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Operator
Good day and welcome to this American Woodmark Corporation conference call. Today's call is being recorded. The Company has asked us to read the following Safe Harbor statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.
All forward-looking statements made by the Company involve material risks and uncertainties and are subject to change based on factors that may beyond the Company's control. Accordingly, the Company's future performance and financial results may differ materially from those expressed or implied in any such forward-looking statements. Such factors include, but are not limited to those described in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission and the annual report to shareholders. The Company does not undertake to publicly update or revise its forward-looking statements even if experience or future changes make it clear that any projected results expressed or implied therein will not be realized. At this time, I would like to turn the call over to Glenn Eanes, Vice President and Treasurer. Please go ahead, sir
- VP & Treasurer
Thank you. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to this American Woodmark conference call to review our first quarter of our fiscal quarter ending July 31, 2013. Thank you for taking time to participate. Participating on the call today from American Woodmark will be Kent Guichard, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, and myself. Kent will begin with a review of the quarter, concluded with an outlook on the future. After Kent's comments, we will be happy to answer your questions. Kent?
- Chairman & CEO
Good morning, everyone, and again, thank you for joining us. This morning as you all know, we released the results of our first fiscal quarter ended July 31, 2013 for our fiscal year 2014. The financial headlines for the quarter -- net sales were $178 million, representing an increase of 20% over the same period last year. Exclusive of after-tax restructuring charges, reported net income was $6.7 million or $0.43 per diluted share versus $1 million or $0.07 per diluted share last year. Restructuring charges during the current year in the first quarter were negligible, really limited due to the care-taking of the two closed facilities that remained up for sale. If you adjust for restructuring charges, last year, which were about $0.5 million, so if you include all charges in both periods, reported net income comparisons are $6.7 million or $0.43 per diluted share this year versus $0.6 million or $0.04 per share last year. During the quarter, the Company increased cash and cash equivalents by $3.5 million, ending the quarter with $100 million in cash and cash equivalents on hand.
Regarding market conditions and our first-quarter sales performance, we'll start on the new construction side of the Business first. Housing starts continue to grow, reflecting a recovering real estate market. Total starts were up 28% from calendar 2011 to calendar 2012. That trend has continued into calendar 2013, with year-to-date starts through July up 23%. Single-family activity, which is most relevant to our customer base, has been running basically with the market. Single-family starts were slightly below the market in calendar 2012, 24% for single-family versus 28% of the total market, but are running slightly ahead of the market through July in calendar 2013, where single-family running about 25% year-to-date versus 23% for the overall market. In this environment, our new construction-based revenue increased over 40%, signaling significant share gains. Our total growth in new construction continues to be driven by the rise in the overall market activity, combined with our customers gaining share against other builders and with our share gains within those customers.
Moving over to the remodel side of the Business, overall remodel activity is improved but still sluggish. Data on remodel activity is more difficult to gather and assess than housing starts is as an indicator of activity on the new construction side. For several years now, maybe the best macro indicator is probably residential investment as a percent of GDP, which continues to improve, if ever so slowly. Over the last five sequential calendar quarters, it has moved from 2.7% for the quarter ended June 2012 to 2.8% to 2.9% to 3% to 3.1% in quarter ended June 2013.
Other often cited indicators of remodeling activity -- existing home sales over the most recent quarter were up approximately 10% from around 4.5 million units as an annual run rate this time last year to approximately 5 million units in the last few months. Home prices continue to rise, as reflected by the Case-Shiller Index, with both the 10 and 20-city composites up 11% to 12% on a year over year basis. And the unemployment index continues to drift downward with a 7.4% reported for July, the lowest level since December 2008. All of this is reflective of a market that is improving. The remodel side of the industry is probably up in the mid-single-digits, which represents growth but certainly not the rate of recovery we've seen to date on the new construction side. In this remodel environment, we basically reflected the market on that side of our Business.
