Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Kardex Group Publication Full Year 2019 Conference and Live Webcast. I am Alessandro, the conference call operator. I would like to remind you that all participants will be in listen only mode, and the conference is being recorded. The presentation will be followed by a Q&A session. You can register for questions at any time by pressing star and one on your telephone. Webcast viewers may also submit their questions in writing by the relative field. For operator assistance, please press star and zero. The conference must not be recorded for publication or broadcast. At this time, it's my pleasure to hand over to Edwin van der Geest, investor relations. Please go ahead, sir.
Yes. Hello, everybody. Welcome to our earnings call. Welcome people here in Europe, and welcome the people on the West Coast of the U.S. who had an early start this morning. I hope you all found our press release, the presentation, and the annual report on the website. Before we start the presentation, with first going through the figures by our CFO, Thomas Reist, and then going through the business and the outlook by Jens von Kannel, our CEO.
I would like to remember that afterwards in the Q&A session, the questions can only be put by telephone, so there is no web service with emails that we can handle today. Please, all the questions should go through the telephone. Thank you very much. Now I would like to hand over to Thomas to start with the presentation.
Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to this call also from my side. We look back at another very successful year, 2019. With the tail end of the strong order backlog, we ourselves achieved a double-digit growth. Both divisions, the profitability again increased significantly. This despite strategic investments in IT as well as supply chain at Kardex Remstar, which has been initiated in 2019.
The good results enables the board of directors to propose an increase of the dividend payment, which results in a dividend yield of around 3%. The strong balance sheet, as well as the available cash position, allows enough flexibility and also stability for Kardex future growth. We're having a look at the key figures. The overview of the key figures shows that the last two years, 2018 and 2019, the growth was based on net revenues and operating results, the growth was above average.
Over the shown periods, the profitable growth was achieved since EBIT grew faster than the sales. Net cash flow from operating activities 2019 amounts above the average of the last five years. Looking back at the previous year, we see a decline of around CHF 3.3 million, which is mainly based on the lower order intake of Kardex Mlog and therefore result in lower level of advance payments from customers.
Net profit increased 2019 compared to 2018 quite significantly, and the proposed dividend payment of CHF 4.50 is approximately 13% higher than previous year. Now we have a look at the financials 2019. The income statement, we see that at the level of the bookings, the trend of weaker order intake at Kardex Group level continues with a decline of 6% compared to last year.
Nevertheless, the order backlog amounts to CHF 217.8 million, which is still the third highest ever reported level. The visibility last year, 2018, was exceptionally at 6.5 months. This went down now to a visibility of 5.5 months, which is equal to the level of 2017. The gross profit margin went up to 36.4%, which is also above the 2017 level.
After 2018, we have been bit under pressure because of the high capacity utilization. The OpEx went up by 8.9%, which is an under proportional growth. The cost drivers there were IT spendings as well as professionalization of marketing. Both the EBITDA as well as the EBIT grew by almost 20%. The according margins of 14.9%, respectively 13.5%, are up by 100, respectively 90 basis points.
The financial result is worse by around CHF 1.6 million compared to last year. This is due to higher pension expenses as well as accrued interest for potential litigation. The tax rate went down by 20 basis points to 25.4%, which is mainly based to the high profit share of the U.S. organization.
Now, having a look at the balance sheet, we see that the balance sheet shows the increased investment activity. On the non-current assets, we see an increase of CHF 9.7 million. This includes gross investments of around CHF 16.2 million, mainly for U.S. factory, machines, and software. The current assets went up by CHF 15.2 million, which is due to the lower bookings and the according lower level of advance payments from customers. The equity went up by CHF 19 million, and this all for the higher payment to shareholders by CHF 3.5 million compared to last year. The equity ratio accordingly went up by 1.5% points to 59.4%.
This despite the increase of the total assets by around CHF 25 million. It needs to be mentioned here that the balance sheet does not contain any interest-bearing debt or goodwill position with the corresponding impairment risk. The net cash flow from operating activities compared to last year went down by CHF 3.3 million. This despite the better result of the periods of CHF 6.6 million, which was fully offset by the lower advance payment level of CHF 9.1 million.
