Q1 2022 MasTec Inc Earnings Call
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Welcome to Mastec first quarter 2022 earnings Conference call initially broadcast on Friday May six 2022.
Let them, let me remind participants that today's call is being recorded.
I'd like to turn the call over to your host Marc Lewis <unk>, Vice President Investor Relations Mark. Thanks.
Thanks, Kevin Good morning, everyone and welcome to <unk> first quarter call. The following statement is made pursuant to the safe Harbor for forward looking statements described in the private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.
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We may use certain non-GAAP financial measures in this conference call a reconciliation of any non-GAAP financial measures not reconciled in these comments and the most comparable GAAP financial measure can be found in our earnings press release with US today, we have Jose Mas, our Chief Executive Officer, and George Pita, Our EVP and Chief Financial Officer.
The format of the call will be opening remarks analysis about Jose followed by financial review from George.
These discussions will be followed by Q&A period, and we expect to call asking about 60 minutes.
A lot of important things to talk about today, So I'll turn the call over because I said, we can get started okay.
Thanks, Mark Good morning, and welcome to <unk> 2022 first quarter call.
Today I'll be reviewing our first quarter results as well as providing my outlook for the markets. We serve first some first quarter highlights revenue for the quarter was $1 billion $954 million adjusted.
Adjusted EBITDA was 99 million.
Adjusted earnings per share was negative <unk>.
And backlog at quarter end was more than $10 6 billion a record level in the first time, we've exceeded 10 billion.
In summary results were generally in line with revenue EBITDA and EPS slightly ahead of our expectations.
Before getting into specifics about our quarter guidance I'd like to offer my perspective on Moss six business today.
Master is currently in the midst of a significant transition as it relates to our business mix and earnings.
Based on the anticipated weakness in the oil and gas segment.
<unk> at around the time of the pandemic in 2020, we set course to invest in those areas of our business, where we felt we had excellent long term growth opportunities.
In addition to organic initiatives, we made a number of acquisitions in 2021 that reposition master and enhanced our service offerings.
Based on these investments, we expect significant revenue growth and diversification in 2022 and beyond.
As an example, non oil and gas revenue totaled $4 5 billion for full year 2020.
2022, we expect these revenues to approach seven 8 billion and over 70% anticipated growth rate and 24 months.
We're even further encouraged by the level of current and planned investments we are seeing from our customers.
We are aggressively responding to our customers' needs and request a ramp to meet their long term build plants.
This gives us tremendous confidence in the decisions we've made over the last two years will drive significant shareholder appreciation.
I believe our first quarter results begin to demonstrate our stated goals.
First quarter, non oil and gas revenues and earnings both grew over 65% compared to last year's first quarter. While we still have considerable work to do to reach the level of performance that we expect of ourselves we are making progress.
Yesterday in our earnings release, we updated 2022 guidance our guidance was impacted by two primary factors.
First the delay of completion of the Mountain Valley pipeline, which was announced earlier this week.
And second the impact we are seeing in our solar business from the department of Commerce Anti Circumvention investigation that is currently ongoing in the solar industry.
We expected 2022 to be a challenging year for our oil and gas business as new project activity significantly decline during 2021.
While recent world events and increased commodity prices should have a positive impact on the need for new pipelines, we don't expect a meaningful impact until 2023.
In the meantime, we were expecting to complete the mountain Valley pipeline project in 2022.
That project. However has now been delayed until the second half of 2023 in service date and in our updated guidance released yesterday, we have removed that project from our current year guidance.
In addition to the pipeline project, we reduced our guidance expectation for solar revenues within our clean energy segment.
Solar has been a focused area of growth for us that we believe offers great long term opportunities.
Although we expected solar revenues in 2022 to nearly double in 2021 levels. We are now moderating our view because of the department of Commerce's anti Circumvention mentioned investigation into four countries, Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam.
These four countries represent approximately 80% of all of the solar panels sold in the United States.
The risk of the investigation would be added tariffs that could range anywhere from 50% to 250% of the total panel cost.
Further complicating the issue is that these tariffs will be retroactive to February of this year.
This investigation has made it nearly impossible to move forward with the project that was dependent on these panels.
A preliminary decision on the investigation is due by August 26.
A decision will provide clarity for developers, who today have too much of an unknown risk.
While we expect activity to quickly ramp following a decision many of the panels that were slated to be shipped to the U S are now being sent to other countries potentially delaying shipments to U S projects following a decision.
Based on this our guidance now assumes roughly $350 million in solar revenue a reduction of $250 million from our previous guidance based on projects that are either ongoing or using panels that are not affected by the investigation.
We are hopeful that this guidance will prove to be conservative, but it's our best estimate today.
Our quarter end solar backlog is approximately the same as the $350 million revenue guidance number.
To put this impact in perspective aside from our state in backlog, we have been either verbally awarded or are in negotiations for another nearly $1 $5 billion of solar work that was to be performed partly in 2022.
Thus regardless of the impact in 2022 expected resolution of this issue should not change our aggressive growth targets that we expect in our 2023 solar business.
In addition to the long term solar opportunities. We're also encouraged about the progress we've made in growing and expanding our power delivery business we.
We made two transformative acquisitions in that business last year, having acquired entrant exactly one year ago yesterday, and henkels <unk> Mccoy at the end of the year.
Integrations integration efforts are ongoing and we're encouraged by both our progress and more importantly, the long term potential of the business.
Customers have responded very well to our MAU wrote more robust service offerings and we are encouraged by the potential opportunities that exist for our power delivery business today.
More importantly, we're encouraged by our customers' desire to see us continue to grow and expand as you work to meet their needs.
Elaborative efforts with our customers on reliability grid hardening renewable connectivity and EV charging provides us with excellent opportunities for long term revenue growth.
Now I'd like to cover some industry specifics.
Our communications revenue for the quarter was $664 million, a 17% year over year increase and we expect full year revenue to grow by over 20%.
Backlog at quarter end increased 31% year over year and by over $300 million sequentially.
We are rapidly expanding both our geographic presence as well as adding resources to meet our customers' demands.
We added over 2000 team members to this segment year over year and nearly 800 sequentially.
We have experienced a significant amount of demand related to fiber expansion opportunities both from existing customers as well as number of our DARPA funded new entrants.
As a reminder, the rural digital opportunity fund or our dock will provide 20 billion of funding over the next 10 years to build and connect gigabit broadband speeds and underserved rural areas only about half of those funds have been awarded additionally.
Additionally in October of 2020, the FCC established a <unk> fund for Rural America, which will provide up to $9 billion in funding over the next decade to bring <unk> wireless broadband connectivity to rural America.
