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| We expect adjusted EBITDA to be in a range of $410 million to $435 million, which is benefiting from continued gross margin expansion and disciplined operating expense control |
| Retail revenue of $288 million was up 4.5% versus the prior year as we continue to see strong service activity with new placements of self-service units driving higher contract revenue |
| And it is our expectation in each quarter of 2024 to show year-over-year improvement in free cash flow |
| So I would say that we're optimistic that we will have for that by providing customer choice, we can continue driving growth in our business |
| As I mentioned last quarter, we believe that the Diebold market position in both banking and retail built on strong customer relationships and innovative technology puts us in a strong position to win in the marketplace going forward |
| We're confident in our 2024 guidance and the long-term outlook for the company |
| We're excited about the future of Diebold and working closely with Octavio and his team to drive long-term shareholder value |
| I'm super excited as we announced a few weeks ago, we've hired a new operating excellence leader for the company, Frank Baur, who will help us in this journey and continue accelerating the improvement in all our operations, and that leads me to service |
| First, we continue winning in the market with our leading self-service and automation technology |
| But I would tell you that our intention is to keep the trend that we've been on, which is continue improving our overall gross margins |
| So we continue to see very, very strong demand for both our DN Series recyclers, our DN Series self-checkout solutions |
| Demand remains high for our ATM cash recycling and retail self-checkout solutions, which are also establishing recurring service revenue and additional software business with a high attach rate |
| And I remain incredibly proud of our Diebold Nixdorf employees around the world |
| As we conclude our prepared remarks, I am excited about the future of Diebold Nixdorf as we start our continuous improvement journey |
| These four components help us build the flywheel for our growth and continuous improvement and will help us better visualize and achieve our longer-term objectives |
| We continue to view branch automation as a meaningful growth opportunity |
| Accelerating the adoption of remote diagnostic and resolution, simplifying our product set to reduce component costs and complexity and implementing an industry-leading operating expense profile will drive improve profitability |
| Once again, we had another quarter of strong performance as our team remained focused on customers and continued to improve our operational execution |
| The team can be proud that in each quarter of 2023, we grew revenue and profitability on a year-over-year basis |
| Our improved operational execution helped us meet expectations for the year and position us well moving into 2024 |
| In addition, we will accelerate growth through focused innovation for our customers by executing on our R&D pipeline to maintain our technology leadership |
| As a result, a strong team will deliver profitable revenue growth, winning new customers and increasing wallet share through crisp, commercial execution |
| We consider this to be a more normalized revenue growth rate for the company going forward, and we feel good about hitting this target due to our backlog visibility and recurring nature of service and software revenue |
| To close my remarks, we are entering 2024 with improved operating momentum and are well positioned as we work to deliver on our outlook |
| In North America, we continue to see strong adoption of cash recycling technology driving our banking business as well as more retail wins with our self-checkout solution in the quick service restaurant space |
| As I mentioned, we plan to execute on working capital improvements, and we'll continue to opportunistically lower debt costs, all while growing EBITDA and expanding margin to generate higher free cash flow conversion |
| In Latin America, cash usage remains strong, supporting demand for both our DN Series cash dispensers and cash recyclers |
| Growth in Latin America service revenue was a bright spot in 2023 as we continue benefiting from a growing installed base in the region |
| We're also building strong governance and board oversight and the Board and management team are working well together, focused on running the company towards consistent and improving operating results while also building a flywheel that leads to accelerating profitable growth, margin expansion and free cash flow conversion |
| This has helped grow our installed base and supports our recurring service business |
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| So we're battling some of the secular trends around the difficulty of hiring people, the difficulty of retaining people |
| There is clearly mature markets that are growing at a slower rate |
| I wouldn't expect for their for there to be a dip in the first half as you lay, I think, that as Octavio just said, right, there's certainly seasonality when we think about what the fourth quarter yielded on the product gross margin side |
| In the past, we have had significant quarterly volatility in our free cash flow |
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