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Fortune Brands Innovations, Inc. (FBIN)

Q1 2022 Earnings Call· Thu, Apr 28, 2022

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Operator

Operator

Good morning. My name is I’ll be your operator for today’s call. At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to the Fortune Brands First Quarter 2022 Earnings Conference Call. All lines have been placed on mute to prevent any background noise. After the speakers’ remarks, there will be a question-and-answer session. Thank you. I would now like to turn the call over to Mr. Dave Barry, Senior Vice President of Finance and Investor Relations. You may begin the conference.

Dave Barry

Management

Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to the Fortune Brands Home & Security first quarter earnings call and webcast. Hopefully, everyone has had a chance to review both the earnings release and the updated investor presentation that highlight the strategic rationale underpinning our pursuit of a separation into two companies via a tax-free spin of our Cabinet segment. The earnings release, investor presentation and audio replay of this call can be found on the Investors section of our fbhs.com website. I want to remind everyone today that the forward-looking statements we make on the call either in our prepared remarks or in the associated question-and-answer session are based on current expectations and market outlook and are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially from those currently anticipated. These risks are detailed in our various filings with the SEC. The company does not undertake any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements except as required by law. Any references to operating profit or margin, earnings per share, or cash flow on today’s call will focus on our results on a before charges and gains basis unless otherwise specified. With me on the call today are Nick Fink, our Chief Executive Officer; and Pat Hallinan, our Chief Financial Officer. This call will be formatted differently than recent prior calls given today’s news. Nick will begin with his prepared remarks, which will highlight the strategic separation announcement, our first quarter performance and topics relevant to today’s housing and economic environment. Pat will then highlight our first quarter financial results and provide an update to our financial guidance. Finally, we will return to Nick to discus today’s announcement in more detail. Following our prepared remarks, we have allowed time to address some questions. I will now turn the call over to Nick.

Nick Fink

Chief Executive Officer

Thank you, Dave, and thank you to everyone for joining us on the call today. We are excited to update you on what we expect to be the next phase of value creation for our great company and its stakeholders. As mentioned in today’s press release, our Board of Directors has authorized that we pursue a separation into two companies via a tax-free spin of our Cabinets business into a standalone publicly traded company. The result will produce two world class companies, which for the purposes of this discussion we will refer to as new Fortune Brands and Cabinets. We believe this decision is in the best interests of our investors, associates and customers. By separating these businesses, we can better maximize long-term value and unlock exciting opportunities for both companies. This move will enable each company to follow independent pods for value creation with fit-for-purpose strategies supported by thoughtful investments. New Fortune Brands will bring brand and innovation excellence to supercharged home, building products and security categories. Cabinets will continue to be the North American market leader driving operational excellence to deliver industry-leading performance. Both companies will be supported by powerful financial profiles setting each up to drive impressive results for investors. I will discuss the announcement in more detail later in the call, but for our valued associates, channel partners and customers, this should be exciting news. Additionally, we don’t expect any disruption to our operations as a result of the separation. Our same dedication, commitment to excellence and to delivering results will continue in both companies that approach produced our strong results in the first quarter and leads the company well-positioned to deliver an excellent 2022 and beyond. Turning to our first quarter results. Following 2021 a year in which Fortune Brands delivered exceptional results admits unprecedented…

Pat Hallinan

Chief Financial Officer

Thanks, Nick. And as a reminder, the majority of my comments will focus on income before charges and gains in order to best reflect ongoing business performance. Additionally, all comparisons will be made against the same period last year unless otherwise noted. Let me start with our first quarter results. Sales were $1.9 billion, up 8% and consolidated operating income was $249.6 million, down 5%. Total company operating margin was 13% consistent with our first quarter expectations. EPS were a $1.31. Our teams continue to advance our strategic priorities and have been resolute in overcoming headwinds. As Nick mentioned earlier, we offset inflation dollar for dollar in the first quarter with price and continuous improvement initiatives though the result was dilutive to margin, which was further impacted by investments and by labor and shipment driven operating inefficiencies. Beginning in the second quarter, we expect price and continuous improvement to fully offset inflation and contribute to margin enhancement and expect to deliver second quarter operating margin of around 15%. Importantly, we remain on track to deliver our full year margin expansion objective of 70 basis points to a 100 basis points over last year. First quarter performance was in line with our plan and leaves us well-positioned to deliver our 2022 guidance. While geopolitical tensions have spurred another round of inflation, our teams have responded with incremental price and continuous improvement actions required to achieve our outlook. Additionally, we are managing our fixed cost structure to prepare for a continued near-term volatility while making the strategic investments to deliver long-term value creation. Demand remains strong across our leading brands, which demonstrates their pricing power and appeal to consumers and pros. Labor availability and supply chains have incrementally improved, providing some relief to our elevated backlogs. Now let me provide more color…

