Jul 19, 2013
Executives
Janet Pfeffer - Vice President of Business Development and Investor Relations Michael W. Lamach - Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President Steven R.
Shawley - Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President
Analysts
Julian Mitchell - Crédit Suisse AG, Research Division Andrew M. Casey - Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, Research Division Nigel Coe - Morgan Stanley, Research Division Charles Stephen Tusa - JP Morgan Chase & Co, Research Division Andrew Obin - BofA Merrill Lynch, Research Division Stephen E.
Volkmann - Jefferies & Company, Inc., Research Division Joshua C. Pokrzywinski - MKM Partners LLC, Research Division Jeffrey T.
Sprague - Vertical Research Partners, LLC Jamie Sullivan - RBC Capital Markets, LLC, Research Division Deane M. Dray - Citigroup Inc, Research Division Shannon O'Callaghan - Nomura Securities Co.
Ltd., Research Division Eli S. Lustgarten - Longbow Research LLC
Operator
Good day, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Ingersoll Rand Second Quarter 2013 Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] As a reminder, today's conference call is being recorded.
I would now like to turn the conference over to your host, Janet Pfeffer, Vice President of Strategy, Business Development and Investor Relations. Please proceed.
Janet Pfeffer
Good morning. Thank you, Sean.
Welcome to our Second Quarter 2013 Conference Call. We released earnings at 7:00 this morning, and the release is posted on our website.
We'll be broadcasting, in addition to this call, through our website at ingersollrand.com, where you can find the slide presentation that we'll be referring to this morning. This call will be recorded and archived on our website.
If you please go to Slide 2. Statements made in today's call that are not historical facts are considered forward-looking and are made pursuant to the Safe Harbor provisions of federal securities law.
Please see our SEC filings for a description of some of the factors that may cause actual results to vary materially from anticipated. This release also includes non-GAAP measures, which are explained in the financial tables attached to our news release.
A couple of things to note before I turn it over to Mike. Similar to last quarter, we will be talking to adjusted margins during our commentary, which exclude restructuring and spin-related costs.
Our news release and tables give you the reconciliation of GAAP to adjusted margins. And this is consistent with how we gave guidance in both February and in April.
And to remind everyone also, earlier this year, we transferred a business line from Security Technologies to residential security. That was about $20 million of revenue in the quarter, and it's about $80 million for the full year 2013.
There is no impact at the consolidated levels. In the charts and comments, we'll focus on the year-over-year change in revenue and orders for those businesses on a comparable basis, so as to best represent the underlying performance.
Now to introduce the participants on this morning's call: Mike Lamach, Chairman and CEO; Steve Shawley, Senior Vice President and CFO; and Joe Fimbianti, Director of Investor Relations. With that, please go to Slide 3, and I'll turn it over to Mike.
Michael W. Lamach
Okay. Thanks, Janet.
Good morning, and thanks for joining us on today's call. We delivered growth and profitability above our earnings commitment in the second quarter, with solid operational execution across the company.
On top of this, we completed several key milestones related to the security spin, as well as a successful debt offering. I'm proud of all the great people in our company for these accomplishments and thank them for their personal and collective commitment to the success of Ingersoll Rand and ultimately, in the successful launch of the new security company, Allegion.
Our revenues for the second quarter were up 3% versus last year, both on a reported basis and excluding foreign exchange, reflecting top line performance just above the top of our guidance range. Revenues were up in Climate, Residential and Security Technologies, but we saw a decline in Industrial.
Orders were up 2%. Adjusted earnings per share for the second quarter were $1.14.
That's $0.06 above the midpoint of our guidance range of $1.05 to $1.10. Better performance from operations essentially delivered all of the upside to guidance.
Adjusted margin increased 20 basis points. Operations with 4 corporate unallocated costs increased adjusted margins by 80 basis points.
Versus 2012's second quarter, adjusted operating margins were up in 3 of the sectors. Residential delivered a 330 basis point improvement, Climate margin was up 90 basis points and Security margins were up 50 basis points.
Lower revenues were a headwind for Industrial. Corporate costs were higher in the quarter as expected due to higher benefit costs and increased investments related to our IT transformation.
This marks our ninth consecutive quarter of a positive GAAP between pricing and direct material inflation. Our lean focus again showed significant results in the implemented value streams.
And we continue to invest in the future of the business, funding significant new product development, investing in the new IT platform and building our services footprint. Spin-off and restructure costs were $0.11 in the quarter.
We continued our share repurchase program, repurchasing approximately 9 million shares in the quarter. We still expect to spend the current $2 billion authorization by the end of the first quarter of next year.
We continue to be on track with the spin and have completed several key milestones. We filed a Form 10 in mid-June, right on schedule.
We named 5 excellent outside directors, as well as the Chairman and CEO, Dave Petratis. And we announced the name for the new company, Allegion.
In June, we completed a successful debt offering for Ingersoll Rand, securing $1.55 billion at attractive interest rates and maturity profiles. So it was a quarter with many accomplishments and milestones to take note of.
And now, Steve will take you through the second quarter results in more detail, and I'll be back with an outlook for the third quarter and full year.
Steven R. Shawley
Thanks, Mike. Please go to Slide #4.
Orders for the second quarter of 2013 were up 2% on a reported basis and up 1%, excluding currency. Climate orders were up 4%.
