Q3 2022 Strategic Education Inc Earnings Call
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Welcome to strategic Education's third quarter 2022 results conference call I will now turn the call over to Teresa Wilkie director of Investor Relations for strategic Education Milwaukee. Please go ahead.
Thank you good morning, everyone and welcome to strategic Education's Conference call in which we will discuss third quarter 2022 results with US today are Robert Silberman Executive Chairman, Karl Mcdonnell President and Chief Executive Officer.
And Daniel Jackson, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Following today's remarks, we will open the call for questions. Please.
Please note that this call may include forward looking statements made pursuant to the safe Harbor provisions of the private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements are based on current expectations and are subject to a number of assumptions uncertainties and risks that strategic education has identified in today's press release that could cause.
Actual results to differ materially.
Further information about these and other relevant uncertainties may be found in strategic Education's. Most recent annual report on Form 10-K, the 10-Q to be filed and other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission as well as strategic Education's future 8-K, 10, Qs and 10-K copies.
Copies of these filings and the full press release are available for viewing on our website at strategic education Dot com.
And now I'd like to turn the call over to Carl Carl. Please go ahead.
Thank you Theresa and good morning, everyone. Overall, we were very pleased with our third quarter academic operational and financial results that we reported this morning.
They reflect continued progress in improving our results in returning the company to revenue and earnings growth.
Excluding the impact of foreign currency fluctuations in the third quarter, our revenue was down less than 1% from the prior year.
We continue to see significant strength in our U S higher education segment with all key metrics at both Strayer and Capella universities posting improvements from the prior year.
The overall demand environment remains very robust and inquiries into strayer and capella increased more than 30% from the prior year.
Our employer affiliated enrollment from our network of corporate partnerships is the strongest that it's been in years.
New student and total student growth rates from corporate partnerships are significantly higher than our non affiliated enrollments at 40 and 60% respectively.
At Capella, we can we continue to see strong growth in flexpath programs with both strong levels of new student and total student enrollment as a result, Flexpath now comprises approximately 21% of all U S higher education enrollments and increase of 200 basis points from a year ago.
Strayer as enrollment continues to experience a rapid recovery and remains on track to grow its total enrollment on a run rate basis by the end of this year and both strayer and Capella had year over year increases in core success and student retention.
Our education technology and services segment or Etfs as we call. It continues to perform well and having grown its revenue in the third quarter by 27%.
Operating income for Etfs was flat to the prior year notwithstanding this revenue growth as we continue to invest in additional resources to further support Etfs this growth.
These investments in Etfs have helped us helped us to achieve the necessary scale to serve both our existing customer base and much of the anticipated growth for next year.
As a result, we expect expense growth will moderate significantly in 2023, resulting in margins much closer to our notional plans of 50% plus.
During the quarter Sophia learning, our direct to consumer portal of high quality Ace recommended general education courses grew its average subscriber base by 33% and its revenue by 45%.
Workforce edge, our SaaS based education benefits management platform grew an additional six clients during the quarter and increase the employee base by 200000 people. We expect to have between 801000 employees from workforce edge clients enrolled in strayer and capella by year end and.
We will have a significant multiple of that enrolled in 2023.
Our Australia and New Zealand segment continues to work to return to normal operations, but is still experiencing visa application processing delays that is adversely impacting our enrollment of international students during the quarter Anz's total enrollment growth.
<unk> and its revenue grew 1% on a constant currency basis.
Measured in Australia, our ANZ segment has been remarkably stable during the pandemic.
Its academic outcomes and student retention remained strong and among the highest in Sci and notwithstanding the significant headwinds returning to a normal operating environment has continued to grow throughout.
We remain optimistic that continued progress will be made easing the immigration delays throughout the rest of this year and into next year and those and as those barriers to begin to be removed, we will see higher rates of growth at <unk> University.
During the quarter. We also launched Sci's Faculty action Center at Torrens, a proprietary software that enables significantly more robust faculty and student interaction.
We expect that to have a meaningful impact on the students satisfaction teaching effectiveness and ultimately student retention.
So overall, we continue to make considerable progress on our goals thus far this year.
