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As filed with the SEC reconciliations for non-gaap financial information discussed in this conference call including adjusted net income adjusted earnings-per-share adjusted return on equity and our adjusted regulated onm efficiency ratio can be found in our earnings release and in the appendix of the slide deck for this call. Also this slide deck has been posted to our investor relations page all statements in this call in related to earnings and earnings per share refer to diluted earnings and earnings per share. And with that. I will now turn the call over to American woman president and CEO Susan story thank said good morning everyone and thanks for joining us today updates on our operation and our CFO Susan Hardwick will cover the fourth-quarter and full-year financial results. As you know, this is my last earnings call and I'm excited to say something. I've had the privilege of rep.
cheating on every earnings call since May of 2014
Yet again American Water employees delivered strong results as we continue to grow our business and execute on our strategies. I've said many times that very few people get the opportunity and privilege of working with our heroes every day. And I do the amazing people of American Water consistently deliver outstanding service and results and they do so with incredibly inspiring a commitment and dedication to our customers and to our communities. Now, let me highlight just a few of our 2019 accomplishments. We continued our strong financial performance package adjusted earnings were up 9.4% year-over-year with strong growth in both our regulated and market-based businesses. We added 67,000 customer Connections in our regulated business in 2019 through both closed Acquisitions and organic growth and just over the past seven weeks in 2020. We have closed and additional
51 customer connections
Walter will cover this in detail, but we closed on a total of Twenty-One Acquisitions in eight different states in 2019. We are proud to truly be providing Solutions across the United States. We want communities to be better because we're there and we're excited to welcome our new customers and our new employees to the American Water family. And in addition these closed Acquisitions. We will welcome more than 44,000 new customer connections already under agreement over the next several months. Our growth wouldn't be possible without being customer exist and being the best at the fundamentals of delivering safe reliable and affordable Water and Wastewater services to our customers. We invested about one point nine billion dollars in 2019 with 1.7 billion going into our existing regulated infrastructure and 235 million for regulated Acquisitions. We work to be as dead.
efficient as possible in both our
Owen him call and in our capital projects work and by leveraging our buying power and strategic sourcing to keep customer bills affordable.
We continue to implement practical technology tools for our front-line employees to enhance their ability to serve our customers more effectively and we're also working on customer interfaces that deliver a highly personalized and satisfying customer experience moving to our Market based businesses how long our service has continued its strong performance most recent? I'm not seeing a partnership with a San Francisco Public Utilities Commission. This represents about 100,000 potential new customers for that business. And as you know, we were extremely wage board in 2019 to be awarded the Department of Defense contracts for water and wastewater systems at both Joint Base San Antonio in Texas and the United States Military Academy at West Point in New York. We now provide water and wastewater services on sixteen military bases across the u.s. And it is a true honor to serve the men and women who serve our country. We also announced in, New Jersey.
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Sale our New York American Water subsidiary to Liberty Utilities company and in December, we completed the sale of our Keystone operations moving to slide 6 with our kitchen you'd strong performance and our commitment to the disciplined execution of our strategies. We are affirming our 2020 EPS guidance initiated this past December of $3.79 to $3.89 per share and our long-term five year growth of seven to 10% and for the 6 year in a row our board of directors approved a dividend increase that is at the high end of our long-term growth. We remain a regulated water utility at our core with a low risk and predictable growth story further enhanced with a strong ESG performance record. We plan to invest twenty to twenty $2 billion dollars in capital over the next ten years. This includes replacing pipe bomb.
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Who's investing in critical resiliency and asset hardening projects related to climate variability again? This will be balanced by our continuing o n m and capital cost of Faith efforts constructive Regulatory and legislative policy and Technology deployment. The successful execution of our strategies has enabled us to achieve a five-year total shareholder rate of 156% compared to the S&P 500 5-year TSR of 74% Strong financial performance is a direct outcome of our steadfast focus on and execution of the fundamentals of our business moving to slide seven. Let me talk just a moment about how we deliver results. It is our firm belief that companies do wrong by doing good just last month. We were named to the global 100 index as one of the world's 100 most sustainable companies American Water ranked sixteenth wage.
among only seventeen
Two US companies of any sector making the list and the only US based utility. We were also just named for the third year in a row to Barron's 100 most sustainable competition is the highest-ranked utility. We are extremely proud of these recognitions as they validate from external sources are deep commitment to be an EST leader this slide lists several of our choice recent 2019 and 2020 ESG recognitions. We know that investors are actively searching for companies Who deliver strong financial results while they also fully engage and develop employees continually improve customer experiences protect the planet and make communities stronger because they're there when these things are in the fabric of your culture and you also excel at the fundamentals of your business long-term Financial sustainability follows. And this is why we are confident in our business and our growth for the future with that. I will turn the call log
Walter to give a more detailed up.
