Earnings Labs

Boyd Gaming Corporation (BYD)

Q4 2015 Earnings Call· Tue, Feb 16, 2016

$86.06

Key Takeaways · AI generated
AI summary not yet generated for this transcript. Generation in progress for older transcripts; check back soon, or browse the full transcript below.

Same-Day

+2.62%

1 Week

-3.51%

1 Month

+13.21%

vs S&P

+5.38%

Transcript

Operator

Operator

Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to the Boyd Gaming Fourth Quarter 2015 Conference Call. All participants will be in a listen-only mode. After today's presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask questions. Please also note that today's event is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference call over to Mr. Josh Hirsberg, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Sir, please go ahead. Josh Hirsberg - Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President & Treasurer: Thank you, Jamie. Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to our fourth quarter earnings conference call. Joining me on the call this afternoon is Keith Smith, our President and Chief Executive Officer. Our comments today will include statements that are forward-looking statements within the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act, including statements regarding our guidance for full year 2016. All forward-looking statements in our comments are as of today's date, and we undertake no obligation to update or revise the forward-looking statements. Actual results may differ materially from those projected in any forward-looking statement. There are certain risks and uncertainties that include, but are not limited to those disclosed in our earnings release, our periodic reports, and our other filings with the SEC that may impact our results. During our call today, we will make reference to non-GAAP financial measures. For a complete reconciliation of historical non-GAAP to GAAP financial measures, please refer to our earnings press release and our Form 8-K furnished to the SEC today, and both of which are available in the Investors section of our website at, boydgaming.com. We do not provide a reconciliation of forward-looking non-GAAP financial measures due to our inability to project special charges and certain expenses. Finally, today's call is also being webcast at, boydgaming.com and will be available for replay on the Investor Relations section…

Operator

Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, we'll now begin the question-and-answer session. And our first question comes from Joe Greff from JPMorgan. Please go ahead with your question.

Joseph R. Greff - JPMorgan Securities LLC

Analyst · JPMorgan. Please go ahead with your question

Good afternoon, everybody. And Josh, thank you for your comments, (21:29) my questions away. Just thinking about your outlook for the Las Vegas Locals market this year, how do you think about the growth for after four quarters of 2016? Do you see higher growth in the first half versus the second half, just given how the comparison evolve over the year? Can you help us understand that a little bit in terms of what's baked into your guidance? Keith E. Smith - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: Yeah. So Joe, this is Keith. I think that that's probably right. We'd expect to see a little more growth in the first half of the year. The summer time is notoriously slow here in Las Vegas, especially in the Locals business. And once again, we did had a great fourth quarter as things build throughout the year. So we expect kind of the momentum we saw in the fourth quarter to carry into the first quarter and second quarter. So it's probably more heavily weighted in the first half of the year.

Joseph R. Greff - JPMorgan Securities LLC

Analyst · JPMorgan. Please go ahead with your question

Okay. And then with respect to your non-gaming enhancement-related capital expenditures baked into your guidance, do you have any renovation disruption? If you could help us quantify that, if there is any. Josh Hirsberg - Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President & Treasurer: Yeah, Joe. This is Josh. We really haven't built in any expectation of disruption. We have seen – given our experience so far in 2015, we've seen very little in the way of disruption. We have had some kind of external impacts on our businesses, whether it was not related to the construction, like weather and things of that nature. But I would say, really, related to the non-gaming amenities strategy, the only property that I can think of that could be significantly impacted is our Downtown segment with the casino floor renovation at The California. But as I run through the – think through what we're planning to do for 2016, I would expect kind of minimal disruption throughout the year.

Joseph R. Greff - JPMorgan Securities LLC

Analyst · JPMorgan. Please go ahead with your question

Got it. And then my final question. I believe I heard that you said the winter weather impact of Borgata was $15 million of EBITDA, one, five? Josh Hirsberg - Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President & Treasurer: No, no. I'm sorry. My accent probably threw you off there. We definitely want to clarify that. It was about $5 million, and there was about $9 million of hold in 2015...

