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Dana Incorporated (DAN)

Q2 2015 Earnings Call· Thu, Jul 23, 2015

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Operator

Operator

Good morning and welcome to Dana Holding Corporation's Second Quarter 2015 Financial Webcast and Conference Call. My name is Dennis, and I will be your conference facilitator. Please be advised that our meeting today, both the speakers' remarks and Q&A session, will be recorded for replay purposes. There will be a question-and-answer period after the speakers' remarks, and we will take questions from the telephone only. To ensure that everyone has an opportunity to participate in today's Q&A, we ask that callers limit themselves to one question at a time. If you would like to ask an additional question, please return to the queue. At this time, I would like to begin the presentation by turning the call over to Dana's Director of Investor Relations, Craig Barber. Please go ahead, Mr. Barber.

Craig Barber - Director-Investor Relations

Management

Thanks, Dennis, and thank you all for joining us today for Dana's second quarter 2015 earnings call. Copies of our press release and presentation have been posted on Dana's Investor website. Today's call is being recorded, and the supporting materials are the property of Dana Holding Corporation. They may not be recorded, copied or rebroadcast without our written consent. Today's call will include a Q&A session. In order to allow as many questions as possible, please keep your questions brief. Today's presentation includes some forward-looking statements about our expectations for Dana's future performance. Actual results could differ from those suggested by our comments here. Additional information about the factors that could affect future results are summarized in our Safe Harbor statement. These risk factors are also detailed in our public filings, including our reports with the SEC. Presenting this morning will be Roger Wood, President and Chief Executive Officer; Bill Quigley, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer; and Mark Wallace, Executive Vice President and Group President of On-Highway Driveline Technologies. I would now like to turn the call over to Roger Wood. Roger J. Wood - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: Thank you, Craig, and good morning, everyone. Before I dive into the quarter, I'd like to mention that we recently announced that Jim Kamsickas will be the next President and CEO of Dana effective August 11. Jim comes to us from International Automotive Components or IAC, where he served as CEO since 2007. He's a proven leader who's demonstrated a track record of operational excellence and profitable growth over the course of his career and we're excited to have Jim join Dana. As you know, Dana has a very strong leadership team in place and, together with Jim, they will continue to build on our profitable growth…

Operator

Operator

Your first question is from the line of Brian Johnson with Barclays.

Brian Arthur Johnson - Barclays Capital, Inc.

Analyst · Brian Johnson with Barclays

Yes. Good morning. Roger J. Wood - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: Hey, good morning.

Brian Arthur Johnson - Barclays Capital, Inc.

Analyst · Brian Johnson with Barclays

Just wanted to ask few things. First of all, I want to say good-bye to Roger, hopefully not good-bye permanently, but I certainly have enjoyed working with you over the last several years. And it's exciting to see some of the stuff coming through in the backlog that were initiatives that you put into place a while ago. Just a very quick housekeeping question. Taxes for next year, I mean we mainly look EBIT and EBITDA, but with your (26:45) tax rate move around the (26:49) think about that? William G. Quigley - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: Yes. I mean, the GAAP tax rate certainly, Brian, is likely to change obviously, and we stated even previously from a U.S. GAAP perspective probably to be more in line with the statutory rate. As you know, we're closely monitoring the U.S. results with respect to profitability, given that we carry a valuation allowance still on many of our tax attributes. And certainly as we progress during 2015 and in 2016, given the profitability in those businesses, and we've highlighted this obviously in our SEC filings, within the next 12 months, we could be in a position to release up to $500 million of that val allowance which would impact the U.S. GAAP tax rate. Certainly wouldn't have much impact obviously on cash taxes.

Brian Arthur Johnson - Barclays Capital, Inc.

Analyst · Brian Johnson with Barclays

Okay. And do you have any tax rate guide yet, or is it too early? William G. Quigley - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: Any tax rate targets that you said, Brian?

Brian Arthur Johnson - Barclays Capital, Inc.

Analyst · Brian Johnson with Barclays

Yeah. For like 2016 and beyond? William G. Quigley - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: It's going to be higher than our current run rate, but again probably more at the statutory level, if you will. So, that will be 35% plus whatever you are withholding, it's 37% or so.

Brian Arthur Johnson - Barclays Capital, Inc.

Analyst · Brian Johnson with Barclays

Okay. Second question, can you just recap your China exposure?

Mark Wallace - Executive Vice President and Group President, On-Highway Driveline Technologies

Analyst · Brian Johnson with Barclays

Hey, Brian, it's Mark Wallace. Obviously, we have the Dongfeng joint venture, which is for Commercial Vehicle, which is unconsolidated. But actually, our exposure is fairly small; around 3% of our total sales is coming out of China. We know there's headwinds in the country, but overall, we still see that a market that we're pursuing because pretty much it would be all new organic growth for Dana.