Finally, the infrastructure Bill included an additional 65 billion for broadband funding.
These funds the majority of which will be spent in the future. In addition to the increased private spending by wireless companies Ilex and cable TV operators are creating an environment for significant incremental spending in the years to come.
As one of the leading turnkey contractors of choice, we are investing in expanding to meet this increased demand.
We are also gearing up in our wireless markets as we expect significant project activity acceleration in the second half of 2022 as we've previously communicated.
Moving to our power delivery segment revenue was $650 million versus $134 million in last year's first quarter.
First quarter of 2022 included results, both for entrance and ankles and Mccoy.
The segment is on pace to generate approximately $2 6 billion in annual revenue with substantial growth opportunities for the future.
We believe the scale, we have been able to create positions us as a leader in the market with great opportunities ahead with.
With changes in electrical transmission and distribution needs our customers have a clear goal of modernizing the power grid with a focus on reliability fire hardening renewable connectivity and growth in electrical vehicle usage, our combined service offering allows us to provide our customers with cost effective solutions at <unk>.
To meet their demands.
We're excited about our competitive position in the market and this clearly is a segment that is reshaping how mostek will look in the future we.
We are confident that margin performance will continue to improve and are becoming more optimistic on the long term potential margin outlook for this segment.
Moving to our oil and gas segment revenue was $211 million versus $726 million last year.
After the adjustment in guidance for the Mountain Valley pipeline, we expect revenue in this segment of approximately $1 4 billion versus nearly $2 6 billion last year.
Our current 2022 revenue expectation does not include any large project construction activity and demonstrates what we believe will be the trough level for this segment.
Discussion for future projects are very active approaching levels, we haven't seen in a few years.
This coupled with carbon sequestration and hydrogen projects give us great opportunities to build off of our revenue base level.
Moving to our clean energy and infrastructure segment revenue was $436 million for the first quarter versus $350 million in the prior year.
24% year over year increase.
With our reduced solar guidance, we expect full year revenue to approximate $2 2 billion, a roughly 15% increase over 2021.
Backlog in this segment was up 22% year over year.
We believe our diversification is our strength in this segment as we are capable of meeting any of our customers demands while renewable has been our focus and we've discussed our business for our solar business earlier, we've made great strides in our civil infrastructure business, along with base load generation projects, we built for.
For example, we're now in our second advanced class turbine installation project.
These turbines are capable of running both gas and hydrogen and we believe our success on this project will lead to many more opportunities with this utility customer.
To recap we've had some curve balls thrown our way so far this year.
While we've been managing through these challenges I want to reiterate how strongly I believe that we've positioned mostek in a way that will allow us to enjoy significant long term opportunities with our customers.
While 2022 will be more challenging than we originally expected.
Our second half of 2022 performance will demonstrate both mastrich's margin and growth potential.
In light of that we started buying back shares at the end of the first quarter.
It's important to note that our philosophy around buybacks has been to try to back buyback shares opportunistically.
As an example, our last three buyback programs were executed years ago at average prices of 1944 and $33 a share.
I would like to again, thank the men and women of Mastec for their performance Im honored and privileged to lead such a great group the men and women of Mastec are committed to the values of safety environmental stewardship integrity honesty and in providing our customers a great quality project at the best value.
These traits have been recognized by our customers and it's because of our People's great work that we've been able to position ourselves for continued growth and success before turning the call over to George I would also like to thank the investment community.
15 years ago, this quarter I had the opportunity to become CEO of Mastec we've.
<unk> been fortunate to see and do a lot over the last 15 years and while I'm extremely proud of what we've built over that time I truly feel the best is yet to come and I couldnt be more excited about what lies ahead in the next 15 years I will now turn the call over to George for our financial review George.
Thanks, Jose and good morning, everyone.
Today I'll cover our first quarter financial results as well as our updated 2022 guidance.
As Marc indicated at the beginning of the call our discussion of financial results and guidance will include non-GAAP adjusted earnings and adjusted EBITDA.
Reconciliation and details of non-GAAP measures can be found on our press release, our SEC filing or on our website.
First quarter results were slightly above our guidance with revenue at 195 billion.
And adjusted EBITDA of $99 million.
Which was approximately $9 million above our guidance primarily.
As a result of higher revenue levels.
As previously communicated first quarter 2022 results reflect a number of factors that make year over year comparisons difficult to assess.
Including a seasonally slow quarter accentuated with project startup costs.
Operations and integration activity on recently completed fourth quarter acquisitions.
And a significant year over year decline in our oil and gas segment operations.
It is worth noting that the revenue diversification strategy initiated in 2020 has begun manifesting itself during the first quarter with 58% of our first quarter revenue derived from recurring Master service agreements.
Only 28% during the first quarter last year.
Most of this increase is derived from recurring programmatic utility services and <unk>.
Our expanded power delivery segment.
We continue to expect a significant shift in our end market operations during the balance of 2022.
With accelerating revenue and earnings in our non oil and gas operations, namely the communications.
Clean energy and infrastructure or clean energy <unk>.
And power delivery segments.
This trend should become more evident during the second quarter.
Supporting our expectation that second half 2022, adjusted EBITDA will exceed last year's level.
As we have previously indicated we believe 2022 is a transition year.
And that performance in the second half of 2022 will serve as a precursor toward a strong 2023.
To reiterate Jose his comments regarding our updated 2022 guidance of $9 $2 billion in revenue.
The change in view is primarily composed of approximately $250 million.
And expected solar project delays caused by panel delivery interruptions as a result of the U S Department of Commerce anti Circumvention investigation announced in late March and approximately $500 million.
And large oil and gas project revenue shifting from the second half of 2022 into 2023, as a result of regulatory and judicial permitting impacts.
We expect both of these issues will be resolved in 2022, and we'll provide further momentum to expected strength in 2023.
In support of our belief of future growth opportunities as of yesterday, we have repurchased approximately 680000 mastec shares for a total cost of approximately $50 million.
An average price of slightly under $73.
This leaves us with approximately $109 million and remaining open share repurchase authorization from our board of directors.
Now I will cover some detail regarding our segment results and expectations.
First quarter Communications segment revenue was $664 million with an adjusted EBITDA margin rate of six 2% of revenue.
This performance was generally in line with our expectation and includes the impact of various new wireline market startup costs for art off work and lower levels of wireless revenue as fiber deployments are expected to ramp this summer.
We expect accelerating communications segment year over year revenue growth in the second quarter in the mid to high 20% range.
With improved adjusted EBITDA margin rate performance in the mid to high Elevens.
Our annual 2022 guidance for this segment is essentially unchanged with annual communications segment revenue ranging between $3, one to $3 2 billion and adjusted EBITDA margin rate in the low to mid elevens.
