At this time, I'd like to welcome everyone to the Resideo Technologies First Quarter 2020 Earnings Conference Call. Today’s call is being recorded. All participants will be in a listen-only mode until the formal question-and-answer portion of the call. I would now like to introduce Mr. Matt Giordano, Vice President and Treasurer. Mr. Giordano you may now begin.

Good morning. Thank you for joining us for Resideo's earnings conference call covering the first quarter of 2020. On today's call we have Mike Nefkens and Bob Ryder joined by Andy Teich, our Lead Independent Director. You can find a copy of our earnings release and presentation materials on the Investor Relations page at resideo.com. We’d like to remind you that this morning’s presentation contains forward-looking statements. Statements other than historical facts made during this call may constitute forward-looking statements and are not guarantees of future performance or results and involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements as a result of a number of factors, including those described from time to time in Resideo’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The company assumes no obligation to update any such forward-looking statements. Additionally, during our call today, we will refer to certain non-GAAP financial information. A reconciliation of our GAAP to non-GAAP results is included in the company’s earnings press release and accompanying presentation, both of which can be found on the Investor Relations section of our website. I’ll now turn the call over to Mike.

Thanks Matt and good morning everyone. Thank you for joining us for our first quarter 2020 earnings call. I hope that you and your families are well and safe. Today, I'll begin with some brief comments on the recent events and how Resideo is responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Andy will then go into greater detail on our efforts to support our employees and manage our business during COVID-19. He will also provide an update on the execution and results of our financial and operating review initiatives. Bob will then review our financial performance and liquidity before Andy offers some final remarks. We will then open up the call to your questions. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in March, the primary focus of the entire management team and board has been safety. We moved swiftly in response to the COVID-19 pandemic with the goal of best safeguarding our employees, professional installers, and customers. Protecting their health and well-being will remain a priority for us along with business continuity. At the same time, like many others, we are rightsizing our cost structure to reflect today's uncertain times and taking steps to strengthen our liquidity and balance sheet. Much of this work began at the end of last year as a result of our financial and operations review. So we were able to mobilize quickly. COVID-19 has undeniably created economic and business disruption around the globe. However, we remain confident in the actions resulting from our finance and operations review and we have adjusted them to sustain our business through the COVID crisis and emerge very strong. This foundation is supported by established global market leadership, recognized and trusted brands, and unmatched pro-channel loyalty. With that, I'll now turn it over to Andy.