Brian Arthur Johnson - Barclays Capital, Inc.

Analyst · Brian Johnson with Barclays

Okay. Third question real quick, and I've got a longer fourth one. One of your competitors in the North American light vehicle axle has flagged that they believe their primary customer may be looking at diversifying their axle suppliers on a program that's currently single-sourced. Are you kind of participating in that? Is it all in the pipeline in terms of the week's bidding activity?

Mark Wallace - Executive Vice President and Group President, On-Highway Driveline Technologies

Analyst · Brian Johnson with Barclays

Yeah. Brian, it's Mark again. We're participating with many customers in a lot of programs going forward. Nothing we can talk about specifically around customer diversifying a portfolio, but safe to say that we've been winning a lot of new organic business for Dana to include a customer like GM, which picked up the Colorado/Canyon business. So, we do fully expect to participate in upcoming program potential for Dana.

Brian Arthur Johnson - Barclays Capital, Inc.

Analyst · Brian Johnson with Barclays

Okay and final question. This secure (29:28) organic revenue for Off-Highway was flattish. We haven't seen organic growth there since 2012, but we're more used to a decline. Is it too early to call a bottom in Off-Highway, are you seeing any positive signs in either mining or in some of the construction or ag markets that you're serving? William G. Quigley - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: I think – Brian, it's Bill. I think you're exactly right. Pretty tempered year-over-year comparison. Certainly the business that Off-Highway has been bringing online, I think is tempering some of the continued demand volatility we see in those markets in particular. I think about global ag as well as construction demand. Is it early to call a bottom? I would say that they've evened out and leveled out other performance in the business with respect to the new business coming online. I think we're continuing to see probably some headwinds from a demand environment there. But again, I don't think we're looking at potentially, as we sit today, any market further declines in mining for example. It's at a fairly low level in the business. Certainly ag continues to move around a bit, and construction demand remains pretty stable in North America. So, I wouldn't say too early to make a call on a bottom, but certainly I think it's leveling out a bit. Roger J. Wood - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: Yeah. And, Brian, this is Roger. Just to build on Bill's answer, the Off-Highway group, as you know, has done a wonderful job in terms of executing during the difficult market conditions out there. So, on the question of is it too early to call for a bottom, what they have been able to do with their new business wins and the launches that they've experienced over the last year or so has been able to mitigate that decline in those markets. So, while I think Bill is exactly right – I'm not sure we can call – is it too early to call, we're not sure about that. What we do feel very confident about is that the new business coming on line with that group is now in a position to mitigate any further declines. And if we're correct in thinking that maybe there is not going to be any significant further declines, then that new business coming online is going to start to show some growth in that business. We feel really good about that.

Brian Arthur Johnson - Barclays Capital, Inc.

Analyst · Brian Johnson with Barclays

Okay. Thank you. And thanks again, Roger.

Operator

Operator

Your next question comes from the line of Patrick Nolan with Deutsche Bank.

Patrick E. Nolan - Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc.

Analyst · Patrick Nolan with Deutsche Bank

Good morning, everyone. Roger J. Wood - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: Hi, Patrick. William G. Quigley - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: Pat.

Patrick E. Nolan - Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc.

Analyst · Patrick Nolan with Deutsche Bank

Just wanted to give my best wishes to Roger as well. Roger J. Wood - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: Thank you, Patrick.

Patrick E. Nolan - Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc.

Analyst · Patrick Nolan with Deutsche Bank

Just I wanted to follow up on the Commercial Vehicle business. Bill, what were the total premium costs you incurred in the first half or the supplier costs? William G. Quigley - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: Yeah. When we refer to our premium costs, we're largely looking at the premium freight, if you will, to obviously expedite product to meet the demand of our customers. You'll recall, Pat, we had identified about $7 million in the first quarter. And then, obviously, in the second quarter, it's about the same. We saw kind of a peak, if you will, heading into April-May, and then we've seen the downtrend into June. So, just on that previous cost front, it will be about $14 million move versus second half. But certainly, there are other productivity impacts that that position put us in that we now will recover from in the second half as well.

Patrick E. Nolan - Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc.

Analyst · Patrick Nolan with Deutsche Bank

So, from a high level, as we think about the impact of that year-over-year looking out to next year, is the way to think about that the elimination of that $14 million headwind to EBITDA basically offsets roughly a $90 million decline in revenue next year? I'm just dividing it by like a 15% decremental. William G. Quigley - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: In the revenue profile for next year of $90 million.

Patrick E. Nolan - Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc.

