Good morning and welcome to today's call to discuss Gentherm's combination with Modine's Performance Technologies business. I would now like to turn the call over to Greg Blanchette, Gentherm's Head of Investor Relations. Greg, please go ahead.
Thank you. Hello, everyone, and thank you for joining us to discuss Gentherm and Modine's announcement of our plans for a spinoff and merger of Modine's Performance Technologies business with Gentherm, which is intended to be tax-free for Modine and Modine shareholders. This morning, Gentherm and Modine issued a news release regarding this announcement, and Gentherm has posted a presentation that we will reference during this call. The release and presentation deck are available on the investor section of Gentherm's website. The comments during today's call and the accompanying presentation contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Safe Harbor provisions of Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements other than statements of historical facts are considered forward-looking statements. These statements are based on management's current expectations and beliefs, as well as a number of assumptions concerning future events.
Such forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from the results discussed in the forward-looking statements. Some of these risks and uncertainties are identified and discussed in the company's filings with the SEC. We'll also refer to non-GAAP financial measures today. These non-GAAP measures should not be used in isolation or as a substitute or alternative to results determined in accordance with U.S. GAAP. In addition, Gentherm and Modine's definitions of these non-GAAP measures may not be comparable to similarly titled non-GAAP financial measures reported by their companies. With me today are Bill Presley, Gentherm Chief Executive Officer; Jon Douyard, Gentherm Chief Financial Officer; and Jeremy Patten, President of Modine Performance Technologies. After the prepared remarks, we'd be pleased to take your questions. Now, I'd like to turn the call over to Bill.
Thank you, Greg, and good morning, everyone. We appreciate you joining us to discuss this exciting announcement of our definitive agreement to combine Gentherm with Modine Performance Technologies. Over the past year, we've laid out our strategy to drive strategic profitable growth, build operational excellence, and achieve superior financial performance. During 2025, we made significant progress. This is a transformational announcement for the company that accelerates our strategy, and I look forward to sharing why we believe this combination provides value to our shareholders. Let's begin on page four. This combination nearly doubles the scale of the company, taking revenue to approximately $2.6 billion while delivering pro forma synergy Adjusted EBITDA of 13% with clear expansion opportunities into the mid-teens.
Strategically, this serves as a building block that expands Gentherm's portfolio with highly complementary thermal management products and engineering capabilities, while accelerating the company's access to key growth markets outside of light vehicle, including power generation, commercial vehicle, and heavy-duty equipment. This combination creates incremental value creation and commercial opportunities, including cross-selling, product innovation and integration, as well as geographic expansion into new global markets. We're bringing together two organizations with a common culture and shared focus on operational excellence. This creates opportunities for us to learn from each other and also enables us to deliver approximately $25 million in identified annual cost synergies. Upon closing, we will have a compelling financial profile that includes a strong balance sheet and access to capital. This positions us well to continue to execute against our strategic framework and capital allocation priorities. We are excited about the opportunity ahead.
Moving to slide 5, we are bringing together two industrial pioneers. Gentherm brings more than 30 years of leadership in thermal management and technology innovation, and Modine Performance Technologies has a history that stretches over a century in mission-critical thermal management. It is that expertise in leadership and thermal management that is a common link. We both have strong competitive advantages and market-leading positions. Together, we will leverage our complementary capabilities, expanding our global reach across attractive markets while building greater scale and thermal management solutions. Before we dive deeper into the strategic and financial benefits of this transaction, I'd like to invite Jeremy Patten, President of Modine Performance Technologies, to say a few words about this great business. Jeremy has a strong track record of industrial leadership, having led businesses and operations at ATS Corporation, IDEX, and Danaher.
He brings a strategic mindset and commitment to operational excellence that makes him a great addition to our leadership team. Jeremy and I have gotten to know each other well throughout this process. We have traveled together to multiple locations, and what we observed has reinforced everything I already believed about this business. The team is highly skilled and brings a relentless focus on quality and execution. I've been incredibly impressed with his and his team's strategic vision and operational discipline. This gives me confidence that Modine Performance Technologies will be an excellent fit, and we look forward to welcoming them to Gentherm. Jeremy?
