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Masco : Q2 2019 Transcript

July 25, 2019 at 05:45 pm EDT

Corrected Transcript

25-Jul-2019

Masco Corp. (MAS)

Q2 2019 Earnings Call

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CORPORATE PARTICIPANTS

David Chaika	John G. Sznewajs
Vice President, Treasurer & Investor Relations, Masco Corp.	Chief Financial Officer & Vice President, Masco Corp.
Keith J. Allman
President, Chief Executive Officer & Director, Masco Corp.

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OTHER PARTICIPANTS

Stephen Kim	Megan McGrath
Analyst, Evercore Group LLC	Analyst, The Buckingham Research Group, Inc.
Michael Rehaut	Justin Andrew Speer
Analyst, JPMorgan Securities LLC	Analyst, Zelman & Associates
Michael Wood	Michael Dahl
Analyst, Nomura Instinet	Analyst, RBC Capital Markets LLC
John Lovallo	Philip Ng
Analyst, Bank of America Merrill Lynch	Analyst, Jefferies LLC
Keith Hughes	Kenneth Zener
Analyst, SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc.	Analyst, KeyBanc Capital Markets, Inc.
Truman Patterson	Steven Ramsey
Analyst, Wells Fargo Securities LLC	Analyst, Thompson Research Group LLC
Matthew Bouley	Eric Bosshard
Analyst, Barclays Capital, Inc.	Analyst, Cleveland Research Co. LLC

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MANAGEMENT DISCUSSION SECTION

Operator:Good morning ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to Masco Corporation's 2019 Second Quarter Conference Call. My name is Amy and I will be your operator for today's call. [Operator Instructions] As a reminder, today's conference call is being recorded for replay purposes. [Operator Instructions] I will now turn the call over to David Chaika, Vice President, Treasurer & Investor Relations. You may begin.

David Chaika

Vice President, Treasurer & Investor Relations, Masco Corp.

Thank you, Amy and good morning. Welcome to Masco Corporation's 2019 second quarter conference call. With me today are Keith Allman, President and CEO of Masco; and John Sznewajs, Masco's Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.

Our second quarter earnings release and the presentation slides that we will refer to today are available on our website under Investor Relations. Following our remarks, we will open the call for analyst questions. Please limit yourself to one question with one follow-up. If we can't take your question now please call me directly at 313-792- 5500.

Our statements today will include our views about our future performance which constitute forward-looking statements. These statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause our actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements.

We've described these risks and uncertainties in our Risk Factors and other disclosures in our Form 10-K and our Form 10-Q that we filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Our statements will also include non-GAAP financial measures. Our references to operating profit and earnings per share will be as-adjusted unless otherwise noted. We reconcile these adjusted measurements to GAAP in our earnings release and presentation slides, which are available on our website under Investor Relations.

With that, I'll now turn the call over to Keith.

Keith J. Allman

President, Chief Executive Officer & Director, Masco Corp.

Thank you, Dave. Good morning everyone and thank you for joining us today. Please turn to slide 4. Excluding the impact of currency, our top line matched prior year. Growth in North American Plumbing and Decorative Architectural Products was offset by softer sales in international Plumbing, Cabinetry and Windows. We delivered operating profit growth and margin expansion across all segments, resulting in 5% operating profit growth and 100 basis points of margin expansion, despite the flat top line.

Our profit growth and margin expansion were achieved through disciplined pricing actions to offset tariffs and other inflation and a continued focus on cost control. Our EPS increased 16% to $0.88 per share. As it relates to tariffs, our near-term mitigating action has largely been price. However, we continue to work with our suppliers and internal teams on cost reduction opportunities and have begun moving limited production out of China, as a longer-term solution.

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While pricing may have had a temporary impact on volume in the first half of the year, the consumer is still very healthy, with unemployment at 50-year lows, incomes continuing to grow, confidence remaining high and home prices continuing to appreciate, all key drivers of repair and remodel activity.

Now moving back to this quarter's performance. Let me give you some additional insights into the drivers behind each of our segment's performance, beginning with Plumbing. North American Plumbing grew 3% in local currency, with Delta and Watkins each achieving a record sales quarter. International Plumbing sales decreased 3% in local currency with growth in Germany offset by softer sales in a number of other markets.

International Plumbing sales are expected to improve in the second half as comps get easier and many of the new products introduced by Hansgrohe earlier this year begin to hit the market, such as Hansgrohe's Rainfinity shower product, a modern shower with ultrafine and powder range shower jets for a truly luxurious showering experience.

In our Decorative Architectural segment sales grew 3%, led by high single-digit growth in pro paint and low single- digit growth in DIY paint. We were pleased once again to be named the top-rated interior paint by a leading independent testing organization. In fact Behr had two products in the top three and three products ranked in the top six, reinforcing Behr's position as the quality leader in the U.S. paint industry.

In addition, Behr achieved a first-place ranking in customer satisfaction for interior paints in the J.D. Power 2019 Paint Satisfaction Survey (sic) [J.D. Power 2019 U.S. Paint Satisfaction Study] (04:58) These recognitions speak to the strong brand, quality and value proposition of Behr paint offered exclusively at The Home Depot.

In Cabinetry, good cost control and pricing actions contributed to profit growth and strong margin performance, despite a soft overall market. We are very pleased with our Menards business, now that it has been fully implemented and it is meeting our expectations. Additionally, in the second half of 2019, we will celebrate KraftMaid's 50th anniversary with the largest introduction of new finishes in KraftMaid's history. New paint and stain colors along with new finish techniques, such as weathered and translucent will keep KraftMaid at the forefront of industry trends.

Turning to Windows. Flat sales in North American Windows were offset by continued challenging conditions in our UK Window operation. Despite these challenges, we achieved profit growth and margin expansion in the second quarter, aided by continued strong performance and improved mix due to our [indiscernible] (06:11) line of vinyl windows in North America, launched late in 2018.

Now moving to capital allocation in the quarter. We continued our share repurchase activity by repurchasing 4.3 million shares for $167 million, bringing our year-to-date share repurchase total to $289 million. Based on the strengths of our forecasted cash flows and our strong liquidity position, we intend to deploy approximately $300 million towards share repurchases in the second half of 2019, for a full year total of approximately $600 million. This figure does not include any expected proceeds from the divestitures.

