Eaton Corporation plc Q2 FY2020 Earnings Call

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Quarter Overview

  • Q2 GAAP EPS: $0.13; Adjusted EPS: $0.70 (excluded $0.57 in acquisition/divestiture and restructuring charges).
  • Revenue: $3.9B, down 22% organically versus prior year. Sequentially improved from April’s ~30% decline to low double-digit decline in June.
  • Segment margin: 14.7%, down 110 bps from Q1; decremental margins 25% (better than 30% guidance).
  • Operating cash flow: $757M; Free cash flow: $667M. Full-year FCF guidance reaffirmed at $2.3–$2.7B.
  • Eaton announced a $280M multiyear restructuring program to reduce structural costs in challenged markets (commercial aerospace, oil and gas, Class 8 trucks, light vehicles).

Sustainability Commitments

  • $3B R&D investment over 10 years to support sustainable products.
  • Targeting a 50% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 (vs. 2018 levels).
  • Carbon-neutral operations by 2030 through renewable electricity, energy storage solutions, and carbon offsets.

Segment Results

Electrical Americas
  • Revenue: down 29% (organic -9%). Driven by lighting divestiture (-19%) and FX (-1%).
  • Margins: 20.7%, up 130 bps YoY; strong cost control and lighting divestiture benefit.
  • Orders: +2.1% on rolling 12 months; data centers +7%.
  • Bookings: +11% YoY.
Electrical Global

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Operator: Yan Jin: ….With me today are Craig Arnold, our Chairman and CEO; and Rick Fearon, Vice Chairman and Chief Financial and Planning Officer. Our agenda today including opening remarks by Craig highlighting the company’s performance in the second quarter. As we have done in our past calls, we’ll be taking questions at the end of Craig’s comments. The press release and the presentation we’ll go through today have been posted on our website at www.eaton.com. Please note that both the press release and the presentation include reconciliation to non-GAAP measures. A webcast of this call is accessible on our website, and it will be available for replay. I would like to remind you that our comments today will include statements related to expected future results of the company and are therefore forward-looking statements. Our actual results may differ materially from our forecasted projections due to a wide range of risks and uncertainties that are described in our earnings release and the presentation. They’re also outlined in our related 8-K filings. With that, I will turn it over to Craig. Craig Arnold: Okay. Thanks, Yan. We’ll start on page three with recent highlights from the second quarter. And as you can imagine, I’m extraordinarily pleased with the way our teams have executed in the midst of this pandemic and the economic downturn. We’ve done a good job of keeping our employees safe, have delivered for our customers and certainly generated exceptional cash flow, all

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