Mark Carano
Analyst · William Blair
Thanks, Gene. Q2 was another very strong quarter for SPX Technologies. Year-on-year, our adjusted EPS grew 34% to $1.42. In addition to our typical adjustments, adjusted earnings this quarter exclude a charge for the resolution of a legal dispute. The after-tax impact to adjusted EPS was $0.13 per share. The settlement resolved all litigation related to an earn-out payment to the former owner of ULC. For the quarter, total company revenue increased 18.4% year-on-year. Organically, revenue grew 9%, driven by HVAC, while acquisitions drove a 9.5% increase and FX was a slight headwind. Consolidated segment income grew by $33.2 million or 39.3% to $117.6 million, while segment margin increased 360 basis points. For the quarter in our HVAC segment, revenues grew 32.5% year-on-year. On an organic basis, revenues increased 17.7%, driven by higher cooling sales, including approximately $20 million from the delivery of a large cooling service project that has no equivalent in the remaining quarters in 2024 or in the prior year period. Acquisitions contributed growth of 15% and included Ingénia in our cooling platform and ASPEQ in our heating platform. The FX impact was nominal. Segment income grew by $28.5 million or 51.6% while segment margin increased 300 basis points. The increases in segment income and margin were due to acquisitions and operating leverage on higher organic cooling sales, including the benefit of continuous improvement initiatives. Segment backlog at quarter end was $434 million, roughly flat organically from the prior year period. For the quarter in Detection & Measurement, revenues decreased 6.2% year-on-year. FX was negligible. The decrease in revenue was driven largely by lower CommTech sales associated with a large pass-through project delivered during 2023 and into Q1 of this year. Year-on-year segment income grew $4.7 million and margin increased 450 basis points. We had favorable sales mix in Q2, driven by lower than typical margins on the pass-through project delivered in the prior year as well as a shift in project delivery schedules, which brought forward some higher-margin projects into the quarter. Segment income and margin also benefited from efforts to enhance the efficiency of our segment structure, which we expect to continue in the second half. Segment backlog at quarter end was $205 million, down 12% organically from the prior year due to deliveries of the pass-through project. Absent this project, backlog was up mid-single digits. Turning now to our financial position at the end of the quarter. We ended Q2 with cash of $133 million and total debt of $790 million. Our leverage ratio as calculated under our bank credit agreement was 1.6x. We anticipate our leverage ratio declining below the lower end of our target range of 1.5 to 2.5x by year-end, assuming no additional capital deployment. Adjusted free cash flow for the quarter was approximately $58 million. Moving on to our guidance. We are increasing our guidance for adjusted EPS to a range of $5.45 to $5.60 compared with a prior range of $5.15 to $5.40. The new midpoint reflects year-on-year growth of approximately 28%. This guidance update reflects our strong 2Q performance and second half outlook, particularly on margins. In HVAC, we are increasing revenue guidance by $5 million to reflect stronger cooling volumes and raising margin guidance by 75 basis points that reflect more efficient production and more favorable sales mix. In Detection & Measurement, we are raising our outlook for segment income and increasing margin guidance by 75 basis points as we continue our initiative to drive segment margins to historical levels. At a total company level, we anticipate adjusted EBITDA in a range of $410 million to $430 million. At the midpoint, this reflects a year-on-year growth of 35% and a margin of approximately 21%. With respect to second half [gaining], in HVAC, as is typical, we expect Q4 to be our highest revenue and margin quarter while Q3 revenue is anticipated to be modestly down sequentially due to large cooling service project we called out in Q2. In D&M, we expect higher margin project revenue to be more weighted to Q3 than Q4. As always, you will find modeling considerations in the appendix to our presentation. I'll now turn the call back over to Gene for a review of our end markets and his closing comments.