that was work with consultants to implement the system, there's incremental SG&A in both Q3 and Q4 that, again, is onetime in nature as we work through those 2 things. I think overall, at a high level, as we go through the separation of these businesses, I want to make sure we're careful about talking about what the margins are today as segments without the allocation of overhead and what they might be in the future. But as we sit here today and look at the ADI business, Rob continues to target a double-digit operating margin as this goal. We've got long-term plans that get us there. Again, that's going to change a little bit once the business is stand-alone and we allocate all the costs out. But as it exists today, we would think that we have the ability to drive the business towards double-digit operating margins over the next 3 to 5 years. Similarly at P&S as we continue to see the operating efficiency in our factories, which that race is not yet run. We're well into the game, but the race is not yet over at all. And then the incremental margin that we think we drive with the ongoing product development and the incremental margin we can demand from that, we think there will continue to be operating margin expansion, 300 to 500 basis points over the next 3 to 5 years probably makes a lot of sense. But again, as we work through our modeling for each business on a stand-alone basis, we'll update that and get those numbers out to the market at the appropriate time.