Motorcar Parts of America, Inc. (NASDAQ:MPAA) Q4 2023 Earnings Call Transcript

William Dezellem: Great. Congratulations on that. And then, would you please talk through the price increases that were implemented in the fiscal fourth quarter and then what you have planned here in fiscal 2024, and maybe dissect that, whether it’s by customer or product line or whether it’s across the board increases?

Selwyn Joffe: Yes. So all increases across the board and very difficult, Bill, to get into too much granular detail on that for a number of different reasons, including proprietary information by customer and competitive reasons. But overall, we expect to have over $20 million of price increases recognized in this fiscal year, plus more that will on an annualized basis, come into effect the following year. I think for now, as David said, I think it more than covers the interest rate increase and the discount rate. So we expect to start seeing that through this year. And clearly, I think the other side that gross margin story there is that, assuming supply demand continues the way, it looks right now we can get our plants back up and running and get back to more regular overhead absorption numbers.

William Dezellem: Thank you. And so, maybe that’s a great segue into the vendor finance programs and what progress have you made on that front? Or is it really just being addressed through price increases?

Selwyn Joffe: Yes. I think all of that is addressed in the price increases between interest and costs and inflationary costs. The price increases get so complicated because we’ve had so many rounds of them. It’s hard to now start breaking down witches for witch anymore. But as I said, we’re north of $20 million of incremental price increases that will be recognized in this fiscal year and then additional going forward. I think I answers your question. I’m not sure. I’m sorry. Did I hit everything you asked?

William Dezellem: That was and that covers it. So, thank you for the time.

Selwyn Joffe: Thank you very much. Appreciate the questions.

Operator: Our next question comes from Jeff Bronchick from CSC. Please go ahead. Your line is open.

Jeff Bronchick: Good morning, gents. Just a good new shareholders. A quick question. I don’t think you really have to spend 25 minutes reading the press release, which was excellent and detailed, and you can go right to questions by $0.02 for next time. But Selwyn, maybe — you talked about a couple of times bigger changes for the company or I don’t know if you used the word historic, but inflection point. What sorts of things are you referring to as far as maybe how the company might be run in the next five to seven years vis-a-vis the past? And then you made a reference to in addition to the gentleman with the convertible at the company, like what other — what help is he doing on the Board to help changes you’re referencing.

Selwyn Joffe: Okay. So let’s break that up, and let’s talk about inflection. I think we pre-COVID embarked on pretty significant initiatives to launch a brake category, [breakfast] (ph) category. And I think now we’re pretty much almost a full line brake supplier. In conjunction with that, we expanded our facilities from 300,000 square feet to 1 million square feet. Added thousands of new employees, added the opportunity to reach what we believe is another $300 million of break related revenue. And so, as we go through the next couple of years, it’s not a matter of searching for new product lines, it’s a matter of maturing the existing product lines, leveraging our new facilities into greater operating efficiencies, generating the significant cash flow that we believe that it will come with us enhancing margins in some of the newer product lines as we get more mature and volume increases through these facilities and really just leveraging that opportunity for capacity.