Thanks, Bill, for the kind words, and hello, everyone. We should be on slide six. I'm really excited to be here today and even more excited about our future with Gentherm. For those of you who aren't familiar, Modine Performance Technologies is a leader in mission-critical thermal management technologies with $1.1 billion in revenue. We serve heavy-duty applications, commercial and light vehicles, and through our 80/20 efforts, we've recently increased our focus on the high-growth power generation market. We have blue-chip customer base of OEMs and Tier 1s across all of these end markets. These are customers with whom we've maintained a strong relationship over decades because they greatly value the reliability and innovation that Modine Performance Technologies has consistently delivered to them. On the right side, you get a view of the mission-critical products in our portfolio.
We're an innovator of highly engineered products developed to deliver optimal thermal performance, improve efficiency, and ensure reliability in the toughest environments. As part of this transaction, Gentherm will acquire the Modine brand and will continue to go to market as Modine. The brand has strong recognition in the industries we serve, and our employees will be excited to continue building on its legacy as a part of Gentherm. As I've become familiar with Gentherm, I've grown even more enthusiastic about the opportunities ahead for our team and our future as a combined company. I'll now hand it back to Bill to go into more detail around what makes this combination so compelling.
Thanks, Jeremy. Turning to slide 7, while Gentherm and Modine Performance Technologies both focus on thermal management and have complementary capability, a key benefit of bringing us together is that it significantly shifts our revenue mix outside of light vehicle while accelerating the growth of Gentherm's core platforms into markets we identified as attractive when we identified our strategy in 2025. The commercial vehicle and heavy-duty equipment markets are markets we have been working to develop organically. With Modine Performance Technologies, we now have direct access in established commercial channels that will allow us to cross-sell Gentherm's existing product portfolio into a broad customer base. While these markets have been challenged recently, Modine Performance Technologies maintains a strong competitive position and customer relationships, and the business is well-positioned to support the industry-wide turnaround that we expect.
Also, Modine Performance Technologies' presence in the high-growth market of power generation creates a unique opportunity for the combined company. The power generation market is expected to grow rapidly, driven by the need for reliable energy for mission-critical operations, including data centers. In addition, aging and increasingly unstable grid infrastructure is creating demand for reliable backup energy sources. These factors provide tailwinds for growth. In the light vehicle market, Gentherm has a strong backlog, and we continue to see increasing adoption and take rates for innovative solutions, which gives us confidence in Gentherm's ability to outgrow the industry production. Looking across these end markets, we expect that the combination of Gentherm and Modine Performance Technologies will outperform growth in several markets through technical leadership, a strong product portfolio, and established customer bases. Now on to slide eight.
Our core capabilities are aligned as both Gentherm and Modine Performance Technologies are experts in thermal management. Our team spent time in Modine facilities across every region, and I personally visited several manufacturing locations and their R&D test center in Racine, Wisconsin. We both engineer our products using the same physics, advanced simulation, and virtual testing. As demonstrated by the graphics on this page, when designing products, we both build complex models that predict performance outcomes long before a product ever hits the road or the field. The products we bring to market are sophisticated and require precision in both engineering and manufacturing to ensure they meet the rigorous requirements for our customers. While Gentherm has historically been focused on human-centric solutions and Modine has been focused on machinery, there is little difference in the way we approach these thermal and flow management solutions.
By bringing together our combined thermal management capabilities, our strong patent portfolios, and a deep bench of technical experts, we will be able to innovate product solutions for multiple end markets that will drive profitable growth. Turning to slide 9, bringing our companies together unlocks value across multiple fronts. We have spent a significant amount of time interacting with their team and analyzing combined spending. As a result, we have identified actionable run-rate cost synergies of approximately $25 million by the end of 2028. The areas of opportunity that we have identified include efficiencies in direct materials, indirect purchasing, logistics, as well as support costs related to the overall company operating model. In addition to the identified synergies, we continue to evaluate footprint and equipment capacity utilization, and we believe there is additional value to be realized over a longer period.
This transaction is really about growth, and we are excited by the tangible and attainable incremental commercial opportunities that this deal creates. In recent months, our teams have been working together to identify areas of potential revenue synergies with great success. I'd like to share a few examples. We have identified clear opportunities to leverage Modine's long-standing relationships and leading market position to cross-sell Gentherm's Climate and Comfort solutions. During one of our workshops, the Modine team explained that the agriculture tractors that they supply are fully equipped with enclosed cabins that benefit from Climate and Comfort solutions. This echoes the conversations we have had with several equipment manufacturers, and we believe their relationships can accelerate adoption of our solutions. Product integration is another substantial opportunity. Modine's products and the systems they go into require valves, and Gentherm is a leading global valve provider.