Our Board of Directors also announced its intention to increase our annual dividend by $0.06 per share to $0.54 per share, a 13% increase, beginning in the fourth quarter. This is our sixth consecutive year we have increased our dividend. Maintaining a relevant dividend payout ratio of approximately 20% or greater is an important part of our balanced capital allocation policy.

Lastly, we are updating our anticipated earnings per share for 2019 to be in the range of $2.62 to $2.72 per share from a previous range of $2.60 to $2.80 per share. I'd also like to give you a brief update on our announcement to

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pursue the divestitures of our Cabinetry and Windows operations. We've begun the sales process and feel good about the initial market response to these businesses. As we laid out in our June announcement, we anticipate completing these transactions by the end of the first quarter of 2020, assuming each of these transactions can be completed on acceptable terms and conditions.

This transformative step will create a more stable, less cyclical Masco that is focused mainly on lower-ticket repair and remodel products. The divestiture of these businesses will also generate healthy cash proceeds for Masco. While the ultimate use of these proceeds will be determined based on the situation and the opportunities at the time of closing of the transactions, our current plan is that most of the proceeds will be deployed to share repurchases.

Now, I'd like to turn the call over to John who will go over our operational and financial performance in detail. John?

John G. Sznewajs

Chief Financial Officer & Vice President, Masco Corp.

Thank you, Keith and good morning everyone. As Dave mentioned most of my comments will focus on adjusted performance, excluding the impact of rationalization and other one-time items.

Turning to slide six. Sales decreased 1% on a reported basis, and matched prior year local currency. Foreign currency translation unfavorably impacted our second quarter revenue by approximately $26 million.

In local currency, North American sales increased 1% in the quarter. This performance was driven by disciplined pricing actions, offsetting lower volumes. Currency international sales decreased 4% in the quarter, with growth in Germany and Asia more than offset by softness in other regions.

Gross margins were 34.5%, up 90 basis points. Our SG&A as a percentage of sales decreased 20 basis points to 16.9%, reflecting our continued focus on cost control. We delivered solid bottom line performance as operating income increased 5% to $399 million, with operating margins expanding 100 basis points to 17.5%.

Our EPS was $0.88 in the quarter, an increase of 16% compared to the second quarter of 2018. We are updating our annual EPS estimate range to $2.62 to $2.72 per share. This change reflects the softer top line demand we experienced in the first half of the year and the full cost of the tariffs beginning in the middle of the third quarter as inventory flows through the system.

This EPS estimate range also assumes that tariffs remain in the 25% level, which is an increase from our guidance on our first quarter call where we assumed 10% tariffs for 2019.

Turning to slide 7. Plumbing segment sales decreased 2% on a reported basis. Excluding the impact of currency, sales matched prior year. Foreign currency translation unfavorably impacted this segment's sales by approximately $24 million in the quarter.

Our North American sales increased 3% in local currency in the second quarter against the tough 6% comp from the second quarter of 2018. This performance was driven by growth at Delta, which achieved another record sales quarter through solid growth with our wholesale customers.

Also as Keith mentioned, our spa business, Watkins Wellness delivered another record sales quarter, partially due to strong consumer demand for spas, with its recently introduced FreshWater Salt System.

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Our international Plumbing sales decreased 3% in local currency, as Hansgrohe's growth in Germany and Asia was more than offset by softness in other regions. The segment's operating profit growth of 2% was driven by pricing actions partially offset by lower volume. For full year 2019, we now expect Plumbing sales growth to be in the 1% to 3% range due to lower volumes we experienced in the first half of the year, particularly in our international Plumbing business and we continue to expect margins to be similar to 2018.

Turning to slide 8. The Decorative -- our Decorative Architectural Products grew 3%. This performance was driven by a high single-digit growth in Behr's pro initiative -- pro paint initiative and low single-digit growth in the DIY business. Positive price and volume in paint were partially offset by lower sales in our lighting and builders hardware business as compared to prior year, as our disciplined pricing actions impacted volumes in the quarter.

Operating income in the second quarter grew compared to prior year due to net selling price increases and cost productivity initiatives partially offset by higher commodity costs. We are pleased with the cost savings we had achieved at Kichler which were driven by sourcing savings and business process improvements as we implement the Masco Operating System.

For full year 2019, we now expect Decorative Architectural Products sales growth will be in the range of 1% to 3% including the benefit of the Kichler acquisition due to reduced volumes resulting from the impact of disciplined pricing actions in our lighting and builders hardware business.

We also expect operating margins will be in the range of 17% to 18% as we make merchandising investments to enhance consumer shopping experience and incur a greater impact from the tariffs in lightning and builders hardware. These investments and tariffs will have more of an impact in the fourth quarter than in the third quarter.

Turning to slide 9. In the Cabinetry segment, sales decreased 6% in the quarter. This performance was driven by a softer market and excluding the Moores divestiture, a difficult 13% sales comp against the second quarter of 2018 partially offset by price. Segment profitability increased in the quarter by $1 million with margins of 13.5% representing one of the best profit quarters in this segment in 10 years.

We continue to expect full year 2019 sales growth between 0% and 3%. However, based on our demonstrated cost control in the first half of the year, we now expect modest margin expansion and improvement from our prior guidance.

Turning to slide 10. Our Windows segment sales decreased 3%. Foreign currency translation unfavorably impacted this segment's sales by approximately $2 million. While sales at our North American Window business matched prior year, this segment continue to be impacted by market softness at our UK Window operation.

Segment profitability in the quarter increased $3 million, driven by favorable pricing actions and lower spend partially offset by lower volume. For full year 2019 we now expect sales growth for this segment to decline 1% to 3% excluding currency due to the performance we experienced in our UK Window business. However, we continue to expect modest margin improvement for the full year.

And turning to slide 11. Our balance sheet remains strong with net debt to EBITDA at 1.9 times and we ended the quarter with approximately $1.3 billion of balance sheet liquidity. Working capital as a percent of sales improved 60 basis points versus prior year to 16.5%.