Thanks, Mike and thanks to everyone for joining us today. I'd like to echo Mike's sentiments and hope all of you and your families are doing well. Let's move to Slide #3 and a review of the various actions we've taken in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Resideo's Products and Solutions were deemed essential by the United States, Canada, and certain other international governments, which further underscores the criticality of our Products and Solutions in everyday life, and we are proud to be able to support the increased duty cycles on our equipment as a result of the stay-at-home directives around the world today. As a result, we were able to maintain a majority of our production and sales activities. To ensure the health and safety of our employees and customers, we moved quickly to deploy enhanced safety protocols while also focusing on ensuring the continuity of our operations. First, with regards to employee and customer safety, we moved quickly to form a COVID-19 task force. This group is composed of a dedicated team of employees who are actively monitoring the situation through daily assessments and driving the appropriate business and safety response measures. These assessments include monitoring governmental directives and state orders and making any subsequent modifications as deemed necessary to ensure the safety of our employees and safe operation of our sites on a daily basis. One primary area of focus has been establishing direct and constant communication with our employees around the world. Companywide advisories, region-specific communications, and a dedicated intranet site are among the many initiatives we put in place. We have also modified our manufacturing locations by applying various social distancing measures, factory layout modifications, and installing remote elevated temperature monitoring systems. Many employees have been enabled to work from home with full IT support. In addition, we made a number of modifications at our ADI stores and warehouses to provide for additional social distancing and other recommended health protocols to further protect our employees, suppliers, and customers. These steps are being taken with the goal of ensuring business continuity through keeping our manufacturing sites operational where safe to do so. All of this said, the COVID-19 crisis has had a negative impact on our sales. Most of our manufacturing locations will remain open although we are experiencing some challenges related to our P&S locations in Mexico. As of now, we do not anticipate significant negative disruptions to our inventories or supply chain. Today the vast majority of our ADI branches remain open or under modified operations and all distribution centers remain open. As you would expect, we are in constant contact with our supply chain partners and working together to adapt to a rapidly changing environment. We are also using this time to focus on building our digital capabilities, including our e-commerce platform as well as our web-based training and digital business. This is a fast-growing channel of distribution for us and we want to take full advantage of the technology available to reach even more customers as they transition to new ways of doing business. Lastly, the search for permanent CEO and CFO remains a high priority and we are moving forward expeditiously in our search for the right candidates to lead Resideo in the days and the years ahead. In addition to our focus on safety and continuity, we've taken a number of proactive steps to execute targeted cost reduction initiatives and strengthen our liquidity in response to COVID-19. On the cost side, we implemented a salary reduction plan for certain employees, a furlough program, and we are greatly restricting business travel. These decisions were not easy as they impact our employees and our customers during a difficult time. However, these actions will be necessary given the unprecedented challenges facing the global economy and our industry as a whole. We have restricted new hiring activity during the current uncertainty, postponed or reduced nonessential capital expenditures, and have eliminated director service fees for the entire board of directors for the first quarter. We are also leveraging our financial and operational review to accelerate cost takeout initiatives wherever possible. Moving forward, we will remain focused on cost and productivity as we look to manage our cost structure and best align our operations with changing market conditions. Bob will address our liquidity in more detail, but I'd like to touch on a few highlights. First, we fully drew down our $350 million revolver solely as a conservative measure and to ensure we have ample liquidity as the COVID-19 situation further develops. In addition, actions are underway to reduce our net working capital through key process refinements and inventory reductions. We also intend to continue our dialogue with Honeywell regarding the overall relationships and have initially agreed to the deferment until the end of July of $42 million of certain second quarter payments as we announced in April. Now, let's move to Slide #4 for an update on our financial and operational review. As we outlined on our last call, Phase I of the financial and operational review has three primary areas of focus; revenue and gross margin growth, SG&A optimization, and working capital management. Today, I'm pleased to share that we have made good progress against each of these targeted areas. We are also reiterating our goal of driving $30 million to $40 million of adjusted EBITDA improvements in 2020 from the F&O initiative despite the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. In terms of a progress update, let's start with revenue and gross margin growth where we began implementing product and pricing rationalization actions in the first quarter. To-date, we have eliminated a number of lower volume and lower margin SKUs, many of which were EBITDA dilutive with a disproportionately higher cost to serve. In addition, we have successfully renegotiated approximately 50% of our targeted direct material contracts with a focus on value engineering and logistics. Last quarter we discussed our strategy to standardize common components and better align our offerings with customer and market demand patterns. We made progress on these fronts during the quarter and are seeing a design culture starting to permeate the organization that is more customer-focused and manufacturing efficiency aware. The true fruits of this labor will take time to become fully apparent in our financials, but we see the tide moving in the right direction. In terms of SG&A optimization, to date we have executed approximately 35% of our organization reduction initiatives and our remaining reductions are nearing finalization. We have also executed approximately 25% of our indirect cost reduction plan with outside services, marketing, and IT being the primary drivers. Lastly, we have taken actions to improve our overall working capital management. This includes improving our inventory management processes for 2020 as well as improving receivable collections and credit term extension processes. Since our Q4 call we have made good progress in analyzing our Phase 2 initiatives. We have continued the assessment of our operational footprint and developed potential alternatives that will improve our financial position, our product quality, and speed to market. We expect to continue this process and announce major changes as they are implemented. Now I will turn it over to Bob for a review of our financial performance and capital structure.

