Knowles Corporation (NYSE:KN) Q4 2023 Earnings Call Transcript February 7, 2024

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Operator: Good afternoon. My name is Audra, and I will be your conference operator today. At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to the Knowles Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2023 Earnings Call. Today's conference is being recorded. All lines have been placed on mute to prevent any background noise. After the speakers' remarks, there will be a question-and-answer session. [Operator Instructions] At this time, I would like to turn the conference over to Sarah Cook. Please go ahead.

Sarah Cook: Thank you, Audra, and welcome to our Q4 and full year 2023 earnings call. I'm Sarah Cook, Vice President of Investor Relations, and presenting with me today are Jeffrey Niew, our President and CEO; and John Anderson, our Senior Vice President and CFO. Our call today will include remarks about future expectations, plans and prospects for Knowles, which constitute forward-looking statements for purposes of safe harbor provisions under applicable federal securities laws. Forward-looking statements in this call will include comments about demand for company products, anticipated trends in company's sales, expenses and profits, and involve a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from current expectations. A research and development lab, assembling a network of high-performance capacitors.

The Company urges investors to review the risks and uncertainties in the Company's SEC filings, including, but not limited to, the annual report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022, periodic reports filed from time to time with the SEC, and risks and uncertainties identified in today's earnings release. All forward-looking statements are made as of the date of this call, and Knowles disclaims any duty to update such statements, except as required by law. In addition, pursuant to Reg G, any non-GAAP financial measures referenced during today's conference call can be found in our press release posted on our website at knowles.com, and in our current report on Form 8-K filed today with the SEC, including a reconciliation to the most directly comparable GAAP measures.



All financial references on this call will be on a non-GAAP continuing operations basis unless otherwise indicated. We've made selected financial information available in webcast slides, which can be found in the Investor Relations section of our webcast. With that, please let me turn the call over to Jeff, who will provide details on our results. Jeff?

Jeffrey Niew: Thanks, Sarah, and thanks to all of you for joining us today. Before I get into the Q4 results and my remarks on the status of our markets and what we are seeing for Q1, I would like to start off with some highlights from the previous year. We again made significant progress in transforming our business to higher-value products, which we believe will drive increased shareholder value in the years to come. In our Medtech & Specialty Audio business, after a large inventory correction in the first half, we delivered 17% sequential revenue growth in the second half of 2023, with strong operating margins. Our operational performance, coupled with the success of our new products, gives us great momentum as we enter 2024.

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