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Operator

Operator

Good morning and welcome to AECOM's fourth quarter 2015 earnings conference call. I would like to inform all participants. This call is being recorded at the request of AECOM. This broadcast is the copyrighted property of AECOM. Any rebroadcast of this information in whole or part without the prior written permission of AECOM is prohibited. As a reminder, AECOM is also simulcasting this presentation with slides at the Investors section at www.aecom.com. Later, we will conduct a question-and-answer session. I'd now turn the call over to Will Gabrielski, Vice President, Investor Relations. Please go ahead.

Will J. Gabrielski - Vice President, Investor Relations

Management

Thank you, operator. Before reviewing our results, I would like to direct you to the Safe Harbor statement on page two of today's presentation. Today's discussion contains forward-looking statements about growth and profitability as well as risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ significantly from those projected in today's forward-looking statements. Please refer to our press release, page two of our earnings presentation, and our reports filed with the SEC for more information on the risk factors that could cause our results to differ materially from projections. Except as required by law, we take no obligation to update our forward-looking statements. We are using certain non-GAAP financial measures in our presentation. The appropriate GAAP financial reconciliations are incorporated into our press release, which is posted on our website. Please also note that all percentages refer to year-over-year progress except where otherwise noted. Additionally, we may refer to certain metrics on a constant currency basis. Our discussion of financial results excludes the impact of acquisition and integration-related expenses and the amortization of intangible assets unless otherwise noted. Please turn to slide three. Beginning today's presentation is Mike Burke, AECOM's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Mike? Michael S. Burke - Chairman & Chief Executive Officer: Thank you, Will. Welcome, everyone, to our earnings call. Joining me today is Steve Kadenacy, our President; and Troy Rudd, our Chief Financial Officer. I will begin with an overview of AECOM's results and discuss the trends across our diverse business. Then, Troy will review our financial performance in greater detail. Steve will conclude with financial guidance before turning the call over for a question-and-answer session. Before we begin, I want to comment on the appointment of Troy Rudd as our Chief Financial Officer. Troy joined AECOM in 2009 and has led a number of key finance…

Stephen M. Kadenacy - President

Operator

Thanks, Troy. Please turn to slide 12 for a discussion of our financial guidance. I couldn't be more excited about the opportunities in front of us. Today, we're a company of nearly 100,000 people. We have operations in over 150 countries and we have clients in nearly 50 market sectors. The consistency and predictability afforded by our broadly diversified model has resulted in strong cash flow over the past four years and underpins our fiscal 2016 financial expectations. With that, we are initiating fiscal 2016 adjusted EPS guidance of $3 to $3.40. We expect to deliver free cash flow within our $600 million to $800 million range. We expect to incur approximately $200 million in acquisition and integration related cost this year and we are increasing the total synergy target to $325 million accordingly. The additional savings primarily from real estate will benefit our 2017 results. In total, the payback on our synergy program is under two years and the improved efficiency of our operations will drive long-term benefit into the organization. Now I'll turn the call over to Q&A. Operator, we're now ready for questions.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. We'll now begin the question-and-answer session. And we have Jamie Cook from Credit Suisse online with the question. Please go ahead. Jamie Anderson - Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC (Broker): Hi, good afternoon. This is Jamie Anderson on for Jamie Cook. So, we were curious on the guide. Are you guys assuming any revenue synergies from URS deal included in the 2016 forecast and if so how much? And then just kind of looking at the pro forma company, where are you guys seeing the biggest areas of opportunity as you kind of lookout at your prospect list? Michael S. Burke - Chairman & Chief Executive Officer: So, Jamie, thanks for that question. It's Mike. We have spent the first year as we have talked about in the past, the first year focused on the integration. And now with the hard work of integration behind us, we are now focused on extracting the revenue synergies, which was a fundamental strategic rationale for our transaction. And so we do have modest organic revenue growth in our FY 2016 numbers. And we haven't carved that out, how much is synergy, revenue synergy and how much is legacy because it gets a little muddy from here. But we really believe that coming into FY 2016, we are now going to focus our energies on the external markets to take advantage of the strategic rationale. We have about two-thirds of our business that is growing, and we have about one-third that is either slightly down or flat. And the slightly down or flat portion is the energy, power, and oil and gas business. The rest of our business is growing. And then the second part of your question was where do we see the big opportunities. The big opportunities in front of…

Operator

Operator

And the next comes from Michael Dudas from Sterne Agee. Please go ahead.

