Allegion (ALLE) 20 Feb 242023 Q4 Earnings call transcript

Good morning, and welcome to the Allegion Fourth Quarter 2023 Earnings Call. [Operator Instructions] Please note, this event is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to Josh Pokrzywinski, Vice President of Investor Relations. Please go ahead.

Thank you, Drew. everyone. morning, Good joining Year for Allegion's Quarter Fourth Thank Earnings us Call. Full XXXX and you for With are and and Mike of me Executive Wagnes, Chief today Allegion. Senior John Stone, Vice President Chief Officer and Financial President Officer;

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Joe Fargo. first The Instructions] Wells question comes with from [Operator O'Dea

It looks maybe 'XX. XX Wanted of year-over-year range. in on margin expansion op kind bps to like start in margin the

did within anticipated. fit bps, so XXX just would bit a you XX the and better it pretty maybe but XXX comp also comes little So than off think I think medium-term to I a target, tough where

have versus then to of inflation expansion by how about also, go productivity price Can is you still that's And you in that that in already in price, talk drivers that of terms much embedded much year-over-year taken that there much is of sort kind of driven get? you've you've of the how terms carryover announced, of actions how cost it? price just

Yes. Thanks Joe. for the question,

correct in that. You're

inflation expansion, productivity in of of If is and margin you price driver the excess look at a investments. big that

to driver top of you line pricing at growth. be going guide, is As look our a

of going If it's be you growth. about think midpoint, driver biggest to the

you get result, 'XX will a the As you margin year. think expansion when about

when our Those nonresidential taken, pricing And about taken cost the in in then the fourth announced driver we've 'XX. business already is for actions actions addition, biggest And some us think from the of the in you have Americas. actions we've price actions, marketplace. been the quarter of cost in and

As a nicely. we're result, positioned

should an of acceleration You see in XXXX. productivity

and outlook, think outlook. to when we're So you the taken positioned about well order margin achieve have in our that actions been

mechanical, in I then of of bit the growth a by That's terms and Americas, sort then electronics but you you understand headwinds about versus sort of really just versus trying little helpful. moving the kind of some and vertical, on on And versus growth talk outlook new focus in institutional can that that then non-res. office But commercial, unpack of nonres lot in see of there. a pieces within to what out renovation, think

Yes, Joe. I question. John. the This appreciate is

think the verticals and leading some they're institutional flashing than we starts. have positive the commercial on showed, I data still less as been volatile verticals,

businesses, our those little you and is a -- to bit tilted we know, as So heavily vertical.

we It's about that So stable. feel good space.

of commercial, wide users. basket end The that's a

continue. retail, quite think So And has is slowing been in multifamily. certainly, the put new side will We to to that as as and it's the construction office that on been everything commercial soft well. office, Multifamily data time. to commercial from for centers has some bucket well. We

do high-end about So we're our been We a strength talking dramatic like That's see everybody electronic counting centers. on back there. a highly snap data has application not in products. of spec

you new quite The Allegion balance, repair exposure. office. XX-XX on and of think aftermarket turnover aftermarket if complement construction across say about is all some -- even puts again, and that that I'd commercial and up, in here all maintenance, the And with add the you has break-fix, tenant stable to verticals, takes,

So the underpins stable portfolio. and aftermarket pretty is still, think, I overall the

business. we with us chains whole a also include year this come since and item and low kind That's the store automatic see things of and for the for The leads is like big growth retail other renovations we Access nonres. to up in on to Access stable That's rather how that outlook makes to would Tech, going the digits Technologies basket. mention doors to what nonres for mid-single only do forward

The Joe next question Goldman comes with Ritchie from Sachs.

organic just mid-single-digit comp. Joe. Srivastava cadence This a growth. on slightly is the Vivek on say just to maybe and be growth backlog for first It had My first a quarter question organic will then so Is that second quarter in it the you probably is in tougher up to ramps closer you like burn, big it fair in looks 'XX, of negative level have to first half? a

think We burned don't comp that about we quarterly our when through you guidance. the of But recall, Thanks is Yes. QX 'XX challenging the give for going Clearly, be you to if question. backlog QX 'XX. most year.

about when 'XX, think think a line, you was 'XX I normal seasonality. our there's When normal not more year, top for So we think right? about cadence

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about drove then that was in that fourth negative in Could That's XXX despite expanded segment growth, And what then fourth margin you strong the in talk in impressive over points margins. just International expectations see you XXXX? expansion that of organic quarter on just to margin. margins basis and a It helpful. segment follow-up quarter for

think super about pleased our margin about Yes, international you when business performance. the

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about software -- and think last portfolio. Now few and years, talking stronger we're a It's the much driving businesses, electronics we've line. about expansion. perspective When healthier a good from businesses healthy margin top been margin you strong that

drive well. in to region, excellence. Americas work good So really productivity the the some took brought had and pricing excellence Tim, he doing that in we as the to International

for lot 'XX more importantly, moving as and of International business think favorable about for a things we So the forward.