Joseph R. Greff - JPMorgan Securities LLC

Analyst · JPMorgan. Please go ahead with your question

Okay. Josh Hirsberg - Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President & Treasurer: ...and then $5 million in January related to the winter weather.

Joseph R. Greff - JPMorgan Securities LLC

Analyst · JPMorgan. Please go ahead with your question

And then, have you seen any of that lost business come back this month following (24:04)? Josh Hirsberg - Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President & Treasurer: Yeah. We have started to see it come back.

Joseph R. Greff - JPMorgan Securities LLC

Analyst · JPMorgan. Please go ahead with your question

Okay. That's all from me. Thanks, guys. Keith E. Smith - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: Sure.

Operator

Operator

Our next question comes from Chris Jones from Union Gaming. Please go ahead with your question.

Christopher Jones - Union Gaming Research LLC

Analyst · Union Gaming. Please go ahead with your question

Hi. Great. Thank you. Just first question is, going back to the Borgata here, just two things. First, any details you can give us about for the ongoing battle, or issue you're having with the tax issues, whether or not you guys have started withholding tax there, or not paying the gaming tax with this city? And then secondly, on the Borgata, any comments or thoughts about what's going on in Northern New Jersey, if whether or not the Borgata JV would be interested or looking to pursue something there, if that was to pass? Keith E. Smith - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: With respect to the property tax settlement, we certainly stand ready and willing to engage in serious negotiations. Unfortunately, none have occurred yet. We're certainly hopeful that some will occur in the near future. But other than that, all that we know is out there and is public. We did exercise some help, some what I call self-help about 10 days ago where we withheld our quarterly property tax payment, as we're legally allowed to do, as a way to, I guess start the process of getting us repaid, because no other progress have been made. And once again, we're just hopeful that there will be some serious negotiations sometime in the near future, but other than that, that's all we know. It's all we have to report. I think with respect to North Jersey, it's an evolving situation. You know, they're talking about two licenses and $1 billion minimum investment. What they haven't talked about is kind of what the tax rate would be and some of the other rules and regulations, and so it's a little difficult to decide whether or not that will be a benefit or a detriment at the end of the day to New Jersey, not knowing what's going to be built, because I think some of that will be driven by the tax rate. So we need some clarity on some more of the rules around what they're actually proposing for North Jersey before we can understand whether we think there's an opportunity to play there or not.

Christopher Jones - Union Gaming Research LLC

Analyst · Union Gaming. Please go ahead with your question

Excellent. Thank you. And just a quick a follow-up on Vegas; I think, Keith, did you mention that there was a low hold in Suncoast this quarter? And what was the impact there? Keith E. Smith - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: Yeah. We had abnormally kind of low slot hold. It just happens from time-to-time in the business. It's nothing that is systemic or ongoing. It made the difference between the Suncoast posting an up quarter in EBITDA versus posting a down quarter in EBITDA. And so that is the significance of the whole difference. It's come back, and like I said, it was temporary and it does happen occasionally, although not frequently in the slot area.

Christopher Jones - Union Gaming Research LLC

Analyst · Union Gaming. Please go ahead with your question

And did you think if you hadn't had that, you would've seen materially better performance from some of the sort of non-gaming initiatives and such that you've made in there? Keith E. Smith - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: Well, the non-gaming initiatives performed just fine, it really was. We had good volumes. We had coin-in at the Suncoast as we recovered from some of the road construction that impacted us during the first nine months. And we had plans to wrap the business back up and try and grow coin-in and that it all happened kind of on schedule and as we had planned. It's just the luck of the draw, if you will. We just didn't run lucky in the quarter and that was the difference between, once again, posting up EBITDA versus posting down EBITDA. So it would have been a great quarter if not for that.

Christopher Jones - Union Gaming Research LLC

Analyst · Union Gaming. Please go ahead with your question

Perfect. Thank you very much. Keith E. Smith - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: Welcome.

