MasTec, Inc. Q4 FY2023 Earnings Call

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Quarterly Performance Highlights (Q4 2023)

  • Revenue: $3.3B, up 9% year-over-year.
  • Adjusted EBITDA: $231M, slightly above guidance.
  • Adjusted EPS: $0.66, beating guidance by $0.22.
  • Cash flow from operations: Nearly $500M in Q4.
  • Demand strength especially visible in Pipeline and improved cash collections across business units.

Full-Year 2023 Performance

  • Revenue: $12B, up 23% year-over-year.
  • Adjusted EBITDA: $860M, up 10% year-over-year.
  • Adjusted EPS: $1.97.
  • Cash from operations: $687M.
  • Net debt reduced by $535M since Q1; year-end net leverage at 2.9x.
  • Backlog: $12.4B, with sequential increases in all segments except Pipeline due to MVP burn-down.

Strategic & Market Commentary

  • 2023 performance lagged original expectations due to IEA acquisition-related issues and customer spending softness in 2H23.
  • MasTec sees 2024 as a transition year, with more material performance improvements expected in 2H24 and accelerating into 2025.

Segment Highlights

Communications
  • 2023 revenue: $3.26B, flat year-over-year.
  • Adjusted EBITDA margin: 8.9%, down 140 bps due to weaker second-half volumes.

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Operator: Welcome to MasTec's Fourth Quarter 2023 Earnings Conference Call. Initially, broadcast on Friday, March 1st, 2024. Let me remind participants that today's call is being recorded. At this time, I'd like to turn the call over to our host Marc Lewis, MasTec's Vice President of Investor Relations. Marc? Marc Lewis: Thanks, Maddie, and good morning, everyone. Welcome to MasTec's Fourth Quarter Call. The following statement is made pursuant to the Safe Harbor for forward-looking statements described in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. In these communications, we may make certain statements that are forward-looking such as statements regarding MasTec's future results, plans, and anticipated trends in the industries where we operate. These forward-looking statements are the company's expectation on the day of initial broadcast of the call and the company does not undertake to update these expectations based on subsequent events or knowledge. Various risks, uncertainties, and assumptions are detailed in our press releases and filings with the SEC. Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize or should any of our underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may differ significantly from results expressed or implied in these communications today. In today's remarks by management, we will be discussing adjusted financial metrics reconciled in yesterday's press release and supporting schedules. In addition, we may use certain non-

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