Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by. Good day, and welcome to the WD-forty Company First Quarter Fiscal Year 20 20 Earnings Conference Call. Today's call is being recorded. At this time, all participants are in a listen only mode. At the end of the prepared remarks, we will conduct a question and answer session.
I would now like to turn the presentation over to the host for today's call, Ms. Wendy Kelly, Director of Investor Relations and Corporate Communications. Please proceed.
Thank you. Good afternoon, and thanks to everyone for joining us today. On our call today are WD-forty Company's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Gary Ridge Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Jay Remboldt and President and Chief Operating Officer, Steve Brass. In addition to the financial information presented on today's call, we encourage investors to review our earnings presentation, earnings press release and Form 10 Q for the period ending November 30, 2019. These documents are available on our Investor Relations website at investor.
Wd40company.com. A replay and transcript of today's call will also be made available at that location shortly after this call. On today's call, we will discuss certain non GAAP measures. The descriptions and reconciliations of these non GAAP measures are available in our SEC filings as well as our earnings presentation. As a reminder, today's call includes forward looking statements about our expectations for the company's future performance.
Of course, actual results could differ materially. The company's expectations, beliefs and projections are expressed in good faith, but there can be no assurance that they will be achieved or accomplished. Please refer to the risk factors detailed in our SEC filings for further discussion. Finally, for anyone listening to a webcast replay or reviewing a written transcript of this call, please note that all information is presented is current only as of today's date, January 9, 2020. The company disclaims any duty or obligation to update any forward looking information whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
With that, I'd now like to turn the call over to Gary.
Thanks, Wendy. Good day, everyone. Happy New Year and thanks for joining us for today's conference call. Today, we reported net sales of 98 point $6,000,000 for the Q1 of fiscal year 2020, down 3% compared to the Q1 of last year. Translation of our foreign subsidiaries results from their functional currencies to the U.
S. Dollar had an unfavorable impact on sales in the Q1. On a constant currency basis, sales would have been relatively flat compared to the Q1 of last year. Net income for the Q1 was 12,200,000 dollars compared to $13,300,000 last year. Diluted earnings per share for the Q1 was $0.88 compared to $0.95 for the same period last year.
If you follow us quarter to quarter, you may not like the results this quarter. Our business is 1, which fluctuations in performance of our markets from quarter to quarter are not unusual. That's why I don't we don't issue quarterly guidance and why I frequently caution investors not to follow us too closely quarter to quarter. What's more important is that our long term strategic drivers continue to perform well and are in line with our expectations. As you know, we aspire to drive consolidated net sales to approximately $700,000,000 in revenue by the end of fiscal year 2025 and to do so while following our fifty fivethirtytwenty five business model.
We'd like to remind investors that these long term targets are probably wrong and roughly right. And though we acknowledge our 2025 targets are aspirational, we believe we can successfully bring those targets within reach. As a reminder, we refer to the brands that are going to get us to our 2025 brands. They are WD-forty Multi Use Product, WD-forty Specialist, 3 in 1 WD-forty Bike, GT85, 1,000 and 1, Spot Shot, Solvol, Lava and Novak. Our 2025 brands are our core strategic focus and the primary growth engine for our company.
The strategic driver number 1 is to grow the WD-forty multi use product. Our goal under this initiative is to make the blue and yellow can with a little red top available to more people in more places who will find more uses more often. In the Q1, sales of WD-forty multi use product were $75,800,000 down 3% compared to last year. The decline was driven primarily by lower sales in Asia Pacific due to the timing of customer orders in our Asian distributor markets and in China. Though these results may look disappointing, they are no way reflect a trend.
In fact, we see lots of opportunities for growth as we continue to maximize the product line through geographic expansion, increased market penetration and premiumization of the blue and yellow can with little red top. Premiumization creates opportunities for revenue growth as well as for gross margin expansion. We see a significant opportunity to increase penetration of our most successful innovation Smart Straw. Currently, 41% of WD-forty multi use products cans we sell are sold with the Smart Straw delivery system. Our objective is to grow that number to 60% over the next 5 years.