Operator

Operator

Our next question comes from Steve Wieczynski from Stifel. Please go ahead with your question. Steven Wieczynski - Stifel, Nicolaus & Co., Inc.: Hey, good afternoon, guys. So Keith, I know you called out, you said in the Locals market in Vegas, you know you threw some effective marketing programs out there that really seemed to work. Can you go into a little bit more detail as to what you guys essentially did there? And also talk about the promotional environment right now in the Locals market? Keith E. Smith - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: Yeah, so in terms of kind of the detail of our ongoing marketing efforts, probably so that we can continue the success that we've achieved to-date we're not going to talk about them in any specific detail. But with respect to kind of the marketing the promotional environment overall, I would say, it's been fairly flat, you know, it's not overly aggressive. Nobody's stepping out and doing anything too aggressive. So I'd say that for the majority of 2015, if not all of 2015, it was a fairly rational promotional environment and we certainly hope that that continues into the future. Josh Hirsberg - Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President & Treasurer: Yeah, I would add to that, just that comment is not only true about Las Vegas Locals, but really across the portfolio in the markets that we operate in. The competitive kind of marketing environment has been very – what we call, rational or more consistent with historical levels, just generally. Steven Wieczynski - Stifel, Nicolaus & Co., Inc.: Okay. Thanks. And then second question I guess for you, Josh. In terms of your guidance frames, you talked about kind of the midpoint of $645 million would be if the business kind of ran itself today. And you talked about what would get you to the low-end of that range. But to get to the high-end, I guess the question is, do you think that would be a function more of stronger revenue growth or better increases on the margin front? Josh Hirsberg - Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President & Treasurer: I think it would be primarily revenue growth driven. So our guidance generally expects revenue of kind of 1% to 3% so it would be near the end or exceeding that growth rate and revenue and then obviously margins improvements associated with that revenue growth as well. Steven Wieczynski - Stifel, Nicolaus & Co., Inc.: Okay. Great. Thanks, guys. Josh Hirsberg - Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President & Treasurer: Sure.

Operator

Operator

Our next question comes from Carlo Santarelli from Deutsche Bank Securities. Please go ahead with your question.

Carlo Santarelli - Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc.

Analyst · Deutsche Bank Securities. Please go ahead with your question

Hey, thanks, guys. Josh, on the subject of Borgata, obviously you mentioned the $14 million distribution for tax purposes. As you think about that property now, I believe coming out of the 4Q, it's about 3.2 times net debt to EBTIDA. How are you guys thinking about future, maybe more broad distributions from that asset as we go forward? And how much does the North Jersey situation play on kind of your thinking around how to handle the balance sheet or the capital structure of that asset? Thanks. Keith E. Smith - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: Yeah. It's a good question, Carlo. I think we're going to kind of continue to balance the success of that asset and its ability to deleverage with the prospect of Northern New Jersey, quite honestly. I think to the extent we get better visibility on Northern New Jersey, that'll certainly weigh on our decisions. But the asset in the meantime continues to generate significant amounts of free cash flow, and will continue to deleverage. And I think we're comfortable with the levels of leverage in terms of where it is currently, and in the current environment. And then you have both the prospects of Northern New Jersey to factor into the thought process going forward, but also we expect to eventually get paid on the property tax amount too, which will also help to continue to deleverage the business. So I think we have a lot of moving pieces around that. And we'll just kind of make those decisions under kind of the best understanding of what's going on at that particular time.

Carlo Santarelli - Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc.

Analyst · Deutsche Bank Securities. Please go ahead with your question

Great. And then if I could just ask a follow-up in terms of how you're thinking about maybe the proper leverage ratio at that asset? Is there a certain level where you'll believe that you're under-leveraged, so to speak? Keith E. Smith - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: I think that the capital structure is set up to allow the asset to continue to deleverage, and also make distribution. So currently, as you mentioned, it's around three times leverage, a little bit more than that. I think we're generally comfortable with that. I think to the extent that Northern New Jersey started to come on the radar screen we may want to get a little bit more conservative with the leverage. But I think that 3 times leverage is a pretty comfortable level given where the business is, and how it's performing, and just kind of the competitive environment that it's operating within currently.

Carlo Santarelli - Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc.