We have an opportunity to integrate our extensive valve technology into the same systems that require their heat exchangers. And third, this combination opens up new global markets, and we will look to leverage their footprint and capability in markets including India, a target region for Gentherm where demand for our solutions is accelerated. In closing, there are cost synergies to be provided through scale. We can accelerate growth through customer access and combined innovation capabilities, and we gain access to new regions. Together, we can accomplish our goals faster than either company could achieve alone. Turning to slide 10, since joining Gentherm a year ago, one of the key priorities has been cultivating a culture of operational excellence. We are progressing on our journey through standardizing our operating system and key performance indicators, aligning our inventory and supply chain, and transforming our footprint to maximize plant and equipment utilization.
Modine Performance Technologies has a well-established operating system that has delivered a lean company with world-class quality. They utilize 80/20 principles to drive significant financial and operational improvements. This culture, combined with their established operating systems, has resulted in expanded margins and a flat revenue environment. By focusing investments toward high-growth markets, the Modine Performance Technologies team has positioned their business to capture the opportunities for growth in areas like power generation. These two companies come together at an ideal time. Gentherm can learn from Performance Technologies' well-established operating system and 80/20 philosophy. Together, we can accelerate our objective of operational and commercial excellence to expand margins and create shareholder value. I will now turn it over to Jon to discuss the financial profile of the combined company.
Thanks, Bill. Turning to slide 11, where I will take you through the company's financial profile. This transaction will nearly double Gentherm's revenue, meaningfully broaden our end market exposure, and preserve our flexibility to allocate capital and drive shareholder returns. The combined pro forma revenue is approximately $2.6 billion, with synergy Adjusted EBITDA margin of approximately 13%. As we have discussed in the past, we are confident in Gentherm's path to mid-teens margin, and as we look at Performance Technologies, we expect a similar trajectory based on the anticipated growth in higher margin markets as well as operational improvements. Gentherm has historically had a strong balance sheet, and we are excited we will be able to maintain this position while transforming the business. With expected leverage of approximately one turn and an ability to generate strong cash flow, we expect to have ample access to capital to fund strategic priorities.
Overall, this combination gives us a strong financial foundation to deliver sustainable value. We will have increased scale, less reliance on the light vehicle markets, and a path to deliver meaningful margin expansion. Turning to slide 12, and I'll take you through the key elements of the transaction. Gentherm and Modine Performance Technologies are coming together through a Reverse Morris Trust transaction that is intended to be tax-free to Modine and Modine shareholders. In the transaction, Modine will spin out its Modine Performance Technologies business to Modine shareholders and at the same time merge that business with Gentherm. The deal is valued at approximately $1 billion, which represents a multiple of approximately 6.8x based on $147 million pro forma synergy Adjusted EBITDA for the trailing 12-month period ended September 2025. This valuation includes adjustments for standalone costs as well as identifiable run-rate cost synergies of approximately $25 million.
These synergies do not include the benefits we expect from the commercial opportunities that Bill discussed earlier. Gentherm shareholders will own approximately 60% of the combined company, with Modine shareholders holding 40%. As part of the transaction, Modine will also receive a $210 million cash distribution. Upon closing, we will continue to operate under the Gentherm name and will remain listed on NASDAQ. Our headquarters will remain in Novi, Michigan, and we will retain a significant presence at key Modine locations. Importantly, as Jeremy noted earlier, we are acquiring the Modine brand as part of this transaction. Bill will remain our CEO, and I will continue serving as CFO. We expect that the existing Modine Performance Technologies leadership team will continue to run the business as a segment within the broader company. Modine will nominate two directors to the Gentherm board, which will be expanded to 11.
We are targeting a transaction close in the fourth quarter of calendar year 2026, subject to Gentherm shareholder approval and other customary closing conditions. I'll now turn it back to Bill for closing remarks.
Thank you, Jon. Today is a transformational day for the company. We believe these companies are better together. I'm confident in our team's ability to execute and deliver, and I am excited about the future of Gentherm. With that, I will turn the call back to the operator to begin the Q&A session.
Thank you. We will now be conducting a question-and-answer session. If you would like to ask a question, please press star one on your telephone keypad. A confirmation tone will indicate your line is in the question queue. You may press star two to remove yourself from the queue. For participants using speaker equipment, it may be necessary to pick up the handheld before pressing the star keys. One moment, please, while we poll for questions. Our first question comes from the line of Ryan Sigdahl with Craig-Hallum. Please proceed with your question.
Hey, good morning, guys.
Morning.
Morning, Ryan.
