LAD - Earnings call transcript Q2 2024

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Operator

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Lithia Motors Second Quarter 2024 Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] Please note, this conference is being recorded. I will now turn the conference over to your host, Jordan Jamie, Senior Director, Investor Relations. Thank you.

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Bryan DeBoer

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Adam Chamberlain

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Bryan DeBoer

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Tina Miller

today. and joining everyone, Brian, thank you, us Thanks,

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Operator

Ryan [Operator Craig-Hallum. Instructions] Our from first Sigdahl with question is

Ryan Sigdahl

EPS. around said statement Adam. I in quarter in would XX% the I in the Bryan, looking if some I we're sequential at you want I caught believe right, prepared a I Congrats, that QX increase to into pace something but $X.XX it context guess guess be XX% that nearly or with start remarks. said on for your I helpful. am for

Bryan DeBoer

Ryan.

So the the the what get on us XX% a CDK impact. and that concept been you is the without would $X.XX. over have almost Add was $X.XX and to Pinewood CDK event, little the XX%, just cost tracking $X.XX which our excluding

Ryan Sigdahl

versus correct, So referring? that's that's QX QX, that what XX% you're

Bryan DeBoer

Exactly right.

Ryan Sigdahl

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guess, revenue we're just can what I any frame really that the So EPS? time it of around of for I and get guess frame about Or is at time you $X.XX looking $X.XX, midterm? type range, reaching

Bryan DeBoer

Yes.

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appropriate this. So way I think to that's at look the

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of the like to see XX-day that quarter. So of start that we be plan, on last starting said X, you're the to starting impact we're going to most plan going you're take to July -- XX-day And hold. realizing

Operator

JPMorgan. Our next question is from with Rajat Gupta

Rajat Gupta

couple. I just had a

range it think is cited within could a to Or something follow-up. think about third or reduction the on given I previously, quarter? year the XX on have good in in there third Are you've clarify Maybe ] were [ million. and in $XXX like itself? complete and cost you gross SG&A SG&A Just the we then the like later framework following going quarter going days up next a plan, the Is to XX% to the XX%. to be that year? maybe be I that, to

Bryan DeBoer

Bryan. is This

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So the that into start offset this. by it. also feel hit And time you winter September, would to could the you I seasonality. going that October, say

mostly will did what July that We've we I million, it of QX, inventory eclipsed half the difference from We're with $XXX of closer got end and realized take may we've be primarily got the and okay, reductions, in remaining us opportunity X. coming of million we improve report about So called over million to now eclipse now of to which that year. we've there, earmarked the the $XXX on $XXX first XX-day plan. the the yesterday. lots

of the I to realize we'll get we're definitely say XXXX, we'll most that.. get that So but of in benefits QX, if into lucky, of would some

Rajat Gupta

are years run over couple then parts curious and And saw also, acquired have they where proactive us been in the or sense opportunity you in know it. just stores of some and price of Got if the CDK. could to you the more what love to I'd like like May? any clear. stores? not of a very And perhaps is rate give take you was legacy last might as maybe June services. the opportunistic July? there seeing Clearly, That's April, impacted was by on I And

Bryan DeBoer

Yes.

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Operator

question next from is Our Bret Jefferies. Jordan with

Bret Jordan

that Bryan, just inflated are cadence you you maybe car that talk see where little path in GPUs GPU? glide said I the and on you the of the quarter a think possibility still. now sort that about new Could

Bryan DeBoer

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were X,XXX X,XXX still, because for GPUs, know X the structurally about F&I. including okay? Today, back of total going years. our F&I that we okay, is before We was X than to X,XXX it in to sit years, improve different at do Now we ability

average of $X,XXX. business there's a really $X,XXX of difference lot a South less portion Southeast that couple is took higher up a biggest F&I, a And start when F&I big dollars us that has single from higher helps size, hundred then as to our regions in which high-margin your have SG&A So Central, the store and think which of and in you think have the this a we is there the would about well, ton. our difference, good about we now regulation, to

$XXX to somewhere would between say come that we $X,XXX $X,XXX, be Meaning F&I vehicle at starting everything a we're to which total that to out, we're normalized And believe great. our that power. has we this, still but do think that $XXX if and I is we're -- gross our at is chance in profit to we going the there's sitting still believe $X,XXX, bottom, with could So

everything diluted does Now bit and we're about a got by now think get talking because through I we be from can be little this actually forward. to earnings of and that this build able we've sales back to GPUs. able overhang base ability But that the grow to power this up do grow our same-store point

Bret Jordan

And the question on dollar... Okay. quick

Bryan DeBoer

little that, too, Adam had a more with to bit you, share on Bret.