We believe this initiative represents approximately 50,000,000 dollars in incremental revenue opportunity. Increased Smart Straw penetration is expected to drive accelerated revenue growth, which we'll begin to realize as we roll out Smart Straw next generation over about an 18 month period beginning in July 2020. This innovation supports our objective to grow WD-forty multiuse product to approximately 5.30 $1,000,000 in revenue by the end of fiscal year 2025. Strategic driver number 2 is to grow the WD-forty Specialist product line. In the Q1, sales of WD-forty Specialist remained constant at $8,400,000 compared to the Q1 of last year.
However, we remain optimistic about the long term opportunity for WD-forty Specialist and continue to believe we can grow the product line to approximately $100,000,000 in revenue by the end of fiscal 2025. Our tribe has delivered some best in class W-forty Specialist products over the last several years. As a result, we now have an exceptional portfolio of products that we are proud to have wear the WD-forty shield. The blue and yellow can with a little red top and that famous shield that it wears has been creating positive lasting memories for over 66 years. We now our end users around the world trust the Shield and they are making buying decisions based on that brand loyalty.
As Steve shared with investors in October last year, we've been evaluating the brand architecture associated with our WD-forty branded products. That is the products in our line that wear the famous shield. We needed to be certain that our primary packaging that is to say the color and the words on our W-forty Specialist Cans was correctly communicating the product lines connection to its famous parent and helping our end users quickly find the solution they are looking for. After a lot of research and hard work by the tribe, we decided on a new way forward for our WD-forty Specialist product line. If you turn to page 8 in today's earnings presentation available on our website, you'll see a sneak peek of the new packaging we've designed for our WD-forty Specialist product line.
The new packaging will be comprised of a metallic blue can and distinctive red top.
Sorry about that delay. Gary, continue on.
Thank you. The technical gremlins got us. So we'll start off again around the conversation of specialists. So after a lot of research and hard work by the tribe, we decided a new way forward for our WD-forty Specialist product line. If you turn to page 8 in today's earnings presentation available on our website, you'll see a sneak peek of the new packaging we've designed for our W-forty Specialist product line.
The new packaging will be comprised of a metal blue can and distinctive red top. We believe the new packaging drives major benefits. The new design leverages the famous blue and yellow can. It is simple and uncluttered. It clearly communicates the product's purpose and it improves our end users' ability to find the solution they are looking for both at the store, shelf and online.
Ultimately, we believe the new packaging will give us stronger brand presence for both the WD-forty multiuse product and the WD-forty specialist aligning them as now the blue and yellow brand with a little red top. We expect to see these new improved versions of WD-forty Specialist packaging on shelves in select markets by mid-twenty 20, then available progressively around the world. Strategic initiative number 3 is to broaden the product and revenue base. Strategic initiative number 3 includes maintenance products like 3 in 1, WD-forty bike and GT85, but it also includes home care brands such as Spot Shot and Lava in the Americas, 1,001 in EMEA and Novak and Solvol in Asia Pacific. Global sales of these products included under the initiative were $11,800,000 in the 1st quarter, down a little more than 1% compared to last year.
As part of our brand architecture initiative, WD-forty Bike is going to get a makeover this year as well. It will be moved out of the Specialist product line and where the new packaging I just outlined for WD-forty Specialist. However, for external reporting purposes, we'll continue to keep the WD-forty Bike separate from the WD-forty Specialist. Overall, we believe we're on track to reach a combined revenue for the products under this strategic initiative number 3 of approximately $70,000,000 by 2025. Strategic initiative number 4 is to attract, develop and retain outstanding tribe members.
Our goal under this initiative is to attract, develop and retain talented tribe members to grow and grow our tribe member engagement to greater than 95%. As you may have read about in our recent annual report titled A Culture That Can, our unique culture is very, very important to us and something that we covered. Capturing culture in brick and mortar is not easy. I'm happy to report we did just that when we officially opened our new Milton Keynes offices in November. MK Hall, as it's called, houses approximately 90 tribe members and was specifically designed to reflect our unique culture, increase engagement, improve collaboration.