Thanks Andy. Let's begin with a review of our Q1 performance. During the quarter, consolidated revenues decreased 3% on a GAAP basis and were down 2% in constant currency. Revenue performance was driven by 6% growth at ADI, which was more than offset by revenue decreasing 14% at Products and Solutions. The COVID-19 pandemic began to negatively impact sales performance at both our segments towards the end of the quarter. Consolidated adjusted EBITDA was down 22% in the quarter primarily because of lower sales volume and weaker mix at Products and Solutions due in part to COVID-19. As disclosed in the earnings release footnote, we have modified our definition of adjusted EBITDA. Current and prior quarters adjusted EBITDA now excludes both expense and cash payments associated with the Honeywell reimbursement agreement. These items are not related to the underlying Resideo operating performance, and future cash payments will not be as consistent as they were in 2019. In our original guidance for 2020, we assumed $35 million cash payment per quarter for a total of $140 million cash payments for the year which was deducted in arriving at the previous definition of adjusted EBITDA. We also reclassified research and development costs from cost of goods sold to SG&A in the income statement. This change will be reflected in all years presented. We believe this line item reclassifications better reflects the underlying costs and industry practice. During our Q4 earnings call, we provided some context of expected Q1 2020 revenue growth and adjusted EBITDA growth performance. As we expected, Q1 financial results as compared to the previous year to be anomalous to our full year 2020 guidance. Our Q1 2020 performance was trending slightly better in the Q1 expectations prior to the impact of COVID-19. Our actual Q1 revenues finished down low single digits consistent with what we conveyed on the Q4 earnings call, while adjusted EBITDA finished slightly better in those expectations due primarily to better sales mix at P&S. The COVID-19 pandemic has had a negative impact on our revenues, which started towards the end of the quarter and continues through today. For April, total Resideo sales were down 25% with ADI down 21% and P&S down 30%. These results include the impact of COVID-19 and other current and prior year revenue components. As the economy opens up, we expect revenue to improve, but we cannot anticipate how the crisis will evolve. We have conducted surveys of homeowners and preliminary results were flat as the majority of our customers anticipate completing their planned home projects. We think the majority of our recently lost revenue has not disappeared but just moved further into the latter part of this year. It's worth noting, we are able to partially mitigate the COVID-19 impact through targeted cost reductions taken across all of our business segments. These measures include salary reductions, travel restrictions, and implementation of a furlough program. We also restricted new hiring activity and eliminated the service fees for our board of directors for the first quarter. Due to timing, these actions only had a partial impact on Q1 results. Moving forward, we will continue to actively manage our business and we will evaluate additional measures we can take to align our cost structure with the impact of COVID-19. Now moving to the segment discussion. At ADI, the revenue increased 6% in the quarter. On a constant currency basis, revenue finished up 7%. Revenue performance at ADI in the period was solid, especially considering we began to see the negative impact of COVID-19 in March. The Herman AB acquisition added about 1% to revenue growth for the quarter. ADI EBITDA was flat year-over-year as the revenue increase was offset by weaker product line and customer mix, ongoing investments in our e-commerce platform, and commercial headcount in branch expansions to support future revenue. On the e-commerce side, we see big opportunities to expand the channel ADI. With increased telesales staff and improved website and additional e-commercial software investments, we believe this channel provides a great opportunity for our customers. Turning now to Products & Solutions, where revenues were down 14% on a GAAP basis and 13% in constant currency. The revenue decline in Q1 is driven by lower volumes across security, comfort, and RTS. The overall volume decline at P&S was driven in part by the overlap of a particularly strong first quarter of 2019. Products and Solutions adjusted EBITDA was down 35% compared to Q1 of last year. The decline was driven by lower volumes this quarter as well as unfavorable product and channel mix. The mix shift to lower-margin connected thermostats, our lower-margin growth security products, and lower trade channel sales in our RTS business all impacted this mix. Turning now to Slide #6, which shows the key variance drivers of our total revenue and adjusted EBITDA performance in Q1. Total company revenue was down 3% as reported and 2% on a constant currency basis. On a GAAP basis, ADI revenues were up $44 million, while revenue at P&S was down $72 million compared to Q1 of last year. Overall currency impact in Q1 was a negative $9 million. Adjusted EBITDA in Q1 was $99 million compared to $127 million in Q1 of last year. Both years excluded any expense or cash payment pursuant to the Honeywell reimbursement agreement. By far the biggest negative driver of the year-over-year decline was the combination of volume down $32 million and the P&S revenue reduction and price mix down $17 million. As previously discussed, we experienced negative mix shift with each business segment. In addition, as ADI grows faster than Products and Solutions, total Resideo experiences lower profit margins as the ADI business segment is a lower margin business. We have $16 million adjusted EBITDA benefit from our transformation programs and another $8 million related to the cost reduction initiatives implemented during COVID-19. These transformational cost reductions reflect savings from previous year's headcount reduction initiative and initial savings from our financial and operational review. The COVID-19 cost actions were driven by reduced headcount costs, salary reductions, and other corporate cost reduction efforts. We expect the COVID-19 reductions to be temporary. As we return to normal compensation methodologies, the impact of the crisis on our business subsides. Lastly, there was about $3 million of incremental costs reflected on this slide as other due primarily to engineering and sales headcount investments made in 2019. Regarding our full year outlook, we stated in our COVID-19 update release that given the rapidly evolving operating conditions and market uncertainty caused by COVID-19, we withdrew our full year 2020 outlook. Like many others, we are unable to accurately estimate the impact of COVID-19 on our performance and financial results at this time. We will continue to closely monitor the impact of COVID-19 on our business and markets and provide an update as appropriate. Now I'll take a few minutes to discuss our liquidity and capital structure. In terms of cash and liquidity, our cash balance at March 31 is $238 million. This includes the drawdown funds available under our $350 million revolving credit facility which we did as a conservative measure to enhance our liquidity position. We continue to focus on reducing our net working capital investment and reduce planned capital spending. On the working capital front, we are improving processes across receivables, payables, and inventories which should benefit the company after the COVID-19 crisis passes. In April, we announced that Resideo and Honeywell have agreed to defer approximately $42 million in payments due to Honeywell in Q2 until July 30. This includes $35 million in payments under the Honeywell reimbursement agreement and $7 million in payments in connection with our trademark licensing agreement. We agreed to this arrangement with Honeywell as part of the ongoing dialogue regarding our relationship, which we expect to continue in Q2. Turning to capital structure, our next significant debt maturity is due in 2020. As of March 31, we were in compliance with our debt covenants. In addition to the deferred payments to Honeywell, we also reached an agreement to incorporate the leverage ratio included in our credit agreement amendment from December 2019 into the Honeywell reimbursement agreement. Moving forward, we will continue to focus on strengthening our liquidity and cash position as we navigate the challenging operating environment caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. I'll now turn the call back over to Andy for his summary remarks.