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For the full year, we now expect working capital as a percent of sales to be slightly higher as compared to our 2018 results of 14%. During the second quarter, we continued our focus on shareholder value creation by repurchasing 4.3 million shares valued at approximately $167 million. And as Keith mentioned, our Board of Directors has announced its intent to increase our annual dividend by 13% to $0.54 per share starting in the fourth quarter, demonstrating the Board's confidence in our future performance and cash flows.

And with that, I'll turn the call back over to Keith.

Keith J. Allman

President, Chief Executive Officer & Director, Masco Corp.

Thank you, John. It's been a dynamic start to 2019 and I'm proud of how our teams have responded to the market conditions and challenges to generate profit growth and margin expansion across all segments in the second quarter. As I mentioned earlier, the fundamentals of our industry remain strong. Demographics should drive household formation and housing for years to come as the large millennial generation has begun to form households.

Home price appreciation, which has a strong correlation with repair and remodel spending, remains strong at nearly 4% year-over-year. Existing annual home turnover, remains at a healthy overall level of 5.3 million units. Age of housing stock continues to increase as 65% of the U.S. housing stock is now 30 years old or older. And older homes have more repair and remodel spending per home than newer ones.

Consumer confidence and real wage growth remain high as consumers benefit from a healthy economy. And declining mortgage rates could spur additional mortgage refinancing, which will put more disposable income in consumers' pockets. Against these strong fundamentals, we will continue to deploy our strong cash flow with a disciplined and balanced approach to investing in our current businesses, dividends, share repurchases and acquisitions with the right fit and return to create value for our shareholders. Lastly, I hope to see you all at our Investor Day on September 17 in New York City.

With that, we'll open the call for Q&A.

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QUESTION AND ANSWER SECTION

Operator:[Operator Instructions] Your first question comes from the line of Stephen Kim with Evercore ISI. Stephen, your line is open.

Stephen Kim

Analyst, Evercore Group LLC

Yes, thanks very much guys. Good job in a tough environment. I wanted to ask a little bit about the Plumbing business. Just I want to make sure that I've got a couple of pieces accurate. Last year, you had an impact from Delta's ERP, which if I remember created a pull forward effect, and I'm thinking that probably was a benefit in North America business - in North America Plumbing of about 150 basis points this quarter and that was in sort of in this 3% North America. I just want to make sure that that's the right way to think about it. And as you - more broadly, as you are lowering the sales guidance, Plumbing by a couple of hundred basis points, how much of that reduction would you say is attributable to North America versus the international?

Keith J. Allman

President, Chief Executive Officer & Director, Masco Corp.

You're right, Stephen. We did have in 2008 (sic) [2018] (19:37) a pull ahead of about $10 million from Q2 into Q1 due to the ERP launch at Delta. Despite that pull-forward last year, Plumbing still had a great Q2 in 2018. I think the segment was up about 6%, excluding FX. It was a pretty tough comp for us in the quarter.

Stephen Kim

Analyst, Evercore Group LLC

Yes.

Keith J. Allman

President, Chief Executive Officer & Director, Masco Corp.

In terms of how we think about the volume going forward in Plumbing, I think, there's a couple key drivers. Certainly, there's a little bit of softness in international. While we did have good growth in the core market of Germany, there were some other markets internationally that were soft. Italy was particularly soft. There was some softness in Turkey and a little bit of softness in Latin America. So that's a component of how we're thinking about the remainder of the year.

And the other is price elasticity, as it relates to some of our tariff pricing. We've been very effective in getting the price out in the market in relationship to tariffs, to equalize that cost impact as we talked about last quarter. And we have seen some elasticity as it relates to volume, particularly when we think about the lower price point, which tends to be a little bit more sensitive and we're also seeing some elasticity around threshold prices for various products. So when you think about the volume and going forward in Plumbing, I think, international and pricing is a piece of that. But we're quite pleased with how we did this quarter against the tough comp.

John G. Sznewajs

Chief Financial Officer & Vice President, Masco Corp.

Yes. And I - the only thing I would supplement Keith's comments with is, of the two international and pricing, I'd say, international probably is a heavier weight to it, the impacts going forward than in pricing.

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Stephen Kim

Analyst, Evercore Group LLC

John, was that a general comment across the whole business? Or was that just in Plumbing? And, I guess, as a part of that question, also, [ph] you had (21:34) mentioned, I believe in one of your segment, I think, it was DecArc that the elasticity effect was going to be greater in 4Q than 3Q.

So, I guess, my general question is elasticity, what you just mentioned about that, reducing your guidance versus the international weakness, how much is it for the company as a whole? And is it - are you going to see more of that in 4Q than in 3Q?

John G. Sznewajs

Chief Financial Officer & Vice President, Masco Corp.

Yeah. No. Stephen, my comment was specific to Plumbing. That said, you broadened out the question with your follow-up. And I wouldn't say that there's dramatic impact. I think, I guess, my comment stands at face value that in Decorative Arc there'll be more of an impact in the fourth quarter, as the tariffs and the rate of the inventory starts to flow through our system.

Keith J. Allman

President, Chief Executive Officer & Director, Masco Corp.

Just to add a little bit of color, Stephen, in terms of the European volume, we are seeing a little bit of overall market softness in the UK that we talked about and that would be in the Windows.

Stephen Kim

Analyst, Evercore Group LLC

Yeah. Okay. Thank you very much, guys.

Operator:Your next question comes from the line of Michael Rehaut with JPMorgan. Michael, your line is open.

Michael Rehaut

Analyst, JPMorgan Securities LLC

Thanks. Good morning, everyone. First question. I just wanted to get a little more detail maybe on the Kichler acquisition and integration and you kind of pointed to some good progress in terms of some, I believe, from the cost side. I just wanted to get a sense also from the top line.

And I apologize if I missed this earlier, how you are thinking about their performance this quarter, given some of the challenges around tariffs as you've highlighted before? How you are thinking about the top line performance for the year for Kichler? And on the bottom-line, if there's any ability to kind of be a little more granular, if possible, on what you're achieving from a cost saving standpoint from a cost synergy standpoint and how you think about the margins in that business going forward.

