Ingredion (INGR) 3 Aug 212021 Q2 Earnings call transcript

Good day, and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Ingredion Incorporated Q2 2021 Earnings Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. After the speakers’ presentation, there will be a question-and-answer session. [Operator Instructions] Please be advised that today’s conference is being recorded. now today, turn of Tiffany and Communications would to conference Investor I Corporate speaker your Willis, Officer. Instructions] like the to over Relations [Operator Vice President ahead. go Please

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volume Excluding up and growth PureCircle, Pacific foreign sales net were XX%, exchange. favorable from benefiting Asia

prior income Asia $XX million, operating X% up Pacific versus was year.

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sales operations flow. Cash costs prior and due down was inventory versus end, cash values. Year-to-date net operations the year by accounts and million of Capital for quarter provided receivable on provided million expenditures the $XXX were year projects. cash prior impact equivalents investments on our corn the to of decreased Moving $XXX driven and payments cash $XXX from to timing higher by by higher $XX were growth million. period cash million. At

the gives the the degree our variants, some half given COVID in around strong emergence remains of of with uncertainty ability confidence for recovery the there While navigate the first our difficult new economic financial second of combined to reinstate environment to half guidance us year, full-year. results team's proven a

corn income compression layout outlook. second in full-year balance corn first with of deliver growth. favorability to Turning our year the half The half margin statement will to

to Our EPS $X.XX. guidance is adjusted of the XXXX $X.XX in for range

up costs, low-double We the to be expect higher net digits corn recovery. sales of volume by price/mix driven pass-through and strong

operating adjusted digits full-year expect to high-single We year. last mid-single up income digits versus be to

to digits. XXXX up to costs of be range million. financing be low-single to costs $XX the million expect $XX corporate in We are expected

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it Let back to Jim. turn me

Jim. Thanks,

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Now the call let's for open questions.

Stephens. comes [Operator question you. Ben Bienvenu Thank first with from Instructions] Our

line Your open. is

everyone. Good Hey. morning,

Ben. Hi,

Hey, Ben.

will things back think your income of in slow operating stronger us the higher, just year. is half guidance prior full-year like of strong, Congrats wanted operating look year relative I to I it think The the quarterly exceptionally I to first guidance, been the than I of if half the does income think expected. on but the results. has ask about any the

that's puts corn suspect Gray, meaningful I tease the comments previously? thinking around how you you the were component some of other takes net Jim relative if guidance to wondering I and So embedded you could in costs, it. I'm a made out it about think,

Ben. Sure, Yes.

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the half our the how hedges to first guidance higher we hopefully, so on favorability co-product the due our just helping – laid with is in and And values. you

we we flat some which As we we corn we'll really have move to inflation half, to XXXX looked higher have look but have higher and the season. into values, the costs. co-product second that how pricing, then Yes, still we

started uptick was four of highest that noteworthy, to also Jim, quarters four the sales the and year. and three fact it's think do quarter year, last highlight I in to see we quarter our last

quarter was on standpoint, I in pre-pandemic. net particular year sales in America, And four were a year. four South up from competitor XXXX tremendous which So believe quarter prior had quarter last a X%

– showing that we're the which or second half second actually And comparisons, momentum to to year North it's some continues the that's that about picked and is four up compression all look the quarter just comparisons to in continues in think got just and against the onward. momentum, half tighter necessarily very in corn at business. I the think America you the the in especially the of business last up I comparisons it the related just and So really don't year good

Yes.

question be and thoughts second rate your That on Okay. just think we makes to your the about think category based in talked fermentation the integration curious Reb we of M. I'm pan continued you the bigger My the And adoption the about if out hear curious how get of big I'd to broader you long-term sense. categories the there, business. sweetener is picture, hear mind? Thank to within view that you. as overall stevia, receptivity these and can PureCircle just

Yes.

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into that and which platform, aligned a partner capabilities couldn't alternative benefits the or stevia. natural broadest So we has a when investments our The an fact a converting making which there a leader extract costs in sweetener what with sweeteners, to headroom product better it a with better are perceived biology. both these M, we natural think in offering in a is to about when sweetener, Amyris, Reb PureCircle's be products M. in leaf for sweetener, is about the and synthetic high technology the natural excited tremendous sustainability then comes tremendous it the Reb bioconverted we're fermented tasting we intensity just we'll from particularly and M taking and is artificial success that that growth the to a think a leaf you seeing and high industry be the is expand And Reb enzymatically intensity

this product, particular labeling, that seeing different just and coming now it excited so a we're at of right about challenges comes to customers solve to from and sugar reduction a are choose the sugar we're a us for capabilities and it gives formulate how very to and all when time same together of to palette different preferences comes three nuances prospects. reduction have So the think capabilities where when of those to the we solution

That's great. Thanks the questions in back so best answers and half of for the the much and luck of the year.

Thank you.

Ben. Thanks

Thank you.

from question Suisse. next with Moskow Credit Our comes Robert

line open. Your is

base and when look of Hi. I timing for market through. as conditions the you a reflective back an the that costs the pricing margin below Thank will really you. half it structure been just Jim the to Jim, it's in take to understand And look follow-up. this XX it you half EBIT XXXX, corn new kind where base how a like or demand at the pricing back because think have XXXX, XX%, of net margin extent in in year before mass totally of lower supply I I below it's and flow afford the the But like business implication affords is is a XXXX, of a the it? never of and reset then

new don't think of level I structural a Yes. it's profitability.

right to the in increases that operate, but right on particular time where in moving moved and you way those us these to pass-through in manufacturing in experiencing, we we and can freight freight the case model terms. prices think is even have that inflationary tends related with now industry our of of cycle contract this right in to that and related operating are example that the everyone happened and we're to just year inflationary when the increases time to has up now an accordance now, way costs, our that's our majority I evolutions passing allows model our increases, pre-contracting certainly a business corn doing from now where