Nick Fink

Chief Executive Officer

Thanks, Pat. As I mentioned to start the call, we are very excited to be announcing our intent to pursue a separation into two world class independently traded public companies with attractive investment profiles. New Fortune Brands will be a brand and innovation leader, driving accelerated growth in supercharged categories in home, security and building products, including water management, outdoor living, material conversion and science, and connected products. Consistent with our history, we expect this business to outperform the market and drive already industry leading margins to new highs by leveraging our Fortune Brands Advantage capabilities and powerful market leading brands, complimented by strategic inorganic opportunities. With continued focus on areas such as safety, water conservation, and development in and use of recycled and sustainable materials, New Fortune Brands will be a leader in sustainability and ESG. Cabinets will continue to be the number one industry leader in North America, delivering top tier performance through operational excellence and an emerging leading end to end consumer experience. Under Dave Banyard’s leadership, our Cabinets team continues to execute transformational initiatives doing at the heart of the market, optimize and enhance our operational capabilities and fortify our global supply chain. These efforts coupled with our leading dealer network have widened the moat between us and domestic and import competition. Our leading market share and ongoing transformational efforts, favorably position the business to execute its strategy as a standalone company. I’m also delighted to announce that Dave Banyard has agreed to continue to lead the company as its CEO once the separation is complete. So why do this now? As we’ve discussed in the past, we routinely perform a deep dive strategic review of the entire portfolio with our Board of Directors. Our entire business has made tremendous progress over the past few years…

Dave Barry

Operator

Thanks, Nick. That concludes our prepared remarks on the first quarter and on the proposed transaction. We will now begin taking a limited number of questions. Since there may be a number of you who would like to ask a question, I will ask that you limit your initial questions to two and then reenter the queue to ask additional questions. I will now turn the call back over to the operator to begin the question-and-answer session. Operator, can you please open the line for questions? Thank you.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. Our first question we have Adam Baumgarten from Zelman. Adam, your line is open.

Adam Baumgarten

Analyst

Hey, congrats guys. Nick, maybe just start, could you go over the strategic rationale and maybe the timing of the separation in a little more detail?

Nick Fink

Chief Executive Officer

Sure, Adam. I’d be happy to. Why don’t I – I’ll just start a little bit with timing and kind of line now and then touched on some of the strategic rationale. But you sort of look at the businesses and you look at how we’ve been developing the strategy for each over the last couple of years. You can see with the lens of the Fortune Brands Advantage, we’ve really been driving brands and innovation on one side of the portfolio are very hard and the operational excellence on the other side of the portfolio. And it is tied together by the Fortune Brands Advantage and common set of capabilities. But as we have driven that pretty hard and you’ve seen results coming back, you could see two sides of the house really performing very, very well, but with increasingly divergent strategy. And so you come to a point where the business or both businesses are in really firm footing, performing well, clear industry leaders. And then you add to that over the last few years, we’ve built the management teams capabilities and scale to really allow Cabinets to thrive as an independent entity. And then you look at the backdrop of fundamental tailwinds, which are very strong for all the businesses. We just felt that this was a point at which the businesses are really well positioned to succeed now and well into the future yet with increasingly divergent strategy. So we’re really, really excited that this is a great moment. The strategy themselves stay a little bit more. Tell us the first part of your question, you look to Cabinets, it’s going to continue to build on a strong foundation and really accelerate its transformation that’s been underway for last two years to operational excellence as well as really differentiated capabilities around its end to end customer, consumer experience. And so leveraging the dealer network, its lean capabilities, the innovation that they’re driving in that customer experience all key to that. On the other side, New Fortune Brands really focused on bringing branded innovation excellence to supercharge categories inside of home, security and building products, right? So areas like water management, outdoor living, material conversion and science, and connected products. And so very specific focus there and leveraging the capabilities like, brand management innovation, a digital leadership ESG leadership and then of course the lens of M&A on top of that. We think we can drive what has already been a pretty phenomenal returns profile even harder. And so timing made sense, strategy makes sense. I think the investment profile for investors will be very attractive for both businesses and make sense. We’re – I got to tell you just incredibly excited and incredibly proud to be on a point, where we can take this next step in the Fortune Brands story.

