Q4 2019 Earnings Call
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Thank you for joining out what she's fourth quarter and full year 2019 conference call.
I'm joined on today's call with Atlas's, Chief Executive Officer, Joe Boyle, Chief Financial Officer, Walter Powell, and finance team member canisters.
We trust that you've seen our full year 2019 earnings release issued after the market close today.
During the call we will refer to financial tables and disclosure is included in the release, which can be found on our investors section of our website.
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Before we begin I would like to remind you that today's call may include forward looking statements.
Any statements, describing our beliefs goals plans strategies expectations projections forecasts and assumptions.
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Please note that the company's actual results may differ from those anticipated by such forward looking statements.
For a variety of reasons, many of which are beyond our control.
Please see our recent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Which identify the principal risks and uncertainties that could affect our business prospects and future results.
We assume no obligation to update publicly any forward looking statements.
In addition, we will be discussing what providing certain non-GAAP financial measures today.
Including adjusted EBITDA.
And adjusted EBITDA margins.
Please see our release and filings for a reconciliation of these non-GAAP measures.
To their most directly comparable GAAP measure.
I would now like to turn the call over to our CEO Joe Boyer.
Thank you David and good afternoon to all your joining us on the line.
First let me start by saying that we're very excited to be a becoming a public company in February which reached another one of our longer term objectives marks an important milestone the evolution more rapidly expanding business.
This is made possible by the focused execution of our entire team.
Well I like to thank each one of our hard working women and men for their dedication to excellence.
Commitment to our history of success and their existence, bringing us to this exciting point in the Atlas journey.
For our company and strategy being public has a lot of advantages.
Not only do customers with critical projects strongly prefer dealing with an established company.
We also know how public equity currency and more efficient capital resources to execute acquisitions over time.
This is important because we have successfully grown by attractive business owners to complement our existing businesses, but more importantly wants to be invested alongside us.
We expect that to continue this strategy in the foreseeable future.
Moving to our operating highlights were very pleased with the positive momentum of our business starting 2019, delivering record annual revenue and adjusted EBITDA well also establishing a record backlog position as we entered Q1 2020.
We executed well throughout the year and delivered results in line with our growth plan.
Our net revenues, which exclude cost pass through to our clients.
Grew by 25.1%.
And adjusted EBITDA by 24.8% year over year.
We experience and improved project mix represent an increased level of self performance for the company, while efficiently managing our workforce to produce consistently strong results.
Demand conditions remained solid in our markets.
Given my longer term increased spending on our aging infrastructure combined with the upward trend municipalities in state agencies outsourcing program management and project quality assurance services to the private sector.
In addition, we had approximately half of our business in government base, we see stability and predictability in our revenue streams.
Benefiting from these favorable industry trends.
We believe are likely continue over the long term.
We continue to take advantage of our strong professional service qualifications national scale and depth to services to pursue larger projects, which is increasing our baseline revenue, while driving resources and operational pardon me the scale.
Accordingly, we are winning more marquee project awards.
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We also continue to execute strategic accretive tuck in acquisitions, you broaden our footprint deepen our technical capabilities and explained or expand our client base and services.
Our recent addition of long engineering checks all of these boxes and further solidifies our strength and the testing engineering and inspection space.
Further expanded our backlog position do an estimated $615 million.
That's up 11% over December 2018 provides greater than 100% coverage or guided gross revenue range for 2020.
Before we.
Dive deeper into our results I'll provide an overview of the company given that we have some new investors and analysts joining us today.
Atlas is a national leader and providing a broad range of mission critical professional technical services and the infrastructure space.
Testing inspection it consulting represents approximately 80% of our business.
The other 20% includes engineering and design.
So we are professional services firm and we're not a construction company.
Half of our clients tend to be state local our federal government.
Let's get a high quality commercial industrial and retail clients.
We believe we're one of the exposition companies.
Benefit from the trillions of investment dollars required to address our aging infrastructure.
It's funny 19, we produced $471 million in gross revenue.
With an adjusted EBITDA margin of approximately 13.9% on gross revenue.
And 17.4% on net revenue.
Most of our business is recurring in nature and sourced from an anniversary of clients in markets project types and geographies.
We operate across 40 U.S. states.
Established footholds in key geographies, including many of the fastest growing regions in the country, such as California, Colorado, Georgia and Texas.