Analyst · Deutsche Bank Securities. Please go ahead with your question

Great. Thank you very much. Keith E. Smith - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: Sure.

Operator

Operator

Our next question comes from Steven Kent from Goldman Sachs. Please go ahead with your question. And Mr. Kent... Steven Eric Kent - Goldman Sachs & Co.: Hi. Yeah, can you hear me?

Operator

Operator

We can hear you now. Please go ahead with your question. Keith E. Smith - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: Yeah Steve, we can hear you. Steven Eric Kent - Goldman Sachs & Co.: Sorry about that. Can you just talk about visitation trends versus average spend per visit? Just – it would seem to me that given where employment's going, and also where gas prices are going that you should start to see a pickup in that. So I just wanted to understand that. And then just on a more modeling question, stock comp came in a little bit higher than (33:34) stock comp expense, came in a little bit higher than we thought. Are we missing something about how you do fourth quarter recognition of stock comp, because it seems to change a little bit in that fourth quarter, and I'm just trying to understand it. Keith E. Smith - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: Steve, with respect to visitation and kind of spend per visit, we're seeing kind of continued strength in both visitation and average spend across the country that's generally coming in our mid and upper tiers. We're also seeing strength in the unrated play kind of growing across the country also. And whether that's a function of lower gas prices or just a healthier consumer, a fuller employment market, probably a combination of all those things. But we are seeing good growth in visitation and continued growth in average spend at the mid and upper tiers. Josh Hirsberg - Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President & Treasurer: And Steve, in terms of the stock compensation expense question, it really has to do with the mix of employees and the number of employees that are receiving the stock equity grants, as well as their years of service and their age. So there's quite a kind of complex set of circumstances that drives how much – what gets recorded and when. And it has to do a little bit also with when options and equity compensation is granted. So it's really all of those factors that comes into play. I'm not – yeah, nothing really has changed in the program or anything of that nature. It's just the mechanics of how the program works. Steven Eric Kent - Goldman Sachs & Co.: Thanks. Josh Hirsberg - Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President & Treasurer: (35:17). Okay. Steven Eric Kent - Goldman Sachs & Co.: Yeah, thanks. Josh Hirsberg - Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President & Treasurer: Okay. See you.

Operator

Operator

Our next question comes from Demetri Typadis from Barclays. Please go ahead with your question.

Demetri Typadis - Barclays Capital, Inc.

Analyst · Barclays. Please go ahead with your question

Hi, guys. You talked a little bit about kind of the fact that the levels of flow-through have been robust and we can't really expect that to continue going forward as high as it's been. But can you talk a little bit about the cadence? Should we be thinking about you know a step-down in flow through starting in the first half of the year, or there's still room to outperform in the first half? And then maybe it's the second half when the comps get more difficult that we should be considering a lower level of flow-through? Keith E. Smith - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: Yeah, I think that you should probably be looking at a step down in Q1 and in Q2. We've been successful in improving our margins over the last six quarters or seven quarters. And it's bound to slow down at some point. And while we're intensely focused on continuing to find ways to take cost out of the business, the levels that we achieved last year just we don't believe are repeatable. So you should expect that step-down to occur in Q1 and be consistent throughout the year. Josh Hirsberg - Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President & Treasurer: Yeah, it's just getting more and more difficult to achieve cost savings as quickly as we've been able to do historically. We continue to believe that there are opportunities. They're just going to be more difficult to achieve and take longer to obtain. And so, we're trying to be realistic with respect to our own expectations, and we understand kind of generating the levels of flow-through that we saw certainly in the last four quarters or five quarters, because everything we went our way. We don't expect that to continue.

Demetri Typadis - Barclays Capital, Inc.