The tribe no doubt are thrilled to be in their new work home. I firmly believe that our company's long term success is directly linked to the outstanding tribe members and their exceptional motivation and dedication to the WD-forty company and its products. In fiscal year 2020, we will once again measure the engagement of our tribe and we look forward to sharing the results of that engagement survey with you later this year. Strategic at issue number 5 is operational excellence. At WD-forty Company, our cornerstone to operational excellence ties closely to one of our core values to make it better than it is today.
With this, our guiding mantra, we continually focus on optimizing resource systems and processes, while applying rigorous commitment to quality assurance, regulatory compliance and intellectual property protection. Using our fifty fivethirtytwenty five business model as a framework, we measure ourselves against this operational excellence initiative. That completes the update of our strategic drivers. We are now pleased to pass the call to Steve, who will discuss in more detail our first quarter sales results.
Thanks, Gary, and good afternoon. As Gary mentioned earlier, consolidated net sales were $98,600,000 in the 1st quarter, down 3% year over year. On a constant currency basis, net sales would have been $100,800,000 in the 1st quarter, relatively constant compared to last fiscal year. Before I discuss what's happening in the individual segments, I'd like to remind about something Gary has shared with you many times. Though we don't consider our business to be seasonal, it is quite common for our sales results to fluctuate from 1 period to another.
These fluctuations can be driven by a myriad of things, including the level of promotional activities, specific programs being run at customer locations, the timing of customer orders or the impact of new product launches. This is all a normal part of our business and we are accustomed to these types of fluctuations and manage them as part of our regular business activities. So now let's start with the Americas. Net sales in the Americas, which includes the United States, Latin America and Canada were down 2% in the Q1 to $46,700,000 Sales of maintenance products decreased nearly 2% in the Americas, primarily due to lower sales of WD-forty Specialist in the United States. Sales of WD-forty Specialist in the U.
S. Were down 19% due to the timing of promotional activities. We were up against a very tough comparable period in the United States due to a successful W-forty Specialist Holiday Gift Pack promotion we ran in the Q1 of last fiscal year. Maintenance product sales in the Q1 remained relatively constant in Canada and Latin America. As a reminder, our maintenance products exclude our home care and cleaning products.
Sales of our home care and cleaning products in the Americas decreased 6% in the Q1 compared to the prior year, largely due to lower sales of larva and spot shot, which declined 17% 8%, respectively. We continue to consider our home care and cleaning products except for those listed as 2025 brands as harvest brands that continue to generate meaningful contributions and cash flows, but are generally expected to become a smaller part of our business over time. In total, our Americas segment made up 47% of our global business at the end of the Q1. Over the long term, we anticipate sales within this segment will grow between 3% percent annually. Now on to EMEA.
Net sales in EMEA, which includes Europe, the Middle East, Africa and India, increased to $39,200,000 in the first quarter, up about 1% from last year. EMEA's reported results in the first quarter were negatively impacted by foreign currency exchange rates. On a constant currency basis, sales in EMEA would have increased to 41,100,000 dollars up about 46 sorry, up about 6% compared to last year. As you know, we sell into EMEA through a combination of direct operations and marketing distributors. Net sales in our EMEA direct markets, which accounted for 63% of the region sales in the Q1, remained flat during the Q1 compared to last year.
Although overall sales in the direct markets remained constant for the quarter, sales of 1,001 Carpet Fresh in the UK increased by 30% during the quarter. 1,001 continues to benefit from favorable impacts of digital marketing associated with the brand. Net sales quarter. This increase was primarily due to increased sales of WD-forty multiuse product in the Middle East due to the timing of customer orders. In total, our EMEA segment made up 40% of our global business at the end of the Q1.
Over the long term, we anticipate sales within the EMEA segment will grow between 8% to 11% annually. Now on to Asia Pacific. Consolidated net sales in Asia Pacific, which includes Australia, China and other countries in the Asia region decreased to $12,600,000 in the Q1, down 15% from last year. Changes in foreign currency exchange rates had an unfavorable impact on sales in the region. On a constant currency basis, sales in Asia Pacific would have decreased to $12,900,000 in the Q1, down 13% from last year.
