Q4 2019 Earnings Call

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Thank you operator, good morning, everyone and thank you for joining US today with me on the call is built by the way Gibraltar Industries, President and Chief Executive Officer, and Tim Murky Gibraltars Chief Financial Officer.

Earnings Press release that was issued this morning as well as a slide presentation that management will use during the call for both available in the Investor information section of the company's website Gibraltar one dot com.

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Now I'll turn the call over to go Bosley Bill.

Thanks, Carolyn good morning, everybody and thank you for joining the call. This morning.

Let me begin with sharing I like to the quarter and then we'll have Tim review, our overall financial results as well as a result from each of our business segments. Then after tender view like to take a few minutes and just preview some initial thoughts regarding our Gulf War strategy.

Which I will do an indefinite review of our strategy.

Our Investor Day on March 18th in New York City, and I Hope all of you'll be able to join US and then I'll finish up with our 2020 guide guidance and then we'll open the call for your question. So let's start with slide three.

Our fourth quarter results reflected our momentum from the third quarter, we continue to execute our growth and margin plan and delivered solid operating financial results. We finished the fourth quarter consistent with our expectations with revenue growing just over 7% to $258 million.

Which 5.3% that was generated organically the remaining.

1.8% was generated from our renewable energy and conservation segments acquisition at apex, Supercritical, which was our first a strategic investment into extraction processing, which plays out in the third quarter.

Oh, you know as well, we delivered solid earnings and cash performance with our GAAP bps up 10% or adjusted EPS up 32% in cash from operations up $57 million.

Results reflect more consistent operating performance.

Better productivity across our operations and supply chain, which lobbyist solid volume leverage and continued focus on our working capital management performance. We also benefited from a marketing business and product mix during the quarter and our backlog continue to strengthen in the quarter up 35% to $218 million.

We expanded our participation renewable energy and conservation as well as infrastructure and residential landmark in markets.

For the year, we delivered solid results as well revenue grew 4.5% of which 2.8% was organic yeah. P.P.S. grew 2% adjusted EPS grew 21% cash flow from operations grew 33%.

I was a solid year for us I'm proud of.

Our team for the performance.

We delivered in 2019, I'd say, we all know we had a lot of work yet to do.

But I have confidence with our momentum.

And that will continue as we enter in to 220 20.

So now I'll turn the call back over to Tam for here the results of each of all of our segments.

Thank you Bill and good morning, everyone, let's move to slide four in the presentation entitled Consolidated financial performance.

Consolidated revenue increased 7.1% above the midpoint of our guidance range. That's renewable energy conservation segment revenues continued to accelerate while industrial and infrastructure and our residential product segment revenues were down slightly.

On the 7.1 increase in revenue 5.3 was driven by organic growth and 1.8 was driven by our third quarter 2019 acquisition of apex supercritical.

As Bill noted backlog at quarter end was 218 million up 35% for the prior year.

Driven primarily by or renewable energy conservation best fish.

Consolidated GAAP operating income was up 4.3% and adjusted operating income increased 25.1% in the fourth quarter.

Fourth quarter 2019 operating income included a 3.2 million dollar charge related to our decision during the quarter to exit a multiemployer pension plan at one plant in the industrial business plan that was significantly under funded.

We worked with Union in this business to modify their contract and provide a benefit under our companywide for a one J plasma.

Consolidated GAAP and adjusted EPS grew 10, and 32% respectively.

Excluding the seven cents per share related to the industrial pension plan exit charge GAAP EPS would have been in within the guidance range provided on our third quarter earnings call.

Adjusted EPS exceeded our guidance range.

The improvement from last year, resulting from organic growth in the renewable energy conservation segment lower interest expense related to the repayment of our outstanding debt in the first quarter.

Continuing benefits from 80 20 operational initiatives, partially offset by lower earnings are the residential products in industrial and infrastructure products businesses.

Included in GAAP results were cost of 7.2 million or 18 cents per share associated with acquisitions restructuring and senior leadership transition.

During the quarter, we achieved 2.8 million an interest savings from the first quarter repayment of our outstanding debt.

Now I would treat each of our three reporting segments, starting with slide five the renewable energy conservation segment.

Segment revenues increased 26.4% driven by organic growth of 21.4, and 5% growth from a third quarter acquisition of apex supercritical.

Organic growth was primarily driven by strong demand for our commercial greenhouse growing solutions, including designed structures system integration field project management and general contracting services.