We support approximately 9000 customers with an average.
Overall project size of less than $10000.
On an annual basis, we perform as many as 50000 projects with an estimated 95% of the work in cost Reimbursable from time to materials and as a result, we did not perform construction or take construction risk.
We operate in large highly fragmented markets, where we can be primarily against small local and regional players.
In those cases, we run into a large national players. We also compete successfully did the depth and breadth of our qualifications.
Over two thirds of our business is on existing structures, 90% of revenue coming from repeat customers.
We have several customers that have never with us for 20 to 30 years or nearly all of our top 15 customers contracted our services from more than 10 years.
This is a well diversified business.
No one typical customer exceeding 6% to 7% or overall gross revenue.
This includes a range of high quality customers and transportation government commercial education in industrial sectors.
As an example, we've not been performing ongoing inspection immaterial testing for the Golden Gate Bridge for over 22 years.
We are an asset light business with our key differentiator in the strength of our people and as a result, we have minimal capex requirements.
Is there just a few of the many elements of our story that support what we considered to be a relatively low risk operating model, what the durable customer base.
Produces highly reliable and predictable revenue streams.
Our long term client relationships helped to provide deep visibility into our project pipeline.
We also have strong visibility into span and distribution of our multiyear contracted backlog.
With revenues derived from non discretionary testing inspection projects that are required by various regulatory agencies.
I'm excited about achieving this new company record level backlog, which helps that's the from growth trajectory as we look forward.
As we achieved in 2019, we plan to continue executing on the four pillars of our growth strategy.
This includes Lebron James the strong industry Tailwinds.
Winning larger projects.
Cross selling services.
Assuming targeted M&A.
Our industry Tailwinds appear favorable for the foreseeable future.
Combined with the growing trend of outsourcing services to the private sector.
We see continued growth within the industry, mainly from the need to invest in our aging infrastructure and the increase in ability of state or local governments too.
The funds such required investment.
Additionally, the complexity of construction performed by others.
The resulting increased scrutiny by regulators and stricter environmental standards are driving our inspection and consulting work across the commercial educational and industrial markets.
The rapid growth of our company from a regional player to a national platform.
Im increasingly gain the ability to win larger projects, which to us means contracted projects in excess of $5 million.
And this is attributed to our extended scale, our breadth of resources local expertise and deep qualifications.
It's it's helped fuel or backlog and we expect us to trend to continue given our recent bidding success.
Some examples some recent large contract wins include a construction materials testing contract with the Idaho National Laboratory on a carbon free power project.
On a contract with the Texas Department of transportation for the test and inspection of multiple Colorado River Rich replacements.
These significant contract wins continue to validate our growth strategy.
We were very successful with a cross selling efforts in 2019 with our percentage of revenues performed by our people, which we defined as net revenues increasing 80% gross.
Gross revenues compared to approximately 70% over the prior two years.
And this is attributed to expanded service capabilities within our business as we acquired companies as well as our ability to sell and self perform more services to existing and new customers across an expanded geographic footprint.
Capitalizing on favorable market tailwinds larger projects and cross selling Archie to organic growth opportunities.
The other building block in our growth story is M&A.
Our strategy is focused on adding companies with complementary low risk services that can accelerate the growth of our platform based on cross selling and larger project pursuits, well also afford and a deleveraging effect to our capital structure.
The over 140000 companies in the sector, we provide a platform that is large enough to benefit from a national presidents.
While also small enough to take advantage of Segner fragmentation.
Execute accretive bolt on acquisitions.
Our experience is the small regional companies grow faster on our national scale platform.
About any positive mix of organic and acquisitive growth for years to comp.
The strong finish in 2019, our favorite position in markets.
And are focused on quality execution, we're poised to capitalize on multiple growth avenues ahead.
We're excited about the path forward as a public company affirmed demand Oh, a environment for our services and our multi prong opportunity to generate profitable growth.
In 2020, we plan to execute our strategic priorities pursue investments that benefit our people customers in business and de lever our business.
The 30% of shares owned by our management team were directly in line with trading meaningful value for our shareholders in the years ahead.
Before I turn it over to Walter Powell, our CFO will like to provide a quick comment relative to rapidly developing grown as fiber situation. We're all aware of.