Global commercial HVAC bookings were up low-single digits. Transport orders were up mid-teens.
Industrial orders were flat, with order growth in the Americas offset by lower bookings in Europe and Asia. Residential bookings were down 3% on a comparable basis.
We believe the residential bookings performance could be a result of the significant improvements made in the HVAC product delivery cycles over the past year. Improved lead times have allowed customers to place orders much closer to required delivery dates, which is creating a temporary shifting of orders to later dates compared to last year.
Commercial security orders in the quarter were up 3% on a comparable basis. Please go to Slide #5.
Here's a look at the revenue trends by segment and region. Top half of the chart shows revenue change for each sector.
For the total company, second quarter revenues were up 3% versus last year on both a reported basis and excluding currency. Climate revenues increased 5%, with HVAC revenues up low-single digits and transport revenues up high-single digits.
Industrial revenues were down 3%, Residential was up 7% on a comparable basis. Commercial and Security revenues were up 3% on a comparable basis.
I'll give you more color on each sector in the next few slides. On the bottom of the chart, which shows revenue change on a geographic basis, revenues were up 4% in the Americas, while Europe and Asia were each down 1%, excluding foreign exchange.
Please go to Slide #6. This chart walks through the change in adjusted operating margin from second quarter 2012 of 12.8% to second quarter 2013, which was 13%.
Negative mix and foreign exchange collectively created a 50 basis point headwind in the margins. Our pricing programs continued to outpace material inflation, adding 70 basis points to margin.
Productivity, offset by other inflation, was 50 basis points accretive to margins. Year-over-year investments and other items were higher by 50 basis points.
In the gray box at the top of the page, overall leverage was 21%. Leverage in the sectors was 40%, partially offset by higher corporate investment spend.
The box in the middle of the page shows the revenue and adjusted operating margin by sector and in total. Operations, excluding corporate, increased adjusted margins by 80 basis points.
Corporate costs were higher in the quarter due primarily to higher benefit costs and increased investments related to our IT transformation. Please go to Slide #7.
The Climate Solutions segment includes Trane commercial HVAC and Thermo King transport refrigeration. Total revenues for the second quarter were $2.1 billion and is up 5% versus last year on a reported basis and up 5% excluding currency.
Global commercial HVAC orders were up low-single digits. Orders were down in the Americas but up in Europe and Asia.
Trane commercial HVAC second quarter revenues were up low-single digits. HVAC revenues were up in the Americas, Europe, Middle East and Asia.
Commercial HVAC equipment revenues were up mid-single digits; while HVAC parts, services and solutions revenues was down slightly versus prior year, impacted by lower contracting revenues, which had a benefit of a large contract in last year's second quarter. Thermo King orders were up mid-teens versus 2012 second quarter, with Americas trailer orders up over 40%.
Thermo King revenues were up high-single digits. The adjusted operating margin for Climate Solutions was 13.4% in the quarter, 90 basis points higher than the second quarter of 2012 due to volume, productivity and pricing, partially offset by inflation and higher investment spending.
Please go to Slide #8. Industrial Technologies second quarter revenues were $763 million, down 3% on a reported basis and 4% excluding currency.
Air and Productivity revenues were down mid-single digits versus last year. Revenues in the Americas were down slightly, while Europe and Asia are each down low teens.
Air and Productivity orders were down low-single digits. Higher orders in the Americas and Asia were offset by lower orders in Europe.
Club Car revenues in the quarter were up mid-single digits, and orders were up mid-teens versus prior year. Industrial's adjusted operating margin of 16.3% was down 100 basis points compared with last year.
Pricing and productivity were more than offset by lower volumes and inflation. Please go to Slide #9.
In the Residential business, second quarter revenues of $713 million were up 9% compared with last year. Adjusting for the product line move, comparable revenues were up 7%.
Residential HVAC revenues were up mid-single digits versus last year. Revenues for the residential security portion of the sector were up low teens on a comparable basis, with increases in the new builder channel in South America partially offset by lower big box revenues.
Sector operating margin of 11.2% was up 330 basis points compared with 2012, as pricing, volume and productivity more than offset inflation and adverse mix. We continue to execute our deliberate strategy to improve product depth and channel performance while increasing margins.
As the second quarter margins would indicate, we are pleased with the progress and the team's ability to balance those objectives. Please go to Slide #10.
Revenues for Security Technologies were $399 million, down 3% on a reported basis and up 3% when adjusted for the product line move. Americas revenues were up mid-single digits.
Revenues were down mid-single digits in Europe and up double-digits in Asia. Bookings on a comparable basis were up low-single digits.
Adjusted operating margin for the quarter was 21.6%, up 50 basis points from last year, as productivity, price realization and favorable mix were partially offset by inflation and higher investment spending. Please go to Slide #11.
We finished the second quarter with working capital of 3.5% of revenues. Working capital and cash flow levels are consistent with our historical seasonal performance.
Year-to-date, available cash flow is $100 million higher than last year's first half. With that, I'll turn it back to Mike to take you through the guidance.
Michael W. Lamach
Okay. Thanks, Steve, and please go to Slide 12.