Operating margins expanded over last years, we continue to execute well, that's your volume leverage as well as favorable product and vertical market mix.

With respect to our initial tracker installations field modifications are substantially complete.

Approximately 25% of sites are not get turned on because our customers finalize work outside our project scope.

The performance of the modified systems is meeting our expectations.

We got our Q1 was strong backlog across the segment up in excess of 50% from the prior year, because we gained further participation and see strong customer demand in both end markets.

Backlog for conservation is up 60% and renewables is up 43% from the prior year quarter.

Let's move to slide six and our residential product segment.

Residential products revenues decreased 1.1 from last year as modest increase in volume were offset by market pricing.

Our teams worked with their retail and wholesale customers to ensure these customers are able to offer market competitive pricing to the ultimate user of our products.

Adjusted operating margin declined 30 basis points as a result of unfavorable product mix, partially offset by improved material cost alignment and 80 20 simplification initiatives.

Looking ahead, we expect market demand at 2020 to be consistent with 2019 and operating margins to improve based on continuing operational excellence initiatives and better execution.

Let's move to slide seven to review, our industrial infrastructure product segment.

Segment revenues decreased 9.9%, many industrial and infrastructure business driven by lower industrial revenue is lower demand for core products resulted from customers delaying purchases to optimize their inventories and declining steel price environment.

The infrastructure business was consistent with the prior year fourth quarter.

GAAP operating margin was down 690 basis points.

This decline was caused by the $3.2 million charge related to our decision to withdraw from a multi employer pension plan.

Without ditch charge GAAP operating margin would've increased 10 basis points.

Adjusted operating margins increased 30 basis points through a more favorable mix of higher margin products and continued execution on 80 20 profit improvement initiatives.

As we enter <unk> first quarter, we expect to see solid merger margin performance continue.

Let's move to slide eight titled our balance sheet supports investment in growth plans to discuss our liquidity position.

During 2019, we generated cash from operations of 130 million up 33% over the prior year, driven by better inventory management and a prepayment charge.

We used that cash of 100, and all of a 11.2 million for the purchase of equipment and 8.6 million for acquisitions and during first quarter. We used to 12 212 million to repay all of our outstanding debt.

At December 31st we had cash on hand of 191 million and an undrawn revolving credit facility, a 400 million.

Our untapped liquidity supports the execution of both are organic and inorganic growth strategies now turn the call back to bill.

Thanks, Tim So let's move to slide nine I'd want to talk little bit about how we're accelerating our transformation.

Our fundamental strategy is to improve the growth margin profile of the company and accelerate returns.

I've been is well positioned as possible in attractive end markets, where we had actually solve customer problems and also helped shape industries that we operate in.

Yeah, I believe we have a clear view of our markets. We I think we understand inherent growth landscape the profit share the entire value chain.

The role we play today, and how well we plant and the expected role we have expanded role we have the opportunity to play in and what is required to play as well.

Slide nine really outlines our market assessment rubric, it's a disciplined thought process, we used to assess market attractiveness and our ability to generate value in that market or in those markets like just for our customers Boston for shareholders.

So the first assessment step is about market attractiveness and what good really looks like so we force ourselves through a series of questions like does the market had a strong outlook based on sustainable growth margins and returns as the demand profile stable and predictable is the market structure based on the solid foundation.

The second assessment step is about our ability to create sustainable value in these markets that we're in so.

So it's important we build leading relevant positions in our markets such that we do solve customer problems and create opportunities for them better than anyone else cats.

And this really does require us to have a direct connection and relationship with our customers and deliver innovation not just through new products and services, but broader solutions and in business models.

So our river.

Thought process is foundational to how we approach all our opportunities how we're prioritizing our key initiatives, how we're deploying our capital our time or town or energy in Medicare everything about our business in executing our plans.

So with that let's.

Move to slide 10 want to talk about two of our recent acquisitions.

In January required assets, a thermal energy systems, that's a 75 million dollar a full service provider of commercial greenhouse solutions directly serving the commercial growth.

Certain commercial borrowers in North America.

So really thermo expands our leadership position in the design manufacture installation and systems integration, where they're organics for the ganic growing food market.

Which is really important to assist at a very attractive markets a billion dollar north American commercial growing market.

