Teledyne Technologies Q2 2022 Earnings Call Transcript

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Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by, and welcome to the Teledyne Second Quarter Earnings Call. [Operator Instructions] [Operator Instructions]

I would now like to turn the call over to our host, Jason VanWees. Please go ahead.

Jason VanWees
Vice Chairman at Teledyne Technologies

Thank you, and good morning, everyone. This is Jason VanWees, Vice Chairman. And I'd like to welcome everyone to Teledyne's Second Quarter 2022 Earnings Release Conference Call. We released our earnings earlier this morning. Joining me today are Teledyne's Chairman, President and CEO, Robert Mehrabian; Senior Vice President and CFO, Sue Main; Senior Vice President, General Counsel, Chief [Technical Issues] and also Edwin Roks, Executive VP of Teledyne. After remarks by Robert and Sue, we will ask for your questions.

Of course, though, before we get started, our attorneys have reminded me to tell you that all forward-looking statements made this morning are subject to various assumptions, risks and caveats as noted in the earnings release and their periodic SEC filings. And of course, actual results may differ materially. In order to avoid potential selective disclosures, this call is simultaneously being webcast and a replay, both via dial-in and webcast will be available for approximately one month.

Here is Robert.

Robert Mehrabian
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer at Teledyne Technologies

Thank you, Jason. Good morning, and thank you for joining our earnings call. In the second quarter, sales increased nearly 21% to about $1.36 billion. In addition, our GAAP operating profit, operating margin and earnings per share were all time or second quarter record. Non-GAAP earnings declined slightly, but last year's non-GAAP margin and earnings resulted in part from a disproportionate amount of sales relative to cost near the end of the quarter at Teledyne player as well as lower share count both due to the mid-quarter closing of the clear transaction in May 2021, including increased foreign currency headwinds, which negatively impacted second quarter sales growth by over 1.7% and or approximately $23 million. Organic growth was 8.2% and accelerated from the first quarter of 2022. Our short-cycle commercial instrumentation and imaging businesses grew strongly in the quarter and sales from our long-cycle aerospace and marine businesses also increased. Finally, our U.S. government sales, including Teledyne FLIR, increased from last year despite lower defense department outlays in the second quarter of 2022.

In summary, year-over-year sales increased in all segments and reported product lines. Overall, demand remains strong, and we achieved record quarterly orders with a total company book-to-bill of 1.08 times. Orders were particularly strong at Teledyne FLIR, where book-to-bill was approximately 1.25 times. Free cash flow improved from the first quarter, but planned inventory levels remained elevated to counter continuing supply chain risk. Finally, our leverage ratio declined to 2.5% and have increased our targeted leverage strange we are again pursuing acquisitions and are pleased to have recently completed our first small bolt-on acquisition at Teledyne FLIR. Turning to our 2022 outlook. Given this recent and significant appreciation of the U.S. dollar, ongoing supply chain constraints and inflation, we believe it's prudent to revise our reported revenue and adjusted earnings outlook modestly for the remainder of the year.

Foreign currency translation impacts our three largest segments and approximately 20% of our total sales with digital imaging and particularly Teledyne FLIR impacted considerably more than other segments. In addition, supply chain constraints continue to limit shipments. Electronic component and other material shortages negatively impacted second quarter sales by approximately $60 million. And we're assuming that a similar shortfall will continue in the remainder of the year. We have conquered both of these headwinds through our various procurement initiatives and strong execution. Nevertheless, we expect total company year-over-year reported organic sales growth of about 4% in each of the third and fourth quarters of 2022 compared with a prior outlook of probably 5% to 6%, resulting in a full year estimated sales of about $5.47 billion.

Despite these headwinds, we continue to see full year organic sales growth, which excludes FLIR of just over 6% and full year sales from Teledyne FLIR slightly greater than the peak sales in 2020, which included over $125 million from cameras for elevated skin temperature testing. Finally, while foreign currency sales and costs are reasonably balanced at Teledyne, there is not any less an impact on earnings. We also remain a bit cautious regarding cost impact of inflation.

Therefore, we're modestly revising our full year adjusted earnings outlook by $0.30 at the midpoint or approximately 1.7% lower than in April. I will now turn the call over to -- no, sorry, I'm going to continue with our performance of our business segment. In Digital Imaging, second quarter sales increased 32.9%, largely due to FLIR acquisition, but organic growth in our combined commercial and government imaging businesses was also very strong at 10.3%. Sales growth was strongest for Industrial and Scientific vision. Sensors and systems as well as for our low-dose ride resolution digital x-ray detectors. GAAP operating margin was 15.2%, but adjusted for intangible asset amortization segment, margin was 21.2%.