Moving from sales to gross profit, the Company's gross profit margin for the first quarter of fiscal year 2014 was 18.9% of net sales, a 400 basis point improvement over the 14.9% reported in the first quarter of last year. The Company generated year over year incremental gross margin of $11.7 million on incremental net sales of $29.8 million, resulting in an incremental gross margin rate of 39%. The improvement in gross margin was driven by improvement in both labor and overhead costs. Regarding labor, during the first quarter of last year, we experienced significant labor inefficiencies related to the closure of two plants and the relocation of production to our remaining facilities, while at the same time we were increasing overall production levels to meet the growth in new construction. The inefficiencies continued into our second fiscal quarter, moderated during the third quarter and were resolved by the fourth quarter of fiscal 2013. Results in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2013 and the first quarter of fiscal 2014 are reflective of the labor efficiencies associated with our operating platform after the restructuring actions announced at the end of calendar 2011 and implemented in 2012 were completed.
Regarding overhead, the first-quarter results of the current year reflect the benefit of favorable leverage in the overhead component of cost of goods sold, from the combination of the favorable impact of higher volume on fixed and semi-fixed cost and from cost savings due to our restructuring actions last year. The improvements in labor and overhead were partially offset by rising material costs across a broad range of inputs including hardwood lumber, particle board, plywood, linerboard, and finishing materials. Regarding operating expenses, total operating expenses were improved from 13.6% of net sales in the first quarter of the prior year to 12.8% this fiscal year. Breaking that down between selling and marketing expenses and G&A, selling and marketing expenses were 8.1% of net sales in the first quarter of this year, down from 9.8% in the prior year. In terms of dollars, selling and marketing cost were flat year over year on a sales increase of 20%, which generated the leverage. General and administrative expenses were 4.7% of net sales in the first quarter of fiscal 2014 compared with 3.8% in the prior year. G&A costs increased by $2.8 million, driven primarily by accruals related to the Company's performance-based compensation plans.
Regarding the Company's capital spending and cash flows, the Company generated operating cash flow of $2.3 million during the first quarter of fiscal 2014, an improvement of $6 million over the prior year. The improvement in operating cash flow was driven by higher profitability and timing associated with tax payments. These improvements were partially offset by increased accounts receivable, due to both higher sales activity and timing associated with payments from customers. Free cash flow was a negative $0.7 million in the first quarter of fiscal 2014, an improvement of $4.9 million from the prior year.
In addition to the components of operating cash flow, the change in free cash flow year over year was impacted by proceeds from the sale of assets held for sale in the prior year which were not repeated in the current year. The Company increased cash by $3.5 million during the first quarter of fiscal 2014. In addition to the components of free cash flow, the Company generated $4.2 million in proceeds from the exercise of stock options, under the Company's long-term incentive plan for employees. From a balance sheet perspective the Company's financial position remains outstanding. Again, the Company ended the quarter with a total of $100.4 million in cash and cash equivalents compared with long-term debt of $23.6 million. Long-term debt-to-capital was 13% at July 31, 2013.
Those are the headlines. Just before I take questions in closing to summarize, we are pleased with the progress demonstrated by our first-quarter results. We continue to gain share in an improving market and the decisions we made during the course of the down cycle have put us in a position to capitalize on the current opportunities and generate meaningful, positive financial leverage. The challenges in the period ahead are difficult than those of the past several years. Namely, supporting compound growth in an efficient manner while facing the reality of inflationary pressures on raw materials. But we continue to believe we are, on balance, well prepared to meet those challenges in a way that is beneficial to our long-term shareholders. Those are my prepared remarks. I'd be happy to answer any questions you have at this time
Operator
(Operator Instructions)
David MacGregor, Longbow Research.
- Analyst
Kent, very nice quarter. Just to start off with a big picture question here, you're heading into a cyclical recovery here. Presumably things continue to get better. With all the changes that you've executed upon here over the course of the past year or two, or even longer through the downturn, what do you think of right now as being your peak revenue-generating capability and your peak EBIT margins?
