Helios Technologies, Inc. (NYSE:HLIO) Q3 2022 Earnings Call Transcript

Operator: Thank you. Our next questions come from the line of Mig Dobre with Baird. Please proceed with your questions.

Mig Dobre: Thank you. Good morning everyone. Trish, I appreciate the context on Balboa $200 million of revenue or close to it in 2021. If we’re looking at Q3 and your Q4 guidance, what sort of revenue level or revenue run rate for Balboa is implied in our Q4 guide?

Tricia Fulton: Yeah, on the electronic side certainly Balboa is affecting the Q4 numbers. We’re still seeing a lot of strength of innovation and we talked about the new product rollouts that they’ve had. Recreational markets are still going very well for us both in marine and vehicles. So the impact that you’re seeing on Q4 is pretty much all being driven by the Balboa demand cycle,

Mig Dobre: Right? But just look, I’m not clear as to what the revenue run rate is here. Is this business now reverted back to a kind of $100 million base that you had when you initially acquired it? Is the sort of revenue run rate here or is it different?

Tricia Fulton: We don’t really like to give out specific business unit targets. We’re looking at the electronics and hydraulic segments as segments, especially as we’re rolling acquisitions into them. But certainly as the run rate is significantly lower than what we saw in 2021

Mig Dobre: Because I think this is the thing that we’re all grappling with here and, David was asking about this earlier on too, as we’re trying to sort of right size our estimates for 2023, we’re really trying to understand the magnitude of the headwind that is coming from this health and well wellness market. What’s kind of baked into the pie for the second half of this year and what might still be on a come in the early part of ’23. So I don’t know if you can help at all with that dynamic,

Josef Matosevic: I think a fair way of answering your question here actually is when we acquired Bob Boy in particular, we were just north of a hundred million. You know, Ted revenue obviously jumped up as almost double sized and now it pulled back more into the $150 million, $160 million type of range. And we think that in some cases we are seeing the bottom and seeing some slight recoveries in particular in North America still waiting for data points from Asia. And we will be in Europe actually next week, all week long and getting a good feel for where the markets are trending in Europe. Will you see before falling back to the levels that we have acquired the company we don’t see that we are right now somewhere in between those two numbers, when we acquired them versus when we peaked. I think that’s the most factual way we can answer your question at this point.

Mig Dobre: Okay, that’s helpful. Sorry, go ahead.

Josef Matosevic: Maybe just at the same time, as you saw in our day, we have developed new products in particular on the BBO side, considering the energy cost in Europe you know, under heat pump for an example, as you saw, that will help us mitigate some of the headwinds and certainly help us with the sales in Europe. But you should have a very good feel for where these products are going and what’s our opportunity. So we are really not too worried, not too concern. We got plenty of feedback from our customers direct feedback a few days here in a couple weeks where the orders actually peak quite nicely. We just need the Asian market to open up and in Europe to stabilize a little bit more and we should be well in our way.

Mig Dobre: Understood. My final question again, if I look at your implied fourth quarter guidance revenue, EBITDA earnings it shouldn’t we think of this as being really probably the baseline run rate for 2023. Any variances relative to Q4 that you would call out for us, Trish into next year? Thank you.