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| Our culture is lean-based and we're excited about the productivity we can unlock as we move into 2024 |
| So we think this is a great company, great leadership, great technology, and we're excited to get this closed and have it be part of the Trane Technologies portfolio, and it's going to really help us grow our digital business at a nice clip |
| But I would tell you the productivity opportunity for us as price comes back to a bit more of a normalized level, that is really the opportunity for us going forward to really continue to drive 25% or better incrementals |
| This enables us to consistently outgrow our end markets and deliver differentiated financial results |
| So the price execution versus inflation, as I said earlier, it was positive on a margin and dollar basis |
| Our global team performed extremely well in the third quarter, setting us up for a strong 2023 and positioning us well for 2024 |
| We delivered strong organic growth of 9% and leverage throughout the P&L, resulting in adjusted EPS growth of 23% and powerful free cash flow |
| We continue to see very strong customer demand for our products and services, with the enterprise bookings at an all-time high of nearly $5 billion in the quarter |
| Bookings were exceptionally strong in our commercial HVAC businesses globally, with organic bookings growth of low to mid-teens in all segments |
| Our Americas commercial HVAC business was once again a standup with organic bookings up mid-teens in the quarter and up approximately 65% on a 3-year stack |
| As I think about the third quarter, we really were able to execute across all parts of the P&L to drive leverage and gross margin expansion |
| And just so everyone's aware, thermal management -- our thermal storage systems are great ways for energy efficiency but they're also great ways to help balance the grid |
| We continue to drive strong demand and a healthy pipeline of projects in key growth verticals across our commercial HVAC businesses |
| And the pipeline is strong as well |
| Our leading innovation and unique direct go-to-market strategy enables us to quickly pivot and win in the highest growth verticals as markets evolve |
| And China had high single digits and the rest of Asia had mid-teens, so very strong performance on order rate |
| As our residential business has normalized and transport markets have softened, our overall business has delivered strong results and is on track to deliver high single-digit organic revenue growth and 20%-plus adjusted EPS growth for the year, our third consecutive year of 20% or higher adjusted EPS growth |
| We're on pace to deliver free cash flow equal to or greater than 100% of net earnings and continue to execute our balanced capital allocation strategy with high levels of business reinvestment, a strong and growing dividend, strategic bolt-on M&A and share repurchases |
| Our strong execution, robust bookings and revenue growth and exceptional backlog gives us confidence in raising our 2023 guidance and confidence in our ability to deliver strong performance in 2024 as well |
| Demand for our innovative products and services continues to be broad-based across our segments, highlighting the strength of our global portfolio |
| Organic bookings were up 8%, led by our commercial HVAC businesses |
| In the Americas, commercial HVAC was very strong across the board |
| We discussed booking strength on the prior slide but revenues were exceptional as well, up in the low 20s percent range with equipment up approximately 30% and services up low teens |
| It was impressed that even though you had lighter margins -- lighter revenues, the margins were much stronger |
| So we're well positioned for next year |
| And that, of course, brings with itself healthy margins |
| But I am confident that as we think about the cost environment and the innovation of our products, we're going to make sure we're pricing effectively |
| Bookings were strong in both businesses, both up low teens |
| Commercial HVAC revenues were robust with mid-single-digit growth on tough prior year comps |
| And the teams have done an outstanding job with this over the last 3-plus years in the inflationary environment to stay ahead on inflation |
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| But if we put a few reasons behind it, one is when I think about the toughest comp of the year, our commercial HVAC businesses, this is really the toughest comp across the board going into the fourth quarter on a year-over-year basis |
| And then within that, education, I think there's some concerns out there with the stimulus funding kind of reaching a peak, perhaps that maybe education falls off in '24 |
| Could we find some quarters where the backlog will start to normalize or bookings growth will be negative? I guess we could |
| And then there were some weaker verticals as well |
| When we think about the beginning of the year, we guided ending backlog down to around $6 billion, and that would have implied bookings down around 5%, 6% |
| But if I wanted to look at the Q4 for what that's worth, the revenue guide implies nearly, I think, sort of 8%, 9% sequential sales decline from Q3, which seems a bit heavier than normal |
| Asia revenues were slightly lower against a tough prior year comp of nearly 30% growth |
| As we highlighted in our second quarter call, EMEA HVAC has very tough comps in both the third and fourth quarters, up high 20s and low 40s, respectively, and revenue growth is expected to be more moderate in the second half |
| And certainly, office and warehousing would be areas, retail, that'd be a little bit weaker today |
| And then maybe following up, Dave, you mentioned in the prepared remarks that orders need to go down at some point due to the law of large numbers |
| Just obviously, supply chain constraints have been a factor in the applied business, yes |
| And with that, the inefficiencies, as you said, it was hard to get that productivity the last couple of years |
| On revenue, we were flattish, down a bit |
| I'm not sure why backlog would really go down much from here |
| I think while certainly interest rates have gone in the negative direction on paybacks, I would tell you that the change in paybacks is minor when we think about the energy-efficient systems that we're able to quote customers |
| We would expect to be a bit lower in the fourth quarter than the third quarter |
| Revenues were a bit lower than our guidance of down 10%, driven by the timing of customer deliveries between Q2 and Q3 but remained strong against a tough 60% prior year growth comp |
| Our constructive view around residential for the full year hasn't changed with revenues down around mid-single digits |
| ACT is forecasting a dip in North American trailer production in 2024, a snapback in 2025 and growth thereafter |
| So the other question is wouldn't you need like a step change negative in the macro to see that? Because it feels like the lead time compression headwinds are kind of largely in the rearview at this point |
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