Michael S. Dudas - Sterne Agee CRT

Analyst · Sterne Agee. Please go ahead

Good morning, gentlemen, a lot of accomplishments this year, of course. First, surrounding, Mike, maybe a little bit more insight on the Highway Bill, how you're positioned? Has the company had to position differently as this has started to move forward through Congress? Has it maybe taken some people by surprise, the potential positive news that comes out of Washington? And in your plan, are we going to see any of the benefit? Is it too early for 2016, or is it much more 2017 or 2018 opportunity for the array of AECOM Services? Michael S. Burke - Chairman & Chief Executive Officer: So, Jeff (sic) [Mike], obviously we're excited about the recent developments of that bill having moved through the Senate and the House, and now we've got to reconcile it. But in our DCS business, 20% of our DCS business is transportation. It's our largest single segment within DCS. And so obviously, any highway bill would serve us very well. But whether that is something that comes across in FY 2016 is going to depend upon how quickly, first of all, it gets through reconciliation and gets signed by the President. But it will likely add to our backlog in FY 2016, but more likely to our earnings in FY 2017.

Michael S. Dudas - Sterne Agee CRT

Analyst · Sterne Agee. Please go ahead

I appreciate it. And my follow-up is, maybe when you're talking about the pursuits here in New York City, as someone who works and commutes in the city, it's pretty crazy getting around all the construction. Maybe you can talk a little bit about some milestones or timing, and maybe the size of what is upcoming for extended or new projects for you guys here in the city the next 12 months.

Stephen M. Kadenacy - President

Operator

We typically don't comment on the existing pursuits, Mike, but the transportation business domestically has been robust in terms of wins for us in the last two quarters. I think we mentioned last quarter our book-to-burn was 1.5 times, and in second half we're at 1.4 times. So that's for all of Americas design, but transportation is a big part of that.

Michael S. Dudas - Sterne Agee CRT

Analyst · Sterne Agee. Please go ahead

Okay. That's fair enough, Steve. Thank you.

Stephen M. Kadenacy - President

Operator

Thanks.

Operator

Operator

And your next question comes from Jeff Volshteyn from JPMorgan. Please go ahead.

Jeffrey Y. Volshteyn - JPMorgan Securities LLC

Analyst · JPMorgan. Please go ahead

Hey, good morning, and thank you for taking my question. You mentioned the win in oil and gas industry. Can you give us a little bit of color? What segment of oil and gas industry did you benefit from, and then really the general tone of what you're hearing from your customers as far as capital investment in oil and gas and related industries? Michael S. Burke - Chairman & Chief Executive Officer: So we don't want to disclose a specific name on that, but I'll tell you that we did win a $700 million contract for one of the top five oil and gas companies. And the work is – that project alone is entirely environmental engineering work. And so one of the things that's helpful to understand about our oil and gas business is that historically the Flint business that we acquired through URS was half and half special projects or new CapEx projects, and the other maintenance type projects. So now when we look at that business, the capital expenditure, the new CapEx projects have come off a bit, and now 80% of it is operations and maintenance sustaining works programs and only 20% of its capital. The environmental business, the environment engineering, which is our other very large business that we won in the contract I just referred to that work is about 80% of it is dealing with operations maintenance and regulatory type work. So, it's not dependent on CapEx. So where we see our oil and gas business today, we believe it's at a sustainable level right now, but it's primarily due to the fact that the work we're performing is not new CapEx. It's existing O&M and regulatory work and decommissioning work. And so, we also believe that we're well prepared for a potential rebound. If there is a rebound in the CapEx cycle, we'll be prepared to realize the upside from that.

