FOR RELEASE ON: May 6, 2024        

CONTACT:    Robert Barry, VP - Investor Relations

        608-361-7530                    

        robert.barry@regalrexnord.com

MILWAUKEE, WI - Regal Rexnord Corporation (NYSE: RRX)

1Q Highlights

•GAAP Diluted EPS Of $0.30, Adjusted Diluted EPS* Of $2.00

•Adjusted Free Cash Flow* Of $64.6 Million; On Track To Full Year Outlook Of $700 Million

•Paid Down $135.0 Million Of Gross Debt

•Sales Of $1,547.7 Million, Up 26.4% Versus PY, Down 7.5% On A Pro Forma Organic Basis

•GAAP Gross Margin Of 35.7%; Adjusted Gross Margin* Of 36.5% Versus PY Of 33.5% On A Pro Forma Basis*

•GAAP Net Income Of $20.4 Million Versus PY GAAP Net Loss Of $(5.5) Million

•Adjusted EBITDA* Of $317.4 Million Versus PY Of $327.1 Million On A Pro Forma Basis*

•Adjusted EBITDA Margin* Of 20.5%, Up 100 Basis Points Versus PY On A Pro Forma Basis*

•Synergies Of $26 Million; On Track To Deliver $90 Million In The Year

CEO Louis Pinkham commented, “The first quarter marked a strong start to the year for Regal Rexnord on several fronts. Our team delivered adjusted gross margins of 36.5% or 37.4% without Industrial Systems, well on our path to 40%, as well as 100 basis points of adjusted EBITDA margin expansion on a pro forma, year-over-year basis, with particularly solid performance in IPS. Cash flow was strong considering normal seasonality, keeping us firmly on track to meet our $700 million free cash flow goal for 2024. And we made steady progress on our many lean, 80/20 and new product development initiatives. We did confront further market headwinds in the quarter, particularly in our PES segment, but our IPS and AMC segments both saw improving order momentum as the quarter unfolded. While orders were down in the first quarter versus prior year, book-to-bill was positive for the first time in four quarters."

Mr. Pinkham continued, “As previously communicated, we also recently closed on selling the Industrial Systems business, concluding a series of highly intentional, strategic M&A transactions - Rexnord PMC, Altra, and Industrial Systems - that have created a much stronger portfolio for our future. Our go-forward portfolio is characterized by roughly 50% exposure to secular markets, higher RD&E investment and product vitality than at any point in our history, and gross margins that evidence a widened competitive moat. In short, we now have a more durable portfolio, servicing more durable markets, well-positioned to deliver faster and more profitable growth."

Mr. Pinkham concluded, “Looking ahead, we continue to remain cautiously optimistic that market headwinds confronting our PES segment and our factory automation business within AMC will abate in the second half of 2024. In the meantime, our team remains focused on executing our many value creation opportunities - M&A cost and growth synergies, free cash flow acceleration and debt reduction, and a robust pipeline of new product launches, to name just a few. With so many value creation levers before us, I remain extremely excited about Regal Rexnord's future.”

Guidance

The Company is updating its annual guidance for 2024 GAAP Diluted Earnings per Share to a range of $3.97 to $4.77 and for Adjusted Diluted Earnings per Share to a range of $9.60 to $10.40. The change reflects impacts tied to closing the sale of the Industrial Systems business.

Segment Performance

Segment results versus the prior year are summarized below:

•Automation & Motion Control net sales were $400.2 million, an increase of 96.9%, or a decrease of 4.5% on a pro forma organic basis*. Results reflect the Altra acquisition plus strength in the medical, data center, and aerospace markets, net of continued weakness in the discreet factory automation and food & beverage end markets. Adjusted EBITDA margin was 22.5% of adjusted net sales*.

•Industrial Powertrain Solutions net sales were $643.4 million, an increase of 55.3%, or a decrease of 1.0% on a pro forma organic basis*. Results reflect the Altra acquisition, plus strength in general industrial and energy markets, net of weakness in the alternative energy, construction equipment, and agriculture markets. Adjusted EBITDA margin was 25.8% of adjusted net sales*.