Fruits and vegetables, we believe it's very attractive and we think it fits our rubric I thought process process quite well the market is growing mid to high single digits supported by rising consumer demand for healthier food Rona environmentally friendly way and the market has an attractive and sustainable return profile as well.

Sorry about the thermal team they bring us great experience in domain knowledge and commercial growing.

And they design enabled over 600 acres are growing space in the past 10 years alone.

So we're excited to have them joint or team expect this business to be accretive and in 2020.

Let's move to slide 11, and we'll talk about our second [noise].

A recent acquisition Delta separations, which just occurred a few weeks ago.

So with Delta, we expanded our suite of extraction solutions for plant based biomass processing.

With acquisition of deltas assets at 46 million dollar Engineering manufacturing company also an industry leader is critical ethanol based extraction system. So this is our second acquisition and extraction processing market.

And combined with apex Super critical industry leader in C or two extraction processing, we feel weve really broaden our leadership position in this space.

This market is also emerging it's very attractive. It is also growing mid to high single digits was strong in consumer demand for emerging product categories, whether its medicinal nutraceuticals oral extracts cosmetics beverages.

And even edibles.

Delta sells directly to processors of bio mass temp and cannabis focused on the production of botanical extracts and also provides onsite service and education.

I would say the delta team truly does lead this space with commitment and passion to really look forward to further building and scaling our extraction processing platform. We also expect delta to be attractive accretive in 2020.

So let's move to slide 12, now we've talked about.

Our recent acquisitions, let's talk briefly about how we're optimizing our portfolio some of those key initiatives as we move into 2020.

So our portfolio does continue to evolve with the relative position of our three platforms changing as we move in 2020 renewables and conservation becomes our largest platform increasing as percentage of our total revenue by 10 points versus 2019, it's our fast and it's our fastest growing business in the company.

As some of you may know the platform is made up of solar racking systems, which represents our renewable side of.

The business and also our commercial growing in processing businesses, which represent or conservation side of the business. We started the solar business with the acquisition of RBC I solar in 2015, and subsequently acquired solar boss in 2018.

It was solar market continues to experience very solid growth as the economics of solar energy continues.

To become more attractive.

Our commercial growing and processing business started with acquisition of RB eyes commercial greenhouse business in 2015, we did acquire Nexus a commercial greenhouse manufacturer specializing in serving the cannabis market in 2017 and recently as I just mentioned thermal energy systems.

Is that added to the team in parallel to the acquisitions. We've also expanded our customer offered.

To include not just the design and build of commercial growing structures, but also the selection and integration of key operating systems for each growing site as well as general management oversight for site build out and startup for customers.

In 2019, we also made her first and investment in extraction processing market with the acquisition of Super apex Super critical and again as I. Just recently mentioned, we added delta separations expertise in ethanol based extraction.

Just a few weeks ago.

We're excited about art or other two platforms as well residential products and industrial and infrastructure and we're well positioned in these markets. Our residential products platform is made up of four businesses mailing parcel on ventilation roofing accessories and home improvement.

In our industrial and infrastructure platform consist of two businesses supported variety of industrial transportation and industrial.

And infrastructure markets.

You know all three platforms played important role for us at accelerating our growth and returns.

And we allocate our support for each of these businesses capital time Talen energy Accordingly.

Will provide a I'm going to provide a lot more insight our team will about our business overall during our upcoming Investor day.

Let's move to slide 13.

I want to talk little about about our operating foundation.

And we began our journey five years ago building, our operating foundation on four pillars.

Brain operational excellence innovation portfolio management, and M&A and in our four pillars continue in their importance to our business, but we're going to consolidate.

Those into too.

Operating pillars first we are consolidating operational excellence and innovation and took pillar number one we're going to call that our business system.

Now our business system includes this been focused on a number of things business model optimization 80 20.

Good activity supply chain management innovation, new product development Nike digital systems second we're going to consolidate portfolio management and M&A into pillar number two which we're going to call portfolio management.

And portfolio management is focused on optimizing our existing assets.

But also allocating it and prioritize their capital.

On the right initiatives to execute our plans.

We're also adding a third pillar organization development, which really focuses on talent development.

The design and structure of our organization, creating and creating the best place to work for our team I.

I think we have good alignment amongst our pillars.

I think we're providing necessary systems and processes as well as tools.

And we are building an organizational skills to help develop our plans.

So now let's move to slide 14, and I want to talk a little bit about our 2020 guidance. So in 2020, we expect to deliver another solid year.

