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Dover Corp (NYSE: DOV)
Q1 2019 Earnings Call
April 18, 2019, 10:00 a.m. ET
Contents:
Prepared Remarks
Questions and Answers
Call Participants
Prepared Remarks:
Operator
Good morning, and welcome to Dover's First Quarter 2019 Earnings Conference Call. Speaking today are Richard J. Tobin, President and Chief Executive Officer; Brad Cerepak, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer; and Andrey Galiuk, Vice President of Corporate Development and Investor Relations.
After the speakers' remarks, there will be a question-and-answer period. (Operator Instructions) As a reminder, ladies and gentlemen, this conference call is being recorded, and your participation implies consent to our recording of this call. If you do not agree with these terms, please disconnect at this time. Thank you.
I would now like to turn the call over to Mr. Andrey Galiuk. Mr. Galiuk, please go ahead, sir.
Andrey Galiuk -- Vice President, Corporate Development and Investor Relations
Thank you, Laurie. Good morning, and welcome to Dover's first quarter 2019 earnings call. We'll begin with comments from Rich and Brad, and we'll then open the call for questions. This call will be available for playback through May 9th, and the audio portion of this call will be archived on our website for three months. The replay telephone number is 800-585-8367. When accessing the playback, you'll need to supply the following access code, 5806368.
Dover provides non-GAAP information such as adjusted EPS results and guidance. Reconciliations between GAAP and adjusted measures are included in our investor supplement and presentation materials, which are available on our website, dovercorporation.com.
Our comments today may contain forward-looking statements that are inherently subject to uncertainties. We caution everyone to be guided in their analysis of Dover by referring to our Form 10-K for a list of factors that could cause our results to differ from dose anticipated in any forward-looking statements. Also, we undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements except as required by law.
With that, I'd like to turn this call over to Rich.
Richard J. Tobin -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Thanks, Andrey. Good morning, everyone, and thanks for joining us for this morning's conference call.
Let's get started on slide three. Q1 organic revenue was up 8.3% for the quarter, driven by very strong performance in our Fluids segment, solid trading conditions in engineering systems and moderate improvement in Refrigeration and Food Equipment markets with food, retail business posting top line growth for the first time in six quarters.
Adjusted segment earnings increased 24% to $251 million, a 230 basis point improvement over the comparable period, driven by cost action carryforwards, good performance on price realization versus input cost headwinds and volume leverage across the portfolio. Adjusted Q1 earnings were up 29% to $182 million, and adjusted EPS of $1.24 per share was up 38%. Discrete tax items added $0.06 of favorable EPS impact.
As announced, we completed the divestiture of Finder, a pump manufacturer serving the upstream oil and gas industry. This asset is still reflected in our Q1 results, and we recorded a loss on sale of $47 million, which reflects the write-off of intangible assets and the elimination of accumulated foreign exchange translation adjustment or CTA as required by accounting standards.
Overall, we are pleased to get off to a good start in 2019. Demand remains robust across much of the portfolio. We are delivering on our cost programs. Incremental margins on volume was for the most part, solid, and we are pleased with the bookings increase in Refrigeration and Food Equipment segment. There remains much to do to deliver on our full-year objectives, but it is encouraging to get out of the blocks with positive momentum.
I'll hand it over to Brad from here.
Brad M. Cerepak -- Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Thanks, Rich. Good morning, everyone.
Let's go through the detail, starting on slide four. Revenue grew 5% to $1.7 billion and as mentioned, was driven by strong demand in Engineered Systems and Fluids, and improvement in refrigeration. GAAP EPS increased 3% to $0.72.
Moving to non-GAAP results. As mentioned, adjusted EPS, adjusted EBIT and margin, all increased substantially, reflecting solid margin conversion on growth and cost actions. Adjusted segment EBITDA was $317 million, or 18.4%.
Key adjustments for non-GAAP results this quarter were acquisition-related amortization, loss on assets held for sale related to Finder, and restructuring and other expenses. The EPS increase was supported by $0.06 or $8.4 million of discrete tax benefits versus $0.03 in the first quarter of the prior year.
Turning to slide five. Let's get into a little more detail on our revenue and bookings results in the quarter. As mentioned in our summary, our organic growth was strong at 8.3%, with all three segments seeing positive organic top line momentum. The impact from FX was a 3.4% headwind. From a segment perspective, Engineered Systems grew $39 million or approximately 6% organically. And Fluids grew $95 million, or 15% organically on broad-based activity across both segments.
Refrigeration and Food Equipment's revenue increased $2 million, which represents 0.7% organic growth. Organic bookings were essentially flat year-over-year. All in, bookings declined $42 million or 2% versus the first quarter of the prior year, primarily due to FX headwinds. Backlog increased 5% compared to the end of Q4, most notably in Refrigeration and Food Equipment.
Organic bookings for Engineered Systems declined $33 million, or approximately 4%, driven by expected reduction in new order inflow in our industrial businesses, particularly Environmental Solutions Group, which had a large backlog increase last quarter.
Organic bookings in Fluids increased $29 million, or 4%, with strong order activity in pumps and process solutions, while retail fueling and transport continue to work through the backlog from last year. Bookings in Refrigeration and Food Equipment grew $6 million organically. Rich will provide additional color on performance in some of the individual businesses later.
Finally, overall book-to-bill finished at 1.03, reflecting healthy orders across our segments. From a geographic perspective, the US, our largest market, grew 7% organically, where we saw strong growth in Engineered Systems and Fluids.