Analyst · Patrick Nolan with Deutsche Bank

Yeah. I'm just saying, if you take this kind of $14 million headwind that you had from the premium costs, divide that by your typical incremental margin, and that's 15%. Just that going away would offset like a $90 million decline in revenue. William G. Quigley - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: I'm sorry. Yes. Yeah. I thought you were highlighting maybe an expectation we had for 2016. I think you're exactly right. And in fact, if you think about that premium position, certainly, one of the reasons we embarked upon this initiative was to provide future flexibility and competitiveness from a material perspective in the Commercial Vehicle Driveline business. So, not only obviously we're avoiding that headwind, if you will, we would also expect in a volume environment to see cost savings on a year-over-year basis coming out of the completion of that supply chain initiative.

Patrick E. Nolan - Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc.

Analyst · Patrick Nolan with Deutsche Bank

Okay. And that's how you tie into Mark's comment from last quarter basically saying, even if revenue declined in that business next year, you expect margins to be higher. William G. Quigley - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: Yeah. Certainly provides that upside with respect to the margin profile even in a – using your hypothesis of declining environment.

Patrick E. Nolan - Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc.

Analyst · Patrick Nolan with Deutsche Bank

Yeah. And just one quick one for Mark. I know it's difficult to call it at this point. But is your expectation that we've kind of found at least on absolute volume basis, a bottom in South America that we would at least expect volumes not to be worse next year or – I mean, is that still too tough to call?

Mark Wallace - Executive Vice President and Group President, On-Highway Driveline Technologies

Analyst · Patrick Nolan with Deutsche Bank

Patrick, I mean, it's definitely tough to call. I mean, we were continually surprised throughout the year with the continued downward pressure in the market. But in general, my discussion with some of our key customers, I don't know they're expecting it to get much worse in Brazil, but we are back at levels probably predating 2003 from a volume perspective truck production. So, we're hopeful that it doesn't get any worse at this stage because we still, long-term, think Brazil is a good location to be with this future infrastructure growth and commodities, et cetera. So, that's why we just continue to reduce costs, unfortunately with a lot of head count reductions to-date, to be positioned to be able to take the recovery once it occurs. But I don't think we're expecting more significant declines or any significant upturn at this stage.

Patrick E. Nolan - Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc.

Analyst · Patrick Nolan with Deutsche Bank

Great. Thanks. I'll get back in the queue.

Operator

Operator

Your next question is from the line of Brett Hoselton with KeyBanc. Roger J. Wood - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: Hi, Brett. William G. Quigley - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: Hi, Brett.

Brett D. Hoselton - KeyBanc Capital Markets, Inc.

Analyst · Brett Hoselton with KeyBanc

Good morning, gentlemen. Roger, sorry to see you leave but I'm sure we'll see you again here at some point in time. Roger J. Wood - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: Thank you for your kind words, Brett.

Brett D. Hoselton - KeyBanc Capital Markets, Inc.

Analyst · Brett Hoselton with KeyBanc

Yeah. I guess my first question just broadly speaking, is there any reason at least at this point that we should believe that there is going to be any material change in Dana's strategy given that you're leaving, Roger, and Jim is going to be coming in? I can't think of one but is there any reason to believe that that might take place? Roger J. Wood - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: Yes. Very good question, Brett. And, no, there's no reason to believe that any significant change will be made. As you know, whenever any company is executing their strategy, market conditions may have a re-look at any small piece of it that would cause any of us to say, instead of doing this, maybe we should do that. But that's just adjusting to market conditions and I would suspect that as Jim comes on board and works with the leadership team, they will continue to do that just as we have done that with myself and our leadership team over the past few years, but nothing wholesale change. I mean if you look at Jim's experience, he's got fantastic experience in building a company, both organically and inorganically and he brings with him a lot of experience in being able to do that. And when an inorganic opportunity comes into the company, he's also got tremendous experience in making it aligned with the company to actually grow both top and bottom line. So, we're really excited not about a change in strategy but we're really excited about Jim bringing with him the talents that we need to really execute the strategy that's already in place in a great way. So, I don't see any significant change at all in the forward-looking strategy that we've put in place over the past two or three years in conjunction with the board.

Brett D. Hoselton - KeyBanc Capital Markets, Inc.

Analyst · Brett Hoselton with KeyBanc

Thank you. And I wanted to follow-on to Brian's question because this is a significant issue in the investment community at this point in time: the K2XX axle program. And I know that you're not going to comment on that program specifically, but my question is – well, obviously, people are concerned or wondering if you're going to potentially win part of that business. So, simply some questions, are you currently bidding on that, are you competing for that business? Is it – and maybe broadly speaking, as you kind of survey your General Motors business; what you've won, what you have lost, and those types of things, because you guys have traded programs back and forth over the past, I don't know, 15 years that I've seen. What compelling competitive advantages or disadvantages do you have or do you find that you have when you're competing against like an American Axle or maybe some other axle suppliers that you think might allow you to win some of this business?