Keith J. Allman

President, Chief Executive Officer & Director, Masco Corp.

Good morning, Michael. From a tariff perspective, I'm very pleased with how the team has performed. We set out to make sure that the cost increases from the tariffs were made up by either improvements in overall cost productivity and supply chain changes and of course in pricing. And we've done all of that. The majority of the

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lever, without a doubt, has been on the pricing side and the team has done a very good job in getting that pricing into the market.

In terms of our activities to drive margin improvements, we continue to work hard really across all fronts as it relates to business process improvements that we're working on with the Masco Operating System, certainly with productivity and sourcing improvements and we have begun some initial, while not a big number at this point, but we have begun some initial movement of product out of China as a longer term mitigant.

With regard to growth in 2019, as I said last quarter, growth is going to be a challenge for us. We are off to a slow start. The team has been very disciplined around pricing and programs as we've talked about and that's going to affect the volume coming into 2019.

Overall, when we look longer term, we believe that lighting is a good business and that it should grow similar and consistent with the remodel market over the long-term and we're working hard to get back to that pace.

Michael Rehaut

Analyst, JPMorgan Securities LLC

Appreciate that, Keith. Thank you. I guess second question maybe just to switch to cabinets for a moment, and apologies I missed some of these details earlier in the call. With the decline - the topline decline in the quarter, if you could just kind of review some of the factors there. And was that decline a surprise relative to your expectations and relative to the industry backdrop? And how should we think about growth in the back half of the year?

Keith J. Allman

President, Chief Executive Officer & Director, Masco Corp.

I think it's consistent with how we thought this business is going to perform. As I mentioned on the call, we were up against a 13% comp in the second quarter of last year when you exclude the divestitures of Moores, so that was a component. A lot of price has been put in the market to offset tariffs and we talked about that in past calls. So, it really is performing as we thought it would and we're pleased with the margin performance in this segment given the environment.

Michael Rehaut

Analyst, JPMorgan Securities LLC

Great. Thanks so much.

Operator:Your next question comes from the line of Michael Wood with Nomura Instinet. Michael your line is open.

Michael Wood

Analyst, Nomura Instinet

Hi, good morning. I was hoping you can give some more color on the international weakness that you pointed out. To what extent is the acceleration in that decline there due to destocking? And is price discipline holding in some of those European markets?

Keith J. Allman

President, Chief Executive Officer & Director, Masco Corp.

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The price is holding, yes. Not a lot of destocking that we really saw. John [indiscernible] (27:33)

John G. Sznewajs

Chief Financial Officer & Vice President, Masco Corp.

No, no. That was on the first quarter not in the second quarter.

Keith J. Allman

President, Chief Executive Officer & Director, Masco Corp.

I would say, generally speaking, it's more around some specific markets that are a little softer than we expected. Certainly, we're seeing some softness in the UK in our window operation. And as I mentioned on the call, there's some markets over in Europe and Latin America that are a little softer than we thought.

Michael Wood

Analyst, Nomura Instinet

And it was nice to see the pro paint accelerate from, I think, it was low single-digits in 1Q to high single-digits here in 2Q. Is that a more normal pace of growth that would you expect going forward in that pro business in terms of where it is now from a maturity standpoint? Or can you continue to accelerate that?

Keith J. Allman

President, Chief Executive Officer & Director, Masco Corp.

No, that's as expected. We're pleased with our pro growth. We're going to continue to expand our capabilities and we're confident that we're going to continue to grow above the market and we think we're doing that.

Michael Wood

Analyst, Nomura Instinet

Great. Thank you.

Operator:Your next question comes from the line of John Lovallo with Bank of America. John, your line is open.

John Lovallo

Analyst, Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Hey, guys. Thank you for taking my questions. The first one on Kichler. I guess, are you comfortable at this point that the personnel changes that you've gone through are pretty much behind you? And then along those same lines, if I recall correctly, Home Depot sells largely private label lighting, I think it's their Hampton Bay. Is there opportunity for you guys to get more Kichler product into Home Depot?

Keith J. Allman

President, Chief Executive Officer & Director, Masco Corp.

I'm very pleased with the team. We have a new leader in place down there that is a high performer that has been in a number of positions at Masco, with increasing responsibility in each stop along the way whether it was from Investor Relations to retail cabinet sales and a nice win that she put together with Menards, which as I mentioned in my prepared remarks that that program is performing well and as expected, and that was a very good win. Overall, sales for Cabinetry and that -- she did a great job there.

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And then on her extended team, again, very confident in that. We've made some significant changes and brought in professionals that I interact with on a regular basis and I couldn't be more happy with how that team has shaped up.

In terms of opportunities across the broader lighting market, I think there are several across multiple channels. And we have importantly a brand that is one of the few brands in the industry that in fact is successful across multiple channels. It has an outstanding assortment across price points, and as I just mentioned across the channel. So, we're going after growth really across the board in Cabinetry -- or excuse me -- in lighting.

John Lovallo

Analyst, Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Okay. Thanks for that Keith. And then as a follow-up, can you guys give just a little bit more color on the merchandising investments that you mentioned in Decorative Architectural?

John G. Sznewajs

Chief Financial Officer & Vice President, Masco Corp.

Yeah. So as I mentioned, we're enhancing some of the in-store displays, John, here in the back half of 2019. So, yeah, mostly - and that will be in our -- in the paint category. And so the Behr team is going to get those in place here in the third and fourth quarter.

John Lovallo

Analyst, Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Okay. Thanks, guys.

Operator:Your next question comes from the line of Keith Hughes with SunTrust. Keith, your line is open.

Keith Hughes

Analyst, SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc.

Thank you. Within Decorative Architectural Products, as you look at the second half of the year, will the - to get to the guidance you've established, will the trends remain the same of pro up high single-digits, DIY low and [indiscernible] (31:28) down at lightning and builders hardware, is there some sort of rate changes going to occur?

John G. Sznewajs

Chief Financial Officer & Vice President, Masco Corp.