Analyst · Barclays. Please go ahead with your question

Got it. Helpful. And in Illinois, you talked about the impact of VLTs. I mean is there really anything that can be done, or should the expectation be that this is just going to weigh on all properties in the market? And on top of that, are there any other markets that you're concerned that could open up; I know Pennsylvania has kind of discussed it. I don't think any jurisdictions are at a very advanced stage, but any competitive threats in any other jurisdictions that are on your radar? Keith E. Smith - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: I think you understand the situation right. I think in Illinois, there the genie is out of the bottle and we really don't see any real slowdown in the approval process of those. They continue to grow each and every month as the state approves more. And the only other state where we're talking about it is Pennsylvania, which I think had significant impact on operations in the state. We don't have an operation there, but we're not aware of other states that are actively engaged in that conversation.

Demetri Typadis - Barclays Capital, Inc.

Analyst · Barclays. Please go ahead with your question

All right. That's great. That's it for me. Thanks. Keith E. Smith - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: Thanks, Demetri.

Operator

Operator

Our next question comes from David Katz from Telsey Group. Please go ahead with your question.

David Katz - Telsey Advisory Group LLC

Analyst · Telsey Group. Please go ahead with your question

Hi. Evening. So I think as we look at the total picture here, what we're seeing is continued fairly modest revenue growth and the strong flow-through. But I've heard the same message a number of quarters in a row where you say, please don't expect us to drive the kind of margin growth that you've been seeing, and then you do it. And so, I mean this in a complementary way, but how do you really feel like the levers that are available to you to pull throughout the year, right? I mean the guidance is quite good and it's a little bit better than obviously most of us were expecting. Has your scale of conservatism changed, let's say, over the last four quarters in terms of how you forecast, I suppose is the bottom line question I'm trying to get at? Josh Hirsberg - Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President & Treasurer: David, it's Josh. I think we really believe in the guidance that we are providing you, and we are not trying to be conservative in the sense of what we are telling you. I think what has happened in 2015, and we've said it before, and perhaps you know, there's just everything that kind of goes in our direction, and those are the things that we really don't incorporate in our guidance that ultimately have accrued to our benefit. So we have been more successful than we expected in taking cost out of the business at the same time that we had a little bit more robust revenue growth than we expected. And those are the factors that really contributed to our outperformance. I think as you start to anniversary those kinds of performances, you end up with a smaller likelihood of kind of continuing to perform on the upside on the revenue side unless the consumer kind of starts to deviate to the upside and gets stronger. And I think the same thing plays out on the expense side. You know, there's only so many times that you can really continue to drive expense savings in excess of what you expect. And so we're trying to give you the best sense of what we see today. Our comments and guidance are definitely in the middle of the road in terms of what we expect to achieve, and we would say that there's probably, if there was going to be upside performance, it would come from outside revenue growth. If there's going to be downside performance, it's going to come from a change in the consumer more than likely, and therefore a change in revenue on that side of the equation, because we will not be able to turn the ship quickly enough to take costs out in the event of revenue decline from here. So I think that's the best way to kind of put things in perspective for you.

David Katz - Telsey Advisory Group LLC

Analyst · Telsey Group. Please go ahead with your question

Okay. I meant not to accuse you of sandbagging in anyway. Honestly, I... Josh Hirsberg - Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President & Treasurer: We're not trying to sandbag.

David Katz - Telsey Advisory Group LLC

Analyst · Telsey Group. Please go ahead with your question

Okay. I think you made that clear... Josh Hirsberg - Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President & Treasurer: We're not trying to sandbag. We are trying to give you a realistic view of how we see the business and give us a realistic expectation of performing within that guidance range.

David Katz - Telsey Advisory Group LLC

Analyst · Telsey Group. Please go ahead with your question

Okay. All right. Well taken, and congratulations on a good quarter. Thanks very much. Josh Hirsberg - Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President & Treasurer: Yeah, I hope we keep doing it.

Operator

Operator

Our next question comes from Shaun Kelly from Bank of America. Please go ahead with your question.

