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Diebold Nixdorf, Incorporated (DBD)

Q1 2015 Earnings Call· Thu, Apr 30, 2015

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Operator

Operator

Good day, everyone and welcome to Diebold, Incorporated's First Quarter 2015 Financial Results Conference Call. Today's conference is being recorded. At this time, for opening remarks and introductions, I would like to turn the call over to Vice President and Chief Communications Officer, Mr. John Kristoff. Please go ahead, sir. John D. Kristoff - Chief Communications Officer & Vice President: Thank you, Kyle. Good morning and thank you for joining us today for Diebold's first quarter conference call. Joining me today are Andy Mattes, President and CEO, and Chris Chapman, Senior Vice President and CFO. Just a few notes before we get started. In addition to the earnings release, we've provided a supplementary presentation on the Investor page of our website. Andy and Chris will reference this presentation as part of their comments today and we encourage you to follow along. Also I'm pleased to report that Steve Virostek has joined my team as Vice President Investor Relations. We brought Steve onboard to continue our efforts to improve disclosure, expand coverage, and grow and diversify our shareholder base. Steve has more than 15 years of IR experience in the IT services and technology space, most recently with Computer Sciences Corporation and prior to that with Sprint Nextel. I will continue to oversee IR in addition to Communications and Marketing, but Steve will be taking on many of the day-to-day IR activities in the coming months. Steve?

Stephen A. Virostek - Vice President-Investor Relations

Management

Thanks John. I'm really excited to be part of the Diebold team here and be part of this dynamic industry. I look forward to interacting with all of you on the phone, our analysts and our shareholders. Before Andy and Chris discuss the Q1 results, I'd like to remind our listeners that as with previous calls, we are excluding certain restructuring charges and non-routine expenses from our non-GAAP financials. We believe that excluding these items provides a good indication of the company's baseline operational performance, and as a result many of our remarks will focus on non-GAAP financial information. For a reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP financials, please refer to the supplemental materials at the end of the presentation. Moving to the next slide number three, I'd like to remind our listeners that some of our comments may be considered forward-looking statements and our performance may deviate from these statements. They are subject to risks and uncertainties. Please refer to our detailed discussion of risk factors on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission. A replay of this webcast will be available later today. Please keep in mind that the information discussed is only current as of today and subsequent events may render the information in the webcast out of date. And now with the opening remarks, let me turn the call over to Andy. Andreas Walter Mattes - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: Thanks Steve. Good morning and welcome to all participants. Thank you for joining our earnings call today. We are off to a good start in 2015 with a solid top-line growth in our core business, gross margin expansion and non-GAAP earnings growth. We also delivered broad based growth in orders which include a number of new logos and innovative wins with marquee customers. And we…

Operator

Operator

Thank you. And we'll take our first question from Gil Luria with Wedbush Securities.

Gil B. Luria - Wedbush Securities, Inc.

Analyst

Yeah, thanks for taking my question. Good morning. In recent memory, I don't remember, such a divergence in performance in the ATM business between the three different companies. It seems like that means the market's doing well, but it also means you're taking share since you had the strongest performance of the three companies. And particularly you called out Walmart in the U.S., and if my memory isn't mistaken, they recently deployed, relatively recently within the last two years or three years a competitor's solution. So what is it that's helping you gain share right now? And does the Phoenix acquisition play into that in terms of strengthening your software capabilities? Andreas Walter Mattes - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: Well, Gil the biggest thing that differentiate Diebold is our ability to provide a total package consult, design, build, and operate. If you take a look at the Walmart deal, it's truly a managed services deal over many years. And you're correct, we are replacing a competitive installation there with very innovative solutions as Walmart is going into the financial services space and we're offering functionality like bill pay or money transfer on our machines, which brings us to the second thing which is collaborative innovation because they approached us and said, "Listen, we're trying to do this. We're trying to get our arms around the space," and we were able to satisfy their requirements in a very short period of time. So those two are the main differentiators in the market. If you were to add up all the wins we had in Q1, because as a matter of fact also a lot of the Latin America wins were services led deals, we contracted north of a $100 million in total contract value, which is going to monetize over the next four years to five years. With regard to Phoenix, Phoenix is yet going to one-up our position in the market as it will give us a really broad software offering. It gives us the opportunity to provide thin client server architecture and do that and that's the important thing across all vendors hardware alike, because customers don't want to be pinned in to just one competitor's ear. They want to have the flexibility, yet have one common user interface. So we're super excited we're opportunity rich, and we got a lot of work ahead of us.

Gil B. Luria - Wedbush Securities, Inc.

