Barnes Group Inc. (NYSE:B) Q4 2022 Earnings Call Transcript

Julie Streich: So in terms of the year-over-year, like you said Matt, we are underway with the restructuring actions. But as we’ve been speaking to, we’re not expecting to see run rate benefits for quite some time. There’s an expense outflow and a delay between the activities getting kicked off, the facility is closing, the products transitioning. And when we see the results flow through to the bottom line, we’re also still in an inflationary environment where we are continuing to catch up with our pricing. There’s a lot of momentum around the pricing activities across the portfolio now, but we do not see from a labor perspective and a materials perspective a lot of dampening in inflationary environment. And we’re candidly being a bit cautious in what we are holding the business accountable to and what we think will be delivered as a result of some of the uncertainty, especially as we were developing the plan with the potential for recession that might be lightening now.

But we are still in a rebuilding mode and I’m sure it is frustrating to hear that, but we have the underpinnings that will drive the performance. It’s just going to take a little bit of time to get there.

Matt Summerville: Then — sorry, I’m just going to ask one more follow-up and then I’ll pass it on. So in that regard, Julie, and then Tom, if you have comments as well, how much cost savings should we expect to hit the P&L within Industrial in 2023? And then what’s the carryover in 2024, just based on the stuff you’ve announced? Thank you.

Julie Streich: Yes, sure. So consistent with what we announced last time, and I’m emphasizing that because our outlook really hasn’t changed, which is a good thing as we get further down the path. But $29 million of investment will generate $26 million in run rate savings, and the full run rate should be hit in 2024. For 2023, we would expect in the neighborhood now as we’re looking at things more specifically of $15 million to $17 million potentially flow through in this year.

Thomas Hook: I think Matt, the other thing I’d add there is, we are really focused on Phase 1 and Phase 2 implementation and completion to get those cost savings in 2023 per the timing that we had laid out that Julie just went through. We are purposely putting ourselves to finish up the scoping of additional phases, but we want to digest and complete and execute the phases we have before we go on to the next ones, which will follow that as we move forward, we’ll provide more information on those. But it’s very important we feel to kind of get — there’s a large learning curve that the organization has had to come up with regards to executing these types of programs. We’ve done a very good job of keeping them on schedule. And we do want to demonstrate that we control the benefits so that we announce future phases that there’s a belief from the investor community that we can continue to extract those benefits going forward.

And we do think there’s more opportunities out there.

Matt Summerville: Understood, thank you.

Operator: Our next question comes from Christopher Glynn with Oppenheimer.

Thomas Hook: Good morning, Chris.

Christopher Glynn: Hey, thanks. Good morning. I just wanted to start out with a housekeeping item. I didn’t catch the comments Julie, for the segment margin outlook, respectively.

Julie Streich: I’m sorry, say the question again? The margin outlooks for 2023…

Christopher Glynn: Yes, the two operating segments, I didn’t quite catch the margin outlooks.

Bill Pitts: Chris, for Aerospace, it’s 18% to 19% and for the Industrial, it’s 9.25% to 10.25%.

Julie Streich: That’s right.