In our Instrumentation segment, Overall, second quarter sales increased 7.4% versus last year. Sales of electronic test and measurement systems, which include oscilloscopes, digitizers and protocol analyzers remained strong and increased 11.3% year-over-year. Sales of environmental instruments increased 2.4% compared with last year with greater sales from certain human health and drug discovery products offset by lower sales of industrial and laboratory gas detection devices. Sales of marine instrumentation increased 9.9% in the quarter due to improved energy [Technical Issues] record sales of autonomous underwater vehicles for both defense and commercial oceanography application.

Overall, Instrumentation segment operating profit increased 13.9% in the second quarter, with operating margin increasing 136 basis points for 108 basis points, excluding intangible asset amortization. In the Aerospace and Defense Electronics segment, second quarter sales increased 10.8%, driven by 3.4% growth in defense, space and industrial sales, combined 43.9% increase in sales of commercial aerospace products. GAAP operating margin increased 55.3% with margins 749 basis points rate [Technical Issues]. Finally, in the Engineered Systems segment, second quarter revenue increased slightly, but operating profit and margin declined primarily due to lower sales of fixed price electronics systems. Before turning the call over to Sue, I want to make a few concluding remarks. We continue to focus on strong execution in order to minimize ongoing supply chain risk, inflation and now increased currency headwinds.

While the operating environment remains challenging, we're highly confident of our balanced and resilient mix of commercial and government businesses across a broad range of geographies and end markets. Furthermore, uncertain times have traditionally created opportunities for Teledyne. For example, [Technical Issues] big change in interest rates, we were able to repurchase fixed-rate debt issued just last year at a substantial discount. And while relatively small, the cash paid for the first acquisition for Teledyne FLIR was negotiated and paid in Euros. Given the strength of our management operations and balance sheet now, specifically with our leverage ratio at 2.5 times, which we expect to be further reduced in the balance of the year we were to continue to seek similar and larger acquisitions in the future.

And now I will turn the call over to Sue.

Susan L. Main
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Teledyne Technologies

Thank you, Robert. And good morning, everyone. I will first discuss some additional financials for the quarter not covered by Robert, and then I will discuss our third quarter and full year 2022 outlook. In the second quarter, cash flow from operating activities was $196.9 million compared with cash flow of $211.3 million for the same period of 2021. The second quarter of 2022 reflected higher purchases of inventories and higher income tax payments compared with the second quarter of 2021. Free cash flow, that is cash from operating activities less capital expenditures, was $176.1 million in the second quarter of 2022 compared with $190.5 million in 2021, which included $66.7 million of after-tax cash payments related to the FLIR transaction.

Capital expenditures were $20.8 million for both second quarter periods, depreciation and amortization expense was $82.7 million for the second quarter of 2022 compared with $59.7 million in 2021 and which reflected the timing of the FLIR acquisition midway through the second quarter of 2021. We ended the quarter with approximately $3.6 billion -- $3.67 billion of net debt that is approximately $3.95 billion of debt less cash of $278.8 million. Stock option compensation expense was $3.6 million for both the second quarter periods. Turning to our outlook.

Management currently believes that GAAP earnings per share in the third quarter of 2022 will be in the range of $3.36 to $3.54 per share, with non-GAAP earnings in the range of $4.20 to $4.35. And for the full year 2022, our GAAP earnings per share outlook is $15.13 to $15.45 and on a non-GAAP basis, $17.45 to $17.70. The 2022 full year estimated tax rate, excluding discrete items, is expected to be 23.1%.

I'll now pass the call back to Robert.

Robert Mehrabian
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer at Teledyne Technologies

Thank you, Sue. We would now like to take your questions. Operator, if you are ready to proceed with the questions and answers, please go ahead.

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Operator

[Operator Instructions] And our first question comes from the line of Greg Konrad with Jefferies. Please go ahead.

Gregory Konrad
Analyst at Jefferies Financial Group

Good morning.

Robert Mehrabian
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer at Teledyne Technologies

Good morning Gregory.