Mark Wallace - Executive Vice President and Group President, On-Highway Driveline Technologies

Analyst · Brett Hoselton with KeyBanc

Yeah. Brett, it's Mark. Again, we won't comment specifically on any program you may be quoting on. But when you look at our technology and our footprint, we've shown over the last two or three years of winning a lot of new organic business. And that's really driven by the fact that we're able to bring the technology to bear at the right locations and at the right cost targets our customers have asked for. So, we do believe that we are – we'll be very competitive in any bidding process that may come along for any particular program. And we see that based upon our ability to bring the technology to bear to give our customers what they're looking for.

Brett D. Hoselton - KeyBanc Capital Markets, Inc.

Analyst · Brett Hoselton with KeyBanc

Do you think that you have any particular technological advantage versus some of your competitors and most namely, in this case, American Axle?

Mark Wallace - Executive Vice President and Group President, On-Highway Driveline Technologies

Analyst · Brett Hoselton with KeyBanc

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Brett D. Hoselton - KeyBanc Capital Markets, Inc.

Analyst · Brett Hoselton with KeyBanc

And what might those be?

Mark Wallace - Executive Vice President and Group President, On-Highway Driveline Technologies

Analyst · Brett Hoselton with KeyBanc

Yeah. One is efficiency and weight reduction for our axles. So, one of the – no matter – the fuel prices may be low today, but ultimately, all of our customers need to make their fuel economy targets in the future. So, we're driving toward, again, more fuel-efficient drive systems, which – it includes improved efficiency in our gear sets as well as weight reduction.

Brett D. Hoselton - KeyBanc Capital Markets, Inc.

Analyst · Brett Hoselton with KeyBanc

Okay. Excellent. Mark, thank you very much. And Roger, again, congratulations, nice job; and we'll see you shortly. Roger J. Wood - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: Okay. Thank you, Brett.

Operator

Operator

Your next question will come from the line of Joseph Spak with RBC Capital.

Joseph R. Spak - RBC Capital Markets LLC

Analyst · RBC Capital

Thanks. Good morning. Roger J. Wood - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: How are you doing, Joe?

Joseph R. Spak - RBC Capital Markets LLC

Analyst · RBC Capital

Just going back to Commercial Vehicle for a second, I thought you said the minus $6 million performance – is that where some of that (40:30) I thought you also said there is Brazil costs in that. I just wanted to clarify that and understand why the Brazil wouldn't be in the Brazil line. William G. Quigley - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: Yeah. Joe, we've got – this is Bill. You're exactly right. On the performance line, from a cost perspective, that would include our premium costs associated with our supply chain initiatives. And with respect to what we've tried to do with contribution margins, if you will, and volume flow-throughs, we do have a couple million dollars, if you will, with respect to Brazil inefficiencies logged in that performance line.

Joseph R. Spak - RBC Capital Markets LLC

Analyst · RBC Capital

Okay. So the Brazil line is a pure, sort of, volume (41:04) William G. Quigley - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: Exactly.

Joseph R. Spak - RBC Capital Markets LLC

Analyst · RBC Capital

Okay. So then, if we sort of back out Brazil from Commercial Vehicle and back out some of the premiums you guys have paid, it would sort of suggest that Commercial Vehicle runs at that – runs closer to that 10% margin, which I believe was your longer-term target. But given that North America is 70% of that segment and we're probably closer to the top than not, I mean, are there more things you can do to expand those margins going forward or is that sort of as good as it gets, do you think, from a margin perspective?

Mark Wallace - Executive Vice President and Group President, On-Highway Driveline Technologies

Analyst · RBC Capital

Joe, it's Mark. Just looking at North America, as you surmised from your math, we do fully expect that back-half margins will approximate the 10%. We saw already the flow-through starting to occur as we wound down Q2 with the premium rolling off. So, we do expect that the margins will continue to make improvement here in North America, but as you know, they're being tempered somewhat at this stage by our declines in South America. But your approximation of our margin is definitely a good place to be.

Joseph R. Spak - RBC Capital Markets LLC

Analyst · RBC Capital

Okay. And if we think out into the future as potentially volumes maybe – don't always remain that strong, are there more cost initiatives in Commercial Vehicle that we could expect?

Mark Wallace - Executive Vice President and Group President, On-Highway Driveline Technologies

Analyst · RBC Capital

Yeah. Actually, as Bill mentioned earlier in the call, part of their supply chain initiative is – one was around flexibility but also getting additional cost reduction. So, as we go through this year and into next year, we'll see additional flow-through on our material cost reductions as a benefit from the margin profile.