Europe was up 14% organically, with strong performance across all segments and Asia was up 5%. Within Asia, China grew 1% organically, driven by growth in our Fluids segment, offset by a slight decline in Engineered Systems. The rest of Asia, which represents a revenue base about the size of China for us, grew at 9%, primarily driven by Fluids.
Let's go to the earnings bridge on slide six. Starting on the top, Engineered Systems' adjusted segment EBITDA improved $19 million, largely driven by strong conversion on broad-based revenue growth across the segment, more than offsetting headwinds from FX. Fluids' EBITDA growth of $32 million reflects a combination of robust growth, continued margin improvement in retail fueling, as well as strong conversion on volume and other businesses.
The $3 million decline at Refrigeration and Food Equipment reflects lower volume in Belvac, as well as unfavorable shift in business mix. Additionally, our broad-based rightsizing initiatives have been delivering savings as expected and improved margins across all segments.
Going to the bottom chart, adjusted earnings from continuing operations improved $41 million or 29%, primarily driven by higher segment earnings, offset by higher taxes. Interest expense was lower in the quarter.
Now going to slide seven. Free cash flow for the quarter was a seasonally expected negative $13 million, which is an improvement over last year. The first quarter is traditionally our lowest cash flow quarter. In the quarter, strong topline growth was supported by working capital investment of $138 million, with over two-thirds of the year-over-year change driven by increased accounts receivable. Capital expenditures was $37 million.
With that, I'll hand it back to Rich.
Richard J. Tobin -- President and Chief Executive Officer
All right. Thanks, Brad. I'm on slide nine. Engineered Systems had a solid broad-based quarter, with top line organic growth of 5.8%. Incremental margin conversion in the quarter was very strong, driven by volume leverage productivity improvements and cost actions. Our Printing and ID business delivered strong organic growth with double-digit growth in digital printing. Despite the weak GDP Prints in Europe, demand in the region was robust during the quarter for this platform.
The industrial platform performed well, with most businesses posting mid to high single-digit growth rates. Our ESG business continued to deliver strong growth on unit deliveries but more importantly, we're very pleased with the traction the business is getting in its systems and software products.
TWG and MPG contributed mid single-digit growth and margin expansion supported by constructive demand in the respective end markets. Trading conditions in our vehicle services industrial clamps businesses were more challenging, largely as a result of input cost headwinds and exposure toward European markets. Going into Q2, bookings for engineering systems remained solid. The segment posted book-to-bill above 1.
In Fluids, the segment posted organic growth of 15% for the quarter, with the majority of the portfolio posting double-digit growth rates. Incremental margin was 43% as volume leverage, increased productivity and cost controls more than offset the impact of unfavorable product and geographic mix and installation.
Our pumps and process solutions business had an excellent quarter with organic growth rate of 10%. Volume conversion was significantly accretive to platform margins as a result of good price and productivity versus cost ratio and an improved mix of products and services delivered.
Fueling and transport posted exceptional top line growth of 20%, as demand remained robust and production performance in our operations gained traction. Margin conversion on volume was improved quarter-to-quarter, and we expect that trend to continue through the balance of the year as we track toward meeting our margin objectives that we had targeted in September.
Moving on to Refrigeration and Food Equipment. Organic revenue was up 1%. Improved bookings in the fourth quarter translated into Q1 organic revenue growth of 1.9% in food retail, which was the first positive revenue rating in the last six quarters. Quotation and booking activity in food and retail remained constructive with a book-to-bill of 1.15, particularly in core refrigerated case product line and was in line with expectations in the first quarter.
Unified Brands faced lower demand at the beginning of the year in the institutional market, but the environment has been progressively improving and the business has posted single-digit growth in Q1. Margin performance in the quarter was negatively impacted by volume at Belvac customer mix, translation from SWEP and transitory product redesign costs in food retail as we prepare for a large automation project. If current trends continue, we remain cautiously optimistic for improved revenue performance in 2019 for the segment, in line with expectations we've included in our annual guidance.
On slide 12, reconciles the key components of the comparable 38% increase in adjusted EPS. As we had forecast -- forecasted, key contributors to delivering on our cost programs and margin conversion on growth and to a lesser extent of rebasing our share count and tax benefits. As we noted, we've indicated the discrete tax impact on the EPS and consider -- put us at the low end of our each year -- our expected tax rate for the full year.
Reflecting solid demand conditions that we see in our markets, we have increased our organic growth guidance by 1% in Fluids and engineering systems, and reiterate our prior guidance for Refrigeration and Food Squipment. Despite the negative 300 basis point foreign exchange translation headwind to revenue in the first quarter, our full-year estimate is 100 basis points to 200 basis points. Dover is delivering on a solid start for the year, which allows us to reiterate our full-year guidance of $5.65 to $5.85 per share.
To wrap up, Dover is maintaining solid momentum, as represented by our Q1 organic growth rate, solid bookings and backlogs across most of our portfolio and margin expansion driven by volume productivity and cost initiatives. We continue delivering on our commitments for improved performance, reinvestment in our growth platforms and disciplined portfolio management and capital deployment.
With that, let's move on to Q&A.
Questions and Answers:
Operator
Thank you. (Operator Instructions) Your first question comes from the line of Andrew Obin of Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
Andrew Obin -- Banc of America Merrill Lynch -- Analyst
Good morning. Can you hear me?
Richard J. Tobin -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Good morning. We can hear you. Yeah.
Andrew Obin -- Banc of America Merrill Lynch -- Analyst
Hey. One of the questions we've been getting from investors this morning is that a very nice beat. In Q1, you raised organic growth number for the year, yet you kept the EPS. What are the headwinds? Do you have more concerns about second half? Just if you could give us more color about the modeling process here for 2019?