In summary, we delivered Q1 results that were in line with the expectations we laid out on our 2019 year-end call. We have accomplished this despite the negative impact of COVID-19, which began impacting our business in March. Today, we have focused our communications on the measures and actions we took to safeguard our employees and customers. That has been and will remain our number one priority. I want to reiterate how proud we are of our employees and how they have responded to this unprecedented situation. They've been there for us with 100% commitment and dedication, and I want to underscore our deep level of gratitude for that. We've made some hard decisions to better align our cost structure with the conditions that we are seeing across our business. Near-term visibility into our markets remains limited during the rapidly changing COVID-19 situation. Moving forward, we will continue to actively manage our business with a focus on our cost reduction initiatives and liquidity in the near term. We made great progress thus far implementing our financial and operating review initiatives and remain on track for our full-year goal. We have seen some opportunities to accelerate certain cost and liquidity actions, and we will continue to capitalize on these as they arise. While it's important in difficult times to manage for the short term, it's also important to not lose sight of the longer term. And to that end, we have made great progress on several new product fronts. We look forward to providing more detail on this area in the near future. Resideo remains a company with established global scale, strong brand recognition, and an extensive and loyal pro channel. Our products are trusted across the globe; in homes, on the wall, and behind the wall. We believe the actions we have taken to date as well as the ongoing execution of our financial and operating review will best position Resideo to capitalize on the growth opportunities as business conditions begin to normalize. Thanks for your time today and let's open up the call to questions.

