XONE - Earnings call transcript Q3 2017

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Karen Howard

Thank you, Melisa, and good morning everyone. We appreciate your time today for our third quarter and year-to-date 2017 financial results conference call. Referring to our slide deck, as noted on slide two, on the line with me today are Jim McCarley, our Chief Executive Officer and Brian Smith, our Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer. Jim and Brian will be reviewing the results that were published in the press release distributed after yesterday's market close.

If you don't have that release, it's available on our Web site at www.ExOne.com. accompany site. today will on also that Web the slides our are discussion posted The three our slide On is Safe Harbor statement.

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Jim McCarley

by I want and Karen, reaffirming good today you, Thank guidance. XXXX our begin to morning.

expect to XXXX. XXXX As team you XX% we sales XX% in this our achieve versus to growth continue to on slide, see

cash our finally, to in positive expect balance We QX see And expect result EBITDA. should million. $XX also we to adjusted year-end in leverage exceed operating that

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on customers using our direct most repeat Shifting multiple for We and that machine continue cultivate importantly, offerings about indirect equipment And purchase now, continue we for to industrial our platforms to expand QX machines. talk this let’s actual applications. results. both material

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platform a we upgraded Innovent successfully system now that was so can dispensing offer and our equipment. Second, fine standard powder

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expand material to to additional expect such centers our to will as available continue rollout offering. for Stainless in XX-X product that’s We powder our and continue materials, fine production Steel sale that

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success and how depends usable on our into we products experience and leverage technology long-term Our quickly knowhow customers. for our

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Brian our to turn who Now, results. financial about I’ll it over of talk some QX will

Brian Smith

everyone. morning good Jim, Thanks,

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this reinvest As expect the to into continue for our machines. printing improvements SG&A Binder with as costs, and we we run cash technology rate Jetting

However, to we to going expect revenue, leverage costs drive these forward.

to review slide let’s CapEx. XX turn Now, and

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in We cash adjusted million by at than expect driven positive continue expected greater QX. the $XX to year-end, of EBITDA

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Jim McCarley

Thanks, Brian.

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Operator

[Operator be time, conducting question-and-answer session Instructions]. a you. Thank this At I’ll

of your Our B. with question proceed Van comes with the from FBR. Riley Chris Horn first question. line Please

Chris Van Horn

heading you pipeline the out just detail of to on you there? you give the gave XQ. us And us some just curious, XXXX, what and But into could looks set pipeline you look like lot I’m XXXX. opportunity the when hoping, have I was a on perspective

Jim McCarley

Are Well, Chris, a markets clarity what what it? that kind me see our make you sure answer. little to want give you I more good asking a we when of the pipeline. platforms you leading me give are bit I into, machine say going products

So give kind me a looking more what for. little clarity you’re color of

Chris Van Horn

mix And you going Yes, the your and even mix that, follow-on or sure. maybe was your for question regional where forward. quarter what see my actually end-market was

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Jim McCarley

going we’re printing some I that. in But opportunity for I in a we’ve an work sand So in XXXX. I in molten markets, And see our pretty workhorse and can some China additional printing. workhorse that China the that America start-off some that we’ve if know lot the is by as sand the molten some a good relative about in particular got core North our would see to what also a example. will -- America past. move core of robust in into opportunities stuff we see side. docket XXXX. be business growth say good saying, traction a That’s around talked still -- India, to We’ve expanding we on on some there to seen expect that start expect business in that we break see We into North to element, in as

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growth So in that success the And we part that, rolled like and us. area, a the we know I’ll machines feel university had we for research the say underpins last Innovent is really good long-term getting out.

out we machines, see these good And So wouldn’t some market a see there. didn’t expect of some that And some then on that North other there. or in be work opportunities is some fine side for growth near-term. we we lab continue to the powder of based some America rolling see results there the platforms if expect getting in some clearly printing to we machine those

Chris Van Horn

to Is seem lot to looking? there And how got we of of the from there ask then have are entrants I competitive a marketplace pricing lot standpoint. is be a new competitive -- -- a getting material or

out Just some you’re on commentary there what seeing competitively?

