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We use certain operating performance measures, specifically consolidated gross margin, operating margin by segment and consolidated operating margin, to manage our businesses, set operational goals, and establish performance targets for incentive compensation for our employees. We define consolidated gross margin as a percentage of total consolidated gross profit to total consolidated net sales. We define operating margin by segment as a percentage of total income from operations by segment to total net sales by segment and consolidated operating margin as a percentage of total consolidated income from operations to total consolidated net sales. We believe consolidated gross margin, operating margin and consolidated operating margin may be useful to investors in evaluating the profitability of our segments and Company on a consolidated basis.
Overview
The Company operates and reports its results in the following four reporting segments: •Renewables; •Residential; •Agtech; and •Infrastructure.
The Company serves customers primarily in
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As we have navigated through COVID-19, our top priority continues to be focused on our organization - keeping our team and their families as safe as possible, maintaining our supply chain and providing a high level of responsiveness to customer needs. We continue to proactively execute our pandemic "playbook" and make adjustments to our operating protocols as we navigate forward.
The broader market dynamics over the past two years, which have included the impact of COVID-19, have resulted in impacts to our company, including material cost inflation, labor availability issues and logistics costs increases. We have also been impacted from supply constraints for materials and commodities used in our operations and used by our customers in conjunction with the goods and services we provide. In certain instances these constraints have resulted in project delays, cost inflation and logistics delays. We continue to work with our customers and suppliers in this dynamic environment to better align pricing, understand the existing and potential future impacts to the supply chain, and make efforts to mitigate such impacts as we expect these supply chain and labor availability pressures along with the impact of material cost, labor and logistics inflation will continue throughout 2022.
In early 2022, the
Business Strategy
The Company's mission is to create compounding and sustainable value for our stockholders and other stakeholders with strong and relevant leadership positions in higher growth, profitable end markets focused on addressing some of the world's most challenging opportunities. The foundation of the Company's strategy is built on three core pillars: Business System, Portfolio Management, and Organization Development.
1.Business System reflects the necessary systems, processes, and management tools required to deliver consistent and continuous performance improvement, every day. Our Business System is a critical enabler to grow, scale, and deliver our plans. Our focus is on deploying effective tools to drive growth, improve operating performance, and develop the organization utilizing 80/20 and lean quote-to-cash initiatives along with digital systems for speed, agility and responsiveness. Our Business System challenges existing paradigms, drives day-to-day performance, forces prioritization of resources, tests our business models, and brings focus to new product and services development and innovation.
2.Portfolio Management is focused on optimizing the Company's business portfolio in higher growth markets with leadership positions ensuring our financial capital and human resources are effectively and efficiently deployed to deliver sustainable, profitable growth while increasing our relevance with customers and shaping our markets. For a description of recent portfolio management activities, see the actions described below in the Recent Developments section.
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We believe the key elements of our strategy have, and will continue to, enable us to respond timely to changes in the end markets we serve, including evolving changes due to COVID-19 and the broader market dynamics experienced over the past two years. We have and expect to continue to examine the need for restructuring of our
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Recent Developments
In
During the first quarter of 2022, the Company committed to a plan to sell its
processing equipment business, which is a business within the Company's Agtech
reportable segment, as a result of its portfolio management strategy in order to
focus its resources on the higher growth and more profitable growing business
within the Agtech segment. The processing equipment business was classified as
held for sale as of
During the first quarter of 2021, the Company sold its Industrial business which
was previously included in the Company's Industrial and Infrastructure Products
segment, now the Infrastructure segment, and was reported as discontinued
operations as of
Results of Operations
Three Months Ended
The following table sets forth selected results of operations data and its
percentage of net sales for the three months ended
2022 2021 Net sales$ 366,949 100.0 %$ 348,389 100.0 % Cost of sales 276,678 75.4 % 267,458 76.8 % Gross profit 90,271 24.6 % 80,931 23.2 %
Selling, general, and administrative expense 50,132 13.7 % 49,522 14.2 %
Income from operations 40,139 10.9 % 31,409 9.0 % Interest expense 656 0.1 % 245 0.0 % Other expense (income) 281 0.1 % (4,666) (1.3) % Income before taxes 39,202 10.7 % 35,830 10.3 % Provision for income taxes 9,895 2.7 % 9,457 2.7 % Income from continuing operations 29,307 8.0 % 26,373 7.6 % Loss from discontinued operations - 0.0 % (424) (0.2) % Net income$ 29,307 8.0 %$ 25,949 7.4 % 23
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The following table sets forth the Company's net sales by reportable segment for
the three months ended
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