GE Vernova Inc. Q2 FY2024 Earnings Call

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Key Takeaways

  • Strong quarter with broad-based margin expansion, robust orders, and sharply improved free cash flow.
  • Company raises full-year 2024 guidance for revenue, adjusted EBITDA margin, and free cash flow.
  • Power and Electrification delivered strong performance; Wind continues to improve but remains the most challenging segment.
  • Company emphasizes secular demand tailwinds: manufacturing growth, data centers, electrification, and grid modernization.

Financial Highlights (Q2 2024 vs. Q2 2023)

  • Orders: Nearly $12B; second‑largest quarter in three years. Down 7% YoY due to large prior‑year offshore/HVDC orders.
  • Revenue: Up 2% driven by Power and Electrification; offset by Wind declines.
  • Services Revenue: Up 9% across all segments.
  • Adjusted EBITDA: Up 85% with 320 bps margin expansion.
  • Free Cash Flow: +$800M, an improvement of >$1B YoY.
  • Cash Balance: $5.8B at quarter end.

Updated 2024 Guidance

  • Revenue: Trending toward high end of $34B–$35B range.
  • Adjusted EBITDA Margin: 5%–7% (previously high end of mid‑single digits).
  • Free Cash Flow: $1.3B–$1.7B (up from $700M–$1.1B).

Segment Performance

Power

  • Orders +30% YoY; Gas Power equipment orders up over 60%.
  • 14 heavy‑duty turbines booked (4 HA units, vs. 0 in Q2 2023).

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Operator: Good day, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to GE Vernova's Second Quarter 2024 Earnings Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. My name is Liz, and I will be your conference coordinator today. If you experience issues with the webcast slides refreshing or there appears to be delays in the slide advancement, please hit F5 on your keyboard to refresh. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. I would now like to turn the program over to your host for today's conference Michael Lapides, Vice President of Investor Relations. Please proceed.\ Michael Lapides: Thank you, operator. Welcome to GE Vernova's second quarter 2024 earnings call. I'm joined today by our CEO, Scott Strazik and CFO, Ken Parks. Our conference call remarks will include both GAAP and non-GAAP financial results. Reconciliations between GAAP and non-GAAP measures can be found in today's Form 10-Q, the press release and in the presentation slides all of which are available on our website. Please note that year-over-year commentary or variances on orders, revenue, adjusted EBITDA and margin discussed during our prepared remarks are on an organic basis. We will make forward-looking statements about our performance. These statements are based on how we see things today. While we may elect to update these forward-looking statements at some point in the future, we do not undertake any obligation to do so. As described in our SEC filings actual results may differ mat

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