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| We are positioned for continued sequential margin and cash flow generation |
| These strategies have raised the bar for execution and expectations of profitability in our operating model |
| base, our technology leadership, the high quality of our solutions, our high-touch service and our large entrenched customer base |
| We enjoy our position, as a global industry leader in best-in-class video communication systems |
| As a result, we have delivered record sales and operating income to-date in fiscal 2024, and drove robust operating cash generation in the third quarter |
| These results serve as evidence, of the success of our past decisive, and deliberate actions taken, to adapt to challenging business conditions, and to improve our customers' experience, while increasing our profitability, and working capital levels |
| We are well positioned, to meet this demand and believe, we are in the early stages of this transition |
| By expanding the share of customer spend, adding new customers, developing control options, and expanding the services we offer, driving increases in monthly recurring revenues |
| New order growth was quite a bright spot for the quarter |
| During fiscal Q3, we experienced robust order volume, of $192 million |
| Live Events in the Commercial business unit, orders strengthened in the quarter, and all domestic markets saw growth |
| Third quarter orders grew, 29% more than last year's third quarter, bringing year-to-date order growth, to 6.6% for the year |
| We are very proud of, our results and grateful to our teams, who work together to deliver them, and we look forward, to a solid end to the year |
| Our target markets, are large and growing, with resilient demand driven, by audience experience, sports fan engagement, and customer success with our systems |
| Given our results to-date this year, and the momentum in our order flow, we feel good about our positioning, to drive profitable growth and cash flow generation into the fourth quarter, and beyond |
| Orders for the third quarter of fiscal 2024, increased by 29.4%, from the third quarter of fiscal 2023, through strong demand in the Live Events business unit, returning demand in the spectacular and out-of-home markets in our Commercial business unit and solid growth in High School Park and Recreation and Transportation business units |
| Our third quarter and year-to-date results reflect our team's strong execution of our strategies across all our business areas |
| We are continuing, to offer more products through these online and partner channels and have improved processes to make the buying process more efficient |
| And so, we see the reduction year-over-year in backlog as a positive as we've got our delivery more into market lead times |
| We saw a nice order rebound in Q3 in both national and local out-of-home customers |
| By taking these actions, our goal is to raise our visibility in, as I mentioned, a lumpy seasonal business and enhance our internal planning capabilities |
| Fiscal 2024 third quarter's positive operating margin rate, is attributable to our continued careful management of operating expenses |
| Orders for the first nine months of fiscal 2024, increased by 6.6%, as compared to the first nine months, of fiscal 2023, through strong demand in Live Events, Transportation and High School Park and Recreation business units |
| Sales grew 10.6%, for the first nine months, which aligns to the order volume and built up backlog, coming into the first part of the fiscal year |
| Overall, our target markets are large, and growing with resilient demand driven, by our customers' desire to improve their audience experience in sports, commercial and transportation environments |
| The 950 basis point increase in gross profit percentage, is attributable to our strategic pricing actions, our investments in factory automation, our focus on cost-effective and high-quality product designs, and the stability of our diversified supply chain |
| Moving forward, we expect Live Events demand, to remain strong as there are a number of projects being bid, as venues enhance facilities, to entertain fans and attract athletes |
| Internationally, we are driving Live Events, commercial, and transportation opportunities, as the economic conditions continue to improve |
| What we can say today is that, over the next three to five years, we are working to drive sales growth, with our sights on $1 billion of annual revenue, and operating margin sustainability in the mid to upper end of the 5% to 10% range as we move forward |
| We are investing over the coming fiscal years, and improvements in our demand planning tools and alignment to capacity, for integrated business planning and our expanding factory qualifications to have flexibility for where a product is built, to maximize the use of our infrastructure |
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| We believe international demand softness, relates to the economic, and geopolitical conditions |
| International, during the quarter, we won a stadium project and orders for transportation areas, yet orders have been slow this year, which we believe is, due to the economic and geopolitical uncertainty |
| We had a lot of product in there, and we weren't able to meet market lead times |
| Commercial orders are down, for the nine months from last year, due to a lack of large project bookings and the reduction in order spend by the out-of-home segment customers in the first six months of the year, partially offset by the third quarter improvement in order placements |
| As Reece highlighted, the third quarter is our historically low sales volume quarter, because of sport seasonality, outdoor construction lulls in the winter months, and fewer workdays due to the holiday breaks |
| Again, it's notable that we delivered, an $8 million third quarter fiscal 2024, operating profit in our seasonally lowest volume, quarter of the year |
| And we're fighting, to hold those gross margins quarter-after-quarter |
| However, large national out-of-home companies, are noting plans to continue, to constrain spending in the coming calendar year |
| To put our fiscal 2024 results delivery into perspective, our third quarter is historically a seasonally low volume quarter, for revenue and therefore, historically could result in a breakeven, or even a loss-making quarter |
| International also is down slightly on a nine-month basis |
| I'm just curious with the backlog declining |
| Interestingly, last quarter, there were higher orders in International and Transportation, decrease in Commercial |
| Backlog continues to decrease from last year's built-up levels, as we recognize the anniversary of the resolution, of supply chain challenges and utilize our capacity, to deliver customer orders at market-expected lead times |
| While we are not offering a quantitative outlook, qualitatively, we look for fiscal 2024 fourth quarter net sales to increase sequentially, and decrease from the year ago period, which was again a high-volume period in, which we were fulfilling back orders, related to the pandemic recovery |
| Customers continue to demonstrate interest in projects, but are delaying buying decisions |
| Such risks include, but are not limited to, changes in economic and market conditions, management of growth, timing and magnitude of future contracts and orders, fluctuations in margins, the introduction of new products and technology, availability of raw materials, components and shipping services, and other important factors |
| And then in terms of the gross margin is fluctuating quite a bit as well |
| This quarter was quite the opposite |
| Demand is also highly seasonal, and additionally, demand can be impacted by customers and construction schedules, all making it difficult to give precise estimates for the future |
| We believe, though, that our - a year ago, our backlog was too large |
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