Good day, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Q2 2018 AMETEK, Inc. Earnings Conference Call. As a reminder, this conference may be recorded. I would like to introduce your host for today's conference, Kevin Coleman, Vice President, Investor Relations. You may begin.
Thank you, Glenda. Good morning, and thank you for joining us for AMETEK's 2nd quarter earnings conference call. With me this morning are Dave Zapico, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer and Bill Burke, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. AMETEK's 2nd quarter results were released earlier this morning and are available electronically on Market Systems and on our website in the Investors section of ametek.com. This call is also being webcasted and can be accessed on our website.
The webcast will be archived and made available on our site later today. Before we get started, I want to remind you that any statements made by AMETEK during the call that are not historical in nature are to be considered forward looking statements. As such, these statements are subject to change based on various risk factors and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ significantly from expectations. A detailed discussion of the risks and uncertainties that may affect our future results is contained in AMETEK's filings with the SEC. AMETEK disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward looking statements.
Also, please note that during today's call, references will be made to some financial results on an adjusted basis. Please refer to the Investors section of ametek.com for a reconciliation of any non GAAP financial measures used during this call. We'll begin today with prepared remarks by Dave and Bill and then open it up for questions. I'll now turn the meeting over to Dave.
Thank you, Kevin, and good morning, everyone. AMETEK's results in the Q2 were superb. We reported record sales with very strong organic growth and excellent contributions from recent acquisitions. We ended the quarter with a record level of backlog following another quarter of strong orders growth. We delivered excellent operating performance, resulting in record level EBITDA, record operating income, significant margin expansion and sizable growth in diluted earnings per share.
We also completed another acquisition in the quarter, continuing to deploy a robust free cash flow on strategic acquisitions. Given these outstanding results, we have again raised our guidance for 2018. So overall, just a fantastic quarter with very high quality results. Now on to the financial highlights. Total sales in the Q2 were a record $1,210,000,000 up 14% compared to the Q2 of 2017.
Organic sales were up 7%, acquisitions added 5% and foreign currency was a 2 point tailwind. We are very pleased with the organic growth as it remains broad based across our businesses and geographies. Orders growth was also very solid in the quarter. Overall orders were up 8% with organic orders up 5%, even with a difficult comparison from the Q2 of 2017. As a result, we finished the 2nd quarter with a record backlog of $1,600,000,000 EBITDA in the 2nd quarter was a record $317,600,000 up 17% over the Q2 of 2017 with EBITDA margins a very strong 26.3%.
Operating income in the 2nd quarter was a record $270,100,000 up 18% over the prior year. Reported operating income margins were up 70 basis points to 22.3%. Excluding the dilutive impact from acquisitions, operating margins were up an impressive 110 basis points over the Q2 last year. This level of margin expansion speaks to the excellent operating leverage our businesses generate. 2nd quarter earnings were $0.83 per diluted share, up an outstanding 28% compared to the same period last year and above our guidance of $0.76 to $0.78 per share.
Now turning to the individual operating groups. First, the Electronic Instruments Group. EIG had an excellent second quarter with strong sales growth and tremendous operating performance. Sales for EIG in the 2nd quarter were a record $744,500,000 up 13% over the same quarter of 2017. Organic sales were up 6% and recent acquisitions also contributed 6%.
Foreign currency was a 1% benefit to EIG sales in the quarter. While growth was broad based across our EIG businesses, we saw particularly strong organic growth across our Ultra Precision Technologies division. 2nd quarter operating income for EIG was 193,800,000 dollars up 18% over the prior year. Reported operating income margins were excellent at 26%, up 110 basis points over the Q2 of 2017. Excluding the dilutive impact of acquisitions, EIG margins were up an exceptional 180 basis points over the prior year.