Richard J. Tobin -- President and Chief Executive Officer
All right. Couple of things. We are clearly tracking toward the top-end of the range at this point. I think that we're pleased with Q1's results and it's always off to get -- it's always good to get off to a good start because we don't want to be in a position of chasing a comparative fourth quarter that we had last year. So to the extent that we're getting in front and we are in front from last year because of the fact of production performance in DFS by our ability to -- a couple things.
If you look at the backlogs, there's some concern about the backlogs going down, but I would tell you that in ESG, that particular business grew by 11% in the first quarter. So the conversion and the availability of chassis was there, so we are able to convert on the revenue side. And then you've got the backlogs going down in engineering systems, but we don't find that problematic because order coverage in that particular segment goes well into the third quarter.
In DFS, as you know, we've been struggling in terms of output. We had a high backlog exit of Q4. Production performance in DFS was excellent. So, it's another business that grew in the high -- grew 17% in the first quarter. So, backlogs are going to come down because of production performance. I think the good news on the ESG conversion was the margin conversion rate was satisfactory. I think that we have work to do because we would have expected for -- the more of the accretive margins in DFS to be higher. I think we've got a plan to track that through the balance of the year.
So overall, it's not a question of us being overly concerned about the metrics of backlogs. It's just purely a question of we've got -- we've got a range up to $5.85 a share. We're tracking toward that. We'd like to get another quarter under our belt, so we get some visibility into Q4. And I'm sure we'll give an update at that point.
Andrew Obin -- Banc of America Merrill Lynch -- Analyst
And just a follow-up question. How has your thinking -- your stock is up, everybody else's stock is up. How do you think, A, about cash in 2019 within your previous range and also how do you think about cash deployment in 2019? And has your thinking evolved, given that the world is changing? Thank you.
Richard J. Tobin -- President and Chief Executive Officer
We don't necessarily make decisions on share price as it relates to cash deployment. I think that we've clearly got a bias for inorganic growth and we've got some things in the pipeline. So to the extent that we can use our available cash there, we will, if we are unable to find inorganic opportunities, then clearly we would average in terms of share buybacks. So overall, I think our thinking is consistent on that matter.
Andrew Obin -- Banc of America Merrill Lynch -- Analyst
Perfect. Thank you.
Operator
Your next question comes from the line of Julian Mitchell of Barclays.
Julian Mitchell -- Barclays -- Analyst
Hi. Good morning, and thanks for the concise prepared remarks. In terms of, I guess, the Refrigeration and Food Equipment business, margins slightly down there despite the encouraging organic top line performance. How should we think about margins in that division for the year as a whole? And how quickly should we expect those margins to start to grow year-on-year when looking at the balance of 2019?
Richard J. Tobin -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Okay, Julian. Well, it's moving parts here, right? So, part of the margin decline is on translation from our SWEP business, which is levered mostly toward Europe and Asia. So, you've got some translation decline there. Belvac, I think that we went through that in some details end of Q4. We said is part of our guidance for 2019. That -- we didn't have a lot of visibility for Belvac. So the comps in the first half of the year. We're probably going to be poor (ph) and we'll see what happens in the second half of the year. That view has not changed. So, that is dilutive to comparable margins year-over-year.
The refrigeration business, it's a bit of a tale of two cities. We're happy with the volume being up modestly. So, that's going to be helpful to us. But we are doing a lot of work on that business in preparation for a large capital project that we're going to be initiating this year. So, we had some transitory costs on product redesign to allow that transition to happen. I think that we're well beyond that. So, we're thinking that we're probably going to get margin accretion going forward in the refrigeration platform.
Julian Mitchell -- Barclays -- Analyst
Thanks very much. And then secondly, when we are thinking about the Fluids business, you did take up the organic growth guide slightly. You've got a very tough comp in the fourth quarter coming up. Maybe just talk about how you see fueling and transport playing out over the balance of the year in that context and any update to the thoughts around the EMV build out within the US specifically?
Richard J. Tobin -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Sure. Well, I think you put your finger on it to a certain extent. We have a tough comp coming in Q4, and we don't have a lot of visibility into Q4. So depending on how this business develops and how EMV develops over the year, there is an opportunity for us to raise our revenue in that particular segment, but we'd like to see some visibility there and be cautious only because the math works against us in Q4.
Comments on EMV, the only thing that's been different for us so far is we're shipping more full dispenser units than kits. So, we're getting more revenue, but that's actually dilutive to margins. So, we'll take it as it comes. I don't think the total value is about where we'd expected it to be, but I think that the mix of that value is slightly different.
Julian Mitchell -- Barclays -- Analyst
Great. Thank you very much.
Operator
Your next question comes from the line of Andrew Kaplowitz of Citigroup.
Andrew Kaplowitz -- Citigroup -- Analyst
Hey. Good morning, guys.
Richard J. Tobin -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Good morning.
Brad M. Cerepak -- Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Good morning.
Andrew Kaplowitz -- Citigroup -- Analyst
Rich, Europe up 14%, I think it was up 10% last quarter. You mentioned the strength in marking and coding, digital printing in particular. But are you able to maintain the stable momentum despite the weaker backdrop? Is it just really led by stricter regulation and from what you could -- from what you could tell, does the growth seem sustainable here?
Richard J. Tobin -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Yeah. Look, I mean, that's why I put it in the prepared remarks because that's the way that we look at it here too, where we are getting weak GDP prints out of Europe. And we're taking that into account of our own forecast, but I think we just need to recognize that Europe is levered toward auto and machinery and those markets are under pressure. And not necessarily is linked in any way to marking and coding. So to a certain extent, marking and coding is not part of the process that's giving kind of a pressure to the European GDP prints.
