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| That is an exciting application for us and we expect that to show some first revenue later in the year and then strong momentum in 2025 |
| Growth in this segment continues to be driven by strength in elective surgical procedures, as well as our JDAC business line where the business continues to perform well thanks to broader strength in hospital spending |
| Novanta delivered solid performance in 2023 in the fourth quarter and for the full year |
| I'm very proud of how our team has delivered revenue and profit performance above our expectations in a dynamic market environment |
| For the full year of 2023, we achieved a record $882 million in revenue, expanded adjusted gross margins by over 100 basis points to 47% and expanded adjusted EBITDA to $196 million, a 100 basis point improvement in EBITDA margins |
| And I continue to be especially grateful, for all the dedicated efforts of all our employees, who work so diligently every day and taking on new challenges and striving to make the company a great place to work |
| We will continue to focus on additional design wins in high-growth applications as well as doubling down on the Novanta Growth System to drive strong cash flows and gross margin expansion |
| Adjusted EBITDA was greater than $45 million beating our expectations and prior guidance, operating cash flow was very strong for the second straight quarter at approximately $39 million, which represents more than 300% conversion to net income |
| This operating performance reflects excellent execution by our teams in a challenging market and economic environment |
| So, Novanta remains well positioned in the medical advanced industrial end markets with diversified exposure to long-term secular macro trends in robotics and automation precision medicine, minimally invasive surgery and Industry 4.0 |
| And this came despite some challenging headwinds in the end markets we serve, and we secured the Motion Solutions acquisition, which will be an attractive growth platform for us in 2024 and beyond |
| The sticky Novanta business model with diversified exposure to long life-cycle customer platforms in secular high-growth markets has proven resilient under multiple geopolitical and macroeconomic scenarios |
| Our proprietary technologies are well positioned in medical and advanced industrial applications with long-term secular tailwinds such as robotics and automation, minimally invasive and robotic surgery and precision medicine |
| Medical applications made up 54% of our sales in 2023 versus single-digit percentage of sales a decade ago, which we believe provides Novanta with greater resilience during fluctuating market economic conditions |
| We feel that our strong customer relationships with the leading OEMs in these secular growth applications to strengthen diversification of our portfolio and our sticky business model alone as entity drive robust performance through the economic cycles |
| In the fourth quarter, the broader end market themes were that medical markets continued to be strong |
| We achieved record revenue, actually gross margin expansion and solid profit and cash flow performance |
| As we head into 2024, we are feeling confident in the diversity and breadth of our business portfolio to weather a dynamic environment |
| We expect the second half of 2024 to be characterized by stabilizing interest rate environment, with accelerating Novanta momentum on the back of new product launches |
| We are excited about and confident in the record amount of new product launches we are planning on in 2024 |
| So to recap Novanta delivered solid performance in 2023, in the fourth quarter and for the full year |
| And therefore, we think towards, sequentially basically in the year that will improve and drive momentum |
| And so confident that we will begin to in-source that that will drive the higher gross margin expansion in that segment for the next few years |
| And the continued strength of recovery that we expect from Next-Generation DNA sequencing will help that segment driver strong growth as we exit 2024 |
| There's an element of that also benefiting our Precision Medicine and Manufacturing segment |
| But the overall year we feel pretty good about |
| And therefore that's why we feel confident and are excited about that breadth and that potential |
| What we're seeing is Motion Solutions has a lot of them in Korea a great customer base in the segments that we were eyeing and they already know the people there |
| We also expect the momentum in this market to sequentially improve with improving factory utilization and normalizing inventory levels |
| We're gaining content in the Deep UV EUV lithography side of the business |
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| For the full year of 2023, Robotics and Automation segments, our sales declined 11% year-on-year, mainly driven by the headwind from sales to microelectronics |
| The decline was mainly driven by the impact of weaknesses in the sales through advanced industrial end markets, largely caused by industrial robotics dynamics and microelectronic weaknesses that we reported in the last quarter |
| The weaker bookings mainly reflect the normalization of lead times and softening of demand from some life science end markets |
| Fourth quarter sales declined 5% year-over-year, which was slightly more than our prior guidance |
| The sales decline was in line with our expectations due to the rapid rise in interest rates and continued weakness in China, as well as other geopolitical disruptions |
| The bottom end of the range represents a deterioration of the macroeconomic environment |
| We also saw some decline in our shipments to our life sciences customers, driven by the deferral of end user orders due to a higher interest rate environment |
| For the fourth quarter, we delivered $212 million in revenue, which represents a decline of 3% on a reported basis and a decline of 4% on an organic basis |
| Turning to Robotics and Automation segment, this segment experienced a revenue decline of 10% year-over-year in the quarter |
| For the full year of 2023, the overall drop in the microelectronics market was a 700 basis point headwind on total Novanta sales growth, which was larger than we originally anticipated |
| And so that's a you've got inherent weakness into the Life Science space continued weakness in the Industrial Space, strength on the Medical side being somewhat offset by the fact that they are scaling or phasing out those legacy products |
| For Life Science and precision medicine equipment, we expect continued temporary weakness in the first half due largely to the interest rate environment, pressuring capital spending in this industry, which will result in low-single-digit declines in sales |
| Book-to-bill for the full year was 0.78, which mainly reflects the continued normalization of lead times as customers adjusted their backlog coverage closer to pre-pandemic levels, as well as the previously discussed softening of demand from life science and advanced industrial markets |
| The Medical Solutions segment is expected to have a sequential decline in gross margins in the first quarter due to the dilutive impact of Motion Solutions |
| From the first half of the year, our legacy products will trend down, muting growth as both customers phase them out in anticipation of new product launches |
| We believe the first quarter represents the bottom for Novanta's revenue on an organic basis due to both end-market demand weaknesses and legacy products phasing out in advance of new product launches in the second half |
| On a segment level in the first quarter, we expect precision medicine and manufacturing revenue to decline mid single digits on a year-over-year basis our robotics and automation segment revenue is expected to decline low double-digit percent |
| Although our full year, design wins were still modestly down year-over-year |
| The book-to-bill in this segment was 0.50 for the fourth quarter, driven by end market demand deferrals in life science and advanced industrial applications and deferrals and purchases by our customers to maximize the year and cash flows, which are the dynamics we previously just discussed |
| The Medical Solutions segment is expected to have gross margins down 50 to 100 basis points versus the prior year where strong margin expansion in Novanta's core business is offset by the dilutive impact of motion solutions |
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