It can again reiterate we expect to see new student growth on a full year basis across each of our universities and we've not yet seen anything that would suggest our performance in the fourth quarter with lag behind where we are now and based on that momentum. This year 2022 will be our trough year for revenue and earnings and that are enrolled.
<unk> revenue and earnings will be substantially higher in 2023.
Finally, and as always I'd like to thank all of my colleagues at Sci for their continued hard work and dedication on behalf of our students around the world and with that operator, we'd be happy to take questions.
Thank you.
<unk> to ask a question at this time, you will need to press star one one on your telephone.
Please standby, while we compile the Q&A roster.
Our first question comes from the line of Jeff Silber with BMO. Your line is now open.
Thanks, So much I was wondering if I could start with some questions on U S. Higher education enrollments I know you gave a lot of details in the call, but I wanted to drill down a little bit further can we get a little bit more color in terms of either student type Grad versus undergrad program type, where you're seeing more strength on a relative base.
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Well, it's pretty much strength across the board, Jeff as I said in the prepared remarks, Flexpath certainly continues to be a major driver of growth at Capella and within Flexpath healthcare continues to be very strong.
As I also said, we continue to see very very high levels of corporate partnership enrollments.
Levels, frankly that we haven't seen in many years and Australia I would say, it's pretty much across the board as they just continue their general enrollment recovery, having had most of our campuses reopened for the full quarter. So.
Can't say that it's any one area over another it's pretty broad based and across the board.
Hey, Jeff Jeff One just one.
Additional point to that.
It's fair to say that the single strongest program as nursing at Capella rate across all of our programs, Yes, that's true.
Okay.
That's actually very good color. Thank you Rob.
If I could shift over to AMD, you mentioned, some visa application issues I don't know if its possible to quantify what the impact has been what would've enrollment been if you hadn't had those issues.
Well, we can't speculate on what enrollment would've been because its a hypothetical what we can say is we know we have many hundreds of students who have made applications, who have expressed interest into entering the country and attending Torrance.
Pre COVID-19 my understanding is those visas were process normally in a period of somewhere between 30% or 45 days, we've seen delays now in excess of 200 days.
As I said, we see that it is getting better.
And we hope that it will continue to improve throughout the rest of this year and next year and I am very confident that once those delays returned to a more normal processing time, we'll see more significant growth there.
Okay appreciate that.
Sneak in one more.
Watching too much CNBC, where all they're talking about is a pending recession, not if but when and how bad can you tell us what you think or how you think your different business segments or lines of business might do if we enter into a U S recession, and then obviously that AMD is more global.
Well again, it obviously depends on the depth of that recession, its duration and so forth, but fundamentally we believe that.
Demand remains very strong for our post secondary education, certainly in the United States as well as Australia and that given any normalized range of economic activity be that recessionary or not we wouldn't expect it to dramatically adversely impacting us barring some major shock that could happen to the economy.
And frankly, Jeff notwithstanding all of the macroeconomic headwinds that are out there as I said the demand environment that we're seeing right now is very very robust.
Yeah, Jeff at its simplest level.
Any macro economic shock that.
Rush's labor participation rates in the past in the U S, particularly Australia, that's where we've seen.
Enrollment weakness, but.
A business cycle recession.
During which unemployment might rise slightly but for participation rates remain within a normalized band.
Don't see that having much of a negative impact.
<unk>.
All right really appreciate the color. Thanks, so much.
Yes sure.
Thank you as a reminder to ask a question at this time. Please press star one one on your Touchtone telephone.
Our next question comes from the line of Tobey Sommer with <unk>. Your line is now open.
Thanks.
Any.
Modeling inputs that you would care to share with us sort of at any level of detail as we refine our 2023 expectations you talked about.
Sort of substantial improvements but in any.
Any way you could help frame that for us.
Tobey. This is Dan for 2022 were still pretty in line with what we said early in the year, which was.
We think total enrollment given the cycle of recovery, mostly at Strayer is likely to decline in the mid single digits, and we think with stable revenue per student revenues likely to track. Similarly.
And we think that total expenses will be flattish year over year, and we're still on track with that I think the one other thing I would add maybe is that.
<unk> normally.
<unk> indicated that our tax rate, our adjusted tax rate would be in the neighborhood of 30%, it's probably going to be a little higher closer to 31%.
This year.
