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| The strong bookings levels in commercial aftermarket over the past 12 months support our commercial aftermarket guide for revenue growth in the mid-teen percent range for fiscal 2024 |
| To reiterate, we believe we are unique in the industry in both the consistency of our strategy in good times and bad as well as our steady focus on intrinsic shareholder value creation through all phases of the aerospace cycle |
| Additionally, we had good operating cash flow generation in Q4 of over $460 million and ended the quarter with close to $3.5 billion of cash |
| Defense bookings are also up significantly this quarter compared to the same prior year period |
| The defense market revenue, which includes both OEM and aftermarket revenues, grew by approximately 15% in Q4 and 11% for the full fiscal year 2023 compared with the prior year periods |
| International traffic has continued to make strides over the past few months |
| So the fact that the TransDigm model still holds is very encouraging |
| As you saw from our earnings release, we closed out the year with another good quarter |
| We had solid operating performance in Q4 with both total revenue and EBITDA as defined margin coming in strong |
| This full-year defense revenue growth exceeded our last guidance expectation of growth in the mid to high single-digit range that we gave on the last call |
| Commercial aerospace market trends remain favorable as the industry continues to recover and progress towards normalization |
| Domestic air travel in China continues to improve and was up 8% in September compared to pre-pandemic |
| OEMs are making steady headway on aircraft production |
| In our business, during the quarter, we saw a healthy growth in our revenues and bookings for all three of our major market channels, commercial OEM, commercial aftermarket and defense |
| Revenues also sequentially improved in all three of these market channels |
| Contributing to the strong margin is the continued recovery in our commercial aftermarket revenues along with our strict operational focus and disciplined approach to cost structure management |
| Within our biz jet submarket, our revenue was well above pre-COVID levels |
| In the fourth quarter, our organic growth rate was 18.5%, driven by the continued rebound in our commercial OEM and aftermarket end markets |
| Absolutely encouraged by that part of the business |
| The products manufactured by this business are highly engineered proprietary components with significant aftermarket content and a strong presence across major aerospace and defense platforms |
| Commercial aftermarket bookings for this quarter were strong compared to the same prior year period |
| As we look out over the next 12 to 18 months, we continue to have a slightly stronger than typical pipeline of potential targets and remain encouraged concerning deal flow |
| It was a good year, and we are pleased with the operating performance they delivered for our shareholders |
| But again, we'll still make very attractive commercial aftermarket margins on the newer stuff that's flying as well |
| Throughout fiscal 2023, we were encouraged by the recovery seen in our commercial revenues and strong booking trends |
| Our strong bookings support the fiscal 2024 commercial end market revenue guidance, which I will comment on shortly |
| Trends are positive across all three of our major market channels, commercial OEM, commercial aftermarket and defense |
| And those guys are doing quite well and volumes – production volumes are up quite a bit |
| While risks remain towards achieving this ramp-up across the broader aerospace sector, we are optimistic that our operating units are well positioned to support the higher production targets |
| We continue to be encouraged by the steadily increasing commercial OEM production rates at Boeing and Airbus and the strong airline demand for new aircraft |
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| There is still progress to be made for the industry and our results continue to be adversely affected in comparison to pre-pandemic levels |
| A quarter ago, at the end of June, international travel globally was depressed about 12% compared to pre-pandemic levels, but in the most recent data for September, this travel was only down about 7% |
| As a reminder and consistent with past years, with roughly 10% less working days than the subsequent quarters, fiscal 2024 Q1 revenues, EBITDA and EBITDA margins are anticipated to be lower than the other three quarters of 2024 |
| As mentioned on our last earnings call, we've started to see some booking softness in the freight submarket of our commercial aftermarket, likely as a result of the sustained declines in CTKs and the full freighter market challenges that I referenced |
| However, total air travel remains slightly below pre-COVID levels and OEM aircraft production rates remain well below pre-pandemic levels |
| First, on the volume and where we stand now across our whole commercial aftermarket in FY2023, we're probably down in the volume space, something like 15% or so |
| Business jet utilization is below the pandemic highs reached in 2021 and continues to temper |
| Global air cargo volumes have continued to struggle and after 19 straight months of year-over-year declines, just returned to flattish to slightly positive growth these last two months |
| The passenger piece is down, obviously, 15%, sorry, I should have highlighted that, passengers down 15% |
| OEM supply chain and labor challenges persist, but appear to be slowly progressing |
| And it felt like you had gone from kind of skeptical to cautiously optimistic in the middle of the year |
| And I think on the OEM side with Boeing and Airbus, we're actually quite a bit below |
| And then now the industry has faced the situation where some other supply chain issues have held up MAX deliveries |
| At COVID's onset, we saw a precipitous drop at first in the passenger submarket, followed shortly thereafter by a big run-up in freight to levels well in excess of pre-COVID activity |
| It's difficult to forecast the revenue |
| Biz Jet, so that's the commercial transport side down a bit |
| So we don't count on it necessarily coming down, hope for the best, but certainly planned for the worst |
| And obviously, we can see kind of overall inflation trends, but maybe it seems like there's some pressure on wages in the aerospace and defense industry |
| The expectation was that, that would be about – on an annualized basis, that would be about 100 basis points of margin pressure |
| I just wanted to revisit the margin question that Sheila touched on earlier in your comment that the mix shift towards OE, the growth rate being a little higher there relative to aftermarket leads to a pretty modest headwind from a margin perspective that you think you can make up in productivity |
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