Jeffrey Y. Volshteyn - JPMorgan Securities LLC

Analyst · JPMorgan. Please go ahead

That's helpful. Last quarter, you mentioned relatively weaker performance related to oil and gas. Does that stabilize for you guys?

Stephen M. Kadenacy - President

Operator

This is Steve. Oil and gas is still turning down. We've been focused largely on restructuring that business taking out over a $100 million of cost from that Canadian and U.S. kind of the oilfield services business, the former Flint. So we're continuing to see a decline on the revenue side, but we were still able to structure so that it contributed on the margin side. But it's clearly a disappointment because we expected much more at the beginning of the year from that business. However in FY 2016, we expect that it will contribute and be a tailwind from the bottom line, even though we'll continue to decrease on the top line because of our cost reduction efforts.

Jeffrey Y. Volshteyn - JPMorgan Securities LLC

Analyst · the oilfield services business, the former Flint. So we're continuing to see a decline on the revenue side, but we were still able to structure so that it contributed on the margin side. But it's clearly a disappointment because we expected much more at the beginning of the year from that business. However in FY 2016, we expect that it will contribute and be a tailwind from the bottom line, even though we'll continue to decrease on the top line because of our cost reduction efforts

That's helpful. And last sort of a maintenance question for me. What is the organic revenue decline for DCS on a same week basis? W. Troy Rudd - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: This is Troy. The organic decline in DCS adjusting for the 52-week period in fiscal 2014 was 2.4% for the year.

Jeffrey Y. Volshteyn - JPMorgan Securities LLC

Analyst · the oilfield services business, the former Flint. So we're continuing to see a decline on the revenue side, but we were still able to structure so that it contributed on the margin side. But it's clearly a disappointment because we expected much more at the beginning of the year from that business. However in FY 2016, we expect that it will contribute and be a tailwind from the bottom line, even though we'll continue to decrease on the top line because of our cost reduction efforts

Okay, thank you very much.

Operator

Operator

And your next question comes from Steven Fisher from UBS. Please go ahead.

Eric Crawford - UBS Securities LLC

Analyst · UBS. Please go ahead

Hi, good morning. It's actually Eric Crawford on for Steve this morning. So I appreciate the color on the Highway Bill and the opportunity there for the fiscal 2017. But just a follow-up on Mike's earlier question, it's early but I'm curious if you've had any preliminary discussions with your state agency customers to what extent they have a list of pent-up projects ready to go? Michael S. Burke - Chairman & Chief Executive Officer: We have regular continuous systematic dialogue with hundreds and hundreds of state agencies on this – on a regular basis. They are all waiting and have been waiting for the long-term visibility of a long-term transportation bill. So that the – to the extent we get a long-term bill and allow them to engage in some larger project planning that they have not had the opportunity to do in the past because they didn't have that long-term visibility. That plays right into our sweet spot. If you look at the type of transportation work we do, we are generally at the higher end of that food chain with the large complex projects and those large complex projects typically demand long-term funding. If you're doing curb and gutter work, you could fund that on a quarter-by-quarter basis. So the dialogue that we've been having with these various agencies is going to only increase as we get that long-term visibility and we are very well positioned for that.

