VREX - Earnings call transcript Q3 2018 | Varex Imaging Corporation

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Operator

Greetings and welcome to the Varex Imaging Corporation Third Quarter Fiscal Year 2018 Earnings Call. At this time all participants are in listen only mode. A brief question and answer session will follow the formal presentation. [Operator Instructions] As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. It is now my pleasure to introduce your host, Howard Goldman, Director of Investor Relations. Mr. you, Thank Goldman.

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Howard Goldman

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Sunny Sanyal

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Clarence Verhoef

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Operator

[Operator sir. Instructions] first question Anthony The from Petrone, Please Jefferies. is go ahead

Anthony Petrone

that push between debate have on a also to is up. And little So follow tariffs? the there potential goes wondering, in the here. maybe talked on just jump right call a into on the order then the seems about as just a flows. just just aspect a here absorb of the of renegotiate bit it timing impact order you there's sort I I'm two timing maybe price tariff the on, OEMs for and on to in back like And administrations,

Sunny Sanyal

is Sunny. this Anthony,

the Let Timing. take first half. me

But say -- always I midpoint our business just midpoint the seasonal before there have in are major of that's in of roughly there, our We the the if were about revenues. we three revenues there. of normal our take factors where impacted the that guidance, current and I'd difference fluctuations

see, timing. pause due normal is business. that third of We've The we've That's they lots their was strategies would late We're look by many First of mostly for there in time, in with didn't what we they take going Japanese would react. seen. plans. changes hear a strategy trying just what one their on? we out will -- to second their sort I anecdotal. seasonally, pause And It's tariff their softness process course customers. delays figure of they're just revenues, to the Japanese the what to be? anything change This had see is they're discussions concerns; a softness a to softness the The to how assess So out just pure the us and would really the adjust quarter no due delays is didn't at happens needs. as ascribe one -- the tariffs, actions they was any the of demand, we trying in to like about and in CT; didn't is in one customers, figure what some China customers. was they of It's while

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to things things up. But XX XX We will expect that cleared at looking modeling of they've kind days them this of probably for around. down a once we're settle

going what haven't we their Although be. to out strategies are exactly figured

product their a development to the process. normal in delay, attributed On China delays that's it's --

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our specific that RSNA, a during tradeshows the year and and fall. their happens launch conferences products you biggest in the in once one example, year. that in for November. is to launch the As tied of customers dates are of know, in a China in are one occur spring There couple

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nominal, XX order to so XX are our those of said, different -- magnitude would lot the hey, basis the suppliers -- any pricing. from materials see Clarence points. many signals, reaching that, basis those are out the points-ish, suppliers. where we we're Those in costs, I'll customers far XX We're a get discussions changes seen -- or haven't what are, for regarding we our would for we initial is of to of we've discussions. terms getting In of we they're be -- say, Frankly, getting had from buy be indication that out again, those whether in feeling reaction us

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Anthony Petrone

Okay.

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Clarence Verhoef

Clarence. is Anthony, Sure. this

on from -- directly in in bit there impact China. that steel gross product impact, points. impact on some And our that included additional that -- in which from that tariff was XX a has and coming the basis that group that's of have that from we basis done was China imports another direct of an countries. So margin, X, various XX and were And then July where in and import aluminum, we tariffs is points, coming

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that applicable subject lot now So all understand some that are long be through -- you a of we're -- codes CT list The would one China right whether these not we is part components different your under thing still there code understand far, of to that also the tariff. a work would a say every be I though, code. the list. importing need for products if on because tubes HTC into -- going our that that are specifically to part different there's to this, or would is so of The

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Operator

a We Please from have Mr. question Securities. Solow, ahead. Larry CJS go

Larry Solow

be reasons, like your direct other minimal? sounds you pause. impacts there's you're have the if some good -- drop from to Just connect may sort these left how mentioned get on that's has to a in pretty of -- directions, supposedly the quarter year. business no that, But a dots maybe are sort -- bit you that that visibility but tariff other are in -- a anecdotal. one OEMs only so sort sort little guess, from trying to there's taking they impact the it one, annual products have -- of I of, the pre-material can I the of of -- or

is So on much quarter. I'm it, are but out, you're X% -- to be may cutting this impacting just figure trying certainly one as tariffs

So much that's material more impact. a a

year, some the in did reaching and trailing know And we analysis year-end. were that seems and from stuff and detector supposedly had your you the on of anecdotal, comfort bottoms-up this early by significantly in piece huge on customers

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Clarence Verhoef

Yes.