Curious, so I get all the positive reasons and synergy potential, etc. Curious if there's any cannibalization on the product side. I see some light vehicle overlap, but maybe across end markets, any concern there or would it be quantified potentially from a cannibalization standpoint?
Hey, Ryan, zero worry there. The products that we share in the light vehicle market are remarkably different, so zero cannibalization. What this is really about, what we're excited about, and I know you get it, is we've been talking since Q1 of last year that our products scale markets other than light vehicle. We've been trying to establish those channels organically. And with this transaction, we have established channels to really accelerate our push into other markets with our product. The other one, the power generation, is an exciting one because that will really allow us to expand the valve business. And as you've heard me say before, I really love the valve business.
Yeah, Ryan, I would just add, I think when we look at the automotive business that they bring, which is about 20%-25% of the company, we actually view it as a cross-selling opportunity for us, similar to other recent transactions that we've done, where we've got broad access to global OEMs, and we view that as an opportunity for us.
Zero is an easy answer to understand. Very good. Data centers, good segue there. Curious, I know Modine has a core data center business, doing some cooling, etc., etc. I'm not going to act like I fully understand exactly everything they do, but curious what is coming with this transaction from a data center standpoint, what is staying with Modine, and kind of how that separation was broken out?
Yeah. So I would characterize it this way just very clearly. So what's coming with Performance Technologies is they're in the power generation space. So they do the thermal management of the large generators that provide the backup power to the data centers. What's staying with Modine Climate Solutions is the stuff that's actually in the data centers, the cooling plates, the cooling systems that they have, the thermal management inside the data centers themselves.
Very good. Thanks, guys. Good luck.
Thank you.
Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Matt Koranda with Roth Capital Partners. Please proceed with your question.
Hey, guys. Good morning.
Morning, man.
I wanted to hear a little bit more about the breakdown of end market exposure post the combination. What's it going to look like in terms of automotive exposure versus commercial vehicles versus sort of all of the other Modine end markets?
Yeah. This is Jon Douyard. I'll take this. I think as you look at the business, right, and as you've heard us talk over the last year, we've really been thinking about, from a strategic perspective, becoming less than 70% light vehicle. This transaction actually gets us there. And so as you look at the combined light vehicle business, it's about 63% of the combined revenue on a pro forma basis. If you look at commercial vehicles and heavy-duty applications and think there, you can think like agriculture and those types of things, that's about 30%. Power generation will be about 6% of the business, but it will be the fastest growing portion just given the power reliability needs across the globe. Medical will continue to be a small portion for us, but a place that we want to continue to invest.
Got it. And then wanted to hear a little bit more about the growth of the end markets, especially at Modine, I guess. You referenced some headwinds as of late in the business. Where are they in sort of the demand cycle, I guess, for heavy applications and commercial vehicle power gen? And are they expected to sort of grow this year?
Yeah. I mean, we do expect the business to grow. We've seen continued strong performance or recent performance, even while the top line has been flat to down on margin expansion through the process. So we're excited about the margin potential of the business. But when you look at the end markets, we would say across the industry, as you look at commercial vehicles and heavy-duty, that we're getting towards the end of a down cycle. We would expect to see a rebound here as we get into 2026, 2027. And so we're excited about that and excited about the competitive position of this business. Power generation is, call it a secular growth. We view a long-term growth model that we're suggesting is in the 20%+ range for this business. And so as we think about the mix of the portfolio, that will continue to shift over time.
We like the businesses where they fit. We've obviously been trying to get into these businesses organically. We think this accelerates it, and we think the time is right from a market cycle perspective.
Okay. Makes sense. Then maybe I'll just ask one on commercial synergies. You guys mentioned the purpose of the acquisition is really growth-oriented. And you referenced sort of the capability of cross-selling some of your thermal comfort technologies into Modine's customers. Curious how to think about quantifying that opportunity and how near-term that could be. Do you guys want to take a crack at sort of just kind of trying to quantify that for us? Because I know it wasn't broken out in the synergies. I think those are all cost-related.
Yeah. I don't know that we could quantify it exactly. What we would say is we've identified those markets as attractive, Matt. We think it's if I were going to bound it, we think it's more than $100 million, but less than $500 million if I were going to put a bound on there. So I think that's just the cross-selling is just one. The other aspect that we're very excited about is the product integration. If you look at the products that Modine Performance Technologies supplies, it's all about fluid and air management, the thermal equation. And all of their systems have valves, and we're a large supplier of valves. They make no valves today. That's all outsourced. So we're excited about the product integration there. And then again, the third thing is they have footprint in markets.