Eric Crawford - UBS Securities LLC

Analyst · UBS. Please go ahead

Okay, great. Thanks for that. And then switching over to Europe, we've been hearing some mixed data points, some positive and some less positive. How are you seeing end market activity there? Any color you have would be helpful. Michael S. Burke - Chairman & Chief Executive Officer: Europe for us, we operate that as a combined business of Europe, Middle East, Africa and India. And the Europe business is very tightly coordinated with our Middle East practice because the Middle East larger infrastructure projects are still drawing on expertise from the West. But our overall EMEA practice has grown from a backlog standpoint year-over-year. We're gaining market share in the UK in transportation, particularly – significant market share gains, the best we can tell. Continental Europe is stable and strong. We're starting to win Construction Services business and the expansion of our CS business in Europe. And the Middle East is stable. We're not hiding our head in the sand in terms of the effect of large infrastructure projects in the Middle East are fueled by petro dollars, but we're not seeing a dramatic change in what we're seeing in the pipeline. In fact, we're seeing opportunity in the Middle East to expand our business on the Management Services side as friendly Middle Eastern governments are starting to invest in their own military and protection.

Eric Crawford - UBS Securities LLC

Analyst · UBS. Please go ahead

Excellent, thanks for the color. Michael S. Burke - Chairman & Chief Executive Officer: You're welcome.

Operator

Operator

And the next question comes from the Anna Kaminskaya from Bank of America. Please go ahead.

Anna Kaminskaya - Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Analyst · Bank of America. Please go ahead

Good morning, guys. First I just wanted to touch quickly on synergies. If you could provide us an update on your savings run rate coming out of 2015, how much have been realized, and also $50 million seems like a pretty sizable amount. Was that just because your initial forecast was conservative or may be volumes are coming a little bit lighter than expected so you can have more costs out. So any color about – I mean, obviously we want to get more synergies down the line than even $50 million upside. So, any color around where you've managed to realize more synergies by 2017? Michael S. Burke - Chairman & Chief Executive Officer: Sure. I don't know if we were conservatives on the outset, Anna, but certainly as we went through our integration process, we learned a lot more and we're able to find more synergies. So we realized a $110 million in the year. We're exiting at a run rate of $180 million. We expect to exit 2016 at a run rate of $275 million and what we found that the increase is largely real estate. We were able to consolidate 166 locations this year, 2.2 million square feet of space. And during that process, you're going city by city, we found significantly increased opportunities in that space and a few other spaces that real estate is a big one. So we're adding that A&I spend for 2016 of $200 million. Less than half of that is cash A&I, and we're increasing our synergy target by $50 million, so it's a two-year payback.

Anna Kaminskaya - Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Analyst · Bank of America. Please go ahead

Great. You employees must have pretty tight cubes. But I just wanted to quickly switch to cash deployment. I think you said that, near term, you are still focused on debt repayments. But I'm just a little bit surprised that your overall interest expense is not really moving down materially with all the debt pay down. Like how are you thinking at which point of leverage you'll be more comfortable rethinking maybe some initial buyback over debt pay-off?

Stephen M. Kadenacy - President

Operator

Interest expense is coming down. I think the few things to realize is that within our FY 2015 interest expense, we were reducing debt costs all along the way. So the fair amount of that $750 million in debt paydown that we benefited from in 2015. In 2016, we also carry two extra weeks of debt, which is a fair sum given the debt load. And then there is certain expectations within our interest rate stack in terms of what the interest rates will be. But overall, we are managing that down.

Anna Kaminskaya - Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Analyst · Bank of America. Please go ahead

And is there a leverage target of which you would rethink the balance of the pay-down versus maybe initiating some of the incremental buyback?

Stephen M. Kadenacy - President

Operator

Anna, we think about all of those things on a regular basis here. The team is always looking at all of the options that we have in front of us from debt pay-down to buybacks to strategic acquisitions and I can't say that there's a perfect target, but right now we're focused on debt pay-down.

Anna Kaminskaya - Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Analyst · Bank of America. Please go ahead

Great. And can I sneak one quickly on just quarterly cadence of EPS next year, anything unusual about 1Q as a percentage of total year that you can provide?

Stephen M. Kadenacy - President

Operator

Our historical average is around 20% for the first quarter. I would expect it to be a bit less than that in Q1 this year largely because of the significant ramp in our wins in the second half of FY 2015, but nothing other that would be significantly unusual, just the cadence of our wins in the back half of 2015.