Yeah, Keith, I think that's the general pattern that we expect to see in the back half of the year. The one thing I'd ask you to remember is in the fourth quarter of last year we had fairly significant pull forward of about $20 million related to our paint business. And so that - we don't expect that to reoccur and so that will be a little bit of a top line headwind going into Q4. So I just want to make sure you recall that.

Keith Hughes

Analyst, SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc.

Right. And also in lighting or in Kichler, when do you think you will fully offset the impacts of the tariff? Is that currently where we are or there's still some things to be worked out?

Keith J. Allman

President, Chief Executive Officer & Director, Masco Corp.

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I think in terms of our pricing actions and the cost, I think we've got in place at this point. Now the - in terms of the cost reductions that we're executing against. So when you look across price and some of our productivity improvements, I think we've handled that. Now in terms of the cost of the products coming in, I would expect that in the third quarter and the fourth quarter we will start to see those costs hit our P&Ls as it flows through our inventory.

Keith Hughes

Analyst, SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc.

Okay. Thank you.

Operator:Your next question comes from the line of Truman Patterson with Wells Fargo. Truman, your line is open.

Truman Patterson

Analyst, Wells Fargo Securities LLC

Hi, good morning guys. Nice quarter in a pretty challenging environment. So first I wanted to look at your EPS guidance. You guys walked down the midpoint just very modestly by a few cents. Could you walk us through the drivers of this? And were there any offsets to the upside? And could you also give us what amount of share repurchase is included in guidance, is it the $600 million?

John G. Sznewajs

Chief Financial Officer & Vice President, Masco Corp.

Yes. Truman, so a couple of questions in there. As we look at the puts and takes in terms of the revised guidance, I'd say, the first one was the trends that we had seen in the first part of the year. And we laid out pretty clearly I think our sales expectations and margin expectations for each of those segments. So that reflects -- is reflected.

The other piece [ph] to (33:47) recall is we did increase our view as to where tariffs were. In our last call - in the Q1 call, we thought tariffs would be at 10%. And now we think we're going to be at 25%. So those are the two principal components in there. The -- in terms of the share count, the share count really is reflective of [ph] where we purchased (34:02) through today and doesn't take into account that but we do have $600 million that we are anticipating as Keith mentioned in his remarks for the full year.

Truman Patterson

Analyst, Wells Fargo Securities LLC

Okay. Thanks for that. And then thinking about the China tariffs and some of your plumbing competitor supply chains, a couple of the larger guys and then some of the smaller competitors, do the majority of them source through China as well? And do you think the industry is kind of on an even playing field with China tariffs jumping to 25%?

Keith J. Allman

President, Chief Executive Officer & Director, Masco Corp.

Yes. It really depends. There's different competitors that we have across different price points.

Truman Patterson

Analyst, Wells Fargo Securities LLC

Sorry, I was [ph] meaning (34:45) faucets.

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Keith J. Allman

President, Chief Executive Officer & Director, Masco Corp.

Even with faucets there are some private label competitors that sometimes come up against us in the low end which would have more of an impact. But on balance we think we're in good competitive footing as it relates to our exposure to China tariffs.

John G. Sznewajs

Chief Financial Officer & Vice President, Masco Corp.

So Truman, I want to clarify a remark I made a minute ago. Our guidance does include the impact of all $600 million of share repurchase.

Truman Patterson

Analyst, Wells Fargo Securities LLC

Okay. Thanks.

Operator:Your next question comes from the line of Matthew Bouley with Barclays. Matthew, your line is open.

Matthew Bouley

Analyst, Barclays Capital, Inc.

Hi, good morning. Thank you for taking my questions. I wanted to ask back on the margin strength in cabinets, specifically. I think John you mentioned some strong cost control there and you guys highlighted the pricing actions as well. So just some more color on that. Which channels are you taking price? To what degree did price relatively to cost control drive that margin? And anything you're seeing on the promotional side with the customers as well would be helpful. Thank you.

John G. Sznewajs

Chief Financial Officer & Vice President, Masco Corp.

Sure. On the promotional side, we've not seen -- we've seen pretty consistent promotional activity across the various channels in the second quarter, so not a significant increase or decrease in any of the promotional activity.

In terms of price versus cost, of the two, I'd say price was probably a little bit of a heavier weight than the cost side, but both had a pretty good impact on the quarter because a lot of [indiscernible] (36:28) coming, they are coming in offshore [ph] face tariff. (36:22) So, we saw pricing across the industry put in place.

Matthew Bouley

Analyst, Barclays Capital, Inc.

Perfect. That's helpful. And then just secondly, I wanted to ask what you guys are seeing on inventory levels at your customers in North America. You had previously talked to seeing some restocking back in April. How did that progress through the quarter and into July? Do you see any room for any further restocking? Thank you.

Keith J. Allman

President, Chief Executive Officer & Director, Masco Corp.

Matthew, we really didn't see much in the way of inventory fluctuations in the second quarter, call it normal. There was some as you mentioned some destocking in Plumbing in Q1, but that seems to have normalized and orders

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to us were more in line with their sales out to the consumers. So, we are anticipating some inventory adjustments in the back half of 2019, I would say as is somewhat normal and those adjustments are contemplated in our guidance.

Matthew Bouley

Analyst, Barclays Capital, Inc.

All right. Thank you very much.

Operator:Your next question comes from the line of Megan McGrath with Buckingham Research. Megan, your line is open.

Megan McGrath

Analyst, The Buckingham Research Group, Inc.

Good morning. Thanks for taking my question. A couple of questions just on the overall markets. In terms of paint, some of our channel checks we heard from sales folks at all sorts of different retailers that they were seeing a little bit of mixing down maybe to more mid-price point versus higher price point. Curious to see if you saw that as well at all in your -- either your DIY or pro business.

Keith J. Allman

President, Chief Executive Officer & Director, Masco Corp.

Overall, I'd say the market was a bit challenged in Q2 with some tough weather. So, I think that affected us. I think when you look at the market and how we performed with our pro business up high single-digits and DIY up low single-digits, we think we held our own to possibly maybe gaining a little. Admittedly, it's hard to pinpoint with precision the size of the market in a particular quarter.