Shaun Clisby Kelley - Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Analyst · Bank of America. Please go ahead with your question

Hey, good afternoon, everyone. Josh, I know you covered most of the ground that I had, but just one thing that came out in the fourth quarter throughout, I think you know was the – some of the REIT laws were updated in some surprise legislation. And I was curious, I believe there is some grandfathering that can be done, or has been done for some companies. But does the new IRS ruling prevent or change in any way the kind of way you guys were thinking about pursuing the opportunity of a REIT conversion? Josh Hirsberg - Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President & Treasurer: I don't think so. I think that you know we're continuing to think through the issue and monitor developments in our space. And I think we always try to remain prepared for kind of what's going on in that arena, so. Keith E. Smith - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: Yeah Shaun, this is Keith. I think that, look, we've said before, we're really not going to provide any other color around this until we have something to announce. But look the restructure still remains an option for us. We continue, as Josh said, to kind of learn from what's going on in the market. And I'm sure we'll learn more from MGM's proposed transaction. And we'll continue to evaluate kind of what the right structure is for the company going forward.

Shaun Clisby Kelley - Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Analyst · Bank of America. Please go ahead with your question

Okay. That's it for me, guys. Thanks a lot. Josh Hirsberg - Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President & Treasurer: Thanks, Shaun.

Operator

Operator

Our next question comes from Thomas Allen from Morgan Stanley. Please go ahead with your question. Thomas G. Allen - Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC: Hey. Good afternoon. So just related to the guidance, as you think about the Louisiana properties, you're still doing well in Treasure Chest. But it does seem like the broader energy market sell-offs is starting to impact Shreveport, Delta Downs, Amelia Belle and Evangeline Downs. So how are you thinking about their performance in 2016? Thanks. Keith E. Smith - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: Well, I think with respect to kind of the energy and what's going on in oil and gas and everything else that we're really not seeing much of an impact at Treasure Chest or at Delta Downs. It's really not impacting Shreveport, where it is impacting – the Shreveport decline in revenues is really more directed, self-directed as we're just trying to take some costs out of the business and get to as, I think Josh used the term, profitable revenue growth. We are seeing some impact at Evangeline Downs and Amelia Belle, mostly because the populations around those properties are mostly folks that work in kind of the production facilities. And so we are seeing some impact there. Not significant, but some impact clearly. And we'd expect that that probably will continue through 2016 at those two properties, they'll continue to see some modest impact as a result of low oil prices. I think at the same time, once again, it has a benefit to the broader consumer group out there that has more money in their pocket. So there is an offset to that. Thomas G. Allen - Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC: Definitely. And then in terms of the Las Vegas Locals market, so just trying to think through the guidance. You guys guided to 5.5% EBITDA growth, but for the past two quarters you've been running at about 4% – 4.5% to 5% revenue growth. So are you expecting a meaningful slowdown in revenue, or are you expecting kind of cost inflation to start picking up in the market now that unemployment started to decline? I mean what's the expectation of the two, the top line and then the expense drivers? Thanks. Keith E. Smith - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: Yeah. I think it's strictly a matter of just comps are getting more difficult in an improving environment and we want to see that consumer translate into better performance before we kind of get out ahead of ourselves on that. That's it, Tom. Thomas G. Allen - Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC: Okay. Thank you. Keith E. Smith - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: Thanks.

Operator

Operator

Our next question comes from Chad Beynon of Macquarie. Please go ahead with your question. Chad Beynon - Macquarie Capital (USA), Inc.: Hey. Great, guys. Thanks for taking my questions. First, just wanted to talk about your appetite for M&A. You've done a nice job paying down debt, reducing leverage. And Josh, you gave the target of potentially paying down another $200 million in 2016, but what's your appetite for M&A? And what do you think is out there at this time? Keith E. Smith - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: Well, I think we continue to be very interested in growing the company and acquiring assets that are in markets that make sense for us, and that, you know, will move the needle for us, and it's a matter of coming to an agreement on price in many cases. So we continue to look around. We continue to look at as many things as we ever have, and one of these days we'll find something that is in the right market at the right price that we think should be part of our portfolio. We tend to be fairly selective. We're not anxious. We're not going to buy something just to have a deal, or to do a deal just to do a deal. We will find the right asset, in the right market, at the right price and then we'll execute on it. In the meantime, we'll just focus on paying down debt. We'll focus on our non-gaming amenities strategy and strengthening the existing portfolio until we find someplace else to invest. But we are clearly interested in continuing to grow the company. We just have to find the right opportunity. Chad Beynon - Macquarie Capital (USA), Inc.: Okay. Thanks, Keith. My follow-up, a property we haven't…

Operator

Operator

Our next question comes from James Kayler from Bank of America. Please go ahead with your question.

