Q2 2025 Modine Manufacturing Co Earnings Call

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Participants

Neil D. Brinker; President, Chief Executive officer; Modine Manufacturing Co

Michael Lucareli; Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President; Modine Manufacturing Co

Matt Summerville; Analyst; D.A. Davidson

Noah Kaye; Analyst; Oppenheimer

Brian Drab; Analyst; William Blair

Jeff Van SInderen; Analyst; B. Riley Securities

Chris Moore; Analyst; CTS Securities

Presentation

Operator

Hello and good morning. Welcome to our conference call to discuss Modine second quarter, fiscal 2025 results. I'm joined by Neil Brinker, our President and Chief Executive Officer and Michael Lucareli , our Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.
The slides that we'll be using for today's presentation are available on the investor relations section of our website at Modine.com on slide 3 of that deck is our notice regarding forward-looking statements. This call will contain forward-looking statements as outlined in our earnings release as well as in our company's filings with the securities and exchange commission with that. I'll turn the call over to Neil.

Neil D. Brinker

Thank you, Kathy and good morning, everyone. As most of you know, we held an investor day last month at our corporate headquarters. I'd like to thank everyone who attended in person, participated in the live webcast or watch the replay online. This was a very important event for us. So before going over our quarterly results, I'd like to review some of the key messages throughout the presentation. We highlighted five strategic pillars that we believe are key value drivers that form the foundation of our strategy to drive growth and margin expansion for years to come.
First at our core, we create value through our deep expertise in thermal management technology, allowing us to provide highly engineered mission critical thermal solutions for our customers. In fact, we've been doing it for over 100 years.
Second through 80/20 we have leveraged our product portfolio to segment and re-segment the business focusing resources where we can drive the most value. 80/20 is an ongoing process. And as part of it, we announced that we will realign our six product groups in our next fiscal year to improve our product and market focus.
The third pillar relates to mega trends and how they are fuelling our growth. For example, we're currently focused on supporting trends like high performance computing as the rapid expansion of A I and machine learning fuels demand for data centre capacity and more advanced cooling solutions.
Although these trends can change over time, we believe that the need to meet ever increasing regulations and reduce the impact of fossil fuels on our environment are currently driving multiyear growth cycles. This will provide a constant need for new and advanced thermal solutions.
Next, we have the benefit derived from our 80/20 discipline which drives everything from our decentralized organization to our strategic resource allocation.
By pushing decision making down in the organization. We create a more focused product development cycle, stronger customer relationships and an entrepreneurial spirit to fuel profitable growth.
We consider 80/20 to be a competitive advantage, helping us improve efficiency, drive strategy and ultimately to evolve our business portfolio that brings us to the final pillar, evolving our portfolio to compound shareholder value. This process does not have a beginning or an end but is a repeatable cycle to continually drive shareholder value and is expressed through our recently introduced vision statement, always evolving our portfolio products in pursuit of highly engineered mission critical thermal solutions.
In addition to sharing this new vision statement, we also introduced new three-year financial targets. We expect compound annual revenue growth of 10% to 13% for the three-year period off of fiscal '24 base and expect a just to be at the margins in the range of 16% to 18% by fiscal '27 overall.
The feedback from the event has been overwhelmingly positive. We delivered on our commitment shared during our first investor day back in 2022 and we've now raised the bar even further.
The team has accepted this challenge and have the plans in place to deliver once again. Now, shifting back to the quarter, I'd like to review the segment results. Please turn to slide 5. Our climate solutions segment had another outstanding quarter driven primarily by growth in our data center business revenues more than doubled as compared to the prior year with about half of the increase driven organically and the balance from the Scott Springfield acquisition.
This business continues to exceed our expectations.
In addition, we officially announced the launch of our one-megawatt coolant distribution unit or CDU which is a critical component for liquid and hybrid cooling systems for high density applications.
Demonstrating the benefits of 80/20 product development decision making. Our CDU was developed with voice of customer at the forefront and is designed to seamlessly integrate with modding systems and controls to improve energy efficiency in the data centers.
Interest in this product has escalated with inquiries. Now coming from both co location and hyperscaler customers, we still anticipate our first shipments of this product in the fourth fiscal quarter of the year.
As mentioned during our investor day presentation growth with hyperscaler customers continue to accelerate.
In addition to our two current hyperscaler customers, we're now building a relationship with a third and expect to get our first order this quarter. We are also observing the evolving needs of these customers. Currently, we design and manufacture custom air handlers for our hyperscaler customers and this will continue to be a significant component of our business.
However, these customers have been increasingly interested in our high performance chillers especially now that we have production in both the US and the UK.
In fact, we have received our first purchase order for chillers from a hyperscaler customer this past quarter with expected shipment in our fourth fiscal quarter.
This is an exciting expansion of our product offering to strategic hyperscaler customers and another exciting growth prospect for our data center business.
Last quarter. I mentioned that we are expanding capacity for our data center products, and I'm pleased to report that our UK expansion has been completed. It has a schedule with the first units off the production line. Last week. We're also up and running at our expansion in Calgary supporting the growth of data center products from SSM.
I'm also excited to announce our next capacity expansion for data center products will be in India at a new facility in Chennai to support our customers in Asia and the Middle East.
This new facility is near our existing manufacturing location and can be leveraged in the future for growth in both segments. This will bring the number of data center manufacturing locations to 10 and provide us with the capacity for continued growth around the globe. I'm very excited about this opportunity as we continue to organically invest in the data center market, please turn to slide 6.
The performance technology segment also had a strong quarter with earnings and margin growth despite a drop in top line revenue driven by the decline in our particular markets. However, we're still seeing solid growth in the Genset module business. This is being bolstered by our global footprint, high quality and on time delivery. In fact, our capacity expansion in India for data centers will also allow for future growth and Genset production in that region.
Sales in our advanced solution group also posted positive sales growth in the quarter. Last week, we announced our partnership with GIC, a leading manufacturer of transit buses, specializing in low and zero emission solutions for public transportation.
This long standing supply relationship includes collaboration on their hybrid vehicles which use our advantage, battery thermal management system and inverter cooling modules.
We also introduced our smart electric component portfolio which is receiving positive feedback from the market. Our funnel of customer engagements and our advanced solutions group continues to be strong including a number of opportunities in Europe.
All in all, we are experiencing some short-term volume challenges in certain markets and are implementing countermeasures to reduce costs. But we are also seeing long term opportunities with positive implications for our product mix in this segment overall, a good quarter and our 80/20 culture and approach continues to help us mitigate legacy business wind downs and some economic sensitivity and a few product categories. I'll turn the call over to Mick who will provide some further updates on what we expect for the balance of the year.