Within the second half of 2022, we expect higher revenue and adjusted EBITDA margin rate performance in the third quarter based on expected normal seasonality.
First quarter clean energy segment was $436 million and adjusted EBITDA margin rate was two 5% of revenue.
This performance was generally in line with our expectation based on a seasonally slow quarter with low overhead absorption.
Based on project timing inclusive of expected solar project delays, we anticipate that second quarter clean energy segment revenue will approximate $500 million.
With adjusted EBITDA margin rate in the low to mid 4% range.
Our annual 2022 clean energy segment revenue expectation inclusive of approximately $250 million in solar project timing delays from the department of Commerce Solar panel investigation is now between $2 one to $2 2 billion.
And our adjusted EBITDA margin rate expectation is in the high five to low 6% range.
So then the second half of 2022, we expect slightly higher revenue levels in the third quarter based on project timing and seasonality, while expecting a slight slightly higher adjusted EBITDA margin rate in the fourth quarter based on expected project completion timing.
While 2022 project activity has been hampered on the wind side by a lack of transmission capacity and on the solar side by panel delivery interruptions, the expected future demand for renewable power generation.
Is unprecedented and we believe that once logistical and tariff issues that are affecting 2022 are resolved.
<unk> 2023, and beyond should provide significant future revenue and adjusted EBITDA growth opportunities.
As a reminder, last quarter, we renamed our electrical transmission segment to power delivery.
To better reflect our expanded service offerings and capacity and the utility service market, including electrical and gas distribution.
Which occurred from 2021 acquisitions.
We firmly believe that our expanded geographic operations customer reach and scale provide a compelling suite of service offerings.
To support our customers' needs as they work to transition to renewable power generation and hardened to current grid.
First quarter power delivery segment revenue was $650 million and adjusted EBITDA margin rate was eight 2% of revenue.
This performance slightly exceeded our expectation for both revenue and adjusted EBITDA margin rate.
Within this segment acquisition revenue primarily comprised of henkels, an entrant generated approximately $540 million in revenue, mostly from recurring programmatic MSA utility services spend.
As I previously stated these acquisitions significantly improve <unk> revenue stream profile, both increasing the level of recurring MSA revenue and diversifying our customer base.
We anticipate the second quarter power delivery segment revenue will approach first quarter levels with a slight sequential improvement in second quarter adjusted EBITDA margin rate.
Our annual 2022 power delivery segment revenue expectation remains between two five to $2 6 billion.
And our annual adjusted EBITDA margin rate expectation remains in the high single to low double digit range.
First quarter oil and gas segment revenue was $211 million and our adjusted EBITDA margin rate was 11, 1% of revenue generally in line with our expectation.
As expected this was a substantial year over year decrease with a substantial revenue declined, causing adjusted EBITDA to decrease approximately $144 million when compared to the first quarter last year.
We expect second quarter oil and gas segment revenue will accelerate to the low $300 million range.
With adjusted EBITDA margin rate slightly improving on a sequential basis.
Our annual 'twenty two guidance view for this segment now assumes that approximately $500 million.
Of selected large project activity initially expected to restart in July where instead moved to 2023 due.
Due to judicial and regulatory permitting issues.
Accordingly, our annual 2000, Twenty's with revenue guidance for this segment approximates one four to $1 5 billion.
And adjusted annual EBITDA margin rate is expected in the low to mid teens.
Within the second half of 2022, we expect higher revenue levels and adjusted EBITDA margin rate performance in the third quarter as compared to the fourth quarter due to expected normal seasonality.
First quarter adjusted corporate segment costs were approximately $37 million or one 8% of consolidated first quarter revenue.
Our first quarter consolidated GAAP general and administrative expense inclusive of $13 6 million and acquisition integration costs was seven 4% of revenue compared to 4% of revenue a year ago.
As we have previously indicated we are currently integrating and optimizing certain corporate and G&A functions for recently closed 2021 acquisitions and expect higher annual 2022 corporate costs. While this process is underway.
Adjusted annual 'twenty to 'twenty, two corporate segment costs are expected to approximate 130 to 150 basis points of revenue.
We are pleased with the integration progress we have made to date and expect that we will be substantially complete with these efforts during our third quarter.
We expect to incur approximately a cumulative $26 million of.
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With a higher level of expected cost in the second quarter.
As I mentioned earlier, our efforts to diversify our customer base and increase the level of revenue generated through recurring MSA work are clearly evident in our first quarter 2022 results.
For the first time since I have been at Mastec no single customer represented more than 10% of first quarter 2022 consolidated revenue.
And our top 10 customers represented only 42% of our total consolidated revenue.
While it is possible that AT&T might once again exceed 10% of total revenue threshold.
It is clear that a significant diversification of our customer base has occurred.
Also first quarter 2022 revenue derived from Master service agreements reached 58% of our total revenue.
Compared to only 28% a year ago.
And this increase is primarily derived from recurring type utility service spend from our 2021 acquisitions greatly increasing the repeatable nature of our revenue profile.
As of March 31, 2022, we had record total backlog of approximately $10 6 billion.
Up sequentially approximately $700 million.
And up approximately $2 8 billion when compared to the same period last year.
Importantly, this represented a record first quarter backlog levels across communications clean energy and power delivery segments, demonstrating the end market revenue shift that is occurring within our operations.
That said as we've indicated for years backlog can be lumpy as contracts burn off each quarter and new contract awards only come into backlog at a single point in time.
Now I will discuss our cash flow liquidity and working capital usage.
In summary, our long term capital structure is solid with no significant near term maturities and ample liquidity, giving us full flexibility to take advantage of any potential growth opportunities to maximize shareholder value.
As indicated in yesterday's release, we have invested approximately $50 million in Mustang share repurchases, thus far in 2022 <unk>.
Acquiring 680000 shares at an average price slightly under $73 per share.
We have approximately $109 million and remaining open share repurchase authorization from our board of directors.
We ended the quarter with approximately $1 billion in liquidity and net debt defined as total debt less cash and cash equivalents at $1 69 billion essentially.
Essentially flat versus our year end level.
This equates to a comfortable two <unk> times trailing 12 month leverage metric.
First quarter cash provided by operating activities was approximately $132 million.
We ended the first quarter with Dsos at 89 days compared to 80 days for last year's first quarter and this includes recent fourth quarter acquisitions, which were slightly higher than the consolidated total.
As we look forward towards the balance of 2022 and work towards acquisition integration, we anticipate second and third quarter Dsos will range in the high 80% low nineties with.
With the continued expectation that Dsos will fall back into our target range of the mid to high <unk> by year end 2022.
