Vertiv Holdings Co Q4 FY2024 Earnings Call

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Overall Performance

  • Vertiv delivered a strong Q4 2024, surpassing sales guidance by over $200M and translating growth into higher EPS and cash flow.
  • Adjusted EPS reached $0.99 in Q4, up 77% from Q4 2023.
  • Full-year 2024 adjusted EPS was $2.85, a 61% increase over 2023.
  • Organic sales for Q4 grew 27% year-over-year, with strong results across Americas (20%+), APAC (20%+), and EMEA (30%+).
  • Adjusted operating margin in Q4 expanded 380 bps to 21.5% versus prior year.
  • Adjusted free cash flow for Q4 was $362M; for the full year, over $1.1B (up 46% YoY).
  • The company ended 2024 with net leverage of 1x, improving from the prior year and supporting capital deployment flexibility.

Key Business Drivers & Trends

  • Strong data center demand, especially from hyperscale and colocation providers, drove growth.
  • Americas trailing twelve-month (TTM) orders grew over 50%, signaling robust AI data center spending.
  • Backlog increased 30% YoY to a backlog-to-sales ratio of 78%, up from 69% last year.
  • Vertiv continues investing in R&D, with $50M added in 2024, emphasizing power systems, cooling, and next‑gen technologies for AI‑dense data centers.
  • Integration-focused system designs are becoming a key differentiator, with Vertiv providing combined power, thermal, and distribution solutions.

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Operator: Good morning. My name is Nadia, and I will be your conference operator today. At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to Vertiv Holdings Co's fourth quarter and full year 2024 earnings conference call. Lines have been placed on mute to prevent any background noise. Please note that this call is being recorded. I would now like to turn the program over to your host for today's conference call, Lynne Maxeiner, Vice President of Investor Relations. Lynne Maxeiner: Great. Thank you, Nadia. Good morning, and welcome to Vertiv Holdings Co's fourth quarter and full year 2024 earnings conference call. Joining me today are Vertiv Holdings Co's Executive Chairman, Dave Cote, Chief Executive Officer, Giordano Albertazzi, and Chief Financial Officer, David Fallon. We have one hour for the call today. During the Q&A portion of the call, please be mindful of others in the queue and limit yourself to one question. If you have a follow-up question, please rejoin the queue. Before we begin, I would like to point out that during the course of this call, we will make forward-looking statements regarding future events, including the future financial and operating performance of Vertiv Holdings Co. These forward-looking statements are subject to material risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. Refer you to the cautionary language included in today's earnings release and you can learn more about the

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