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very Third, third, third simplistically.

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one XXXX. elements just was help And to not hasn't And with other then having going that whatsoever. optimistic, Third just is the not going to going it CT just that It's from that the last timing gone catch happened. the is up aggressive the us the And was just any and little of in that QX. third, is in I were business offsets. a bit about happen of shipments. we mean, the of away as to our It's way, of be matter timing. a

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about guess, happened lot wanted granular, now. just a from I what understand I mean, So you explaining. to But in of pretty QX terms I till

Larry Solow

It's a just follow-up. And this then in quarter, just -- a to on particular.

didn't But in you hit Medical little refer but can't So that of and The it's this number, maybe of confident hitting can little revenue side. overcome it. you of this just less on back operational a gives what you public, think, caused the -- you year. is is since you back slightly actually sounded And you've mean, number little a terms sort quarter? you expectations meet of would you the get of the part this in gone of challenges I hit still different, it's my aspiration -- what bit less. the that and you number. that a had sort confidence to, -- actually impact I your eventually but The what margin, that more or what mix in haven't business something pretty the the gross XX% your And half just those? to industrial up -- that you

your I just your hasn't outlook planning, X-year had gross You assume changed. margin is probably

So how do that you bridge gap?

Clarence Verhoef

Yes.

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different Our this year say, And XX% we When of it's we're goal there. still to a at years couple is though, a of were why XX% XX%. look to to ago XX%. path see I okay, a get I and do are couple at things. at when And get

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right terms better margin lower selling, now kinds of of we're the cargo at the are of end and little applications more range what NDT security mix in little the we less the of stuff. So of

I bit Clara team are year. bit ongoing points. a of factor, of some kinds is been not fair are of the really down bigger that X Medical And say, occurred disappointment, part Santa of industrial but things there, is would guess, in have us that on And addition, that's that that they a a this why right I fab I to this costing of money a side, we then, the now. the by and costs amount in manufacturing mean, margins So there's in have been a operation surprise then

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to of the kinds of volumes design -- engineering mix do the the then in pull I operations -- out such. design would say, consolidation and we of are us lastly, the costs, the product at to we manage factory and So are cost help now things. and are for projects as business, chain, improve warranty additions those that the the productivity cost that Those products us. things -- to scrap to our PerkinElmer our the to get to with offset with And leveraging look we have as any of quality opportunities -- and the supply

be see to I opportunities in continue I And range. to XX% will we forward. focus have So will we still confidence that. that going that on XX%

Larry Solow

couple next that a is [indiscernible]... the what Over of went -- or years

Clarence Verhoef

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point. I to ask quarter to a that wait get going I’m you to So, before

Operator

from go question Co. John a Please Oppenheimer have Mr. Koller, sir. ahead & We

John Koller

quick questions. of couple a So

detector can on out side. digital help the you If

end radiographic line. sort about and of to volumes? can I and you to seeing you're lower and pricing get a talk also Just that I'm mix, earlier idea. it alluded better dental on If the was curious of product business, Where about think, the

Sunny Sanyal

Yes.

things. three So

radiographic this time. the mix introduced So say, the low-end. let's had And the lot resold And favorable high-end our radiographic. the the newly a better start detector we of than are radiographic We very there in did margins well.

where in more added property. to So push there's we and continue electoral more value the ourselves high-end

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a expecting we're much of haven't So flat growth, year. year seen that this we a

helped dental these detectors. with either. hurt better So because high-end the are sell margins it that mix. end a hasn't gross much The we are We hasn't in more, good, dental It margin. necessarily up

detector did the this overall, quarter. on well So we a perspective from side, mixed

that. you with let me think, I leave

John Koller

mean, do is, assume the back of, [indiscernible] not kind you I and And that's spend think and Clara, you also margins was also steps the Santa I'm gotten and you curious like R&D away. complete curious, back I planned just from timing stable, to it I'm for what don't the But OEMs SG&A structure seems, struggling And So that talking to know margins can guess, supply I'm great. for applaud like it somewhat and example? making to silicon, realistically beginning. targets and in the I'm expense take talking here timing and investments it stuff. that because you're get seems have and R&D control, seems and the line? to I XX%, then get think and I you I'm long-term, some but is cost I about just about I