We've been trying to figure out access where we see our demand growing for our comfort and climate solutions like India.
Yeah. I think I could just add to that, Matt. I mean, Bill talked in the prepared remarks about the amount of time we've spent with the team throughout this process and how we continue to be more excited about it as we move on. He talked about a workshop that we had, and I think the level of excitement in that workshop where they were able to define a pipeline of actionable revenue opportunities that was north of $100 million.
With 72 hours.
Yeah. In a very short period of time, just speaking to the power of the opportunity here. We're not going to necessarily commit to that number today. There's a lot more work to be done from a commercial perspective, but we continue to be excited about it as we learn more about this business.
Okay. Appreciate that, guys. I'll leave it there. Thanks.
Thanks, Matt.
Thanks, Matt.
Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Luke Junk with Baird. Please proceed with your question.
Thanks for taking the questions. Bill, maybe hoping to circle back to the cross-selling opportunity. And I guess I'm trying to get a better handle on some of the things that you've workshopped and understanding channels to market at these new customers where you're gaining relationships. Is there enough similarity in terms of who the purchasing folks are and how those organizations are set up in parallel relative to the new entity that we're going to have here? And then you also made reference to some of the things that have happened in the past, and I'd be curious, especially what we should think in terms of comparing or contrasting this opportunity, for instance, with the opportunity that we saw stemming from Alfmeier. Thank you.
So I think it's an opportunity very similar to Alfmeier. Jon alluded to that before, right? We view this as a cross-selling opportunity. In working with the Modine team and working with Jeremy, they have the right channels to cross-sell the products into the markets we're interested in. Specifically in agriculture and mining equipment, that's a direct OEM model. So they have those channels directly there. On the commercial vehicle, it's more on the fleet side. So we've been working to develop that organically, but very strong channels already established for cross-selling Climate and Comfort solutions into those markets.
Okay. Then for a follow-up, Bill, maybe or Jon, you could jump in here too as well. We've talked a little this morning about the Modine operating system and some of what's been going on in this business from top line headwind, but some growth momentum from an earnings standpoint. How should we just think about that dropping into Gentherm strategically, given some of the footprint actions that are already in motion? And then sort of as a combined entity, maybe what you envision leveraging as you acquire some of those capabilities and whatnot?
Yeah. I would say from the operating system, Luke, you and I have talked about this, right? Gentherm, 30 years old, born out of acquisition. So we've been spending a lot of time standardizing operating models, KPIs, Plan For Every Part, a lot of the things we've talked about. So we're getting there. Modine is a 100-year-old company. They have a well-established operating system, and they're an 80/20 company. They use the 80/20 philosophy. That's something that the Gentherm team could benefit directly from that philosophy. So we plan for a direct, what I would call, sharing of knowledge read across. I spent a lot of time in their plants. I think personally, I walked through 6 of their assembly plants. Their plants are run well. Their plants are very connected digitally, which is something that we can learn from because that's a journey on.
They have very high overall equipment effectiveness. So they use their equipment well when it's running, which is something we've been focused on developing as well. So we just think that there's a lot of knowledge sharing to be had there from a 100-year-old company versus the journey that we really started last year. Jon, what would you add?
Yeah. I would just add, I mean, very lean structure. I think the team's done a really nice job there. Capital intensity is low. It's in the 2.5%, 2%-3% range. And so I think as we look at this over the long term, we talked about there being the opportunity for more synergies. We'll continue to look at that, but really great asset and well-run company.
For my last question, maybe if you could just touch on the deal structure. Obviously, a lot of equity is going to be involved here, but I think you're viewing it through the lens of keeping the balance sheet flexibility into the future. Is that the right way we should think about the structure?
Yeah. I mean, we're excited about the structure, doubling the size of the company. We think the multiple is roughly in line with where we are today, and it will be levered about a turn approximately upon closing. And so it gives us a lot of flexibility as we move forward. Obviously, we'll have a lot to work through here, but continue to view investing organically in the business as well as other ways to generate returns as a significant opportunity for us as we move forward. So we appreciate the flexibility that the transaction structure got us, and it provides us another platform for growth into other markets that we didn't necessarily have direct access to historically.
Got it. I'll leave it there. Thank you.
Thanks, Luke.
Thanks, Luke.
Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, we have reached the end of the question-and-answer session, and this also concludes today's conference call. Thank you for your participation, and have a great day.