Date on a regulated business. Thanks who's in good morning? Everyone are regulated businesses had a strong fourth-quarter with significant capital investment strategic Acquisitions and continued own volition see turning to slide nine. There was a substantial amount of progress in the regulatory front throughout 2019 and continuing into 2028-2019. We concluded for a cake is in Indiana, Kentucky West Virginia and Maryland in total. These four cases included more than eight hundred sixty million dollars of capital investment to provide reliable service for our customers. They also reject a concerted effort and cost management, which I'll speak to you shortly. We have 3 pending rate cases in New Jersey, Virginia and California in December 2019, New Jersey American Water file a general case requesting an overall Revenue increase of approximately 88 million dollars, excluding the revenue from the distribution system Improvement charge or decent since our last rate case and 2018 off.
we have or will invest more than
1 billion dollars in system upgrades including ninety five miles of water mains which is critical to water quality reliability and Fire Protection that level of investment also addresses, New Jersey American Water wage compliance with the state's water quality accountability act in November 2018, Virginia American Water filed the general re case requesting an overall Revenue increase of 5.6 million dollars driven by approximately $90 million dollars in infrastructure upgrades since April 2017 in term rates became effective on May 1st, 2019, and we expect a decision later this year.
Moving West California American Water file for new rates in July 2019 the case covers 2123 and request an increase in authorized revenue of 46.6 million dollars over three years beginning with a $26 increase proposed for January 1st, 2021. The request seeks $197 for infrastructure improvements and for 20 21 and 22. We expect a decision on this case late this year with new rates to take effect on January first. Twenty Twenty-One, California American Water also joined the multicom company request on January 22nd 2020 that requested a one year delay in filing a new cost of capital application in an extension of the currently authorized cost of capital.
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We continue to balance making critical Investments to provide reliable service while limiting the impact to our customers bills for 2019. We've invested a total of 1.9 billion dollars in our regular operations at the same time. We continue making progress towards our long-term o&m efficiency goal of 31.3% by 2020 for to put this effort in perspective adjusted onam expenses are just slightly higher today than they were in 2010 since then we've added approximately 270000 customer connections while expenses only increase at a compound annual growth rate 5.6%
We're extremely proud of our employees focus and commitment to controlling costs on behalf of our customers turning the slide 11 is Susan said we continue to grow the size of our footprint with 20,000 Acquisitions occurring in eight states adding about 53100 new customer Connections in 2020, year-to-date. We've added approximately 5100 new customer connections through to Thursday that positions with the majority coming from their Fruitridge Vista water system in California in 2019. We were successful in continuing to expand our Wastewater footprint in areas where we serve water customers Choice. It's just makes great sense to use our existing resources in areas where we already provide water services. This was the case last year in Alton, Illinois where we welcome 23,000 Wastewater customer connections and in Exeter, Pennsylvania, where we welcome 9,000 Wastewater customer connections,
We also added 14.
Thousand new customer connections from organic growth and 2019 and will welcome another 44200 customer connections through 28 signed agreements in nine states seven were signing a since we last spoke an investor day and early December these agreements will add about 15,000 Water customer connections and about 29,000 Wastewater customer connections. Moving the slide twelve. We continue to achieve our one to 2% growth a customer connections through Acquisitions, which equates to about thirty thousand and sixty thousand new customer connections per year as you can see since 2015. We've completed 83 Acquisitions adding about 170,000 new customer Connections in ten states of those eighty-three Acquisitions 50 were Acquisitions of Water Systems adding 43,000 customers and 33 or Acquisitions a Wastewater systems adding 130,000 customers. Our customer base is now 93% water and 7%
Which provides us?