Analyst

Got it. And then in terms of Brazil, a very well publicized issue there, having their internally the President there. What's the mechanism? What's the connection between – what, the big political issues having there and your new outlook about the Brazilian ATM market? Andreas Walter Mattes - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: Look, it's actually very, very simple Gil. Given all the political noise that is in the system and given the fact that there is a new government in place in Brazil since late fall last year, some of the key jobs in the government banks have not been filled. So one of our top customers is looking at issuing a big RFP, but there is no executive at the bank who can actually authorize the issuance. So it's just the normal thing until you get more clarity, people know who's on first and who's is going to take responsibility for what and that will impact decision-making patterns and buying patterns not from whom they like, but from when they are ready to make a decision. And we thought it was prudent to foreshadow that.

Gil B. Luria - Wedbush Securities, Inc.

Analyst

Got it. Thank you very much.

Operator

Operator

We'll take our next question from Paul Coster with JPMorgan.

Paul Coster - JPMorgan Securities LLC

Analyst · JPMorgan.

Thanks. First question, how much revenue can we associate with the Phoenix acquisition maybe on the run rate basis? Christopher A. Chapman - Chief Financial Officer & Senior Vice President: I'm not going to give the forward looking from a run rate standpoint. I would say in 2015 it will be shy of 1% and again we're losing some of the top line impact this year just due to the rules around purchase accounting and we'll continue to give more clarity on that software as we move forward.

Paul Coster - JPMorgan Securities LLC

Analyst · JPMorgan.

So I think I heard you say it's about 1% of growth. Is that correct for the company? Christopher A. Chapman - Chief Financial Officer & Senior Vice President: It will be a little bit south of 1% in 2015.

Paul Coster - JPMorgan Securities LLC

Analyst · JPMorgan.

Okay, got it. The free cash flow was a little bit weak at the beginning of this year and it looks like the accounts receivables and so on were up. How is this year different from prior year? And last year I think the second quarter was the worst quarter from a cash flow perspective. Is it going to be a slightly different shape this year? Christopher A. Chapman - Chief Financial Officer & Senior Vice President: To get the first part of the question there, first quarter what was different, again, we had the $10 million voluntary contribution to our pension. So again that was an addition from where we were at prior year and what you just highlighted there on the receivables. Again, just the timing of our revenue and how that worked out from a collection standpoint had our DSOs a little bit higher. So we see the working capital expand a little bit more in first quarter from where we were at in prior year. I expect that to, we'll say, move back to prior levels from a DSO standpoint here in the second quarter and as we move forward. And then expect the full year total cash flow to follow a fairly similar path that we've seen in the past with our fourth quarter being the strongest cash generation quarter of the year.

Paul Coster - JPMorgan Securities LLC

Analyst · JPMorgan.

Okay. Fun question for Andy. I mean, it looks to me like you're already walking or running or something. How are things going to be different as we go from crawl to walk? It feels like things are already a little bit different. Andreas Walter Mattes - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: Look, I think we've used the term that we're eyeing walk in previous conversations, Paul. We are right at the cusp of it. We got to get the foundational projects behind us. Right now we're in transition idiosyncrasies, get that out of the system to make sure we can focus the complete energy on the company, on the fourth pillar of our turnaround strategy, which is growth. The encouraging news is that we see our order pipeline increasing. We see that across all geographies. And the fact that services led asks are coming in by themselves is something that makes us feel very optimistic about the future. And then you just mentioned Phoenix. That's yet another integration we got to get done. Phoenix is going to be the core of our software platform. We need to make sure we're going to train everybody around the globe and then we'll take the software asset and give it a much broader footprint than it ever had in the past.

Paul Coster - JPMorgan Securities LLC

Analyst · JPMorgan.

Okay, thank you.

Operator

Operator

We'll take our next question from Joe Radigan with KeyBanc.

Joe K. Radigan - KeyBanc Capital Markets, Inc.

Analyst · KeyBanc.

Thanks. Good morning, guys. First, a couple of questions on the guidance. Andy, typically you have line of sight to two-thirds of your revenue heading into the year. You had a very strong orders quarter in Q1. Where could there be upside or downside versus kind of your guidance expectations, aside from FX, which obviously you can't predict that, but how confident are you in this range and where could there be potential upside? Andreas Walter Mattes - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: The biggest volatility we have in our forecasting models is Brazil. And given the fact that Brazil is roughly 12% of our overall revenue, it's a meaningful number and these decision cycles, these projects can swing. And if you then take into consideration that the real moved, I think it moved in a band of plus/minus 10%, 12% over the last six weeks to eight weeks, and you then take into consideration that some of the revenue outlook is more heavily weighted to the end of the year, that's where you got the variability in the model. On the other side, the more deals we win the higher our upside.

Joe K. Radigan - KeyBanc Capital Markets, Inc.

Analyst · KeyBanc.

