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Q3 2018 Earnings Call· Fri, Nov 2, 2018

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Operator

Operator

Good morning. My name is Kelly, and I will be your conference operator today. At this time, I'd like to welcome everyone to the Terex Third Quarter 2018 Financial Results Conference Call. All lines have been placed on mute to prevent any background noise. After the prepared remarks, there will be a question-and-answer session. Thank you. I would now like to turn the call over to Brian Henry, Senior Vice President, Business Development and Investor Relations. Please go ahead.

Brian Jerome Henry - Terex Corp.

Management

Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us for today's third quarter 2018 financial results conference call. Participating on today's call are John Garrison, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer; and John Sheehan, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Following the prepared remarks, we will conduct the question-and-answer session. Last evening, we released our third quarter 2018 results, a copy of which is available on terex.com. Today's call is being webcast and is accompanied by a slide presentation, which includes a reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP financial measures that we will use during this call and is also available on our website. All per share amounts in the presentation are on a fully diluted basis. We will post a replay of this call on the Terex website under Events & Presentations in the Investor Relations section. Let me direct your attention to slide 2, which is our forward-looking statement and description of non-GAAP financial measures. We encourage you to read this, as well as other items in our disclosures, because the information we will be discussing today does include forward-looking material. With that, please turn to slide 3, and I'll turn it over to John Garrison.

John L. Garrison, Jr. - Terex Corp.

Management

Good morning and thank you for joining us and for your interest in Terex. Global demand for our products continues to grow. Compared to last year, we increased sales, bookings, backlog, operating margins, and earnings per share again in Q3. AWP increased sales by 14% and bookings by 50% to $601 million, reflecting continued strong global demand for our AWP products. In Cranes, we have resolved many of our supply-chain challenges as the quarter progressed. However, shortages did impact production and deliveries, leading to lower revenue and margins than we expected. MP improved its operating margin again this quarter, as it continues to execute very well across its portfolio. With a 72% increase in backlog, MP is well-positioned to finish the year strong and hit the ground running in 2019. Turning to slide 4; every organization needs a great team to achieve great results. A core element of our Execute to Win business system is talent development and planning. We recently completed our annual talent review process. This is a global activity that requires every manager in the company to evaluate his or her team and to find plans to develop team members and address talent gaps. It's been great to see the progression of some of our emerging leaders that have worked their way through the organization, in many cases, starting as engineers or plant supervisors, now leading engineering organizations or managing factories. We have also supplemented our homegrown talent with key recruits to address specific needs. Boris Schoepplein, our new President of Parts & Services, is a good example. Improving an organizational talent is an ongoing process. The key to being successful is to follow a disciplined process to nurture in-house talent and identify opportunities to enhance it. Turning to slide 5, we continue to implement the Simplify…

John D. Sheehan - Terex Corp.

Management

Thanks, John. Let me begin by reviewing our Q3 segment highlights. AWP increased sales by $78 million or 14% compared to last year, driven by growth in North America and Asia. As the bookings growth of about $200 million or 50% indicates, global customer demand remains strong, and we are confident in our outlook for continued growth. AWP improved its operating profit by 115 basis points compared to last year, driven by production efficiencies achieved on higher volume, which more than offset greater-than-expected input cost headwinds, including tariffs. Moving to Cranes, the production and delivery issues in mobile cranes had a significant impact on third quarter performance. We were not able to deliver approximately $30 million worth of equipment that was planned for Q3. This led to approximately $8 million of lost margin and factory under-absorption. Other factors, including higher material costs, were partially offset by lower SG&A expense. Materials Processing continues to deliver excellent financial performance across its portfolio of businesses. Sales grew by 14% to $295 million, driven by global demand for crushing and screening products, material handlers and environmental equipment. The MP team increased year-over-year operating profit by 36%, representing a margin expansion of 200 basis points and an incremental margin of 28%. Backlog grew 72% to $446 million. MP is well-positioned for a strong Q4 with considerable momentum heading into 2019. Turning to slide 8; consolidated sales increased 11% in the quarter. Higher operating margins generated by AWP and MP were largely offset by the underperformance in Cranes. Net interest expense rose by approximately $3 million year-over-year. Increased borrowing and higher underlying interest rates were partially offset by improved interest rate spreads on our term loan. Other income was also impacted by changes in FX rates, which were modestly unfavorable compared to last year. On an…

John L. Garrison, Jr. - Terex Corp.