We currently anticipate that annual 2022 cash flow from operations will approximate $600 million to $650 million and expect year end 2022 debt levels to be slightly down compared to year end 2021 levels.
Within this expectation, we anticipate that higher levels of second and third quarter revenue will consume working capital and increased borrowing levels by 10% or so when compared to the first quarter levels before decreasing again in the fourth quarter.
Moving to our updated 2022 guidance, we project annual 2020 revenue of approximately $9 2 billion.
With adjusted EBITDA, ranging between $850 million to $875 million.
And adjusted diluted earnings range of between $4 22.
And $4 44.
Sorry, excuse me $4 47 for $4 seven.
As I previously mentioned the primary changes in our revenue guidance from our previous expectation related to $750 million of solar and large project.
Oil and gas activity that is now expected to shift into 2023.
As I will discuss later the adjusted earnings per share view also includes incremental interest expense of approximately <unk> <unk> per adjusted diluted share from higher expected short term borrowing rates over the balance of 2022 from recent and forecasted federal reserve rate actions.
For the second quarter, we expect revenue of $2 2 billion.
With adjusted EBITDA of $177 million or 8% of revenue.
And adjusted diluted earnings per share of <unk> 72.
As we have previously provided some color regarding our annual 2022 segment expectations I will now briefly cover some additional guidance expectations for modeling purposes.
We anticipate net cash capex spending in 2022 at approximately $150 million with an additional $220 million to $240 million to be incurred under finance leases.
And this level reflects some initial capex investments for 2021 acquisitions.
We are revising our expectation for annual 2022 interest expense levels to $76 million to.
Higher short term interest rates from both recent and expected Federal reserve actions during 2022.
For modeling purposes estimated 2022 share count is $75 8 million shares and this only includes the impact of share repurchases to date.
As a reminder, if you model additional share repurchases also consider the interest expense impact of additional borrowings.
We expect annual 2022 depreciation expense to approximate $350 million of three 8% of revenue.
And lastly, we expect that annual 2022 adjusted income tax rate will approximate 24, 5%.
This concludes our prepared remarks, I will now turn the call over to the operator for Q&A operator.
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Our first question today comes from Justin.
Baird.
Oh great.
Yes.
So first of all.
Appreciate all the color on the solar and the MVP issue that makes it pretty clear as to what was flowing through.
I did want to clarify maybe I missed it but just on the backlog impact of that I think you said that.
There's $350 million of solar in there today and Thats the stuff thats not impacted by the tariffs.
Monthly 'twenty two.
So our work, but did you take out $250 million of the work that you were previously expecting and then the same thing on MVP to $500 million. It got pushed into 2023 is that.
Until mid 18 month backlog that fully in your your backlog at this point.
Suggesting a couple a couple of things on the solar side.
We've got a lot of jobs that we've either been verbally awarded or in negotiations that we currently without a start date, we're not going to put them in backlog. So the balance of the work that we expected to perform in 2022 was going to be added to backlog. So nothing was ever actually taken out of backlog the stuff that kind of made it in backlog in Q1.
What we expect is going to be completed in 2022, we didn't add any other projects awarded that we don't actually have an understanding for start date, yet. So there was no negative impact to backlog related to that issue other than the positive that would've come from projects being awarded that would have been done in 2022 on the.
Oil and gas pipeline side, we did not remove the mountain valley pipeline from backlog as we still expected to complete within the 18 month period of our backlog view.
Okay, alright, thanks for clarifying that and then.
I guess my second question is just on the oil and gas when you talked about from a revenue standpoint that this is kind of a trough theres no large projects that are in there I'm just wondering on the margin the loads.
Mid teens EBIT margin.
Is that also a trough margin or are there is there under absorption in that we're in.
If you stayed at this level, but the margins otherwise be higher if you will right size.
Our MVP or is that kind of apologist level margin.
I mean, there's no question right that we're under absorbed I think were.
Irrespective of what's happening in the market. This year, we feel that 2023 is going to improve considerably.
Based on the activity that we're seeing across all of our customers I think today. The sentiment is dramatically different than it was months ago. I think there are a lot of projects that are in queue. The problem is that it.
Next time to get them from Cuda construction. Some of it is just being able to order pipeline and the amount of time it takes to.
Get it delivered so we expect 'twenty three to be a lot better and thus we've got a lot of costs that we're incurring today based on the fact that we know we're going to be able to put a lot of people back to work in 2023, So it's definitely not.
Yes.
Our margin profile of that.
That is optimized by any stretch of the imagination. If we didn't think that 23 would be better if we didn't see future projects coming there is no question, we would cut more costs than we already have.
Okay Alright. Thank you I appreciate it thank you I appreciate it.
Our next question comes from Neil Mehta of Goldman Sachs.
Good morning, Jose George team.
The first question I had more of an answer that.
First question was around share repurchases and thanks for the color and good to see you guys in the market.
Given the recent stock price performance can you just talk about your philosophy around share repurchases that you gave a little bit of color about how you historically have approached it.
Is there an opportunity to be aggressive to the extent that the.
The market volatility continues here through the balance of the year.
It's something that we always consider obviously when you look at what we've done over the course of many years, we really only buy shares when we think that there is something with a story that either we think is misunderstood or where we think the value isn't really aligned with the longer term opportunities right. So we go back to 2015.
We were able to buy shares at $19 in the 18 19 timeframe, we bought them at 40%. If you and then right at the beginning of during the pandemic. Shortly thereafter, we bought a lot of shares because we felt that just the progress of the business. What we were seeing what we think we'd be working on the earnings profile that we were expecting longer term, we think created an enormous amount of value.
<unk> and an opportunity for us to do that and quite frankly, we feel the same way today right. We know the 'twenty two is going to be a challenging year. We know that it was always going to be a transition year, we had a lot of things coming in and out this year, but internally, we're incredibly positive about our future and where we think we can take it.
So we feel that if we perform and we execute on our plan.
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Our earnings profile is going to change dramatically and we think that the.
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Relatively cheap to where it's going to be and that's why we started buying back shares. So that's our philosophy, that's really when we jump into the market.
We'll see what happens right.
To the extent of capacity I think we have a lot of capacity to do what we think is right ultimately for the business. So it's a decision we've got to look at investing in buybacks. We've got to look at what's potentially out there inorganically. We've got to look at the organic growth opportunities that we have and we have to allocate capital and again I think historically.
We've really only allocated towards buybacks one when we feel there is there is.
There is something to this joined at about our stock price relative to the opportunities that we see ahead.
That's helpful Jose and I guess the follow up is an investor conversations this morning.