Clarence Verhoef

now, operating I'll kind to like R&D in there just step investing Because R&D. go the of China. with be further for are tubes or and That think walk one on we're here, going targeted at I time where a and question, as of we XX%, period profile. that to -- the And well mean projects We'll operating long-term, were of finish XX% of somewhere Yes, doing profit. understand through bit range doesn't we're year-to-date, range, John. our I XX% even around kind number is XX% at that kind where goes a a is it our do we've X% ago. maybe, in in what you're I for little you we're profit CT mean, that's the now, right that XX.X% around to between significant between That's being up very of a range. And that years so year we probably XX%. about be something which ramping few right talked in south XX% the

coming be now will and forward. off we forward, the somewhat that at XX.X% that look we we're be As of going right reducing

one is much on in control that's is our but as R&D factors, talked invest our I think, under mean, gross the I is obviously about SG&A this we think, other where well. then of under little the our as the then margin to one and going of how a be I one items SG&A bit -- well. -- profile, I control,

to your So I adjustments for think plans, we of make that of building we end we when spending going look ourselves got a and you that we're had up little bit ahead corrections of accordingly. some And make some and the some that at revenue, of that. expectations

and closely the when we're operations do this consulting are very as those to well. spending of we'll like in but some and how services to that, you look at opportunities the like look Now start consolidating at much

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happen it very to I I 'XX. that is will have But opposite we tell one quarters. in it's that that level do know Now direction going I in and all in -- where it direction couple get went confidence can -- back to definitely you FY the the last not the head

Operator

next The Sidoti Francesco Company. from & is Faiella, question

Francesco Faiella

Just uncertainty. that's the delayed going tariff stuff pipeline there to I that on more maybe been back and to award was pull wondering back combinations? if That's some to that's an the the after impact stuff to or getting getting you've was maybe awarded. was or push an trigger of in go

Sunny Sanyal

No.

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what pipeline, So in us. what agreed our buy to we from have the have customers

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timing an it's inventory adjustment. of more So

Francesco Faiella

if want just anything it -- the can you general a Or as helpful. have change we -- acquisitions I industrial And side? plans, seems diversifying like Got but That's to just there? kind focus? if the that know maybe more And another strategy keep you. wondering about think then for one. into there's more about then been it and of I'm you do quick guys was always wondering,

Sunny Sanyal

But in changed is Yes. past. described nothing there, we've as the

process. will have integration, active our two Mavis I consolidation. or the There the of claim that many is pretty the are mostly integration us. active PerkinElmer components completed. pipeline, manufacturers, Our very for business Consult of out an management And has consolidation. the significant integration manufacturers be We'll for we've sets they And an is and acquisition us in those. quickly consumed companies. operational much operationally December, be looking is Like end private We've one example opportunities. adjacencies. we the by all competitive The One pretty second bandwidth, of but behind was used. bulk been getting small --

as side, the to times and Just be well opens us a in I from we're the debt Clarence perspective X.Xx bandwidth management as on up, rapidly. know there range, getting both like X would to us

to increasing. So our more appetite do is

Operator

Jefferies. We have a follow-on question from Mr. Anthony Petrone,

Anthony Petrone

compound your stronger on local tubes dollars currencies from kind Obviously, forced of X-ray they're here. sort order of So currency also just to that customers? in purchase detectors convert their dollar's a and and to and the headwinds question like. for into Is

in you XXXX? wondering how the the out as just strength into dollar head So plays

Clarence Verhoef

is, customers. take it My big becomes before significant that, do is a our it Anthony, has to that, pretty on move a event with

years a about pricing. lot it it we conversation, enough a of just not where And triggered it of not then it event. make far, point hasn't it three saw was topic to been a ago discussions so that triggered And conversations. so an has moved it where But to has any