Adam Baumgarten

Analyst

Great. Thanks. And then I guess my second question would be probably for Pat, but is there any change from last quarter and how we should think about the flow of earnings as we move throughout the year?

Pat Hallinan

Chief Financial Officer

No. I mean, I think the big part of what we’re communicating is we’re tracking to our full year guidance. And we expect all parts of the portfolio to continue tracking to their individual parts of the guidance. I think with some of the lockdown in China, obviously, that will impact Water Innovations sales during the second quarter. We would expect to recover some or all of that in the back half of the year. But we’re going to expect in the second quarter, the overall sales growth to be mid-single-digits with an OI around 15%. And then the back half of the year, you’re going to see mid-single-digits with OI above 16.5%, getting us to our 70 plus basis points for the year. And in that second quarter, certainly Water Innovations could be flattish plus or minus depending on how China plays out. But the team has already been preparing to manage that situation and still stick with a 23% OI margin for the year and manage the OI impacts of China throughout the year. And we think longer term, we’re still bullish on the ability to create value in China and we can manage the near-term effects of that. But I would say, while there’s going to be puts and takes with obviously we took a little bit more price to handle inflation, that price will go into the forecast having Cabinets and O&S towards the high side of their sales guidance. The China effect probably pulls plumbing down towards the low side of its sales guidance, but the overall margin outlook and the overall result for the year being sound. We took EPS up to reflect appropriately the thoughtful capital allocation that we did. You buying about a $405 million of shares net of the incremental interest expense and tax rate.

Adam Baumgarten

Analyst

Got it. Thanks a lot. Best of luck.

Pat Hallinan

Chief Financial Officer

Thank you.

Operator

Operator

Our next question we have Susan Maklari from Goldman Sachs. Susan, your line is open.

Susan Maklari

Analyst

Thank you. Good afternoon, everyone and congratulations on all the news and the quarter today.

Nick Fink

Chief Executive Officer

Yes, thanks.

Susan Maklari

Analyst

My first question is, I guess, when you think about the legacy Fortune business that will be after this transaction comes through. Can you talk a little bit about how you think – of the strategy there, obviously, you’ll have Plumbing or Water Innovations, you’ll have Outdoors & Security in there. What will be the real focus areas within that anything that’ll change? And I guess with that, is there anything else that could be divested over time or maybe we’ll change within the portfolio?

Nick Fink

Chief Executive Officer

Sure. Yes. I’d be happy to talk about that. And so you think about that portfolio, right? There’s points of commonality, very powerful points of commonality across the portfolio. And really – at the highest level, it’s brand management and innovation, right? And under brand management, like everything from marketing to pricing to management of the shelf and category, right? And those are very powerful drivers of what will be the New Fortune Brands portfolio. And they really sort of ladder back to the Fortune Brands Advantage, which is something we’ve been working on for a few years. And so you think about complexity reductions so that we can drive more innovation through global supply chain management, right? It’s going to be less sort of heavy domestic manufacturing more, balance with our global supply chain management. And then finally, Category Management, which is really understanding where the consumer is, how to build the shelf, how to innovate for the consumer, et cetera. Those threads will be true across the entire portfolio. And then the exposure, to what we’re calling supercharge categories, whether they be in water or outdoor living or connective products are driven by very, very similar drivers of kind of brand innovation and technology. And so what we really want to do is accelerate our central investment behind the Fortune Brands Advantage increasingly the digital investments that we’re making, which do require scale to really drive and use that to take this portfolio, which is already performing at a very high level and accelerated even further. And so I think against that backdrop and a pretty consistent strategy will then see more M&A opportunities and, if anything, I think we’ll be adding to that portfolio and using the central capability that we’re building and intend to go deeper on to drive it even harder and faster.

