Brunswick Corporation (NYSE:BC) Q4 2022 Earnings Call Transcript

Ryan Gwillim: Yes, that is a good way to put it. I mean, from a unit perspective, James, you know that our premium is kind of a third of the overall volume with value being the rest. But it flip flops more or less on the dollar side. And so you have got Sea Ray, Whaler, Lund on some of our premium pontoons, all of those areas, we think we are still going to be relatively strong and pipelines are low. And so from a wholesale in total could be down a couple of thousand units where premium is up a little bit on wholesale with pipeline staying about the same. We have no interest in putting more – putting outsized inventory in the field. But we do have work to do certainly on Whaler and certainly on bigger Sea Rays, and we will be working on that throughout the year.

James Hardiman: Got it. That is really helpful. Thanks guys.

Operator: Our next question comes from the line of Fred Wightman with Wolf Research. Please proceed with your question.

Frederick Wightman: Hey guys. I just have one quick clarification. You guys keep referring to the engine capacity project is materially complete. Was there a delay versus planned or is that just sort of in-line with the original timing?

David Foulkes: No, it is in line with the original timing. Some parts of the project just were already planned to spill into this year. It is really a project, I think I said at one point, there were 150 different projects. And some of you actually visited the facility in citing that was going on that needed to be completed. But essentially, we have access to all of the volume that we need now. We did mention in the call that when we do the – or at least in I’m sorry, in the deck that we not only had to get the facility up to capacity. We also had to get the supply base up to capacity. If you look at Q4, if – we have that now, but if we get a little bit of a slower start with some suppliers. We took a bit more time to get up to full speed than we would have liked.

We have that behind us now, but that did cost us some revenue in Q4 in propulsion, which is, to be honest, most of the gap between what we anticipated fourth quarter revenue to be and what it ended up being. But now we are in very good shape. Things are running extremely well across all the product lines, supply base is up to speed and producing as we need them to satisfy volumes this year.

Frederick Wightman: Makes sense and then I thought that earlier there was a fear that there would be some headwinds from tariff exemption expirations impacting 2023 numbers. Did that wind up happening? Is there anything that you guys are sort of baking into guidance on a year-over-year basis?

Ryan Gwillim: Fred, I will take this we had hoped to get through a call without talking tariffs, but you have to get there we are. The tariff we are taking advantage of certain exclusions for 2023, but they expire kind of midyear-ish right now. On the flip side of that, we are taking more components, slightly more components from China that are subject to tariffs that we don’t have the exclusions from. So net-net, our year-over-year tariff impact is about the same. It is probably a little bit worse and by a little bit, I mean a couple of million dollars worth maybe five-ish. It is still a $50 million headwind to the overall P&L versus the no tariff world. But the reason we kind of dropped it from the year-over-year guidance slide is it is kind of status quo from a total dollar tariff impact despite the fact that the pieces are different.

Frederick Wightman: Got it. Thank you.