And this opportunities to grow our Wastewater business in areas where we already provide water service. We're very disciplined in our approach to Acquisitions leveraging our tremendous expertise to find Solutions communities. We now have about six hundred ninety-five thousand customer opportunities in our pipeline up from about 650,000 customer opportunities and our last update and investor day, consistent growth in our pipeline is bolstered by key regulatory mechanisms and legislative enablers. We work constructively with regulators and legislators in the states where we operate to receive these key mechanisms and enablers. We now have fair market value in eight of our state's Consolidated tariffs and 12 of our states and water quality accountability legislation into Over States with other states within our footprint considering similar legislation. We're a purpose-driven company in every one of our employees plays a role in supporting our disciplined growth strategy for us. It's about providing meaningful water and waste wage.
Solutions the communities
and welcoming these new employees into our company culture of purpose and safety with that I'll turn the call over to Susan Hardwick for more detail on our financial performance thank you Walter and good morning everyone else let me start on slide 14 with a summary of our results fourth quarter 2019 Consolidated gaap earnings were 54 cents per share compared to $0.62 per share in 2018 early in the fourth quarter of 2019 gaap earnings were adjusted for the December sale of our Keystone operations and 2018 earnings were adjusted for the remeasurement of deferred taxes removed from the tax cuts and jobs act excluding these adjustments adjusted earnings-per-share we're up for cents per share driven primarily by growth and the regulated business
The regulated business segment results were up Thirteen Cents per share or an increase of 18.3% compared to 2018 earnings the market based businesses results were up $0.03 per month and the parent company decreased $0.12 per share compared to 2018 primarily reflecting higher interest expense to support growth in the business. And for the year our 2019 adjusted earnings were $3.61 per share or a 9.4% increase over the same period last year a regulated business has increased $0.28 per share our Market based businesses increased $0.12 per share primarily from home owner services. And finally the parent results decreased by nine cents per share year-over-year driven by higher interest expense, which was partially offset by the sale of the Legacy investment that occurred in the second quarter of 2019.
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Let me walk through a bit more detail of the 2019 results by business as I mentioned regulated operations were up twenty eight cents per share in total. We had a $0.49 per share increase from an authorized revenue and surcharges to support infrastructure Investments Acquisitions and organic growth offsetting the revenue increase the second quarter of 2019, which was the wettest on record at a $0.04 per share unfavorable impact from weather also o&m expense increased $0.03 per share and depreciation and interest increase fourteen cents per share both to support regulated Acquisitions and other growth
The market based businesses reported strong results in 2019 compared to 2018 primarily driven by organic growth of the homeowner Services Group and from the addition of the two contracts in our military Services Group in 2018. Finally the parent was down nine cents per share primarily reflecting higher interest expense to support growth in the business and a 1.5 million or about a penny per share off to the American Water charitable Foundation.
Moving to slide 16 we have been very active on the regulatory front the regulated businesses received $98 in annualized new revenues in 2019. And this includes 45 million cases and fifty-three million dollars from infrastructure surcharges. We have also filed requests and are awaiting final orders on three rate cases and one infrastructure surcharge proceeding for a total annualized revenue May request of $126, the continued successful execution of a regulatory strategy is a key element of our ability to consistently deliver results.
Let me just like Seventeen. As soon as I said, we are affirming our 2020 EPS guidance range of $3.79 to $3.89 per share that we initiated in December. We are all in our long-term earnings compounded annual growth rate expectation on an earnings per share basis of seven to 10% while investing capital in the range of 8.8 billion dollars to nine point four billion dollars over the next five years.
Just like 18. Let me summarize we've invested capital of one point nine billion in 2019, including one point seven billion of regulated system improvements to better serve our customers month and $235 billion enclosed regulated Acquisitions that added over 53,000 new customer connections, these Investments increased our estimated rate base at the end of 2019 to 13.7 billion a 10.1% increase from the prior-year our cash flow from operations held steady on a year-over-year basis from Strong net income growth and the cash flow from our Market based businesses.
We continue to deliver strong Consolidated results are total company Consolidated actual return on Equity was 10.6% for 2019 regulatory executioner long with strong results from our Market based businesses allows us to consistently deliver on our earnings commitment. We believe that delivering on results combined with our strong earnings growth and Superior dividends expectations continues to provide excellent value for investors. And we continue to be a top leader in dividend growth. We have grown our dividend at a compound annual growth rate of approximately 10% or more over the next five years, and we expect to continue this growth at the high end of the seven to 10% range. Also, we continue to Target a dividend payout ratio of fifty to sixty percent of earnings and with that. Let me turn it back to walk for a few additional comments. Thanks who's in did you want to know? This is Susan stories last earnings call with American water and I wanted to take this opportunity to reflect on her tenure with us.
