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| Aluminum has built a cost and performance advantage |
| To wrap up, we're extremely pleased with the first quarter results and how we've started fiscal '24 |
| First, we delivered another record quarter with 15% top-line growth and adjusted EBITDA of $80.4 million, an increase of 91% from the prior year |
| Our outlook remains strong |
| And reiterating the very impressive [indiscernible] rates for the quarter |
| Based on all of these factors, and as we look to the balance of the year, our full year outlook for this segment has improved, and we now see more even results over each of the four quarters |
| Most importantly, this acquisition demonstrates our commitment to responsibly investing in key verticals where our objective is to grow faster than the market |
| As a result, we're making great progress on our financial targets and planting the seeds for future growth |
| There is an additional opportunity for incremental revenue and margin growth as a greater percentage of our business portfolio shifts to the growth column, and as we further simplify and rationalize low-margin products |
| The Climate Solutions segment delivered another strong performance this quarter with revenue up 11% from the prior year and an adjusted EBITDA margin of 18.3%, up 500 basis points from the prior year |
| Now that I've covered the very strong Q1 and associated sequential trends, I want to reiterate that our outlook assumes ongoing and very strong year-over-year improvement for the balance of the year |
| We stabilized the business by providing the leadership, resources and strategies necessary to improve our operating margins and accelerate top-line growth |
| I've often said that data centers is the tip of the sphere, and it's leading the way in both revenue growth and margin improvement |
| In the first quarter, data center sales more than doubled from the prior year at margins above our segment targets |
| And I'll tell you, I'm really pleased with what the team has been able to do there |
| I'm happy to report that adjusted EBITDA was very strong in the quarter with an increase of 91% or $38 million |
| This large change in our forecast is primarily due to higher-than-expected orders in Q1, which will positively impact the back half of the year |
| We have a strong backlog, including both hyperscale and colocation customers |
| In addition, we have a pipeline of new products and new customers that we are confident will fuel above-market growth in the future |
| This was a great quarter, but we still have plenty of work ahead of us, and we're quite confident in the entire Modine team |
| Despite this decline, margins actually improved due to lower material and freight costs and greater labor efficiency |
| When demand started to change, we quickly shifted our efforts to operational improvements leading to a solid performance |
| The Performance Technologies segment also delivered strong results this quarter, with revenue up 18% from the prior year and an adjusted EBITDA margin of 11.2%, an improvement of 560 basis points |
| This also represents the sixth consecutive quarter of year-over-year margin improvement |
| I'm pleased to say that we're firmly on track with our transformation |
| In many cases, we've benefited from these adjustments earlier than expected, leading to our quarterly performance exceeding our expectations |
| In addition, we're winning incremental business in targeted markets with accretive margins |
| Again, the first quarter was much stronger than we anticipated based on many factors, including sales volume, material margins and operational improvements |
| As I just mentioned, we're pleased that some of our commercial negotiations were completed earlier than expected |
| This has been an exciting quarter for Modine |
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| In fact, our heating sales were down nearly 40% in the quarter due to weak market conditions and the sales of key transfer products were down 7% from the prior year |
| This is primarily due to concerns over a general economic slowdown, especially in residential and commercial refrigeration applications |
| With regards to heat transfer products, we now anticipate a sales decline in the low single-digits, which is a reduction from our previous guidance |
| Lastly, as previously discussed, the team is pursuing multiple 80/20 product rationalization strategies, which could result in some reduced revenue |
| As anticipated, there was some market softness with commercial refrigeration customers and in various residential-related markets |
| The heating market remains down largely due to higher field inventories and lower preseason stocking sales |
| For example, in our liquid cooling applications business, we've eliminated 73 SKUs, representing over $20 million of annual revenue that was at negative gross margins |
| Moving to HVAC&R, we expect revenues to grow in the low single-digits and have lowered the top end of this range as we remain cautious about ongoing weakness in the heating market |
| With regards to heating and heat transfer products, we're maintaining a cautious outlook for the second half of the year, which has been incorporated into our revised guidance |
| HVAC&R sales were down a modest 2% or $1 million, driven by lower sales of heating products, partially offset by higher indoor air quality sales, which were up 40% |
| As we've got multiple opportunities at different levels and different gates, we're going to be cautious, and we're going to do the right things for the business as long as it aligns with the strategy |
| The second and third quarters could be somewhat below the $70 million quarterly average with Q4 potentially above the average |
| Sales of heat transfer products decreased 7% or $9 million |
| The product rationalization and associated lower revenue could result from negotiated program exits or from select divestitures |
| We expect lower growth for liquid and air cool products as we roll out 80/20 throughout the segment |
| The thing that gives us a little bit of a pause is the turmoil in the European market relative to what the priority is on regulation |
| I want to be clear that these are planned actions and relate to business that cannot meet our margin objectives |
| So labor isn't a concern for us at the moment |
| We have a number of important launches this year, but some are being delayed due to supply chain constraints, but the demand is there |
| While we're making great progress towards our margin targets, I want to point out that it will be difficult to sequentially match this Q1 results |
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