As a reminder, for purposes of giving guidance for 2013, it's on an as-is basis. It assumes the current Ingersoll Rand with the current 4 operating sectors is in place for the full 12 months of 2013.
As we announced in December, we expect the security spend to take place in the fourth quarter. But to be clear, the guidance does not reflect the spend.
Consistent with our April guidance, we've broken out spin and restructured costs from the core EPS guidance in order to give you the best representation of the company without the impact of the impending spend. To give you an update on our market views, let's start with U.S.
nonresidential. Construction starts and Put in Place trends have shifted a little since our prior guidance, with total Put in Place outlook was slightly lowered and the mix changed.
Commercial and industrial expected growth got a little stronger, more than offset over by a lower institutional outlook. Institutional markets are expected to be down for the year by 5% versus down 3% in the prior market forecast.
The 2013 outlook for commercial and industrial Put in Place was raised from 8% to 9%. Increases in bank and office buildings and retail support our view of a stronger second half versus first half in unitary HVAC.
Over the Applied forecast, it's lower base on the lower institutional outlook, so our overall Trane commercial outlook is just slightly lower than it was last time. We continue to expect low single-digit growth in North American commercial HVAC overall, and flat to a low single-digit decline in North American commercial security.
We expect North American truck trailer markets to be fairly flat on a unit basis in 2013. U.S.
residential new construction market continued to show good growth. We expect industry motor-bearing unit shipments for the year to be up high-single digits for 2013, driven largely by new constructions.
We expect to see R-22 to be a lower percentage of the market, probably down over 20% versus last year. Asian HVAC markets are expected to be fairly flat in 2013.
China HVAC is expected to be up low- to mid-single digits. We saw good HVAC bookings progression in the quarter, which, as we said, was needed to underpin the balance of the year forecast in Asia and specifically, China HVAC.
Industrial Technologies saw a softening in most markets in the quarter. In China in particular, we have spoken about the need to see acceleration in industrial bookings in quarter 2 to support the prior forecast.
That did not occur as the government has tightened credits to support to address overcapacitized industries, so we adjusted our second half outlook accordingly. Our Asian security business, which is more influenced by the timing of large infrastructure projects, should be up high-single digits for the year.
And overall, the outlook for Europe, Middle East and Africa, taken together, should be up slightly across the company. Based on our results in the second quarter and our visibility through the remainder of the year, we are updating our revenue outlook and tightening our earnings guidance range for the year.
Our revenue outlook for 2013 is now $14.2 billion to $14.4 billion, which is a $100 million reduction to the midpoint of our prior guidance, which equates to 1% to 3% growth versus 2012. Translating that to our outlook by sector, we expect Climate Solutions revenue to be up 1% to 3%, which is the same as the prior guidance.
We're adjusting our outlook for Industrial Technologies. Industrial revenues are now forecasted to be in the range of up 1% to down 1%.
Residential is still expected to be up 8% to 10% on a reported basis and up 4% to 6% on a comparable basis. And for Security Technologies, we're adjusting the top end of the revenue range down slightly to reflect the lower upside forecast in the second half.
We expect Security to be down 3% to 4% on a reported basis and up 1% to 2% on a comparable basis. Please go to Slide 13.
We are maintaining our full year EPS midpoint but tightening the range of our guidance for full year EPS from spinning operations to $3.50 to $3.60. The full year tax rate forecast for 2013 is still expected to be 23%.
This excludes onetime costs and restructuring of $0.65 to $0.75, updated to include $0.15 for the cost of early retiring the 2013 and 2014 debt, which was not in the prior forecast, and bringing up the bottom end of the range for spin-related costs and restructuring based on our latest estimates. We'll continue to update our estimates as the spin date gets closer and we finalize the remaining restructuring plans.
To focus on the third quarter guidance, refer to the right-hand column on this chart. Third quarter 2013 revenues are forecast to be $3.65 billion to $3.75 billion.
That translates to a range of up 2% to 4% versus the third quarter of 2012. Adjusted third quarter earnings per share are forecast to be $1.07 to $1.12.
We're assuming a share count of 295 million shares and an ongoing tax rate of 23%. Onetime costs are expected to be about $0.25 in the quarter, and that includes $0.15 for the cost of early retiring the 2013 and 2014 debt.
For the full year 2013, we still expect to generate available cash flow of about $1.1 billion, excluding onetime and restructuring costs. In closing, we are pleased to deliver a solid second quarter.
We continue to feel good about our progress. Our focus is on positioning our company to continue to grow earnings and cash flow, with or without help from markets.
We've implemented a consistent and shareholder-focused capital allocation program. We've proactively worked to reduce cost and improve productivity while still making prudent investments for the future.
We continue to invest in new products and service offerings in our IT infrastructure and further developing our people and our operating capabilities. The spin of Allegion is on track, and I'm pleased to have Dave on board as of August 5 as its leader.
I'm proud of the progress we've made and the results we've delivered, and I'm optimistic about the opportunities that lie ahead for us. So now, Steve and I would be happy to take your questions.
Operator
[Operator Instructions] Our first question comes from Julian Mitchell with Crédit Suisse.
Julian Mitchell - Crédit Suisse AG, Research Division
Yes. So just looking at the EBIT bridge and if you sort of look at the productivity, net of other inflation, that was running at about a 50 bps tailwind to margins in Q2.