For me, it's been an absolute honor to work with Susan over the past six years as CEO in a year before that is CFO. She cares deeply about our people our customers in our communities her commitment to do well by doing good has led to so many of our successes. There are too many accomplishments the name, but I will note that our commitment to the health and safety of our employees has been extraordinary facts.
And always lives up to the company strong values, especially safety. Nothing has mattered more she cares about every single employee in our company and constantly reminds us that every employee should go home to their families in the same or better shape in which they came to work. We've had a 63% reduction in overall OSHA recordable injury rates and in seventy 2% reduction in the serious injury rate since she became CEO. Our goal is to have zero injuries and we'll working to make that a reality during Susan's 10-year America water became the first and continues to be the only water utility in the S&P 500 the Dow Jones utility average and the Philadelphia utilities index additionally our 6 year total shareholder return is 230.8% market capitalization increase from eight point six billion dollars in May of 2014 to over $25 billion dollars currently in our dividend growth compound annual growth rate over the past six years is 10.2 per month.
Susan has been instrumental in guiding us in our current Journey as a people power culture and a customer obsess organization with a strong commitment to environmental leadership water quality operational excellence and growth. Our entire leadership team is deeply committed to the execution of our strategies and are company values. So Susan on behalf of all the employees that American off thank you so much. Thank you Walter and I want to thank all of you on this call investors and less than other stakeholders who have been part of this remarkable Journey I've had with this amazing company. I've enjoyed all the moments. We've spent together whether or non-dual Road shows or individual visits earnings called investor days. You name it. I appreciate the rigor and discipline that you require of us to ensure the best financial future for your clients. I hope you know that now and tomorrow this company and its leaders take very seriously our responsibility to stewardship of the trust you put into UB
So that you can as one of our investors described to me make us your quote Swan stock or your sleep. Well at night stock. I know that you realized that this company in our continuing results are a product of almost seven thousand incredible employees led by the best executive team in the country all that we have done is reflective of thousands of hours of honest discussion vigorous debate long term strategizing and action planning from all of us Walter has been a critical key leader for this company for almost two decades and his experience and Steady Hand will successfully guide this company into the coming years, and I'm also thankful. I've had I've had the opportunity to work with two of the best cfo's in the entire utility industry first Linda Sullivan and now Susan Hardwick and to top it off you have international investor magazine sell-side analysts choice for the best. I our VP and utilities Vallejo and his entire team providing continuing expertise to ensure that you and your clients get the information.
You need to make your best decisions, which we think is US, of course, so thanks to all of you for everything and with that we're happy to take your questions.
Thank you. We will now begin the question-and-answer session to ask a question. You may press star than one on your touchtone phone. If you are using a speaker phone, please pick up your handset before pressing the keys to withdraw your question, please press * then two at this time. We'll pause momentarily to assemble our roster.
And our first question will come from Julian Smith of Bank of America, please go ahead. Hey, good morning team and let me just pile on here. Congratulations. Truly. Am I it's it's been a pleasure and more importantly. I wish you all the best in the the adventures that come so thank you Julian absolutely and perhaps just to turn it back to our regularly tuned to program here. Just if I can't I I it it's it I appreciate the the commentary if we can talk about peace in a brief and I want to break this into a couple of different pieces first with respect to military sites. I know you guys have been obviously very involved for a while just pee fast suck to change the opportunity set for your existing sites and secondly does it change the opportunity set for incremental sites and or accelerate those opportunities in terms of basis that may or may not
be looking at opportunities including yourself and
And separately coming back to us more holistically. I know EPA is looking at setting perhaps updated targets and to what extent could either of state and more importantly Federal level efforts and I know a lot of the specific States you guys operate in already have been looking at or have already instituted more specific and stringent targets. Does that change the name of the game? And I know we talked about this a few months ago your analyst day. But again, even in that short brief time, it seems like the conversation is involved. That's a great question and I will start and then I can pick up after this so you're right. Let me take the first one about the military bases because as we know that a majority of the source of FIFA's our firefighting foam in many military installations through the years, of course doing exercises and those type things tend to have a concentration. The Department of Defense is actively working at its basis to determine if and whether they have issues. Yep.