He was actually asking about 2003, Dan, but but the reality is we don't ever give any kind of forward guidance.
Could be reflected in modeling.
So the beyond what Carl said, which is we've had several quarters now of new student enrollment growth.
And given that the average duration of one of our students.
Six to eight quarters.
That lags through and so we expect both enrollment growth and revenue growth.
In 'twenty, three and as we said in the past we've got a given our focus on academic quality, we have a relatively fixed expense base, which hurts us on the way down when revenue shrinking and.
Is quite advantageous in terms of margin when revenue grows so I think thats as specific as we can be for next year at this point.
Sure and I can appreciate the start momentum because you've referenced that but since you.
Retracted that is a metric that you disclosed.
For us to use that as an input.
What are you seeing in terms of price.
Pricing trends.
From key competitors and anything changing.
On that front.
I can't speak to pricing at other institutions I haven't followed it as closely recently, but in terms of <unk>.
Institutions, we think there may be very very much.
Modest tuition increases over the next several years that capella given the enormous value that flexpath creates for its learners and its graduates.
I'd say that we planned for no pricing increases at strayer.
Over in Australia towards there may be a little bit of pricing increases over the next several years, but one thing you have to consider is we have this enterprise level goal to continue to drive these corporate related enrollments, which almost always come at a discounted level of tuition and so the realized.
Pricing or the realized revenue per student could be decreasing.
As it has done over the last several years and given the very high rates of growth that we have in our corporate channels right now thats likely to continue we always work to offset that.
With as much expense productivity as we can so that the margin impact is de minimis.
But I wouldnt be planning for any large increases in our actual revenue per student.
Okay. Thank you.
Are there.
Could you offer some color on the bad debt in the quarter, because with enrollments down in the shift.
Towards more sort of corporate activity.
I would expect there to be sort of a.
A decrease in or at least some downward pressure on bad debt.
Hey, Tobey. This is Dan the majority of the deterioration is just a reflection of we're getting a lot of growth in new enrollment and new students typically.
Pay at a lower rate over time that will normalize as continuing students become on a relative basis, a bigger share of enrollment.
Okay. So it's a reflection of the increase in new starts that you referenced earlier okay.
It is.
Anything on the.
Sure.
Regulatory fronts, and I guess I don't mean, just in terms of.
U S domestic regulations around the education industry, but also.
On the immigration front in Australia, and New Zealand in terms of.
Timeline or catalysts that we should be aware of where a decision or a change may be forthcoming.
Well starting in Australia during the pandemic the Australian government put a waiver in place for people on education versus that did not require them to enter the country because they couldnt, obviously, which enabled those students to maintain their studies in their home country of residence.
Government has announced their intention to resend that waiver June of next year. So that certainly will be a catalyst for international students returning to actual immigration into Australia, which I think will very much help us.
Within the United States, we continue to be very confident in the quality profile of both strayer and capella.
Nothing that we've seen either by the way of rules actually being published or discussions that we've been made aware of a potential rules.
Nothing gives us any any concern that either strayer capella would have any significant problem <unk>.
Complying with any rule of regulation.
Okay.
Doubleclick last question for me on the.
Performance and impact on the business from <unk>.
Labor participation if the labor participation.
Were to decline what are the key metrics in the business that would be impacted.
Well it would be.
Certainly inquiries into the universities. So these are people that reach out to either strayer or capella request information on a particular program or request to speak to an enrollment advisor. We would expect that would be impacted applications for new enrollment would likely be adversely impacted enrollment itself follows all of that.
But the leading indicators would be.
The number of people actually making inquiries for additional information from the universities and Tobey I think that's fair.
Fair to say that it would.
We would anticipate it would have a greater impact on Strayer University and Capella University, given its higher percentage of undergraduate students for which that labor participation rate tends to be more of a bellwether around demand.
Okay, and then from a timing perspective.
Is are those impacts on the business at Strayer are they a coincident.
Coincident lagging or leading.
The changes in labor participation.
They are slightly lagging maybe three or six months.
I think historically.
Thank you very much.
You bet. Thanks.
Thank you and I'm currently showing no further questions at this time I would like to hand, the call back over to Carl Mcdonald for closing remarks.
Thank you everybody. We appreciate your time today and look forward to talking with you next quarter.