In Australia, net sales were $4,100,000 in the first quarter, up 5 percent compared to last year, driven by a higher level of promotional activities and continued growth of the base business. Changes in foreign currency exchange rate had an unfavorable impact on sales in the region. On a constant currency basis, sales in Australia would have increased 11% from last year. In our Asia distributor markets, net sales were $6,200,000 for the quarter, down 21% compared to last year. The significant decrease in sales is primarily attributable to the timing of customer orders in the region.
We had significant 4th quarter sales in our Asia MD markets, which has resulted in a lighter Q1. Our Asia distributor markets are not impacted by currency since we sell our product in U. S. Dollars in this region. In China, net sales in U.
S. Dollars decreased to $2,300,000 in the Q1, down 23% compared to last year due to the timing of customer orders. Sales in China during the quarter were also negatively impacted by activities associated with the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, which resulted in slowed market conditions in certain geographies. In constant currency, sales in China were down 21% for the quarter. We remain optimistic about the long term opportunities in China, although we expect a lot of volatility along the way due to the timing of promotional programs, the building of distribution, shift in economic patterns and varying industrial activities.
In total, our Asia Pacific segment made up 13% of our global business in the Q1. Over the long term, we expect sales within this segment will grow between 10% to 13% annually. Now I'll turn over the call to Jay for an update on the financials.
Thank you, Steve. Let's start with a discussion about our 50 Fivethirtytwenty 5 business model, the long term targets we use to guide our business. As you may recall, the 55 represents gross margin, which we target to be at 55% of net sales. The $30,000,000 represents our cost of doing business, which is our total operating expenses excluding depreciation and amortization. Our goal is to drive our cost of doing business over time toward 30% of net sales.
Finally, the 25% represents our long term target for EBITDA. First, the 55% are our gross margin. In the Q1, our gross margin was 54.3% compared to 55.1% last year. This represents a decline of 80 basis points. Impacts from sales mix changes and other miscellaneous costs, primarily in EMEA, negatively impacted our margin by 70 basis points in the quarter.
In addition, higher warehousing and freight costs also primarily in EMEA negatively impacted our gross margin by 70 basis points. Higher advertising, promotional and other discounts that we give our customers negatively impacted gross margin by 40 basis points during the quarter. These negative impacts to gross margin were partially offset by the favorable effects of price increases, which we've implemented in EMEA over the last 12 months and which positively impacted gross margin by 80 basis points in the Q1. Changes in major input costs positively impacted our margin by 10 basis points. Petroleum based specialty chemical costs positively impacted our gross margin by 30 basis points period over period.
However, increased costs of aerosol cans negatively impacted our margin by 20 basis points and significantly offset the gains we realized due to the lower petroleum based costs. Finally, changes in foreign currencies also had a positive impact and impacted our gross margin by 10 basis points. Now I'll address the 30 or our cost of doing business. In the Q1, our cost of doing business was approximately 38% compared to 37% last year, While both SG and A expense and advertising and promotion investment decreased period to period, our overall our costs of doing business increased as a percentage due to the reported revenue decline in the Q1. For the Q1, 75% of our total cost of doing business came from 3 key areas: people costs or the investments we make in our tribe the investments we make in marketing, advertising and promotion as a percentage of sales, our A and P investment was 5.7% in the Q1.
And finally, freight costs, the cost to get our products to our customers. Over time, we expect our cost of doing business will move towards our long term target of 30% as revenues increase. This brings us to EBITDA, the last of our 55%, 30%, 25 measures. EBITDA was 17% of net sales for the Q1 of this year compared to 18% last year. Now that completes the discussion of our business model.
Now let's discuss some of the items that fall below the EBITDA line. Provision for income taxes was 14.7% in the Q1 compared to 17.6% last year. The decrease in the effective income tax rate was primarily due to an increase in excess tax benefits from settlements of stock based equity awards. Despite the lower tax rate in the Q1, we expect that our effective tax rate for the full fiscal year will be in the 20 percent to 22% range. And net income for the Q1 was $12,200,000 versus $13,300,000 in the prior year, reflecting a decrease of 8%.