Joseph R. Spak - RBC Capital Markets LLC

Analyst · RBC Capital

Okay. And then the second question is, I know this is only a once-a-year update but I was just wondering, if you could add a high level comment on the backlog, which you issued in January because you had Off-Highway probably seems broadly maybe a little bit softer, I think 5% of that backlog was in South America and then almost a quarter or a little bit more was in Asia Pacific, which also seems like you brought down some industry metrics there. So, I guess, do you still feel pretty solid about the backlog you're expecting in 2016 and beyond, or there need to be some adjustments made there as well? William G. Quigley - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: No. I think, Joe – hey, it's Bill. I think it's certainly on the track record that we've got I think going six months into this year with the new business wins that we're seeing really across the businesses. And we feel pretty good about the backlog to your point and we'll update that in the detail obviously and provide that to the community, if you will, in early 2016. But even kind of nearer term, I mean, we feel pretty comfortable in the backlog. Certainly, to your point, what may happen on a FX perspective or certain regions around the world with respect to demand environment, certainly has an impact on that, but I think the fill-ins are occurring. And to your question or comment really on Asia-Pac, I think it's important to note it was – certainly was a piece of our backlog, an important piece of the backlog. But again, to Mark's comments and Roger's comments, any business we gain there certainly is a pick-up for Dana and we look at that market still as a very strong opportunity for the company as we move forward. So – and it's highlighted quite frankly in our new business wins slide, even this quarter, you can see a number of those Chinese OEMs being represented. So, I think we're making good progress there as we stand today. I think we feel pretty good; the backlog is solid.

Joseph R. Spak - RBC Capital Markets LLC

Analyst · RBC Capital

Okay. Thanks and congrats, Roger. It was a pleasure. Roger J. Wood - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: Yeah, thanks. Thanks again.

Operator

Operator

Your next question is from the line of Ryan Brinkman with JPMorgan.

David Karnovsky - JPMorgan Securities LLC

Analyst · Ryan Brinkman with JPMorgan

Hi. Good morning, guys. This is David Karnovsky... Roger J. Wood - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: Hi, Ryan.

David Karnovsky - JPMorgan Securities LLC

Analyst · Ryan Brinkman with JPMorgan

...on for Ryan. William G. Quigley - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: Hey, David.

David Karnovsky - JPMorgan Securities LLC

Analyst · Ryan Brinkman with JPMorgan

Hi. Just a question on Off-Highway, you guys had really good margin performance despite a tough environment. How can we think about potential margins for the segment in the event you started to see gradual recovery in 2016 or even a sharp recovery? William G. Quigley - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: Yeah. This is Bill, David. I think – and we appreciate the recognition that the Off-Highway business, their performance over the last many quarters actually quite frankly. We believe, from a contribution margin perspective, they are well positioned to capitalize on the growth that will come. I think you're already seeing it with respect to, even while on a year-over-year basis, it's a small number, a move of $2 million down. Think about holding those margins in that environment. They're converting on the new business that they have and as the certain end markets recover, if you will, from a production perspective, they're well-positioned to certainly capitalize on that and we would expect contribution margins certainly in excess of 20% as we move forward in those types of markets.

David Karnovsky - JPMorgan Securities LLC

Analyst · Ryan Brinkman with JPMorgan

Okay. Great. And then just on the overall guidance, you know you're still assuming a dollar/euro exchange rate of $1.05. We're currently tracking a little bit above that. Assuming we hold at these levels, could we expect guidance to track towards the high end or are there other kind of currencies not on the slide that might be offsetting that? William G. Quigley - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: No, I think you're right, Joe. We held the currency rates, quite frankly, trying to run down every currency rate on a quarterly basis can be a little mind or brain damaging, if you will. But, in general, what we saw in the second quarter was – you're exactly right. We had basically a benefit from our euro expectations versus actuals. But, certainly, it was mitigated almost in total by what we saw in Asia, for example, on a number of currencies, Thailand, for example, India, what we saw in the Mexican peso. So I think, overall, we think we're even set, if you will, that our euro expectation should mitigate, if you will, movements in other currencies. But it depends on where the euro ends up actually at the end of the year.

David Karnovsky - JPMorgan Securities LLC

Analyst · Ryan Brinkman with JPMorgan

Okay. And then just last question on your capital spending guidance, can you talk about what the drivers to the lower guide there? Are projects being pushed out into the next year or is this just a response to changing demand environment somewhere? William G. Quigley - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: No, it's certainly not the latter. I think it's actually the former as our businesses go through, obviously, their program management. And as you know, a significant piece of that spend is around our light vehicle driveline business, right. So one is I think, obviously, from a judicious perspective, a disciplined perspective, a piece of that's that, but the larger piece is more just around program timing. You'll note they had significant launches in 2016 as they kind of move around. If it's a month move or 45 days, that certainly can impact the capital spending. We look at it, kind of a nominal move from our overall full year range, that $10 million down, but certainly trying to provide the best indication of the free cash flow of the business for the year. So I would say it's the former, Joe or Dave, just obviously nominal movements in program timing.

David Karnovsky - JPMorgan Securities LLC

Analyst · Ryan Brinkman with JPMorgan

Okay. Thanks a lot, guys.