That's lower than the sort of 90 bps affecting Q1. What do you think is the full year there?
Is there just something on the timing of projects quarter-to-quarter and the run rate is more like sort of a first half blended number? Or how are you thinking about that for the second half?
Steven R. Shawley
Yes, I think so, Julian. The -- we said right along that we expect to see about 50 bps coming from a difference between -- you're talking about pricing versus direct material inflation, I assume, right?
Julian Mitchell - Crédit Suisse AG, Research Division
Well, productivity.
Steven R. Shawley
Productivity in general?
Julian Mitchell - Crédit Suisse AG, Research Division
Yes, the productivity net of other inflation line.
Steven R. Shawley
Okay. We'll address that.
The...
Julian Mitchell - Crédit Suisse AG, Research Division
I guess that was a 50 bps contribution, I think, in Q2, and it was more like 90 in Q1. Just -- is that just lumpiness in the full year is going to be somewhere between the 270 or so?
Michael W. Lamach
Actually, yes, if you look at the second half, it's more of a blended rate, the second half compared to the -- if you look at the first 2 quarters and the blended rate, that's lower than you have in the second half. You can see a little increase in productivity, gross productivity in the back half of the year.
You do have a little bit of sort of that tame inflation environment. So you do get a little bit better in that productivity to other inflation in that regard.
But Steve was kind of going down the path of also answering the pricing question, which has been good to us halfway through the year. And I think as we look at the back half of the year just to kind of maybe ramp the question there, I think we'll see something in the order of 40 to 60 basis points in Q3 and Q4.
I mean, that price to material inflation component as well. So I do think that it supports Q3 forecast.
The Q4 forecast would put our operating leverage between 40% and 50%, kind of in the mid-40s. And that supports, I think, what we've done in the past and also supports the forecast that we have for both productivity and pricing.
Steven R. Shawley
And the other thing about the other inflation, that includes all salary increases. And we have -- we're on a pretty much of an April 1 salary merit increase schedule.
So the first quarter is always going to look a little better than the rest of the year because of that factor, Julian.
Julian Mitchell - Crédit Suisse AG, Research Division
Got it. And then just on the -- mix was a big issue in Q1 that you highlighted in the 3 of the 4 segments.
You said it would get better in Q2. Clearly, it's got a lot better.
How are you thinking about mix to the second half?
Michael W. Lamach
Well, I think mix for the second half is going to be generally better than what we've seen in the first. A couple of reasons.
One, the residential mixdown of SEER seems to be leveling out. We're definitely seeing sort of a bottoming of the average SEER rating there, which was a big, big factor in our mix issues up through the first quarter.
We're also seeing a good mix of Thermo King business through the middle part of the year here, which is going to help the mix certainly in the third quarter. And I would say that we still have the mix problem.
It's probably somewhat in the industrial sector, because in addition to this general volume issues in the industrial sector, it's shifting away from tools to more complete air compressors. So we have a little bit of a negative mix there, offsetting some positive developments in some of the other sectors.
Operator
Our next question comes from Andrew Casey with Wells Fargo Securities.
Andrew M. Casey - Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, Research Division
First, on the EU commercial HVAC order commentary, that's consistent with what some other companies have said kind of recently. But it's still kind of surprising what's going -- that order commentary against what seems to be going on over there.
What do you think is driving that? And is there any regional concentration that you're seeing?
Michael W. Lamach
Well, we play across the entire region, including the Middle East as well. And so I think we have low expectations for Western Europe, and they're better than what we have thought.
We're continuing to see good growth and solid bookings coming out of the Middle East as well, which is in those numbers. Our Unitary business in EMEA is really up nicely.
And that has to do, in some regards, with new product. And a plant now producing yellow [ph] products of course [ph] in Eastern Europe as well, and I think we're more competitive on that product.
But yes, I mean, Western Europe is a little better than we would've thought, coming off a little low. Middle East is pretty strong.
And India, which is in that number as well, is about what we expected.
Andrew M. Casey - Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, Research Division
Okay. And then on the Climate Solutions in general, the segment margin performance, specifically the strong 36% incremental contribution surprised me, and it was very positive.
Is that what we should expect from this segment with top line benefit or was there something special going on this quarter?
Michael W. Lamach
Well, I'd say what's special for the last 3 or 4 years is Trane commercial just made new and new sort of leverage highs. In fact, if you go all the way back through the related history of American Standard and Trane, back as far as we can really look back, we've probably added 10 to 12 points to the average operating leverage in that business.
And I think that's got to do with a lot of hard work around bank consolidations, the co-location of some manufacturing with our Industrial business, a lot of new product development, product and higher margins coming out of the business, focus on the service business and what we've been able to do there. So interestingly, when you look at the operating leverage between Trane and TK in the quarter, both businesses were over 30%.
So I would actually expect Trane to continue a good run. I think that we're wanting to obviously have to give a new normal at Trane.
And last 3 years, they've proven that they can do that. And then we would expect a little bit better operating leverage actually coming out of TK in the back half of the year, again, supporting more of that fourth-quarter stretch that we have.
Operator
Our next question comes from Nigel Coe of Morgan Stanley.
Nigel Coe - Morgan Stanley, Research Division
Yes. So I just wanted to dig into your Climate outlook for the full year, Mike.