Susan Maklari

Analyst

Okay. That’s great color. Thank you. And then my second question is, Water Innovations had a very, very impressive margin this quarter, despite all the headwinds and obviously the moving parts in there. Can you talk a little bit about one, what drove that? And how we should be thinking about the cadence going forward? I know you kept your guide for the year still around that 23% for the segment, but given where you’re coming into this year. Is there the potential for maybe some further upside there?

Pat Hallinan

Chief Financial Officer

Yes. The business, I think deserves a lot of credit for being able to manage that high margin across a lot out of conditions. Because they still invested in brand and digital transformation this first quarter and delivered a 23% margin. So they’ve been – at the forefront of driving cost improvement and pricing in the industry, while maintaining investment for future growth, both in brand and technology. And so the team’s done a great job. I think Sue for the year, we’re targeting 23%. Is there a chance of some upside there? Yes. We’ll see how the situation in China plays out. The team is really focused on delivering the OI dollars and the margin percent irrespective of that. And from a forecasting and planning perspective, I would expect us to be bouncing around 23% per quarter plus or minus 50 bps in any given quarter.

Susan Maklari

Analyst

Okay. All right. Thank you very much and good luck with everything.

Pat Hallinan

Chief Financial Officer

Thank you.

Operator

Operator

And for our next question we have Stephen Kim from Evercore ISI. Stephen, your line is open.

Stephen Kim

Analyst

Thanks very much guys. Lot to talk about. Let’s start with the separation announcement. I guess, you talked about maybe some divergent past the value enhancement. I know you’ve talked a little bit additionally on that. But I was specifically wondering if you could talk about maybe differences that we might expect between the two in terms of optimal leverage, CapEx needs. I get the sense capital allocation priorities will be different with the New Fortune Brands, a little bit more focused on M&A opportunities. So maybe you could just give us a little bit of color about what you’re thinking of in terms of differences along those lines.

Nick Fink

Chief Executive Officer

Yes. I’ll start Stephen and then hand over to Pat you can add a little bit more color. But you think about just back up for a sec, you think about these strategies that were sitting under our Fortune Brands Advantage umbrella, but one that was just increasingly about really driving operational excellence. And I think that the team at Cabinets have been proving that out. I mean, two years of just incredible headwinds and yet they put up this just market beating performance that, when you kind of peel the onion a little bit of what’s under that is just eye wateringly good. And are just kind of getting started on that journey between the performance they’re putting up, what you’ll see even happen this year and then as we describe it further kind of their plans a lot of value to be created through their strategy, really first driven by business transformation, simplification, leading into the ability to drive that manufacturing excellence. That is one set of strategies. On the other hand, you have brand and innovation, which is going to set investment priority. That’s going to be more around, further dollars into innovation. Our R&D capability, material science digital will play a very big part of that. And so all of those – I think exist today under the umbrella, we haven’t starved any of our businesses of investment, but this will allow them, I think, to push harder and foster. And in a more focused way against the opportunity set that that sit there for each business. So I know Pat, he can talk a little bit about just how we’re thinking about leverage, CapEx and setting these businesses up to be really healthy going forward.

Pat Hallinan

Chief Financial Officer

Yes, Stephen. I think – first of all, I’d remind you that we’re initiating this from a position of strength. All the businesses are performing well. They’re all on a margin journey and achieving that margin journey. And our annual cash flow generation is usually 2x to 3x, what our internal CapEx and other investment needs are. And we would expect that to continue where the businesses are putting out way more cash than they need for organic growth and CapEx. Our CapEx outlook is unchanged by this announcement, like the CapEx that we’re investing in the business, because the strategies are staying the same for the businesses in the near and medium term. A number of capital structure considerations would come with a transaction like this. I think for clarity, we expect no change to the current Fortune Brands home and security, dividend and dividend policy, which is $0.28 a share per quarter. We expect that to continue. We expect both companies upon the spin to have sound capital structures that allow them the flexibility to manage the current macro environment and to invest for growth organically and inorganically. We expect the Fortune Brands ability to support its current credit quality to persist for sure both during and after the spin. And we’ll decide as we get farther down the road, the final capital structure for the Cabinets business, which we expect would be sound and there would probably be a one-time dividend from Cabinets to Fortune Brands. But at a leverage ratio that still allows the Cabinets business, the flexibility to navigate the macro environment and invest for growth. That business is set to succeed. We expect and are going to help it succeed. So I don’t see very big changes in the way we’re managing our capital structure. But each business will have a separate cash capital structure that is appropriate upon spin.