Look, we'll take it where we -- as long as we can get it, it ends up being a business like digital printing, all of its revenue is European despite the fact that it ships globally. So, it ends up being recognized as European revenue. So, it's a bit of a misnomer to a certain extent.
Andrew Kaplowitz -- Citigroup -- Analyst
Okay. And may I ask you the opposite question then around China. I mean, seems like China has been decelerating to you a little. Fluids up, Engineered Systems down. Can you give us some more color on marking and coding in China? Is there anything concerning going on there? And would you still expect China to be up for the year for Dover on the strength in Fluids?
Richard J. Tobin -- President and Chief Executive Officer
The environment has clearly slowed. We are up. What was it? 1% for the quarter. Right now, I would expect to be up for the year in consolidation, whether it's slightly down in certain segments and slightly up in others. It's hard to say right now because we're working at 100 basis points. But overall, we would expect it to be up for the year. I don't really have a view on Printing and ID at this point.
Andrew Kaplowitz -- Citigroup -- Analyst
Thanks, guys.
Operator
Your next question comes from the line of Jeffrey Sprague of Vertical Research.
Jeffrey Sprague -- Vertical Research Partners. -- Analyst
Thank you. Good morning, everyone.
Richard J. Tobin -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Good morning.
Brad M. Cerepak -- Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Good morning.
Jeffrey Sprague -- Vertical Research Partners. -- Analyst
Hey. Rich, on the automation project in refrigeration in particular, is this something you're going live on now as we speak. I think you said the preparation is behind it. I'm just wondering what kind of managing through that on kind of the peak season as it were for refrigeration.
Richard J. Tobin -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Yeah. We are not going to become operational until Q1 of '20. What we're doing now is intervening on the configuration of the product itself to accommodate that change so, which is part of the question of, we've incurred some costs to allow for that transition.
In terms of -- if the volume goes up, are we going to get caught with our pants down to a certain extent? I think that we're lucky that we have adequate footprint to initiate this project, not at the same -- in the same physical location that we make the product at this time. So, we're reasonably comfortable that we're going to be able to accommodate any shift in demand during '19, if it comes, that we're not going to get caught sideways here.
Jeffrey Sprague -- Vertical Research Partners. -- Analyst
Right. And on the factory issues in fueling, are those completely behind you at this point or are there still some -- you're always going to be looking for efficiencies. What kind of the big obvious problems? Are those largely fixed now?
Richard J. Tobin -- President and Chief Executive Officer
No, I think that the management deserves a lot of credit in terms of being able to get the throughput out. So, part of the reason that the revenue was higher than we had forecasted in Q1 is, is that we are being cautious on our ability to get the throughput out of the two main principal factories and they got them out.
So, that's the good news. Not so good news is the margin conversion and that volume is not entirely satisfactory. I think we've got a plan to increase margins throughout the rest of the year. But look, we're able to get the units out and that's important. Now, we need to kind of grind down on efficiency on top of that volume leverage.
Jeffrey Sprague -- Vertical Research Partners. -- Analyst
Just one last one for me. In terms of like cleaning out the closets from an asset standpoint, I mean, this Finder was a particularly bad deal legacy item, obviously. But is there much more that you're kind of raking through kind of the smaller assets.
Richard J. Tobin -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Nothing that looks like Finder.
Jeffrey Sprague -- Vertical Research Partners. -- Analyst
Yeah. Great. Thank you.
Operator
Your next question comes from the line of Steve Tusa of J.P. Morgan.
Stephen Tusa -- J.P. Morgan -- Analyst
Hey, guys. Good morning.
Richard J. Tobin -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Hey, Steve.
Brad M. Cerepak -- Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Good morning.
Stephen Tusa -- J.P. Morgan -- Analyst
Good execution so far. On kind of the free cash flow, actually better than last year seasonally. How do we -- how should we kind of think about the seasonality of that free cash relative to prior years with everything that's going on? Should it be kind of roughly in line with what happened last year? Just kind of wanted to get some color on how 2Q and 3Q are going to play out.
Brad M. Cerepak -- Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
One would hope that we don't wait till Q4 to get it all, like last year and we kind of progressively -- look, if I look at Q1, the inventory change relative to last year is a lot smaller, so -- which is a reflection of our ability to convert. And I just answered the question about what we're doing in DFS and ESG. So, that's a function of not having industrial inventory because our conversion rates are going up. That I would expect should improve through the year.
On the receivables balance side, I guess it's a question of what do we think about revenues for the year and what do we think about fourth quarter. Right now, I like where we are right now with a strong Q1. I would have -- the fear around here was to kind of get through it and be forced into a position to get to the top-end of our guidance of having another massive Q4.
Now, we've bought some room there. So, we've got our opportunity to look at how demand and backlogs develop over the year. Quite frankly, if we get caught out a little bit on the receivables because our volumes way up. I'll take the trade-off between earnings and receivables. But I think that the core improvement that we can expect here is on the inventory side.
Stephen Tusa -- J.P. Morgan -- Analyst
Got it. And then just looking back to the fourth quarter and the strong orders. Was there anything -- any kind of pre-buy dynamics that you noticed there based on the tariffs and price increases, just broadly?
Richard J. Tobin -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Yeah. It's really hard to say. I think there's probably a little bit of an element of that because we've been trying to get price. So, as we're announcing price increases that drives, let's get in front of that to a certain extent. In DFS in particular, I think it's enormous (ph). We've been pretty forthright that we were having issues about getting the throughput out of our factories. So, that was building up a backlog for us and that's a lot of what cleared in Q1.