This lower level of the advance payment as well as the increased accounts receivables led to a higher net working capital going up by CHF 13.4 million. This, as well as the increased investment activities, led to by CHF 7 million reduced free cash flow of CHF 30.8 million. Nevertheless, cash on hand increased by CHF 4.4 million to a just before showed level of CHF 154 million cash. Thank you for your attention. I'd like to hand over to Jens von Kannel.
Good afternoon, everybody, also from my side. As always, I'm having the duty and pleasure also to report on both of our divisions. I will start with Kardex Remstar. Kardex Remstar, looking back to overall very good year last year. We had new business with very strong bookings in the U.S., so our strategic plans to enhance our footprint in the U.S. has shown very good results.
This was partially countered by a slowdown demand in Europe and in Asia, especially in half year two. Overall, a bookings increase of 1.9% over 2018. LCS, our life cycle services, reported double-digit growth again, which shows that some of our programs to actually leverage on our customer base and install base are coming to fruition, against the market, double-digit growth is a very successful achievement.
Based on backlog that we started with in 2019, our net revenues increased strongly with 12.9%. This was also due to the fact that we were able to somehow eliminate, at least to a partial extent, our capacity constraints that we have been reporting about in our Bellheim factory. Very dedicated investments have allowed us to lower these constraints and therefore also turn backlog into revenues, especially also in the second half of the year.
The OpEx increased. We did invest into the organization, into our IT, as Thomas already mentioned, and also in our people development. We took more people on board. We also developed people. We provided training, all of this led to slightly increased OpEx, under proportionally again, compared to the net sales growth, that then led to an EBIT of CHF 61.4 million, an increase of 20.4% over the previous year and a very good EBIT margin of 15.6%.
All the financial KPIs are therefore well in line with our targets and our communicated profit ranges. Next page shows the development over the last years. Continued success. Net sales 12.9% up, EBIT 20.4% up, which means we met our own target of profitable growth, EBIT margins and EBIT to grow faster than the net sales itself. Revenue mix down below on the left side, we show a pretty stable net sales mix between new business and life cycle services.
New business has picked up in the last year, therefore it looks as a minor reduction in life cycle services share, but this is in the digits, in these decimals, 29% as opposed to 28%. On the right-hand side, we see reflected what I mentioned before, which is the geographical split. Asia Pacific and Middle East Africa not being able to regain speed, therefore only growing in the averages, whereas the U.S., North American market, over proportionally grew in 2019, that shows the new geographical split of 23% in North America, sorry, in Americas compared with the 20% in the year before.
We've been asked a lot of times about our plan for the investment in our U.S. manufacturing plant. Here's some more detailed information about location. Number 1, we chose, in a supported process, Lexington in South Carolina. Main reasons was vicinity to harbor, to landing ports coming in with products from Europe, then proximity to university and colleges, because we want to also win talent over there. We believe that Lexington or South Carolina does become or will become a very strong labor base as well, and therefore, we opted for that location.
Some key figures you see there is a total investment of approximately $20 million, both for building and equipment, 16,700 sq m. Main focus will be in this factory in the beginning to produce standard lift systems, Vertical Lift Modules. We want to use this facility as a logistics hub for products coming in from Europe and maybe some stock programs to be faster to the market to our customers in the U.S. Project's running well.
We are in the erection phase for the project itself, and we expect start of operation in the second half of 2020. Next one. Is our other division, Kardex Mlog. Kardex Mlog, if we were to eliminate the bookings for a minute or for a second, is also looking back to a successful year. Bookings in Kardex Mlog pose some concern for us and also maybe for you guys. They've been heavily affected by delayed customer decisions until Q3.
I think we've been reporting on that already in the half year call. That trend has unfortunately continued into Q3. Has a little changed in Q4, where some much-needed decisions have been made on our customer side. There was a healthy Q4 in terms of order bookings and also a continued trend, and they pick up already in the first months of 2020.
LCS, life cycle services, also for Mlog, based on growth programs that we have implemented for Kardex Mlog in the life cycle service area, have grown with double-digit increase. Net revenues, also a solid, we call this rather a solid growth with 4.2% over the previous year. EBIT and EBIT margin based on very strict cost management also in our Mlog division, we were able to increase again by 9.8% or a relative EBIT margin of 7.1%.