You gave some good color in terms of expectations by Applied and Unitary, et cetera. But the 1% to 3%, that's a decel from what you did in 2Q.
Comps get a little bit easier, orders increased sequentially. So I'm just trying to understand why we wouldn't be at the high end of that range or even a little bit better, maybe just add a little bit more color in terms of the second half outlook versus what we saw in 2Q?
Michael W. Lamach
Yes. Well, I mean, let's first talk about kind of where there's strength and where we need to see it.
We were placing a bet on China, and that was rewarded. So unlike the industrial businesses where there -- it's really more of a government policy reaction, the commercial and businesses that we're playing in, health care, hotels, the non-overcapacitized industries in China, we saw the nice bookings growth there and a nice revenue relationship there.
So that was good for us. And we've talked about Europe, and we've seen strength there.
Really, it's all about the applied market now in North America, taking another notch down and a lot of the readings that we're getting. And although we are seeing great performance coming out of the Unitary business and bookings and growth in share, it's just not enough, the mix growth, the common institutional days.
So now it only really drops a little bit. When we think about the $100 million drop from the midpoint to the midpoint revenue guidance, bulk of that comes out of the Industrial business.
Small piece comes out of Trane, largely the Applied business in North America and a small piece comes out of our Security business, largely in Europe. But for Climate Solutions, we need to have second half growth of 3% versus first half growth of 1.2%.
So it really is an acceleration first half -- back half to first half.
Nigel Coe - Morgan Stanley, Research Division
Okay. That's helpful.
And then the percent you just referenced in China and Asia HVAC, it stands in contrast to what we saw in Security. I'm just wondering, do you view the bulk strength in HVAC in Asia as a good lead for security?
Or are there different mixes that we should take into consideration there?
Michael W. Lamach
The biggest businesses that we have in China are very infrastructure-related. They're going to be airports, rail stations and so on and so forth.
The fastest-growing business that we have is the hardware and more traditional mechanical electronic security business. So we'll be talking about sort of order growth in China, and that being lumpy, it's always associated with the timing of the large infrastructure projects.
But we're happy with the progression of growth in our, I would say, our core mechanical and electronic security hardware business there. That's growing nicely.
And we're still relatively optimistic around the book of business yet to close for the balance of the year that would support our larger integration business there.
Operator
Our next question comes from Steve Tusa with JPMorgan.
Charles Stephen Tusa - JP Morgan Chase & Co, Research Division
Can you maybe just talk about the absolute price that you got and then maybe just price/cost by the segments?
Steven R. Shawley
Yes. So price was just about 1 point for the company, 90 basis points.
So from there, we would have lost, say, 20 basis points to inflation, so that was in that 70 there.
Michael W. Lamach
It was across the board. We actually have a positive relationship across the board in each of the businesses.
So probably on the side of residential, typically, that's kind of -- I know you're very focused on that. We would've seen price there in the 0.5 [ph] range.
Material inflation there actually would've been very sedate, so we got good pricing happening in residential. Security, it's probably the lowest price increase, but still at a margin impact of 30 basis points and a slightly positive spread there to material inflation.
Climate was right on the average, about 1 point, with 20 points negative material inflation. In industrial, we had about 70 points to price, a little more inflation there, 50, 60 basis points there.
So all businesses were positive across the board.
Operator
Our next question comes from Andrew Obin with Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
Andrew Obin - BofA Merrill Lynch, Research Division
Yes. Just a question on Climate Solutions margin outlook.
A little bit more color given how strong TK orders are, and that's very good for the mix, I'm just wondering, are you being overly conservative here? Or how conservative are you being for the second half?
Michael W. Lamach
Just a comment about TK, first, Andy. The first half is really being influenced by this Tier 4 engine conversion.
So if you look at the Act, the trailer market forecast for North America for the year, Act is saying that the market is going to be up about 8%, if I remember correctly. So the market would suggest that the trailer activity is going to slow down in the second half, and that's what we've got reflected in our forecast.
Our North American trailer forecast is that we would maintain kind of historical market shares, and we would see sort of up or single-digit-type growth there for the year. So it's definitely skewed forward because of the Tier 4 engine conversion.
I think if you look at TK outside of North America, we were surprisingly strong in the trailer -- truck trailer in Europe in the quarter. We're expecting that to moderate a bit in the second half.
And everything else, bus and container for Q2 was fairly flat. If you look at the second half, based on everything that's going on in worldwide shipping, container for sure is expected to be actually negative comps in the second half.
So there's a moderation of the TK revenue growth in the second half built into our forecast.
Steven R. Shawley
You're looking -- just color-wise, if you look at what we've got left to do for the back half of the year, I mean, clearly, industrial here, we're looking to see sort of what's going to happen, looking to the next couple of quarters and particularly the booking turn business. So it's a place where we would apply more risk to that with the industrial.
And if you look at a place or 2 that we assigned, perhaps more in that opportunity, it would be Residential, maybe Climate just because they're executing so well. In Security, it should come in right about on the numbers.
I don't see much risk in what we're reporting there. So I think in aggregate -- and that's after like the forecast we've got with probably a bit more concern around industrial, momentum and a bit more optimism around Res and Climate.