Performance with organic and acquired revenue up between $160 million to $180 million or 15% to 17%.

Reaching 1.21 billion up to $1.23 billion GAAP EPS will improve between 30, and 38%, reaching $2.58 up to $2.75, an adjusted EPS will improve between 14 and 21%.

Reaching $2 or 95 cents through $3 or 12 cents for the first quarter. We expect revenue in the range of $246 million to $256 million, that's up 8% to 13% versus last year GAAP EPS for the first quarter is expected to be 27 cents to 33 cents.

And adjusted EPS between 37 cents, a 43 cents.

You know, we're confident or to enter 2020 plan and the opportunity to deliver a increasing returns we're better positioned in faster growing markets.

And we continue to build on our solid and growing backlog, our new products and services are resonating well.

And we are strengthen our positions with our ongoing investments across our businesses.

So I mentioned in the beginning of today's call, we're hosting our Investor day in New York on Wednesday March 18th I Hope all of the we'll be able to 10.

We do plan to provide much more insight on some of today's thoughts I shared with you.

And our leadership team, which will be there is looking forward to spend some time with you again I hope you have time to join US and we'll look forward to simulate team.

At this point now we'll open the call for your questions.

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Our first question is from Daniel Moore with CJS Securities. Please proceed.

Bill and Tim Good morning.

Good morning, Good morning, Dan and just quickly Frank if you're listening or congrats on your success. Thank you for all your help and best of luck in the future and wanted to start with really give a lot of great detail on the recent acquisitions apex and delta.

If you wouldn't mind, maybe talk a little bit more about how they fit together as far as the extraction market is concerned how much additional opportunity you see for consolidation what that could look like just ultimately you know what's the market size opportunity and then kind of margin profile you expect for this business.

Yes.

So Dan one we're excited about these two companies in particular when we.

Looked at this market a months ago, we did a pretty detailed assessment of all the players and our strategy has revolved around as much.

Finding the right.

People.

The founders and the right leaders in these businesses as anything else. So that was kind of step number one.

That's important to when you start bringing these companies together how they operate going for it really is people dependent with a strong leadership and systems and process as well as technology and products.

So those are our two of the two companies that we thought were important to have on the team.

We're seeing a lot of time with the team together today.

Laying out our roadmap of how we're going to approach this market as I mentioned earlier, we want to continue to build in scale. This.

Platform, we think Theres runway here I think it's a solid market as I think I referenced earlier.

And there are brings us to of the three core technologies that the market deploys today. So I guess maybe answer your question. There are still some work to do and looking at maybe adding a third technology that would build out the platform further but good good businesses good end markets.

And we're excited to have.

All right and look forward to hopefully more to come at the analyst day there.

Tim guidance for 2020 implies some really healthy continued margin expansion 50 to 90 Bips adjusted operating margin uplift, maybe can you break that out or rank order mix versus continued operating efficiency gains versus any favorability in raw materials or any other assumptions there.

As I go through that.

I would say that building products.

Yes.

Good a lot of restructuring 80, 20 work throughout 29 team and you get some carryover impact.

And to a lesser extent, that's all show in the industrial and infrastructure segment.

Plus the new projects they have planned.

And modest growth. So that's how I think about those two segments and you've got renewable and conservation, which has I mean, we did a lot of.

We do a fair amount of revenue from acquisitions right, 75% of the revenue growth, we think we'll see as from the acquisitions of apex.

At the end of 19 of the back half and then the two we did January February.

Those will come in damn, probably a little lower margin year, one then that core group.

With the expectation that.

As we integrate and apply our business systems will improve those up above.

So that helped pull up in the future.

You also have you know.

From a.

From an adjusted basis, we did have.

Tracker field, retrofits, which we're calling out it's about $7.5 million full year, and we think thats behind us and won't recur. So.

Margin expansion from that and that I would say.

In the renewables business Theres both.

Operational efficiencies, there's volume leverage.

Material hasn't really been an issue either way for us.

In the past.

I think we've been doing a good job of just keeping that somewhat neutral.

And you will see you know we're going to generate.

Earnings for all those things we are investing more in the business, you'll see us DNA go up a little bit.

Because we've got some investments we want to make to drive future growth and so we've made some of those already in people and systems and we will continue to.

Invest a little bit of our incremental earnings and making sure we can drive growth going forward.

