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| Importantly, earnings should meet or exceed the 2024 goal established at our last I day, reflecting significant operating progress and earnings improvement over the past three years |
| Likewise, we are working with the strongest MPD pipeline I can remember to help drive future growth |
| And when I look at the manufacturing operations of O-I, I can say to you that I'm seeing the best performance capability -- ability to execute in more than two decades |
| We again demonstrated our improved operating effectiveness, as we posted the highest adjusted earnings in the past 15 years and finished 2023, with the best balance sheet in nearly a decade |
| Likewise, we achieved a strong net price, record margin expansion initiative benefits and the best manufacturing trends in more than two decades |
| We have successfully on that, and that is what gives us the confidence that this is not only a multi-year program going forward, but that we can achieve the target that we find for this year of $150 million of revenue |
| Importantly, we have already completed most of our annual price negotiations and we expect to retain the lion’s share of the strong net price achieved over the past few years on our strong track record, we are confident our 2024 margin expansion benefits will surpass last year's record savings |
| Overall, we expect a stronger demand, significant initiative benefits and favorable operating performance will provide O-I good momentum as market strengthened over the course of the year |
| Our business capabilities are strong |
| So our capability such that it give us the confidence we can deliver on performance improvement, we've been doing so for the last few years and there is still room for improvement, and we have very good plans in place to do that |
| So as we stand here, we got two years left of those very favorable energy positions |
| Importantly, we anticipate a stronger future earnings as both sales and production volumes more fully recovered, which we will discuss a bit later in our remarks |
| John Haudrich Just to build maybe one comment on top of that is if you look back at the history of this company, we have actually very good pricing power |
| So hopefully that gives you a little bit of texture about the solidity of the net price, which we think is fairly solid in that regard |
| As you know MAGMA has a number of characteristics that will create a competitive advantage that are not available today in the market |
| We are very excited about the long-term future for O-I, as we aim to disrupt the glass industry |
| Our balance sheet is the healthiest in years, reflecting very good capital allocation discipline |
| Importantly, execution is already underway on our aggressive but achievable margin expansion initiative target, which is the highest in the programs a year history |
| Full year adjusted earnings were $3.09 per share as results improved significantly from the prior year and exceeded our most recent guidance |
| Overall, Glass entered the stocking phase behind many other industries, which have already started to see a rebound, which provides additional confidence |
| We are seeing early signs of improvement with good sequential volume improvement in January |
| We have completed more than 80% of our annual price agreements and expect to retain approximately 75% of the very favorable net price achieved over the past few years supporting adequate returns |
| Finally, glass demand trends improved in January as shipments were down about 10% compared to a 60% decline in the four quarter |
| In conclusion, these factors support our belief we have passed the bottoms and are increasingly confident in the low to meet single-digit volume growth in 2024, with additional improvement in 2025 |
| As a result, we are entering 2024 with a solid foundation and are well positioned to capitalize as markets recovered over the course of the year |
| Building off previous comments, O-I reported historically high earnings in 2023, with favorable performance across most financial measures |
| Sales improved to over $7.1 billion both EBITDA and segment operating profit increased more than 20%, while segment margins increased 280 basis points to over 17% |
| As noted, adjusted EPS exceeded our most recent guidance and represented the highest adjusted earnings since 2008 |
| We again demonstrated our improved operating effectiveness in 2023, as we successfully weathered difficult macro conditions that developed over the course of the year, reporting the highest adjusted earnings since 2008 and finished the year with the best balance sheet in nearly a decade |
| Strong 2023 performance highlights the company's improved agility and capability to manage through challenging market conditions |
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| As expected, fourth quarter results were down from the prior year given market pressures that were most pronounced in the back half of the year |
| As discussed last quarter, we faced a unique set of circumstances throughout 2023 leading to lower shipments of glass containers |
| Next, we believe the worst of the stocking is done, especially in beer and NABs, while wine and spirits might linger into 2024 |
| While shipments were down 16% from 2022 levels, which was softer than expected |
| We anticipate 2024 adjusted earnings would lag our historically high performance last year, given the continuation of softer macros into the first half of the year |
| Finally, leverage ended the year at 2.8x, which was below our target |
| As illustrated on the left earnings were down from $0.38 last year due to lower segment profit and unfavorable non-operating items, including elevated interest expense, which was partially offset by favorable FX |
| And the -- something that we're seeing in the market is a growing concern with regards to imports of empty glass by our customers due to potential supply chain disruptions which should favor local supply and that's all primarily in the wine space |
| And as we saw, just even in the fourth quarter in Europe volumes were down 22% |
| And I think the biggest challenge is that we were negotiating those prices over the last few months in the backdrop of a pretty soft macro condition |
| Likewise, valuation was negatively impacted by higher weighted average cost of capital, given elevated interest rates |
| So the largest driver of the lower shipments for O-I has been really the stocking activity |
| So -- but we are seeing a low to mid-single digit decline in open market agreements and that's primarily over in Europe |
| As expected, cash flow was down from 2022 levels, primarily due to elevated capital spending as part of our long-term expansion program |
| John Haudrich What I would say is, and we are intentional, just to be clear on the timeline is a little bit uncertain because it's a function of getting the volumes back to pre-pandemic levels |
| Initially, this was driven by moderately lower consumer consumption followed by significant inventory of stocking across the food and beverage supply chains |
| Lower net price will likely reflect about a 1% decline in average gross selling price amid a more normal 3% cost inflation environment |
| If as we entered the softness that really was -- that occurred for us kind of January, February of '23, our inventories were probably too low |
| Looking at this past four quarter, we anticipated glass shipments will be down 12% to 15%, yet actual shipments were down 16%, reflecting some acceleration in the stocking activity across the value chain |
| As an example, we have included a federal reserve chart in the appendix that illustrates the declining wholesale inventories for alcoholic beverages in the U.S |
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