Stephen Kim

Analyst

Okay. Yes. That’s helpful. Thanks. Thanks guys. Second question you made a – I thought I heard you mentioned that maybe supply chains have started to improve. Just not sure I heard that, right. I just wanted to see if you could elaborate a little bit on that.

Nick Fink

Chief Executive Officer

Sure. I’d be happy to give a little bit of color. Yes, a couple things we saw in the quarter. Firstly, I would say, as we started the quarter out January and February were pretty tough from an absenteeism standpoint in a number of pockets in the business, particularly indoors and cabinets. And we saw those rights radically improve as we moved into March and that sustained. So that’s been pretty positive. And it seems to be largely COVID driven, whether it’s that people are just getting to a point where there’s a degree of comfort with living with it or whether rates really better in communities. But that has been really key. Second point, we’ve talked amount about logistics, availability, particularly kind of near shore logistics. And we saw that ease trucking, ease a little bit in the latter part of the quarter and that has sustained, that’s been positive. And then the third one I’d call out is, we did see a trans specific ocean freight ease, and we saw a number of our suppliers be able to supply us at a more rapid rate in the quarter, which was a really healthy improvement as well as our shipping rates improve as a consequence of us being able to get more of a contracted rate onto the ocean as opposed to – having to push spot through. And so all of those are positive indicators, now we’re watching from a supply chain perspective, the situation in China very carefully to make sure that it doesn’t go the other way and that there isn’t any further interruption. But we built that supply chain very carefully with fair amount of redundancy in it and to date we’ve not seen any interruption and if anything, we’ve kind of doubled down on some safety stock just to ensure that we would be covered in the event of an interruption. And so after last two years, I’d say cautiously optimistic about calling any supply chain easing it’s been an unbelievable two years, but it was good to finally see some easing as we got through the quarter and that’s helped through this month.

Stephen Kim

Analyst

Yes, absolutely. Thanks very much guys.

Nick Fink

Chief Executive Officer

Yes. Thank you

Operator

Operator

For our next question, we have Phil Ng from Jefferies. Phil, your line is open.

Phil Ng

Analyst

Hey guys, good quarter. I guess Nick, you kind of alluded to this certainly the business is holding up really good. But certainly some concerns the consumer could be a little softer given all inflation that’s out there. Can you remind us how much line of sight do you have in your business and any color on any change in order patterns, especially some of your bigger ticket categories and any color on the channel site as well?

Nick Fink

Chief Executive Officer

Yes, absolutely. I’d be happy to. So I – so we got pretty good line of sight. I mean I’d say kind of as broad of anyone in the industry. And as we’ve really built out our digital capabilities under the Fortune Brands Advantage, we’ve really haunted that light of sight. And so we actually have data like it gives us live POS across most of the retail universe plus others that report POS to us. And we can see that down to category store region, et cetera, and slice and dice it any which way. And then obviously line of sight to a degree into wholesale and of course, into e-commerce as well. And bottom line is the consumer’s been unbelievably resilient. I mean we came in I think a little bit cautious about the lap of what was a giant stimulus injection into the economy this time last year. And if you look at the weekly and monthly POS consumption, right, I’d say, ultimately that’s probably the most important data point going through the question that you’re asking. It’s kind of tracking dollar for dollar with last year without the benefit of that stimulus, right. And we’re seeing that weekly dollar rate grow as it should seasonally. And so kind of answering the question for us, we’re going to see a big drop off as we left that and to date we haven’t. And so a lot of consumer resilience and as I noted in my prepared remarks, you’re continuing to even see it through consumer insight data like Google Searches being up 20% to 50% versus pre-COVID depending on the category or 60% some of consumers saying they intend spending more on remodeling now than they did pre-COVID notwithstanding the fact that affordability’s tighten. And so still a really strong consumer. Wholesale has also continued to be strong inventory and backlogs have evened out and are more balanced, I would say a little down in certain places. And so we expect that to continue to strong pull through, particularly when you look at builder backlogs, which are pretty significant and builders still reporting very strong interest in driving that. And so all around, we keep probably it as you just did with your question around any consumer softness, but have not seen any yet. And there really seems to be very strong consumer interest in home renovation, home purchase. And whether you’ve seen that through the insight worker, through actual POS that we pull out of our data like and with our partners, it just showing itself to be very robust.