•Power Efficiency Solutions net sales were $385.3 million, a decrease of 17.9%, or a decrease of 17.8% on an organic basis*. The decline primarily reflects continued weakness in North America residential HVAC markets, particularly in heating products. Adjusted EBITDA margin was 13.2% of adjusted net sales*.

•Industrial Systems net sales were $118.8 million, a decrease of 13.3%, or a decrease of 12.6% on an organic basis. Adjusted EBITDA margin was 8.6% of adjusted net sales*.

As previously disclosed, with the sale of the Industrial Systems business, effective May 1, 2024, the Company is comprised of three operating segments: Industrial Powertrain Solutions, Power Efficiency Solutions, and Automation & Motion Control.

Regal Rexnord will hold a conference call to discuss this earnings release at 9:00 AM CT (10:00 AM ET) on Tuesday, May 7, 2024. To listen to the live audio and view the presentation during the call, please visit Regal Rexnord’s Investor website: https://investors.regalrexnord.com. To listen by phone or to ask the presenters a question, dial 1.877.264.6786 (U.S. callers) or +1.412.317.5177 (international callers) and enter 2519845# when prompted.

A webcast replay will be available at the link above, and a telephone replay will be available at 1.877.344.7529 (U.S. callers) or +1.412.317.0088 (international callers), using a replay access code of 1762778#. Both replays will be accessible for three months after the earnings call.

Regal Rexnord’s 30,000 associates around the world help create a better tomorrow by providing sustainable solutions that power, transmit and control motion. The Company’s electric motors and air moving subsystems provide the power to create motion. A portfolio of highly engineered power transmission components and subsystems efficiently transmits motion to power industrial applications. The Company’s automation offering, comprised of controllers, drives, precision motors, and actuators, controls motion in applications ranging from factory automation to precision tools used in surgical applications.

The Company’s end markets benefit from meaningful secular demand tailwinds, and include factory automation, food & beverage, aerospace, medical, data center, warehouse, alternative energy, residential and commercial buildings, general industrial, construction, metals and mining, and agriculture.

Regal Rexnord is comprised of three operating segments: Industrial Powertrain Solutions, Power Efficiency Solutions, and Automation & Motion Control. Regal Rexnord is headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and has manufacturing, sales and service facilities worldwide. For more information, including a copy of our Sustainability Report, visit RegalRexnord.com.