Changes in foreign currency exchange rates negatively impacted our net income by about $500,000 in the Q1. On a constant currency basis, net income would have been $12,700,000 in the Q1. Diluted earnings per common share were $0.88 for the Q1 compared to $0.95 for the same period last year. On a constant currency basis, diluted earnings per share would have been $0.92 for the quarter. Diluted weighted average shares outstanding decreased to 13,700,000 shares from 13,900,000 shares a year ago.
Now a word about capital allocation. Our capital allocation strategy includes a comprehensive approach to balance investing in long term growth while providing strong returns to our shareholders. In fiscal year 2020, we expect to invest approximately $31,000,000 in capital projects. This estimate is up from the $25,000,000 we shared last quarter. Much of this capital will be used to procure the proprietary machinery and equipment needed to manufacture our next generation Smart Straw delivery system.
We expect to return to our historic capital light business model over the next 2 years. We continue to return capital to our shareholders through regular dividends and share repurchases. On November on December 10, our Board of Directors approved a quarterly cash dividend of $0.67 per share, reflecting an increase of 10% over the previous quarter's dividend. This increase represents the 10th consecutive year the company has raised its annual dividend. And based on today's closing price of $191.81 the annualized dividend yield is 1.4%.
During the Q1, we repurchased just under 27,000 shares of our stock at a total cost of approximately $5,000,000 under our current $75,000,000 share repurchase plan. As of November 30, we had approximately $40,000,000 remaining under the current plan. Now I'll turn to guidance. Today, we are reiterating the guidance we gave on October 17, 2019. With that, net sales is projected to be between 3% and 7%, with net sales expected to be between $436,000,000 $453,000,000 Gross margin for the full year is expected to be between 54% 55%.
Advertising and promotion investment is projected to be between 5.5% 6% of net sales. The provision for income tax is expected to be between 20% 22%. And net income is projected to be between $65,000,000 $66,200,000 Diluted earnings per share is expected to be between $4.74 $4.83 based on an estimated 13,700,000 weighted average shares outstanding. This guidance is expressed in good faith and is believed by the company to have a reasonable basis. However, it is not possible for us to predict any reasonable degree of certainty of the actual impact that fluctuating crude oil prices or foreign currency exchange rates can have.
These fluctuations could potentially have a significant impact on our 2020 guidance. This guidance does not include any future acquisitions or divestitures. And that completes our financial overview. And now I'll turn it back to Gary.
Thanks, Jay. In summary, what did you hear from us on this call today? You heard that our business is 1 in which fluctuations in the performance of our markets from quarter to quarter are not unusual. You heard that foreign currency exchange rates continue to be a headwind, wind on our consolidated global sales results, particularly in EMEA. You heard that our long range long term strategic drivers continue to perform well in line with our expectations and that we remain committed to our probably wrong and roughly right long term goal to drive consolidated net sales to approximately 700,000,000 by the end of fiscal 2025.
You heard that we see a significant opportunity to increase the penetration of Smart Straw from 41% to 60% globally over the next 5 years and that growth is expected to lead to approximately $50,000,000 in incremental revenue. You heard that we're launching a new packaging for our WD-forty Specialist line, which we believe will deliver major benefits as it becomes the blue and yellow brand with a little red top. You heard that our Board of Directors increased our dividend by 10% last month and you heard that we have reiterated our fiscal year guidance today. In closing, I'd like to share a quote from my friend, Simon Semig. Nothing and no one can perform at 100% forever.
If we cannot be honest with one another and rely on one another for help during the challenging parts of the journey, we won't get very far. Thank you for joining us today. We would be pleased to now open the conference call to your questions.
And our first question comes from the line of Linda Bolton Weiser from D. A. Davidson. Your line is open.
Hi, happy New Year.
Hi. Happy New Year.
