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| Order rates and backlog levels are consistent with or slightly better than the trends we have talked about since the start of the year, reflecting some modest slowing in a few markets as well as the natural impact of shortening lead-times as the supply chain continues to improve |
| That strong demand was reflected in our third quarter growth rates with sales of $207 million, increasing 24% compared to last year, with some benefit from shipment timing as we did everything possible to accommodate our customers' requirements and some linked quarter shipments that would otherwise have shipped early in the fourth quarter |
| Well, we delivered another impressive quarter with results again outperforming expectations |
| We delivered core sales growth of 9% with a 42% increase in adjusted operating profit and adjusted EPS of $1.03, with strong performance across all of our businesses |
| And frankly, those are going to be cost with a fantastic payback in the future as we'll have a more, I guess, diverse supply base from which to satisfy our demand in the future |
| For the full year, we continue to expect a sales decline of 14%, but we now expect margins of 14%, up from the prior guidance of 12.2%, reflecting the team's great execution |
| Strong core growth, along with very impressive execution on productivity and pricing initiatives deliver more than 50% operating leverage with operating profit increasing more than three times the rate of core sales growth |
| Since our separation announcement, we have described how we expect acquisitions to be a meaningful contributor to our growth story as we move forward as we have an extremely strong balance sheet, providing us significant acquisition capacity |
| We have a proven track record of successfully integrating acquisitions and over delivering on synergies |
| All factors that set us up to be a consistent serial acquirer moving forward, adding value above and beyond our organic growth investments and opportunities and strengthening our business to further accelerate growth |
| Hey, another great quarter and an exciting outlook for the rest of the year and into 2024 for Crane |
| Adjusted operating profit margins increased 290 basis points to a solid 13.7% with lower volumes heavily offset by lower inflation and strong productivity and reflecting another impressive deleverage rate |
| We did outperform expectations in the third quarter driven by strong pricing net of inflation and productivity, along with more favorable mix than expected |
| Baum significantly increases our scale, installed base, geographic coverage and breadth of product offerings in the specialized fluoropolymer lined pipe business, where we already are one of the leaders today for highly erosive and corrosive flow handling |
| New product vitality metrics continue to improve year-after-year, giving us high confidence in the 3% to 5% growth profile through the cycle and the substantial opportunity to further expand margins |
| And on the mix, what I would say is, we're going to continue to see, I think, strong aftermarket as we move through 2024 |
| In the quarter, total aftermarket sales increased 44% with commercial aftermarket sales up 39% and military aftermarket up 60% |
| It has enhanced our positioning significantly |
| Remember that the operating leverage reflects a number of factors including strong operational execution, value pricing and continued structural change in the business |
| Reflecting on the full year guidance as a whole, our 6% core growth is driving an impressive 29% improvement in operating profit or 66% full year operating leverage |
| So another great quarter following our separation and demonstrating that we can deliver in any environment and a very strong balance sheet and free cash generation to support value-creating capital deployment |
| We are raising our full year margin guidance by 90 basis points to 19.4%, more than 300 basis points above last year's record 16.2%, reflecting continued execution on our stated goal of driving an average of 100 basis points of margin improvement per year |
| In the chemical space, we just had our best quarter for orders to date for our FK-TrieX product line with the value proposition of this recent product introduction resonating very well in certain markets, particularly for Chlor-Alkali |
| In addition, I'm proud of Crane's place in the world and our global team's efforts |
| It's those markets where we have the greatest differentiation and the best ability to create value for our customers |
| So I feel really good about it |
| Since it was introduced in 2021, the Envie motor platform has seen explosive growth, and we are on track for a 300% growth in 2023 |
| Adjusted operating margins of 19.2% increased 240 basis points from last year, primarily reflecting strong value pricing and productivity gains, partially offset by unfavorable mix |
| Orders in the third quarter were better than expected and driven by key project wins rather than a fundamental change to our market outlook |
| So, just incredibly well positioned |
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| At engineered materials, sales of $56 million decreased 11% compared to the prior year as expected |
| While the demand environment remains as strong as I can ever remember seeing it, our continued challenge is the supply chain |
| In the fourth quarter, as we have discussed previously, we do expect a seasonal slowdown, less favorable mix, given the slowdown in our chemical market and some higher investment spending |
| Scott Deuschle Rich, why do A&E sales go down sequentially in the fourth quarter? Rich Maue A&E sales will be down modestly |
| And you've got a second source in short order or there's labor challenges |
| As a reminder, the fourth quarter is always seasonally softest of the year for this business given customer shutdowns between Thanksgiving and the New Year |
| On the commercial side of the business, aircraft retirements remained very low due to high demand and limitations on aircraft deliveries |
| The softness remains largely confined to European chemical, non-residential construction, and industrial markets as well as some project pushouts in North America, though we did see some nice project wins in the quarter |
| However, as we see improvements in one area, we are seeing new constraints in others like Machine Components, particularly from smaller suppliers |
| This is a weather-specific transient issue |
| And on one pharmaceutical asset, we lost to another bidder, unfortunate because it was a great asset, but a reminder about how we will remain fiscally disciplined and not chase assets when the pricing is inconsistent with our financial criteria |
| We still expect negative orders in the last few months of 2023, and through most of 2024 before we see a positive inflection, likely late next year |
| There's retirements post COVID that you're both internal as well as third-party that has lost talent |
| For example, we have had increased costs relating to expediting shipments due to supply chain issues as well as costs associated with qualifying new suppliers and adding second sources |
| So I mean -- so the market, we see the market being down |
| For the fourth quarter, our guidance does imply a step down of margins consistent with our commentary throughout the year |
| As a reminder, if you look at prior cycles, given our specific product exposures, we typically see slowing activity a few quarters before many others playing in the broader process markets |
| If anything, it might have moved slightly to the right, right? And so instead of fundamental orders, I think inflecting negative here in September, October, it's probably going to happen in December, right? But the overall trend is going to happen the way we suggested and then revert to go negative next year and then revert back at the end of 2024 |
| We had some favorability in aftermarket |
| I think we would agree with you to try to quantify that would be a bit of a challenge or I'd be hesitant to do that now, we can think about how we might try to frame that up when we give guidance in January or at Investor Day certainly |
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