Operator

Operator

Your next question is from the line of Colin Langan with UBS.

Colin Michael Langan - UBS Securities LLC

Analyst · Colin Langan with UBS

Great. Thanks for taking my question. I know earlier in the year you mentioned that there were changes in the PACCAR sourcing on the rear axle, but I actually have been getting some questions that there's been additional changes to the PACCAR business possibly on the front axles. Has there been any changes since the last quarter? I just wanted to clarify that.

Mark Wallace - Executive Vice President and Group President, On-Highway Driveline Technologies

Analyst · Colin Langan with UBS

Yeah. Colin, this is Mark. We've renewed our LTA with PACCAR and, as we've talked about, the data book positioning changes quite frequently. We remain as their standard position on the linehaul drive axle and the driveshafts. And as we mentioned back early in Q1, we also contemplated any kind of share change it may be outlined for the rest of the year in our guidance, partly because we're expecting to continue to diversify our customer portfolio in commercial vehicle because we've been typically very heavy weighted to one of those customers, and we are diversifying both here domestically and abroad.

Colin Michael Langan - UBS Securities LLC

Analyst · Colin Langan with UBS

So was there – has anything changed? I guess, it sounds like nothing has changed since last quarter in the structure, or am I understanding?

Mark Wallace - Executive Vice President and Group President, On-Highway Driveline Technologies

Analyst · Colin Langan with UBS

Yeah. So you're asking about the data book positioning. There has been I know a change in the data book positioning relative to steer axles going forward, which we contemplated in our outlook, and at this stage we remain standard position on the linehaul axle and the linehaul driveshaft.

Colin Michael Langan - UBS Securities LLC

Analyst · Colin Langan with UBS

Okay. Just looking at the segments in light vehicle driveline, you made some comments about cost recoveries. It sounds like you didn't get them this quarter, but is that – it sounds like it's a timing issue, so that you're going to get those similar recoveries later in the year, or was the last year just an abnormal Q2 recovery amount, and we're not going to get that this year?

Mark Wallace - Executive Vice President and Group President, On-Highway Driveline Technologies

Analyst · Colin Langan with UBS

No, you're exactly right, Colin. This is more of a timing and pace, if you will, with respect to cost recoveries in our light vehicle driveline business. So last year, obviously, the second quarter benefited from about $7 million in those types of cost recoveries. Our expectation, again from a timing perspective, this is the second half timeline for current year for our light vehicle driveline business, and it's really just in cadence with programs, right, the recoveries are. So that's just straight up a timing, but it also I think bodes well with respect to first and second half comparisons as we move through the year.

Colin Michael Langan - UBS Securities LLC

Analyst · Colin Langan with UBS

Okay. And just one last question, there's been a lot of deal activity in the space. I mean what are you looking at in terms of a pipeline for M&A? Is it a robust pipeline, or how is that market looking? Roger J. Wood - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: Yeah. Colin, this is Roger. So nothing has really changed in terms of the robustness of the pipeline, as we mentioned the last time we talked on the earnings call, that we have seen a bit of an uptick in the interest for some of the relationships that we've been working on over the past two to three years, and that's given us some encouragement that the M&A pipeline that we have been working will yield some benefit for us in the near term here as we move forward. So nothing's changed in terms of the robustness, but we again feel confident that fitting our strategy of the $200 million to $500 million range, we have some prospects that are much closer than they once were.

Colin Michael Langan - UBS Securities LLC

Analyst · Colin Langan with UBS

Okay. Thank you very much and, Roger, it was great working with you as well, so best of luck. Roger J. Wood - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: Thanks very much, Colin.

Operator

Operator

Your final question comes from the line of Justin Long with Stephens.

Brian Colley - Stephens, Inc.

Analyst · Stephens

Good morning, guys. This is actually Brian Colley on the line for Justin today. Roger J. Wood - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: Hi, Brian.

Brian Colley - Stephens, Inc.

Analyst · Stephens

Hi. So I was wondering if you could provide more color on your European exposure and how that breaks out between Eastern Europe versus Western Europe. It seems like we've been seeing more of a divergence between those two regions recently and just wanted to get your feel for your relative exposure.

Mark Wallace - Executive Vice President and Group President, On-Highway Driveline Technologies

Analyst · Stephens

Yeah, Brian. It's Mark. Most of our footprint we have in Europe is Western European footprint. We do have locations in Hungary but very close to being on the western side and, for the most part, we have little to no exposure in Eastern Europe.

Brian Colley - Stephens, Inc.