Stephen Tusa -- J.P. Morgan -- Analyst
It normalizes.
Richard J. Tobin -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Yeah. So, that kind of normalizes backlogs, if you will.
Stephen Tusa -- J.P. Morgan -- Analyst
Yeah.
Richard J. Tobin -- President and Chief Executive Officer
It's hard to say, I mean, I think by the end of this next quarter, we'll probably have a really clear idea of where we are. But right now, we're never comfortable, but we feel good about the backlogs that we have across the portfolio.
Stephen Tusa -- J.P. Morgan -- Analyst
Okay. One last one on EMV. Any update on kind of the trajectory there? Accelerating, decelerating in the back part of the year, any updates on the EMV transition?
Richard J. Tobin -- President and Chief Executive Officer
If you listened to the comments before about dispensers versus kits, it looks like it's decelerating because the last guys in are going to be kit only and kind of our kit-only shipments right now are relatively low. So, it seems to be stretching out further. (Multiple Speakers)
Stephen Tusa -- J.P. Morgan -- Analyst
Okay. So, you're already kind of seeing deceleration, but it's a -- like you've said before, it's kind of an elongated cycle. So that's pretty different than what I think was the original assumption six months ago, which was very strong kind of '19 and then a drop-off, right?
Richard J. Tobin -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Yeah, I think, but you've got to -- it's a mix and revenue question. Right now revenue looks great because we're doing the entire systems, right?
Stephen Tusa -- J.P. Morgan -- Analyst
Yeah.
Richard J. Tobin -- President and Chief Executive Officer
The margins were on the kits and I think it's pretty intuitive that says the last guys in aren't going to do a complete refurb. They're just going to do the kits.
Stephen Tusa -- J.P. Morgan -- Analyst
Yeah
Richard J. Tobin -- President and Chief Executive Officer
So, I think that in our estimates and it's a funny one, right, because the revenue was less and the margin is up. So, it's accretive to margins but dilutive to trajectory of revenue.
Stephen Tusa -- J.P. Morgan -- Analyst
Got it. Okay. Great. Thanks for the color. Appreciate it.
Richard J. Tobin -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Thanks
Operator
Your next question comes from the line of Deane Dray of RBC Capital Markets.
Deane Dray -- RBC Capital Markets -- Analyst
Thank you. Good morning, everyone.
Richard J. Tobin -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Good morning.
Deane Dray -- RBC Capital Markets -- Analyst
Hey. Rich, I was hoping you could give us the update progress report Phase 1, Phase 2. And then on the benefits, we see they're lumped into corporate. How would they be spread over the segments for this quarter?
Richard J. Tobin -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Okay. I think I understood the first question. I'm going to need some clarification on the second one. Where we are -- you're talking about footprint?
Deane Dray -- RBC Capital Markets -- Analyst
Yes, right.
Richard J. Tobin -- President and Chief Executive Officer
We are -- look, what we've announced, let's consider that Phase 1. Phase 2, we need to deploy some capital, which we're doing now in order to move on to that particular portion of it. So, we're in a little bit of a transition period. And I think if you go back and look at our disclosures from Q4 about how we called out the capital investments that we're making, those were to accommodate further actions into the future. Other than that, that's really all I can say until we are ready to call one of them off, but we're making reasonably good progress. But some of the bigger moves that we need to make require initial capital.
Second question --
Deane Dray -- RBC Capital Markets -- Analyst
Yeah. So the moves that you've made so far and the payback on those, are we seeing that today in the results today? Because it looked like it was all being carried in corporate (Multiple Speakers) question.
Richard J. Tobin -- President and Chief Executive Officer
The -- you don't see anything in Q1. That's why it's not there. It's zero in Q1. It's coming...
Brad M. Cerepak -- Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
for the footprint.
Richard J. Tobin -- President and Chief Executive Officer
...for the footprint.
Brad M. Cerepak -- Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
The SG&A is there. You were asking about the SG&A.
Richard J. Tobin -- President and Chief Executive Officer
So it's not like we moved the footprint pennies into another block. It's just zero.
Deane Dray -- RBC Capital Markets -- Analyst
Got it. And what about SG&A, then?
Richard J. Tobin -- President and Chief Executive Officer
SG&A, beating a dead horse, we're clearly on track and delivering the objective because of the fact that we started in the second half of the year. You're going to get real good comps in Q1, Q2, then it will dilute in the second half of the year.
Deane Dray -- RBC Capital Markets -- Analyst
Got it. Thank you.
Richard J. Tobin -- President and Chief Executive Officer
You're welcome.
Operator
Your next question comes from the line of Mig Dobre of Baird.
Mircea Dobre -- Robert W. Baird & Co. -- Analyst
Yes. Good morning, everyone. Just wanted to go back to price costs. I think I heard you mention good price costs in Fluids maybe. Have you commented on the other segments? And how do you think about this dynamic through the year and your costs specifically, how do you think those are going to progress through the year?
Richard J. Tobin -- President and Chief Executive Officer
We have, Brad, correct me, but I think that in consolidation, we are slightly negative in price costs in Q1. We would expect to make progress on that through the year as price increases gain traction as we go throughout. And in engineering systems specifically, we have done well on price costs but in consolidation, it's slightly negative.
Mircea Dobre -- Robert W. Baird & Co. -- Analyst
So -- but you said that price costs was positive influence as well. So, was it a drag in, basically, the remaining segment here?