Financial KPIs also in the upper part of our target ranges and our guidance. Kardex Mlog, the key figures, very short summary also here, profitable growth. EBIT growth faster and better than the net sales growth. Revenues mix, still very healthy if we look into a almost 50/50 split between service and new business. The geographical split, it shows a minor increase in areas outside of Germany, but this is really more of a spot check of a yearly consideration. It's not yet the result of a true geographic expansion.
Which brings me to the outlook for 2020, which for the last years is the most difficult one for me to give. I have to confess that. I think none of you will be surprised about that. On one hand, we still have a very solid backlog, order backlog, that supports a strong or sound start into 2020. With all the things happening around us, there is a lot of uncertainty. We see some slowdown in bookings in Kardex Remstar. It started in Q4, and it continues in the first two months in 2020. That raises some concern.
On the other side, Kardex Mlog, with the reported bookings in Q4 and the first two months of 2020, provide us with some compliment or with some trust that Kardex Mlog could end up with similar results like 2019, which I believe would be a great achievement given the current circumstances. Overall, we are fairly cautious with the outlook for 2020 just because of the market uncertainties that we are surrounded with.
Nevertheless, we decided with our board of directors also to continue with our investments in supply chain technology and digitalization because we strongly believe in this market, we strongly believe in the intralogistics market, and we strongly believe that these uncertainties will cease to exist, they will disappear, and we want to be ready to pick up business as soon as customers decide again. We don't want to then ramp up our business again, and therefore we, for now, decided to continue with our investments. That really is it for me for the outlook, and I would like to hand back and hand over to Edwin.
Yes. Thank you very much, Jens. Thank you very much, Thomas. We are now ready for the Q&A session, may I ask the operator to take over, please remember, can only put your questions by phone and not as in beginning said, via web, that's not possible today. Please, operator.
We will now begin the question and answer session. Anyone who wishes to ask a question may press star and 1 on their touch tone telephone. You will hear a tone to confirm that you have entered the queue. If you wish to remove yourself from the question queue, you may press star and 2. Participants are requested to use only handsets while asking a question. Anyone who has a question may press star and 1 at this time. The first question comes from Charlie Fehrenbach from AWP. Please go ahead.
Good afternoon, gentlemen. Could you give us maybe a short overview about your activities in China and how affected you are by the coronavirus virus, maybe also over the supply chain, how many factories you have there, how many employees? Thank you very much.
Thanks for the question. This is Jens again. China, dual answer. Easy one is the effect on our supply chain is relatively little at that stage, simply for the reason that we are from a procurement level, we are relatively low in volumes, the things that we source from China, therefore for now, the impact on our own supply chain and our capability to produce is relatively low. The impact on our market, performance, i.e., how much we sell into the market, with our Chinese sales organization, that is clearly to be seen. It's actually a dual hit now.
Number one, for the whole of the last year, China was on a, I would say, on a deceleration path, if I may say it in the most polite way, and that affected investment in China anyway, and now this is effectively additionally affected by Corona and the impact, almost standstill of some of the markets in China, and therefore we obviously see booking levels drop in China for the moment, for the time being.
Thank you very much.
Yeah, is it enough?
Yeah. Thank you.
Okay. Welcome.
The next question comes from Michael Lichvar from Vontobel. Please go ahead.
Good afternoon, gentlemen. Congratulations to strong results in 2019. I know that you are cautious about the outlook, I would still try to get a bit more color than there, given your order backlog, which gives you visibility of five to six months, what do you see there for the first half of 2020? What is actually the quality of the order backlog? Could you keep these margins that you've seen in 2019 intact? That would be my first question.
Yes, Michael. This is Edwin speaking. As you know, since we have a good backlog, and if you listen to Thomas, 5.5 months of visibility, you can expect that there will be a good first half year. Take into account that we have started in actually quite a substantial investment program in people and in the supply chain, which you will also see in our full year results. More is difficult to say for the moment. Would that be enough or?
Yeah. Just maybe a follow-up on this substantial investment. When do you actually expect this to kind of kick in on the positive side, meaning, further growth, for example, in the U.S.? [Or] is this coming kind of gradually and we've already seen them in 2019?
That's.
Jens, maybe, yeah.