Analyst · Stephens

Okay. Great and just following up on the M&A question, just wondering what you're seeing in terms of valuations in the market today and if you think you can find something below your EBITDA multiple today. Or would you guys be willing to pay more for a more strategic acquisition that could drive more synergies? Roger J. Wood - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: Yeah. So, Brian, this is Roger again. Our strategy all along has been to make the M&A projects or the acquisitions into the organization that are going to fit strategically and be great additions for us to move forward and grow this business along with the strategies that we have in place. We fully recognize because of the multiple that we have been trading at that the acquisitions that fit that strategy likely aren't going to fit that multiple, so we are willing to look beyond the multiple that we trade at for that, but do it in a very disciplined and a financially responsible way to make sure that we understand the multiple difference and how quickly it's going to come into the organization, be accretive right away and move us forward. So we're not opposed to spending more than what our current multiple is trading at for the right opportunity, but that right opportunity has to fit both strategically and be fiscally responsible for our shareholders.

Brian Colley - Stephens, Inc.

Analyst · Stephens

Great. That makes sense. I appreciate the time today. Roger J. Wood - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: Okay. Thank you.

Operator

Operator

And we do have a next question from the line of Patrick Archambault with Goldman Sachs. Patrick K. Archambault - Goldman Sachs & Co.: Yeah. Thanks. Hey. Good morning. Thanks a lot for squeezing me in. And I'd like to reiterate that, Roger, it was very nice to work with you as well and we appreciate a very distinct point of view that was taken of the company and which it sounds like is being very much kept even as you move on to other things. So definitely appreciate that. Just a lot of mine have been answered, just one clarification I think it was sort of touched on maybe in Colin's question but, Bill, you have the kind of difficult comp with some Venezuela recoveries that occurred this quarter last year and I thought you had said at the beginning of the call that these were going to remain negative in the back half but I might have misheard because that seem to conflict with some subsequent comments, so just wanted some clarity on that. William G. Quigley - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: No, Pat. This is Bill. You're exactly right. With respect to Venezuela, recall, if you kind of do your year-over-year comparisons, a year ago we suffered a, if you will, a devaluation charge and some operating losses in the business of about $18 million. In the second quarter of last year, we recovered about $8 million and then you'll recall, we said that we were going to be about – we ended up break-even for 2014. So there will be some headwinds with respect to the comps on a year-over-year basis. So if you think about just the math, it's about another $10 million to go. I think the distribution of that would be probably 50% to 60% in the third quarter and the remainder in the fourth quarter from a comp perspective. Again, we drove that business to a break-even business at the end of last year. Patrick K. Archambault - Goldman Sachs & Co.: Okay. Cool. Yeah. That's very helpful. And then the only other one I had was just on the Super Duty. I mean this is obviously something that's more of a 2016 consideration but can we just talk a little bit about the importance of that within your portfolio, kind of any kind of content changes as it changes over next year and, yeah, just the materiality actually of the changeover? I guess it could be something that's helpful as they try and build up inventory at the end of this year but, clearly, if they do change it over in March, there'd be kind of a little bit of a dead spot, so how are you thinking about that program?

Mark Wallace - Executive Vice President and Group President, On-Highway Driveline Technologies

Analyst · Patrick Archambault with Goldman Sachs

Yeah. Patrick, it's Mark. I mean Super Duty is a very important part of our portfolio with Ford Motor Company, and that program as it switches over will bring us additional content. As we mentioned before, we're actually able to win some business that had typically or traditionally been an inside-produced part. We actually added that to our portfolio going forward for the Super Duty as well. Patrick K. Archambault - Goldman Sachs & Co.: And have you guys ever quantified more or less what that increase is?

Mark Wallace - Executive Vice President and Group President, On-Highway Driveline Technologies

Analyst · Patrick Archambault with Goldman Sachs

No. We haven't given any guidance on that particular program, other than that would be represented though, recall, on our backlog. Patrick K. Archambault - Goldman Sachs & Co.: Sure.

Mark Wallace - Executive Vice President and Group President, On-Highway Driveline Technologies

Analyst · Patrick Archambault with Goldman Sachs

As you kind of look at that, obviously, a light vehicle driveline, a pretty significant piece of that puzzle and certainly just more content on the Super Duty would've been recognized as part of that process moving forward. Patrick K. Archambault - Goldman Sachs & Co.: And then just in the second part of my question. I mean, are you anticipating kind of an acceleration of build towards the end of the year as these guys anticipate changing that over because it sounds like there's going to be nine weeks of downtime for that Kentucky plant?

Mark Wallace - Executive Vice President and Group President, On-Highway Driveline Technologies

Analyst · Patrick Archambault with Goldman Sachs

Patrick, I'm sure they'll make their inventory adjustments as needed but, again, the Super Duty is running quite strong today. So I think they'll at least keep the same pace. They may add a few days here and there to build a little of the inventory but nothing I would see as significant. Patrick K. Archambault - Goldman Sachs & Co.: Got it. Okay. Capacity constrained a bit too, yeah. Okay, cool. Thank you for the color, guys. Roger J. Wood - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: Thanks. William G. Quigley - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: Thank you.