This concludes today's conference call. Thank you for participating you may now disconnect.
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Welcome to strategic Education's third quarter 2022 results conference call I will now turn the call over to <unk> director of Investor Relations for strategic Education Ms. Wilkey. Please go ahead.
Thank you good morning, everyone and welcome to strategic Education's Conference call in which we will discuss third quarter 2022 results with US today are Robert Silberman Executive Chairman, Karl Mcdonnell President and Chief Executive Officer.
And Daniel Jackson, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Following today's remarks, we will open the call for questions. Please.
Please note that this call may include forward looking statements made pursuant to the safe Harbor provisions of the private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 995. These statements are based on current expectations and are subject to a number of assumptions uncertainties and risks that strategic education has identified in today's press release that could cause.
Actual results to differ materially.
Further information about these and other relevant uncertainties may be found in strategic Education's. Most recent annual report on Form 10-K the.
10-Q to be filed and other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission as well as strategic Education's future 8-K, 10, Qs and 10-Ks.
Copies of these filings and the full press release are available for viewing on the website at strategic education Dot com.
And now I'd like to turn the call over to Carl Carl. Please go ahead.
Thank you Theresa and good morning, everyone. Overall, we were very pleased with our third quarter academic operational and financial results that we reported this morning.
As they reflect continued progress in improving our results in returning the company to revenue and earnings growth.
Excluding the impact of foreign currency fluctuations in the third quarter, our revenue was down less than 1% from the prior year.
We continue to see significant strength in our U S higher education segment with all key metrics at both Strayer and Capella universities posting improvements from the prior year.
The overall demand environment remains very robust and inquiries into strayer and capella increased more than 30% from the prior year.
Our employer affiliated enrollment from our network of corporate partnerships is the strongest that it's been in years.
New student and total student growth rates from corporate partnerships are significantly higher than our non affiliated enrollments at 40 and 60% respectively.
At Capella, we can we continue to see strong growth in flexpath programs with both strong levels of new student and total student enrollment as a result, Flexpath now comprises approximately 21% of all U S higher education enrollments and increase of 200 basis points from a year ago.
Strayer as enrollment continues to experience a rapid recovery and remains on track to grow its total enrollment on a run rate basis by the end of this year and both strayer and Capella had year over year increases in core success and student retention.
Our education technology and services segment or Etfs as we call. It continues to perform well and having grown its revenue in the third quarter by 27%.
Operating income for Etfs was flat to the prior year notwithstanding this revenue growth as we continue to invest in additional resources to further support Etfs this growth.
These investments in Etfs have helped us it helped us to achieve the necessary scale to serve both our existing customer base and much of the anticipated growth for next year.
As a result, we expect expense growth will moderate significantly in 2023, resulting in margins much closer to our notional plans of 50% plus.
During the quarter Sophia learning, our direct consumer portal of high quality Ace recommended general education courses grew its average subscriber base by 33% and its revenue by 45%.
Workforce edge, our SaaS based education benefits management platform grew an additional six clients during the quarter and increase the employee base by 200000 people. We expect to have between 801000 employees from workforce edge clients enrolled in strayer and capella by year end and do have.
Significant multiple of that enrolled in 2023.
Our Australia and New Zealand segment continues to work to return to normal operations, but is still experiencing visa application processing delays that is adversely impacting our enrollment of international students.
During the quarter Anz's total enrollment gergrude percent and its revenue grew 1% on a constant currency basis.
Measured in Australia, our ANZ segment has been remarkably stable during the pandemic.
Its academic outcomes and student retention remained strong and among the highest in STI and notwithstanding the significant headwinds returning to a normal operating environment has continued to grow throughout.
We remain optimistic that continued progress will be made easing the immigration delays throughout the rest of this year and into next year and those and as those barriers begin to be removed, we will see higher rates of growth at <unk> University.
During the quarter. We also launched Sci's Faculty action Center at Torrens, a proprietary software that enables significantly more robust faculty and student interaction.
We expect that to have a meaningful impact on the students satisfaction teaching effectiveness and ultimately student retention.
So overall, we continue to make considerable progress on our goals thus far this year.