Management

Thank you, John. I will review the dynamics in each of our segments starting with AWP. We increased sales, backlog, and bookings in the third quarter, and we are planning for continued growth in every region. The growth that we are projecting is driven by global construction growth, replacement demand, and increased adoption in Europe and developing markets. Our global operations are managing the challenges of higher production rates, including material and labor continuity. The benefits of higher productivity are helping to offset higher material costs, including tariffs, enabling positive incremental margins. The AWP team is fully committed to executing their Strategic Sourcing plan, including transitioning considerable volume to new suppliers. We expect to realize significant savings in 2019. Another exciting factor when looking to the future of AWP is its position as a leader in innovation. The AWP team maintains a steady cadence of new product introductions and enhancements. The Genie S-85 High Float Telescopic Boom pictured here was recently launched in North America. These new high float booms combine Genie's extra capacity technology with an undercarriage designed for sensitive ground conditions such as finished floors or turf. This is another great example of listening to our customers and designing products that address their specific needs. In summary, we will continue to meet the growing demand of our customers around the world, thanks to the commitment of our experienced and passionate AWP team. Turning to Cranes; our mobile cranes team made progress in a quarter, but not as much as we expected. From a demand perspective, our new products including the Demag line of all terrain cranes are selling well. Our customers want the product. The major issue remains building and delivering cranes on time. Part shortages during the assembly process also lead to labor inefficiency, which causes under-absorption…

Brian Jerome Henry - Terex Corp.

Management

Thanks, John. As a reminder, during the question-and-answer session, we ask you to limit your questions to one and a follow-up to ensure we have time to get to everyone. With that, I'd like to open it up for questions. Operator?

Operator

Operator

Certainly. Your first question comes from the line of Steven Fisher from UBS. Please go ahead. Your line is open.

Steven Fisher - UBS Securities LLC

Analyst

Thanks. Good morning, guys.

John L. Garrison, Jr. - Terex Corp.

Management

Good morning, Steve.

Steven Fisher - UBS Securities LLC

Analyst

Just, John, a few months ago you talked about having some weekly check-ins with the crane suppliers. Where did that process not meet what your expectations were or was there just really little you could do about it? And then what gives you the confidence that you'll be able to ramp up that production in your crane factories to hit the implied growth in Q4?

John L. Garrison, Jr. - Terex Corp.

Management

Thanks, Steve. Yes. We've had an intense focus on improving the continuity of the materials supply in mobile cranes. We are starting to see the progress. I was there a week ago Friday, and we spent time physically and then on follow ups. We've engaged some external support to assist. We have better visibility into the supply chain's delivery and quantity performance. And at the end of the day what's happened is we've had strong demand for our products, but our supply base could not keep up with the demand. And as a result of the shortages, it's led to disruptions in our mobile cranes operations, which has led to the lower productivity and under-absorption. Now, in terms of progress through Q3, we began to see progress – clearly not at the rate that we had anticipated, but we did begin to see progress in Q3 in terms of on-time starts, on-time completions, which will ultimately lead to improvement in on-time deliveries. So, it really is an intense focus, part number by part number, supplier-by-supplier to ensure the parts are delivered to the assembly operations in a timely manner. And again, we've made progress. You can see the progress in the metrics, but clearly not at the pace that we had anticipated.

Steven Fisher - UBS Securities LLC

Analyst

Okay. And then, just a follow up on Cranes; if we were to annualize the Q4 implied Crane revenues, I think it's about $1.5 billion. And so, if the mix doesn't change, just curious what the normalized level of profitability or margins you might be able to get from that level of revenues after you sort out all these supply-chain issues, because I think you'd previously talked about say $1.2 billion as a breakeven level. And I think, John Sheehan, you mentioned you missed an opportunity of $8 million of profit on $30 million of revenues, so call that, the 26% or so, incremental. So, if you're at $1.5 billion versus your $1.2 billion breakeven, does that mean we should assume you could earn, say, $75 million on that annualized level?

John D. Sheehan - Terex Corp.