Andrew Obin - BofA Merrill Lynch, Research Division
I got you. And just -- I understand you sort of highlighted that operational deit [ph] in the quarter, and congratulations on that.
But can you just put it into buckets for us, was it better-than-expected pricing versus productivity versus you guys controlling investment? What went well in the quarter relative to your expectations?
Michael W. Lamach
Well, we had more volume than we expected, and we converted on it, right? So nothing that would drive you more crazy than actually seeing volume and not getting leverage on the volume because you weren't prepared to execute against that.
So if you look at the sort of incremental leverage on the gap -- the positive gap between actual and midpoint of guidance, we had very nice operating leverage on the incremental. And that really, to me, is encouraging about our ability to deal with additional volume, should it present itself here by the end of the year.
But I would tell you, look, really nice job around price, real nice job around productivity. Investments are launching.
Generally, we're getting all we wanted out of that in terms of on time and impacting the marketplace. More to come in Q3, Q4 within no curtailment investments.
In fact, Climate continues year-over-year to be a net investor -- incremental investor year-over-year as well because of the climate in particular. So they're really firing on all cylinders here.
Steven R. Shawley
Yes. And I would just want to reiterate the investment side.
If you look at the corporate spend, it was up in the quarter versus prior year, primarily due to the fact of investments going on with the IT technology transformation we're going through. So we did not skimp on investments in the quarter.
And just to add to Mike's commentary, the thing that's probably going a little better than we expected, and it's very pleasant to have it going this way, would be the leverage we're seeing on the Trane commercial business. That I think it's a truly remarkable achievement that we've seen now, starting late last year and really showing up here in Q2.
With any kind of volume, you'd expect to see that type of leverage to continue.
Operator
Our next question comes from Stephen Volkmann of Jefferies.
Stephen E. Volkmann - Jefferies & Company, Inc., Research Division
I think most of the core questions have probably been answered. I'm curious, I guess, as you look out sort of post the spin and you've had a chance to get a lot of that together now, have you changed or evolved your expectations for the segment margins for the remaining companies in the sort of 2- to 3-year timeframe, assuming we have some kind of reasonable recovery?
Michael W. Lamach
Well, certainly not for Industrial. In fact, I've commented multiple times now that Industrial I'll tell you that the margin potential is greater than what we originally thought, and I think they're executing well against that.
With our Climate business, as it's organized today TK and Trane, no, I think we get there as well. The issue we've had and we're clearly addressing it has been the Res business, and we're showing great, great progress there.
But we've got a long way to go to get to that target. And so we're going to try to update you more on kind of what we think the potential is based on outcome ranges for growth when we're together late this fall and perhaps be more specific about where we see it.
But certainly not on Climate, not on Industrial. In fact, it's up.
Res, we're working on and great, great progress there. We'll see that continue.
Stephen E. Volkmann - Jefferies & Company, Inc., Research Division
Okay, great. That's helpful.
And then can you just remind me the sort of the elevated investment spending, IT, et cetera? What's the timeframe on that?
When does that sort of normalize again, or does it?
Steven R. Shawley
It's going to a bit of a pattern throughout the year. If you look at what happened this quarter, in April, we went live with the first phase of the transformation to the common systems across the company.
So the whole team, the whole -- the cost structure we have employed to make this transformation work really fell on to an expense category because they were in an implementation mode in Q2. What goes on -- because of the accounting rules, we have to expense all that money when they're in an implementation mode.
As we move into the third quarter, we shift back into design phase for the Phase 2. So some of the expense in Q3 will be capitalized and then amortized later once the systems come up and running.
So you're going to see a spiking throughout the year depending on when we go live in the various phases. I would say that if you look at 2014, we expect the spend to peak out in '15, some slight incremental increases in '14 and '15 from this point.
But certainly, start to abate in 2016.
Michael W. Lamach
And you've got depreciation from the first systems going live in 2013, all the way through the last systems going live in 2016. So then we're going to be looking at some higher depreciation and amortization.
But look, net-net, by the time you get past 2016 and into '17 and '18, we ought to see a pretty remarkable decline in what we're spending in IT, but more importantly, as it relates to the G&A across the company and the value of information that we're putting across the company and the speed by which we're acting on it, I think, would be remarkably different.
Operator
Our next question comes from Josh Pokrzywinski with MKM Partners.
Joshua C. Pokrzywinski - MKM Partners LLC, Research Division
I just wanted to dig in a little bit on the Residential business. Clearly, some great operating leverage there.
And Steve, I think you talked a little bit about mix in your prepared results. And then, Mike, I think you followed on with the price cost commentary.
I just want to understand more how much of this is mix and then how should we think about the margin potential in that business as we shift more towards those higher SEER units? I think both yourselves and some of the other guys in the business out there have been talking about some of this meaner version away from 13 SEER, away from R-22, into some of that more premium product, which obviously is more of your wheelhouse?
Michael W. Lamach
Yes. I mean, Josh, I think this is why this is a good business going forward.
I mean, everything from the basics of pent-up demand at some point in time, working its way over multiple years through the system, through to regulations and regulatory requirements around efficiency and the fact that we get somewhat more expensive systems moving into the market, are all very positive. Competitively, for us, broadening the product range and really working on the consumer and the dealer experience, everything from the improvements we've had and our ability to order and ship and fulfill, I mean, I think these are really getting to be sort of industry best-in-class at that level showing up across the board.
