---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001005229-24-000231"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CMCO"
cik: "0001005229"
company_name: "COLUMBUS MCKINNON CORP"
filed_at: "2024-07-31T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-31T14:12:57.536226+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Columbus McKinnon Q1 sales +2% to $239.7M, adj EPS flat; Mexico relocation announced

## Summary
- Net sales $239.7M (+1.8% YoY); gross margin 37.1% (+30 bps); adjusted gross margin 38.0% (+110 bps).
- Net income $8.6M ($0.30 diluted EPS); adjusted EPS $0.62 (flat YoY); Adj. EBITDA $37.5M (+2.3%).
- Q1 debt repayment $20M; FY25 net leverage target ~2.0x; expects $60M total debt repayment in FY25.
- Relocating North American linear motion ops to Monterrey, MX; expects $4-5M impairment, $1-2M severance, $1-2M other costs in FY25.
- Q2 FY25 guidance: sales down low-mid single digits, adj EPS down mid-single digits; FY25 guidance reaffirmed: low-single digit sales growth, mid-high single digit adj EPS growth.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001005229-24-000231
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CMCO
- cik: 0001005229
- company_name: COLUMBUS MCKINNON CORP
- filed_at: 2024-07-31T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1005229/000100522924000231/0001005229-24-000231-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1005229/000100522924000231/cmco-20240731.htm

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