All statements in this communication, other than those relating to historical facts, are "forward-looking statements." Forward-looking statements can generally be identified by their use of terms such as “anticipate,” “believe,” “confident,” “estimate,” “expect,” “intend,” “plan,” “may,” “will,” “project,” “forecast,” “would,” “could,” “should,” and similar expressions, including references to assumptions. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and are subject to a number of assumptions, risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond our control, which could cause actual results to differ materially from such statements. Forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements about future strategic plans and future financial and operating results. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those presented or implied in the forward-looking statements in this communication include, without limitation: the possibility that the Company may be unable to achieve expected benefits, synergies and operating efficiencies in connection with the sale of the Industrial Motors and Generators businesses, the acquisition of Altra Industrial Motion Corp. ("Altra Transaction"), and the merger with the Rexnord Process & Motion Control business (the “Rexnord PMC business”) within the expected time-frames or at all and to successfully integrate Altra Industrial Motion Corp. ("Altra") and the Rexnord PMC business; the Company's substantial indebtedness as a result of the Altra Transaction and the effects of such indebtedness on the Company's financial flexibility; the Company's ability to achieve its objectives on reducing its indebtedness on the desired timeline; dependence on key suppliers and the potential effects of supply disruptions; fluctuations in commodity prices and raw material costs; any unforeseen changes to or the effects on liabilities, future capital expenditures, revenue, expenses, synergies, indebtedness, financial condition, losses and future prospects; unanticipated operating costs, customer loss and business disruption; the Company's ability to retain key executives and employees; uncertainties regarding the ability to execute restructuring plans within expected costs and timing; challenges to the tax treatment that was elected with respect to the merger with the Rexnord PMC business and related transactions; actions taken by competitors and their ability to effectively compete in the increasingly competitive global electric motor, drives and controls, power generation and power transmission industries; the ability to develop new products based on technological innovation, such as the Internet of Things and artificial intelligence, and marketplace acceptance of new and existing products; dependence on significant customers and distributors; risks associated with climate change and uncertainty regarding our ability to deliver on our climate commitments and/or to meet related investor, customer and other third party expectations relating to our sustainability efforts; risks associated with global manufacturing, including risks associated with public health crises and political, societal or economic instability, including instability caused by ongoing geopolitical conflicts; issues and costs arising from the integration of acquired companies and businesses and the timing and impact of purchase accounting adjustments; prolonged declines in one or more markets; economic changes in global markets, such as reduced demand for products, currency exchange rates, inflation rates, interest rates, recession, government policies, including policy changes affecting taxation, trade, tariffs, immigration, customs, border actions and the like, and other external factors that the Company cannot control; product liability, asbestos and other litigation, or claims by end users, government agencies or others that products or customers’ applications failed to perform as anticipated; unanticipated liabilities of acquired businesses; unanticipated adverse effects or liabilities from business exits or divestitures; the Company's ability to identify and execute on future M&A opportunities, including significant M&A transactions; the impact of any such M&A transactions on the Company's results, operations and financial condition, including the impact from costs to execute and finance any such transactions; unanticipated costs or expenses that may be incurred related to product warranty issues; infringement of intellectual property by third parties, challenges to intellectual property, and claims of infringement on third party technologies; effects on earnings of any significant impairment of goodwill; losses from failures, breaches, attacks or disclosures involving information technology infrastructure and data; costs and unanticipated liabilities arising from rapidly evolving laws and regulations; and other factors that can be found in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), including our most recent periodic reports filed on Form 10-K and Form 10-Q, which are available on our Investor Relations website. Forward-looking statements are given only as of the date of this communication and we disclaim any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.

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(Dollars in Millions, Except per Share Data)

We prepare our financial statements in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”). We also periodically disclose certain financial measures in our quarterly earnings releases, on investor conference calls, and in investor presentations and similar events that may be considered “non-GAAP” financial measures.

This additional information is not meant to be considered in isolation or as a substitute for our results of operations prepared and presented in accordance with GAAP.

In this release, we disclose the following non-GAAP financial measures, and we reconcile these measures in the tables below to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures: adjusted diluted earnings per share, adjusted income from operations, adjusted operating margin, adjusted net sales, adjusted gross margin, pro forma adjusted gross margin, net debt, EBITDA, adjusted EBITDA, pro forma EBITDA, pro forma adjusted EBITDA, adjusted EBITDA (including synergies), interest coverage ratio, interest coverage ratio (including synergies), adjusted EBITDA margin, gross debt/adjusted EBITDA, net debt/adjusted EBITDA, net debt/adjusted EBITDA (including synergies),adjusted cash flows from operations, adjusted free cash flow, adjusted income before taxes, adjusted provision for income taxes, and adjusted effective tax rate. We believe that these non-GAAP financial measures are useful measures for providing investors with additional information regarding our results of operations and for helping investors understand and compare our operating results across accounting periods and compared to our peers. Our management primarily uses adjusted income from operations and adjusted operating margin to help us manage and evaluate our business and make operating decisions, while the other non-GAAP measures disclosed are primarily used to help us evaluate our business and forecast our future results. Accordingly, we believe disclosing and reconciling each of these measures helps investors evaluate our business in the same manner as management. This release also includes non-GAAP forward-looking information. The Company believes that a quantitative reconciliation of this forward-looking information to the most comparable financial measure calculated and presented in accordance with GAAP cannot be made available without unreasonable efforts. A reconciliation of this non-GAAP financial measure would require the Company to predict the timing and likelihood of future restructurings and other charges. Neither these forward-looking measures, nor their probable significance, can be quantified with a reasonable degree of accuracy. Accordingly, a reconciliation of the most directly comparable forward-looking GAAP measure is not provided.