Anna Kaminskaya - Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Analyst · Bank of America. Please go ahead

Thank you very much, good quarter.

Stephen M. Kadenacy - President

Operator

You're welcome. Thank you.

Operator

Operator

Your next question comes from Adam Thalhimer from BB&T Capital Markets. Adam Robert Thalhimer - BB&T Capital Markets: Hi, guys. Congrats on a good quarter. Michael S. Burke - Chairman & Chief Executive Officer: Thank you. Adam Robert Thalhimer - BB&T Capital Markets: The headwinds that you said you're facing this year and one of the reasons that you trended towards the low end of guidance, lower oil prices, slower Asian growth, and strong dollar. I mean, if those stay headwinds, does that push you a little bit more towards the low end of the range for 2016 as well? Michael S. Burke - Chairman & Chief Executive Officer: Only if those headwinds change, the velocity, right. I mean, right now, we are assuming the oil stays where it is, so we're not expecting more headwinds. We're expecting a steady state with oil right now. We're expecting that foreign currency is where it is today. If the dollar gets stronger from here, that's a headwind. So, right now, we're not assuming a further headwind. We built into our plans on oil and gas business that is already lower than it was last year. So from here, we feel like we've got visibility within that range. Adam Robert Thalhimer - BB&T Capital Markets: Okay. And you made a comment that the margin within backlog and the quality of backlog has significantly improved from beginning of the year. It seems like a significant statement. I'm just curious if you can comment additionally on that.

Stephen M. Kadenacy - President

Operator

I think we are seeing the wins trending from a mix standpoint in projects where we tend to – or sectors and services where we tend to earn a higher margin. So not only are we seeing an increase in our book-to-burn well above one, but we're seeing margin within there as better. Having said that, there are a lot of puts and takes in our margins in any given year within the segments. So I don't know that you can necessarily drive that straight to the bottom line in any given quarter, and we're also highly seasonal within quarters. Adam Robert Thalhimer - BB&T Capital Markets: Okay. And lastly, you gave some color on what you expect in New York next year in terms of activity. For U.S. non-res outside of New York, how does the environment feel today? Michael S. Burke - Chairman & Chief Executive Officer: We talked about the transportation bill. That's the single biggest boost that we need in the non-resi space. But it depends on what you're talking about and which component of non-resi. Adam Robert Thalhimer - BB&T Capital Markets: Commercial construction. Michael S. Burke - Chairman & Chief Executive Officer: So commercial construction, if it's high-rise vertical office type space, the inbound investment from China continues to be a big mover in that space for us, so that market looks good. We talked about oil and gas being down. The power sector seems to be flattish. Industrial, petrochemical seems to be doing well, so we feel good about that. But overall, civil construction is going to depend on that transportation bill. Adam Robert Thalhimer - BB&T Capital Markets: Okay, thank you. Michael S. Burke - Chairman & Chief Executive Officer: Sure.

Operator

Operator

And the next question comes from Tahira Afzal from KeyBanc. Please go ahead.

Tahira Afzal - KeyBanc Capital Markets, Inc.

Analyst · KeyBanc. Please go ahead

Thank you. Hi, folks. Michael S. Burke - Chairman & Chief Executive Officer: Hello.

Stephen M. Kadenacy - President

Operator

Hello.

Tahira Afzal - KeyBanc Capital Markets, Inc.

Analyst · KeyBanc. Please go ahead

First question is, Mike, you talked a bit about the opportunity in India. As I look at China and how much leverage you had there on Mainland China, why is India different for yourselves? Michael S. Burke - Chairman & Chief Executive Officer: I'm not sure what you mean by why is it different. Different in what respect?

Tahira Afzal - KeyBanc Capital Markets, Inc.