Phil Ng

Analyst

That’s great color, Nick. And then from a margin standpoint, it was a little lighter in outdoor living. Can you expand on what’s driving that and how that kind of plays out through the course of the year? And then I guess, bigger picture, certainly we’re seeing pretty broad base inflation. Maybe Pat give us some color on how you were thinking about inflation come into the year versus now. And then from a pricing standpoint, how should we think about it? What’s embedded in your guidance? Because I think your full year guide last quarter the way you kind of characterized it was mostly price and more of flattish volume, so just any color, how to think about those components as well.

Pat Hallinan

Chief Financial Officer

Yes. So yes, the quarter overall at 13% roughly in line with what we expected in our plan for the quarter as is the 15% we’re targeting for the second quarter. You’re I think understandably noticing a lighter outdoors and security. As Nick said that was a business, particularly hard hit doors and decking just like our Cabinets business with a lot of absenteeism in January and February because of COVID. And also during that period, lots of freight and efficiency as we were trying to keep service levels up shipping less than full truckloads. And so that that was a drag on the quarter, we had a little bit better pricing and expense management to offset that, but a lot of inefficiencies. As Nick mentioned, knock on wood the COVID driven absenteeism is something behind us. So we really see plant productivity and freight efficiency that me – freight efficiency meaning ground, freight outbound ground, freight efficiency in the U.S. improving. And right now, we’re at the point where we’re working through backlogs and we’re getting the full price coming on newer orders that we priced more richly. So that’s what gives us confidence. We’re seeing a very strong March and we shipped a lot in March. And so we have confidence in our margin progression for the year, I mean as we said, when we gave our initial guide in the Q&A in the last call, our full year sales guidance of 5.5% to 7.5% is still our guide. And as we said then for the full year and for virtually every quarter in the year that growth is going to be predominantly price with volumes roughly flat. And I’d tell you, Phil that’s still where we are today, that’s where the first quarter was that’s what we’re expecting in the second quarter. And that’s we’re expecting for the balance of the year. When we think about inflation and price and cost improvement for the year, we’re expecting material and freight inflation of around $450 million for the year. That’s a full year number on material and freight. And that’s about 9% to 10% of inflation on 21 COGS. There’s maybe about another $50 million or so of laborer inflation in there. And then between continuous cost improvement and pricing in the year, you’re probably going to be seeing something north of $600 million on the two of them by that’s what’s going to be necessary to drive not just coverage of the price but to contribute to margin accretion through the balance of the year. And that’s up a bit from a price in inflation from where we were but we were – we had a pretty heavy assumption going into the year. We carried in as I said a full year inflation of $450 million, we carried about $350 million of that in just from the fourth quarter of last year.

Phil Ng

Analyst

Super, thanks a lot. Appreciate the color.

Operator

Operator

For our next question, we have Truman Patterson from Wolfe Research. Truman, your line is open.

Truman Patterson

Analyst

Hey, good afternoon, everyone. Thanks for taking my questions. So first, just wanted to dive into Cabinets, I’ve heard of some negative channel checks out there, but I’m hoping you can discuss a little bit further of your demand outlook, what you’re seeing in the backlog, if it remains healthy. And then finally on the margin front, could you maybe elaborate on how the structure of your business might be different than some of the smaller peers in the industry or any internal initiatives that are maybe helping you navigate this inflationary environment a bit better?

Nick Fink

Chief Executive Officer

Sure. Let me – I’ll give some perspectives and Pat will jump in as well. I’ll tell you from a demand and channel perspective, I mean certainly what we’re seeing is some pretty continued strength and we talked about the stock part of the Cabinets kind of double-digit growth and then mid-single digit for the make to order part of the business. And I think that’s continued to be true. We’ve actually seen some picking up on the premium end. And so you’ve sort of got this effect where you’ve got the value end performing very well, the premium end performing very well and then some good performance around the middle and so that from our perspective, we continued to see consumers really leaning in. So I’m not sure the channel text you might be seeing, I don’t know if that’s supply driven or for others, but we’re not significant to – sorry, go ahead.