We didn't see a whole lot of the mix fluctuations in paint. And I think if you broaden that your question out if I may into broader Masco as it relates to mix, we don't really see mix as being material one way or another as either favorable or unfavorable as we look forward to the remainder of the year.

Megan McGrath

Analyst, The Buckingham Research Group, Inc.

Okay, great. And then just a quick follow-up on your comments around sourcing and moving things out of China. Do you feel like you are finished with that process or is there more to come assuming that tariffs stay where they are, is there more to come on that front?

Keith J. Allman

President, Chief Executive Officer & Director, Masco Corp.

I think if we think about it from a perspective of tariffs staying where they are and staying with some sort of permanency, I would say that there's more to come, more taking and we're being very careful as we move products out and resource to other low-cost countries. Careful in that, we want to make sure that we're ensuring our delivery excellence and our quality excellence.

And there is some variability in fact to whether or not that 25% will indeed stick for some extended period of time. So we are being cautious and we have [ph] moved some out. (39:51) But I think long-term when you look at the impact of these tariffs in some of the pricing that we put into the market that long-term this will be absorbed by the consumer and we still believe in a very healthy R&R market.

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Megan McGrath

Analyst, The Buckingham Research Group, Inc.

Great. Thanks.

Operator:Your next question comes from the line of Justin Speer with Zelman & Associates. Justin, your line is open.

Justin Andrew Speer

Analyst, Zelman & Associates

Thanks guys. Good morning. I wanted to spend a little bit of time on your guidance and keeping in mind that the tariff situation is incremental headwind then that balance against raw materials that are favorable. So I wanted to see if we could -- maybe you could help us unpack what the incremental headwind from the tariff is?

[ph] Discretely, (40:40) if you can walk through the discrete cost to the business from the tariff step up and counter balance that against the raw materials. Because when you look at the range, it's just the back half margin range to the high and low end of your guidance implies a fairly wide range of outcomes for margins. So just try to give some context on how you get to that guidance in view of all those moving parts.

Keith J. Allman

President, Chief Executive Officer & Director, Masco Corp.

I'll talk a little bit, Justin, this is Keith, to the commodities. I think some of the commodities in our basket have indeed moderated year-over-year. Copper and Zinc in Plumbing started to moderate in the back half of 2018 and remained below what I would say the peak prices we saw in the first half of 2018. So that will be a little bit of a benefit for us in the second half.

TiO2 and resins both still are up year-over-year, probably peaked here in Q2. Should be flat sequentially in the second half, but still up year-over-year. So not expecting a significant inflation or deflation in paint raws as we sit today. In cabinets, plywood remains elevated but distribution and logistics have come down a little bit, still up year-over-year.

So obviously, we're continuing to work with our suppliers and our cost productivity and all those types of improvement opportunities. But when we look at the commodity inputs, we're really not seeing a material benefit or a headwind as we think about 2019.

John G. Sznewajs

Chief Financial Officer & Vice President, Masco Corp.

And then Justin maybe I'll take the tariffs component of that. As we've articulated before, the tariffs based on what we know today are roughly - [ph] impacts (42:29) $600 million of our cost of goods sold or roughly $150 million impact. Obviously, the way we're pursuing, Keith mentioned earlier that we're pursuing price to offset tariffs.

Obviously, we're getting price recovery from that, so that action in and of itself limits margin expansions as a matter of fact, oftentimes that has a slightly dilutive effect to margins, and so maybe that weighs in on your calculation.

Justin Andrew Speer

Analyst, Zelman & Associates

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And just thinking about these moving pieces, you mentioned the $600 million of COGS today that are sourced from China. If we were to fast forward 6 to 12 months from now, what do you think your footprint looks like?

Keith J. Allman

President, Chief Executive Officer & Director, Masco Corp.

Not anticipating a significant change in that over that time period. As I mentioned, we're moving some products out. We've in-sourced some back to the United States. We've taken some to the other low-cost countries, but it's going to take some time for us to ramp that up. Our focus really is on keeping our delivery and quality excellence up with our consumer and our customers.

Justin Andrew Speer

Analyst, Zelman & Associates

Just pulling this all together, as you think about the back half and the setup, clearly the revenue trend softer, margin trends maybe a little bit better. But if you could give us some context on what -- how you're thinking about the downside -- the downside, I guess, elements to, I guess, risk elements to the -- to get to the downside versus maybe upside of your range where you see the most risk and maybe the opportunity.

Keith J. Allman

President, Chief Executive Officer & Director, Masco Corp.

I think from a top line risk, there's a lot of volatility that's out there with the consumer as it relates to what's going on in geopolitically, what could potentially happen with trade and everything that we've -- we're all quite aware of. So I would say if something happens from a consumer perspective or from a broader confidence, I think that could be an issue that could take it to the downside. Having said that, as I've went through a couple of times on this call and in prior calls, we think the consumer is in pretty good shape, so we're not anticipating that.

Justin Andrew Speer

Analyst, Zelman & Associates

Thank you, guys.

Operator:Your next question comes from the line of Mike Dahl with RBC Capital Markets. Mike, your line is open.

Michael Dahl

Analyst, RBC Capital Markets LLC

Hi. Thanks for taking my questions. I wanted to ask first, just, I guess, Keith, going back to the paint comments you just made around price/cost and not necessarily expecting significant deflation. But if I kind of parse out the commentary between Kichler headwinds and then the overall margin performance, it seems like the core coatings margins have been quite strong. So, I guess what do you attribute that to? Is it really just pricing actions and volume? And if you look at your full year guide embedded in that guide, is there an expectation that coatings margins are up year-on-year? Thanks.

Keith J. Allman

President, Chief Executive Officer & Director, Masco Corp.

When we think about the margins in Q2, we're very pleased with the cost productivity improvements we're making. I called out Kichler -- they continue to do a very good job, both from a variable cost perspective as well as on the sourcing side. The second half impact of tariffs in lighting and hardware are going to be -- are going to start

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to flow through midway into the third quarter. So that's a factor that I asked you to think about as well. But fundamentally, our productivity and our movements are reflected in that margin range that we have in that 17% to 18% range.

John G. Sznewajs

Chief Financial Officer & Vice President, Masco Corp.