The question Mark is as we think about your full year EBITDA guidance, it's very much back half weighted and so when you see that there's always questions about.
Confidence around execution and ability to hit the number can you just give the market a little more color about what gives you confidence around the guidance and what happens in <unk> relative to <unk> or the back half relative to <unk> to get that EBITDA acceleration.
Look we spent a lot of time going through that obviously.
We historically haven't really made big adjustments to guidance. So this is something that we took very seriously. We spent a lot of time on we looked at it on a month by month cycles. So it wasn't just quarter to quarter for us, but we looked at how things were moving from April to May May to June June July what what the things that had to happen for us to be able to attain our.
Guidance relative to that and I think we feel incredibly comfortable right I think we're going to see a lot of acceleration in the second part of our second quarter. It may not be evident as we release financials, but it will be evident to us internally as the months go by we know what projects. We have booked we know what projects. We're starting so we've got a very high level of confidence to the <unk>.
<unk> of our plan to what we think we can achieve in the second half of the year and more importantly, I think and we've been saying this for a long time right. We knew the second half. This year was going to be a really good part of the year for US. We're excited about what it's going to mean long term, we can't wait to demonstrate what we think the revenue growth will be and more importantly, what the margin profile as it looked like in the second half and ultimately what that means for <unk>.
2023, and beyond as as people get to get.
Fairly good look at the business in a more normalized state without all of the ins and outs and the noise that we have as we transitioned from being a very business that had a lot of EBITDA related to oil and gas, which has now shifted to being a much more diversified earnings stream.
And we're pretty proud of that.
Thank you Sir.
Thanks Neil.
Our next question comes from Alex Rygiel of B Riley.
Thank you and really nice quarter Jose congratulations.
Question first.
I think it's up it's actually a big positive here for us to see.
Mass tech at sort of a base level of business year with the majority of the revenue coming from reoccurring.
What im excited about here's what we can layer on top of that over the next couple of years.
And you mentioned, a number of sort of newer growth opportunities such as EV charging carbon capture and some new customers within communications can you expand upon some of those sort of new opportunities that are maybe not in the next six months, but over the next two to three years.
Sure Alex.
We keep saying it in.
It's quite remarkable to us what's happening in the industries that we serve right. When you when you think about each one of our segments and telecom.
The world's changing right I mean, when you see the amount of dollars that are being invested by the government on broadband expansion plans. When you look at where all the private guys are doing both from a <unk> perspective, and a fiber perspective, how they're viewing their businesses totally differently long term than they have traditionally done.
The network plans of the future are going to be so vastly different than anything we've ever seen before and it's an incredibly exciting time to be in these industries and I think the opportunities the new businesses that are going to have it created from them.
Are far beyond anything we could have imagined.
Same thing in power delivery right we are.
We are going through an energy transformation in this country, how powers generated how power is delivered how powers used.
It's impacting every single part of the of the energy chain and Luckily over the course of the last number of years, we've been able to build out a service offering that pretty much touches at all so I think not only are we going to enjoy the increased revenues for the awards that we've traditionally done but all of these new type of services that are being created I think the easier.
One for people to understand is really electrical vehicles, because we see them on the street, but there's so much more happening to the grid different than what we've traditionally done.
When you think about.
Battery backup battery power and all of the things that have to happen a lot of the technologies that is being installed in the grid, which again is totally different than anything we've historically seen in our clean energy and infrastructure business and everything from roads to bridges to what's happening in renewables to what's happening with base load generation I think theyre.
As a new found.
Understanding of how important Baseload generation is in every one of.
Customers is going to have some sort of that these new.
These new dual sourced engines that burn gas and hydrogen I think youre going to be.
Absolutely huge part of the generation chain going forward and we're privileged to touch. So many of these different areas that are going to think are going to offer tremendous opportunities for growth for us. So it's just an incredibly exciting time to be to be part of these different industries.
And then lastly, how conservative are you in revising your guidance for the uncertainty in the solar market and do you see there to be opportunities to complete some of these projects may be in phases, whereby you complete phase one and then you come back three or six months later and installed the solar panels.
So the answer to the latter part of the question is yes, right I think that some customers, especially jobs that are underway there have.
To make do and they're having to try to make the best financial decisions that they can write this.
Aside from that.
It is a serious issue rate we've got.
We've got so many unknowns related to those development projects. They don't have the capacity to be able to.
Pass those incremental costs, along so until there's certainty.
The industry is going to slow down this isn't I.
I don't think its.
At first I think there was a lot of noise. There was a lot of doubt a lot of people thought the industry Configurable way through it.
Right now.
The department of Commerce has to make the decision that the good thing is I think it's gotten tremendous political coverage, it's become a political football at this good.
This could destroy items whole energy thesis.
And because of that I think <unk> is going to prevail and I think we've seen the secretary of energy in the last two weeks be very critical of what's going on.
Very frustrated with the department of Commerce has a lot of pressure on commerce, they've put out some recent letters here in the last few days that that I think they're feeling the pressure and I think theres going to be a quick decision. So the question is going to be all about what is the decision, saying ultimately how fast is the does the market come back again. There is what this is going to drive is an incredible amount of pent up.
<unk> and when that spigot turns back on it.
Going to be flow and everybody is going to have to react and I think it is going to create amazing opportunities from a conservative nature of guidance look I think we provided the best level of guidance that we could today.
We're hopeful that some of these things turn in our favor and we're able to.
Talk about our conservative this guidance was but I think it's I think it's realistic right. So I think we've taken a realistic approach to the business to the challenges that are in front of us.
We think we're doing everything we can to mitigate them and we feel good about our ability to hit it.
Very helpful. Thank you. Thank you Alex.
Our next question is from Marc Bianchi of Cowen.
Hey, thanks.
I think I heard in the prepared remarks that the solar.
Backlog was $3 50, so that would imply it's.
Kind of 20% of the division's backlog can you talk about what the rest of the backlog is is it all wind or what types of projects are there and then.
What's the difference in execution on those types of projects are some relatively higher or lower risk and what is the margin profile look like relative to one another.
Sure. So we've I mean, we've talked about the diversity in that segment for a long time I think it's really the strength of that business.
Wind is a huge component, it's where we got started it's still.
Our primary source of revenue for that market, but we have grown our civil infrastructure piece a lot. We made the acquisition of a company called FNF.
Probably a year and a half ago now, which is a really a civil infrastructure play that works on predominantly roads and bridges thats been an incredibly well performing acquisition for us have done a great job of building and growing their business. It was really the thesis behind that was what we thought was coming with the infrastructure Bill. It was really our first foray into that business and I think it's.
It's been a business that's performed above segment averages since since we've owned it.