Truman Patterson

Analyst

Yes. Those weren’t my channel shocks per se, but I think investors have been hearing of some of those, but could you possibly just elaborate on the structure of your business maybe…

Nick Fink

Chief Executive Officer

Yes, that’s where I was going to go Truman, which is maybe – it might be that the structure and the supply chain are leading to a differentiated result for our Cabinets business. And if so stepping back and I touched on it a little bit with the strategy is that the team’s really been driving business transformation strategy around simplification of the portfolio, commonization and ability to leverage that into manufacturing excellence. And so, as these challenges have come our way of late, we’ve really been able to leverage the fact that we have a simple portfolio and the scale to secure what it is we needed to keep our service levels really high. Now, at times it’s been very challenging, particularly, the higher you go off the price spectrum, the more complexity there is but even there it’s massively improved over the last few months. And then at the stock end, I mean, that’s performed really well and the teams outperformed by far. And so it’s really been that differentiated strategy and ability to execute with scale that I think has led to the high service levels, which in turn have probably led to the superior performance in the market, which is why we’re not necessarily hearing at negativity. I think it’s a – we’re able to supply and able to supply as needed. Now, a note, and what’s interesting is, I’ll tell you that while the team has progressed immensely over the last couple of years, there is plenty of room to go on that strategy, right? And so I’ve taken a lot of complexity out of the business. There is a lot more to come, and then as they get that, that’s going to permit them to really press on a differentiated end-to-end customer experience that will set them even further apart. And so it’s using the scale to drive simplification and a better experience and I think that’s what you’re seeing in the numbers now that are really driving the performance, but a lot yet to come.

Pat Hallinan

Chief Financial Officer

Yes. And hey Truman, I’d add, our guidance and Cabinets for the year that we gave at the end of last quarter was 4.5% to 6.5% sales growth and 11% to 12% margin performance on the full year. Those are full year numbers. And I would tell you Cabinets is tracking towards the high side of that guidance and was seeing kind of that kind of a margin run rate as they were coming out of the back part of the first quarter. So to Nick’s point, they’ve done the team there deserves a lot of credit, and it’s one of the reasons why the timing now is appropriate is they set the business up for long-term success. There’s more room to go but they’re driving commonality of chassis and components to get procurement scale and simplification of manufacturing. And then they’ve also combined the appropriate part of a NAFTA plus an agent footprint to get the best cost structure in the marketplace. So there’s a lot going right for that business and that’s why we’re very proud of it and very excited about its future.

Truman Patterson

Analyst

Okay. Okay. Thanks for that. And then final one for me, just on that $450 million inflation number, anyway you could help us think through it by segment and then with all this pricing that you all have been pushing, are you seeing any mix trade down at all in any product category?

Nick Fink

Chief Executive Officer

Sure. Why don’t I’ll start with the pricing question, which is short answer, no. It’s – the consumer’s been remarkably resilient around it. And I think it’s if anything spoken to the pricing power of our brains in our positions. And so it has been a lot of price that’s been driven through all of the businesses to offset the inflation, that’s come our way, and we’ve worked very hard to drive continuous improvement to the extent we can as well. But in short answer, now the consumers continue to be there. The businesses are seeing a lot of demand and in certain parts of the business, even where I would say we’ve had some of our highest pricing moves, we’re still completely sold out and producing everything we can. And so as we think forward, that ability to have pricing power and have brands that consumers want and innovation that people want and are willing to trade up for will be a big part of the strategy. So Pat, if you want to talk a little bit too.

Pat Hallinan

Chief Financial Officer

Yes. We – Truman, we don’t really break out the inflation and price by segment for a number of reasons. But it – I’d say just because the dollars of COGS are a little more heavily weighted towards Water Innovation. The dollars of inflation are a little bit more weighted by that. Just because there’s a lot of valuable metal in those products and that tracks it. But I would say all of the businesses are seeing a similar order of magnitude of inflation when you talk about percentage of their COGS. And they’re all having to take about the same order of magnitude of cost improvement and pricing action to fight it.

Truman Patterson

Analyst

All right. Thank you all.

Nick Fink

Chief Executive Officer

Thank you.

Operator

Operator

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Nick Fink

Chief Executive Officer

Thank you.