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| And in pivoting with just the Tools Group volume did not meet our standards, but the tools team did blunt the difficulty with favorable mix and RCI driving improvement of OI margins up 20 basis points with the gross margin rising 200 basis points |
| OI margin reached 21.6%, up 10 basis points, and the EPS was $4.75, rising 7.5% and against the turbulence |
| We've got a good - as I said, product leads the way |
| Our product lineup is good |
| So we feel pretty good about that |
| We believe that with our advantages in product, everyone recognizes we know work and we do make tasks easier |
| The results represent a positive trend of some significance, demonstrating Snap-on's ability to adapt and to overcome market disruptions |
| And perhaps the biggest story of all is the emergence of the critical industry business, growing strong double digits in all four quarters demonstrating that we really can roll the Snap-on brand out of the garage at considerable margins |
| The group has abundant opportunities for a great future and our RSI team has the products to take advantage |
| RS&I, sales up 6.7% organically and an OI margin of 24.3%, up 70 basis points off a strong base |
| And it was all offered by some noteworthy performance of the Tools Group, not encountering the smoothest sailing but still achieving an OI margin of 23.6%, an increase of 150 basis points |
| We believe automotive repair continues to be clearly favorable |
| Opco OI margin rose 110 basis points, another significant advance and a long line of game reaching 22% for the first time, and the EPS was $18.76 up versus all comparisons |
| It's a considerable opportunity at which Snap-on is clearly taking advantage |
| But I believe the bright-line story in this period is the full year sales for the corporation increased 5.6% organically |
| OI margins of 21.6% increased 10 basis points and an EPS of $4.75 rising 7.5%, all representing progress and a time when all was not where we'd like it to be |
| So the underlying repair business is strong |
| Now more to our standard, group OI margins were 21.6%, up 20 basis points, overcoming 10 basis points of negative currency and the gross margin percentage rose 200 basis points, nice gains |
| So C&I, mixed progress, challenged with headwinds but clear and overall advancement, great momentum enabled by capacity expansion and by growing product power |
| I think this way, though, I'm pretty sure we're doing better because we had in the queue some ability to adjust for shorter payback items in those areas |
| And we believe we're well positioned to face the challenges of today, though at the end of today and those that may arise in the future |
| The operating margin of 14.9%, including 50 basis points of unfavorable currency effects compared to 14% in 2022, reflecting an improvement of 90 basis points |
| We anticipate that the new portal will be a big boost and a great opportunity for C&I in the growing area of tool control, a very important area for us |
| But shining through all that variability is our expanding strength in those critical industries |
| Gross margin improved 150 basis points to 39.2% in the fourth quarter from 37.7% in 2022 |
| Gross margin improved 200 basis points to 45.2% in the quarter from 43.2% last year |
| We remain confident that we have the continuing potential along - we have continuing potential long-run run rates for growth, and we see significant power to overcome rooted in our Snap-on value creation processes of safety, quality, customer action innovation and rapid continuous improvement, especially customer connection |
| One of our substantial competitive advantages is being right where the actual paths are being pursued and in engineering the products to make the work easier by matching those insights, the insights gained with technology applied |
| The KRSC2430 economical storage, attractive features convenient mobility, we expect it will have strong and continuing to appeal in this uncertain environment |
| And in the quarter and in the year, our product line continued to advance, just kept getting stronger |
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| Sales in the Snap-on Tools Group of $513.3 million compared to $542.7 million a year ago, reflecting a 5.7% organic sales decline partially offset by $1.6 million of favorable foreign currency translation |
| The techs are cash rich, but because of the external bad news of getting for breakfast almost every day, the impact in the Ukraine, the war in the Middle East, the dysfunction at the border and the uncertainty of the upcoming election, the weight of it all appears to be turning the tech's, confidence poor |
| Aldo Pagliari If you think about what we said, people are lacking confidence to some degree for big-ticket items |
| If we don't, if we don't grow, they will be below our expectations |
| Consolidated gross margin of 48.3%, including 20 basis points of unfavorable foreign currency effects compared to 48.5% last year |
| Sales in the quarter were $513.3 million included in our - and they included an organic decrease of 5.7% compared to last year |
| And similar to the results of the Tools Group, EC originations in the United States were down more than what we saw internationally |
| So it's not that things are bad today, but people worry about how things are going to happen and what's going to happen in the future |
| Operating earnings for the C&I segment of $54.1 million, including $1.4 million of unfavorable foreign currency effects compared to $47.9 million last year |
| The organic decrease reflects a high single-digit decline in the U.S |
| As such, we see mixed results in Europe and a continuing but slow recovery in Asia |
| We saw this problem |
| And it's a common problem with other units |
| So, hand tools were down some |
| But you have lower sales from C&I and from RS&I to the Tools Group, reflects actually pretty much power tools and diagnostic related products |
| Operating expenses as a percentage of sales rose 180 basis points to 23.6% in the quarter from 21.8% in 2022, largely due to the lower sales volume |
| RS&I operating earnings for the quarter were $113.3 million, and the operating margin was a still strong 25.1%, but down 20 basis points, reflecting the mix shift to lower-margin under car and OEM facing and the OEM-facing activities |
| I do believe, I've said it many times that there is a bifurcation economy that there's a financial economy, the kinds of people that I said in my talk that my remarks that we're talking about the recession is coming and recession is coming and the people are saying we're going to have a soft landing now |
| Personal confidence is a balance between your current environment, the garage we see and the way you see the world evolving in sometime and sometime in the mid fall of last year, our franchisees sense that balance shifting negatively |
| And so sensing it, they changed their words that put a little strain on a factory because when you change the orders, it makes the capacity shrink a little bit |
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