As the situation continues to expand and intensify here in the U.S. My leadership team and I in concert with our board of directors are taking quicken immediate steps to protect our staff and ensure continuity of service to our clients. During this uncertain period.
At this time, we're monitoring the situation very closely and had been taken additional precautions relative to travel restrictions and large meetings are using technology to communicate where possible.
We're communicating daily across our organization.
Our people to provide real time center disease control updates as well as Atlas specific guidance.
We have initiated a series of contingency plans demand as possible service interruption maintain real time communication across our entire organization and with our clients.
Over the past several weeks demand for industrial hygiene services has seen a marked increase in customer request.
We're pleased to be able to help our clients and our impact to communities mitigate the effects that this national emergency with our best in class team up nearly 500 industrial hygiene related specialist.
Building Sciences, there's been a core service of our since 1982.
Our season and capable staff is directly responding decline hygiene services needs ranging from safety planning exposure pathway assessments cleaning protocol development and deacon amputation oversight ranging from Washington State to Florida.
The 40 years of experience in this field, we're well prepared to help our clients mitigate the impact of this national emergency other places a business and the communities where we operate.
I'll now turn the call over to Walter to discuss our financial results in more detail.
Thanks, Joe and good afternoon, everyone.
As Joe indicated our fourth quarter and full year results were strong and inline with our expectations.
I'll focus on full year results in our press release to provide a holistic book at our 2019 performance.
Gross revenue for the full year 2019 increased 10.5%.
The 471 million compared to 426.4 million in the prior year with organic revenue growth of 5.5%.
Primarily driven by increased scope of services to existing clients and expansion into new markets.
We also saw some large projects in our mix and favorable industry dynamics continue so the growth pillars, Joe discussed earlier, we're all evident in our progress.
The difference between gross and net revenue is pass through revenue from subcontracting out certain functions.
One of the benefits of our expanded platform is that we have more services to offer and we don't need to subcontract out as much work.
Therefore, net revenues and adjusted EBITDA are growing even faster and gross revenues.
Net revenues in 2019 were 377.8 million, an increase of 25.1% compared to 302.1 million in 2018, driven by a broader suite of services self performed by Atlas, resulting in lower sub contracting.
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Adjusted EBITDA increased 24.8% to 65.6 million compared to 52.6 million in 2018.
Primarily due to higher net revenues and strong overall workforce and operating efficiency.
As you would expect there are lower margins on the subcontracted work, we therefore focus on adjusted EBITDA as a percentage of net revenue.
We view this methodology as a better reflection of our performance in a more meaningful way to measure our progress.
As a percent of net revenue adjusted EBITDA was a solid 17.4%.
As Joe discussed one of the most attractive elements of our business is the high degree of confidence that we have in our forecast.
Driven by our record backlog, which has expanded to 615 million, including the recently acquired long engineering.
Our strong array of project wins reflects an impressive range of project additions across our national platform as well as an increase in average project size.
Turning to our balance sheet I'll speak to our more recent balance sheet metrics given the recent completion of our public company formation through the business combination with boxwood merger Corp.
On February 14, 2020, we had total debt outstanding of 281 million.
Total available available liquidity was 39.2 million.
As of February 14, there was 145 million of preferred shares outstanding.
Although our debt has already been funded our underwriters are in the process of syndicating, our debt and we will keep you updated when the final terms are known.
With that I'll turn the call, but David to review, our 2020 outlook.
Thank you Walter.
Before I dive into our outlook I'll first mentioned that for reporting purposes. I 2019, adjusted EBITDA does not reflect certain reconciliation items that were considered for covenant adjusted EBITDA purposes that we filed in February for our lenders.
This included estimated synergies related to our merger agency in 2019.
And a full year contribution of long engineering.
Well as estimated public company cost had we been public last year.
2020, we will pivot our focus to reporting on a GAAP and adjusted EBITDA basis.
For efficiency now that the public company transaction is behind us.
Well the full year 2020, adjusted EBITDA is expected to be in the range of 74 million to $80 million.
We expect gross revenue for the full year 2020 to be in the range of $505 million to $530 million.
Subject to project mix movements, we anticipate net revenue as a percentage of gross.
To be consistently strong with 2019 performance.
Our outlook includes 10.5 months of contribution for the addition of the long engineering business in mid February 2020.