The Electromechanical Group also had a fantastic quarter with record sales and operating results. EMG sales in the quarter were a record 464,500,000 dollars up 14% over the same period last year. Organic sales growth was excellent at 9% with solid demand across our Engineered Materials and Thermal Management Systems businesses. The acquisition of FMH Aerospace contributed an additional 3% and foreign currency provided a 2% benefit in the quarter. Operating income in the 2nd quarter was a record $94,300,000 an 11% increase compared to the Q2 of 2017.
Operating margins were strong at 20.3% for the quarter. In summary, AMETEK delivered another outstanding quarter. Our teams are performing at a very high level and remain focused on delivering high quality results. We remain committed to investing in our businesses and our people to generate sustained long term success for our shareholders. We also remain committed to deploying our strong free cash flow on strategic acquisitions where we can leverage the AMETEK business model to drive meaningful improvements.
And we have had a strong first half of the year on the acquisition front, completing 3 deals and deploying approximately $370,000,000 in capital. As a quick recap, in January, we expanded the capabilities of our aerospace and defense businesses through the acquisition of FMH Aerospace, a leading provider of highly engineered and differentiated components for use in the aerospace, defense and space markets. In April, we announced the acquisition of SoundCom, which designs, integrates and services clinical workflow and communication systems for end users in the healthcare, government and educational markets. Soncom was a wonderful addition to our growing healthcare solutions platform as a value added reseller for RollandBork, the leading global provider of mission critical clinical communications and workflow solutions to hospitals, healthcare systems and educational facilities. Ryland has experienced a very strong growth since being acquired in the Q1 of 2017, with organic sales up low double digits in the Q2.
Rolland is seeing robust demand for its market leading communication solutions and has done a fantastic job leveraging AMETEK's business system to improve its profitability. In addition to FMH and Soncom, we recently completed the acquisition of MoTeq, a leading provider of vision systems for the high growth mobile machine vision market. Headquartered in Germany, MoTeq provides integrated vision systems that combine ruggedized mobile cameras with advanced software to improve operational efficiency and enhance safety. These applications are used in a variety of end markets including automation, agriculture, transportation, defense and logistics. MoTeq's differentiated solutions nicely complement our instrumentation and specialty controls business and provide AMETEK with a leadership position in this very high growth adjacent market segment.
MoTeC has annual sales of approximately $35,000,000 and we deployed approximately $95,000,000 on the acquisition. Our acquisition teams are managing a very active acquisition pipeline and we remain focused on deploying our strong free cash flow strategic acquisitions. Given our balance sheet strength plus the additional flexibility resulting from tax form,
we are
in a strong position to pursue additional acquisition opportunities and are very excited about the opportunities in our pipeline. We are also very excited about the success of our organic growth initiatives as our businesses are seeing very positive results from these efforts. While our end markets remain strong, our excellent organic sales growth indicates that our efforts to enhance our sales and marketing processes and a continued focus on new product development are having a positive impact. One example of the success of our efforts can be seen across our Ultra Precision Technologies division. This division includes a tremendous set of highly differentiated businesses with leading edge technologies and solutions providing ultra precise metrology solutions and precision optical products for an attractive set of markets and applications.
As noted earlier, these businesses have delivered tremendous results recently with robust growth in both sales and orders. This growth reflects the strength of their technology and niche leadership positions across the markets they serve. These businesses are capturing incremental market share as a result of their global and market expansion initiatives and success with their new product development efforts. As an example, CreoForm, a pioneer in 3 d scanning measurement technology, recently unveiled their latest machine known as the CubeR. The CubeR is a complete turnkey solution that provides fast, precise and automated 3 d measurement capability for a shop floor environment.
Utilizing Priaform's Metroscan 3 d metrology scanner, along with the efficiency and reliability of robotic automated industrial measuring cell, the QR can measure and inspect parts and components up to 3 meters in length with metrology grade accuracy. This solution is allowing our customers to enhance their quality control in a reliable, safe and efficient manner. New products and solutions like the QVAR continue to be a key driver for sustained organic growth and AMETEK's long term success. Our vitality index, which measures the level of sales generated from new products and solutions introduced within the last 3 years is one way to measure the success of our research, development and engineering efforts. For the first half of the year, our vitality index was excellent at 23%, reflecting the tremendous work of our teams to design and implement these new products and solutions.