It can again reiterate we expect to see new student growth on a full year basis across each of our universities and we've not yet seen anything that would suggest our performance in the fourth quarter with lag behind where we are now and based on that momentum. This year 2022 will be our trough year for revenue and earnings and that are enrolled.
<unk> revenue and earnings will be substantially higher in 2023.
Finally, and as always I'd like to thank all of my colleagues at Sci for their continued hard work and dedication on behalf of our students around the world and with that operator, we'd be happy to take questions.
Thank you.
Minder to ask a question at this time, you will need to press star one one on your telephone.
Please standby, while we compile the Q&A roster.
Our first question comes from the line of Jeff Silber with BMO. Your line is now open.
Thanks, So much I was wondering if I could start with some questions on U S. Higher education enrollments I know you gave a lot of details in the call, but I wanted to drill down a little bit further can we get a little bit more color in terms of either student type Grad versus undergrad program type, where you're seeing more strength on a relative base.
<unk>.
Well, it's pretty much strength across the board, Jeff as I said in the prepared remarks, Flexpath certainly continues to be a major driver of growth at Capella and within Flexpath healthcare continues to be very strong.
As I also said, we continue to see very very high levels of corporate partnership enrollments.
Levels, frankly that we haven't seen in many years and it's straight or I'd say, it's pretty much across the board as they just continue their general enrollment recovery, having had most of our campuses reopened for the full quarter. So.
Can't say that it's any one area over another it's pretty broad based and across the board.
Great Jeff Jeff one just one.
Additional point to that.
It's fair to say that the single strongest program as nursing at Capella rate across all of our programs, Yes, that's true.
Okay. Okay. That's great that's very good color. Thank you Rob.
If I could shift over to AMD, you mentioned, some visa application issues I don't know if its possible to quantify what the impact has been what would've enrollment been if you hadn't had those issues.
Well, we can't speculate on what enrollment would've been because its a hypothetical what we can say is we know we have many hundreds of students who have made applications, who have expressed interest into entering the country and attending Torrance.
Pre COVID-19 my understanding is those visas were process normally in a period of somewhere between 30 to 45 days, we've seen delays now in excess of 200 days.
As I said, we see that it's getting better.
And we hope that it will continue to improve throughout the rest of this year next year and I'm very confident that once those delays returned to a more normal processing time, we will see more significant growth there.
Okay I appreciate that.
Just making one more.
Watching too much CNBC, where they're talking about is a pending recession, not if but when and how bad can you tell us what you think or how you think your different business segments or lines of business might do we enter into a U S recession, and then obviously the A&D is more global.
Well again, it obviously depends on the depth of that recession, its duration and so forth, but fundamentally we believe that <unk>.
<unk> remains very strong for our post secondary education, certainly in the United States as well as Australia.
And that given any normalized range of economic activity be that recessionary or not we wouldn't expect it to dramatically adversely impacting us barring some major shock that could happen to the economy and frankly, Jeff notwithstanding all of the macroeconomic headwinds that are out there as I said the demand environment that we.
We're seeing right now is very very robust.
Yes, Jeff at its simplest level.
Any macro economic shock.
Crushes labor participation rates in the past in the U S, particularly Australia, that's where we've seen enrolled.
Enrollment weakness, but.
At a business cycle recession.
During which unemployment might rise slightly but for participation rates remain within a normalized band.
I don't see that having much of a negative impact on our operations.
All right really appreciate the color. Thanks, so much.
Yes sure.
Thank you as a reminder to ask a question at this time. Please press star one one on your Touchtone telephone.
Our next question comes from the line of Tobey Sommer with <unk>. Your line is now open.
Okay.
Thanks.
Any more.
Modeling inputs that you would care to share with us sort of at any level of detail as we refine our 2023 expectations you talked about.
Sort of substantial improvements, but any way you could help frame that for us.
Tobey. This is Dan for 2022 were still pretty in line with what we said early in the year, which was.
We think total enrollment given the cycle of recovery, mostly at Strayer is likely to decline in the mid single digits, and we think with stable revenue per student revenues likely to track. Similarly.
And we think that total expenses will be flattish year over year, and we're still on track with that I think the one other thing I would add maybe as that we've normally.
<unk> indicated that our tax rate, our adjusted tax rate would be in the neighborhood of 30%, it's probably going to be a little higher closer to 31%.
This year.
