Leggett & Platt Incorporated : Q1 2025 Leggett & Platt Earnings Press Release
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April 28, 2025 at 4:10 PM EDT
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CARTHAGE, Mo., April 28, 2025 /PRNewswire/ --
President and CEO Karl Glassman commented, "We are pleased to report better than anticipated first quarter earnings. Our earnings improvement is a testament to the excellent execution of our restructuring plan and operational efficiency improvement initiatives, as well as disciplined cost management. As we navigate the complex and fluid tariff environment, we are mitigating impacts while pursuing any opportunities to capture increased demand for domestically produced products. While we expect that tariffs overall may be a net positive for our business, we are concerned about potential negative effects on inflation, consumer confidence, and discretionary demand.
"Now more than ever, we are committed to our strategic priorities of strengthening our balance sheet, improving profitability and operational efficiency, and positioning the company for long-term growth. Our restructuring plan continues to make progress, and in early March we divested a small U.S. machinery business. As part of our ongoing strategic portfolio review, we recently signed an agreement to sell our Aerospace business, which we expect to close this year.
"Given our conservative outlook due to macroeconomic uncertainties as we entered the year and despite the current trade policy uncertainties, we are maintaining our sales and adjusted EPS guidance for 2025. Although the domestic bedding industry is now expected to be more challenged than previously anticipated, the resulting lower volume will likely be offset primarily by steel-related tariff benefits. Our business is resilient, and with the support of our dedicated employees, we remain confident in our ability to successfully execute our strategic priorities and deliver long-term shareholder value."
FIRST QUARTER RESULTS
First quarter sales were $1.0 billion, a 7%2decrease versus first quarter 2024
First quarter EBITwas $63 million, flat to first quarter 2024 EBIT.Adjusted1EBIT was $67 million, a $3 million increase from first quarter 2024 adjusted1EBIT.
EBIT marginwas 6.2%, up from 5.7% in the first quarter of 2024, andadjusted1EBIT marginwas 6.5%, up from 5.8%.
First quarter EPSwas $.22, a $.01 decrease versus first quarter 2024 EPS of $.23.First quarteradjusted1EPS was $.24, up $.01 versus first quarter 2024 adjusted1EPS of $.23.
DEBT, CASH FLOW, AND LIQUIDITY
RESTRUCTURING PLAN UPDATE
2025 GUIDANCE
SEGMENT RESULTS- First Quarter 2025 (versus 1Q 2024)
Bedding Products-
Specialized Products-
Furniture, Flooring & Textile Products-
SLIDES AND CONFERENCE CALL A set of slides containing summary financial information, a tariff overview, and a restructuring update is available from the Investor Relations section of Leggett's website atwww.leggett.com . Management will host a conference callat 7:30 a.m.Central(8:30 a.m. Eastern) on Tuesday, April 29. The webcast can be accessed from Leggett's website. The dial-in number is (201) 689-8341; there is no passcode.
FOR MORE INFORMATION: Visit Leggett's website atwww.leggett.com .
COMPANY DESCRIPTION: Leggett & Platt (NYSE: LEG) is a diversified manufacturer that designs and produces a broad variety of engineered components and products that can be found in many homes and automobiles. The 142-year-old Company is a leading supplier of bedding components and private label finished goods; automotive seat comfort and convenience systems; home and work furniture components; geo components; flooring underlayment; hydraulic cylinders for material handling and heavy construction applications; and aerospace tubing and fabricated assemblies.
FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS: This press release contains "forward-looking statements," identified by the context in which they appear or words such as "expect," "anticipated," and "guidance," including, but not limited to volume; sales, EPS, adjusted EPS; capital expenditures; depreciation and amortization; net interest expense; fully diluted shares; operating cash flow; closing of the Aerospace disposition; EBIT margin; adjusted EBIT margin; effective tax rate; dividends; raw material related price increases; currency impact; minimal acquisitions and share repurchases; capital allocation priorities; domestic bedding industry outlook; Restructuring Plan financial impacts including the timing and amount of sales attrition, timing and amount of annualized and incremental EBIT benefit, proceeds from real estate sales, and restructuring and restructuring related cash and non-cash costs; strength and resilience of our business; continued execution of our strategic priorities; demand strength in civil construction; reduction of leverage; and tariffs providing a net positive for our business. Such statements are expressly qualified by cautionary statements described in this provision and reflect only the beliefs, expectations, and assumptions of Leggett at the time the statement is made. Because all forward-looking statements deal with the future, they are subject to risks, uncertainties and developments which might cause actual events or results to differ materially from those envisioned or reflected in any forward-looking statement. Moreover, we do not have, and do not undertake, any duty to update or revise any forward-looking statement to reflect events or circumstances after the date on which the statement was made. Some of these risks include: increased trade costs, including tariffs; regarding the Restructuring Plan (the"Plan"), and the ongoing assessment of the estimates and the possibility that the estimates may change, our ability to timely implement the Plan or receive anticipated benefits, our ability to timely receive expected proceeds from real estate sales, and the impact on employees, customers and vendors; regarding the Aerospace divestiture (the "Divestiture"), the occurrence of any event that could give rise to the termination of the Divestiture agreement, the possibility that any closing condition to the Divestiture may not be satisfied or waived in a timely manner or at all, and the risk that the Divestiture may not be completed within the expected timeframe or at all; our ability to accurately forecast sales and earnings; the adverse impact on our sales, earnings, liquidity, margins, cash flow, costs, and financial condition caused by: global inflationary and deflationary impacts; the demand for our products and our customers' products; our manufacturing facilities' ability to obtain necessary raw materials, parts, and labor, and to ship finished products; the impairment of goodwill and long-lived assets; our ability to access the commercial paper market or borrow under our revolving credit facility; supply chain shortages and disruptions; our ability to manage working capital; our ability to collect receivables; price and product competition; cost of raw materials, labor and energy; cash generation sufficient to pay our debts or the dividend; cash repatriation from foreign accounts; our ability to pass along cost increases through increased selling prices; conflict between China and Taiwan; our ability to maintain profit margins if customers change the quantity or mix of our products; political risks; tax rates; foreign operating risks; cybersecurity incidents; customer losses and insolvencies; disruption to our steel rod mill and wire mills and other operations because of severe weather-related events, natural disaster, fire, explosion, terrorism, pandemic, or governmental action; ability to develop innovative products; foreign currency fluctuation; share repurchases; anti-dumping duties on innersprings, steel wire rod and mattresses; data privacy; sustainability obligations; litigation risks; and risk factors in the "Forward-Looking Statements" and "Risk Factors" sections in Leggett's Form 10-K and subsequent Form 10-Qs.
CONTACT: Investor Relations, (417) 358-8131 [email protected] Cassie J. Branscum, Vice President, Investor Relations Katelyn J. Pierce, Analyst, Investor Relations
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