Analyst · KeyBanc. Please go ahead

China has seen a huge build-out in terms of urbanization over the last 10 years. I'm wondering why India is a bigger opportunity for yourselves given how small China is a part of your revenue mix. Michael S. Burke - Chairman & Chief Executive Officer: So the big difference is, in China, the state-owned enterprises do much of the heavy civil infrastructure work. So when I talk about China, I would think about it in three different pieces. We think about Hong Kong, Taiwan, and PRC. In Hong Kong, we have a very, very strong position in Hong Kong. We always have. We have a nice position in Taiwan. But in the PRC, we do not participate in civil infrastructure build-out because the state-owned enterprises commanded that market. The work that we did in Mainland China was heavily private sector commercial development, and that's been the fastest slowing segment of PRC. The big difference is you go to India, they don't have state-owned enterprises in the civil infrastructure business. And so when you start to look at the build-out required of the infrastructure in India, whether it'd be the Delhi to Mumbai industrial rail corridor that we're working on or the six different metro subway systems that we're working on across India, we don't have to compete with the state-owned enterprise. And so that's why we're more bullish on India with regard to civil infrastructure than we ever were in Mainland China. Is that helpful?

Tahira Afzal - KeyBanc Capital Markets, Inc.

Analyst · KeyBanc. Please go ahead

Got it. Yes, it definitely is. And, Mike, in that regard, I assume you can do a lot of this organically. Michael S. Burke - Chairman & Chief Executive Officer: In India?

Tahira Afzal - KeyBanc Capital Markets, Inc.

Analyst · KeyBanc. Please go ahead

Yes. Michael S. Burke - Chairman & Chief Executive Officer: Yes, yes. We have done a few small acquisitions in the past in India, but we believe we can do that organically. We have the capabilities in Hong Kong to service the transportation market, and we have extensive capabilities in the Middle East that's servicing that market also. So we can get the expertise and talent there, and there are plenty of very well educated engineers in India to hire.

Tahira Afzal - KeyBanc Capital Markets, Inc.

Analyst · KeyBanc. Please go ahead

Got it, okay. And the second question is really in regards to gross margin. In the past, you've talked about 6% type of range. And if I look at your fourth quarter, we're hitting that type of a range. I know that your year is back-end loaded, but is there any update on the outlook there given your pretty upbeat commentary on what's in the backlog? W. Troy Rudd - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: The outlook for Q1, was that your question? Michael S. Burke - Chairman & Chief Executive Officer: Gross margin. W. Troy Rudd - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: Oh, for margin?

Tahira Afzal - KeyBanc Capital Markets, Inc.

Analyst · KeyBanc. Please go ahead

No, just generally on the margin side. And it's not in regard to a quarter, but just qualitatively directionally, are we at a point when we can be looking beyond the 6% range? W. Troy Rudd - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: I think it's different by segment, but I would look in the low 7% for DCS. CS probably in the low 2%, both of those with upside into future years. And MS, MS is a tough one to forecast given the lumpiness of extraordinary gains that they tend to have when they close out projects, and we do not forecast for that. Without those, you can put them in the low 8%.

Tahira Afzal - KeyBanc Capital Markets, Inc.

Analyst · KeyBanc. Please go ahead

Got it, okay. Thank you, that was very helpful. W. Troy Rudd - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: You're welcome.

Operator

Operator

And the next question comes from the Chase Jacobson from William Blair. Please go ahead. Chase A. Jacobson - William Blair & Co. LLC: Hi, good afternoon. I guess good morning to you guys. First question, can you give any more color as it relates to the monetization of the AECOM Capital Investments? I know you're probably not going to give us a size. But how is that recorded? And as we go forward, are those going to be regular like every quarter, or is it going to be once or twice a year? Is there any color you can give there? Michael S. Burke - Chairman & Chief Executive Officer: Sure. We don't want to give guidance on a sub-segment level, but we – in those transactions, it will be difficult to project by quarter or even by year, but we fully expect that we will have a couple of monetizations per year for the foreseeable future. We have 14 individual investments that we are in process with right now within AECOM Capital. We have a much longer pipeline of potential investments beyond that. And so we will have monetizations this year. But given that we are in the midst of negotiating some of those monetizations, we don't want to get too specific on it, but it will be a regular part of our business going forward. The objective is to invest in these projects, deliver the design service and construction revenue along with it. And then when the project is complete, we want to recycle the capital and do it all over again. So it will be a regular part of business and it will be a part of our core earnings. Chase A. Jacobson - William Blair & Co. LLC: Okay. And then I guess when I…