Jim McCarley

in that powders talked So around for isn’t metal two The pricing infiltrated I coarse pressure -- the about competition, coarse customer. a on I’m going the metrics return to talk around that’s products. investment good If sand our and molten getting about again it's halfs.

set price -- isn’t So racing with That and our bottom going we’re get we we’re head-to-head somebody it on there the it. not and price. to said, isn’t

have really a up that match and return fact. really of with You appreciate we to rate good it

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on So powder coarse printing side. that’s the

process, in of is that want that and I’m really that’s to make On equipment. the those, that team be in anything space what printing of powder of machines going today delivering machine. and sell both focusing that is the on aware product comes to just space out to we’re are make fine fine space. really not sure powder -- to is let’s But in there process very any take a a and printing it a out the technology machine machine And because people some these the takes only really doing there side, we new and the of entrants. And we’re front with of

Chris Van Horn

obviously investments that Do final me, you’re growth was we see CapEx you of platforms? you when making just expand to side. R&D forward, And going then think going these CapEx need curious. the And on I about lot forward from a

Jim McCarley

No, some growth EACs. only We now. into put additional some of see we level But see of don’t new really don’t. year significant in facilities or machines right any we anything We’ll our maintenance next CapEx else.

will that been the at that likely here So stay for year last level half so. the low and or it’s

Operator

Instructions]. [Operator you Thank

Our next proceed question Bobby Burleson line with comes the question. Genuity. from your Please with Canaccord of

Bobby Burleson

So feeling to like into on curious I’m just for the back? that your whether you XX%. you that rates that’s to under accelerate as growth look handicap momentum similar would rate or guys this or sounds XX% wondering things how -- year. growth It you hitting or XXXX, about are good out you expect not

Jim McCarley

Yes.

of the process XXXX plan. out we’re right think in building our middle of I our

have market we’re XXXX, that to changing growth to for if pretty powder. presented our considerable in And some the long-term think you got I that be not solid we’ve at penetrate to growth able that look we machine a out to opportunity amount.

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Bobby Burleson

large just this of development And powder. format fine terms in program then

And You here? developing are application. with you with customers product working Could specific applications targeting And currently? mentioned this developing demanding are really work customers you you what this?

Jim McCarley

Yes.

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Bobby Burleson

that or thinking? launches, you’d want first or And XXXX its half second it rapid, half you’re around is to something or formnext be

Jim McCarley

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Bobby Burleson

which of now need segments this, that I chart? of mix I in if missed market these but all then market you And your came this in to going you’re at like you do to know and don’t XXXX if are order mix to you -- guys up accelerate terms pie Where look with.

Jim McCarley

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Bobby Burleson

couple asked lastly comments from know They just shipping wondering it I competitor? partner nevertheless, just from that’s but at the the industrial then have don’t some see actual of in and your up if you as And like with a competitive private technology, as see coming some to companies? roll companies that helping in machine sounds where potential just Are one a or companies, front, GE out And And terms whether making wondering customers it noise. supplier your some not earlier any me competition. supplier thing dynamics materials. there’s big really of seeing they I’m there there or the current are you you. don’t not really agnostic machine of that’s you better

Jim McCarley

have go us -- of market. level gives to back guess, what not a team they’re to I been not I’d the is the that a because the conversation definite sales answer. with where you has about in doing somebody That’s to been that’s risen GE concerned

good commitment caused take doing a it look this. and say to to people think I why at has we GE’s really aren’t XD

a somebody been opposed as it's coming actually sort So as generator them to of threat. in competitive the seeing lead

are, seeing stand, it happy thing. there So Bobby, not that that’s to the from angle. really I’m I’m is from spaces good think where GE I XD just committed that I a

Bobby Burleson

with that GE. be clarify, to they’ve GE companies them that GE, happy is up might meant of supplying Actually what rolled compete they customers was I not given

or am that just in essential does not if any someone earnings industry wondering you’re generate as that’s supplier, I So competitor, a that’s way. benefitting

Jim McCarley

At I that. this think to I that don’t correlates that. we’re seen something point, don’t see

Operator

final our come to Thank for management questions. I’ll to you. remarks. of the floor any have and Ladies gentlemen, we the turn end back

Jim McCarley

today. We time back has everyone with forward to holiday everybody’s the certainly beginning in New appreciate we a again look being you XXXX. look Hope of I at and Year. to season, the Well, you. great forward seeing Thank Okay.

Operator

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ExOne (XONE) 10 Nov 172017 Q3 Earnings call transcript