- Chairman & CEO
Well, let's start with the revenue first. I'm not sure with the peak, in terms of relation to capacity or what's out there in the marketplace?
- Analyst
Well, if presumably you're going to reinvest capital, you've got a substantial cash position so that you'll support continued top-line growth. I'm just try to get a sense of -- you're a stock player as opposed to a semi-custom player based on the channels where you're situated you've probably got some sense of what that might represent in terms of peak revenues? I'd just like to tap into your thoughts on that?
- Chairman & CEO
Yes, what I would point you to is at the last peak of the cycle, when you go back to, say, '05, '06, we didn't quite hit $1 billion in terms of total revenue. We got up to $850 million to $900 million -- a little over $900 million on a gross revenue basis, and since that time, we've gained significant share. So if you get a market that's back to -- if people talk about a normalized market. I'm not sure there's such a thing as a normalized market in housing anymore but a normalized market of say you're building 1.5 to 1.6 new units and you have got a turnover rate of call it the low to mid 5%s, call of 5.4%, maybe 5.5% on the existing housing market, and then you roll our share gains on top of that, I certainly think the revenue potential for us, at the top of the next cycle, is over $1 billion.
To what degree? Again, there are a lot of variables in that equation but certainly, if you look at how we're positioned today from both a product pricing and you lay that on our service platform, which has gained a lot of share for us, and you get up to the next cycle I certainly think it's in excess of the last peak, certainly. From a pre-tax margin or operating margin and again if you go back, take the last five years out of the equation, because of the extreme environment we're in, we ran consistently there in a good market. About 8% to 10% pre-tax as a percentage of sales. And that's a band that we're targeting, that 8% to 10%, you get higher in that the more the market recovers and the more of your capacity utilized. You're at the lower end of that band if the market is taking a bit of a stall on or you've had to just make a significant reinvestment in capacity. So we're looking at that 8% to 10% band.
- Analyst
Can you just talk about the three or four main buckets that get you to that 8% to 10%? Presumably one of them is just the operating leverage as you get more volume, but I would imagine some relief from the promotional environment might be a contributive factor, cost savings, I wonder if you could just walk us through that?
- Chairman & CEO
Yes, they're a lot of the components that you could imagine we talk about. There's just more market activity. During the downturn we saw rotation down, particularly on the new construction side. We saw a lot of rotation down on the price points for a lot of reasons. Part of it is people were trying to get into a house but on a limited budget. A lot of it had to do with appraisals, the way the appraisal system worked -- that industry worked during the downturn, there was virtually impossible to get upgrades appraised on the new construction side. And we didn't see as much on the remodel side but we saw some of it there on a like versus like basis and now we offset that to a degree with some of our new product introductions at the higher end of our price point.
But certainly the overall activity in terms of number of units, I would expect us on the up cycle to see more upgrades, particularly on the new construction side. People using their discretionary dollars to upgrade key features of a home which they did not do during the downturn. I would see that. Along with that mix and some other things, I would expect that we would see promotional activity to moderate. So that would be, in that bucket, that's a pretty big bucket. Then the other one is, we certainly get leverage but also the improvements we've made in terms of efficiency. And our lean and Six Sigma programs and some of those types of things about how efficient we are actually producing product. So both of those is where the real leverage is going to come from as we go forward. Does that answer your question?
- Analyst
Yes and then just on operating leverage what should we be thinking about from a contribution margin if you can just update us on your incremental gross margins thoughts?