The industrial side of our business and when I say that I talk a lot about and a lot of the when we talk about the advanced class turbines and the installations were seeing across utilities, it's a huge driver of the future of our business and what we're seeing again, we think baseload.
Baseload generation is garnering an enormous amount of attention I think this is.
The cleanest form of base load generation I think it's truly revolutionary and for us to have been involved in a couple of the first projects ever built in this country I think give us tremendous runway in terms of what we're going to ultimately be able to do with that business. So.
I would say the backlog is frankly composed of all three of those components. It's work that we expect to get done within the next 18 months a lot of it within the next 12 months. So it really creates a lot of the thesis in basis for the revenue targets that we've laid out today for that business.
Okay.
Hey, Mike.
Am I right to interpret the margin guidance, there that you ought to be getting into sort of the high single digits by the time, we get to fourth quarter.
And if thats right.
How does that set you up for 23 should we be thinking that that's kind of the level you should be at 23 in that business.
And that's what we've been saying.
For a long time right, we've been talking about our growth are.
The investments that we've made in growing those different diversification plays within that industry, I think youre going to see a huge margin shift in that business in the second half. So I think you're accurate in your assessment and I think that'll be a margin profile that we strive to perform on a full year basis in 'twenty three.
Okay. Thanks for the comments Jose.
Thank you.
Our next question today comes from Jamie Cook of Credit Suisse.
Hi, good morning.
Two questions.
Hey, guys.
Please proceed.
Yes.
Great.
From Goldman.
Or if at one time.
And with that I'll call it.
Net.
Yes.
No problem.
Thanks.
Yes.
Given the earnings cyclicality.
My second question.
I think Ricky.
Perfect.
Late this year now to what the Greenback.
Great. Thank you.
Sure So Jamie I think.
I would say a couple of things first when we think about oil and gas right and the nature of that business since we've owned it.
I would argue that while cyclical it's been cyclical to the to the upside right. I mean, it's a business that had dramatic growth for us from the.
Literally from the 2012 2013 timeframe all the way to 18 19. So it had an amazing run there is no question that since the pandemic that business has changed the dynamics of that business the expectations of that business everything we're seeing around clean energy.
And all of the climate change goals that were being talked about but I think there's also been a fundamental change right I think there has definitely been.
The realization of the importance of Baseload power in this country I think that gas is going to drive that to a large extent I think with all of the recent developments that have happened between Russia, and Ukraine and the need for natural gas around the world in the U S is positioned in that and the potential for the U S to export LNG around the world I think that the sentiment around that.
Business has radically changed I think now when you win.
Now you start reading a lot of articles that talk about the lack of pipeline capacity and the need for more pipelines, which is something that probably would've been unfathomable a year ago.
There is a level of that market that that market has historically performed at that we think it will get back to you right I don't know that its ever going to get back to the peaks, but I think that it will definitely be at a much healthier level than it is today and we're pretty excited about it right. We're not we're not really trying to.
To hide that because we've been talking about this base level that we're at a $1 billion for we think that's a sustainable level over a very long period of time and anything that adds to that will be additive.
On top of that you throw in the new technologies that are coming in when you think about carbon capture and sequestration and what's happening with hydrogen pipelines, which I still think over time, that's going to be the bulk of that business. I think the business is going to converge into those types of activities more so than the historical pipeline I think theres also going to be a point in time in which they are all active.
Right Youre still working on historical gas pipelines Youre building a lot of these new pipelines and it's going to create.
A very active period for a period of time, so from my perspective, just being in the industry being one of the industry leaders in that market I think gives us tremendous potential over the long term.
And at this point with what it's doing today and and the values at which we're trading at its.
It's almost a option value when you think about our stock as it relates to MVP looking when MVP goes it's going to be a great job. We've got a lot of work left to do on it.
Our assumption at this point is it will go in 'twenty three it would obviously have a.
A significant positive impact 'twenty three I don't know that were even bacon that ended at this point.
Sure.
We're ready to build it when its ready to go we think the customers being very mindful about it I think they are taking all the right steps to ultimately have a successful project. We are encouraged by the confidence.
That they have in terms of.
Their desired ultimately build that project and when they do we'll be there to build it for them.
Thank you I appreciate the color.
Thanks, Jamie.
Our next question is from Adam paddle Hammer of Thompson Davis.
Hey, good morning, guys I, just wanted to clarify real quickly.
What are the expectations for the power delivery margins in the back half I'm not sure I caught that.
So what we what we said was roughly we expect roughly 10% margins for the full year.
Obviously, it'll be a little bit lower in the first half of the year picking up in the second half. So it's low eights and the first and second quarter and then building.
Building up from there and I have talked about being high single digit to low double digit for the year, Adam So it'll be a little bit above that in the second half of the year as we as we continue to expand third quarter, particularly with the seasonality should be should be more profitable.
Okay and is that what you said.
You made a comment or to somebody else's question, where you said that margin carries through into 'twenty three.
At power delivery.
Well I think it was the whole business right I think the earlier questions were more about clean energy right, because our clean energy margins are going out.
It should be in the high single digits in the second half of the year I think the question was related to that and what it means for that business on a full year basis relative to what we've historically have been doing that so I think there's a fundamental shift and change in that business in the second half of 'twenty two versus what we've seen.
But I would argue that a lot of our businesses and I'll, let Sam right I think we're going to get into a period of time where absorptions.
Absorptions high Utilizations are really high going into 2003, and it should bode really well for first half 'twenty three margins compared to first half 'twenty two margins.
I would say on the power delivery side, we have as much opportunity on the top side of it we do margin rate that really with all the advanced with all the combination of our operations with ankles, an entrant in the things that we've done we really think and the things that are happening relative to the grid in the spend.
We're kind of at this 2526 run rate. This year, we would certainly expect the opportunities to grow that as we move into 'twenty three with that should come some some leverage.
Got it okay. Good color thanks, guys.
Thanks, Adam.
Our next question is from Andy Kaplowitz of Citigroup.
Hey, good morning, everyone.
And Andy.
Let's say when you look at the overall clean energy business and the delays in solar as well as you know how difficult supply chain in general has been how difficult is it to deliver that high 5% to low 6% range margin guidance you gave today for the year and then maybe stepping back Jose how are you.
Thinking about <unk> ability to deal with the current environment and high inflation labor costs, continuing supply chain headwind.
Sure. So look I think it's lower than the margin expectations, we had going in so I think we've tempered it a little bit on the clean energy side because of some of those things that you've laid out right.
The shifts of.
The business some of the.
The issues, we've had to deal with so we're not excited about high fives low sixes, we quite frankly that we believe in few of those margins should be significantly better.