So I think that when you think about the structural parts of the business, coupled with the improvement opportunities that we have playing across the full range of the product, new product development and really taking the whole value stream to the dealer, and that's with the consumer, is a lot of opportunity. So again, I think for us, getting to a double-digit op margin, getting to a 15% EBITDA margin are in the cards for us in the next couple of years.
And so from there, we'll figure out where it goes. But look, we like this business structurally going forward in this part of the cycle.
Joshua C. Pokrzywinski - MKM Partners LLC, Research Division
I assume you mean that double-digit op margin x Res and Security?
Michael W. Lamach
Yes. Yes, absolutely.
And what we also do -- and this is a little bit of an important detail. But we analyzed that residential HVAC, but it's a little bit, because all our light units here, if you think about it, really is looking up through -- the majority of that through our commercial HVAC business.
Really nice margins on that. And all of our parts business fundamentally flipped up to the Climate business.
So what you're looking at really is a provision of residential HVAC without light commercial, without parts coming into that. So if you really start to do a benchmark in an apples-to-apples against res competitors, these op margins are pretty much in line and should get a lot better.
Joshua C. Pokrzywinski - MKM Partners LLC, Research Division
That's helpful, actually. And then one follow-up there.
How much of your business is 13 SEER today?
Michael W. Lamach
Let me see if I can try to get that for you, Josh. And if I have to come back, I will do that, maybe in the answer to another question, okay?
So let me think about that and come back.
Operator
Our next question comes from Jeff Sprague of Vertical Research.
Jeffrey T. Sprague - Vertical Research Partners, LLC
Just a couple of things, a lot of ground has been covered. I wonder if you could, just on the HVAC Climate side, commercial specifically, address a little more what's going on in parts and service?
You talked about the comps. But how does kind of energy retrofit and upgrade look into the back half?
Do you have any visibility on that and any geographic color around that?
Michael W. Lamach
Really, it's a great question, Jeff, because when we talk about the service and parts business, the service business have lots of tentacles to it. If you think about services being scheduled and unscheduled service and parts, that business is growing nicely.
If you think about the part of this which is lower, it's actually the performance contracting and the turnkey contracting business, which makes sense just at a macro level because what you're finding is just a lot more customers opting for more traditional approaches procuring equipment, which we're seeing in the unitary results for sure, as opposed to using financing or guarantees to purchase the equipment. And the performance contracting, and to some extent, the turnkey contracting business, often runs in verse to sort of sentiment.
To put a more negative around their ability to finance, they need to do capital improvement, performance contracting goes up. People feel a bit better about it.
You'd see it kind of shift more towards traditional avenues to fulfill it.
Jeffrey T. Sprague - Vertical Research Partners, LLC
Interesting. Okay.
And then just on industrial margins, Mike, you expressed confidence on kind of the out-year look. Near term, obviously, you've got some pressure.
Can you give us a view on how industrial margins actually play over the balance of the year? And do you have any restructuring or other actions aimed at addressing that?
Michael W. Lamach
Well, I mean, we're actually bullish on what's going to happen here. Year-over-year, if you look at a full year of Industrial compared to 2012, I would still be looking for margin improvement.
Some 50 basis points would be, I think, really doable, in light of and including sort of all the discussion we've had around slowing markets. So we will get great leverage.
So your question about restructuring and so on and so forth, that is so much a part of what's going on here. Just day-to-day lean productivity, constantly thinking about the cost structure of the business, thinking about pricing, new product development.
So they're looking within the Industrial business for ways to sort of protect that 50 basis point margin expansion. We've evaluated those plans, and I think it's a good plan.
And I think that as you look at sort of protecting the company in terms of EPS plan, we clearly have opportunity in Climate and Res to fill that risk potential.
Operator
Our next question comes from Jamie Sullivan of RBC Capital Markets.
Jamie Sullivan - RBC Capital Markets, LLC, Research Division
Just a quick follow-on on the performance contracting. Is that still around 1/3 of the service business?
Curious how big that business is.
Michael W. Lamach
Yes. I'd probably have to come back and answer that one as well.
But I can tell you, Josh, regarding your question about 13 SEER, it's about 60% of our mix today. And if you put 13, 14 SEER in there, it's about 75% of our mix.
So if you think about the evolution of what we've been able to do and to be competitive at that low end, where it's now 75% of our business, we're pleased with the team's opportunity to navigate that. Coming back to your performance contracting business, it would be down year-over-year.
At the mix percentage, we'll try to get you a number here. If you ask Janet, Janet's just got 1/3, about as good an estimate as we've got.
Jamie Sullivan - RBC Capital Markets, LLC, Research Division
Sure. And then on -- I think on Thermo King, you mentioned margin expansion in the back half of the year, I think, but growth also slowing due to a number of factors there.
Just wondered if you could speak to that dynamic a little bit, whether there's some mix benefit or how we should think about it?
Michael W. Lamach
We've got great bookings coming through the production here. So in terms of the basics of factory absorption and the fact that we'll continue to tune the line for the new product line, we're optimistic that sort of that's the leveraged days are ahead in 2013 in that business versus the first 6 months, which haven't been bad at all.