Yeah. As I said, Michael, this is Jens. As I said before, the growth in the U.S. was over proportional compared to our other regions. This is effectively the result of our previous investment into the sales organization, into the market, mainly 2017 and 2018. Growth programs in the U.S. now coming into play. It's also supported by a good market environment in the U.S. If you talk the U.S., the slowdown there is very minor for now. I expect they can keep the momentum. Elections may affect it towards the later part of the year. Far, we don't see much of that.
The investments we are talking now is mainly into other regions, and also, as I said before, into the manufacturing plant in the U.S. That will come into play into start of operation, as I said, half year two of 2020. Then there will be a well-managed ramp-up process for this factory.
So I think effects in terms of capacity, delivery to market, these type of things will the earliest be seen in 2021. Now this year is an investment year for us, where we really get ready for more things to do. We, in parallel, develop, with our local team, further growth plans for the U.S., which is a little too early to talk about. This is what we're planning. How could we leverage our position in the U.S.? How could we become an even stronger market competitor in the U.S.? That's part of the discussions of the strategy. Then we will report as soon as we have made first steps over there.
Okay. Fair enough. Just last question regarding this kind of outlook. In 2019, you said that this kind of bottlenecks regarding capacities, they were lifted. Is this a bit of an extraordinary tailwind that you had in 2019 and you will not see in 2020? Maybe pent-up demand still from 2018 that you couldn't fulfill, with increasing capacities, you could do it in 2019. Is this capacity bottlenecks lifting, did it create a bit of a more difficult base for you for 2020?
That was many questions in one. Can you try to slice it into one or two questions?
Well, it is one question, just took me quite long to explain. Just this lifting of this capacities bottlenecks, did it create a tailwind in 2019 that makes your comparison base for 2020 more difficult because this is kind of extraordinary effect that you will not have in 2020?
That was similarly long. I think I got the question now. The lifting of the capacity constraints into 2019 is not fully lifted. We partially eliminated our capacity constraints, but they are not fully removed. That's why we also decided for two reasons, to better balance our capacity loading to factories with the extra manufacturing plant in the U.S., closer to the market, but also ability to produce, to manufacture. That will help mostly Bellheim with some of their still experienced capacity constraints. I would not think that a lot of 2019 net sales had to do with these lifted capacity constraints. Yes, they did contribute to some extent. We had a very strong backlog.
Then you need to look into the backlog and the revenue mix in the backlog, which needed to be produced on these bottleneck machines and which could not, sorry, did not need to be produced on these. That helped a lot as well, because we focused on some other product mix also for the division, for Remstar. That all in all, gave a slightly better position, favorable position, compared to 2018.
Okay, that's well explained. Last question now, kind of a technicality maybe for Thomas. ROSI has declined in 2020. Can you just explain why this was the case? Your profitability has increased substantially. Can you just explain what was the kind of mechanics behind this?
Yes, sure. As I tried to explain while going through the balance sheet, you have seen the effect of the advance payments by customers. These had the effect that the capital employed, of especially Kardex Mlog, went up, and this has a negative effect on the ROSI.
Okay. That's very helpful. Thank you very much.
Welcome. Thanks, Michael.
As a reminder, if you wish to register for a question, please press star and one. The next question comes from Remo Rosenau, from Helvetische Bank. Please go ahead, sir.
Yes, hi, good afternoon. Coming back once more to the investment program. Your cash flow from investing activities was CHF 14 billion last year, actually only up around CHF 3.7 million from 2018. On what level would you expect these CapEx to be in 2020, and what exactly is still going to happen? You mentioned the U.S., that you still plan to do this and that. Could you elaborate a bit on that and on the level of CapEx?
Hi, Remo. Here is Thomas. Yes, sure. The guidance we gave last year is more or less the same. We spent in 2019 around CHF 17 million, and in the next two years, 2020, 2021, this will go up. We expect a level of around CHF 25 million. It will go down slightly by another two years to a level of around CHF 15 million, and then normalizes on around CHF 10 million. Again, two years with CHF 25 million, two years CHF 15 million, and around CHF 10 million, which will be again, the normative level.
Okay, great. When the U.S. facility will be coming on stream in the second half of this year, what will your utilization rates be? How much expansion is it? Bellheim, as I understood, is still running more or less at full capacity utilization. Let's say 90%-95%, right? However, in the U.S., when the other one is running, how much more capacity do you have there?