Richard J. Tobin -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Yeah. I think it's by platform. So we are parsing now between individual platforms within the segments. I think the headwinds are in the industrial side, pieces of the industrial side of engineering systems, headwinds in refrigeration and food retail. I'm doing this off the top of my head. And in Fluids, I think that we're positive overall.
Mircea Dobre -- Robert W. Baird & Co. -- Analyst
Okay. And then lastly, as you think about the full year, do you expect to be positive from a price cost standpoint?
Richard J. Tobin -- President and Chief Executive Officer
That's our expectation here.
Mircea Dobre -- Robert W. Baird & Co. -- Analyst
Okay. Great. Thank you.
Brad M. Cerepak -- Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Yeah. It widens out a little bit to the back half.
Operator
Your next question comes from the line of John Inch of Gordon Haskett.
John Inch -- Gordon Haskett -- Analyst
Good morning, everyone.
Richard J. Tobin -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Good morning.
John Inch -- Gordon Haskett -- Analyst
Good morning. Hey, Rich. ESG, so it was a big slug of the organic. You said you have enough backlog to work through the third quarter and you're excited. I guess, you said about systems and software. Do you expect the bookings to pick back up again just to -- I called it out, I realize it's a small business, but it was an outsized impact, right, to the booking trends this Q. So, what's the (Multiple Speakers)
Richard J. Tobin -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Yeah. No, it's not that small of a business. I -- look, I -- we don't have any visibility into Q4 at this point. So, despite grinding down some of the backlog that we had because of chassis availability and good production performance. The number, flagging, that's why it was called out in the presentation. It flexes the whole segment because the total value of that business and its weight within the sector.
We've got a really good backlog. I think that in any other year we would be super happy about what we've got. Let's get another quarter under our belt, and we can probably say where we are for the full year, but we're into Q3 now, which is pretty good.
John Inch -- Gordon Haskett -- Analyst
Yeah. I'm just trying to understand you're not expecting an extended air pocket in future bookings based on what I --
Richard J. Tobin -- President and Chief Executive Officer
I have no indication that that's going to happen.
Brad M. Cerepak -- Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
No reason to believe that.
John Inch -- Gordon Haskett -- Analyst
Okay. Great. The SG&A, sales for the year, I think the $72 million, I thought they were going to be -- we just made an assumption they maybe kind of linear, which suggested maybe $0.10 of benefit this Q, but it was $0.15. I don't want to split hairs but did you pull some of that forward, which is not a bad problem to have or issue to have, right?
Richard J. Tobin -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Yeah, I think that our estimate -- I think that we knew from a comp point of view, it's going to be weighted toward the first half because we had 30 plus in the second half of last year. Getting it down to the millions of dollars, I mean, we'll take it as it comes to a certain extent, right?
Brad M. Cerepak -- Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
But there is -- let me just articulate here that there is a slight difference in presentation just so you're aware of. The $0.15 is pure SG&A, not reinvestment, whereas before we were netting reinvestment in there, so I'll just clarify.
John Inch -- Gordon Haskett -- Analyst
Okay.
Brad M. Cerepak -- Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
So the $0.15 -- we have reinvestment in the first quarter. I call it roughly $0.02, $0.03 of reinvestment. Reinvestment will ramp, as we said before in this year. So, we're not changing our views on reinvestment, but you're looking at $0.15 in the quarter, which is we peg at $28 million. So, you've got to think about that as pre-reinvestment.
That will track to the back half pretty solidly except and you get to year-over-year of the impact. Remember, we did $8 million in the third quarter, $22 million in the fourth quarter. So, again, I think we're right on track where we expect it to be, maybe even a little bit higher based on the first quarter $0.15 print.
John Inch -- Gordon Haskett -- Analyst
Yeah. I was going to ask, the $0.72 (ph), has it changed? And it sounds like...
Brad M. Cerepak -- Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Slightly.
John Inch -- Gordon Haskett -- Analyst
...it's slightly gone up a little bit.
Richard J. Tobin -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Yeah. Slightly, a little bit better.
John Inch -- Gordon Haskett -- Analyst
Last question, Rich. So, selling Finder and we're working toward this portfolio. I guess, you're going to have a bit of a portfolio coming-out party in September. Can you talk a little bit about just your process? How you're working toward that? Like in other words, presumably, there's got to be a lot of steps that occur to then be able to say, look, here's how I'm thinking about the portfolio. We've done this cleanup. But how do you go from sort of where you've been to where we're going to be, to be able to talk to that because I'm really curious how you're working through this?
Richard J. Tobin -- President and Chief Executive Officer
It's a really long answer. We're looking at future projections on return on invested capital by operating company, right. And then where they are, performance relative to their peers and then relative to the market structure. Clearly, Finder comes out like a bit of a sore thumb. So, it needed to be actioned quickly. I don't think that there's anything in the remaining portion of the portfolio that's got remotely the same dynamics that, that does.
So I mean, we're looking at it holistically, meaning that it's not a question of portfolio purity. It's purely a question of future returns by operating company relative to their participation in their market structure. That's how we look at it.
John Inch -- Gordon Haskett -- Analyst
Got it. Thanks much. Appreciate it.
Operator
Your next question comes from the line of Nigel Coe of Wolfe Research.
Nigel Coe -- Wolfe Research -- Analyst
Thanks. Good morning. We covered a lot of ground already. So, just a few quick ones (ph) here. Obviously, great progress on the SG&A initiatives. I'm just curious. Phase 2 is obviously more COGS focused, but your SG&A is still going to be relatively high compared to your peers. So, I'm just wondering if there is a Phase 2 in the SG&A beyond this year, Rich.