Got it and then lastly, if I'm paying attention to what I heard so far just as far as the the organic piece of revenue growth guide renewables mid to high single somewhere continued solid growth industrial positive, but lower single and kind of flattish on residents at the right kind of way to think about it.

Yeah, we'll have modest growth in resi I would say.

Helpful. Okay, I'll jump back with any follow ups. Thank you.

Thanks.

Our next question is from Julio Romero with Sidoti. Please proceed.

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40 Julio.

Wanted to ask.

On patented products can you talk about the earnings contribution in the fourth quarter and maybe what you expect there for 2020.

Our patented product portfolio tends to have a higher gross margin.

Then our regular.

Product portfolio show.

I think year over year there wasn't.

A huge difference in what we sold from our patented portfolio and what I would say is we look at it.

Got it tends a piece of it but probably a broader.

View of just new products and services.

And so certainly renewable and infrastructure I'm, sorry, renewable energy and conservation segment.

We've expanded the scope of work we do.

We're we're doing more full service for our customers.

And that certainly helps provide just a volume leveraging perspective.

Helps your margins.

Got it and just housekeeping one here I don't know if you called out Oh.

Expectation for tax rate in 2020 at all.

I think that in the in the press release it works out to be about 27% on an adjusted basis and about 28% on a GAAP basis.

Got it I'll hop back in queue. Thanks.

Our next question is from Walter Liptak with Seaport Global Please proceed.

Hi, good morning, guys.

Barnwell rewards.

Congratulations on the out of the great answer the year I wanted to ask.

One of the questions. That's already been asked for them different way you talked about the M&A as being lower margin in 2020, so it gets a little bit dilutive to the margin, but overtime that will start coming out.

So I guess the question is.

What's what's the timing of I guess 80 20 improvements on the M&A that you've done and just as a single point.

In 2020.

What's the EPS accretion that you're expecting from M&A.

So I would say that you know that integration process, which includes a whole host of.

Processes and.

Opportunities for improvement, including 80, 20, and some other tools.

We will be it's part of our planned.

Earnings for for 2020 and beyond.

Well when we do acquisition, we usually target sort of a three year.

Run rate to get to what we think is a.

Maybe a view of a longer term margin profile. It doesn't mean, it won't get better every year.

But the incremental improvements might slow after three years, if we do that the first three years of work right. So from an expectation they should be providing some incremental revenues and margins over the next couple of years.

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And your other question wall fit together.

Just that one.

Okay, well just to maybe just for a finer point on this so for 2020, the EPS accretion sounds like it's going to be modest from these M&A deals because of integration that's now.

Yeah, I mean, it's probably around 30 cents.

On a standalone basis, if you just run out their earnings.

Okay.

Okay great.

And then if I can ask one about the.

Durables the change that happens with tax.

Laws.

I Wonder you explained to us how does that impact in the order trends on the backlog for 2020.

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Well I guess my first reaction has not.

It wasn't much on the high side I think as the industry thought it might be.

And anytime you have this of course you have this last minute Russian so up until December 31st we had a lot of customer conversations, but it did not it was not a windfall.

For us and I don't think it was for the industry either.

As much as maybe some people anticipated. So I would say you know as a contribution to overall backlog it was relatively minor.

I mean, we we got something out of it but but nothing impact nothing in Q4, nothing impacted Q4 and.

The stuff that you get from that will be spread out throughout 2020.

As well.

Okay. Okay.

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Our next question is from Ken Zimmer with Keybanc capital markets. Please proceed.

Good morning, everybody.

Good morning can't work then.

Well.

I see a new slide deck here, so I'm excited to see all this stuff though.

If we could go through.

Yeah.

Well decide that first.

The 30 cents was in reference to what Tim just for me to be clear.

So.

That's probably the it's approximate but that's about the contribution we'd expect.

From the acquisitions that we completed and to last year then.

The once we did the beginning of this year.

With so just to be clear I think I had revenue of 45 in your deck 75, and it was in 17.

Approximately yeah, but.

If you wanted to do at a different way, we called out the growth being 75% from acquisitions. So you're right. It's about 130 million.

Did that ballpark.

Okay, So I'm going to.

So the reason I'm asking this.

As right that's about a 10% margin okay.

Slide.

I believe 10 for Thermo energy and I really look forward to your analyst days, you educate us around this but.

75 million a revenue.

7 million purchase price and 25 billion working capital investment and that's what's in your box there, but can you kind of talk about what that.

