---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000892553-23-000072"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "GTLS"
cik: "0000892553"
company_name: "CHART INDUSTRIES INC"
filed_at: "2023-04-28T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-16T07:20:26.467525+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.8
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Chart Industries Q1 record backlog $3.9B; raises 2023 sales & EBITDA guidance

## Summary
- Sales $537.9M record; adjusted EBITDA $102.2M (19.0% margin), record for Q1.
- Adjusted diluted EPS $1.41 vs reported ($0.46); Howden acquisition costs impacted.
- Raised 2023 sales outlook to $3.66-3.80B and adj. EBITDA to $780-810M.
- Record backlog $3.9B; orders $747.7M with broad-based demand across segments.
- Achieved $50.9M annualized cost synergies from Howden; net leverage 4.08X.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000892553-23-000072
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: GTLS
- cik: 0000892553
- company_name: CHART INDUSTRIES INC
- filed_at: 2023-04-28T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.8
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/892553/000089255323000072/0000892553-23-000072-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/892553/000089255323000072/gtls-20230428.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000892553-23-000072.txt

## Key facts
- Earnings Releases
  CHART INDUSTRIES INC updated its first quarter ended March 31, 2023 guidance (raised).
  - Period: first quarter ended March 31, 2023
  - Guidance: raised
  - Result: reported results
  source text: On April 28, 2023, Chart Industries, Inc. (the “Company”) issued a news release announcing the Company’s financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2023, as well as supplemental information for the first quarter ended March 31, 2023.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/892553/000089255323000072/0000892553-23-000072-index.htm

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