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| We are setting the business up to continue to deliver positive free cash flow when our business returns to growth |
| We remain confident in the resilience of our business and our ability to be well positioned for return to growth |
| For the quarter, we delivered $61 million in free cash flow with solid progress on improving our working capital efficiency |
| Our business fundamentals remain strong |
| Net sales for our Intelisys Technology Services business grew 7.5% and drove our recurring revenue growth |
| Our balance sheet remains strong |
| We gained working capital efficiency as demonstrated by improvements in our working capital metrics |
| As we entered fiscal year 2024, we identified strong free cash flow and focus on Intelisys as keys for our success |
| As we have discussed in previous quarters, strong growth continued from our Cisco portfolio of products and services and our networking products |
| We used our strong balance sheet to minimize inventory shortages while enabling our customers to meet stronger than normal demand |
| For the quarter, our adjusted EBITDA and improved working capital efficiency generated another strong quarter of free cash flow |
| While revenues were lower, our business delivered EBITDA margins consistent with our expectations and strong free cash flow |
| We continued to improve our key working capital metrics and recurring revenues grew led by 7.5% year-over-year growth in Intelisys |
| But our UCaaS business has continued to be strong and we'll see what happens going forward |
| And so we do believe within that part of the business, we're doing very well versus our competitors |
| We are pleased with the progress we are making with working capital investment |
| Q2 end user billings increased 10% year-over-year and exceed $2.6 billion annualized |
| Inventory levels and paid for inventory days continue to improve, reflecting both a return to normal supply chain lead times and our expectation of demand |
| I think we continue to do well in the space |
| We actually have a strong relationship with NCR and some key partners that deployed self-checkout for at least two years during COVID, post-COVID |
| From a net debt leverage perspective, we ended Q2 at approximately 0.8 times trailing 12 months adjusted EBITDA, with ample liquidity within our existing credit facility to support our strategic plans |
| So I would say we still had growth, pretty good growth year-over-year, but we definitely saw signs of it starting to slow down |
| We are maintaining our free cash flow outlook of at least $200 million as we continue to improve our working capital efficiency |
| What we experienced in Q2 is that our networking business did grow |
| For Q3, we expect net sales to be down 6% to 8% quarter-over-quarter, which is better than our typical Q3 seasonality |
| For our second quarter, we achieved this aim with free cash flow of $61 million and Intelisys growth of 7.5% |
| Our aspiration is sustainable and predictable free cash flow that we can forecast and count on |
| If you could maybe just double click on capital allocation priorities, I mentioned that because depending on the second of the day here in the market that the company is valued at a market cap less than $1 billion, and you've got $200 million of free cash flow, would seem to be a really good opportunity to consider share repurchase given that sort of a yield |
| This includes billings growth in Contact Center as a Service CCaaS of 24% and UCaaS of 18% |
| Q2 inventory turns increased to 5.1 times, the fastest in five quarters |
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| Q2 demand was softer than we expected |
| Gross profits in our Modern Communication and Cloud segment declined 9% year-over-year, reflecting an unfavorable product mix |
| Second quarter net sales declined 13%, reflecting lower demand from our portfolio of technologies |
| These technologies are reported in our Specialty Technology & Solutions segment, which saw a revenue decline of 17% year-over-year and a corresponding 17% year-over-year decline in gross profit |
| Q2 net sales of $885 million declined 12.5% year-over-year, while gross profit margins of 11.4% were in line with the prior year |
| As it turns out, we were too optimistic in a changing demand environment |
| During Q2, barcode, mobility, point-of-sale, security and communications hardware sales declined more than we expected |
| In our Modern Communication and Cloud segment, revenues declined 5% year-over-year |
| While we expected a year-over-year revenue decline, the recovery for our barcode and mobility technology is occurring slower than we expected, and we saw a slowdown sooner than expected in physical security |
| And obviously, there's been weakness on the mobility point of sale and that side of the business |
| And we also mentioned in our prepared remarks, that the security part of that business, our physical security surprised us in the quarter |
| However, we were disappointed at our lower-than-expected net sales for our hardware business |
| In this environment, forecasting demand is very challenging |
| And now things are much more difficult for us as a company that has an average order size of around $2,500 and no bookings and no backlogs to forecast |
| And I've seen headlines around some businesses moving away from self-checkout kiosks |
| Looking ahead to the second half of FY '24, the company expects revenue headwinds to continue, and we are updating our guidance to reflect our current view of near-term demand |
| And that business definitely did slow down last quarter |
| It slowed down in Q2, and we didn't anticipate that |
| So we didn't see some of the end of the year buying and we did see a slowdown in the December month |
| Mike, I just wanted to ask on maybe the cadence of the quarter, obviously below expectations |
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