He was actually asking about 23, Dan, but but the reality is we don't ever give any kind of forward guidance.
Could be reflected in modeling.
So the beyond what Carl said, which is we've had several quarters now of new student enrollment growth.
<unk>.
Given that the average duration of one of our students is six to eight quarters.
That lags through and so we expect both enrollment growth and revenue growth.
In 2003, and as we've said in the past we've got a given our focus on academic quality, we have a relatively fixed expense base, which hurts us on the way down when revenue shrinking and is quite advantageous in terms of margin when revenue grows.
I think thats as specific as we can be for next year at this point.
Sure and I can appreciate the start momentum because you've referenced that but since you.
Retracted that is a metric that you disclosed.
For us to to use that as an input.
What are you seeing in terms of pricing trends.
From key competitors.
Anything changing.
On that front.
I can't speak to pricing at other institutions I haven't followed it as closely recently, but in terms of Sci institutions. We think there may be very very much.
Modest tuition increases over the next several years that capella given the enormous value that flexpath creates for its learners and its graduates I would say that we plan for no pricing increases at strayer.
Over in Australia towards there may be a little bit of pricing increases over the next several years, but one thing you have to consider is we have this enterprise level goal to continue to drive these corporate related enrollments, which almost always come at a discounted level of tuition and so the realized.
Pricing or the realized revenue per student could be decreasing.
As it has done over the last several years and given the very high rates of growth that we have in our corporate channels right now thats likely to continue we always work to offset that.
With as much expense productivity as we can so that the margin impact is de minimis.
But I wouldnt be planning for any large increases in our actual revenue per student.
Okay. Thank you.
Are there.
Could you offer some color on the bad debt in the quarter, because with enrollments down in the shift.
<unk> more sort of corporate activity.
Would expect there to be sort of a.
A decrease in early some downward pressure on bad debt.
Hey, Tobey. This is Dan the majority of the deterioration is just a reflection of we're getting a lot of growth in new enrollment and new students typically.
Pay at a lower rate over time that'll normalize as continuing students become on a relative basis, a bigger share of enrollment.
Okay. So it's a reflection of the increase in new starts that you referenced earlier okay.
If anything on the.
Regulatory fronts, and I guess I don't mean, just in terms of U S domestic regulations around education industry, but also.
On the immigration front in Australia, and New Zealand in terms of timeline or catalysts that we should be aware of where a decision or a change maybe.
Kevin.
Well starting in Australia during the pandemic the Australian government put a waiver in place for people on education visas.
That did not require them to enter the country because they couldnt, obviously, which enabled those students to maintain their studies in their home country of residence.
Government has announced their intention to resend that waiver June of next year. So that certainly will be a catalyst for international students returning to actual immigration into Australia, which I think will very much help us within the United States. We continue to be very confident in the quality profile.
Of both Strayer, and Capella and nothing that we've seen either by the way of rules actually being published or discussions that we've been made aware of a potential rules nothing gives us any concern that either strayer capella would have any significant problem.
Complying with any rule of regulation.
And it's a doubleclick last question for me on the.
Performance and impact on the business from <unk>.
Labor participation if the labor participation.
Were to decline what are the key metrics in the business that would be impacted.
Well it would be.
Certainly inquiries into the University. So these are people that reach out to either strayer or capella request information on a particular program or request to speak to an enrollment advisor. We would expect that would be impacted applications for new enrollment would likely be adversely impacted enrollment itself follows all of that.
But the leading indicators would be.
The number of people actually making inquiries for additional information from the universities and Tobey I think that's fair.
Fair to say that it would.
We would anticipate it would have a greater impact on Strayer University and Capella University, given its higher percentage of undergraduate students for which that labor participation rate tends to be more of a bellwether around demand.
Okay, and then from a timing perspective.
Is are those impacts on the business that Australia are they coincident lagging or leading the.
Changes in labor participation.
They are slightly lagging.
<unk> three or six months.
If we just think historically.
Thank you very much.
You bet. Thanks.
And I'm currently showing no further questions at this time I would like to hand, the call back over to Carl Mcdonald for closing remarks.
Thank you everybody. We appreciate your time today and look forward to talking with you next quarter.
This concludes today's conference call. Thank you for participating you may now disconnect.