Management

Yeah. Thanks for that question, Steve, and I'll take that. So, I guess two aspects to that question. First, as it relates to the revenue, while we're certainly not providing 2019 revenue guidance, or profitability guidance for that matter, in this call, I would say that the $375 million of revenue for Q4 for the Cranes segment also represents a catching up or a resolving of the supply chain issues and getting a higher number of Cranes out the door. So, I'm not sure that I would necessarily multiply Q4 by 4 for next year in terms of the revenue number. I do continue to embrace the – that we have brought the fixed cost structure of our Cranes segment down and that – to the $1.2 billion annual revenue number. If I take you back to our original guidance for 2018, that was for a 2% operating margin for the Cranes segment. The issues we've had in the Cranes segment are solely in the mobile cranes operations. We will get those issues resolved here in the fourth quarter. And therefore, I would be thinking about an operating margin for 2019 in line with what we had talked about for 2018 of at least 2% positive operating margin.

Steven Fisher - UBS Securities LLC

Analyst

Great. Thanks a lot.

John L. Garrison, Jr. - Terex Corp.

Management

Thanks, Steve.

Operator

Operator

Your next question comes from the line of Jamie Cook from Credit Suisse. Please go ahead, your line is open. Jamie L. Cook - Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC: Hi. Good morning.

John L. Garrison, Jr. - Terex Corp.

Management

Good morning, Jamie. Jamie L. Cook - Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC: The backlog obviously for Aerials looks pretty good as we sit today relative to last year. And I think at your Analyst Day, you sort of talked about thinking about flat revenues for 2019. Oshkosh yesterday reported good backlog as well and is implying flat to sort of down-ish top line. So can you talk about your expectations for Aerials for 2019? And then just some of the issues whether it's productivity, supply chain, material costs; should we assume that stuff goes away in 2019 and how to think about incremental margins for that business? Thanks.

John L. Garrison, Jr. - Terex Corp.

Management

Thanks, Jamie. So, overall, you're right. I mean, the AWP market remains strong globally as evidenced by the bookings being up 50% and backlog being up 48%. I think what's encouraging, Jamie, is we're seeing growth across all major regions. Consistent with the discussions we're having with our customers, they have confidence in 2019 and that confidence is being driven by higher utilization on larger fleets, and they're seeing improving rental rates, both year-over-year and sequentially, which is leading to the higher CapEx demand in their ordering equipment for that. So we are seeing strength globally in that business. I would say customer sentiment remains very positive as we go in and our customers are planning for growth for 2019 and so are we.

John D. Sheehan - Terex Corp.

Management

Yes. And so, Jamie, in terms of the costs that we're seeing here in the second half of the year, and we talked about them in our prepared remarks, the higher steel costs flowing into fuel-related components, tariffs from our first and second tier suppliers and then also just from the industrial demand, higher inflationary pressure. All of those factors will absolutely or are absolutely going to be factored into our 2019 pricing, and our 2019 pricing will offset the higher input cost. We are still fully committed to the incremental margin for this segment in the 25% range and believe there is a – that we'll have a very strong 2019. Jamie L. Cook - Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC: Okay. Thank you. I'll let someone else get a question in.

John L. Garrison, Jr. - Terex Corp.

Management

Thank you, Jamie.

Operator

Operator

Your next question comes from the line of David Raso from Evercore. Please go ahead. Your line is open.

David Raso - Evercore ISI Institutional Equities

Analyst

Hi. Good morning.

John L. Garrison, Jr. - Terex Corp.

Management

David.

David Raso - Evercore ISI Institutional Equities

Analyst

Just indulge me for a second, just to step back for a second. I mean, there's a lot of stocks trading on 2019 less than 10 times. And you're at $36 right now. Earnings this year are $265 million is the midpoint. You've got $0.10 of carryover from the share count into 2019. MP reasonable numbers, just not that much leverage in the business, call it, it could add $0.15. Cranes, I appreciate the 2% margin comment. It's a show me story. At best, let's model a breakeven for next year, year-over-year from a $30 million loss to breakeven, it adds $0.30. So you add those three pieces together, we're at $265 million this year. We're at $320 million. That's 11 times more expense than other stocks we can look at, the key is Aerials. So, the comment you just made about 25% incremental margins, I mean, you run a 10% top-line growth and you've put a 25% incremental on it, you're talking $0.63. We're at $380 million. The stock looks relatively inexpensive. But the believability of that right now, we have implied incremental margins for Aerials at 12%, 13% for the fourth quarter. We just did sub-20% for the third quarter. Can you help us understand price cost, price dynamics, what you're hearing, mix, any issues around currency to get comfortable with that number? Because if it's a 15% to 20% incremental, it sort of changes the dynamic of is the stock relatively inexpensive, can I get a lot of other names that I can rely on more to execute at lower multiples. So, for all the other conversations about repo, Cranes has to be a show me, MP is not that big. If Aerials are 70% of your earnings, can you help us understand the comfort to throw out a 25% incremental comment for 2019? I appreciate you indulge me on this. It's obviously the critical aspect to the earnings power for 2019.