James Forristall Kayler - Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Analyst · Bank of America. Please go ahead with your question

Hey, guys. How you doing? Keith E. Smith - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: Good.

James Forristall Kayler - Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Analyst · Bank of America. Please go ahead with your question

Good. Just a sort of bigger picture question on the Locals market. So I think the Locals market is still 40% plus off of its prior peak. What needs to happen in the Locals market to start to narrow that gap? And what kind of timeframe do you think is reasonable to think about that gap declining? Keith E. Smith - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: I'm not sure how much more you close that gap, because you know what drove that gap is what drove the economy generally when you look back at 2005 through kind of 2007. Large part of that here locally were construction jobs, and the tremendous amount of construction that was going on in this town. And while (50:17) construction jobs back, we won't get back to 125,000 or 135,000 construction jobs in the town. As well as just the freedom at which people, the consumer, generally spent money, and so thinking we'll gravitate back towards that number, certainly not in our thinking any time in the near future.

James Forristall Kayler - Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Analyst · Bank of America. Please go ahead with your question

Okay. That's helpful. Just one question on the CapEx. I think, Josh, you said $110 million of sort of maintenance CapEx. Can you just remind us what that is? How that compares to last year's number? And I guess more specifically, what's your plans for spending on slots this year versus in 2015? Josh Hirsberg - Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President & Treasurer: Yeah, so in reality it's very similar to the maintenance capital we spent last year. And we in fact talked to everyone about last year, we generally said $100 million to $110 million last year and that's essentially what we're saying this year. In terms of slot capital, our budgets are essentially flat. We really are ensuring that our floors have the best product out on them to provide our customers the best experience, and we don't see any need in order to meet that objective to spend any more than what we're doing currently. So we feel comfortable about where our floors are, and we feel comfortable with the budget we're applying to accomplish that objective.

James Forristall Kayler - Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Analyst · Bank of America. Please go ahead with your question

Very good. Just one last balance sheet item. You mentioned refinancing the Pen Game Seller Note. Can you just remind us what the terms of that were, and how it'll affect your income statement and cash flow statement? If I recall, there was – I know there was a PIK component, I'm not sure if there was a cash component also of interest. Josh Hirsberg - Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President & Treasurer: There was not a cash component of interest. We could have chosen to pay a portion of it in cash, we chose not to. It was a note that was put in place in 2012, the first year had zero percent interest, the next year I think it was 6%, and then 8% and then 10% thereafter. It was just about to reach 10% when we decided to pay off the Seller Note. It had a principal amount of about $164 million. And so basically we used our revolver to fund that retirement. The note was recorded at a discount, according to the proper way to account for it. And so when we retired it, there was a charge related to retiring the note, but that's related simply to how it was accounted for on the books. I don't know if that answers all your questions around that James or not.

James Forristall Kayler - Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Analyst · Bank of America. Please go ahead with your question

That was a full answer. Thank you, Josh. Thank you, guys. Josh Hirsberg - Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President & Treasurer: Good.

Operator

Operator

And our next question comes from Joel Simkins from Credit Suisse. Please go ahead with your question. Joel H. Simkins - Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC (Broker): Thanks, guys. I am actually all set now. Appreciate it. Josh Hirsberg - Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President & Treasurer: Okay. Thank you.

Operator

Operator

And gentlemen, at this time, I'm showing that we have no additional questions, I'd like to turn the conference call back over to you for any closing remarks. Josh Hirsberg - Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President & Treasurer: Thanks, Jamie and thanks for each of you for joining the call today. If you have any follow-up questions or questions that you would like answered, please feel free to call the company and we'll be as responsive as we can to get you the answers you need. So thank you for dialing in today.

Operator

Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, that does conclude today's conference call. We do thank you for attending. You may now disconnect your telephone lines.