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| Our strong Q1 results give us greater confidence in our full-year outlook and long-term growth prospects |
| It's superior Premier -- its super premium ingredients and amazing taste |
| We weren't sure if they are going to right-size their inventory, but they did and we are able to meet the demand |
| Our first quarter results came in ahead of our expectations |
| Net sales grew 19% over prior year and adjusted EBITDA was up 18% |
| In closing, we are pleased with our good start to fiscal '24 |
| So we think there's a ton of tailwinds more people leaning into the category and we're positioned well |
| Gross margins are expected to benefit from lower protein costs offset partially by increased promotional spend and other input cost inflation |
| Our better-than-expected first quarter performance along with strong consumption trends and confidence in our capacity expansion drove our decision to raise the top and bottom line |
| Our guidance supply of strong top line growth of 12% to 17% and adjusted EBITDA growth of 11% to 18% with healthy adjusted EBITDA margins of 20.3% organic [ph] |
| We remain on track to grow production north of 20% this year enabling strong net sales growth in 2024 and increased weeks of supply |
| With our adjusted EBITDA growth and strong cash flow generation, we anticipate net leverage will declined below two times in fiscal '24 |
| The convenient nutrition category grew 10% in Q1 as tailwinds around health and wellness and fitness continue to drive growth |
| But we feel very good about our capacity that's coming online and where we are with our guidance |
| I mean at some point, if demand is so strong, you'll start to stretch your inventory, but we feel good about where we're at right now |
| These gains, combined with lapping last year's Q1 trade inventory de-load, drove volume gains in the quarter |
| Increase supply and distribution gains are lifting ready-to-drink growth, while the growth in ready-to-mix remained healthy, despite lapping significant price increases |
| Distribution gains, organic growth and light promotional activity drove shake growth |
| Growth was robust across all channels driven by improved supply, distribution expansion and continued excitement around our seasonal flavors |
| Net sales grew 19% over prior year and adjusted EBITDA increased 18% with adjusted EBITDA margin of 23.4% |
| Mass benefited from higher in-stock levels and distribution gains, while eCommerce saw strong growth behind promotional activity |
| Our latest seasonal flavor, Winter Mint Chocolate, demonstrated remarkable incrementality to the brand |
| We are bringing flavor excitement to consumers and retail partners and more innovation in our pipeline to fuel future growth |
| Our brand metrics reflect our continued momentum, as Premier Protein reached all-time highs in TDPs and household penetration |
| Premier Protein with RTD market share of 21% maintained its position as the number-one brand in the RTD segment as well as the number-one brand in the broader Convenient Nutrition category |
| We continue to increase our shake supply and our scalable supply chain will enable many years of robust shake growth |
| Our momentum continues to grow as we began to drive shake demand and ramp up our powder marketing efforts |
| Premier Protein's household penetration continues to be the highest in the category |
| Premier Protein and Dymatize are leading mainstream brands with low household penetration and strong loyalty |
| We still see tremendous opportunity to grow in our existing channels |
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| Operating profit of $73 million, decreased $2 million compared to prior year and was negatively impacted by $17 million of accelerated amortization |
| Specialty consumption growth was the only exception it remains challenged as consumers shift purchases to mainstream channels |
| As a result, our cash flow in fiscal '24 will be modestly lower than fiscal '23 |
| So, that would certainly be the biggest pricing headwinds from -- as we go through the quarters |
| I guess my question is, if there is a situation again where your customers say look our stocks are low, can you ship us more, are you less able to do that going forward? This is obviously a great problem to have |
| And so, what happened is they were low |
| And then as a follow-up, coming back to the promotional discussion for Premier ready-to-drink, the distribution points they're up like 40% year-on-year, but the volume velocity is going down slightly even absent larger promo and advertising spending |
| If you do have your record demand is too high |
| One of the questions I received from investors overnight was whether we should be modeling a reversal of that 1Q inventory load |
| So bars actually lost space |
| Slight headwinds, but that's really the second quarter where it's the most meaningful |
| Consequently, we expect pricing to be a significant offset the strong shake volume growth |
| Dymatize net sales decreased 21% this quarter as the brand benefited from increased distribution and organic growth of domestic mainstream channels |
| And then, I think when you initially provided your fiscal '24 guidance last quarter, sales growth at the midpoint of about 12.5% was well below of your expected capacity increase for the year, I think around 20% |
| We still believe that you know our especially Food, Mass, eCom are very underdeveloped |
| Price/mix was a partial offset to this growth, driven by incremental promotional activity and unfavorable mix |
| The overall network of bottles is constrained |
| And mainly, it was due to a few customers carrying low inventory in Q1 during the holidays |
| In the second quarter, we are not doing that as we've talked about earlier on this call with just as we're continuing to manage supply and demand |
| But that we still expect our favorability to start to moderate as we get into the second half |
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