Operator

follow-up go Oppenheimer a of Koller John We have & question ahead. from Close. Mr. Please

John Koller

you guidance, about replacing talk business that would've CT in comes the the do a you when and delays but you you up words, pushing can winks? Or XXXX the back? talking few I'm about for Or this double this you In tubes, whole XXXX? not we in chain When are see seen think other do additive? asking as back,

Sunny Sanyal

their off in engineering -- they progress consume year consume to they more. in pilots through little a it's trials amounts two until timeframe. and within occurs. No. their as if next look the this -- -- is few launch, to chain start the the And then the time-to-revenue bit then for when And first start the their development clinical back. the certain and they they get you sharp of it development think hold they three This work, And cycle will they stages, at peak usually they buy We ramp-up us milestone, they don't when volume when prototypes. that's tubes. so of kind year, push customers when in modest are a customers the the When hits

fact in -- of volume a than there's doesn't but anything type smaller tied little of delay launch bit more the timing, timeframe in activities slight the necessarily early with imply So -- in engineering some activities. their that that mind, a to

impact moves We've a on material think this. our of much out in not from back nothing out, XXXX. there's either plans. we XXXX end the So don't And seen moves customer's this of

continue their dates the many to for shifts see low working high We launch don't mid-tier, We end. in different the CT models different they their customer review our plans. have we're end, with, tiers: any major And customers multiple that programs. or products,

at many a So they're projects time. juggling

John Koller

derogatory out not in extent kind more spend utmost comment the I I'm a this be to any respect, some -- to then with money. to And on and of the earn have acquisitions. go Okay. but in ability you way, shareholder And trying the mean to money

important. top to still to Even I'm are returns to if have if lists this before out I see I they're albeit think, that acquisitions, and existing comfortable get or at you I'm acquisitions. of up shareholder, a of to business, And continue the here, And do the you As do. can that if whatever tuck-ins or you understand the feel drive curious, tuck-ins. you if sort of go you that think what trying things and on

Sunny Sanyal

let that, John, comment to comment small to on ask me pick I'll one it. just Clarence So and

have their on done, returns those X that exceeded our Just expectations. the we've

acquisitions, you in use general, to on whether whether Clarence ask returns to with this call very it and terms superior of perspective so PerkinElmer investments Claymount, from comment well see risky, returned or it organic So you said, in we but compared I X really at we've how that cash. organic as well in of on versus deliver to organic all investment even whether this look -- continues an realize do With I'll case we well. are inorganic on done the both return

Clarence Verhoef

opportunities your John, think certainly, there question Well, level a are a at large tuck-in are hear on of time, and and house of same I management bandwidth. is at is I time to what you're At which look, energy those. management and the can me, And to -- that you take think the management that fundamental I integration order big want about saying types management deliver acquisitions a got saying little of of it's very somewhat actually and will and business part well and not distraction acquisition. you And a I'm in looking lot we time. working of you're significantly. energy there, to of distraction sure lot the of hearing is, out everything And that be -- before and of part what you a doing spend on what is make your

John Koller

I X.Xx a... coverage, EBIT what Adjusted think, on it's

Clarence Verhoef

we're just barely Yes, little bit now, under EBITDA. of about right Xx,

John Koller

think you comfortable that can there? do you start some level out and go what mean, money to I So you get spend

Clarence Verhoef

$XX free flow. million of $XX we to Well, generate cash million

it's an annual on basis. mean, I So

perspective. from a acquisitions that's tuck-in And that mean, be anything about so a mean of be substance -- that sizable different -- discussion. can I I more today, It's and size a -- done would

Operator

further for time. this no over at comments. are the questions turn there to you I'd like Gentlemen, back closing floor to

Sunny Sanyal

company's Thank third you, quarter call quarterly access and accessed is be August at through or from The be website earnings replay Thank of can in the the and everyone, for will anywhere or fiscal goodbye. A year conference call call conference in XXXXXXXX. participating for of code our the available U.S. from X-XXX-XXX-XXXX your non-U.S. XXth questions XXXX. you X-XXX-XXX-XXXX and from this locations. by calling conference today

Operator

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Varex Imaging (VREX) 4 Aug 182018 Q3 Earnings call transcript