Gregory Konrad
Analyst at Jefferies Financial Group

Interesting last name there. But yes, just I mean I guess it's uncharacteristic for Teledyne to cut guidance. I mean a lot of times, you have contingency and just low P ratings in your guidance. And I mean the commentary was helpful, but is there any way to maybe parse across the segments? I mean, it seems like A&D might be running ahead of your guidance, digital imaging below. Can you just maybe give us some more color around how you're thinking about the growth and margin outlook for the segments?

Robert Mehrabian
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer at Teledyne Technologies

Right. It is in characteristics Greg, you're right, and I admit it. There are three things that have happened. Two, we were dealing with fairly successfully -- and that would be overall inflation and basically part shortages, we seem to be rolling $60 million every quarter over and over. So in total, they continue at that level. The one that just hit us very hard was foreign currency. Foreign currency translation basically affects 20% of our business. And the reason it hit digital imaging, the hardest, that's where we have most of our foreign currency transactions.

You're right and they did well. Instruments did okay. Engineered Systems was down slightly, but Engineered Systems now is only 8% of our portfolio. It's foreign currency that hit us about 1.7% in Q2 or about $23 million, $25 million in revenue. And we expect it to continue in Q3 and Q4. I think that's the fundamental change that we saw. And it was mostly, of course, in digital imaging. And we have not changed our guidance -- this is the four times in 22 years. And it's something we do not do, except the three continuing headwinds that we see. We could handle 2, but the third one just is too much at this time. Hopefully, we'll execute better as we move along in the rest of the year.

Gregory Konrad
Analyst at Jefferies Financial Group

And I appreciate that. I mean, I guess everything you're saying is more on the supply side, let's say, rather than the demand side. And you mentioned the book-to-bill, but maybe there are areas that have risk. I mean I'm thinking about tech spending and what we've heard from some of the tech companies. I mean anywhere where you've seen any demand deterioration or kind of concerns? Or is this really all more supply and FX driven?

Robert Mehrabian
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer at Teledyne Technologies

Yes. I think the quick answer is no. Our demand has been very strong. Maybe as a function of time -- we may have some demand decline, especially in our discretionary businesses, which are really primarily Raymarine -- so there, I think demand was softer. But across the board, the demand has been pretty good.

Gregory Konrad
Analyst at Jefferies Financial Group

And then just last one for me. I mean you mentioned FLIR bookings I guess they were 25% above sales. We've seen some nice awards there. How does that maybe intersect with the supply chain and kind of ability to deliver on these? And let me just think about defense getting better? Is that more of a 2023 item, just given supply chain or how you're thinking about the kind of the cadence there?

Robert Mehrabian
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer at Teledyne Technologies

I think we have supply chain challenges there as we have across our businesses. I think what we're looking at is improving our revenue there in the fourth quarter -- in the third and fourth quarter better than we have in the first two quarters and mostly in the fourth quarter. So we have the same problems across the board. At FLIR the unusual situation that we've had to slowly and we're correcting Edwin Roks, who runs our digital imaging businesses is working very hard on it, is to linearize the sales over the quarters. And that's been hard because FLIR has historically always sold more in the last month and the last week of the quarter then early on, and that causes issues, especially if you have some supply chain issues that can cause you to miss last minute revenue. So we're taking all of that into consideration in what we've put out in our earnings release.

Gregory Konrad
Analyst at Jefferies Financial Group

Thank you.

Operator

Our next question is from Joe Giordano, Cowen. Please go ahead.

Robert Mehrabian
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer at Teledyne Technologies

Joe, how are you?

Joe Giordano
Analyst at Cowen

I am doing well, thanks guys. Good morning. Can you just talk a little bit about price and what you guys have been doing in the quarter and maybe more recently, given FX changes? Is this changing the way you're going to market a little bit?

Robert Mehrabian
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer at Teledyne Technologies

Yes. Our price increases for the year, we anticipate it to be about 3% of sales. It's a little more in the Q3 and Q4 than it was in Q2. In Q2, it was less than 3%, which has not been really we have just put in some increases in prices, especially in some of our instrument businesses where we could, and that would be in Q3. So overall, I'd say, Joe, it's about 3%. The flip side is that the cost increases due to inflation and also wages that we have, have exceeded that, I'm going to say, by 0.5%, 0.6%, and that's causing us some issues. But we kind of knew that would happen, and we kind of worked on that very hard. The thing that kind of suddenly came out of ADAS was the change in the exchange rate starting in April, and that was the hard part.

