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| Our team continues to make solid progress on overall Vehicle Development including the Battery performance |
| We continue to maintain a leading position in the long-term growth projections remain intact for the industry |
| In conclusion, our team has built an outstanding vehicle |
| Over the last 50 years, Shyft has grown to a national leader in many specialty vehicle markets, while consistently demonstrating the ability to innovate, partnering with customers, and maintain financial stability |
| In past roles, I've delivered ambitious growth by focusing on building solid teams and driving commercial and operational excellence |
| As Jon Douyard discussed earlier, our core businesses are excellent at generating cash through the cycle |
| We have excellent core businesses with leading market positions, well-recognized brands and our customers rely on us every day |
| As our end markets recover and with continued focus on working capital, we believe we are well-positioned to generate cash flow and continue to confidently invest in our future |
| I mean I think the SV business had a tremendous year I think 20% to 20% EBITDA margins for the year, which ramped really sequentially throughout the year as well |
| Our focus and investment into infrastructure related businesses is paying off as reflected in the strength of SV's performance |
| Jacob is a proven leader and we are confident though he will continue to drive the necessary improvements already underway in FVS and utilize his experience within SV these to strengthen coordination across the company |
| We continue to be excited about the long-term growth prospects of the Company |
| We did see it was a strong orders month in January which is a positive |
| And so we feel very good about it, and we want to make sure that we get that the right vehicle on the road |
| In Specialty Vehicles, our team closed out a strong year with another quarter of record profitability, as our infrastructure focused vocational truck businesses continued to deliver solid growth and operational improvements, offsetting ongoing market weakness in motorhome chassis |
| We delivered tremendous performance in our Specialty Vehicles business with 20% adjusted EBITDA margin for the full year |
| While there is more work to do, I am confident, this will be a growth driver for Shyft |
| I'm impressed by the quality of the product, the robustness of the design and what the team has been able to accomplish |
| Some of the strengths that we have is great products, great relationships with our customers, where we saw there's opportunities as I went around and interacted with different locations is to do more as a one-shift organization and leverage our strength, bring expertise from one area into other areas |
| As I noted on our call back in October, I'm excited to be leading this fantastic company |
| Having just completed my first full year at Shyft, including the last four months as CEO, I continue to be impressed by the industry leading products and the team's capabilities together with the leadership team, we have defined an operating framework, which will serve as the foundation to drive sustainable financial growth and deliver value for our shareholders going forward |
| And we drove solid cash generation, allowing us to fund key growth initiatives including Blue Arc |
| The team is acting with utmost urgency to deliver improved 2024 results |
| We look for better ways to enable our businesses to ensure that they had the appropriate tools and support needed to be successful |
| I'm very excited about Shyft’s future and look forward to the years to come |
| Our approach includes a relentless focus on building high-performing teams to foster collaboration and drive results delivering operational excellence, improving efficiency in all aspects of the business, while bringing innovative and high-quality products to our customers, and keeping customers at the center of everything we do from sales to design to delivery, we are here to enable our customer success |
| We top-graded key roles including production and sales leadership to improve immediate performance and build bench strength |
| Before I close out this section, I would like to reinforce our core business's ability to generate cash |
| So there was some work already done, which helps us accelerate, but we're going through that validation to make sure when we put a vehicle to market it's going to be at the right quality level and really deliver the performance long-term that we expect and our customers expect |
| We'll see a step-up in Q2 and would expect to see improved performance in the second half |
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| In the quarter Fleet Vehicles and Services achieved sales of $119 million, down 44.1% compared to $212.9 million a year ago reflecting softness in the last mile delivery end markets |
| With lower profitability, driven by sales volume and negative product mix, which includes the impact of the USPS pass-through sales |
| Overall 2023 was a challenging year for Shyft, as deterioration in the parcel and motorhome markets impacted overall performance |
| Sales were $202.3 million, down 33% from $302 million in the prior year |
| For the last-mile parcel delivery business has been soft recently |
| Fourth quarter sales were $83.4 million, a 10.6% decrease from $93.2 million in the prior year |
| We previously discussed, Battery quality issues impacting our ability to go into production |
| And so, there will be sequential declines as well, which put pressure on the Q1 margins before we see volumes return as we move through the year |
| Adjusted EBITDA margin was negative 2.2% of sales compared to 13% in the fourth quarter last year |
| As we enter 2024, we continue to take a cautious view on near-term demand for both parcel and motorhome volume and we expect the softness we experienced in the second half of 2023 to persist, likely through mid-year |
| Shyft's recent performance has been impacted by end market demand softness and we are acting with urgency to return the business to historical profitability |
| FVS backlog was $325 million at the end of the year, down 15% versus the prior quarter |
| Adjusted net loss for the quarter was $0.9 million, while adjusted EPS decreased to a loss of $0.03 per share |
| And we had technical issues candidly with Proterra as well at all related to the battery the vehicles fantastic |
| We'll say the SCS business backlog has been sequentially down for a couple of quarter or for the quarters in a row |
| Adjusted EBITDA for the quarter was a loss of $2.6 million versus income of $27.7 million a year ago |
| I think when you look at the total company, volume will be a little bit pressured in the first quarter just based on how demand and the backlog is playing out |
| I think as we talked about the demand softness that we saw in the second half of the year particularly as we got into Q4 we expect that to continue with just through the first half of the year which is consistent with what we've talked about previously |
| Net loss of $4.4 million or a loss of $0.13 per share compared to net income of $17.8 million or $0.50 per share in the previous year |
| And so we want to be cautious as we continue here through the first half of the year on how quickly this market opens up |
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