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| Finally, reflecting favorable operating performance to date and our outlook for the remainder of the year, we expect 2023 full year earnings to modestly exceed the high end of our previously announced guidance range of $6.50 to $6.90 per diluted share excluding any impact from Tax Adjustments and Other Items |
| I feel really good about where the business is today, how it's been managed in the position we're in |
| Our wholly-owned aircraft engines portfolio also contributed to higher earnings |
| We continue to successfully place new railcars from our committed supply agreements with a diverse customer base |
| Global demand for aircraft spare engines is robust as international air passenger traffic continues to recover |
| Within Rail International, Rail Europe continued to experience increases in renewal lease rates versus expiring rates driven by stable demand for most car types |
| But long term, we feel very good about the assets we own |
| Third quarter results were driven primarily by the solid performance of the Rolls-Royce and Partners Finance affiliates |
| Our renewal success rate remained very high at nearly 84% in the quarter |
| Good to see some of the strong metrics utilization and rates and even the renewal success rate, although the renewal success rate did decline |
| But I guess what allows me to go back to sleep at night is we've been through those for 125 years, and we have the business in a really, really stable, strong foundation right now that we can respond and accordingly, whatever macro challenges are thrown our way |
| But in the end, any renewal success rate up in the zip code of where we're at today is really, really strong |
| We have continued to build a really solid foundation for the future here, whether it's managing the existing lease portfolio and certainly, through the investment volume that we're seeing last year and this year, we're putting a lot of capital to work in really attractive returns for GATX for our shareholders for the long term |
| Demand for the majority of car types and our existing fleet remains strong and we continue to extend renewals at higher rate |
| So I feel very good about that |
| As noted in the release, we continue to identify attractive investment opportunities across our global businesses in today's environment |
| You know, a really good renewal in Europe is in the 5% to 10% plus range, and a bad day if a couple of percentage points off |
| And then we've seen pretty strong diversification in terms of investment across your assets |
| However, it's important to note that the unit cost per repair in our own facilities is in line with our expectations and very attractive relative to third-party alternatives |
| The -- you've talked pretty constructively about your momentum in a lot of your businesses, both last quarter and this quarter |
| Tom Ellman And Bascome, I would say, to some degree, you answered your own question, when you talked about that we've been talking constructively about each segment and then Bob reminded that the investment volume has been strong across all those segments |
| And we've been able to deploy capital directly into engines at a pace above what we originally thought |
| It's important to note though that, that overall dynamic is helpful because if it makes that new car more expensive, it makes the alternative of renewing an existing car more attractive and that's really the primary benefit that you get |
| This variance was driven by higher-than-expected volume, which was the result of few more assignments of the existing cars than we -- thought we would have and a little bit more compliance work coming in than we expected |
| As you said, it's pretty well diversified |
| So we're going to deploy capital where we have our highest return opportunities |
| Domestic travel was above pre-pandemic levels already |
| The third quarter renewal rate change of GATX's Lease Price Index was positive 33.4% with an average renewal term of 65 months |
| Bob Lyons I would just add too, in terms of the runway we have for positive differential, we have a lot of runway and being able to lock cars in for five-year to six-year terms at these rates at positive differentials, we are embedding a lot of high-quality cash flow into the portfolio |
| One of our key criteria always is ensuring consistent access to attractively priced capital |
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| We've also had some FX headwinds as well |
| When we were in the depths of the pandemic and coming out of it last year, the expectation was for the global aerospace sector for air travel to really not fully recover at the earliest until 2024 |
| So the market has faced a lot of pressure, as you would expect |
| It's the most economically sensitive and the economic environment in Europe is spotty across regions and pretty challenged overall |
| The 2022 third-quarter results include a net negative impact of $10.8 million or $0.31 per diluted share from Tax Adjustments and Other Items |
| The 2022 year-to-date results include a net negative impact of $55.2 million or $1.54 per diluted share from Tax Adjustments and Other Items |
| So it gets a little difficult |
| This caused the percentage of maintenance that we do on our own facilities to fall a bit from the recent history |
| The 2023 year-to-date results include a net negative impact of $1.1 million or $0.03 per diluted share from Tax Adjustments and Other Items |
| The exception to that were coal and small-cube covered hoppers that were down about 5% to 10% |
| Rail Europe's fleet utilization remained healthy at 96% although there is continuing softness in the European intermodal sector which is the primary driver for the utilization dip at Rail Europe |
| But it's the one that's under the most significant pressure |
| What keeps me awake at night is the bigger macro factors that are outside of GATX's control |
| And we've seen a number of those in the last couple of years, whether it's the pandemic, the war in Ukraine, kind of the unpredictable macro things are what keep me awake at night |
| And on remarketing income, Justin, it's always a little bit more difficult to predict coming into the fourth quarter just because of seller, I'm sorry, buyer activity in terms of timing |
| As we look into next year without necessarily getting into quantitative guidance, but what keeps you up at night? What are the risks in you're continuing to deliver the kind of results we've seen from you over the last couple of years here? Just curious where we should watch and sharpen our pencils on downside potential |
| It's going to take a while for that market to recover |
| We had very sharp inflationary impacts as you might recall during 2022 |
| But it's going to take a while to recover |
| So for the existing fleet, the interest rate environment actually has very little impact |
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