In 2018, we expect to increase our RRD and E investment by 6% year over year to approximately 235,000,000 dollars Before providing our updated outlook for 2018, I wanted to provide a few comments on the global trade situation. While tariffs have had a minimal effect on our business thus far, we do expect that incremental headwinds will need to be managed as tariffs are implemented and supply chains adjust. We are confident in our ability to largely mitigate these headwinds given our ability to capture incremental pricing due to the highly differentiated nature of our businesses, plus the strength and flexibility of our global supply chain. The situation remains fluid and uncertain, but what we know now at this point, we expect the net impact of tariffs to be only a modest headwind for the balance of 2018 and this headwind is reflected in our guidance. Now on to the outlook.
Given our outstanding performance in the first half of the year and our positive outlook for the back half of twenty eighteen, we now expect earnings to be in the range of $3.16 to $3.20 per diluted share, up 21% to 23% from 20 seventeen's adjusted earnings per diluted share of $2.61 This is an increase from our previous guidance range of $3.06 to 3 $0.12 dollars We continue to expect AMETEK overall sales to be up low double digits with organic sales up mid single digits for all of 2018, with EIG organic sales also up mid single digits and EMG organic sales up high single digits. For the Q3, overall sales are projected to be up high single digits with organic sales up mid single digits compared to the same quarter of 2017. 3rd quarter diluted earnings per share are expected to be in the range of $0.76 to $0.78 up 15% to 80% over the prior year period. To summarize, AMETEK's performance through the 1st 6 months of the year was outstanding. We are firmly positioned to deliver record results in 2018 and continued success in the long term backed by our world class teams and focus on executing our 4 growth strategies.
I will now turn it over to Bill Burke, who will cover some of the financial details for the quarter, then we'll be glad to take your questions. Bill?
Thank you, Dave. As Dave highlighted, AMETEK had an excellent second quarter with record results and a high quality of earnings. Let me provide some additional financial details. In the Q2, core selling expenses were up in line with core sales growth. Our 2nd quarter general and administrative expenses were down modestly compared to 2017 and as a percentage of sales were 1.5%, down from last year's level of 1.8 percent of sales.
The effective tax rate for the 2nd quarter was 21.9% versus last year's rate of 26%. The year over year reduction in our effective tax rate was due to the benefits of tax reform. We expect our 2018 tax rate to be in the range of 22.5% to 23%. And as we've stated in the past, actual quarterly tax rates can differ dramatically either positively or negatively from this full year estimated rate. Working capital was very solid at 17.2 percent of sales in the 2nd quarter, down from 17.9% of sales a year ago.
Capital expenditures were $16,000,000 for the quarter. And for the full year, we expect capital expenditures to be approximately $85,000,000 or 1.8 percent of sales. Depreciation and amortization for the quarter was $49,000,000 And for the full year, we expect depreciation and amortization to be approximately $200,000,000 2nd quarter operating cash flow was $203,000,000 and free cash flow was $187,000,000 For the 1st 6 months of 2018, free cash flow was up 12% over the prior year period. And for the full year, we expect free cash flow conversion of approximately 110% of net income. As Dave mentioned, we've been very active on the acquisition front deploying approximately $370,000,000 on the acquisitions of FMH Aerospace, SoundCom and MoTeq thus far in 2018.
Total debt at June 30 was $2,150,000,000 down slightly from the end of 2017. Offsetting this debt is cash and cash equivalents of $558,000,000 resulting in a net debt to EBITDA ratio as of June 30 of approximately 1.3 times. Following the 3 acquisitions we completed this year, we have more than $1,500,000,000 of cash in existing credit facilities to support our growth initiatives. In summary, the performance from our businesses during the Q2 was outstanding. We delivered record level results with a high quality of earnings and we remain well positioned to support our growth initiatives with our strong balance sheet and excellent cash flows.