John D. Sheehan - Terex Corp.

Management

So, David, let me just jump in first before going to John is, we're achieving a 22% incremental margin for 2018. So, the – it's not just a throw out a 25% incremental margin. We are basically there for 2018. But John, I'll let you go from there.

John L. Garrison, Jr. - Terex Corp.

Management

And again, David, on the – in the context of, number one, the market looks to be strong, as evidenced by the backlog, the customer sentiment. Price cost ratio has improved in 2018. And 2019, part of the improvement is we're going to have to cover our cost. So, as we think about 2019 pricing strategy within AWP, it's going to be intended to offset the input cost that we're seeing. It will be higher than a normal price increase that we've had previously. What we are doing is we're folding the surcharge plus an additional amount into our 2019 pricing. And I will say, we are being totally transparent with our customers about the cost increases we're seeing. As we all on the call know, we've seen dramatic increases in fuel costs, 40% to 60%. We're seeing labor, freight, and things like that. Customers are also seeing those incremental increases. Now, these are not easy conversations. Any price increase is not an easy conversation. But we are being transparent to be clear with the customers to see the cost that we're seeing in this business. Around the work that we're doing because pricing is critical, it's important to our Commercial Excellence initiative, and really we're improving our pricing waterfall management, our process discipline, and we're reducing leakage. Every basis point of price matters. And so that is driving improvement as we go through the year. I also mentioned in my opening comments our sales training and focusing on the value proposition. AWP products are high value products. We put people into the air and they can do it safely and consistently. We're investing in technology and innovation to drive differentiation in the marketplace, and we need to be able to convince our customers of doing that. We're working with…

David Raso - Evercore ISI Institutional Equities

Analyst

But the pricing actions you're taking, where do you see price equaling cost maybe even above cost? Is that a set-up ideally? I know you're negotiating right now, but is that set-up when you put out a 25% number, that starting in the first quarter, we expect to have, you name it, 4% price, 5% price even coming in at zero margin, we still think this is a 25% business. I know I need a little education on the currency, trying to understand how the currency plays. Just for now, we have to assume the dollar is on the strong side. Can you help us understand how currency impacts it? And again price cost, when do you expect price cost to at least be neutral starting 2019?

John L. Garrison, Jr. - Terex Corp.

Management

Yes, thanks David. Sure, David. I'll take the first part and I'll ask Duffy to talk through the FX. On the price cost, the first thing is that we have a strong backlog. Obviously, some of the backlog that we have is for 2019 delivery. All deliveries after the January 1, will be at 2019 pricing. So, I think that is important.

David Raso - Evercore ISI Institutional Equities

Analyst

I'm sorry. I missed that. Maybe the phone cut out. All shipments after January, then I didn't hear what you said.

John L. Garrison, Jr. - Terex Corp.

Management

One. Yes, excuse me, David. I'll be clear here. All deliveries after the January 1 will be at 2019 pricing, all right?

David Raso - Evercore ISI Institutional Equities

Analyst

All right, thank you.

John L. Garrison, Jr. - Terex Corp.

Management

So, we're pricing all deliveries as we go forward. And again, David, I think this is important. The pricing actions, I would like to tell you the pricing actions are going to drive significant margin expansion. The reality of it is, is we're telling our customers the pricing actions are really to cover our cost. We've got to drive productivity in those other things to enhance (38:19). So, it really is to neutralize the cost of the cost inputs that we're seeing. So, in terms of the price cost, that's what we're looking at. All deliveries after January 1 are at 2019 pricing. And, Duffy, if you wouldn't take a moment or two to explain kind of the FX impacts on AWP.

John D. Sheehan - Terex Corp.

Management

Sure. So, the AWP segment does manufacture in the United States and ship product to Europe and therefore a strong dollar, weak euro does have an impact on them, a negative impact on them. We've been seeing the euro weakening here, especially in the second half of the year and especially in the fourth quarter. And our guidance and our forecast for 2019 will take the current level of the euro into account. And so we have to – as we plan our business, we have to be able to overcome currency and not allow it to be a crutch for why we don't perform.