We also think will demonstrate that towards the second half of the year and prove out that that's a business that should be.
In the high single digits on a full run rate basis. So again, we still think there is suboptimal and there are suboptimal for a lot of the reasons you just laid out when we think about the balance of our business and all of the issues that are happening.
Whether it's inflation, whether it's labor costs, whether its material delays, we're seeing the impacts across our business, we're not immune to it I think when you look at our guidance and really the range that we've laid out part of it is MVP part of it is solar and then Theres a part that I think deals with that as well.
We're working as hard as we can to.
Work with our customers to.
Allow relief, where we can get it for all of those same issues, but.
It takes time and I think everybody sees it everybody understands that I don't think theres been a lot of pushback.
Customers to ultimately appropriately compensate us for those expenses and for the work that we're doing.
But we're not we're not immune to it and again I think from a customer perspective, I think one of the benefits of working with <unk> and one of the advantages that we have.
As customers are looking for companies that they can rely on and the new Oregon to complete their projects on time.
Because labor is a real issue right and for us having the amount of people that we have and the scale that we have we give customers a lot of confidence that if we say we can do something we're going to get it done.
Thanks for that Jose and then as you've been integrating heck of maybe you can give us an update on how you're thinking about the overall business any surprises positive or negative so far I know your medium term girls goals are three centimeters.
<unk> dollars 5 billion for power delivery.
They just a low teens margins as you've really gotten to know the business can you talk about what youre seeing in Asia.
The ability to get to that level.
I think we've seen two things that have been somewhat surprising one is the level of interest of our customers to see us continue to grow and the opportunity subset that we're seeing because of it. So I think that just I think George alluded to it here a second ago that the topline opportunities within that segment are probably more than we anticipated and then too.
When we look at the business and we look at the challenges that we have I think ultimately the long term margin profile opportunity is probably better than we had anticipated as well right. So it's it's almost.
It's a great story, it's one that we think it's going to be obviously one of the primary drivers of our total business. It's a business that we think we're going to be able to grow above company average margins over the long term.
With good margin opportunities ahead, so again, a great business to be engaged with we're super excited about the opportunities.
And we can't wait to continue to deliver in <unk>.
Work at improving their performance.
I appreciate that Jose Thank you Andy.
Our next question is from Brent Thielman.
Davidson.
Hey, Thanks, good morning.
And it looks like you're sticking to the view that the second half should see a pretty big ramp up here in <unk>.
In communications I guess, just what are you hearing from your customers in terms of rollout for <unk> and <unk>.
You feel like you have even more clarity into that than you did a few months ago. When you when you were guiding to that.
I don't think the clarity change, which is why the guidance hasn't changed right. So we've been in constant dialogue with our customers. We know what their build plans are we know it by month, we know it by site.
Sure.
We had always expected second half to be dramatically bigger than first half I think it's playing out exactly like that I don't think.
We obviously have been very concerned about the material issues in the supply chain and we're feeling really good about.
That's where that's trending and how that's looking and supporting our view for what we think is going to be a really strong second half.
Okay.
Just wondering with.
The Commerce Department issued then and solar how do you are you taking a different approach to job youre going to add to backlog from here I'm just curious.
There's a different approach from here.
Yes, I think at this point right. We have to have an understanding of when the project is going to start how it is going to start.
No.
How is the customer going to view the project are they depending on panel deliveries, where the panels coming from are there costs that they're going to do without panels and how committed are they to that and what does that mean, so I think all of those things will take into account. The ultimately decide what goes into backlog or not in the meantime, we're going to continue to work with our.
Customers were trying to continue to expand our presence within that market I think when it's all said and done we're going to have a great solar business for a very long time.
But theres no question that over the course of the next few months the industry is going to shake out I think there'll be some players that.
Our around and some others that arent so it's going to be really important to be mindful of that as you think about where you can meet your resources long term.
An interesting point, okay. Thank you best of luck.
Thanks Brent.
Our next question is from Sean Eastman of Keybanc.
Hi team thanks for taking my questions.
Alright.
I'm doing well I'm doing well thanks.
Just coming back to the <unk> segment.
Could we just get a little bit more color on the bridge from the first half to second half both both in terms of the revenue and the margin.
Like to have as much color there as possible because it still looks like quite a big jump up even even with MVP being pushed out into 2023.
It looks so what we have left in that business right is more seasonal so when we think about the second quarter versus versus the first quarter, we expect revenues to grow north of 50% from Q1 to Q2.
We have probably just slightly lower than that from Q2 to Q3, and then it will come down again in Q4 based on some of the weather patterns at the end of the year. So a lot of our work.
It gets pushed into those months that are most workable and I think.
If we can demonstrate in Q2 that we've got that kind of revenue growth and I think it will play really well into what we'll be able to accomplish in Q3.
Those those changes in growth rates arent dramatically different than what they've historically been albeit it's been much bigger but.
I don't think that the.
And the trend lines has been radically different so thats kind of our expectations, we've got a lot of projects.
That are starting up now because of the winter weather and.
Q2, and Q3 will be our strongest quarters with Q3 being our best and then it'll drop again in Q4, so nothing really unexpected there.
From a margin profile perspective.
I think youre going to see similar margins into Q2, as we grow Q3 will be our best margin quarter as it normally is and then Q4 is usually a good margin quarter for us as well, although it will be slightly less in Q3.
Okay. Thanks for that Jose and then and then <unk>.
Just drilling in on on.
Operating leverage.
And the business, particularly in communications and in clean energy.
For the past year or two years.
Sort of expanding capacity hiring training.
Expanding the footprint and getting ready for growth has been.
A drag on margins where are we at there I mean are we sort of ready to go in and.
<unk>.
As the revenue comes through will really start to see that leverage or.
Is this still an ongoing process over a multiyear period.
Well a couple of things I think you'll begin to see the the.
Fruits of your efforts over a long period of time. So I think revenues are going to grow substantially this year versus where they were last year.
Youll see continual revenue growth as the year progresses, we've got a pretty good jump from.
From Q1 to Q2 in that business.
Okay.
As we think about the guidance that we've laid out I don't think its optimal numbers right I think at the end of the day, we're still adding resources.
We are still and I think we alluded to it in our prepared remarks, we're being just.
We're almost drowning in opportunities relative to that segment and the opportunities that exist longer term so to the extent that the opportunities keep coming to the extent that the opportunities are longer term in nature, we're going to continue to invest we're going to continue to grow this is going to be a really long cycle.
We kind of touched on the the public dollars or the <unk>.
Federal dollars that are going into this space. The reality is we're only seeing a very very small sliver of that to date and what's already had a huge impact in the business. So if these dollars ever really make it.
