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| And we have an excellent acquisition pipeline, very strong |
| The Flight Support Group's operating income increased 63% to a record $136 million in the first quarter of fiscal '24, up from $83.6 million in the first quarter of fiscal '23 |
| It's growing nicely |
| Consolidated operating income and net sales in the first quarter of fiscal '24, improved by 39% and 44%, respectively as compared to the first quarter of fiscal '23 |
| A lot of the -- we're very bullish on the future |
| So our order book is extremely strong |
| We have great cash flow |
| Flight Support similarly is very strong, too |
| We anticipate continued strength |
| But the other thing is I see that both of our businesses are really very strong |
| The Flight Support Group set an all-time quarterly net sales and operating income record in the first quarter of fiscal '24, improving 67% and 63% respectively, over the first quarter of fiscal '23 |
| By the way, as far as the 21% to 22% I mean I feel very confident that we're going to wind up in there |
| And I think our results could be even better if they were able to shift the overdue backlog |
| As I sit here today, I'm very pleased that we made those investments and that we continue to fully fund these activities which provide the important forward growth |
| And when you add back the [indiscernible] amortization, we get to about 24.8%, so extremely strong |
| I think our customers are very happy as a result of working with them |
| We're very, very bullish on the future |
| So the reception has been very strong |
| They've been very happy about that |
| I can tell you that our reception at the customers for the Honeywell product has been extremely strong |
| We feel that we're well embedded |
| Eric? Eric Mendelson The Flight Support Group's net sales increased 67% to a record $618.7 million in the first quarter of fiscal '24, up from $371.3 million in the first quarter of fiscal '23 |
| The net sales increase in the first quarter of fiscal '24 reflects the impact from our profitable fiscal '23 acquisition of Wencor which continues to perform above our expectations as well as strong 12% organic growth |
| The organic net sales growth mainly reflects high teens organic net sales growth from both our aftermarket replacement parts and repair and overhaul parts and services product lines |
| And frankly, in areas where we have been more restrictive on price increase, we anticipate significant share gains as well |
| So we're very well experienced on doing those licensing deals |
| In the defense side, we're already cooperating and working together, whereas orders used to go out to third-party companies that are now being placed internally and that's very strong likewise over in our specialty manufacturing |
| So our customers have been very happy as a result of the acquisition and are really excited about where we're headed there |
| We've got some great secular trends we are the low-cost, high-quality, sole-source producer on most of the stuff and we think that the future will be very good |
| We continue to forecast strong net sales and earnings growth for the remainder of fiscal '24 |
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| And Victor has described the first quarter of ETG is really a weak quarter because we couldn't ship and these various things |
| And the -- the labor market is -- has been challenging for a while and continues to be |
| Boeing had some challenges and as a result, the new bill has been impaired |
| And then, of course, as Victor alluded to with regard to labor, that continues to be a challenge |
| There has been a little bit of weakness in -- with some of the lower-cost carriers |
| Some of that's due to aircraft delivery delays or the GTF issues but some of it's -- just are concerns related to the U.S |
| But unfortunately, our vendors are -- they're really struggling |
| Specialty products were soft and went behind |
| I think there have been some raw material challenges as a result of the sanctions |
| Factors that could cause such differences include the severity, magnitude and duration of public health threats such as the COVID-19 pandemic, HEICO's liquidity and the amount and timing of cash generation; lower commercial air travels, airline fleet changes or airline purchasing decisions which could cause lower demand for our goods and services |
| And so what I was segmenting out was the areas that were weak as before but defense is as we expect and moving in the right direction |
| I would also like to point out that while specialty product sales were a little soft and caused the reported organic growth rate to be, if you will, understated because the aftermarket growth rate was very high teens |
| For those familiar with our last earnings call and our public interaction since then, you will remember that we said to expect high results variability quarter to quarter this year with the first quarter being our weakest quarter |
| With regard to product availability on the flight support side, things are tough where, frankly, our vendors are quite behind |
| The slight operating income decreased principally resulted from our subsidiary shipment schedules of our record backlogs with fewer shipment in the first quarter than scheduled in future quarters, something that was scheduled prior to the quarter start and is in line with our internal plan |
| Any sort of color on the mix impact in the quarter in terms of margin headwind? Victor Mendelson Not really other than the shipment schedules in our higher-margin businesses were lower than they had been in the prior period and that brings down the margin |
| and/or foreign customers or competition from existing and new creditors which could reduce our sales |
| You gave us some color on R&D up 20%, so it implies about 100 basis points of margin pressure |
| Right now, there continues to be a shortage of parts |
| So I'm not at all concerned about the specialty products being down |
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