David Raso - Evercore ISI Institutional Equities

Analyst

Yes. So my impression was the China facility sort of the secret source of offsetting some of that currency drag shipping from Washington State to Europe that you could start to ship more from China into Europe. So, with Europe 20%, 25% of the business, is that part of diminishing the currency drag for 2019? Is there a way to change those supply lines a bit?

John L. Garrison, Jr. - Terex Corp.

Management

Exactly, David. That is correct. We – especially in AWP segment, we do have a global manufacturing strategy. We do have the capability of producing multiple models in different locations. And clearly, part of the strategy for supplying Europe is to supply more of the European demand, both out of our European plants, of course, but also increasing the production out of our China plant into Europe. We think that will also help with some of the currency impacts that we've experienced as we go forward.

David Raso - Evercore ISI Institutional Equities

Analyst

And lastly then I'll hop off. We talk a lot about North America, and I appreciate the significance of it for AWP. But 35% of the business is outside of North America. Can you give us some thoughts on those markets and how we should think about, at least base case, the order books on volumes for 2019 with kind of where you sit today? Thank you.

John L. Garrison, Jr. - Terex Corp.

Management

Sure. Overall, if you look at Europe, the markets for our AWP in Europe, the underlying market is strong, and again, it's being driven by construction spending growth. They also experience the same replacement cycle dynamics that we do in North America. And there's also the ability to increase adoption, especially as you go further into Eastern Europe on the European side. So, right now, Europe appears, and we believe is going to be strong. The other markets, Asia Pacific, Australia, continue to grow. Those are good markets for us. Australia has definitely recovered for us. And the Asian markets, Korea, Japan, have been strong. And we continue to see good growth in China. China, the plan as we just spoke, not only to produce for exports out of China, but obviously, we're continuing to see good growth and we're potentially looking at expansions within China given the market demands that we're seeing in China. So, yes, North America is clearly important, but the AWP business is a global business. And right now, the demand signals that we're seeing globally are strong.

David Raso - Evercore ISI Institutional Equities

Analyst

I really appreciate the time. Thank you.

John L. Garrison, Jr. - Terex Corp.

Management

Thank you, David.

Operator

Operator

Your next question comes from the line of Seth Weber from RBC Capital Markets. Please go ahead. Your line is open.

Seth Weber - RBC Capital Markets LLC

Analyst

Hey. Good morning, everybody.

John L. Garrison, Jr. - Terex Corp.

Management

Good morning, Seth.

Seth Weber - RBC Capital Markets LLC

Analyst

Just one – another question on access. The orders and backlog are obviously very strong. Can you just comment on whether you're seeing any from your customers or are they kind of delaying negotiations here or pushing back on any of your conversations? I mean, it doesn't seem like that, but we've heard that from some other people. And also, can you talk about whether you're planning for your mix to be any different this year with respect to IRCs versus the nationals? Thanks.

John L. Garrison, Jr. - Terex Corp.

Management

Thanks, Seth. I'll try to answer those going backwards. In terms of the current backlog, we don't really see any significant difference versus our historical mix between the customer bases within there. So, I don't think there's any substantial change there.

John D. Sheehan - Terex Corp.

Management

Yeah. On the first part of the question, Seth, with respect to the negotiations with our customers for 2019 and whether there's pushback or delay, I would say that Matt and his team have been, as John described a little bit earlier, been very resolute, very strident. Our 2019 pricing is designed to offset the input cost headwinds that we've experienced in 2018, higher steel and steel-related component prices, the indirect impact of – direct and indirect impact of tariffs. And so, we're having very good negotiations and discussions with our customers, and being transparent with respect to the cost increases that we've incurred and expect to continue to incur. And I wouldn't say necessarily that the negotiations are delayed, but they are progressing through and will be concluded during the course of the fourth quarter.

John L. Garrison, Jr. - Terex Corp.

Management

Yeah. And again, given the nature of – and they're challenging negotiations, there is multiple rounds of discussions that continue before you finally close on the deal. But again, we're anticipating to see strong growth as we close out the year and we anticipate closing out a lot of these agreements here as we move through the fourth quarter and early in first quarter.

Seth Weber - RBC Capital Markets LLC

Analyst

Okay. That's helpful. Thank you. And then just quickly, a follow-up on the share buyback. The 77.5 million guidance for the year, so that implies no buyback in the fourth quarter then. Is that right?

John D. Sheehan - Terex Corp.