Means about the industry and it looks like you got the revenue very cheap.

Needs a lot of working capital.

How should we think about what that implies for.

Well you know what that means it seems like a different profile than we're used to.

Yes, I guess I would say that it was probably nothing to do really with the industry other than the growth.

And it was more specific situation so.

Thermo experience some pretty explosive growth.

And.

Just smaller team.

So they got a little bit behind a how they'd like to perform how they historically performed.

Right and created a Sicher, then where with our we have a little bit larger scale from our greenhouse just that the size of our team and the process as we use show it made a lot of sense for them to join us.

The leader of that business is.

Incredibly respected in that organic fruits and vegetables, we've always.

You know, it's quite honestly one of those competitors that you lose work too because they are really good.

So we're really excited he joined the team and.

You know, we paid a fair price in total, but instead of all of it being purchase price some of which just investment back into the business.

Now.

As I look at these pictures and read your language. This is.

More I mean this is the type of greenhouse that.

You are building or is it the systems in terms of vertical and the.

The full service turnkey site provider.

Is it similar to what you do and what he is the leader in this market.

Yes, Ken it's.

It is both of those things so it's a full service from design.

The structure itself all the way through.

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Specified integrating and installing the systems and getting it up and running very similar to what we do so it's a.

Really a mirror image, what we do it just they have been really focused and organics and and that's been a pretty explosive growth market. The last 10 years and.

And.

So these are these are quite.

Complex and very technology.

Driven sites, if you will.

So it's a nice complement to what we do but it looks very similar were just it will leverage our scale with their front end and I think operationally.

We're excited about what we can do with this going forward, particularly given end market itself.

It does look very attractive I agree with you.

Tim if I could clarify cseven it a half million that you had from the.

Solar retrofit is what I assume to 7.5 million was referring to.

That's about 200 basis points of drag.

And that's why 19.

Could one to assume that.

How you know in terms of the margin in.

Renewable I mean, all else equal.

200 basis points because of that.

7 million lacking but you have growth rate growth from acquisitions, which is at about 10% are there any other factors that we should put into you know the margin expectation, perhaps why 20.

Oh, the renewable segment. It seems like there's two big puts right minus seven and a half million and that.

EPS contribution, but just highlighted.

Yeah, I mean, I think you know that menu and both of the.

Both sides of the business continue to grow.

At a decent rate to sell.

I'd say, it's those think avia yep.

And interest expense for the or I'm, sorry, if I missed it Tim.

Effectively nothing right. We are we paid off our debt at the beginning of the year, we don't have any debt.

As we set so I.

I hope to have some interest expense to report to you if we could now.

Fleet some of our strategic work that we're working on but nothing in the plan.

Thank you gentlemen.

Thanks, Chad.

Oh, we now have a follow up question from Daniel Moore with CJS Securities. Please proceed.

Thank you again, if he gave this and I missed that I apologize just backlog one on organic basis, what would that have looked like on a year over year.

Did not give it could give me a second tick quick look.

Oh, we bake it into the beginning Dan so.

I don't habit in front of we have looked at what I have is summarized putting that when we do our backlog numbers, we do sort of pro forma and I'm sure that the acquisitions have some backlog increase but it shouldn't be year gas they weren't in it.

Yeah Okay.

We can talk offline that's fine and then one other quickly just perimeter security.

One of the drivers Yeah go ahead.

Yeah, 33% up 33.

Got it okay.

Very helpful. And then perimeter security just can't give us a sense of the size of that business run rate basis come out of 2019. Then you mentioned is called it out as one of the potential drivers for 2020, what kinda, yeah, what kind of growth right.

Thank you.

So it's it's small it had in excess of 20% growth last year.

And we expect that same kind of you know growth level, but a.

Sort of you know single I'm, sorry double.

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I love to mid double digits, not teens and not 50%.

Yes, it should for should be in between there and it is you know margin accretive it's been really helping along with a bunch of other work you know that team.

Has done great work over the last two or three years, you can see it in their margins.

And they have continued plans to improve.

Very good thank you.

We have reached end of our question answer session I would like to turn the call back over to Mr. bodes well for closing remarks.

Well again, guys, hey, thanks for calling in today, and hopefully you'll be able to join US a march 18th in New York City at our Investor Day and.

And.

Looking forward to senior then so.

Have a great day and again, thanks again.

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