Richard J. Tobin -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Look, nothing of the quantum that we've done, right? But understand that in the background, there's a lot of what we're doing about these digital initiatives that enhance our ability to consolidate back offices. So in -- but those are longer running programs that were running in the background as opposed to kind of just core, let's kind of revisit what we've got.
So, I think that there is opportunity, but I don't expect that there's a Phase 2 of SG&A takeout kind of low-hanging fruit. I think we're just going to have to -- it's more -- SG&A goes into the total productivity equation now as opposed to on a stand-alone. And to be fair, SG&A at Dover has got R&D in it. And I think once we split R&D out of SG&A, we're going to comp better also.
Nigel Coe -- Wolfe Research -- Analyst
Yeah. Okay. That's helpful. And then there is a friction around the 1Q set up for consensus, especially as it relates to the Fluids seasonality. So, I'm just curious. If you've got any -- recognize you don't give quarterly guidance, but any commentary around 2Q in particular with regards to that, how you see Fluids ramping up seasonally? And then maybe refrigeration margins. How does it look relative to the 1Q? Would you expect that to step up in a similar veins to what we see normally?
Richard J. Tobin -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Yeah. I mean, I think that the two businesses we've identified, both have a good dynamic in terms of their top line, which is helpful to us, improving the margins of those two segments. So, I think progressively through the year, we expect to make progress in both of those particular segments.
Nigel Coe -- Wolfe Research -- Analyst
Okay. Great. Thanks.
Richard J. Tobin -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Yeah.
Operator
Your next question comes from the line of Josh Pokrzywinski of Morgan Stanley.
Josh Pokrzywinski -- Morgan Stanley -- Analyst
Hi. Good morning, guys.
Richard J. Tobin -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Good morning.
Brad M. Cerepak -- Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Good morning.
Josh Pokrzywinski -- Morgan Stanley -- Analyst
Yes. I think to the -- probably in the last question, we've covered a lot of ground but maybe just to stick with SG&A for a second, Rich. I think the initial progress there was pretty immediate once you guys announced it. And I would imagine that there were probably area (ph) since then that you found maybe a bit more opportunity or perhaps on the other side where there was maybe some indiscriminate cuts. Should we see the shape of SG&A start to look a little different as you refine the program? Are you pretty satisfied with kind of the initial phasing of how that went across the organization?
Richard J. Tobin -- President and Chief Executive Officer
I'm satisfied with the organization's ability to undertake, which is a difficult exercise and the speed at which it was done. It's never going to end, but this was a particular program that we thought was important to identify and execute on.
Once we reach that program limit relative to the restructuring charge that we took, you can foresee that these EPS bridges won't have that SG&A. Any other ancillary benefit will roll over into conversion at the end of the day. So, at a certain point, we're just going to stop reporting out of once we reach conclusion because then it becomes relatively discrete and it's not part of a program, right? We -- what we said back in September is, if we take a charge for, we're going to report back on delivery for that charge. Once we are beyond that phase, it's just going to go back into conversion.
Josh Pokrzywinski -- Morgan Stanley -- Analyst
Got it. And then just to follow up on refrigeration. I guess, similar to what you guys have talked about in Fluids. How should we think about the phasing of the year there? I think orders have been positive for a couple quarters. You've built some nice backlog. Do we start to see revenue growth move closer and lockstep with orders from here? Or is there still going to be kind of another lag in that, that execution of those shipments?
Richard J. Tobin -- President and Chief Executive Officer
I don't know, is the answer to that. I think that we can see it in the backlog. We can see that from a production point of view. We're doing a decent job in terms of getting into that backlog. Now, we're really not seeing it yet in terms of the margin conversion, but I think that we had some transitory costs. I prefer to wait till the end of Q2 to kind of get more granular.
Look, we're -- it's a positive thing. For the first time in six quarters, the backlog is up and our revenue went up. I think that we've still got a lot of work to do, to see what that means in terms of kind of pre-industrialization margin performance.
Josh Pokrzywinski -- Morgan Stanley -- Analyst
Got it. Thanks for the color.
Richard J. Tobin -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Thanks.
Operator
Your next question comes from the line of Scott Graham of BMO Capital Markets.
Scott Graham -- BMO Capital Markets -- Analyst
Hey. Good morning.
Richard J. Tobin -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Good morning.
Brad M. Cerepak -- Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Obviously, a lot asked, so mine are kind of piggybacks on, maybe some clarifications. Is it possible, Brad, on the ES bookings, the organic, if we were to pull out the ESG, what that number -- what that minus 33 would look like?
Richard J. Tobin -- President and Chief Executive Officer
You know what, I think we can give you that as a follow-up. We're going to have to calculate it. We can give you that one offline.
Scott Graham -- BMO Capital Markets -- Analyst
Okay. Secondly, on price cost, I know there was a question asked earlier but kind of where you stand today with some price -- some commodity prices going down and your pricing in. Would you expect at December 31 to be on a full-year basis price cost neutral, or sort of at December 31 price cost neutral.
Richard J. Tobin -- President and Chief Executive Officer
I think that we will work our way there. We are slightly negative now. It is highly dependent on price realization. Our expectation is to be positive. I can't give you the quantum at the end of Q1.
Scott Graham -- BMO Capital Markets -- Analyst
That's fair. Last question relates to the refrigeration business. I know that there's only so much you can say about that. But all of your customers have set your budgets for '19. Is there anything there that they're telling you that is of concern, moving toward more digital spending? It doesn't sound like it. Or are you just maybe a little bit more guarded on saying anything right now? Or are they saying anything negative about spending on your product on merchandising?
