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| Incremental to our strategic sourcing waves, we have seen benefit from our rapid renegotiation process that is a part of our transformed sourcing excellence work |
| Third, our transformation initiatives have gained momentum in 2023 with benefits expected for the remainder of 2023 and beyond |
| Second, we updated our 2023 guidance due to strong performance year-to-date and confidence in our strategy |
| First, solid execution within our diversified portfolio and transformation initiatives continued to drive significant margin expansion in Q3 |
| We are very pleased with our third quarter results, which surpassed the guidance that we provided on our last earnings call |
| Q3 marked the sixth consecutive quarter of sales over $1 billion, and the sixth consecutive quarter of adjusted margin expansion |
| Bob Fishman Now, we had talked at the beginning of the year of that $370 million but the business has done significantly better than that and will grow roughly 20% this year |
| Our customers are really proud of those brands and they tend to give us the ability to have at least a fair opportunity to win those jobs when we go to market |
| I want to celebrate these strong results with all our employees |
| And so our employees are really proud of those brands |
| And so we are benefiting substantially from a lot of more seamless deliveries across the entire supply chain today |
| And so I would say, we got really close in Q3 and I think we feel really good about our Q4 revenue estimate at this moment |
| So I mean your Pool volumes this quarter came in better than what we were thinking about when we spoke three months ago |
| I think they're directionally in a really good spot as a business model and obviously getting growth from here is going to leverage up nicely |
| So overall pleased with the ROS expansion in Q4 versus last year's Q4 and it will be the momentum we need exiting the year |
| In fact, we've seen great results across all three of these areas with our transformation having begun to read out and new innovation launch this year with exciting new products coming in all three segments |
| And our Manitowoc Ice acquisition is exceeding expectations |
| So very confident in the Manitowoc business |
| So they've had a very strong year |
| I think the orders continue to be strong from a mid-single-digit indicator as we go forward, but the year-over-year comparisons are going to be tougher |
| I mean I think what we'd like to see unfold is we believe Q4 can be higher from a shipment perspective for Pentair than Q3 and then we would expect Q1 to be better than Q4 |
| In Q3, transformation gained momentum and drove a substantial increase in productivity sequentially from Q2 |
| So overall pleased with the momentum going into 2024 |
| We delivered another strong quarter with significant ROS expansion |
| Our Manitowoc Ice acquisition continued to exceed expectation |
| Our IFT and Water Solutions segments more than offset Pool's volume decline and our transformation initiatives drove margin expansion |
| Our performance through Q3 resulted in another positive update to 2023 adjusted EPS guidance |
| All in, we are building a strong foundation to drive long-term growth and profitability across our diverse water portfolio |
| So we were pleased to see the $29 million read out in the third quarter, up significantly from the single-digit in Q2 and expect to have a significant transformation benefit in the fourth quarter |
| We remain confident in our diversified water business model, long-term strategy and our transformation initiatives, which we expect to continue to drive shareholder returns |
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| Core sales for Q3 were down 7% year-over-year, driven by our residential businesses |
| This is mainly attributable to expected lower Pool volume year-over-year and the return of seasonality in our business now that lead times have normalized |
| In Q3, Pool sales declined 21% to $309 million |
| For the fourth quarter, we expect sales to be down approximately 3% to 4% |
| So maybe if you could unpack that and if like any segments in particular you think the margins are weaker than normal for 4Q |
| In Water Solutions, I think you've also had some inventory destocking in some other business, residential water treatment businesses |
| We continue to expect total Pentair sales in fiscal 2023 to be approximately $4.1 billion or down about 1% |
| The challenge for us is bumping up against a tough compares next year |
| And so a lot of the decline in the revenue was on the residential side |
| When you look sequentially, it does come down, but a lot of that does reflect some of the seasonality that, that is returning back to more normalized levels |
| Joe Giordano Okay, and then similarly on Water Solutions, I think you were talking about -- like the commentary coming out of last quarter was that the margins were going to step down pretty decently sequentially in the third quarter because of the deliveries that Manitowoc did in 2Q and the opposite happened, right? It went up sequentially |
| I think that slows down some of the projects that we're working on |
| I think you were expecting down 7% |
| The volume decline of 28 points was primarily due to continued channel inventory corrections in the quarter and reflects a strong Q3 2022 comparison |
| Just a reminder though, we're going to start comparing against really good delivered quarters in the prior years and so that year-over-year performance is going to moderate |
| We're not exposed to commercial buildings more than a $100 million or a couple of hundred million, but I think you're going to see financing be tougher on the building side |
| The market is not robust though at the moment |
| And then maybe the sort of the comps get a bit tougher on productivity |
| It seemed inflation picked up a bit as a headwind year-on-year versus the prior quarter |
| For Pool sales, we have made a slight adjustment to down high-teens from previous guidance of down mid-teens at the high end of the range |
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