Kevin? Great. Thank you, Bill. Glenda, could we please open the lines for questions?
Certainly. You. And our first question comes from the line of Scott Graham from BMO Capital Markets. Your line is now open.
Hi, good morning. Can you hear me okay?
Yes, Scott, you're coming in clear.
Very good. Well done on the quarter. I have two questions for you. I know you positioned the organic orders of up 5 as facing a tough comp and certainly we know that orders tend to be lumpy, you've had larger, you've had double digit in the past and all this. Is there anything at all Dave that we should be reading into the plus 5, the slower?
No, I think Q2 orders were strong, Scott. We had a positive book to bill in the quarter of 1.02, up mid single digits on some tough comps. You remember that in Q2 2017, we had 12% organic growth. And the mid single digit growth was broad based. Both our EIG and our EMG businesses were both balanced and up in orders.
And if you recall, in our EMG business in Q1, there's a little bit of a seasonality factor with the nature of that business being OEM customers where they place the order for the balance of the year. So that was really that strongly happened in Q1 and we also saw some military orders and strong ones in Q1 related to our TMS business. And as you know, those can be very lumpy. So there's nothing at all to worry about. There's a very strong orders growth, broad based positive book to bill and it's balanced across the business.
Got it. Thank you. My follow-up is essentially on the tariffs. So we have a strategy of moving production to low cost facilities, cost areas. So I guess I was a little bit surprised to hear you say nominal impact and all of that when you do a fair amount of
manufacturing in China for markets that
are not in
Right. It's a great question. And our executive office has been actively involved in managing the situation from our with our business team. So we start from a great position because of our business model and the capabilities we have. As you know, we have niche differentiated businesses with low CapEx requirements by design.
So our model provides pricing power, combined with a flexible operating structure. And capability wise, we have one of the best supply chain organizations in the business. So we're really well positioned from capability and we've currently been working on several work streams. There's resourcing activities ongoing, obviously supplier negotiations. There's a few relocation of production locations.
We're also if you export from the U. S, which you know we do, and you import components that have a tariff, can go through the duty drawback process and recollect just about the entire tariff. We've also built a bit of inventory ahead of the tariffs to fully paying the tariffs that were implemented in July. And based on everything we know, we have less than a penny impact in both Q3 and Q4. And that includes not only the tariffs on steel and aluminum, but Section 301 and that even includes the proposed $200,000,000,000 that was proposed at 10% on a bunch of different items.
So now that can change, but we've also factored that into. So with our capability and our capability to get price and our capability in our supply chain, I feel very comfortable where ideally situated to manage the tariff situation and it's a process and we now have a great process in place.
And the productivity savings, I think last quarter you said about $85,000,000 Is that intact?
No, we're still going to get $85,000,000 We were having a strong year and we'll still get 85,000,000 dollars Our supply chain teams have this additional load, but we're still going to get the $85,000,000 Got it.
Thank you.
Thanks, Scott.
Thank you. And our next question comes from the line of Christopher Glynn from Oppenheimer. Your line is now open.
Thank you. Good morning. Good morning, Hey, question on MoTeq. I'm just reading the description of it, wondering if that is somewhat of a direct play on the electrical vehicle market. And also given the high growth profile of it, just wondering if you measure the trend line in terms of expanding pipeline of opportunities given probably some longer spec cycles there?
Yes, Motec is a great business, Chris. And it's not so much on electric vehicles, but it is on the embedded mobile machine market. It's a leading provider of vision systems. So their products improve operational efficiency and enhance safety. They have integrated vision systems combined with ruggedized cameras for harsh environments, electronic hardware and software for high speed video processing and unique proprietary algorithms for applications that automate and make mobile machines safer.
So when you put those three factors together, the ruggedized cameras, the video processing and the software and the algorithms, they're really in a unique position and in a burgeoning market that has good long term growth drivers. And the business has been growing at 20 plus percent a year for the last 3 years. Their end markets are balanced across transportation, ag, logistics, construction, military vehicles. They're very unique applications where they're helping their customers improve the quality and safety of their operations. A very strong capability in engineering.