Richard J. Tobin -- President and Chief Executive Officer
No, not negative, I think, which is reflected in the backlog. I just think that we're cautious on. We've got 1% growth embedded in our forecasts. Would we like to take that based on backlog? Yes. But I think that we're cautious because we don't have a lot of visibility into the second half.
Scott Graham -- BMO Capital Markets -- Analyst
Understood. Thank you.
Richard J. Tobin -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Welcome.
Operator
Your next question comes from the line of Joe Ritchie of Goldman Sachs.
Joe Ritchie -- Goldman Sachs -- Analyst
Hi. Good morning, guys.
Richard J. Tobin -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Good morning.
Brad M. Cerepak -- Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Good morning.
Joe Ritchie -- Goldman Sachs -- Analyst
So, just focused on the refrigeration business for a second and this whole commentary around price costs. I saw that pricing this quarter was pretty de minimis and you guys put through some price last year effectively. I'm just wondering, like, are you expecting to get more price in that business this year? And then specifically on margins, is your expectation at this point that margins in the business will be up year-over-year?
Richard J. Tobin -- President and Chief Executive Officer
I think that we're cautious about price realization in this business and our expectation is for margins to increase in the refrigeration segment of the business. In the segment, I think that we're going to have to wait and see because of Belvac's ability to swing margins.
Joe Ritchie -- Goldman Sachs -- Analyst
Okay. That's fair. And then, I guess just my one follow-up. And just -- and just, again, just kind of focus on margins for a second in the Fluids segment. Can you give us an update on Wayne specifically and how that business is doing? And what impact at all that's having potentially to margins as we thought pretty much flat this past quarter?
Richard J. Tobin -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Wayne North America is doing very well in terms of production performance and margin.
Joe Ritchie -- Goldman Sachs -- Analyst
Okay. So, Wayne North America, OK. International, not as good.
Richard J. Tobin -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Right. I think that we've been pretty upfront that our -- the margin performance between our North American and European operations is quite wide. So, part of the area of focus for us of meeting our objectives in that particular segment is to deal with a relative underperformance in margins in Europe.
Joe Ritchie -- Goldman Sachs -- Analyst
Got it. And Rich, are you starting to see any of that turn at all? Or is it -- is this like a longer process? And just maybe any color around that would be helpful.
Richard J. Tobin -- President and Chief Executive Officer
I think, to their credit that the European operations have fixed to their throughput challenges. So, that's a big step in getting there, but we've got a long way to go.
Joe Ritchie -- Goldman Sachs -- Analyst
Okay. Fair enough. Thanks, guys.
Operator
Your next question comes from the line of Charley Brady of SunTrust Robinson Humphrey.
Charley Brady -- SunTrust Robinson Humphrey -- Analyst
Thanks. On and Food Equipment, on the transitory costs, can you quantify what the margin impact is on that in the quarter? And if I heard you correctly, it sounds like those are essentially done, so that pressure isn't on the remainder of the year. Is that correct?
Richard J. Tobin -- President and Chief Executive Officer
No, I can't but I won't quantify them. Our expectation is, is that their impact going forward will be less than it had been in Q1.
Charley Brady -- SunTrust Robinson Humphrey -- Analyst
Okay. And on the pumps business, obviously pretty strong growth and bookings there. Can you just get a little more granular on where you're seeing now? I think in the Q, you talked about large OEMs. Just what's driving that strong growth in pumps?
Richard J. Tobin -- President and Chief Executive Officer
It is across the platform. So, it's not any particular business out of the few that are in there. I think that it's just across the entire platform. I think that market demand remains robust and I think that our businesses are winning in the marketplace also.
Charley Brady -- SunTrust Robinson Humphrey -- Analyst
Okay. Last one for me. Just on labor and freight costs. Can you just comment what you're seeing there trend-wise ? Is freight getting any better? Are you seeing a tick down in some of the rates or is this still tough sledding?
Richard J. Tobin -- President and Chief Executive Officer
I think we would have expected it to come down but it's being offset by fuel surcharges. Now the fuels gone back up to $4 of gallon diesel. So, net neutral.
Charley Brady -- SunTrust Robinson Humphrey -- Analyst
Thanks. Appreciate it.
Richard J. Tobin -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Thanks.
Operator
Thank you. That concludes our question-and-answer period. I would now like to turn the call back over to Mr. Galiuk for closing remarks.
Andrey Galiuk -- Vice President, Corporate Development and Investor Relations
Thank you. This concludes our conference call. We thank you for your interest in Dover and look forward to speaking to you next quarter.
Operator
Thank you. That concludes today's first quarter 2019 Dover earnings conference call. You may now disconnect your lines and have a wonderful day.
Duration: 51 minutes
Call participants:
Andrey Galiuk -- Vice President, Corporate Development and Investor Relations
Richard J. Tobin -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Brad M. Cerepak -- Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Andrew Obin -- Banc of America Merrill Lynch -- Analyst
Julian Mitchell -- Barclays -- Analyst
Andrew Kaplowitz -- Citigroup -- Analyst
Jeffrey Sprague -- Vertical Research Partners. -- Analyst
Stephen Tusa -- J.P. Morgan -- Analyst
Deane Dray -- RBC Capital Markets -- Analyst
Mircea Dobre -- Robert W. Baird & Co. -- Analyst
John Inch -- Gordon Haskett -- Analyst
Nigel Coe -- Wolfe Research -- Analyst
Josh Pokrzywinski -- Morgan Stanley -- Analyst
Scott Graham -- BMO Capital Markets -- Analyst
Joe Ritchie -- Goldman Sachs -- Analyst
Charley Brady -- SunTrust Robinson Humphrey -- Analyst
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