Operator

Operator

And your next question comes from Sameer Rathod from Macquarie. Please go ahead. Sameer Rathod - Macquarie Capital (USA), Inc.: Hi. Good morning. It sounds like you have several factors going in your favor into next year, synergies, both cost and revenue, organic growth declines and interest expense, highway bill. But then I look at your guidance – and I guess this expands on Chase's question. You guys did $3.08 this year and the midpoint next year is $3.20. Is this all Sellafield and chem-demil, or are there other moving pieces we should consider?

Stephen M. Kadenacy - President

Operator

The same ones that affect margin will affect the growth. So if you adjust for the things that I mentioned on margin, normal margin, chem-demil, the one-time gains in EC. FX is another headwind for us. You add back in the synergies and you're looking at a 10% improvement from a base EPS this year, if you adjust for those one-time things. Sameer Rathod - Macquarie Capital (USA), Inc.: Okay, got it. Thanks.

Stephen M. Kadenacy - President

Operator

You're welcome.

Operator

Operator

And you're next question comes from Andy Wittmann from Robert Baird. Please go ahead. Andrew John Wittmann - Robert W. Baird & Co., Inc. (Broker): Hi. Thanks for taking my questions. So, I guess, I would ask Chase's question a little bit different way because I know gains are hard to predict. But can you give us a sense of what the guidance for next year looks like just on operations of the business excluding the gains? Michael S. Burke - Chairman & Chief Executive Officer: We really don't want to give sub-segment guidance. I mean, that's just one component of DCS. And so that's why we have a range, right. We have a wide range of our guidance and we're in negotiations now, as I said earlier, on what that might look like. And so I don't want in any way influence those negotiations that we're in the midst of right now and literally right now. And so we have given a range of guidance and depending on how those profits come out, it could put us in one end or the other of that guidance. Andrew John Wittmann - Robert W. Baird & Co., Inc. (Broker): Okay. So, Steve, in your comments you said that the P&L impacts from possible dispositions are excluded. I guess, that's referring to the business dispositions rather than these like private equity stakes, which are, I guess, a different bucket? Michael S. Burke - Chairman & Chief Executive Officer: Yeah. Steve was referring to the disposition of the non-core assets in the oil and gas business, fluid hauling business, things of that sort. But the AECOM Capital gains, we have 14 investments today, we'll continue to be making investments and regularly designing them, building them, financing them, and then completing them and selling them to recycle that cash all over again. So it'd be a regular part of our business going forward and we'll see a few of these transactions a year every year. Andrew John Wittmann - Robert W. Baird & Co., Inc. (Broker): Yeah, okay. But the dispositions then, there was no mark on them at the year-end. But those are probably – is it fair to assume that those are more likely to be a loss than a gain? Or how should we be thinking about what to expect when those are monetized? Michael S. Burke - Chairman & Chief Executive Officer: Which assets you're talking about now? Andrew John Wittmann - Robert W. Baird & Co., Inc. (Broker): The fluid hauling and the stuff in Flint that you are looking at that are nonstrategic.

Stephen M. Kadenacy - President

Operator

That's right. For the real kind of small non-core Flint assets, there would more likely be a non-cash loss with those, not a gain. Michael S. Burke - Chairman & Chief Executive Officer: And the reason for that is we marked those to market when we did our purchase accounting at the acquisition a year ago. And so the overall oil and gas world is depressed in that one year period of time. And so naturally there would be a slight decline there.