We can now pass to our first question from John Lovallo, Bank of America. Please go ahead.

Hi guys. Thank you for taking my questions today. First one is on liquidity. I'm just curious if you guys have had discussions with the banks on increasing the revolver capacity and perhaps in renegotiating the planned step down in the max leverage ratio I believe ticks down 475 at the end of the year.

Yes, John. This is Andy. Bob, do you want to handle this one?

Yes, Sure. Yes, hi, John. Yes, I mean, look we're always talking to banks on a lot of different things. We have a very good relationship there. As you know, we passed our covenants for Q1, we haven't specifically talked to them about increasing any kind of revolver capacity or anything like that. It's more just in the normal course of business that we're having conversations with them.

Okay. And then, understanding that you guys are not providing guidance, just curious how we should think about CapEx this year and maybe your ability to flex it down, it may be helpful if you could provide kind of a maintenance CapEx level.

Yes, good question. So look, when this happened and we started paying attention to - a lot more attention to liquidity, obviously capital spending was part of that, and the business units were great in participating. So until we see, I'd say, a bit more clarity around when COVID will pass, we're kind of just on operating necessity CapEx. So I would probably say, I think last year we spent capital somewhere around $85 million or something like that. I think we could probably reduce that down to - you know, until the crisis passes, we could probably cut 25% to 35% off that for this year.

Got it. And then...

Then we finally Looking at... Go ahead, sorry.

No, no, please. Please go ahead.

Look, when we're spending capital, we want high IRR projects, right. So we don't want to defray high IRR projects. So once we see the crisis clearing up, we'll be back to - what are good ideas here and what do we invest in, so more business as usual.

Good morning and thanks for taking my questions. I hope you're all well in this environment. First thing I wanted to ask about is the accrued liabilities in your cash flow, $80 million was a very large chunk of your cash use in the quarter. Accrued liabilities can be a little black box for investors, can you maybe describe what the changes were there that drove the $80 million in cash use and is this something that has potential to reverse or are there potential cash puts into this over the next couple of quarters?

Yes. Thanks, Craig. This is Andy. Bob, why don't you go ahead and cover that to the extent that we can.

Yes, sure. Yes. So you're looking at the operating cash flow statement, and it's a use of cash, I mean, the other accruals - and I agree with you, other accruals can be a bit of a catch-all account, but essentially the big change to prior year - the biggest thing was a tax payment that we made in Q1 and the other - the other big thing would have been the funding of our 401-k, we're in the previous years and tax payments move around throughout the year depending on the jurisdiction, so that was different in the previous year. And in the previous year, I believe Honeywell funded our 401-k. So they were the two biggest things that that accounts for like 70% to 80% of that cash.

Okay, so then this $80 million accrual should be dramatically reduced now quarter, that's fair to expect.

Yes, so the accrual's gone right because we paid the taxes, right. So that's what you're seeing on the cash flow statement.

Excellent, excellent. So then the environment, right - you made specific comments on April and then some comments on trend since then. As we look at our models and try - try and figure out is this a Swoop, is this a V or a U what the potential rebound is it both ADI and products, can you maybe point us to what you're looking at for indicators of business activity that you used to manage the business? And can you maybe describe for us any changes to short-term trends in there on a weekly basis or daily basis that you feel might be indicative of a broader activity for your business?