Management

Well, we do not project – in the share count guidance that we provide, we do not project future share repurchases into that guide. So, I wouldn't necessarily read anything into that. We're continuing to follow our disciplined capital allocation strategy as it relates to share repurchases. We believe that Terex shares have been and continue to be a good use of our cash and a good investment, as demonstrated by the fact that we bought $1.25 billion of our shares back over the last – less than two years, and we will continue to create long-term shareholder value through our disciplined capital allocation strategy. But as it relates to the guidance that – don't read into that, that we don't intend to repurchase shares in the fourth quarter.

Seth Weber - RBC Capital Markets LLC

Analyst

Okay. Thank you very much, everybody. I appreciate it.

John L. Garrison, Jr. - Terex Corp.

Management

Thank you.

John D. Sheehan - Terex Corp.

Management

Absolutely.

Operator

Operator

Your next question comes from the line of Ann Duignan from JPMorgan. Please go ahead. Your line is open.

Ann P. Duignan - JPMorgan Securities LLC

Analyst

Hi. Good morning.

John L. Garrison, Jr. - Terex Corp.

Management

Good morning, Ann.

Ann P. Duignan - JPMorgan Securities LLC

Analyst

Just on AWP pricing again. Can you reassure us that these are new list prices that they're not like inflation clauses. Because in last couple of days, we're now hearing that, gee, maybe we'll get a deal with China and tariffs will disappear and the last thing we want is mid-year, next year we find out that these were surcharges, and they've gone away by this wayside also. So, if you could just assure us that these are real list price increases.

John L. Garrison, Jr. - Terex Corp.

Management

Thank you, Ann. A great question, and again, to be absolutely clear, for 2019 pricing, we are not using a surcharge. We're rolling the surcharges that we've seen as a result of this deal this year into a list price increase in 2019.

Ann P. Duignan - JPMorgan Securities LLC

Analyst

Okay. Good. That's very clear. Thank you. And then taking a step back a little bit, looking at your ROI and your target of 20% by 2020, can you talk a little bit about how much Cranes are weighing on your ROI this year and can you get to 20% with Cranes? Are you willing to do something structural with Cranes to get to 20% or are you willing to miss the 20% target? Thank you.

John L. Garrison, Jr. - Terex Corp.

Management

Thank you, Ann. Well, one thing, we're not willing to concede is conceding on the target. We are committed as a leadership team to delivering on the 10% operating margin, to delivering on the 20% ROIC, and to deliver on our free cash flow that we laid out almost two years ago at this time in our investor meeting. So those are the objectives for this leadership team, and we're going to hold ourselves accountable to achieving them. So, there's no looking back on those. In terms of Cranes, Ann, we have made progress. But unequivocally, we understand that we've got more sustainable improvements to be made. As we do the things that we've talked about, fix the supply chain, get the production – the products out to our customers. We're going to see a pretty significant increase in the ROIC of that business. Again, the good news side here is that the new products that we're developing, they are doing well in the marketplace. And now we've just got to work our way through the disruptions that we've had and get back to delivering on our commitments to our customers for on-time delivery. We continue to follow, as Duffy said, our rigorous capital allocation. You have to out earn your cost of capital through the cycle, that rigorous application of our capital allocation strategy has not changed, but we believe we can drive with the continued improvement that we can drive improvement in our Cranes business, so they can achieve the requirement of out-earning the cost of capital through the cycle.

Ann P. Duignan - JPMorgan Securities LLC

Analyst

Yeah. Okay. But we've only got one year left before we hit 2020 and we're not even at breakeven yet. So, when would you expect to hit the – deliver greater than the cost of capital?

John D. Sheehan - Terex Corp.

Management

So Ann, I'd say two things. First of all, we will resolve the Cranes – mobile cranes' supply chain challenges this quarter. I talked earlier in response to another question about getting back to at least 2% positive operating margin in 2019. And we would continue to improve upon that margin into 2020. On top of that, our performance to-date has been devoid of the savings associated with our Strategic Sourcing initiative. And we do expect that that initiative will also kick in that will benefit the entire company, including our Cranes segment when thinking about their profitability. John talked about in his prepared remarks, the savings that we expect to achieve from that out over the next two years from our Wave 1 initiatives.

John L. Garrison, Jr. - Terex Corp.

Management

I guess the only other thing I'd add to that, Ann, is if you look, we're tracking towards about 16% this year return on invested capital with the underperformance, the significant underperformance in Cranes. So, I understand your concept. There's not a lot of time between now and 2020, but we're going to get the supply chain fixed to begin to ship products, and that will help on that ROIC commitment.