The company is headquartered in Germany. The majority of their sales are in Europe and it fits very well with our ISC business. So the sales channel opportunities for both businesses are really good. So we're very optimistic. We bought it from 2 private founders.
The competitors are relatively small. They're well positioned and we're really optimistic what we're going to be able to do with the business.
Sounds cool. And my next one is, are you seeing any platforms that are starting to feel toppy or tapering off in terms of business units, markets or geographies as you look around just given you have pretty widespread breadth?
Yes, it's a great question, Chris. And when you look at our business, both our EIG and EMG business are up mid single digits or better. If you look at all of our market areas and Scott didn't ask that question, but if you look at all of our market areas and the process, aerospace, power and industrial and automated and engineering, all those businesses are up mid single digits or better. If you go around the world, all the geographies are up mid single digits or better. So we're feeling very optimistic and we're not seeing any sign of slowdown.
That sounds good. Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you. And our next question comes from the line of Deane Dray from RBC Capital Markets. Your line is now open.
Thank you. Good morning, everyone.
Good morning.
Hey, just like to circle back on the price cost and tariffs. It sounds like that's all being well managed. Just a couple of real specifics is because you have such leadership in these niche differentiated markets, we typically associate that with good pricing power. Can you share with us any pricing actions that you've taken? What kind of schedule, feedback or acceptance from acceptance from customers, but color on that would be really helpful.
Sure, Deane. In Q2, we achieved price of 1.9%. So that was up from 1.4% in Q2. So we had mentioned that we were getting ahead of this and our business teams did a great job of getting price in the quarter. Total inflation was about 1.2%.
So we had a positive spread there. And we were able to more than offset the increasing inflationary costs with increased pricing and the results speak to the differentiated nature of our portfolio. So, in terms of the environment, I think with the tariffs and a little bit of inflation, it's becoming a bit easier to pass on pricing right now. And I think for the full year, we expect inflation to pick up a bit. We can see that in the channel building.
So we had 1.2% inflation in Q2 and Q1. We can see that picking up a bit in the balance of the year, but we think our pricing is going to remain strong and we'll maintain a positive spread for the full year.
Got that. That's real helpful. And how serious are you looking at potential relocation of production? We've heard companies like Danaher call that out explicitly that that's part of their potential game plan. Is this stuff that you'll move forward on or is it just in terms of if things escalate?
We have a very flexible manufacturing setup where we have in low cost regions. So there are certain product lines and it's by no means our entire portfolio, but certain product lines we're looking at relocating because we already have capability to manufacture in a region. So we have manufacturing capability in a couple of regions and we'll move it to a place that's not impacted by tariffs. But there are really a couple of select areas where we're looking at that and that will likely happen.
Got it. And if I just squeeze one more in please on oil and gas, how was that in the quarter? And then there was some news this week about additional pipeline investments coming. And would you be in a position to participate in that?
Yes, great question, Gene. Our oil and gas business performed well in Q2. It was up mid single digits. And we saw good strength in our upstream business that was up mid teens. And our mid and downstream business that would be more tied to your pipelines and the downstream refinery, it was up low single digits.
That was for the quarter. For the full year, we expect sales to be up mid to high single digits where the upstream stays strong, but the mid and downstream get a little bit better as we progress through the year. And with $70 oil, we are seeing solid business activity. Our capital spending budgets are increasing. We are seeing a global pickup in activity and there has been a lack of investments over the past few years.
So we're viewing the outlook on the oil and gas business over the next few years as very positive.
Good to hear. Thank you.
Thanks, Dean.
Thank you. And our next question comes from the line of Matt Summerville from D. A. Davidson. Your line is now open.
Thanks. Couple of questions. First, if you look at just your incremental margins, currency and acquisitions, what would they have been for the whole company and then at the segment level, if you don't mind, please?
Okay.