So I just wanted to ask first about the new Smart Straw Technology product that's coming out this year. I think before you had been talking about June and now it seems like you said July. I know it's not a big deal, but is there any sort of delay that you're experiencing in getting the product ready for market?
No, nothing material. It's just a matter of timing of the launch. We'll launch in July and then over the next 18 months or so, we'll progressively move Smart Straw next generation, which is both Smart Straw 1.5 and Smart Straw 2 around the world. And as we shared Linda, as we then now have as we now have with our all of the investments we've made, the production capacity, we're now aggressively going to be moving our penetration from 41% to 60% and that will deliver approximately $50,000,000 in incremental revenue over the next few years. So we're excited about being in the position now and we're ready to go.
Okay. And then can you just talk about, I guess, on the cost side, your can costs, you've talked about some of the impacts on your can costs. And it's my understanding that in the past, sometimes you would redo some of these medium term contracts in the beginning part of the year. Is there any news on that front in terms of what you expect on can cost in the next 12 months?
We've built that into our fiscal year guidance. So we think we're the price increase was has already been built in.
Okay. And can you just give me I'm sorry if I missed can you just give me what the specialist, WD-forty Specialist sales were in the quarter? I missed that number.
Yes, we can. Wendy is looking them up right now.
$8,400,000 $8,400,000 Thank you. And just in terms of the packaging change for Specialist, are the costs related to that somewhat material? And I assume you have it figured into your guidance, but is there any way that you can quantify or give us some color on how much those costs are for the year?
They're not material. This is going to be a phased launch. So what will happen is the product that's on the shelf will be replaced with our new packaging as we roll it out. The first one we think Steve, when do we think the first one will be? June or July.
June or July, you'll see the first one on the shelf. But all of the costs in developing the new packaging have already been absorbed, all of the research. This project has been going on for nearly 2 years. And so we're really excited about it. We really believe that taking specialists to the blue and yellow brand with a little red top will give us a much better communication on the shelf.
We've simplified some of the communication. So it's going to be a great rollout and we're pretty excited about it.
Okay. And then, can I just ask, I guess, with regard to some of the issues on your sales line in the quarter, you mentioned it was timing of orders and we've seen that before? Are you pretty confident that some of those orders are going to come back? And can you be more specific to give us some confidence on the next quarter? And also the slowdown in China, have you seen that kind of alleviated once we're past that time period now?
Yeah. Sure. China, there was a couple of things that happened. Number 1 was, it was the there was the celebration of the 70th year of the Republic of China. During that period of time, things slowed up, transportation changed, the positioning of Chinese New Year.
So we would expect to see a healthy second quarter in China. If you look at our Asian market, in the last quarter, we had a very robust quarter in Asia. Our distributors businesses was up 27%. China was up 22. So, this the Q1 is always a little softer in that region.
The other thing too is that there's a larger percentage of distributor business in China. It tends to be a little more lumpy than anywhere else because it's a smaller number of distributor customers buying large volumes excluding China and Australia, of course. So there's nothing here that we are concerned about. We've reiterated our annual guidance. And I think we'll be talking to you in 3 months' time and you probably will see a different picture.
And if we thought it was any going to be any different to that, we would tell you.
Okay. That sounds good. Thank you very much. I appreciate it.
Okay. Take care.
Your next question comes from the line of Daniel Rizzo from Jefferies. Your line is open.
Hi, everyone. How are you doing?
Good, Daniel.
Will you be changing the packaging on other products? I mean, are you considering like looking at like WD-forty bike or other things like that to maybe, I don't know, kind of tweak the packaging, so to speak?
Yes. Yes. So as I mentioned on the call, Daniel, we're going to be moving bike under the specialist packaging. So it will end up looking like the blue and yellow Cam with little red top. So, you'll see that start to roll out to progressively over the year.
Okay. I'm sorry, I missed that. And then, I mean, you mentioned what you're doing with Smart Straw and how important that is. I think you said you're spending 31,000,000 dollars Did I get it correctly that that's $31,000,000 over 2 years, that you'll be spending to kind of to change the tweak some of the machinery?
Yes. That's our estimate for this year's overall total CapEx budget. So that's just this year's, right?
