Prestige Consumer Healthcare Inc. Barclays 19th Annual Global Consumer Staples Conference
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- Prestige Consumer Healthcare reported pro forma sales approaching $1.4 billion following recent acquisitions.
- The company expects top-line sales growth of about 10% over the next three years and EPS growth close to that level.
- Prestige anticipates generating around $900 million of free cash flow over the next three years to help deleverage and pay off acquisition-related debt.
- The company has made significant acquisitions including Pillar Five in Canada, Breathe Right in the US, and Lacorium in Australia.
- Breathe Right has 90% brand awareness but only 3% household penetration, with recent growth above the company's 2% to 3% organic revenue target.
- ClearEyes, a key eye care brand, has faced supply disruptions and has shrunk from high single digits to 3% of sales, impacting organic growth.
- The company acquired Pillar Five to secure sterile eye care supply and is investing in leadership and infrastructure to improve ClearEyes' supply and capacity.
- Integration of Breathe Right's North American business is complete, with international integration ongoing under a transition service agreement.
- Lacorium is a fast-growing Australian therapeutic skincare brand with plans to expand into Asia Pacific through existing distributor networks.
- The gastrointestinal category has grown for five consecutive years, driven by category growth and market share gains in brands like Dramamine, Fleet, Hydralyte, and Gaviscon.
- Monistat holds over 50% share in vaginal yeast infection treatment and is expanding into adjacent care and prevention products.
- Summer's Eve is the number one brand in feminine hygiene and is refocusing on odor prevention to return to growth.
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Good afternoon, everyone. I think we can start. I am Victor from the consumer staples team here at Barclays. Thanks a lot for attending this session. I am really pleased to have with us today Prestige Consumer Healthcare, which is one of the few listed consumer health, pure-play consumer health companies in the space. I am joined today by Ron Lombardi, which is the CEO of the company. We also have Christine Sacco, which is the CFO and COO, and Phil, which is also joining, doing investor relations. Thanks a lot for being with us today. Right, I think we can start. We have a pretty packed agenda, so I will jump straight into the questions. Maybe to start, Ron, with you, could you please give you an overview of, I guess, Prestige Consumer Healthcare today? What are your sales, your margins?
Maybe if you could outline a few key brands, the key geographies, just to orientate everyone.
Sure. Thanks. Thanks to everyone for joining us this afternoon. Prestige Consumer Healthcare is a consumer healthcare-focused company. We have about 80% of our revenues coming from North America and the balance outside. Maybe it is best just to step back for a second and talk about calendar 2027, excuse me, calendar 2026 and fiscal 2027 for a second. We have had a number of big changes in the company, although it is really more of the same for us, even though we have had a number of meaningful transactions in the last nine months. We started the calendar year off by acquiring a key sterile eye care supplier, Pillar5 up in Canada to better position us for long-term support of our key Clear Eyes and TheraTears brands.
We followed that up in June by closing on the company's largest acquisition in our history with a $1 billion acquisition of Breathe Right and a number of other brands from a PE seller, and then followed that up with a June 1st closing of a business based out of Australia that is added to our Care Pharmaceuticals business in Australia. Lots of change in the last nine months and, as I think back, boy, it has been a quick nine months. Lots of change, but I said earlier, it is more of the same, right? Prestige has been focused on building out a portfolio that we believe positions us for long-term growth and meaningful cash flow generation to create value. We saw that with these transactions I just described.
On a pro forma basis, taking account for the recent acquisitions, sales are now approaching $1.4 billion. We would expect top-line sales growth of about 10% over the next three years as we integrate those acquisitions, get them going, and recover our Clear Eyes business. EPS growth would be pretty close to that. Then I think just as importantly, if not more importantly, we would expect to generate around $900 million of free cash flow over the next three years as well to help deleverage and pay off the debt that we put in place to do the acquisitions. More of the same. We've continued to add and build out the portfolio. We continue to expand outside of North America. The Breathe Right business came with a nice business in Europe.
It's very additive to what we've got going on, and the LaCorium Health acquisition in Australia is certainly additive to what we've got going on there.
Great. Thanks a lot for that. There is a lot in there that we'll unpick a little bit later as well. As a follow-up, I also wanted to ask about, you describe yourself about a company of brand builders. It seems like you have a business model that is slightly different from the other consumer health companies on the market. Can you tell us what does that mean in practice, and what distinguishes, I suppose, your business model from those other companies?
Yeah. In a lot of ways, we're doing many of the same things that the big spun-out consumer healthcare companies are doing, where we're looking to grow our brands in categories, looking to grow the categories as well. The difference is we've focused on niche categories where our brands can define the space and take on the responsibility of growing the category. I always like to use Dramamine as the best example of that. We bought it from a big pharma company back in January of 2011, and in the last 16, 15 years, we've been able to grow it by 5 or 6x because we focused on it, right? We talked to the consumer to learn that they were looking to treat motion sickness and nausea in a way that wouldn't make them drowsy.
There wasn't a child or a children's SKU out there, so we launched a chewable one. So we got feedback from consumers about what they were looking for, why they didn't treat, why they mistreated, and looked to bring propositions to help them take care of their health.
Great. I would like to take a step back for a minute and just look at the consumer health market as a whole. The company is playing on that market. It seems like they all have a very different definition of actually what is consumer health. So I was wondering, what is Prestige's definition of the market? How do you address it? What are the different categories that you are playing in? If you could give us a little bit of color on that. Then as a follow-up, what would you say is your biggest competitive advantage? Conversely, what are the areas where you think you can improve as a consumer health company going forward?
Sure. We start by thinking about defining the space the way consumers think about it, right? Which is, how do they think about taking care of themselves? On one end of the spectrum, folks may think about eating right, exercising, getting good sleep to promote wellness. In the middle, it may be OTC type products. Over-the-counter, you're taking care of your own health. On the far right would be medical intervention, whether it's prescription drugs that come from a doctor, GLP-1s is a great example of that, all the way up to surgeries to address medical situations. We see ourselves in the middle, in that kind of OTC space. Now, we've got a number of products in our product offering that aren't OTC, but consumers think about them as OTC medicines or treating a disease state.
We want to line up with how consumers are thinking about taking care of themselves and offering efficacious product that works to address what they're looking to deal with. I think the second part of your question is, how might we do it differently? How might we have a competitive advantage? It goes back to, and I mentioned this a couple of times already, thinking about the consumer, getting consumer insight, and we do it brand by brand. We don't think about women's health and get insights around women's health. We get insights around Monistat and how women are thinking about taking care of vaginal yeast infections. Summer's Eve is a hygiene-oriented product, so we talk to women to get insight on that. Same thing with GI, right?
We'll get consumer insight on motion sickness and nausea for Dramamine, and then we'll get specific information around Fleet for constipation. Our focus is trying to grow the categories and brands, brand by brand, rather than thinking about competing in large categories. I think that's both the advantage and the difference in how we approach growing the brands that we have versus the big players.
Yeah, thanks. This is very insightful. I guess on the market tier, there is one specificity about consumer health, is that it remains very fragmented as a market if you compare it to the broader staples. Why is that? In your view, do you expect the market to consolidate further going forward?
Yeah. Let me let Phil start with this.
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