- Chairman & CEO
Yes, clearly, the last couple of quarters, we've been in the high 30%s, 40%. More of that has to do with low comps than anything else. If you look, for example, at this quarter, if I talk about that 8% to 10% pre-tax band, we're back to 6% so we're not really back within the band where we want to be. So the gross margin, the incremental is still driven a lot by the low comps. As we think about it, going forward, we think, again I will give you a band, that when you have reasonable comps in your base, we're talking 25% to 30%. Now as this thing starts to moderate and we get higher comps but we're not in that 8% to 10% operating income band, we would expect to be at the higher range of that 25% to 30%. When we have tougher comps or we are doing some other things, particularly again like a big investment in capacity for the future, we might tend to see that in the lower range of that band. But certainly 25% to 30% is longer-term what is realistic for us. But again, the last couple of quarters have been helped a lot just by lower comp period.
- Analyst
Great. Thanks very much. Good luck.
Operator
(Operator Instructions)
Scott Rednor, Zelman & Associates
- Analyst
Just to clarify, the 25% to 30% is on the gross margin on the EBIT line in terms of incremental drop-down?
- Chairman & CEO
Well, it's -- the way we've -- what happens in a lot of our SG&A and G&A accounts, it's not that much different, you're not going to be seeing that much difference between those two.
- Analyst
Okay.
- Chairman & CEO
I have a sense of you think about it more as the gross margin line but, I would think that all the way down because of what's in our G&A accounts, the thing that really move that, as you saw this quarter, is our pay-for-performance programs. They have a tendency to moderate and balance over time. As we perform better, we actually up the targets upon a relative basis. So those things, when you're going from a low-performance period to a better-performance period, they can come in. But generally, that 25% to 30% band is going to be on pretty much either one of those.
- Analyst
Got it, that's helpful. And then you're referring to the 8% to 10% pre-tax that you guys historically have done, why could that not be better given that you guys are going to be a bigger Company as you gain share, the restructurings that you took from a capacity standpoint and that I believe at that time you were still in some low-end product categories that you guys subsequently got out of and you've moved mix up in that time, so why could you not do better from a margin standpoint in a recovery scenario?
- Chairman & CEO
Well, there's primarily what has -- there are a lot of other parts of the equation that have changed as well. To go back to my remarks, there's a lot of pressure on material costs, as an example. And while the promotional environment, to go back to the previous question -- the promotional environment will moderate going forward. I'm not sure that we're -- once that genie is out of the bottle that you're ever going to get the promotional costs back down to where they were in the prior environment. So there are a lot of the things -- yours is all of the things being equal, well all things are never equal so there are a lot of other fundamental changes. The industry, the basic margin structure of the industry supports that. And if you start to get over that, I have two concerns -- on a consistent basis I have two concerns.
One of them is we are basically harvesting market share because the -- our industry is willing to live and has good reinvestment returns at that 8% to 10% level when you go through the math. And so if we try to drive it above that, we're going in essence be liquidating some of our market share. The other thing is, once we get over that, we also start to question about whether we're reinvesting appropriately in the Business. Whether it's capacity, whether it's product, whether it's other elements of the Organization. Whether or not we're really reinvesting properly. So at least when we run through the math, that 8% to 10% keeps us competitive, helps us maintain or even maintain share and even growth based on our service platform. Gives appropriate return and still gives us margin to do things to reinvest in the future.
- Analyst
Appreciate that, very helpful. And then one last question, can you give an update for what your CapEx plans are going to be or what they're budgeted for this year? And where you guys are sorting out? I believe in prior quarters there was, given that the recovery has come a little bit faster, you guys are reconsidering what you might put to work in terms of a footprint standpoint?
- Chairman & CEO
Yes. First of all, I'll split it and you'll see that in the Q when we file it, and consistent is we expect for just the day in and day out, the basics of the Business, whether it's CapEx in our plants or our investment in displays, we expect it to be a little bit above last year. Maybe mid-teens, as a baseline in terms of our outlay. On top of that, which you are referring to, our -- particularly our call last quarter, is what we're going to do about capacity. And I mentioned last quarter that we were working very hard on our capacity plans and we hope to have something pretty much decided at this point. Our preferred, we went through all that work, and our preferred operational capacity expansion, once we costed it out there has been an extreme run-up in construction costs. Both buildings for steel and concrete, other things, as well as equipment cost. By the time we costed out our preferred operational option, quite frankly, it just wasn't financially attractive. So we're regrouping and deciding what we are going to do.