The majority of the SmartStore investment, some of it has already happened. This second tranche, if you will, is buying the machines that go on the line. So there's 2 parts to Smart Straw. There's 1 is the machinery and the dies to make it. The second part is the machinery that we actually put on the production lines to make sure that we efficiently apply it to the can.
So all of that will be done as we start to roll it out by the end of this year.
Will there be some like trickling into 2021, excuse me, potentially?
Yes, a little bit should trickle into 2021.
Okay. And then you mentioned mixed headwind in EMEA. I was just wondering what if you could provide color on that. Is it from like increased distributor sales or just I mean, it's less specialist sales? I was just wondering what the mix you were talking about was.
Yes. There is a we had a larger percentage of our sales to our distributor markets. So that's 1. We also had some higher percentage with a couple of products that have 1,001. Yes, 1,001 which has slightly lower margin.
The 1,001 sales in EMEA were up 30% and that margin on 1,001 is lower than our core product.
And then finally, you mentioned the excuse me, I was wondering how Easy Reach Straw was going. That seems to be a fairly robust product too. I mean is it taking share? And how is the growth trajectory on that?
I'll let Steve answer that.
So EasyReach is growing very, very nicely around the world. And so as we expand distribution now into more markets, particularly within the EMEA segment, we're very satisfied with growth and we expect that to continue to be a major growth driver going forward.
Okay. Thank you. That's it.
Thank you, Daniel.
Your next question comes from the line of Rosemarie Morbelli from G. Research. Your line is open.
Thank you. Good afternoon, everyone, and Happy New Year.
Hi, Rosemarie. Happy New Year to you.
Thank you. So I was wondering what is your assumption for oil prices in your guidance?
It's in the current range. I know that we've had some fluctuations recently, but we were within the $60 to $70 range is really the place where we've pegged our plan.
Okay. And whether it is 60% or 70% doesn't really change your bottom line or your top line?
There will be movement with both, but they are captured within our range of guidance.
Okay. And then I missed and I apologize, when you were at and I believe I understood what you said properly, You reported $0.88 and I think that you said that excluding some items, it would have been $0.92 First of all, did I share that properly? And if yes, what are those items? I missed that.
Yes. I think that the reference was that we reported $0.88 had we been reporting under what constant currency that we had the currency rates that we had were in effect last year, it would have been the 0.92 Okay. It was simply a constant currency measure rather than a other item.
All right. That is helpful. Thank you. So now the new packaging on the specialist side, this is going to cannibalize revenues. So if I heard properly, you are going to take the old cans from the shelves and then replace them with the new ones.
And so this is one thing, how much cannibalization do you expect? Oh, no. No?
No, no, no, no. There will be no it's just a straight replacement. So there's no cannibalization at all.
Okay. And when you take back that old can or old packaging, can you reuse the product that is in there and in order to refill a new one, the new product?
We won't be taking any back, Rosemarie. This is a pure replenishment as the old sells out, we will sell in the new. So it's what we call a soft conversion. So there's no product coming back. There's no disruption in the flow of sales.
What we will see for a little time is both packaging on the shelf, but over time that will evaporate. So this has no revenue negative, cost negative impact at all.
Okay. Thanks. I totally misunderstood that. And then you said that you are taking the putting the bike under the new specialist packaging or I am assuming also managed as under the specialist group. Why keep the financial data where it is and not including and not included going forward in the specialist group?
Well, because we report it now in the other group and we wouldn't be a comparable because it wasn't in there before. So we've decided at this time to leave it out as a line on its own. And when you think about it in the big scheme of things, it's a couple of $1,000,000 I guess. So it's not significant. But we'll look at it again at the end of next fiscal year once we've done the conversion to see if it makes sense.
Okay. Thank you. This is all very helpful and good luck for the full year results. Never mind next 3 quarters.
The full year is what we're about. We're playing the infinite game.
All right. Thank you.
Thank you.
Ladies and gentlemen, that does conclude our allotted time for questions. We thank you for your participation on today's conference call and ask that you please disconnect your line.