As we discussed today, our businesses driven by contracted and fully funded backlog.
We therefore look at what we call a backlog coverage ratio.
This is defined as our beginning backlog divided by the next 12 months gross revenues.
We have historically made carried a higher than 100% coverage ratio given the long lead times afforded by our backlog.
I 2020 revenue outlook is consistent with that trend.
With a backlog coverage ratio at a comfortable range between 116 and 122%.
Including the addition of the long engineering backlog to our platform.
Consistent with our backlog our headcount at yearend was also up high single digit year over year.
Without predominately tightened materials contract structure.
Inflation adjusted rates and continued high utilization.
These leading indicators further support our financial projections.
That said, we aren't asset light business.
Our primary investment in highly skilled and technical people accordingly.
We anticipate capital expenditures as a percentage of gross revenues to remain in the low 1.5% to 2% range in 2020.
Furthermore, our cash flow from operations is supported by a favorable tax structure and minimum working capital requirements.
Well the final note.
Keep in mind as indicated by Joe we've not seen any direct impact to our operations from Corona virus.
But we are monitoring closely.
Additionally, our 2020 outlook does not currently factoring any material impact related to the Corona virus and dynamic.
That said, we are mindful of the potential disruption that this unfortunate epidemic may potentially cause for our customers turn end stage of a project.
As well as any traveled disruptions for our people.
However.
Given our national footprint, many of our professionals approximate to our projects and does reduce the amount of travel required.
That said, we will continue to monitor this unpredictable situation very closely and provide necessary updates as appropriate.
In summary.
Our business is performing strong.
And in line with our expectations.
We anticipate the favorable momentum to continue into 2020.
Absent any unforeseen macro factors beyond our control the growth we've seen to date together with our high backlog coverage puts us on sound 40 to deliver solid result in 2020.
Thank you again for joining US operator, we would now like to open the lines for killing it.
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Our first question is from Kathryn Thompson.
Tom Some research group. Please proceed with your question.
Hi, Thank you for taking my questions today.
First how is outlets position in the market given current conditions macro conditions and how easily can the company ramp up.
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Hi, Katherine Thanks for the question.
Let me start by saying that we have a really strong backlog and and that backlog is.
Clients that we have worked with for a tremendous amount of time, our top 25 customers average like 22 years, but we feel good about the strength of our backlog I want to remind that we have industry, leading margins I feel good about that work.
We also perform work not reliant on new construction.
Performed fairly well, what 70% of our work on existing structures.
Reminder, that the majority of our work is driven by regulatory compliance.
Oh, we have also performed very well through the 2008 2010 recession, we have a proven ability to in fact adjust our cost structure in accordance with our projected revenue.
And we're monitoring that situation partly.
Three Catherine this is well propel the a the other thing to keep in mind is.
Given our structure in terms of 80% of our cost is labor and labor related. So you know not quite all completely variable cost there, but we have the ability to.
Ramp our cost structure as Joe mentioned in accordance with revenue projections.
Okay helpful. In could you also pool, just a little bit more on that remind us what percentage of revenues are tied to infrastructure support state and federal construction.
And just in your opinion.
We've done plenty of work in Iran, but like to get your opinion in terms of getting greater confidence from trends, how secure deep dollars and that's project sorry. Thank you.
Sure. Thank you as a reminder, or.
70% of our work is done on existing assets. So existing buildings roads bridges highways that type of work. So we're not relied on new construction.
Roughly 50% of our work is in a local state and federal government Arena, which we feel good about Andy the number of a large number of less this out year and opportunities that are in front of us that work is funded and our backlog.
Is contracted funded as well.
Okay. That's helpful.
Then just moving over to you referenced it in your your press release today.
When you made some comments and prepared commentary in terms of how you responded to cut that.
Correct buyers, thus far but maybe we talked about measures you taken as a company to repair, but maybe pull the trigger a little bit more in terms of services that you can provide to help mitigate a better understand outbreak.
Certainly and as I'd mentioned on on the call. We have clearly seen a marked increase on our industrial hygiene services. As we mentioned it has been a core service of ours. Since 1982, we we have.
As many.
Consulting C H is as.
As the the largest consulting firms in our business here, but nearly 500 industrial high Janis to support.
The services, we have been offering or ranging from safety planning.
You are helping clients develop exposure pathway assessments also cleaning protocol and also clearance protocol decontamination oversight so.