Operator

Operator

Your next question is from the line of Brian Sponheimer with Gabelli. William G. Quigley - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: Hey, Brian. Brian C. Sponheimer - Gabelli & Company, Inc.: Hi. How is everyone? Congratulations and best of luck. Roger J. Wood - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: Thank you, Brian. Brian C. Sponheimer - Gabelli & Company, Inc.: I certainly enjoyed working with you. My question is I guess around M&A and it's I guess said a different way, you mentioned your own multiple and potentially the opportunity to buy other companies. Knowing that you know exactly what's in-house, why not look to make that $500 million acquisition of yourself? Roger J. Wood - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: Well, Brian, thanks. Surprisingly, you're not the first guy that asked that question to us. But let me respond by saying that we made essentially a $1.4 billion acquisition of ourself by the authorization of share repurchase that is out there and we're nearly completed on that. So we've done that. We've executed that as we've been saying over the past two or three years. The uses of capital that we have for the organization are to support the organic growth, to look for key strategic M&A opportunities that'll support us inorganically, and then after that, the excess cash will be looked at in terms of how to get it back into the shareholders' hands. So that strategy and capital allocation process hasn't changed really at all and so your thought is a really good one. We continue to focus on those priorities, as I've just laid them out, and I'm confident that some M&A opportunities will come to fruition. But as you know, this is a great business that generates a significant amount of cash and so it's probably not out of the picture that at some future date we'd be looking at some other alternatives as well beyond M&A so. Brian C. Sponheimer - Gabelli & Company, Inc.: I mean just if you liked the stock when you bought it at $22, $24, I just figured you must love it at below $19 here. Roger J. Wood - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: Yeah, you're not wrong about that. Brian C. Sponheimer - Gabelli & Company, Inc.: All right. Well, good luck, Roger. Thank you. Roger J. Wood - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: Thanks very much.

Operator

Operator

Today's final question will come from the line of Emmanuel Rosner with CLSA.

Emmanuel Rosner - CLSA Americas LLC

Analyst · CLSA

Hi, good morning and thanks for squeezing me in. William G. Quigley - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: You bet. Roger J. Wood - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: Yes.

Emmanuel Rosner - CLSA Americas LLC

Analyst · CLSA

My question is regarding the margin progression. I know you've gone through a lot of factors that would improve in the second half throughout this call. Would you be able to just summarize it simply for me? Simply mathematically, to get to this 11.7% for the full year, you'd probably need like north of 12% in the second half, so what are the main factors and can you quantify them in terms of sequential improvement first half to second half that would help the margins? William G. Quigley - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: Yeah, Emmanuel. This is Bill. You're spot on I think with respect to first to second half. You'll note given the ranges that we've provided from a sales perspective either flat or maybe slightly up a bit or slightly down a bit, if you will, first to second half. The key drivers though, if you think about the margin progression of the company, the north of 12% in that second half is probably spot on. Think about the cost that we've incurred with respect to our supply chain initiative in the first and second quarter, that largely being around premium freight but, certainly, there's been productivity impacts, if you will, with respect to that supply chain initiative, which we're somewhat through. As long as the size is round (01:02:32), we talked about $7 million in the first quarter for premium freight, second quarter north of $7 million, that's $14 million and probably around about up to $20 million first half to second half simply around our supply chain initiative. Second piece of the puzzle is, as we look at cost recoveries in our comments with respect to our second quarter results a year ago, we do expect cost recoveries in the second half of 2015 around our light vehicle driveline business, that's just I would say around the edges with respect to program timing. You'll recall the first to – or the second to second comparison we had this year was about $7 million. I think you could probably use that as a ballpark, maybe a little higher, for the second half expectations for light vehicle driveline. And certainly last but not least, as we look to just the productivity in the business moving forward, that's going to basically round out the difference on the cost front. And then from an organic perspective, good contribution margins, I think as represented one by our light vehicle business for example, those are part of the puzzles as we move forward.

Emmanuel Rosner - CLSA Americas LLC

Analyst · CLSA

Excellent. That's very clear. So thanks again for squeezing me in. And then, Roger, best of luck. Roger J. Wood - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: Okay. Thanks very much and I'd like to just take a second and, once again, thank all of you for your very kind words and especially your support over the last several years. I really enjoyed working with all of you during my time at Dana. I am just unbelievably excited about the future potential of this company based on the foundation that the leadership team here, all of our employees and I have been able to work together to build and I just, I think the future is very bright for Dana. Again, appreciate your support and I am absolutely sure, in my opinion, that as Jim comes in to take the leadership of the organization, you will continue that support and you will not be disappointed at the future of Dana. It's a great company. Thank you all.

Operator

Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, this does conclude Dana Holding Corporation's second quarter 2015 financial webcast and conference call. You may now disconnect.