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| So that means we're spending more time with the customer, less time driving, which is better for our customers, better for our partners, and better for Cintas |
| As Todd said a couple times, the future is bright for us and we want to make sure that we take advantage of that bright future by investing in the business and the call outs were really more about that |
| Nothing I would say that is noteworthy other than, again, some nice acceleration in the revenue |
| Our momentum in the business is good and volume remains robust |
| Could you just give us some of the mechanics or tell us just what's going on on the ground over there? It's increasing the margin very nicely and is that something that we should expect to continue at kind of that 16% level? Mike Hansen Well we -- certainly the revenue growth is powerful in all of our businesses and when we see some really nice revenue growth, that's important |
| Then in the OPM, the operating margin, the other unit was up very nicely sequentially, even though there's one less day sequentially in the quarter |
| We continue to have great success cross-selling to existing customers |
| Retention levels are strong and remain at very attractive levels, and our value proposition of image, safety, cleanliness, and compliance continues to resonate across businesses of all sizes and in all verticals |
| And as you can imagine, when we do that in a marketplace, we add immediate capacity utilization improvement, route density, and so those things really help us in the rental business |
| We think the future's really bright and we want to invest for the future |
| The benefits of our strong volume growth and revenue flowed through to our bottom line |
| Gross margin for the second quarter grew 11.6% and operating income grew 12.3% |
| So our new business effort is always really good |
| Cash flow remained strong |
| So we'll have some additional costs in ‘25 and certainly then setting up really nice benefits into the future for that business |
| Our strong cash flow gives us flexibility to choose how we deploy our capital |
| We certainly -- we haven't even implemented at this point, so we haven't seen any benefits just yet, but we're optimistic about how that can help our business over the coming years |
| And the growth is attractive |
| We're using various technologies that Mike referenced to make sure that we're positioning our partners to be more successful, meaning we use SmartTruck technology in all of our businesses, and that helps us |
| So the combination of really good sales mix, really good growth in the business, good sourcing, the one I didn't mention was SmartTruck technology that is also having a benefit there |
| And again, it leads to really nice stickiness and also nice margins |
| The growth has been really good and the margins are great for us |
| And so our growth has been really good in that business |
| Jasper, we have seen some nice performance in that business and I spoke to a few of them where from a margin perspective, first of all, the value that we sell with, nothing is more important than the health and safety of your employees is really still resonating well |
| Operating margins there were really strong in the first half |
| Strong volume growth and continued operational efficiencies helped generate this strong gross margin |
| And particularly those two had some really nice performance in the second quarter |
| We continue to leverage our strong revenue growth and extract inefficiencies out of the business in order to expand margins |
| Our Six Sigma and Engineering teams have helped us create efficiencies in the plant that allow us to maximize the utilization of our equipment, labor, and energy |
| Our SmartTruck technology allows us to improve our route efficiencies and provide density to our existing routes |
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| We had a -- on the acute side, again a hospital in Florida that we rolled out a new microfiber program because they were struggling with inventory control and product quality, which led to cleanliness concerns |
| And so as we get into that, which is likely going to be more about next fiscal year, we may see a little bit of pressure in the fire segment because as you can imagine, when you turn -- when you start to go into an SAP conversion, you don't get benefits overnight |
| The other thing that I would say is you know the uniform direct sale business went from a negative 2.7% in terms of revenue growth to 4.7% |
| One of them is, hey, where we'd like to outsource it, because we're not very good at it or we're not -- we don't have -- we're struggling to staff and we're struggling to find people to manage this |
| The higher effective tax rate negatively impacts fiscal ‘24 EPS guidance by about $0.16 and diluted EPS growth by about 120 basis points |
| Mike Hansen Shlomo, when our quarters end on a holiday and it seems like too many of them do, it does create a little bit of disruption in terms of the ability to collect the mail, the application |
| So there is, I'll call it double negative, no program market |
| Our -- we're seeing -- just like you're seeing with inflation in total, we're seeing that come down |
| And the pricing is still, it's lower than last year |
| But we did see a little bit of slowing, and the Thanksgiving holiday can usually contribute to that |
| We don't like the lack of compliance |
| We're seeing freight come down and that's important to us |
| And we still see that, frankly |
| And then if I could just follow up on the macro environment, you made some comments in response to a previous question around just you’re being prudent and there is some uncertainty |
| Just curious, and you guys have said on this call, labor is getting better but still a little tough |
| But, look, as we look into calendar ‘24, there certainly is a little bit of uncertainty as to what the new economy may bring, what the Fed movements may bring, and so we think it is wise to be prudent as we look out |
| We have seen maybe just a touch of slowing in the AR, but we've not seen any, I'll say deterioration from the standpoint of additional write-offs |
| We're blessed to be in a position where our customers, fortunately, they really like us |
| So, a degree of deceleration |
| But there's other reasons |
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