Joe Giordano
Analyst at Cowen

So when I look at margins, running hot in AD&E just on the mix with the lower [Indecipherable] content and then running now lower than people would have thought in imaging -- as you start thinking about the next couple of quarters, what's like a good -- none of those are probably totally representative of like the normalized. So like we think about margins coming out of this in a more normal situation?

Robert Mehrabian
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer at Teledyne Technologies

Well, let me start with versus April, which would be a good way to go. As I said before, in instruments for the full year, we expect margins to improve about 50 to 55 basis points. In Digital Imaging now, we expect it to be lower by 130 basis points from what -- for the full year. In Aerospace and Defense, we have a good run there, primarily because commercial aerospace is coming back. And so we expect improvements in margin of 150 basis points. And lastly, as I said, in a smaller segment, which is our engineered segment, maybe 60 basis points decline. When you add all of that up, it's about 45 basis points decline across the company. That's -- I think that versus April, that's what the summary.

Joe Giordano
Analyst at Cowen

And if I were to think about coming out of this, though, like I know it's too early to look at '23 guidance. But like if I was to think about coming out of this versus the second half run rate that imaging in aerospace, specifically are going to have. Like is the aerospace margins level from which to grow from? Or is that like too hard of a comp? And vice versa, does the imaging second half provide a pretty attractive like exit rate for you to improve on? Thanks.

Robert Mehrabian
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer at Teledyne Technologies

I think you're correct on Aerospace and Defense. It already has full year margins of 25.5%, which is pretty high. It could go up a little bit. I think there are opportunities going to be in digital imaging and also in Engineered Systems. The margins in instruments are already pretty healthy approaching 25%.

Joe Giordano
Analyst at Cowen

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Operator

Our next question is from the line of Elizabeth Grenfell, Bank of America. Please go ahead.

Elizabeth Carolyn Grenfell
Analyst at Bank of America

Hi, good morning.

Robert Mehrabian
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer at Teledyne Technologies

Good morning Elizabeth.

Elizabeth Carolyn Grenfell
Analyst at Bank of America

As we think about things that have slipped to the right because of supply chain challenges, are those going to be able to be shipped later at a later date? Or.

Robert Mehrabian
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer at Teledyne Technologies

Yes. Good question. Very good question. First, let me back up a second. When we started Q2 we had supply chain challenges. We have a very strong program in procurement. And we were able to offset about $120-plus million of supply chain challenges by buying through brokers, by buying our own buyers in Asia by a variety of techniques. And so we offset the $120 million plus of revenue that was in danger.

That left us with $60 million that we couldn't. But that $60 million is rolling in a way, quarter-to-quarter, it's not additive. And what happens is that we think that right now, that's going to continue for the next two quarters. And that's where our estimates are coming from. But having said that, because we have elevated our inventory over time that this is going to dissipate. There's no question about that. Whether the over time is going to be early next year or later next year. But over time, this is going to -- it's not lost revenue and it's not lost inventory. It's just lost revenue for the time being. So it's going to improve.

Elizabeth Carolyn Grenfell
Analyst at Bank of America

Great. Thank you very much.

Robert Mehrabian
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer at Teledyne Technologies

Thank you.

Operator

Our next question is from Jim Ricchiuti, Needham & Company. Please go ahead.

Jim Ricchiuti
Analyst at Needham and Compan

Thank you, good morning. Robert, I could appreciate the sudden change in currency. But I wanted to go back to supply chain. Have you guys perhaps underestimated the impact of supply chain or in that maybe you thought it would improve a little sooner? Or is this just something that you've been tracking and it's just not getting better and this was in line with what you'd expected?

Robert Mehrabian
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer at Teledyne Technologies

Jim, yes, it's improved only because we're able to find more parts. We have, for example, if you look at year-to-date, we have about -- we're missing about 900, what we call, important critical parts. They range from computer chips that go into our vision systems to FPGA's etc. And out of the 900, we've actually located 800 through the various processes. Sometimes, we redesigned the product, if we can, if it's very easy to redesign. Sometimes we buy a part, and we have obviously qualified -- so -- and sometimes, we just buy parts to brokers. What I didn't estimate within the estimate was that the broker purchases would be as expensive as they are. We're paying sometimes as much as 70% premium for the same part when we buy it through a broker because they're going out and finding the part. But it's -- that's not unusual.