For EIG, we had 26% operating margins. We were up 110 basis points and excluding acquisitions, we were 180 basis points and the incrementals were about 50%. For EMG, the incrementals were around 20%. So that includes the FX and M and A effect.
Got it. And then about 35. Yes.
And overall for the total business, it was about 35. Good point, Bill.
Got it. Thank you. And then just into your prepared remarks, Dave, maybe if you could dig in a little bit more into what you're seeing in your UPT business, what end markets are driving that strength, how much backlog visibility you have there, maybe some more color on that. And then might as well go ahead and just do the run around the various end markets
as well please. Right. Sure. I mean UPT business is just a fantastic story. I mean it was Bruce Wilson is the Vice President and General Manager of the division and he was acquired in the first acquisition I did as a Group President.
And we've acquired other niche technology businesses all in the nanotechnology space, we are measuring very small things and we do it very well. And we acquired Zygo, we acquired CreoForm and there are broad end markets where precision manufacturing and you want to measure things that are very small with nanometric measurements. So it's in the optics market. There's a little bit of the consumer market. There's precision manufacturing.
So it's a broad based. Military is broad based. They're firing on all cylinders with good new products. Creoform in particular is benefiting from a secular growth driver with their laser scanning 3 d measurement. And it's just a well managed business and it's growing very nicely for us.
And with I'll go around horn, start with our process businesses, go around the businesses. Our process business had a great quarter with overall sales up mid teens. This growth was driven by high single digit organic sales growth and the contributions from the recent MoCon and SoundCom acquisitions. Organic growth remains broad based across our process businesses and reflects the strength of the physicians initial leadership positions. We mentioned our UPT business.
It did really well growing low double digits in the quarter. Another business that grew low double digits was our Rollins business, our Rollinsburg business is doing really well. And for all of 2018, we continue to expect organic sales for process to be up mid single digits. Overall, aerospace sales were up mid teens driven by contributions from recently acquired FMH and mid single digit organic growth. We continue to see excellent commercial OEM and aftermarket growth as we have solid demand across our military business also.
Our overall Aerospace and Defense businesses are well positioned. They're balanced exposure across key market segments, commercial, business jets, military, aftermarket and also diverse exposure across a wide range of legacy and next generation platforms. So we're feeling great about that business for all of 2018. We continue to expect organic sales for our Aerospace businesses to be up mid single digits with growth across each market segment. Our overall sales for our Power and Industrial businesses were up 10% in the 2nd quarter, with mid single digit organic growth and the contributions from recent acquisitions.
We saw broad based growth across each of our Power and Industrial businesses, continued strong growth across our programmable power and VTI Test and Measurement businesses. For all of 2018, we continue to expect organic sales for Power and Industrial to be up mid single digits. And finally, our Automation and Engineered Solutions had another excellent quarter, solid organic growth, up 10% organically. The excellent orders growth that we experienced across these businesses in recent quarters is translating into very strong organic growth. End demand remains solid in both our automation and engineered solutions businesses.
And for all of 2018, we now expect high single digit organic growth for our Automated and Engineered Solutions businesses. So we increased that to high single digits for organic growth for the year. That surrounds the company. Thanks.
Thank you. And our next question comes from the line of Allison Poliniak from Wells Fargo. Your line is now open.
Hi, guys. Good morning.
Hi.
Can we touch on the execution very strong in EIG? Is there anything to be mindful of in terms of mix? It sounds like UPT is still going very strong that would sort of diminish that at this point, anything to be thinking about?
I think EIG is just powering forward. I mean, it's a strong business, it's executing well. The orders ticked up a little bit sequentially. So it's a positive outlook for the balance of the year and our EMG businesses is executing well also. So on the execution side, I'm feeling really good and our management teams are executing very well.
Perfect. And then just trying to reconcile the revenue outlook, it sounds like everything is going strong. You kept in a quarter sort of somewhat of a range that you provide. Any reason sort of keeping that in? Is it just sort of conservatism as we enter the back half of the year and a lot of the uncertainty here?