That's Remo's main question.
I like it. Hi, Remo.
Yes.
We play it on tape. Number one, capacity in Bellheim. Ideally, I want to see this plant at 85% of the nominal capacity, because this is the most healthy capacity utilization that you could see in Bellheim. Now, that's relative to installed capacity. That shifts quite a bit over to the U.S., and I would think that it's very difficult to say how much extra capacity it really adds because it's subject to what type of machines are we producing.
We have small machines, we have narrow machines, we have large machines and wide machines, and this carries a different capacity requirement per product. Therefore, the guidance is very difficult to say how much extra capacity are we going to see it in this facility. Currently, we're planning on a 1-shift operation for the U.S.
That immediately provides us with the opportunity to go two shifts if we see a severe capacity need for the U.S. operation. There is quite a bit of extra capacity that we're adding to our network of manufacturing. Sorry, I cannot be more specific here without digging down to extreme detailed numbers.
Okay. Yeah, fair enough. That's fine. Another one. Your margins, EBIT margins, have been up another 90 basis points in 2019. A part of that, for sure, is also due to lower input costs. Last year, every company was complaining big time about the increased raw material costs and how hard it hits them. Everybody increased prices. A lot of companies did. Raw materials started to come down, and now, of course, nobody speaks about the tailwind, about raw material input costs. Everybody's very quiet about that, but it certainly had a positive impact. Could you share with us how much of these 90 basis points are basically tailwind from raw materials and how much is really internal improvement?
First of all, material costs usually kick in only second half of the year. That's based on our procurement plan. Not the full year was affected, but we do some kind of framework agreements with our steel suppliers, which is our biggest procurement part, for raw materials. They normally kick in second half or even only in Q4. The impact of that on the 2019 result is there, but not substantial. How much is it? That's a difficult one. I'm trying to work something out. CHF a couple of million, I would suggest.
Okay. Fair enough. Let's say majority of the 90 basis points is still not coming from that part, which means.
[Remo], I can answer your question if you want.
Okay.
If you look at our revenue mix, number one. Number two, we've been able to also increase our sales prices. We actually got more. This is also due to our revenue mix. It's no secret that we have a better market pricing in the U.S. The moment we have a better market pricing in the U.S. and the net sales share of our revenue goes towards the U.S., then the weighted margins increase. That had way more effect on our average gross profit than the steel prices.
Okay, good. Listening to you, that means that you will still have some tailwind in 2020 from the whole raw material development, right?
I would expect to, yes.
Okay. That will help.
It actually carries, in other words, we don't experience the typical increase at the beginning of the year of material prices. We now, again, if you remember what I said a few minutes ago about our hedging programs with our frame contracts, we don't immediately benefit from even further decreased prices if there were. We also would not be immediately affected by increases because we've had these, in parentheses, hedging programs. We don't want to speculate on material. That's why we normally go into quarterly or even longer supply contracts with our steel suppliers. As I said, the most important element of it.
Okay. Looking on the margin for 2020, we have several, of course, moving parts in the equation. On the one hand, you have increased capacities, which increases your fixed cost base also somewhat. You need to ramp up the plant, which has probably some negative effect on the margin. You have some further improvement measures as always. It's the best guess that the target is to keep the margin stable.
I don't want to comment on that, Remo. You have to understand that we don't give guidance on that part.
Okay, good. Still congratulations on this year's results, which were very good. Thank you. Bye-bye.
Thank you.
The next question comes from Sebastian Geuecke from UBS. Please go ahead.
Hello, and good afternoon. Can you hear me?
Yes.
Perfect. The first question would be a bit of a follow-up to the previous two asked questions. As you were outlining earlier, and also in the press release in the morning, you have seen less bottlenecks, lower steel prices, and good sales price that were all contributing to your better gross profit margin. In terms of percentage, as I said, the better sales price were most likely the most, or they had the largest impact. For the two others, can you also outline there how much tailwind you would have expected to see that has impact your gross profit positively? That was my first question.
Sebastian, it's very difficult to give these answers. It's maybe better to discuss it one-on-one than discuss in so many details.
