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| This business is poised for further organic growth and will likely benefit from our M&A strategy going forward |
| But we’re very excited about it, and we’re poised for this opportunity |
| And we’re excited about the product |
| Demand in our end user markets remained solid |
| On the utilization side, we are always striving for 35% to 40%, 35-ish we can earn a good return on financial utilization |
| So if you imagine what the equipment is doing, handling heavy material aggregate, basically stone, it’s chewing up the parts and it has a very high product support yield on the equipment |
| And so we feel pretty good about just sentiment headed into ‘24 on the equipment side |
| And as presented on Slide 20, our economic EBIT yield, which is our version of ROIC on both M&A and organic investments have been impressive over the past 4 years |
| To that end, and I reference Slide 20, we believe that we’ve been good investors along the way |
| As a result of our solid performance in our major business segments, which includes contributions from our acquisitions as well as organic growth, adjusted EBITDA grew 15.9% to $51 million |
| Despite the macroeconomic environment, we continue to see strong demand in the diversified markets we serve |
| I would like to highlight the resiliency of our Construction segment, especially in Florida, which has experienced tremendous growth |
| We are happy to see supply chains continue to improve |
| Demand for our material handling equipment also remained strong |
| Our backlog remains at a record level and customer sentiment remains favorable |
| So the results speak for themselves, and we’re so proud of the team in these accomplishments |
| In our view, the numbers are impressive and reflect the commitment of our employees and our culture and a relentless pursuit when it comes to the execution of the plan we laid out for investors at the beginning of 2020 |
| In spite of the quarterly comp hurdles getting more difficult, product support revenues were up $14 million versus last year as we continue to realize organic growth in our high-margin parts and service departments year-over-year |
| Specifically, equipment sales increased $43 million for the quarter to $282 million, which will ultimately bode well for future incremental product support revenues |
| Embedded in the $466 million of revenue for the quarter is a near 10%, $38 million organic increase over Q3 2022, making for a comparatively strong quarter against increasingly more difficult comps |
| First, we are gaining exclusivity with a portfolio of top-performing OEMs with an existing installed base and the potential to grow in a market poised for growth and highly correlated to infrastructure investment |
| First, I’ll be presenting our third quarter results, which continue to outpace historical comps as our business continues to benefit from increased equipment availability in the face of strong end market demand and organic growth in our high-margin product support business |
| Alta’s demonstrated success in supporting OEMs through dealer succession and consolidation issues made this dealer appointment possible and further demonstrates the power of our dealership platform and the value we bring to our OEM partners |
| Our platform also gives us access to significant organic opportunities |
| And yes, you can command a good margin on those products |
| The rental fleet continues to grow and rates are higher, but then fleet availability is improving as well |
| So it’s a dealership profile business with hardly any rental aspects and should be a really good cash-generative business for us going forward |
| So we feel really good about kind of visibility on equipment sales in Material Handling |
| Product support revenues increased 12.1% year-over-year with parts sales increasing to $69.5 million and service revenues increasing to $60.6 million |
| Lastly, on EBITDA, and as mentioned in today’s press release, given the year-to-date performance, our expectations for a solid Q4 and the 2 acquisitions that were closed this quarter, we are raising guidance to a range of $187 million to $192 million of adjusted EBITDA for fiscal year 2023 |
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| As mentioned in previous calls, as equipment supply chains began to normalize at the end of 2022, Alta, like many other industry participants, saw an unprecedented level of inventory replenishment in the first half of ‘23, which put pressure on working capital and led to redeployment of floor plan lines |
| I think we’ve taken over a few regions where we’ve noticed just some inefficiencies in non-billable time |
| And the only thing that we’re seeing there is a little bit of a softening as it relates to the engineered solutions, the warehouse automation |
| You can’t create new demand and all you’re doing is bringing in product that potentially competes in a mature market, and it’s very difficult |
| As a point of reference, we’ve resurrected territories for OEMs in the past and our legacy business here in Michigan, the oldest part of our Construction Equipment business, started with negligible market share and very little field population |
| We’ll never get back to the levels where we’re turning our new equipment 3x and 4x and maybe even 5x a year as we did through the supply chain issues |
| I think Hyster-Yale has been pretty upfront with some of their issues |
| And what I always try to emphasize there is we just try to hold our margins ultimately |
| And so the multiples are a little bit lighter than certainly where we would feel fair value would be at |
| And then another major market for us on the Material Handling side is food and beverage, that seeing no slowdown there |
| Alex, the sort of rule of thumb is that the more commoditized the market, the lower – the more competitive the landscape and the lower your margins are going to be |
| I will say that on used equipment, we’re not unlike the rest of the industry, a lot of the industry publications are seeing moderation or even decreasing in certain segments – product segments of the kind of Construction and Material Handling portfolio of products |
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