Yeah. I guess, Mike, as you think about it we've had pretty good strong performance in our pro business as well as our DIY business for the full year. So, I think we've had good margins, but we're not going to break them out for the full year.

Michael Dahl

Analyst, RBC Capital Markets LLC

Okay. Understood. Second question, Keith, you've kind of mentioned the different potential initiatives around shifting supply chain over time. I think in the past you've talked specifically around the relative low cost of shifting some assembly in Plumbing stateside, where that can be one solution to relatively low CapEx. For you is that an initiative that you've begun to pursue at that point? Or is that still in the bucket of kind of wait and see how this all plays out?

Keith J. Allman

President, Chief Executive Officer & Director, Masco Corp.

We have insourced some assembly back, but just a little bit at this point. Again this is a very dynamic environment and what's included and not included moving forward, I think is still in play. So this is a game of where we're moving slowly and carefully.

And as I said we're driving cost out and in some cases cost sharing with some of our suppliers. We're driving value engineering and productivity improvements and of course, we're getting price. And we're going to be very careful that we protect the customer as we move through this and that's our focus.

Michael Dahl

Analyst, RBC Capital Markets LLC

Okay. Thank you.

Operator:Your next question comes from the line of Phil Ng with Jefferies. Phil, your line is open.

Philip Ng

Analyst, Jefferies LLC

Hey guys. You should be getting a pretty decent amount of proceeds from the divestitures. Curious how quickly will you use it to buybacks -- potentially for buybacks? And then at this point in the cycle, how do you think about M&A and are there any pockets that really stand out? Do you need a third leg to kind of continue to drive the growth story in your business going forward?

John G. Sznewajs

Chief Financial Officer & Vice President, Masco Corp.

Yeah, Phil. In terms of the proceeds you're right, we do expect some significant proceeds. But as Keith mentioned in his prepared remarks while we anticipate at this time using the proceeds from the divestitures for share repurchases, [indiscernible] (48:51) circumstances depending upon what's happening at the time that we actually

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receive the proceeds. So it's hard to give you a great deal of specificity as to, how quickly we may redeploy those

proceeds to share repurchases. The second part of your question again was...

Keith J. Allman

President, Chief Executive Officer & Director, Masco Corp.

If I could jump in here John, is with regards to how we're looking at our M&A funnel and whether or not we need, I

think, Phil, is your word a...

Philip Ng

Analyst, Jefferies LLC

Would you like to add a third leg?

Keith J. Allman

President, Chief Executive Officer & Director, Masco Corp.

... a third leg, if you will, to, yeah, to keep the growth story going. We don't believe we do, no. And we're looking at all options in the building products case -- building products space in our funnel. But clearly our focus is closer to the core. We think we have very strong businesses in paint and Plumbing and that's what our focus is. And I would suspect M&A activity to be more along those areas, not saying no to other opportunities, but clearly our focus is closer to the core.

Philip Ng

Analyst, Jefferies LLC

Got it. Given the margin expansion you saw in 2Q, you're guiding to flat margins for the full year. Assuming part of that is just the tariffs kicking in more fully, I'm just wondering have you implemented all the price increases you need at this juncture for the full 25%? And is there any risk that margins in the fourth quarter would be flattish or potentially down just given the full impact? Thanks a lot.

Keith J. Allman

President, Chief Executive Officer & Director, Masco Corp.

You're right. Phil, the impact of tariff cost as it rolls through our inventory will be more strongly felt in the second half. With regards to pricing, we do think we've got our pricing in place and where it needs to be.

John G. Sznewajs

Chief Financial Officer & Vice President, Masco Corp.

Yes, Phil, with respect to margins, recall again I mentioned this earlier in response to I think Keith's question, that we had some pull forward of sales out of Q1 of this year into Q4 of last year which probably created a bit of a stronger margin than which we typically see seasonally in the fourth quarter of 2018. And so margins could be flat to slightly down in Q4, given that dynamic that we experienced last year.

Philip Ng

Analyst, Jefferies LLC

Got it. Excellent.

Operator:Your next question comes from the line of Ken Zener with KeyBanc. Ken, your line is open.

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Kenneth Zener

Analyst, KeyBanc Capital Markets, Inc.

Good morning, gentlemen.

Keith J. Allman

President, Chief Executive Officer & Director, Masco Corp.

Good morning, Ken.

John G. Sznewajs

Chief Financial Officer & Vice President, Masco Corp.

Good morning, Ken.

Kenneth Zener

Analyst, KeyBanc Capital Markets, Inc.

Just checking. Keith, you mentioned in Plumbing in regard -- that was useful. In Plumbing, in regards to the entry price point which set in the U.S., so separate from the international, you mentioned that the entry price point was actually the somewhat weaker category because of the pricing and you mentioned this term threshold pricing. Are you suggesting that the elasticity on the Delta, let's say, big box is actually - it's [ph] hard (51:47) demand if you take $45 or $50 faucet up to $58. Is that where you're seeing the largest impact of pricing? Which -- is that what you were saying?

Keith J. Allman

President, Chief Executive Officer & Director, Masco Corp.

Yeah. Ken, a couple of things with regard to pricing and elasticity. As I mentioned last call, this is a challenge and it's relatively new territory in that typical data analytics around elasticity involved a static environment where you move a price on a SKU and you say if it goes up, you raise price a percent, the volume goes down 3% or something of that sort. So the data and the analytics is really in a more static environment. This is anything but static. We have significant amount of price changes that's gone into the -- cost changes that have gone into the market. And we have variable responses in the competitive isle, if you will, around how much of that gets put by retailers into the market. So, it's not static.

So, we are seeing a more elastic demand curve for opening price point products. And that certainly stands to reason as you think about sensitivity and the total cost and what people are willing to spend in the low end versus the high end. Conversely, we're not seeing a significant -- as significant -- nearly as significant amount of elasticity on some of our higher end products. We mentioned a record quarter in our spa business, for example, that's not a low end product and is discretionary. So the elasticity is hitting us a little bit more on the opening price point.

What I mean by threshold pricing is pricing that's around a certain number where it makes a more of a material difference in volume and customer perception than say necessarily warranted by the flat out percent of the price increase. So on certain products a $100 - $99.99 is the threshold price. So if there's an increase ...