Ann P. Duignan - JPMorgan Securities LLC

Analyst

Okay. Thank you. I'll get back in line. Appreciate it.

John L. Garrison, Jr. - Terex Corp.

Management

Thanks, Ann.

Operator

Operator

Your next question comes from the line of Stanley Elliott from Stifel. Please go ahead. Your line is open. Stanley Stoker Elliott - Stifel, Nicolaus & Co., Inc.: Thank you, guys. Hey, just to clarify on the Wave 1, Wave 2, it was $80 million realized by 2020 from Wave 1 and there was additional progress coming on Wave 2?

John L. Garrison, Jr. - Terex Corp.

Management

That's correct. On the Strategic Sourcing, we're anticipating $80 million of savings by 2020. I think the way to think about it is about $40 million or so next year realizing 100% of the $80 million in 2020. As I indicated in our prepared remarks, we have kicked off Wave 2 in Mannheim. We had a very good event there, Wave 2 savings, maybe the back half of 2020. The Wave 2 savings will then kick off the 2020 and beyond. So, you'll have Wave 1 plus Wave 2 as we go forward. So, again, we're seeing good opportunities, good opportunity for cost reduction, excellent opportunity for simplifying our supply base, reducing the number of suppliers we're working with, entering into long-term agreements with suppliers so that when we get in challenging periods like this that we're able to ensure continuity of supply. So, we're committed to the process. We're spending a lot of – we're investing in the process, in people, in process, and we're going to begin to see the benefits of this investment in 2019 and leading beyond 2019 into 2020. Stanley Stoker Elliott - Stifel, Nicolaus & Co., Inc.: Perfect. And then quickly on the MP business, the UK acquisition was fairly small. The step-up that we've seen in profitability is that just strictly the volumes that have come through or did the acquisition open up some new avenues for you? And then, quickly, could you parse out the backlog between kind of the material handling and then the actual crushing business?

John L. Garrison, Jr. - Terex Corp.

Management

Yes. Thank you, so. Again, MP has really done a great job as we said in are opening remarks, it's really strong execution, significant increase in sales and backlog, and driving a 210 basis point margin improvement. And the good news is it's coming from strong execution. They've had to overcome many of the same challenges we all have as manufacturers with the supply and supply base, but they've done a really great job doing that. We're seeing growth really across their entire portfolio. Crushing and screening is up globally. Our material handling business, Fuchs, is showing broad-based growth in Europe and North America, and that was a business that was down considerably, so we're seeing improvement there. The one business that is slightly down is our concrete business in the United States. But that's really as a result of not being able to produce refurbished trucks and basically just going to a new truck environment. And then, our environmental business is gaining traction. These are new businesses that Kieran and the team have invested in and they've done a great job with the acquisition of CBI, growing that business, but then also creating within their portfolio some environmental businesses to take advantage of the regulatory changes across the globe. So overall, we're seeing good growth across their portfolio and good – which I also think is quite encouraging, good broad geographical dispersion of their growth in backlog. Stanley Stoker Elliott - Stifel, Nicolaus & Co., Inc.: Okay, guys. Thank you very much.

John D. Sheehan - Terex Corp.

Management

Stanley, just one point on John's comment is, on our concrete business, the refurbished trucks and – are not being able to produce those. That's a result of a regulatory change and not any internal production challenges by our Terex team. Stanley Stoker Elliott - Stifel, Nicolaus & Co., Inc.: Thanks. Appreciate it.

Operator

Operator

And this will be our final question. Your next question comes from Andy Casey from Wells Fargo Securities. Please go ahead. Your line is open.

Andrew M. Casey - Wells Fargo Securities LLC

Analyst

Thanks. My questions have been answered.

John L. Garrison, Jr. - Terex Corp.

Management

Thank you, Andy.

John L. Garrison, Jr. - Terex Corp.

Management

Got it. Thank you very much. So, first of all, I want to thank all of you for your questions and your continued interest in Terex. Clearly, a challenging quarter, but we have made progress on our transformation strategy and our Execute to Win priorities. And we clearly understand that we have to accelerate the pace to achieve our objectives. The team is committed to driving that improvement, and as we move forward, we're confident that we can capitalize on the growth that we are anticipating in 2019. With that, if you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to reach out to Brian. And again, thank you.

Operator

Operator

This concludes today's conference call. You may now disconnect.