In addition to these non-GAAP measures, we use the term “organic sales growth” and "pro forma organic sales growth" to refer to the increase in our sales between periods that is attributable to organic sales. “Organic sales” refers to GAAP sales from existing operations excluding any sales from acquired businesses recorded prior to the first anniversary of the acquisition and excluding any sales from business divested/to be exited recorded prior to the first anniversary of the exit and excluding the impact of foreign currency translation. “Pro forma organic sales” refers to "organic sales" giving effect to the acquisition of Altra. The impact of foreign currency translation is determined by translating the respective period’s organic sales using the currency exchange rates that were in effect during the prior year periods.

The assumptions and related pro forma adjustments in the selected financial information presented within this release are consistent with those presented in the Company's Current Reports on Form 8-K filed on June 5, 2023 and September 8, 2023 giving effect to the acquisition of Altra and related transactions and are inclusive of the measurement period adjustments included in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December, 31 2023 on file with the SEC.

ADJUSTED DILUTED EARNINGS PER SHARE
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						Three Months Ended
						Mar 31, 2024						Mar 31, 2023
GAAP Earnings (Loss) Per Share						$	0.30					$	(0.09)
Intangible Amortization						0.98						0.53
Restructuring and Related Costs (a)						0.19						0.07
Share-Based Compensation Expense (b)						0.11						0.31
Impairments and Exit Related Costs						0.01						—
Loss on Assets Held for Sale (c)						0.32						—
Gain on Sale of Assets						(0.01)						(0.01)
Transaction and Integration Related Costs (d)						0.09						1.31
Discrete Tax Items						0.01						0.10
Adjusted Diluted Earnings Per Share						$	2.00					$	2.22

    

(a)			Relates to costs associated with actions taken for employee reductions, facility consolidations and site closures, product line exits and other asset charges.
(b)			Includes the impact related to the accelerated vesting of awards for certain former Altra employees in the first quarter 2023.
(c)			The three months ended March 31, 2024 reflects the loss on assets held for sale of $21.5 million related to the sale of the industrial motors and generators businesses.
(d)			For 2024, primarily relates to (1) legal, professional service, and rebranding costs associated with the sale of the industrial motors and generators businesses and (2) legal, professional service and integration costs associated with the Altra Transaction. For 2023, primarily relates to (1) legal, professional service, severance, certain other employee compensation and financing costs and incremental net interest expense on new debt associated with the Altra Transaction and integration and (2) legal and professional service costs associated with the sale of the industrial motors and generators businesses.

    

    

    

(a)			Relates to costs associated with actions taken for employee reductions, facility consolidations and site closures, product line exits and other asset charges. Includes $19.3 Million of accelerated depreciation.
(b)			Reflects the loss on assets held for sale of $109.2 million related to the sale of the industrial motors and generators businesses.
(c)			Primarily relates to (1) legal, professional service, and certain other employee compensation costs associated with the Altra Transaction and integration and (2) legal, professional service, and rebranding costs associated with the sale of the industrial motors and generators businesses.
(d)			Synergies expected to be realized in the future are included in the calculation of EBITDA that serves as the basis for financial covenant compliance for certain of the Company's debt. The Company expects to realize synergies of $115 million within 18 months. The impact of the synergies is as follows:
			Adjusted EBITDA			$	1,382.8
			Altra Synergies to be Realized Within 24 months			115.0
			Adjusted EBITDA (including synergies)			$	1,497.8
			Net Debt/Adjusted EBITDA (including synergies)			3.82
			Interest Expense			$	441.0
			Interest Income			(14.8)
			Net Interest Expense			$	426.2
			Interest Coverage Ratio(1)			3.24
			Interest Coverage Ratio (including synergies)(2)			3.51
			(1) Computed as Adjusted EBITDA/Net Interest Expense
			(2) Computed as Adjusted EBITDA (including synergies)/Net Interest Expense
(e)			This amount includes $57.1 Million cash and cash equivalents included in Assets Held for Sale.