Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
Thank you. [Operator Instructions]. And our first question is from the line of Jeff Hammond with KeyBanc Capital Markets. Please go ahead.
Jeff Hammond
Hi good morning.
Todd Bluedorn
Hi, Jeff.
Jeff Hammond
I just wanted to understand I guess the provision, it seems pretty heavy at least in my model, pretty heavily weighted to the fourth quarter. So I am just wondering if anything has changed dramatically you know, from a trend standpoint within any businesses that get you to a much more difficult 4Q or perhaps, you guys had higher expectations for 3Q then maybe the Street?
Todd Bluedorn
I think the way I think about it Jeff is, we said something similar last year I tend to view the second half of the year, third and fourth quarter together given the seasonality of the business. And so, I would look at how we adjusted to second half of the year, unless about what the drop was in fourth quarter.
Jeff Hammond
I mean the third quarter come in below your expectations?
Todd Bluedorn
I am not going to answer that directly. I will answer it maybe briefly, which is to make the point is, we gave revenue guidance of then the second quarter, we said zero to minus two, given that we were down first half of the year, I believe 4% that sort of implied flattish during the second half of the year and our revenues were down 5% at third quarter. We talked about cool whether in third and fourth quarter with cooling days being down 11% from prior year. So I think its pretty clear that the market was little softer in third quarter than what our guidance would have led you to believe, we thought.
Jeff Hammond
Okay. And then you know, commercial I guess, you continue to talk about push outs and things getting more challenging, but the volumes this quarter were pretty resilient, just trying to understand that a little bit better, any kind of pull forward? And then also within the -- can you explain, how you got the -- I mean was it really all Europe improvement, how you get the margin expansion despite pretty big mixed win?
Todd Bluedorn
We had a very strong quarter in Europe, both on the top line and on the bottom line. And so there is really a couple of forces that work on a commercial -- at least on a revenue line, which is a strong third quarter in Europe. Our non-retail and non-national account business continues to be up year-over-year and we continue to see push outs of some of our major national accounts. And I guess the force through that is, we continue to win in the market place to gain new national accounts. So third quarter revenue line and volume line was solid, but as we look in the fourth quarter and beyond we continue to see some of these push outs and reflected that in our guidance.
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