Alan Offenberg
Analyst · CJS Securities. Your line is open
Sure. And Larry, I will ask Elias and Ryan to comment, but I will give it a try to start. I think that if we are looking simply through the lens of our companies, the economy feels very similar to what it’s felt like for the last few years, meaning kind of slow and steady, modest growth type economy. So, I haven’t seen any real dramatic shift there. I think that as you alluded to with respect to the new administration, broadly defined, I’d say it feels as though there is positive thoughts around changes particularly with respect to corporate tax rates, which you could be interesting, however, offset somewhat by concerns about potential border adjustment taxes and how that might impact certain companies. So, I don’t really have clarity on that, nor do I think anyone else does yet at this point, but these are certainly things we are talking about at a subsidiary level all the way up through the CODI Board level. With respect to the individual segments, on the industrial side, I don’t know any particular changes or tones as it relates to the comments I just made on the macro side. And on the consumer side, I’d say that our companies, again, are not seeing anything dramatically different. But I think some long-term trends just based on what we’ve seen in the news in the last year is that bricks and mortar retail is becoming challenging. We have seen some very prominent retailers that have been around forever closing stores, some of them closing their entire group of bricks and mortar stores. So that long-term trend, we are not sure how it will shake out, but one thing for sure is that online, retailing is becoming obviously a big issue and for some of our companies that participate in that segment making sure that they develop a comprehensive omni-channel strategy to distribute their products is definitely a very important strategic consideration that they are all working on actively and have been for some time. But just to give you some broad perspectives, I think I will take a breath right there and ask Elias or Ryan, if there is anything they would like to add to that.