So Craig, I'll handle the first piece, this is Andy. And then I'll ask Bob to - I'm sorry, I am going to handle the second part of your question, I'll ask Bob to talk about how we're looking at this from a modeling standpoint. But the issue that we've seen is more variability in the data, so it's too hard to call what the recovery is going to look like at this point, there's just kind of a bigger data around the number, but I would say the average, you know, the April numbers at this point, we don't have data better than that in terms of trying to peg an average for the quarter. I think we've just got to let these various states open up and get more operating locations specifically for ADI were functioning. Bob, do you want to talk a little bit about the full-year planning at this point?

Yes. And just to follow up on you, Andy; look, we're all tracking daily sales and we always have to pay more attention to it, I'd say we've both at ADI and P&S. The business leaders there and the commercial function really staying in contact with the customers, even more than before. I'd also say we did this survey that indicates when the state's open up, to Andy's points that these projects should return, and look surveys are surveys, it's extrapolations right, but it was good news for us when this came back that people don't intend on just canceling - canceling these projects that they had planned, the wide majority of them will probably happen in the foreseeable future. I would also say that May sales trends aren't much different than what we saw in April. And back to Andy's point, right, we pulled guidance, most companies pull guidance because the future is just so opaque as to when the states will open up, and then in general, how will consumers respond, how much money will they have, and when do they feel safe going out into society like normal. But the good news is, we think our industry is in a little bit better shape than most on that end, which is what the survey confirmed for us.

Hi, great, thank you very much. I just wanted to focus on some of the year-over-year numbers on the revenue side, can you give us maybe a sense of really the best performers, the worst performers? Also, maybe if you could parse out, if you could - I know there some weather movements going on the RTS side, maybe if you could help us quantify that or what happened as far as products being end of life and now lapping those. Could you give us any more granularity on that or maybe the categories, that would be helpful? Thanks.

Thank you. Yeah, I think we can cover some of the data within P&S. Bob, do you want to do that?

Yes, sure, I mean, when you see the queue, we call it, I think inter-segment revenue, right. But from - look, all three lines of business were down compared to the prior year. I would say security held up the best and then probably the worst was RTS, and I'd say there's a lot of stuff going on, RTS is more I guess impulse oriented. I'd say the RTS sales that happened were more along the OEM, which is a lower margin channel. And as you know, we have had much warmer weather this year than prior year and that tends to be a reasonable indicator for RTS. On comfort, we had some of the continuing product transition issues away from the traditional non-connected thermostats to the more connected thermostats, which were also kind of lower margin. But we saw reasonable sales tail off there. And on security, I think we saw the lease sales tail off, but maybe that people take that more seriously if there is an issue there or if they really want to enhance the security in their homes and their offices, they take that more seriously than comfort and RTS and maybe that's why those sales held up a little bit, a little bit more. But we also saw a negative mix shift there with the last year's launch of GRIP had a pretty high sales amount and this year was a little less and that GRIP product as we've spoken to before is probably up in the lower margin side. So it's kind of a negative profit mix.

Okay, great. And then just a follow-up on the Honeywell negotiations - It's great that you guys are actually having this discussion and broadening the relationship. You touched upon the amount done with vacation payments with Honeywell, has that subject been broached? Just given that the earnings profile of the company is different than it was during the spin, and just given the economy has been somewhat cooperative with you guys, is there room to get even more cooperation?

Yeah, and we'd love to see that but we haven't had in-depth conversations about that at this point, but it's certainly on our radar, but we have no feeling in terms of what kind of yardage we would get there.

Thanks, operator, and thanks to our participants for joining us today. This concludes our call. The materials covered today can be found on our website, and feel free to reach out to me if you have any further questions. Stay safe and we look forward to seeing you next quarter. Thank you.

Ladies and gentlemen, that will conclude the Resideo Technologies first quarter 2020 earnings call. Thank you for your participation. You may now disconnect.