But now, other comment? In pass we type inputs this comes do want in right about chemicals talk address you that will term. to of pricing those it's through contracting addition, early to year. obviously intend and XXXX inflationary to packaging, when contracting it Jim, and to

Hey, Rob.

well Just and U.S., effective also contracting kind there and regard with of market the we're to volume in wasn't year, largely was regard the light early there set, being with up back November, seen down. foodservice change as quarters, as to Move months bounce of a also kind we've XX sales. forward in both within end well restaurants foodservice, and obviously quick-serve the U.S., any foodservice North establishments but overall quick-serve and dollar syrup an completing impacts significantly last in are level our the of tunnel traffic as as both rapid few on other at particularly, America restaurants last Canada vaccine Canada, in

seeing a some pull a you're for in improved to pull largely syrups. seeing is fountain recovery You're drinks, leading of for those volume which beverages,

head an half. second So that's having better into industry just impact right, industry we as there's utilization in the the

are the fact costs. sets environment increase the up recapture our our and think corn us themselves, utilization for that I many so price customers think in and to seeing of increases taking with And I enterprise or better well

a into, also business of variable. business? business for have difference I specialty rest you the kind in is got it. said variable? half And then maybe a there the your versus dive Is mix fixed, of specialty half that is half deeper fixed, Is your

at all, is No. majority Vast Not fixed. fixed. is majority

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value-add Higher of be to price points and flat per price. more ton and higher tend a

Yes.

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there year? said but cost for rising you this that is contract, up price some riders freight so is higher of also And that freight in most are you can costs if your the of where it fixed, kind

Yes.

a got Rob, freight and in caught XXXX, spike to remember, of relationship all that in you If we sudden corrected. has been

of through those terms. right accordance freight what increases the now, majority our with we're contract customers So to passing saying we're is, in

much. very you Thank right. All Okay.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Our Goldman next question comes with Sachs. from Adam Samuelson

Your line is open.

Hi. Thanks. morning, everyone. Good

Adam. morning, Good

morning. Good

cadence think I'm to provided first clear So challenging layout, about two the that especially on segment? trying the side corn just in issue sure having you basis America is got on North op corn think America to mindful America just between a guess question, of in half the the income we've the we're in third and the as the particularly bigger second for the the quarter, in in about but comments be we a I third North corn, quarter cost on periods of making thinking some South layout

minus paid co-products that to is just the us, the there corn is our net the And a for cost components the think Adam. Hey, get the then Yes. what which cost the the sell. the the about really corn plus that's value basis, or facilities cost from corn obviously, gross The to farmer intermediary everybody, we of and the when hedges. couple to of of the to of we

and to spoken we've basis had well. basis all I gross we've higher then peaks, second But bit relative half factors, we've is experiencing think first hedge that fact the values QX. of in continue will elevated higher as Adam, we're basis higher QX. can to positively that most I our that think their part is but we a well bit second working the in the the more the impacting those than some corn to a QX one and We do the than half that a and you offsetting see the is of think do of costs QX see from down program little hedged think co-product we've gross half bit of that's our those in seen come will I contribute, basis. corn. So as that

quarter of have in point portfolio, specialty in think of PureCircle from into the I we as businesses given contribution know organic was the protein, next kind incremental frame maybe really the there. year-on-year What you impact And on of that the helpful. gave plant some the the out did maturing anyway volume for then growth the global PureCircle KaTech and those of That's this and on specialties, year? up ramp XXXX quarter? within to the second at second the And

Yes.

QX. the about then Asia-Pac, I performance of out just specialty all in notes notes, to mean, it's we've so for so then was performance points, within PureCircle our positive sales the in more and it bit there the made a days. the growth KaTech, early region And It's out we highlighted to talked five the PureCircle a my in for EMEA break little quick number are net and excluded. real Jim Asia-Pac, speaking, as

and as in drive pullback find growth or retail. those We foods our had the and increase fact at volume of that packaged products well demand foodservice, their way for a as double-digit the very of products all to was specialties lot into across strong that platforms the

And contribution XXXX up think as of year plant we're the been pretty kind of business there? ramp the us in Okay. now baseline modest kind EBIT step that's capacity contribution about just has thinking of PureCircle, that where today, of help two reasonable in then with of process some of protein

partnership we for I think and the from breakeven both goal, and to have at increases see that year exiting the excludes PureCircle. steady be sales contribution any from a we by business obviously end with profitability have that And year in we this the of that but Amyris.

one price/mix incremental of plant-based anticipate so proteins, question it we sales at to coming the lot reduction to we're into specialties going PureCircle that relates especially, big XXXX. be sugar we're communicate I see Investor when to a that more that to as in contribution in profit related Day specific XXXX guess So going that's And able the comes and going both XXXX should from November. to toggles to incremental drive it at and

and Yes. to that attractive income look favorable Jim Adam, mix margins, revenue the as margin I relative basis, that's op specialty with in very on mix, similar his the that that highlighted continues drive margins it an topline PureCircle we in along to growth like. what be believe to comments income going very our and op that op mean, firmly the

that. we're So progressing

As the income end in I that specialty breakeven XXXX XXXX, type think our in well to by on We'll up a of to step XXXX. here XXXX see get op margin. way of mentioned, we'll Jim

Got it. That's really Thanks. helpful. I'll pass it on.

Okay.

you. Thank

next Our Ken Zaslow of with question comes Montreal. from Bank

Your line is open.

Good Hey. guys. morning,

Hey, Ken.

Hey, Ken.

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