Adam Chamberlain

add to to MSRP the X% of that. incentives kind we X.X%. Right of XX% and Pre-Covid, we've range. now, climbed XX% to about a year slowly the seeing through Just to running of were kind as percentage in

of two, So make stepping you XXs. of that the if to at also some little whether $X,XXX a decreased as about X% supply, So OEMs the expect expect but sort day to car bit average of of to another the price levels delta offset we a sense? could with then selling we mid- be there's take X%, incentive late based pre-COVID of be Does we up that well. to between the $X,XXX to on levels kind sequentially,

Bret Jordan

get can recovery? some a that that CDK the that timing to piece going is back business maybe is or bring $X.XX, you there if fall On you and as as insurance within this far year interruption

Tina Miller

work is claim take around through. going does put Bret, Tina. our some and cyber We that work have It that. do to obviously carriers this that with are and time Yes, together insurance to

anything hopefully, So something there's but didn't we second the in record there, quarter.

Operator

next of question is Bank Our America. from Murphy John with

John Murphy

for I questions you two guys. just had

just sell then sort sell management? I fleet on vehicles fleet about into what's management, something and then here business the them business? and Inc. the take the of them. dovetail on retail fleet here. of you you I'm Wheels able the kind and you're mean does think where when you out tie into acquisition your manage Is them general or how it new to Brian, the of First, up curious, it core

Bryan DeBoer

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John Murphy

XX% to And very better look looking discussion your not what's is That's you rates, really look at industry but the back incredibly a about face something -- helpful. an happened maybe a GPUs and better, too if I could years, much, guys the is in that And picky mean, about strong basically addressed And but consumer. as over real And at last is you've that just to been and and effectively, we about just basis and X.X and X the question, that's down. obvious a ASP. time rate you're a think have how you come second say benefit point record ASPs which rates people they've just no on more everything the is or question incremental done profits. frame be There's almost they're sustainable, not or I sustainable have up increase of interest that. the putting big that here auto little in

do think just what So this. be guys the about of curious in What's here? guys your could take? and potential as on assumptions the GPU good you you're of think -- I'm I how this, side on ASP your maybe conservative And face the

Tina Miller

maybe and with I I'll debt. just side, have the this John, interest mean start right, obviously our several variable of is we on business, Tina.

think drives don't they're if important tailwind forward to payment a And and good is rates is tailwind in to strength we impacted, And but know always get can shoppers. that is. you I that from as that business. gives think get consumer that's that for there add perspective. what monthly monthly and that I going commented affordability, around on a consumers since that, anything past something payment we've then affordability that our around talked So have cut Bryan, it's I about the we've

Bryan DeBoer

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Operator

next Our question from Douglas is Evercore. with Dutton

Unknown Analyst

your could QX that million loan, the XX% you think buyback back in $XXX would are Or there quarter very of as strong big QX, cash? what on the had norm? in buyback. free that not normal about we Just question -- going be go level Obviously, high going repo. to forward, to Do Is there, 'XX. new you handicap a to XX% X-figure a the

Tina Miller

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know, running perspective, always strategy, our at what to the and continuing that footprint. so grow as our And our core math opportunities and to really we and we see you look the from strong business value M&A, it's is are. as

States, the in here in there's especially the United America, market. North where is in opportunity of lots fragmented focus Our

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Bryan DeBoer

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Operator

Our question Langan is next with from Wells Fargo. Colin

Colin Langan

follow coming new your F&I. just include up I addressed when sort comments I to That on you you GPU think, at Can only, on $XXX down said sort of did quoted $XXX. of you

GPU you've think normalize pre-COVID release how would think clearly pretty talked alone levels. past, in you I at new the

So that F&I it part if changed? of so of that? offsetting changed, it -- it's has some changed? hasn't just Is if is And why

Bryan DeBoer

making certified vehicles, auto on was to a $XXX said which levels going auto what X we're comment, And on okay? to where value that we're I they the to car recovery turning we're that $X,XXX to okay, $X,XXX, So to -- the into when more going about as That Lithia, do are GPU, We that and $XXX than be we at used we below use. we're new way between okay, car. more still we value some think at Xx cars in fast, can is about pre-COVID, go $X,XXX. $XXX my get at depressed get of every were do you to and there, if total at believe

lot think there. a there's opportunity we So that of

I landing maybe not real we abrupt then But drop okay? new $X,XXX But still that's If to a today, landing. we're upside. So in I changes been stage, to to feel some than think comfortable say, real assuming rather $XXX factor at where close we would with it's return can of it's $XXX $XXX probably, and prevent the used but that softer things, macro we're a this pretty normalization sitting that, vehicles vehicles.

