Consumer Discretionary
Furnishings, Fixtures & Appliances
$7.43B
43K
Mohawk Industries, Inc. designs, manufactures, sources, distributes, and markets flooring products for residential and commercial remodeling, and new construction channels in the United States, Europe, Latin America, and internationally. It operates through three segments: Global Ceramic, Flooring North America, and Flooring Rest of the World. The company provides ceramic, porcelain, and natural stone tiles products for floor and wall applications; natural stones, porcelain slabs, and quartz countertops, as well as installation materials; floor covering products comprising broadloom carpets, carpet tiles, rugs and mats, carpet pads, laminates, medium-density fiberboards, wood floorings, luxury vinyl tiles, and sheet vinyl; and roofing panels, insulation boards, mezzanine flooring products, medium-density fiberboard, and chipboards. It also licenses its intellectual property to flooring manufacturers. The company sells its products under the American Olean, Daltile, Decortiles, Eliane, EmilGroup, KAI, Kerama Marazzi, Marazzi, Ragno, Aladdin Commercial, Durkan, Foss, IVC, Karastan, Mohawk, Mohawk Group, Mohawk Home, Pergo, Portico, Quick-Step, Feltex, GH Commercial, Godfrey Hirst, Hycraft, IVC Commercial, IVC Home, Lentex, Leoline, and Moduleo, Redbook, Unilin, and Vitromex brands. It offers its products to company-owned service centers and stores, company-operated distributors, floor covering retailers, wholesalers, mass merchandisers, department stores, shop at home, buying groups, ceramic tile specialists, e-commerce retailers, residential builders, independent distributors, commercial contractors, and commercial end users. The company was incorporated in 1988 and is headquartered in Calhoun, Georgia.
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Net sales for 2024 were $10,836.9 million compared to net sales of $11,135.1 million for 2023, a decrease of 2.7%. This was primarily due to unfavorable price and product mix, and unfavorable foreign exchange rates.
Net earnings attributable to the Company were $517.7 million for 2024 compared to a net loss of $439.5 million for 2023. This improvement was mainly due to lower impairment charges, lower input costs, and productivity gains.
For the year ended December 31, 2024, the Company generated $1,133.9 million of cash from operating activities, compared to $1,329.2 million in the prior year. This decrease was primarily attributable to changes in inventory and accounts receivable.
In 2024, the Company invested approximately $450 million focused on completing capacity expansion projects and targeted initiatives that will drive cost reduction while improving operational performance. In 2025, the Company plans to invest approximately $520 million.
In 2024, the Company announced further restructuring actions, including additional facility, assets and product rationalizations and workforce reductions to further reduce costs and improve the business for the future. The Company anticipates that when completed these projects will deliver annual savings of approximately $140 million.
As a result of ongoing Russian military actions in Ukraine, the Company suspended new investment in Russia as of the first quarter of 2022.
The Company believes it is well positioned with a strong balance sheet. Based on its current liquidity and available credit, the Company is in a position to finance internal investments, acquisitions and/or additional stock purchases and pay current debt as it becomes due.
The Company has, to some extent, offset the impact of a soft housing market and decreased renovation activity through cost containment, productivity and lower input costs, including through the restructuring actions discussed above.
The Company is dedicated to creating a working environment that is free from hazards, promotes employee well-being and prioritizes safety at every level.
The floor covering industry is highly competitive. The Company faces competition from a number of manufacturers and independent distributors.
If the U.S. increases tariffs or other restrictions on foreign imports from Mexico, China or other countries, or any related countermeasures are taken, the Company's business, financial condition, results of operations, and growth prospects may be adversely affected.
The Company operates in emerging markets, including Brazil, eastern Europe, Malaysia, Mexico and Russia, and therefore has exposure to doing business in potentially unstable areas of the world.
The principal methods of competition within the floor covering industry generally are product innovation, style, quality, price, performance technology and service.
Globally, the ceramic tile industry is significantly fragmented, though the Company believes it is the world's largest manufacturer, distributor and marketer of ceramic tile.
The Company has leveraged the advantages of its scale, product innovation and unique designs in these markets to solidify its leadership position, however the Company continues to face pressures in these markets from imported ceramic products as well as alternate flooring categories.
During 2022 and 2023, the Company implemented a number of restructuring actions, productivity initiatives and manufacturing enhancements focused on reducing costs to enhance future performance, including certain facility, asset and product rationalizations and workforce reductions.
The Company's ceramic tile manufacturing operations are vertically integrated from the production of raw material for body and glaze preparation to the manufacturing and distribution of ceramic and porcelain tile, porcelain slabs and quartz countertops.
The Company uses regional distribution centers and direct shipping from manufacturing facilities to provide high-quality customer service and enhance the Company's ability to plan and manage inventory requirements.
Mohawk drives performance through innovation and process improvements across all product categories.
The Company's leading position in laminate flooring is driven by the strength of its premium brands as well as technical innovations such as water resistance, realistic visuals, beveled edges, deeply embossed in register surfaces and patented installation technologies.
Intellectual property is important to the Company's business and the Company relies on a combination of patent, copyright, trademark and trade secret laws to protect its interests.
In 2024, the Company invested approximately $450 million focused on completing capacity expansion projects and targeted initiatives that will drive cost reduction while improving operational performance. In 2025, the Company plans to invest approximately $520 million.
On February 10, 2022, the Company's Board of Directors approved a new share repurchase program, authorizing the Company to repurchase up to $500 million of its common stock.
On January 31, 2024, the Company prepaid the entirety of the USD portion of the Term Loan Facility, in the amount of $675.0 million. On February 16, 2024, the Company prepaid the entirety of the EUR portion of the Term Loan Facility, in the amount of €220 million.
Mohawk's sustainability strategy is founded on three pillars: Better for People, Better for the Planet, and Better for Performance.
The Company uses extensive recycled content in many of its products, including transforming billions of discarded plastic bottles annually to create polyester carpet fiber, millions of pounds of recycled and reclaimed wood annually into laminate flooring, chipboards and decorative panels, and millions of pounds of tires annually to produce decorative crumb rubber mats.
The Company is dedicated to creating a working environment that is free from hazards, promotes employee well-being and prioritizes safety at every level.
The floor covering industry is sensitive to changes in general economic conditions, such as consumer confidence, income and spending, corporate and government spending, interest rate levels, availability of credit and demand for housing.
The Company faces competition in the non-U.S. laminate, wood, LVT and sheet vinyl flooring business from a large number of domestic manufacturers as well as pressures from imports.
The Company has experienced and may continue to experience supply chain disruption and price increases of raw materials and spare parts needed in the Company's Russian operations.