Joe Puishys
Analyst · D.A. Davidson. Your line is now open.
Yeah. We are not seeing a left down in a large project segment, whatsoever. I think, as evidenced by the bidding activity that we are seeing from our installation business, which it’s interesting, right? Our Glass people have probably the longest term visibility because they are in the offices of the architects and so they are dealing with opportunities that may become a bid package to general contractors in the future, maybe a hole in the ground in a year or two, maybe revenue for us in three years. Activity is very strong even in the large projects, large campuses, Google or the Amazon. There’s a lot of business out there. Our Harmon business, which has the longest amount of time that work is in backlog from is actually much shorter from when they actually win an award from when it’s been out on the Street. So we then have a good view about, I have often said we have four levels of visibility. The most concrete is our book backlog, which is where we have a purchase order, a contractual commitment to deliver goods and services, hence $900 million of work that will go into revenue and in my entire seven plus years here I have never seen in -- within a fiscal year to have work come out of backlog. I think we have had a project for a mile and come back in kind of a deal. But it’s very rare. That’s great visibility, our second level is work we have been awarded that’s about to enter backlog, that it’s in contract negotiations with our legal teams and that’s pretty solid and beyond that, we have work that we believe we have been verbally awarded or we believe we are the only bidder with the capabilities perhaps we had the architectural spec. So if a project goes forward, we think that’s in the wind tunnel for us. And then, lastly, in the least concrete is work we are bidding with our contractors in for some of our businesses with glazers and the pipeline of the amount of work that’s in that last four category is in the billions and it’s substantial. Some projects have a very low probability of being won. Some have a very high. We look at all of that when we give our comments about the long-term health of what we are seeing. I -- my caveat to all this is, in this economy, in this new world we live in, the world reacts -- overreacts to good news and bad news, and it -- while it seems the U.S. is like, say, trying to talk itself into a recession, we are not seeing it nor our architects, nor our general contractors.