Yes. I think the mid single digit growth we had for the whole company organically, in Q1, we guided mid single and we guided Q2 in mid single. So it doesn't pick up the fact that we moved to the high, the very high end of mid single digits. So there was an increase in the guidance and that was driven largely by what happened in our Automation and Engineered Solutions business and also what happened in the process side of our EIG business. So it was guided toward the high end of mid single digits, but you don't see that.
And in terms of we're feeling really good at how the year is playing out. We have terrific momentum. Our margins are expanding. Pricing is running well ahead of inflation. We have a solid plan to minimize the impact of our tariffs.
And all that said, it's a bit prudent for the second half to be cautious with some of the trade related matters. So but to be clear, Allison, we're seeing strong underlying demand and we're confident in our outlook.
Great. Thanks so much.
Thank you.
Thank you. And our next question comes from the line of Brett Linzey from Vertical Research Partners. Your line is now open.
Hi, Brett.
Brett, your line is now open.
Hey, can you guys hear me okay?
Yes, we can hear you, Brett.
Okay. Yes, so just back to the Aerospace and Defense. So if we were to include FMH, how large from a revenue standpoint is that total business today? And then I guess separately, if you just go platform by platform, what's in backlog? How much visibility do you have on those deliverables, whether it be months or years here in the coming quarters or so?
Our total aerospace business is between $600,000,000 $700,000,000 in revenue. And it has the best visibility in terms of backlog. That's the business we can look out. We have a lot of military business there and has firm backlog. Then you get into the process business where there's a mix of it's really mid cycle automated and engineered solutions is mid cycle.
So it's a combination of mid cycle and long cycle and our Aerospace and Power businesses really give us the best visibility looking into the future.
Okay. And then I guess just back to just M and A and some of the accretion from deals announced this year. I guess as you look at synergies and projections into next year, what sort of the net accretion rollover we should be thinking about 2019 from some of these stub deals you closed in 2018?
Yes. It's about well, and entering 2018, it was a net of about $0.06 and we haven't finished our planning for 2019, but it's going to be a similar kind of number for 2019 is the best estimate at this time. But we'll firm that up as get closer to the end of the year and we put out our guidance for 2019.
Okay, great. And then just one last one on MoTeq. Any color you can give in terms of profitability, price paid, multiple, any detail there?
Yes, sure. The profitability of the business is a pretty profitable business, slow 20s EBITDA margins. It was about 2.5 times sales. It was about 11 times year 1 EBITDA.
Okay, great. I'll pass it along. Thanks.
Thanks, Brett.
Thank you. And our next question comes from the line of Bhupender Bora from Wolfe Research. Your line is now open.
Hey, good morning guys. Hello, Bhupender.
Hey. Yes, sitting in for Nigel here at Wolfe. And just had a question, I think it was asked earlier basically in the second half of your organic sales guidance. Dave, you did say there is some conservatism built in the second half. With orders up like mid single digit here, I don't know how going into July, you're kind of entering August now.
Have you if you can talk about the trends you've seen, any slowdown from the traffic, tariff stuff or anything on that side?
No, it's a good question, Nigel. We have not seen any demand impact from the no demand impact. And we're almost through July and July looks really strong in terms of orders. So right in line with our plan and no slowdown at all. So we're feeling really good about the orders and the outlook and we haven't seen any demand impact at this point.
Okay. And looks like with the MoTeq, you have a new platform here. If you can just give us some sense of where do you want to grow in this particular machine vision, robotic space here?
Yes. We have a business in the U. S. Called ISC and it's a natural fit with ISC and it's complementary and adjacent market. So ISC has customers in the U.
S. That MoTeC doesn't have and MoTeC has customers in Europe that ISC doesn't have. And the demand ramp that MoTeq is going through is very extreme and AMETEK is well positioned to help them do that. So it's really a great business in a secular growth market. And as I said, the combination of the cameras for harsh environments, the video processing and moving the video around a vehicle or a transportation platform and also the specific algorithms that let them improve processes and increase safety is really unique and we're really optimistic about it.
