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| Though it's still early days, we think this could provide an exciting opportunity to offset the delays and push-outs in utility scale with projects that have a faster turnaround |
| Further, as we discussed on our last call, we see a compelling opportunity in the community scale commercial and industrial segment |
| 2023 was another year of tremendous execution for Shoals, with revenue growing approximately 50% for the second consecutive year |
| We are pleased to have continued our trend of improving our leverage ratio again during the period |
| Our ability to drive operational leverage as we grew revenue contributed to full year adjusted gross profit increasing 75% compared to the prior year |
| Adjusted EBITDA was up 86% year-over-year, while full year adjusted gross margin and adjusted EBITDA margin both expanded almost 700 basis points compared to the prior year |
| Look, we remain very excited about our future and I think your inclination around backlog growth is correct |
| Finally, with the significant cash flow we expect to generate in 2024 and beyond, Shoals has new balance sheet optionality to further drive shareholder value |
| We are pleased that Shoals has transitioned into a company with strong cash flow generation |
| Shoals had another strong quarter with revenue growing 38% year-over-year to $130.4 million |
| Backlog and awarded orders were $631.3 million, up 47% year-over-year, and approximately flat sequentially, reflecting continued strong demand for our products |
| Our BLA solution is the best in the business and having that solution for the customers is the best value for them |
| Further, our quote volumes remained very strong, growing 154% year-over-year |
| While the industry is going through a period of transition, our long-term future is bright with record-quoting activity and strong orders |
| Subsequent to quarter end, we bolstered our domestic leadership position after entering into a master supply agreement with a new top solar EPC |
| Shoals is an innovation leader with strong product development capability |
| The long-term fundamentals for solar are incredibly strong |
| If it does, we offer a unique opportunity to reduce labor costs |
| As we make these investments, we will continue to drive operational excellence and build our organizational capacity to maintain our leadership position in domestic utility scale solar and grow to a leadership position in newer market segments |
| I believe that we've got a pretty unique value proposition to be able to build plug-and-play systems at scale and reduce labor costs in the field, also aggregating supply chain issues |
| So it's a positive thing for our core business in Shoals |
| We believe this trend will drive solar market growth in the coming decades |
| This includes leveraging our very strong balance sheet and cash flows by investing for both organic and inorganic growth |
| Another significant year improvement in operating cash |
| This includes growing share within our domestic solar base and accelerating growth in international markets |
| Shoals is excited to be a leader in the energy transition space with our market leading solutions in electrical balance of systems |
| First and foremost, I think you'll see that we've made another quarter improvement in our leverage ratios as we paydown and continue to retire some expensive debt |
| In 2023, I'm really pleased that the guide that we issued at the beginning of the year we achieved within that range on every metric or exceeded |
| The undeniable ongoing shift toward renewables, driven by cost competitiveness and sustainability goals, creates a significant growth opportunity for the industry |
| We believe we're well-positioned to capitalize on this trend through our focus on utility scale projects and proactive approach to mitigating near-term challenges |
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| Given the current headwinds in the utility scale solar market, some of our customers have experienced project delays |
| Higher financing costs, extended equipment lead times, particularly for transformers and switchgear, and long interconnection queues are all exacerbating industry weakness |
| As we mentioned, yeah, this is a year when the revenues are a little softer across the marketplace, and we see that |
| As far as project delays go, look, we see an industry-wide issue |
| In the first half of the year, we are experiencing with the lower revenue, perhaps even negative growth year-over-year in the first half of the year, we are definitely going to be losing some leverage |
| I think, look, like probably everybody else in the industry has mentioned, the supply chain issues mostly center around transformers and switchgear products |
| The industry slowdown is significant and will impact our results in the first half of 2024, but we expect this trend to reverse over time |
| Adjusted EBITDA margin was 30% compared to 31.8% a year ago, reflecting lower gross margin partially offset by operating expense leverage |
| Projects that are out there had 36% of them in Q1 of 2022 were experiencing delays |
| I think you may have mentioned customer procurement as one of the challenges driving some delays here |
| Because of this, we've seen some reductions to multi-year growth rates in industry publications |
| These factors include, among other things, the risk factors described in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including economic, market and industry conditions, defects or performance problems in our products or their parts, including those related wire inflation shrinkback matter, failure to accurately estimate the potential losses related to such matter and failure to recover those losses from the manufacturer, decrease demand for our products, policy and regulatory changes, supply chain disruptions and availability and price of our components and materials |
| It looks like system components in the second half of '23 was down a little bit versus the first half |
| Though these projects are smaller than utility scale, they share many of the same challenges, including high labor costs for deployment and supply chain challenges that our technology was developed to address |
| But look, we also hear delays due to permitting, due to labor challenges and due to long interconnection queue lead time |
| But we did see signs of slowdowns with project push-outs in late fourth quarter and in January |
| We're seeing project delays going from 36% in early Q1 of 2022 to 62% in the backend |
| I think Brandon mentioned the EIA data that has project delays |
| We will continue to pursue markets that support global electrification and are impacted by skilled labor needs and supply chain constraints |
| Hopefully, we'll solve over the coming quarters, but a mixed bag across our customer base of what we're hearing and why |
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