Okay. No problem. I would go on with my next question. You earlier talked about CapEx and the plan going forward. If I recall it correctly, you mentioned that you will spend CHF 20 million of CapEx over 2019. However, you just spent CHF 12 million in tangible CapEx and CHF 2 million in intangible CapEx. The gap to the CHF 20 million, is that something that will be likely mostly pushed into 2020? Is that something that we won't see again? What led to that?
Hi, Sebastian. Here is Thomas. There is a push over to 2020, but this is included in the figures I just presented before.
What led to this situation?
Well, we were ordering the machines, there were some delays. It was a plan. We are CHF 3 million behind the plan, this is just a simple shift.
Understood. I have another one on Remstar, in particular, the FX impact on the top line. Can you give me a number there? What you have seen for the full year 2019?
Yes, sure. 2019, we had a positive effect of CHF 4.5 million.
Okay. One last one. When you described the business in Remstar, you mentioned that you have seen some slowdown in Germany, U.K., Scandinavia, and Turkey. This slowdown, was it also leading into cancellation of orders, or did the orders, with just the activity was going down, or really you saw some cancellations in there?
This is Jens. Sebastian, hi. Straight on the top of my head, I cannot think of cancellations. They didn't place the orders. Cancellations, as in, there may be a few, but in the very minor, de minimis areas rather than the percentages.
Perfect. Many thanks to you.
Yeah.
The next question is a question from Tom Bury from DBAG. Please go ahead.
Hello, gentlemen, together. I would have liked to ask you three questions. The first one would be, should we split the CapEx between Remstar and Mlog?
Which was?
Should we straight away answer the first question, and then you go to your next?
Yeah, that's right. Yeah.
I suggest we start with the first one, so split between CapEx, Kardex Remstar, and Kardex Mlog was the question, right?
Yeah, that's right.
Hello, here is Thomas. This is the CapEx we have is mainly spent on Kardex Remstar. We don't really give it out, but around 90%-100%.
I thought that. The second question would be for Mlog. You said it would be a great achievement to get the sales of the 2019. Would this also imply that you can keep the margin at this level, or would you say that in 2019, the business was the best you can get?
Here is [Edwin] speaking. If you look at our press release, we say that we expect the same. If we don't see big market turmoil, we see the same result, that turnover as well as margin. Be aware that with the margin we achieved at Mlog, we are at the very highest within the peer group. There are not many companies in this field that have this high margins of above 7%.
Sorry, before you continue. Can we ask everybody to mute their microphones? We have a lot of background noise here by somebody talking in the background.
Okay, I will go on. My third question is regarding Mlog. Do you still think that you are the right owner for this business? I see all the CapEx goes to Remstar. Are you considering other strategies with Mlog?
What do you mean other strategies with Mlog?
Yeah. To sell it or to bring it together with a competitor.
Which would be the same, right?
Yeah. It depends on the outcome, whether you make a joint venture or
Yeah, that is.
Hello, here is Thomas. We got this question very often. Why do we keep Kardex Mlog? What is the reason to keep Kardex Mlog? We always have the same. Look at the figures. We have more than 30% return on capital employed. We have now achieved 7% EBIT margin, and this is very good figures compared to the peer group. Yes, it is a small division. Yes, it is only Germany, but it is quite a good investment in the end.
I don't say that. Not a good investment. We have a lot of volatility as we have seen in the sales and bookings.
There might be volatility in sales and bookings, but if you look at the comparison we have in the presentation over the last five years, it's growing by 5% average and the margins are now at a good level. Maybe to answer the other question, why not that much CapEx? It's because Kardex Mlog has enough capacity at the place they are in Germany. They are very good positioned, so there is not that need for now for big CapEx at Kardex Mlog. Whereas Remstar is global. We are now really setting our footprint in the U.S., and Remstar is really global and there are more investments needed to really build that business up over the next decade.
Okay, thanks.
Once again, to ask a question, please press star and one. The next question is a follow-up from Mr. Sebastian Geuecke from UBS. Please go ahead.
Hello. Yeah, me again. I have just one follow-up. With regard to the mentioned earlier slowdown in Germany, U.K., Scandinavia and Turkey, was there a particular industry where the slowdown was observable or was it rather on a broad-based level?
Mostly automotive and machinery. Everybody that's somehow affected also by supply chain issues with China, with everything, and we all know about the automotive industry. The rest, relatively stable.
Understood. Many thanks.
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