In fact, TK's overall margins are going to be up year-over-year no matter what.
Operator
Our next question comes from Deane Dray of Citi Research.
Deane M. Dray - Citigroup Inc, Research Division
I had some cleanup questions on the residential HVAC business. And I know you guys have been praying for hot weather, but you just ought to be careful on what you wish for here.
And on this topic, if you have any color on the sensitivity the business has to degree cooling days, because we've obviously had a huge spike there and maybe some comments on inventory in the channel.
Michael W. Lamach
I'm the one that's -- look back 25, 30 years on this, and I can tell you that the normalized is over a relatively short period of time quarter-to-quarter. I guess, you can certainly see a spike at the end of the quarter, but pretty tough to recommend a trade stock on that.
I'm sure some people pay attention to that. But in our business, it's not going to move the needle all that much around really hot weather at a different point in time.
So I'm not the right guy to get on the track of telling you that this hot weather is going to create some huge upside for the company in quarter 3.
Deane M. Dray - Citigroup Inc, Research Division
Inventory in the channel?
Michael W. Lamach
This is a good story. Inventory is down by design.
We are surveying dealers from order to receipt, 33% last year, faster than we were last time with this year -- this time last year. That's by design.
So strategy has been -- have our dealers need to sort of inventory less. That's down.
We think it makes it more competitive for our dealers, more competitive for us. So we're purposely working that down and working on speed and fulfillment, thinking that all good things lead to higher profitably and share when cycle times and fill rates are higher, and we're really doing a great job on both of those.
Operator
Our next question comes from Chris Belfiore with Nomura Securities.
Shannon O'Callaghan - Nomura Securities Co. Ltd., Research Division
It's Shannon O'Callaghan. In terms of this restructuring and spin costs, what's the split between, I guess, the spin costs and restructuring?
I don't know if you can separate that but I'm trying to get a sense of how much of that is restructuring that you feel like you're going to have to continue to do post-spin.
Michael W. Lamach
Yes, placeholder, maybe $50 million would be the restructuring that we would need to do, that would not be related to all the other fees involved and costs [indiscernible] to do this. And we're going to adjust that as we need to.
I mean, we're really committed to getting a go-forward cost structure right, and a placeholder now of $50 million seems like a decent placeholder to put out there.
Shannon O'Callaghan - Nomura Securities Co. Ltd., Research Division
Across the 2 entities essentially, right? Combined?
Michael W. Lamach
Well, no. This would be sort of what we think we need to do from an IR go-forward basis.
Shannon O'Callaghan - Nomura Securities Co. Ltd., Research Division
For the Remain-co, okay. And how about Security or, I guess, would you speak to that or no?
Michael W. Lamach
Well, what we're doing is you're designing something ultimately from scratch, right? I mean, you're designing a standup company, so you're creating an organizational model there that you think would work going forward.
And when you think about standalone company being set up, it's an incremental add to the structure and headcount there. So they're looking about how to do that in a lean way.
But clearly, they're going to be adding people and necessary functions and capabilities to run a standalone company. But I don't think that's any more than the cost being allocated from the company to them.
We've managed to sort of work that down now, so that I think that'll be fairly neutral allocated cost to standup cost.
Operator
Our next -- our final question comes from Eli Lustgarten with Longbow Securities.
Eli S. Lustgarten - Longbow Research LLC
Just a couple of clarifications. One, with the refinancing of the debt, you said there's a $30 million into the savings.
When will we begin to start seeing that flow through the income statement? And two, you updated a little bit on margins for the year.
You said you still expect 50 basis point improvement in Industrial. Can you give some guidance about the rest of the group, certain changes in what you're thinking?
Michael W. Lamach
Well, let me take the first part of the question. The -- we actually paid off the 2013 and '14 securities this past week.
So we'll start to see the improvement in the interest expense through the second half here, in late July through the end of the year. So it's a small impact in 2013.
Eli S. Lustgarten - Longbow Research LLC
Okay. And as far as operating profitability, I think you still indicated 50 basis points attractive improvement you still expected in Industrial despite the volume change.
Have you got any changes in the outlook for any of the 3 groups or you want to update us on what you're thinking at this point?
Michael W. Lamach
Yes. I mean, so Industrial, we talked about 50 bps.
Security, I think, the goal there is to grow the business and remain relatively flat. Actually, we could have improve margins, but that's not the -- so much of the issue there is around growth, so look for flat margins there and investment around growth.
And I look at the Res business and see that they're on track and they're expected to get 2 full points. I think we'll do that.
And in Climate, no reason. Even with the modifications we've made with some of the mix between Industrial and Commercial that we wouldn't see 50 basis points improvement there again.
Just I think a steady improvement, sustainable improvement, I think done the right way with the right investments, and I feel good about 50 basis points there.
Eli S. Lustgarten - Longbow Research LLC
You're talking about Residential?
Michael W. Lamach
Both Climate and Industrial, 50; Residential, 2; Security, flat.
Operator
I'm not showing any other questions at this time. I'd like to turn it back over for closing comments.
Janet Pfeffer
Thank you, John, and thank you, everyone. Joe and I will be available for follow-up later today.
Have a nice day.
Operator
Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for your participation in today's conference.
This does conclude the conference. You may now disconnect.
Good day.