Have as you noted already done work on two of our military bases.
We have been working on P fives for well over a decade. We're able to treat it successfully we've done so at Picatinny Arsenal in New Jersey, for example, so we're working with a basis that we serve in order to help look at what do they have? And then we feel certain that we're able to to treat those and remember that with military bases that we can get a newer base is actually every year instead of every two years go in look at the assets. Look at something above and beyond what we bid on to begin with and we have the ability to change those OEM contracts to recover those calls. So from that standpoint will be working on that over the next several months to work with those bases to do that. The second thing about the EPA and updated targets. So keep in mind me see PA has two classifications one's called maximum contaminant level and there's close to 100 contaminants that they basically say, this is a regulation. You must meet these girls
May I have something called a health advisory that actually doesn't have the weight of required adherence to that believe it or not. P v is actually off or maximum contaminant level. It's a health advisory. And right now they're looking at 70 parts per trillion. So what that's what they have what they're looking at doing is codifying that making it an m a l so that they do have the weight of required compliance behind it. There's a lot of questions as you said about levels and we're seeing the different states New Jersey for example has a 13 or 14 parts per trillion based on the type of PFA. It is we're seeing New York. Look at it California's looking at it several states are we had American water or working closely with the EPA very closely. I think it's better to have one for the entire country. We can treat to whatever level is needed. It is an expense issue as we go through there plus some capital investment and how we treat that yep.
So it is a growing field. It is a
Field in which we believe we have tremendous expertise where an advisor to the EPA on this issue and we will be as we go down this road and we look at what the finalization of these targets are. We can look at what impact that would have to our investment levels as well as what would have two o n m and just add a little bit to that Susan we treat in each of our state's to the health advisory level of 70 parts per trillion unless the state has a more stringent requirement and then we treat to that such as California and New Jersey and New York, so that that's how we address it. But as Susan said we are worth the EPA to make sure that we put our views in there about what we think the MCL should should be and it's going to take I think some time for the EPA to go through the testing protocols to determine the boss yell, but we're going to continue again to treat it the 71st per trillion or less if the state has a more stringent requirement.
And just a quick follow-up. Does that change the municipal acquisition opportunity as best you see it with that triggering certain to follow. I know it's a lot of questions.
Yeah.
I think that's going to be just part of the pie as far as opportunities for us to provide solutions for communities if they have issues with us, and they they're looking at the cost to treat that wage or other options may be shutting down there facility and tying into ours. I think it does provide opportunities for us. Yes, I'll leave it there. Thank you again and again best of luck. Thank you, Julian.
And our next question will come from Turkish Chopra of evercore, please go ahead. Hey, good morning team.
Either cash I will I will miss you a lot and it's it's been an absolute pleasure. I'm going out together. Thank you. Just going back my follow up on a Julian's questions on on the can you just remind us what level of capex do we have in the current? I guess your 5 year outlook or 10 your outlook as it relates back to two people ask me fast.
It's considered to be part of the kind of normal capex. We do when you look at the chart for example, and you look at water quality, it falls into that the the piece of the pie for water quality just so you know as we go forward and we look at the magnitude of what the requirements could be. It could either take a bigger piece of the pie or we could move to make the pie bigger just depends on the magnitude.
Okay, thanks. And then just can I go back to the very quickly maybe this for Susan Hardwick the parent other number for the $0.13 to $0.12 in cash just seems very large. Is that all interest expense driven or their other other items in there?
It's primarily interested in just recall again that you know, we issued about a billion dollars worth of.
Sorry, honey. My mic on it is primarily interested just recall that during the year we issued about a billion dollars worth of long term debt. That's the primary driver and when you see the the employee related expense actually, this is something that we are very positive about if you remember we reached an agreement with our unions last year and we took all of our Union represented employees, which is about forty-seven Forty-Eight percent of our employees into our annual performance plan with bonuses based on the performance of the company 2019 was the first year the First full year that we actually had that accrual for all of the Union represented employees. So the majority of those employee-related costs are based on that. So that's why year-over-year it back tire because that's an additional call.
Real quick one in their New York American sale that still, you know scheduled to sort of close second half of this year.