Okay. Yes. Dave, I remember like when you acquired Rollins last year, you gave some market snapshot into the market growth in the healthcare business. Is this something kind of on a separate platform basis? Or is there a market size which you are looking at?
Yes, Rick, right now, this is small enough that it will be with one of our existing businesses, but I could see this expanding into something bigger and there's certainly more acquisitions that we're looking at in this space because we think it's a high growth space.
Okay, got it. Cool. Thanks a lot.
Thank you, Bhupender.
Thank you. And our next question comes from the line of Joe Giordano from Cowen. Your line is now open.
Hey, guys. Good morning. This is Tristan in for Joe. Just a quick question on military spending. I don't know if you're seeing any acceleration there as it pertains to the platforms you're in.
And I don't know if you can highlight anything on F-thirty five specifically. Thank you.
Yes. With military spending, as we had mentioned on some prior calls, Tristan, it's really picked up. And we're on a lot of legacy platforms and we're on a lot of new platforms. And in fact, the F-thirty 5 is the largest single platform that AMETEK has won today. So we're very bullish on the F-thirty 5.
So we're seeing continuing spending there and looking forward to satisfying the customer demands. And it's also not just the U. S. Military, but we have a business in the UK that serves the international markets. So we're seeing a strong growth there also.
So we're bullish on the military market. We have outlook for mid single digit growth for this year. And it's the largest part of our aerospace business. It's about 35% of it. So it's substantial for us.
Us. And our next question comes from the line of Danielle LeFlein from Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Your line is now open.
Hi. It's actually Andrew Obin for Danny.
Hello.
Hi, guys. How are
you? Good.
Just a question,
a broader question. As you guys think about CapEx trends, we've had the tax reform, We've had the tariffs. When you talk to your customers, do you think people are more likely to spend on CapEx going into 'nineteen, less likely? Do you think your customers are rethinking? How are they going to spend CapEx in the U.
S? Just what are you seeing?
We're seeing good global growth. I mean, the U. S. Market for us was the strongest of our geographies. It was up 9% in Q2.
And clearly, tax reform has an impact, but customers aren't talking to us about tax reform. They're just talking about meeting demand. And we also saw strong growth in China. China was up 14% for us in the quarter and high single digits in all of Asia we had mid single digits in Europe. So we're not seeing any impact on the demand side and most of the customers in the U.
S. Are benefiting from tax reform. And I think there are with all the tariff discussions, I think most people are monitoring those, but it's not stopping them from going forward with business activity because the demand environment is so strong.
Got you. So if you were to guess what inning we are in terms of sort of CapEx cycle, once again talking to your customers, what would you guys guess?
Yes, I would guess my feeling is we went through an industrial recession in 2015 2016 and we're coming out of that. And I think we're in the 4th inning.
Got you. And then yes, sorry. Just a follow-up question. I think Fortive announced a series of deals sort of shifting their model, sounds like on the margin more to what Roper has been doing. How do you guys think about sort of adding software longer term to your portfolio?
And I apologize if the question has been asked, I've been a little bit late.
Could you repeat the question, Andrew?
Just a question. Fortive has announced Software as a Service acquisition following another Software as a Service acquisition. It seems more industrials are sort of doing software deals. How do you guys think about software acquisitions going forward?
Yes, I mean software is an important part of AMETEK's portfolio. A lot of our EIG businesses are niche leaders and software is a critical component. So we're certainly exploring opportunities and the business that we announced today, MoTeq, software is critical to that business. Our roll and board business that we purchased in Q1 of 2017, That business has a burgeoning enterprise software business. So software is important to us and we are looking at the businesses that could help us how to help our existing businesses in that area.
Terrific. Thanks a lot.
Thank you, Andrew.
Thank you. And that concludes our question and answer session for today. I'd like to turn the call back over to Kevin Coleman for closing remarks.
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