Stephen M. Kadenacy - President

Operator

Non-cash. Michael S. Burke - Chairman & Chief Executive Officer: Non-cash, yes. Andrew John Wittmann - Robert W. Baird & Co., Inc. (Broker): Yes, yes, totally. So then just on – last quarter you guys commented on the URS business kind of separately. You said they were not that dissimilar from the trends you had seen in the organic trends. Is that still the case here in fourth quarter? Or just your updated thoughts on that would be helpful.

Stephen M. Kadenacy - President

Operator

The organic trends in the URS business that were similar to the AECOM businesses were very, very similar. In the businesses that we're not in, of course, they're different, oil and gas, we didn't have that business, and of course it was disappointing to say the least. Andrew John Wittmann - Robert W. Baird & Co., Inc. (Broker): And then just maybe final question here on the cash flow expectations. Thank you for updating your view on that one. I guess, when you think about the 2 times leverage bogey by the end of 2017, I guess, that basically means that you're probably working toward the high end of that $600 million to $800 million range. I guess, maybe the question is, are there any other things in the cash flow in terms of maybe taking working capital out of the business or otherwise that are going to help you get to the 2.0 times level. Your thoughts on that, I think, Steve, would be helpful. W. Troy Rudd - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: So, Andy, this is Troy. Just in terms of our guidance for 2016 and 2017, we are not anticipating or in building up that guidance any working capital improvements. That's just based on our build-up from a business-by-business to get to a cash flow range. And in terms of the 2.0 times guidance, if we just simply deliver on our cash flow over the coming two years, we will push ourselves down into the mid to low three times in that period of time.

Stephen M. Kadenacy - President

Operator

The 2.0 times is not necessarily a bogey, Andy. We just said, if we deployed all of our cash towards that, we would have start approaching 2 times by the end of 2017. Andrew John Wittmann - Robert W. Baird & Co., Inc. (Broker): Yes.

Stephen M. Kadenacy - President

Operator

But we're constantly looking at capital allocation priorities. Andrew John Wittmann - Robert W. Baird & Co., Inc. (Broker): Yes, that makes sense. Sorry, final question then. On the cash flow, it looks – if $600 million to $800 million – I mean, it looks like the net income, we always think of E&P companies, in particular engineering heavy companies like yourselves, cash flows pretty close to net income. I guess, after these next couple of years, should we expect the net income – the free cash flow range being more applicable to your business than what looks like it was a little bit elevated over the near-term?

Stephen M. Kadenacy - President

Operator

Yes. W. Troy Rudd - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: Yeah, Andy, that makes sense. Andrew John Wittmann - Robert W. Baird & Co., Inc. (Broker): Okay, I just wanted to make sure nothing has changed on that. Thank you. W. Troy Rudd - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: Sure.

Stephen M. Kadenacy - President

Operator

Thank you.

Operator

Operator

We have no further questions at this time. I'll now turn the call back over for final comments. Michael S. Burke - Chairman & Chief Executive Officer: Okay. Thank you, operator. So, listen, just a few closing comments here. We entered fiscal 2015 as an $8 billion company, about to embark on a real transformational combination, the biggest in our industry's history and today here we are as an $18 billion company with integrated delivery capabilities across just about every major market and geography. And we have – the real hard work is behind us, the hard work of integration. Anybody that's been through this knows that the real heavy lift has occurred over the past 12 months and I couldn't be more proud of our leadership team and all of our employees that had to work two jobs over the course of this year getting that integration behind us. But now we stand on the cusp of really realizing the full potential of our vision to become the world's leading fully integrated infrastructure services firm and we feel very good about the future that lies in front of us and very good about realizing our full potential. So thank you all for your continued interest in AECOM and we hope that you'll join us in December at our Annual Investor Day meeting where we'll discuss in more detail about all these milestones and, most importantly, our vision for the future. So thank you and have a great day.