We have have a long history of responding to emergencies, a national disasters that go back to 911 to a huge amount of the Hurricane response work. We have performed so we we have a great history with our clients and been able to service their needs through disaster very soon.
Similar to this.
Great. Thanks, and then final question, because it's Walter capital structure and liquidity, that's going public that that'd be helpful. Thanks again.
Certainly thank you Catherine Walter Yeah, I'll start on liquidity.
You've been mine, where an asset light business, so minimal capex, that's a historical and projected or.
Just to have some really minor capex that we spend every year.
And if we look at our guidance that we put out there the range of $72 million to $80 million of adjusted EBITDA and we look at.
About $7 million in Capex, which again has been consistent year over year.
A $19 million in interest we would have for expected for 2020, but on a full year basis pretty $5 million in cash taxes, and we expected.
He spent approximately $8 million one preferred dividends that leaves us in the range of $34 million to $42 million a.
And then obviously, depending on the where we end up we could have five $8 million need for to support our work working capital needs to support our growth puts us in the range of 20.
The $29 million to $34 million of a cash to deployed elsewhere.
Dan if you weren't talking about our capital structure a little.
Sure and again, just a caution Kathryn are dead, there's still being syndicated years are those that was one of the previous estimates that we had disclosed on our investor deck, you know on on the cash interest expense, but as our minor we had 281 million of debt closing a 40 million dollar revolver.
ER as well as we do have access under the current turns to an accordion feature to fund acquisitions, but again, we'll have to determine how this all settles out as part of the syndication process, but right now plenty of cash and liquidity to continue to execute on the business plan.
Great. Thanks, So much ranch in my question today.
Our next question is from Dan that go Lab Macquarie. Please proceed with your question.
Hey, guys. Thanks for taking my question Congrats on the first quarter out of the gate looks like a great job.
Thank you so.
You're welcome so I got two questions here can you I it looks like when I do the numbers it looks like you're assuming a massive.
Marching improvement in 2020 can you maybe go through a little bit the drivers I know some a bit you said was the.
That's reliance on on outside work to pass through but maybe can you highlight you know one or two key points on them that significant margin improvement that's that's embedded in the guide.
Certainly Dave when you want to take that.
Okay.
Yeah, Hi.
Yes, I am.
The largest in the largest impacting driver to that.
RV increase in volume and if you look God the growth rates that are planned year over year, just based on the range. We provided works backing.
Gross revenue growth rates anywhere from 7% to 13%.
On a net revenue basis, which we've talked about we strategically working very hard to sell for more you can anticipate slow growth rates, even higher than long.
So that's having a larger in path on driving bottom line EBITDA margins. In addition, we are we will be realizing the benefit Oh gosh full year synergy.
That were accomplished closing out in 2009 too.
And not just along with the fixed overall cost structure of the business and then finally withdrawing Rob you know.
Just resulting in economies effect drop thus driving our our bottom line. So call. It bodes really are the biggest biggest circumstances that are driving the improvement to our profitability.
And Dan Fasteners I'll just jump in I think it's also a matter of comparing apples to apples. So the margin improvement when you look at the adjusted EBITDA that doesn't include as Dave is pointing out the synergies that were put in place as part of the get Tc merger or long and so forth. So when you you compare it on an apples.
As to apples basis, the margins are actually relatively flat from 29 10 to 2020.
Got it understood.
And my my final and second question is you know given where we are today.
Can you maybe give us a bit more of a sense of how you did in prior downturn, how the business operates and during the downturn. So I think it'll be very topical where we are today.
Sure and we provided quite a bit a detail on art or last in vector that investor deck on that so Dan you want to provide a little more color around that.
Sure.
Yeah, and yet you do you want to look at a there was two pages from our last publicly disclosed investor deck, then you'll you'll see in there that are just by adding together all the small individual businesses as these businesses were back in 2007.
The decline the annual decline from 2007 to 2010, you know was roughly 4% per year, and then bounce back at a pretty quickly in 2010.
But again those were all small individual businesses that you know were growing at a much lower growth rate.
Dan the combined platform is right now and there's a number tailwinds that such as the increased outsourcing and other factors here there were not in play and in 2007.