We have enough capacity to last us at these growth rates probably another 18 months, and so we are working with our vendor partners to increase that, to push that out probably another 6 to 12 months while we continue to analyze our other options in terms of increasing capacity. So, again, last quarter I had hoped to have an answer for you on this call but we priced that and we are, quite frankly, there was a little bit of sticker shock in terms of what buildings and equipment cost. Everybody is getting in line. There is a shortage. The lead times are going out for these things and the cost, as you would imagine, is going up pretty significantly. So what we're going to do is we're going to continue to work on that as quickly as we can. Depending on how we come out there, if we do a new facility, if we do an expansion or a partial expansion of a different facility of course those CapEx numbers would be on top of that baseline in the mid-teens. And as soon as we have decided a course of action, during the following -- that quarter -- during that call, is when we'd share that with you all.
- Analyst
Okay, great. Thanks for all that detail, Kent.
Operator
(Operator Instructions)
Peter Lisnic, Robert W. Baird
- Analyst
Kent, just on that CapEx question, can you maybe reframe that a little bit and help us understand exactly what you might need to put in the ground to get to that $1 billion or $1 billion plus revenue target as you look to the peak?
- Chairman & CEO
No, actually I can't.
- Analyst
Okay.
- Chairman & CEO
And the reason is because we really haven't decided on a complete course of action and there is a wide range between options in terms, particularly as it relates to our capital requirements. The biggest being outsourced versus insource. But even insource, we have a lot of different options. Greenfield sites are more expensive obviously than expansions or partial expansions. And so, there really is, at this point, if you look at all the options that we're analyzing, there is a really wide range of capital requirements. And I wouldn't want to give you an average number and have it be way below or way above and I don't feel comfortable giving you the range. What we're going to do is we're going to work that as quickly as we can so that we can not only just get going and tell you all get going but it also is going to be in indicator for us when you look at our $100 million of cash on hand, in terms of how much of that we're going to redeploy in the Business and how much of that, in addition to a safety cushion, how much of that we're willing to really go forward a little bit more aggressively with the purchase program. So that really is the $64 question, and quite frankly at this point, I could talk for a while but I probably wouldn't say anything.
- Analyst
Okay.
- Chairman & CEO
And if I threw something out there what I am concerned about is that we would give information that would ultimately turn out to be something different.
- Analyst
Okay. No, I understand. I've -- the other way I was going to ask it and you're probably going to come up with the same answer -- is there a rule of thumb to think about? Let's say you want to add $100 million of revenue that equals X of CapEx but probably (inaudible)--?
- Chairman & CEO
Again, it depends on where and how.
- Analyst
Okay. Yes. No problem. So switching gears, just on the remodel market, and that being around mid-single-digit growth in the quarter, and your growth matching the market, can you give us a little color as to what happened in the various pieces of that business? Obviously, dealer is not a big piece of that yet, but presumably growing versus home center. Was there anything from a share perspective or anything odd from a growth perspective in those two channels that you can call out for us?
- Chairman & CEO
Yes, not really. Some of the trends that we've seen in the last, call it, 6 to 12 month thereabouts, is that if you break down the remodel, our sense is that the dealer business has a little bit higher growth rate than the big box side of it. And we can talk about -- speculate about -- why that is, but if you try and break down the numbers, we think that the dealer business is coming back a little bit stronger, the big boxes are growing but they're a little bit of the downside of average and the dealers are a little bit on the upside. Nothing dramatic but there is a tiny bit of a shift there.