from Partners. with question Jeff The next comes Sprague Research Vertical

XXXX comment. what the Just the to know seasonality seasonality by into but normal you assuming just coming period, us don't quarters, into mean with to I QX? is comfortable kind you back it, you of call of pre-COVID we look comment as are XXXX kind

talk halves, if Jeff, I'd at in halves. it about look like to Yes. you

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Boss, on Okay. any, Great. size, a give what if you the international impact, us profitability, color on Could little more just has the it margins?

inorganic that that the you about the from Yes. other highlighted from organic in coming if -- of outlook think currency. inorganic half we've Boss I'm Jeff, is -- growth the growth International, you assume business, about would acquisition, for sorry, half Door coming

could So see size. it's pretty -- a massive a smaller It's it's you a not acquisition.

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comes Mitchell from question next with Barclays. The Julian

Maybe just the first question.

I You some vertical. earlier. color bit education market end wanted about guess, the color talked one, And by a the of maybe more on vertical was

one your it's think of I largest.

maybe of today? any of sense is much So of kind education your how scale of business

you depending There the now. education from there? how stimulus or outlook been product years on do good types of ago see have X some through the the way And spend tailwinds maybe that XX%

growth that And do how here? what mean see education your vertical does it off? kind rates you for So tailing from of

Yes.

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that But yes, a vertical. substantial And it's Americas business. a portion then XX% of is institutional, of our is stable

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don't guide know, So you we Julian, margins per as se.

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Brett from Mizuho. Linzey comes question with next The

year? price was volumes for negative the come versus the context good outlook it volume the I to just any to as of assume said on organic this non-res safe to I think price wanted to are resi And assumed Mike, for volume, a then is you well? flat guess generation. portion I year growth back maybe

Yes.

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that our and us look decade about organic invest continue. something a we've for business is to growth growth, always in software been our talking and portfolio drive Tim, to and our driving continually especially investing That electronics. in expect and business to in for

Okay.

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next with question from of America. The Bank comes Andrew Obin

consistently, right? materially go very year-over-year underscoring International think the at with looked margins to quite are my you fascinating, exception I revenues declined yet model, If what were when and they of because look then X Can of just year the higher XXXX, have sort at very, back we it's comps said. I back just you've

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term. long little Just bit over give us of a there the color

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things Control so the because it us of channel, the potential acquisition. a business for more and about, the excited strategically Boss about in And there. that U.K. is us As us excited while strategic small. It's standpoint does help from architect one it rather Mike make spec-driven into significant that that get indicated, of more Door

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say Andrew. would I this,

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Chris The next UBS. question comes Snyder with from

business Allegion prepared believe more is XX very months. you I a in the talked can than company remarks, the lead how about John, starts and late-cycle by

I lot X over guess, a X quarters has maybe when So ago. starts the came really down but quarters. and growth I organic nonres But has last stayed know, Americas only decelerated the here -- to positive, X

the rate, of been could horizon? So it from when we is the that fair help Americas any about destock Just see and that's just in that any is the still growth or way deceleration that. come really assume softening cycle sort channel to think to on those starts that pressure non-res

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mix was has is has office multifamily rather volatile, with soft, segment The institutional being commercial think been been mix the vertical so vertical volatile. stable, right, very but bit strong. a And I the

have has been robust. bit. little weak. Warehouses now very softer been a Data extremely been have Multifamily centers

of that our of say see mid-single-digit part where the to the growth you to drivers contemplating reaggregate non-res we're outlook disaggregate and So see have total would we to then business. for XXXX, for to still low here kind the

maybe I this XXX the growth. a in about absence just year And basis appreciate volume that. margins, points up of on Americas follow-up

supportive. price run of cost is increasingly is point in But that guess to maybe on the there it question kind difficult? guys there getting Or I I my and at a better. is getting some until enough recovering you And you start productivity up a the understand where really growth cycle is, is it's coming quarters? gives point positive in ceiling glass volume driving margins Americas So

this up catch there Yes, some year. Chris. Clearly, was

think started 'XX. mentioned inflation we had was earlier, operationally this years in understand, questions well as though, it's last pricing, few we some think important challenges ago. to over to that better before the business get When As the a I the few I about

and as we 'XX, And efficient more more be should well. productive for

you productivity, should pricing term, clearly, just not the which some long acceleration 'XX, it's have accelerate an volume if efficiently you us term, 'year, the margin tailwinds you give long and will that have you see So But some operate think drive of XX to to element, see margin in But help drive margins. us expansion. growth for more for will productivity to expansion.

Stone, like turn the any CEO, President would over to for and John closing This concludes conference question-and-answer our I remarks. back to session.

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