We also spent a lot of time looking at the markets in which Atlas operated and when you look at those end markets. During 2007 to 2010 timeframe. The average annual decline there was less than 1%.
So you know getting this is a business that we don't think it's gonna have significant exposure to the cycle and there's even some.
Counter cyclical or components to a particularly with the government spending, particularly as there's calls on Washington, and so forth in the last recession or the Atlas was the direct beneficiary of some of that you know call. It 80 plus billion of spending a that that went out to the economy is from stimulus measures and so again, we don't see a lot of exposure.
In this business model, you know versus some others out there.
Appreciate it. Thank you so much talk soon.
Thank you.
Our next question is from Rob Brown Lake Street Capital market. Please proceed with your question.
Good afternoon.
Hi, good I've talked to.
You talked about a bigger Mitch mix of lot larger projects just wanted to get a sense of sort of the scale of those larger projects and what's the duration of those are those longer than a year typically are what's a duration in comparison to your smaller projects.
Yes. So so we consider a large project of upper project in excess of $5 million in revenue. So those projects to us have increased a typical duration I would say are typically multi year certainly from one to three years is sort of up a nice average to use Rob.
Okay, great. Thank you and then just to clarify the last question did you say that you had 17% to 13% organic growth implied in your and your outlook.
Dave you want to.
Yeah, well, yet what we yeah, yeah. What we said was we had based on the range, we had 7% to 13%.
Total and organic being four to 10.
Based on the range provided.
Yeah, Okay, great. Thank you.
And then back your industrial hygiene business could you give a sense of how big of a business that is in total and how much that kinda grows in these companies disaster situations.
Our our industrial hygiene business overall I don't.
I don't currently have that that'll have to get back to you on that Rob I think that.
You know, what's a little early for us to tell how much of an impact a it's going to have a clearly, but certainly but even within the last week and a half. Our you know weve seen a marked improvement in the opportunities a increase in and I you know I do certainly see that a increasing.
So I just as I said, it's been a core business of they HTC business that we acquired in 2019 cents way back in the 80, so very strong and we have as I'd mentioned about as many certified and discharge in us and the consulting businesses and the the leading competitors.
Okay, great. Thanks for the overview I'll turn it over.
Our next question, it's from Bill Newby D.A. Davidson.
Please proceed with your question.
Good afternoon, guys and congrats on the completion of the business combination.
Thank you Bill I appreciate that.
You know first one I've been part of the story. Obviously is this your has an ability to increase your ability to self perform work I'm wondering Joe when you look at the business overall, what's the what's a realistic goal for the next sort of self perform work person subcontracted work as you guys continue to grow here.
That's a very good question Bill you know.
We are always going to have some elements of subcontracted work you know we have improved from 70% to 80% of gross revenue, we're never going to perform some of the but I viewed to be higher risk elements of our business like drilling and environmental sampling in some of the issues that we're never going to build labs.
And stuff for so I, you know I could see that improving a little bit overtime, but cut as it approaches you know 85% of gross I think that's starting to be you know sort of the limits of of what we see in our current project mix.
Got it that's that's helpful. That's there and then I guess.
I'm wondering with all the market volatility that were stand right are you guys see in that kind of transition into the private M&A markets are multiple shifts not at all or is it too early to tell.
Honestly Bill we have not and I would say, it's probably too early to tell but we have not seen.
That change we have a nice healthy pipeline of Ah of of our M&A activities and we haven't seen a a change from the four to six multiples we've been paying historically.
But.
Market conditions market conditions, now that that May change.
Right right and then I guess last one from me.
Just on the leverage on that thanks.
On the.
At the midpoint of the guide you guys are gonna be sitting around three and a half [laughter] levered on EBITDA I mean, what.
The long term.
Hi level with Levered at that at that range or where do you expect it to go over as you look through 2020.
Yes, so bill this Walter.
Yeah, you know I'd say, we're comfortable at 3.5, but our our goal is to really getting net leverage down to below three times. A you know we think we can get there now in 2021.
You know given our cash flow projections.
Right.
For me Thanks, guys.
Thanks, a lot don't appreciate it.
We have reached the end of the question answer session I would now I'll turn the call back over to Joe Boyer for closing remarks.
Thank you very much I'm going to thank everyone for joining us on our call. Today. We appreciate your support amount was technical consultants and look forward to updating you on our progress next quarter. Thank you.
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