Kenneth Zener

Analyst, KeyBanc Capital Markets, Inc.

Got it.

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Keith J. Allman

President, Chief Executive Officer & Director, Masco Corp.

... over that threshold of 2% that's going to affect you more than if there was an increase of 2% say going from $80 up. So that's what I meant by threshold pricing. Hope that helps.

Kenneth Zener

Analyst, KeyBanc Capital Markets, Inc.

It does. So the variable -- variability of the market, were you referring to the variability of how retailers were accepting your price? Or was it the variability of how your competitors were responding to tariffs? Thank you.

Keith J. Allman

President, Chief Executive Officer & Director, Masco Corp.

Just the variability of what we're seeing the channel and the consumer pricing in the market.

Kenneth Zener

Analyst, KeyBanc Capital Markets, Inc.

Thank you.

Operator:Your next question comes from the line of Steven Ramsey with Thompson Research. Steven, your line is open.

Steven Ramsey

Analyst, Thompson Research Group LLC

Good morning. Just to start with the guidance to make sure I understand, what gives you the confidence to raise the low end slightly while lowering the top end a bit more? Is the high end volume-related in the low end better margins? Maybe unpack that and if it's a certain segment that is coming in with better margins maybe than expected.

John G. Sznewajs

Chief Financial Officer & Vice President, Masco Corp.

Yes. I would say I think you - yes, that's the answer to the question. It is better volumes and slightly lower volumes and margins are kind of how we got there. As you may recall, as you break it down by segment, we did raise the margin expectation for a couple - for the cabinet segment and so that has definitely an impact on it. But your read in actually was the answer to the question.

Steven Ramsey

Analyst, Thompson Research Group LLC

Great. And then sticking on capital allocation, a couple of questions there. Why not raise the dividend at a more modest pace when the buyback is more accretive to EPS growth per share? And then can you maybe talk to what CapEx might look like once the sales are completed?

John G. Sznewajs

Chief Financial Officer & Vice President, Masco Corp.

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Yes sure. With respect to the dividend I think one of the things that we mentioned in our prepared remarks is part of our capital allocation policy is to keep our dividend payout ratio, roughly at 20%, maybe slightly lower or slightly higher, but in that 20% zip code.

And so the reason we raised it to $0.54 this time around was to make certain that we keep that payout ratio of nearly 20% intact. And so that's kind of the thought behind that. In terms of the CapEx post divestitures I'd say, we're probably in the 2.5% of sales range, so -- not significantly different from where we're at today.

Steven Ramsey

Analyst, Thompson Research Group LLC

Excellent. Thank you.

Operator:Gentlemen your final question comes from the line of Eric Bosshard with Cleveland Research. Eric, your line is open.

Eric Bosshard

Analyst, Cleveland Research Co. LLC

Curious as we think about 2020 in Kichler, what you're excited about and what the upside scenario might be for that business as we think about 2020 and beyond?

Keith J. Allman

President, Chief Executive Officer & Director, Masco Corp.

I think new products is really - you got me jazzed and the team that we talked about before which goes across not only new products, but also our human resource function, our supply chain function et cetera. So we've got a very good team and we've got a nice focus on new product introductions.

And as I mentioned we have the luxury of having one of the few brands that competes across all of the channels, so we have opportunities with the new team and with our product assortment across the online channel and across retail and across our dealers. And certainly continuing to apply our Masco Operating System and getting that more ingrained in that business will yield improvements without a doubt.

Eric Bosshard

Analyst, Cleveland Research Co. LLC

And then secondly just clarity within the guidance, is there anything different in the sales outlook in the back half? Is that regional or by business that you would call out where you feel different than you did 90 or 180 days ago?

John G. Sznewajs

Chief Financial Officer & Vice President, Masco Corp.

Well, I guess, Eric, there's a couple of areas where we adjusted our sales expectations. But international is probably the one area that is -- is coming in softer than we expected. And so that's -- that has an impact on what we put out for our Plumbing guidance and the like. So I think that's the one area that would probably be the one difference versus where we are at the end of the first quarter.

Keith J. Allman

President, Chief Executive Officer & Director, Masco Corp.

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I would say that while certainly a little bit softer in international, I do like the trends that I'm seeing in our Decorative segment and North American Plumbing coming out of Q2. Strong backlog in our spa business points to a healthy consumer. On the high end, we think that's a nice barometer for consumer spending. And then just in general as I'm kicking around in the markets, we're getting good reports from customers across our product categories. So I like the trends that we saw in Q2.

Eric Bosshard

Analyst, Cleveland Research Co. LLC

Great. Thank you.

Operator:This concludes today's conference call. On behalf of Masco Corporation, thank you for today's participation. You may now disconnect.

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Masco Corporation is one of the world's leading manufacturers of home improvement products. Net sales break down by family of products as follows: - plumbing equipment (60.8%): plumbing, sink, bath and shower systems (Delta, Brizo, Peerless, Hansgrohe, Axor, Kraus, Easy Drain, Ginger, Newport Brass, Brasstech, Waltec, Bristan ans Heritage brand names), acrylic bathtubs, shower enclosures and shower trays (Delta, Peerless and Mirolin), spa and exercise pool systems (Hot Spring, Caldera, Freeflow Spas, Endless Pool, Tylo and Finnleo) and brass/copper and composite plumbing components (Brasscraft, Plumbshop and Master Plumber); - architectural decoration products (39.2%): architectural coatings products (paints, primers, special paints, stains and waterproof coatings sold under the Behr, Kilz, Whizz and Elder & Jenks brands), furniture for door and window, do-it-yourself furniture and equipment, glass shower doors, wall plates, hooks and suspension accessories, etc. (Liberty, Brainerd and Franklin Brass). At the end of 2023, the group had 42 production sites located primarily in North America (30). Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: North America (80.1%) and Europe (19.9%).

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Construction Supplies & Fixtures

Calendar

2024-05-10 - Annual General Meeting

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A-

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OUTPERFORM

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Last Close Price

69.87 USD

Average target price

80.01 USD

Spread / Average Target

+14.51%

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