If you create a vacuum eventually, air comes in, right? So you got these brokers that are doing pretty good work and making a lot of money -- and when that happens, supply chain is going to change eventually. And it is. The only places that I would say we may be underestimated is that some of the very high-end and complex components where the orders that our suppliers are quoting our 12 to 24 months out. And they're also asking to -- for us to put in noncancelable orders. So you have to be very careful in the latter, of course. So I don't think we underestimated it -- it's just that things didn't get better at all. And we're not counting on it getting better in the rest of the year. I think 2022 is going to be different. If some of this stuff continues the way it is, we will redesign more products. I mean, just the way it is with redesign and eventually come out of it. I don't think it's going to go way beyond 2023.

Jim Ricchiuti
Analyst at Needham and Compan

Got it. And One of the things that struck by -- was the defense business. I thought you might have shown a little bit more growth in Q2. Is this just more indicative of the pattern we've seen at FLIR over the years? Where it's just going to be skewed more toward the Q4 period?

Robert Mehrabian
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer at Teledyne Technologies

Yes. Here's the problem. Well, the advanced budgets are up, outlays are not. It's kind of like a constricting dam that's constricting the flow. The flip side of it is that if you look at the second quarter and you look at FLIR particularly, the defense side of FLIR actually increased 8%. It's the commercial side of FLIR that was flat or just slightly down primarily due to Raymarine, the maritime that I mentioned, which are discretionary. But the defense side increased year-over-year.

Actually, if you looked at FLIR Q2 of last year, full Q2 of last year, versus Q2 of this year. That is look at how much they sold before we acquired them, how much they sold after we acquired them versus how much they sold this quarter. Overall, FLIR's revenue was up 2.8% primarily because of their defense business being up 8%. So with this recent awards, we feel very good about that. And we have very strong leadership in our defense businesses under JihFen, who used to be with us when the Department of Defense ended up at the very end of her career there to be acting Deputy Secretary of research and engineering. So -- we feel good about that. And we are expecting things to improve there.

Jim Ricchiuti
Analyst at Needham and Compan

And last question from me, and I'll go back into the queue, is just you mentioned Raymarine potentially as the macroeconomic environment deteriorates that could be impacted. But just given the way the portfolio has changed now with FLIR. As you look at the broader portfolio, which areas of the business might potentially be precursors of some change in demand that you might see if the economic environment changes more quickly?

Robert Mehrabian
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer at Teledyne Technologies

I think the canary in the mine, if you want to say it that way, is going to be some of our commercial digital imaging products. We saw some declines in certain areas. There are different reasons for it, for example, in our health care, digital imaging because the COVID things went soft. But now it's growing very fast and doing really well and taking market share. But I would say some of our commercial digital imaging would be a good signal for a stronger market perspective. But we have -- because we -- overall, because we have relatively small, very limited exposure to consumer demand, we don't see that affecting us, we're not. 50% of our portfolio is defense aerospace, medical, energy, those markets are going to be fine.

Jim Ricchiuti
Analyst at Needham and Compan

Thank you.

Operator

And our next question comes from the line of Andrew Buscaglia. Berenberg. Please go ahead.

Andrew Buscaglia
Analyst at Berenberg Bank

Good morning guys. So last quarter, you guys sounded a little bit more net positive on the outlook and defense, obviously, with what's going on in the world. What is your view at this point? And do you foresee some potential awards or projects that aren't currently embedded in your guidance moving forward, maybe before year-end?

Robert Mehrabian
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer at Teledyne Technologies

Well, yes, so as you know, Andrew, we've had a succession of awards recently in defense that have been -- and we put news releases out on most of them and most of them by -- in the FLIR area. We think some of our European awards are a little delayed. As you know, to get, for example, if you were to get things to Ukraine, you have to go through one of the other NATO countries. And some of those are taking time. The flip side is that some of the larger awards that we've had, for example, U.S. Army, family of weapons, site for individuals, which are mounted devices that are going rifles. That's a $500 million reward. But with in the early phase, so we expect that the increased revenue for that will come in future periods rather than immediately.

We had a major award from the Danish Ministry of Defense for the mobile sensor system and we also had, as we announced, we had a really nice award for our very small AUVs, which are Black Hornet from the Norwegian government. And those awards, while they've been made, the shipments are starting to come now. And we expect those awards will lead to more revenue in the future as we move forward from small prototype production or small-scale production to food rate production. So we feel very good about that. But the worst that we've had and some that we're going to get especially in Europe.