Hey, Josh, Walter. Yeah, we're we're progressing as expected on that and we said well, we'll probably close at the end of this year or the beginning of 2021, but it is progressing as expected.
Okay. Thanks again.
And our next question will come from Michael lot of Goldman Sachs, please. Go ahead. Hey guys. Once again Susan, I don't mean new dog sound like or or repeat myself from comments made at the analyst day but congratulations you've done an excellent job and running this company over the years. I do have one question. Where do you think across your system? You have the greatest challenges to earn authorized door and down the steps over the next two to three years Walter. You plan to do either from a regulatory construct or a cost management effort or something else to improve the orange juice in those jurisdictions.
Hey, Michael, Walter, you know, we're happy in each of the states where we're operating and you know, as far as being treated fairly. I think we're being treated fairly in this in the states where we operate so I'm not really comment on the the authorized always or the earned are ways in any of the states, but we're very happy. We're we're operating I think going forward. We're it's part of our culture. Look at every dollar in our business office. And that's I think what sets us apart. If you look at the own and efficiency improvements that we've had every dollar that we spend our teams are all challenging do we need to spend that dollar? Is there a benefit to our customer and and so it's that culture I think is driving our own efficiency in the right way. I think we're going to continue to leverage technology and technology has been a key enabler for us and will continue to be a key enabler off for making our our employees more efficient providing better service for our customers. So we're going to continue to leverage that as we move forward as well.
You know one thing that was interesting. I was reading our supply chain report from your end.
Nineteen and they tracked something called total cost of ownership that looks at from negotiations from us being able to use volume procurement. They call it a total cost of ownership. We actually laughing almost saved eighty million dollars just in supply chain from that area called total cost of ownership and I think that is a good representative of what Walters talking about in addition to our folks and the technology just leveraging our size scope and scale and being smart and supply chain.
Got it. Thank you guys much appreciated.
And our next question will come from Jonathan rieder of Wells Fargo, please go ahead.
Hey, good morning, Susan and team. Just want to Echo. Everyone else's remarks congrats. Definitely going to miss you and hopefully the Tigers treat you well in your retirement. Well, I'll send you my personal email. So we need to do college football season between Notre Dame and Auburn definitely definitely you might come out on top, but I'm up for that two questions for me. First off Walter may be home for you. But the California cost of capital update as the public advocate's office weighed in officially, you know with the cpuc in regards to your request or have you had any thoughts on that. Just kind of.
Actually having a hard time hearing you, I think.
Was around the cost of capital and you know, we're going to be filing. Uh, the proposed plan is to file in May of 2021 422. So we're going to be at the office cost of capital this year and next year.
Was another part of the question that I so are you saying? Did you get the one-year extension then was it accepted know? We just we just filed for it. But the expectation would be the cost of capital would be in place for this year and next year if we get it approved. Right? Right. No, I was wondering if the public advocate's office have have they weighed in on your request wage or have you been you know, having active settlement discussions with them to trying to get them on board to the request and how should we think about the timing of a cpuc decision in that request?
Yeah, you know there has not been any official decision on it. So it's just our filing and the hopes that we can we can delay it for a year. Okay, but the consumer advocate of they weighed in at all or you know, are you are you actively trying to to get them on board with that request? Like what's kind of going on behind the scenes? Yeah, that's part of the filing is working with them and and putting our views out but they have not officially made a decision on okay, and then the other question, you know, I know uh, you know, you had the $0.03 Legacy investment sales just to be clear 2019 and you know 361 that reflects a $0.04 headwind from below the normal weather for the full year. That's correct, right.
Yeah.
That's correct. Okay, great. Thanks so much. And again Susan in enjoy the the off time and definitely look forward to staying in touch. Thank you Jonathan.
This concludes our question-and-answer session. I would like to turn the conference back over to Susan's story for any closing remarks, please go ahead ma'am. Thank You Chuck. And thanks again to all of you for participating in our call today. Please know that we value you as our investor owners and as a financial analyst who research our company for the benefit of your clients and their Futures, we always want to be open and transparent in all of our discussions dealings with you. So you can have confidence in your decisions around our company and investments in our stock. If we've not been able to address your question, or if you have additional questions, you know, you can always call ahead and wrap and they'll be happy to help. Thanks again for listening and thank you so much for the past seven years.
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