Colin Langan

helpful you it. $X.XX then And CDK clarification. mentioned a Got That's impact.

kind was of insurance a How about question is $X.XX portion lost the how think I of in that recovery, that's the recovery. should much sales that sort of earlier any Is instead maybe benefit things into think to good recoverable? was we sort you're just are I in deferred? quarter wondering QX be not lost and should of it see we most of going what thinking of of [indiscernible] How kind about as sort maybe

Bryan DeBoer

Yes.

XX wait buy for a XX% service be weeks, only to markets, around But typically They buy may days of okay? bit. okay? that for to of portion that understand to making you would of So and event, probably of remember that typically I they customers new buy as research to is I they this levels. may It was buy. X that, be less think XX around this, ultimately, even want those it when okay? So point, would just backlogged probably lot industry stores recoverable. on may bit And service XX, it a have wasn't little CDK little and within States, bought, the A service the car. to though are their especially X of our XX% of another even car used on terms the customers is isolated may a really hours it parts was and it, buy to $X.XX. So than $X.XX. helps in say probably little customers in But as they $X.XX though wait in decision production Most had because the CDK that don't United majority

$X.XX don't sitting ton that's that believe I unfortunately. of So there, a there's out

Operator

with Ron Our next Citigroup. is question from Josey

Unknown Analyst

James Michael question is strategies. for on focused This Two-part Ron. on your here evolving omnichannel

can any up, seeing update XXx the rates TAM, ROI GreenCars same at talk underlying in you're sales are shifts broader time, while and conversions investments your how cutting first online marketing to the channels? about any Secondly, environment? burn by you Driveway you across that customer tackle on XX%? or And balancing So online digital competitive

Bryan DeBoer

quite our pleased Driveway GreenCars our pretty so consistent our when I and about We're channels. top reducing staying to think marketing that we over XX%. is of funnel budgets see think by while

which and our again get we the can last far, massively. turn congratulate funnel score now, we're ratio, relative what teams bottom grow you customers business XXx afterburners Google okay? that to be and what Driveway our referral on Driveway customers, start a I of got and is ability to customers at so with shift, are year. X.X. to touch, we're repeat that our or that meaning you come That's Year-to-date, typically GreenCars our of is in and funnel and we've top improve and a used now how call because satisfaction, with golden than the what to massive retention GreenCars pleased think channels satisfied Driveway. was to struggling massive we ready XX-plus of were That's We where access more were X.X are the percent We a seeing new back core that we our that. we're businesses that [indiscernible] the XXx at and GreenCars okay? what of those still both So customer

it's the be of to transparent, to So able to a with but exciting built simple overall still ecosystem. that's built, our to network an we've really convenient experience a and able cars the used leverage to and access our as start that's procurement take and channel especially we great be have, really way that hold in ability to this,

Operator

with JPMorgan. Our next question from a Gupta Rajat is follow-up

Rajat Gupta

like going the like I numbers of any sure U.K. car numbers that GPUs I'm mix U.K. that like in about a was up we same-store were I second type but big liquidation dip. -- events reduction? It But how just should curious, had impact. forward? there looks might car in on mean the just question onetime the And driven were bit I a the a used have used like GPUs time think overall took quarter. the had sequentially, a

Bryan DeBoer

on great opportunity Raj, back cars to that true or yield do was But to car onetimes growth. no, market get and auto have That those summation back there for you lift GPUs was big a it. But think anything and way will selling we there's that conditions. that nailed again, value there We overall had operationally, you our wasn't that so any market sensitive to they're quickly, profits conditions. that, less up the like used keeping turn and GPUs. that

Operator

to end session. reached question-and-answer closing call Bryan the for the to DeBoer and the of we've would gentlemen, I Ladies like back turn remarks.

Bryan DeBoer

quarter in you, for the seeing forward results. us the XX-day talk you updating take Thank We of today. really Bye-bye. look We'll hold. the in third again again to joining impacts October for everyone, plan really

Operator

This concludes today's participation. conference. Thanks for your

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Lithia Motors (LAD) 1 Aug 242024 Q2 Earnings call transcript