Andrew Buscaglia
Analyst at Berenberg Bank

And how much of this new activity is solely dependent on the Russian, Ukraine conflict continuing or put it another way, if that dive down, do you see some of this activity or interest in your product evaporate?

Robert Mehrabian
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer at Teledyne Technologies

No. I think -- so the programs we're participating in they're really just greater budgets in the U.S. and NATO countries. And I don't think that's going to go away in any foreseeable future. As you can judge, the invasion of Ukraine has been a lesson to everybody that you cannot be in a situation where you are liable and I think those budgets are here to stay. And the NATO alliance is getting tighter and their budgets are going up, U.S. budgets going up in all domains. There are programs in the U.S. that we participate in related to high-performance infrared sensors in space to track missiles. There's -- I think that's here to stay.

Andrew Buscaglia
Analyst at Berenberg Bank

Okay. And maybe one more, if I may, just because on this topic, you talked a little bit more positively about M&A, now that your leverage is at a target. What are areas of interest to you? Is it going to fall under -- are you targeting areas in defense? Or is it more outside of digital imaging to broaden your -- the balance of your portfolio?

Robert Mehrabian
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer at Teledyne Technologies

I would say in all areas, I would probably exclude strictly government services businesses, type businesses. We've seen things that across our segments. So it's not necessarily pure one segment or another. Our emphasis has been digital imaging will continue, and we like instruments. But there are certain areas of aerospace and defense like in our connector businesses where our margins are superior to everything else. So we would not exclude that. We won't buy something. We will not participate in something in the government services business, for example.

Andrew Buscaglia
Analyst at Berenberg Bank

Okay, thanks Robert.

Robert Mehrabian
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer at Teledyne Technologies

Thank you.

Operator

[Operator Instructions] Next question is from the line of Kristine Liwag, Morgan Stanley. Please go ahead.

Kristine Liwag
Analyst at Morgan Stanley

Good morning everyone.

Robert Mehrabian
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer at Teledyne Technologies

Good morning Kristine.

Kristine Liwag
Analyst at Morgan Stanley

You've mentioned to return to M&A now that you've hit your target leverage range. With a sharp increase in interest rates, have you seen asset prices come down to preserve your return thresholds? And also in terms of timing, there's a lot of economic uncertainty. Do you think now is the time to look at these assets or wait and see how the economic environment unfolds?

Robert Mehrabian
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer at Teledyne Technologies

Great question, Kristine. Let me first go to the first part of the question. I think some of the expectations out there have moderated, and we continue to moderate, especially with the stock market down, SMT is down, almost 15%, 16% this year. our expectations are moderating somewhat. Let me go to the second part, which has to do. If we don't do anything, our ratio which is now 2.5 times will continue going down. By year-end, it'll be 2.3 times. If you don't do anything by the end of next year, you'll be 1.7 times and so on and so forth. So we do have, by the way, the liquidity to buy things.

Right now, if we look at our liquidity, we can buy, it sinks from our line of credit going over $1 billion. Having said that, we've always been very careful not to overstretch ourselves and not to overpay for things. So I think things are getting better. We'll look at some bolt-ons. But if you look at further forward 12 months or so, what happened last time when the markets kind -- and the economy decline, same thing is happening now. We come out of this stronger. Some people don't. And that's when we are able to buy them because their market prices have declined. So it's a continuing process. we -- right now, if we look at our debt profile, we have almost no exposure to increased interest rates at this time because 93% of our debt is fixed. The other 7% that's floating, we are cash against that, which is also floating. So we have 100% fixed debt at this time. So -- and we have a good line of credit.

Kristine Liwag
Analyst at Morgan Stanley

Thank you for all the color.

Robert Mehrabian
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer at Teledyne Technologies

Thank you Kristine.

Operator

And at this time, there are no other questions in queue.

Robert Mehrabian
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer at Teledyne Technologies

Thank you, operator. I will now ask Jason to conclude our conference call.

Jason VanWees
Vice Chairman at Teledyne Technologies

Thanks, Robert. And again, thanks, everyone, for joining us this morning. If you have follow-up questions, please feel free to call me at the number on the earnings release or e-mail me directly. Maxine, if you could conclude the call and give the replay information, we would appreciate it. Thank you.

Operator

[Operator Closing Remarks]

Corporate Executives
  • Jason VanWees
    Vice Chairman
  • Robert Mehrabian
    Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
  • Susan L. Main
    Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

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