- Analyst
Okay
- Chairman & CEO
And there are a couple of reasons. Certainly their model, they are a high-touch model. But they've also become more aggressive on promotions. For a long time, they've just, for a variety of reasons they were not in the promotional game. They've started to do more promotions, which has put them back in the market for some of the Business that's in play, some of the Business in the middle where people would like the high-touch, high-service but they're also cost-conscious so that's potentially some of that. Other than that, particularly if you look sequentially versus the last couple of quarters, things are pretty stable. The promo environment is pretty stable and so there really isn't a lot of difference between the two. Certainly, based on the fact that dealers are growing a little bit faster than the big-box and we started as such a low base a few years ago, is our remodel -- our dealer business, excuse me, is over-indexing versus our big-box business and it's really started -- we've got to the point now where our dealer business is probably about 10% of our total remodel business.
- Analyst
Okay.
- Chairman & CEO
And so we've been pretty happy with the growth and the penetration there but between the two different channels of distribution within remodel we're not seen a lot of different things. What it is, is just, you just have a consumer that's very cautious. Now, one of the things I will say, add to that maybe is we're encouraged. First of all historically, you've heard us say that new construction leads us into a housing cycle and brings us out. And new construction is clearly [and they gone it] bringing us out. So, if you look back historically, remodel would follow 12 to 24 months, which means we would expect remodel to kick in here sometime between this fall and the fall of 2014. So it really is a time, if you look historically, for remodel to kick in.
Some of the other indicators that encourage me is the automobile industry is having a very, very good run. And I don't know what we got up to. We got up to the average age of a car was 10 ten years,. And so, what that tells me potentially is that people now have discretionary dollars for large, big-ticket items and they are willing to part with those. Because they are signing automobiles and it's just that their 10-year-old car was higher on the priority list than their 20-year-old kitchen. But we're starting to see some consumer behavior that might lead us to believe that the big-ticket, somewhat discretionary items are on their way, they're just not here yet.
- Analyst
Okay. Okay, that makes sense and it's helpful. Just the quick follow-up there would be on the home center side. Safe to say that you're holding your own from a share perspective in that channel?
- Chairman & CEO
Yes. It ebbs and flows obviously with -- when you run promos, when the competitors run promos, when the accounts actually decide to do things to provide incentives for the consumers. And as we've talked about now for some time we pick our spots. Sometimes we participate, sometimes we don't, sometimes we participate at not quite the full level that some other people do. So with normal in and out, you may see that but if you look at it over, say, a rolling four quarters or something like that, yes, we're basically with the market on the home center side, we've basically held our share and at the moment we're pretty happy with that.
- Analyst
Okay. All right, that is perfect, thanks for the time and the details.
Operator
David MacGregor, Longbow Research.
- Analyst
Kent, just a follow-up, could you just talk about possible M&A activity and if you were to pursue an acquisition, how do you think about your priorities?
- Chairman & CEO
Yes, that's not -- again it goes back a way since we've had that conversation but we're not acquisitive. We're not really interested in M&A activity. We've looked at it over the years and for us, for a variety of reasons, it just doesn't make any sense. Our growth is going to be organic for a lot of reasons but -- so, we don't put a lot of energy into what it might look like or the categories. It just isn't -- doesn't really fit with the Business model we've built and the way we go to market. It's much more efficient, it's much cheaper, there's a much higher return when we do things organically so we're not really pursuing any M&A.
- Analyst
Okay. And then, secondly, just on the -- you mentioned the raw material cost inflation but you didn't quantify that. I wonder if I could just get you to talk a little bit about -- you've got a price increase going through in the second half of this year. Net-net how do you expect to end calendar 2013 in terms of price versus commodity inflation?
- Chairman & CEO
Well, again, there's 5 months left in the year, 5.5 months left in the year and so we continue to see pressure on the material side and sometimes it gets pretty intense, sometimes it backs off a little bit. Lumber is particularly problematic, hard maple, domestically-sourced hard maple is particularly problematic. You'll see in the Q, the impact on the quarter, material increase is about 140 basis points. That does not reflect all of the price increases that have been passed through to the manufacturers from our upstream sources. It's a little bit more than that. And so we'll see what comes the rest of the year but certainly on a roll forward basis, we've got an impact we need to offset that's probably 200 basis points. If we get more inflation, material inflation in the last back half of the year we'll obviously be on top of that. In terms of recovering now from the marketplace -- it split again, we have to split these things. We are starting to see pricing move up on the new construction side and it's -- I feel comfortable that there will be some pricing that goes through the new construction side that sticks. How much of it, I'm not sure at this point.