To do.
The field into the business I mean, the size of this market is going to be is going to dwarf what we see today. So I still think theres tremendous opportunity. So I don't think were going to be in a position, where we stopped adding resources or stopped training.
But I think what you are seeing in the business as the increased revenue allows us to absorb those costs and a much more efficient manner than we have been able to do over the course of the last couple of years, which is why we expect to see margin improvement in the second half of the year, but.
Our long term margin profile in that business Hasnt changed I, just think it's a balance of.
How much do you push margins versus how much do you invest in growth and I still think we are in that cycle and I think we'll be in that cycle for a while.
With that said, we expect improvement this year and we expect improvement next year.
Helpful I'll turn it over thanks, a lot Jose.
Our next question is from Noelle Dilts of Stifel.
Okay.
Thanks, So first I just have a point of clarification.
<unk>.
I thought last quarter. There was some discussion that Ethernet port construction doesn't start there might be like $150 million of work that would still happen.
Is that also pushed out at this point and.
And it sounds like some of the projects I thought maybe you could backfill that hole or perhaps a bit delay just because of that the availability of maybe you could give us an update on how youre looking at those projects and is it seems like maybe just getting tighter that limiting factor in some of those moving forward. Thanks.
Yes, so I'll start with the second part of the question first I think projects.
The supply chain issues is obviously impacting <unk>.
Projects that people are trying to do in an expedited fashion so.
Is there a chance for some activity to hit late in the year. There is we havent really included a lot of that because we still think there's a lot of risk. So we've tried to take as conservative a view as we can when we think about MVP. It's obviously been something thats extremely fluid so.
We've taken the full 500 out at this point again.
It ends up being conservative, but I don't know that we've got a great.
Great answer on truly understanding what those numbers will look like so we took it all out.
Okay got it.
And then I guess going back to full rate yet again.
I'm just trying to reconcile what seems to be extremely mixed commentary and opinion on what that means for the solar market across the contractor group.
I'm just curious one if youre seeing any differences in how utility scale solar customers are sort of treating the panel issue.
The willingness to maybe put up a bond or something like that to cover the potential.
Dara versus smaller developers and then.
You sort of talked about this but are you getting calls from your customers today, saying, Hey, we're pushing projects out to 2023 or with this guidance reduction you can just trying to get ahead of that.
Okay.
Look so.
We can only talk for ourselves I guess for the customers that we deal with right I think that when you think about but it makes logical sense right. When you think about the market panels are an enormous cost of a project north of 50% and you have the potential for those costs to escalate by two five times. So there is no developer in the country.
That can price that into their model and especially do that retroactively after they've agreed on selling power at a certain number so I think thats just logic right.
When you kind of play out what risk some developers are willing to take versus others. There is a difference there.
I think at this point.
The difference between a project that may be is towards its end versus starting there has definitely been projects that have been put on hold pending.
The outcome of this.
You can take a view that look there's going to be a resolution in August and things are going to get better in the second half of the year.
I think that's a very logical view, we didn't take that view, we decided to kind of moderate the year based on what we know today without having the risk of what could potentially come in the second half of the year, we see customers like nextera that have been very vocal that you've talked about moving two to three gigawatts out of 2022 into future years.
Positive there is they haven't changed their outlook through 25, so that just means that all of their timelines will compress construction cycles will compress which is going to make it even more interesting for contractors like us, but look I think we're I think we're being as open with the market as we possibly can be we've laid out the issue we've laid out.
The potential risk of.
We're all going to be able to follow it together, but I think that for where we are today I think it's the best way to approach the year.
Okay.
Okay.
Our next question comes from <unk> <unk> of UBS.
Hey, guys. Thanks for taking my question.
Fisher.
So.
We've heard a number of them.
Implications coming out of this commerce location.
Similar to what <unk>, especially around the timing. So just kind of wondering when should we expect the biggest impact overhang feed for <unk> Tec as you guys see it now I know last quarter. You said Q1 2023 was supposed to be big on solar for your unseasonably.
So that's we're looking at we're right now at risk.
Look I mean, the commerce investigation.
Has to have a decision by August 26, it's a preliminary decision. The final decision will come in January but whatever we learned in August will probably be within the ultimate decision. So I think that August will be a very good sign of what is to come.
There may be things that have to happen post that depending on what their investigation finds a.
To ultimately get to the right answers, but I think we are.
A few months away from knowing where this investigation is headed in and how much or not have an impact it's going to have on the business.
As it relates to 2022, yeah, all the projects that everything has been delayed rights of projects that we thought would start in the second quarter, even if they're good projects developers took their time to make sure that.
Theyre panels were impacted to make sure that.
<unk>.
Again, it's only for countries that are involved there are other countries in the world, where you can buy panels. The problem is that over 80% of the panels come from those four countries. So there's a lot happening in the supply chain world today.
But most most most developers are trying to figure this out either by securing new panels waiting out the investigation using American manufactured panels.
So there's a lot of noise and a lot of things happening, but at the end of the day right. The majority of panels available to the U S. R.
For the moment right.
It's an issue so until this issue is resolved.
There is not perfect clarity the <unk>.
$350 million that we've guided to solar we feel great about we know exactly what the projects are we've got great communications with the customers, we know exactly what they're doing and why they're doing it and that's so.
It's not the same timeframe that we originally laid out and thus a little bit of the change in quarterly guidance from us, but I think we have perfect clarity on what's going to happen on those jobs that represent those dollars for us.
Got it thanks for that.
Continuing down that line of thought so the 250 that you took out of solely for this year.
Are you thinking that you are able to offset that.
Through other parts of the clean energy business are you able to move some resources around.
Maybe offer some upside after that cut.
No we took it out right. So we lowered our clean energy guidance by that amount.
Reason being right is again.
Project acceleration in this environment with the supply chain, where it exists or difficult.
Sure.
The labor that we use for solar is different than the labor that we use in our other business. It's.
Will there be some opportunities to save from people. The answer is yes, but I mean look at it.
Work as it.
It's hard to get a new project and.
And anything today.
And have it built quickly with the supply chain, where it sits right. So no. We did not we just took out the revenue from our model based on what we're seeing in the industry.
Okay. Thanks, guys. Thank.
Thank you.
Ladies and gentlemen, that's all the time, we have for questions today I'd like to hand, the call over to Jose Mas for any additional or closing remarks.
Want to thank everybody for joining us today, and we look forward to updating you again on our on our next quarterly call. So appreciate you being with US today. Thank you.
Ladies and gentlemen that concludes today's conference call. We thank you for your participation you may now disconnect.
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