Teledyne reports Q1 adjusted EPS $4.55, consensus $4.63

Reports Q1 revenue $1.35B, consensus $1.4B. “We achieved record first quarter non-GAAP operating margin, adjusted earnings per share and free cash flow,” said Robert Mehrabian, Executive Chairman. “While overall orders remained strong, sales were impacted by deterioration in some of our shorter cycle imaging and instrumentation markets. We had previously assumed no full year sales growth in industrial automation as well as test and measurement markets. However, those markets weakened more than planned in the first quarter, and we now forecast full year sales in those product families to decline meaningfully in 2024. Nevertheless, we believe such sales declines will be offset by our marine, aviation and certain defense businesses resulting in flat full year sales compared with 2023. Despite those anticipated sales reductions in what are among our highest margin businesses, we believe overall operating margin will remain flat. For example, driven by organic growth and strong margin improvement at Teledyne FLIR, we were able to protect first quarter operating margin in the Digital Imaging segment despite a significant year-over-year reduction in sales related to industrial automation. Finally, given our even stronger balance sheet and record free cash flow, we believe it is an opportunistic time to add stock repurchases to our capital deployment plans.”