The remodel side, we have seen some movement in the marketplace to try to recover price. It's a little bit early in my judgment to determine whether or not the remodel side will hold in the marketplace and also again whether or not it will be significant to recover both the current and the future cost increases. So certainly our goal is to have it net to [$0] during the fiscal year. I'm not sure, because of the time delay between when we actually receive cost increases as we've talked about before, and get them passed through whether we'll accomplish that or not but that's certainly our goal, is to be able to recover certainly the material piece of inflation through the marketplace. And again we're seen some early signs throughout the industry. We price to market, as you know. And so we've seen some early signs that the industry is moving that direction to recover some of that but I also think it's a bit too early to call.
- Analyst
Thanks for that and then last question, just follow-up on an answer you gave me earlier when I was asking you about peak margins and you walked through the various drivers behind that. One of the things you noted was that promotion -- the abatement in the promotional environment could be -- is a big deal, you noted it was a big number. Can you quantify that for us? Is that 300 or 400 basis points of gross margin or would it be more than that?
- Chairman & CEO
Well, it depends on what do you think it should go back to. If you go back prior to -- go back to '06 or whatever versus the peak, which was probably two to three years ago, we saw -- wouldn't be because you'd have to blend it for our business, but in the remodel channel alone, that industries probably saw about a 600 basis points increase in promotional cost. And as we've talked for the last couple calls, that's moderated. It certainly isn't back all out of the system. So the question becomes to what degree do you get back to some historical level? My sense is that where we are now is baked into peoples psyche and it's baked into the system and we're at that elasticity. So I would expect it continue to drift down in the next couple of years particularly if volume comes back and people start filling up their plants but I would not anticipate a significant drop in the near-term. So, when I talk about getting those margins back, we'll get a little on the promo side but I certainly don't think that you're going to go back to life like it was in say 2006.
- Analyst
Where do you put your best guess on capacity utilization for the industry today?
- Chairman & CEO
Oh, for today? Wow, I'm not sure. My guess for the industry, you're probably in the mid-70%s would be my guess.
- Analyst
Okay.
- Chairman & CEO
It may be a little lower -- call it 70%, 70% to 75%, but in certain areas you're much, much higher than that because a lot of that capacity can't get to market. If you have a regional player in Southern California and the demand is in Florida, that capacity just can't hook up with the demand so there are some regions of the Company, of the country, excuse me -- there are some regions of the country that are extremely tight. Florida being one of them. The rebound in Florida in terms of building has been significant and ongoing and we see a lot more capacity constraints -- industry capacity constraints servicing the Southeast and Florida than, say, we do out West.
- Analyst
What percentage of your revenues are you generating from those markets? From those fast-growth markets?
- Chairman & CEO
If you take -- the biggest cabinet market on a remodel basis is the Northeast, always has been and the second business has generally been out West. And on a new construction side it's those markets that are coming back. It's the Mid-Atlantic, the Carolinas, it's Florida, it's Texas and it's the Southwest. So, on the new construction side, the majority of our volume is going to come from those markets. On the remodel side, it's mitigated a little bit because of the volume in the Northeast.
- Analyst
Great. Thanks, Kent.
Operator
(Operator Instructions)
And there are no other questions in the queue at this time.
- Chairman & CEO
All right, well since there are no additional questions, this will conclude our call. And again, thank you for taking time to participate. Speaking on behalf of the Management of American Woodmark, we appreciate your continuing support. Thank you and have a good day.
Operator
That does conclude the conference. Thank you for your participation.