In terms of the seasonality of earnings, I mean, Chris, you mentioned that it was going to be back half weighted again. Compared to last year where it was about a 40-60 split, I mean do you expect a similar cadence this year or is it going to be more back half weighed just given the first half reinvestments and how the backlog is going to flow through the year? Christopher A. Chapman - Chief Financial Officer & Senior Vice President: No. I think it's going to be a very similar pattern that you saw last year, could be a little bit more activity towards the back half, again depending on how some of the large deals happen to move. But I think you're thinking of it right from a timing standpoint.

Joe K. Radigan - KeyBanc Capital Markets, Inc.

Analyst · KeyBanc.

Okay. And then lastly on that Walmart order. Is there potential for a follow-on order and does that include a service contract as well, I think I heard you mention? Andreas Walter Mattes - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: Let me start with the second part of your question. It is actually a multiyear managed service contract.

Joe K. Radigan - KeyBanc Capital Markets, Inc.

Analyst · KeyBanc.

Okay. Andreas Walter Mattes - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: So it clearly falls into the category of services led. By the way, it's also an interesting situation, because we always get asked how big is branch automation and now you get into the head scratcher is Walmart as they're entering into the financial services space. Is that a branch in the making or is that – how would you classify that? So we see a lot of opportunities there with Walmart. We see a lot of opportunities with other retailers. We see opportunities with banks moving into the retail space, because what people are trying to do is offering financial services to a broad population at a very convenient place and everybody's got to buy groceries and household staples. So it's a very interesting market. And if you add another fact to it, our Phoenix friends already are the providers of the software layer for Publix. So we now have within one quarter two legs to stand on in the emerging financial support industry in the North American retailers. So we're super excited about it.

Joe K. Radigan - KeyBanc Capital Markets, Inc.

Analyst · KeyBanc.

Great. Thanks, Andy. Thanks, Chris.

Operator

Operator

We'll take our next question from Matt Lipton from Autonomous.

Matt Lipton - Autonomous Research

Analyst

Thanks, guys. Good morning. Andy, as you think about integrating Phoenix into your business, I saw the small impairment charge. So when you think about your branch transformation products, your video teller ATM product, are you going to be backdating or adding Phoenix software to those products and replacing the old Diebold software? And then how long does that process take? Andreas Walter Mattes - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: Well, look, the devil on these things is always in the detail, but let me start for instance to give you an example. The largest deployment of our video teller that's out there in the market is actually already today a combination of Diebold's IP and Phoenix IP. So that's already integrated at our largest account. Going forward we're going to make Phoenix the core, the kernel of our software platform, because it's multivendor, it's across all hardware environment and it's absolutely omni-channel in its setup. Having said all of that we will continue to support our Agilis customers. As a matter of fact we are currently working on a thin layer of Phoenix omni-channel capability that we can upgrade our Agilis customers to, so that in the very near future if you're an existing Diebold customer, you can keep what you have, but you get all the advantage and the access to the new technology that we just acquired.

Matt Lipton - Autonomous Research

Analyst

Got it. And then, I mean more broadly on this concept of multivendor software, it's something we've spoken a lot about, but how important is this as a software piece to being able to cross sell, or sell some more product to customers that might be using the current Phoenix software package? Andreas Walter Mattes - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: Look it's super important. And the reason behind that is very simple. There is a consultation in the financial services market going on. And if one bank acquires the other chances are their infrastructure is slightly different. So if you're the Head of Retail, all of a sudden you end up with a mixed media environment, but you want to have one face to the customer, one consumer approach. You want to be able to serve all constituencies of your old and your new acquisition target. So you need one layer across all of this. And this is where Phoenix comes into play and this is where we're now going to come in, because we can offer a bank the full transparency. You don't have to rip out anything that you have. You can put a software layer on top of it. It's a client server architecture. You run it out in the background from your servers. You have very quick ways to update things and you provide one common interface. And when you talk about omni-channel, having multivendor capabilities is table stakes, otherwise you're limiting the target route that you can address as a financial institution.

Matt Lipton - Autonomous Research

Analyst

That's great. And then Chris, I had two questions for you. One, I know you probably don't want to disclose what the exact margin is on the Walmart business, but a lot of times people get into Diebold-Walmart the revenues look good, but the margins don't look as good. So can you at least frame in some context for us, what the profitability of that contract might look like? Christopher A. Chapman - Chief Financial Officer & Senior Vice President: Yeah, I would say, first and foremost it is a profitable deal and the margins that we're seeing on that are roughly in line on the hardware side with our historical national account business and then we also have a nice portion of this, which is part of our service business as well and those would run through I would say fairly well in line with our blended service margins as well. So overall a very nice add for us.

Matt Lipton - Autonomous Research

Analyst

Okay, thank you for that. And finally from me, the $0.10 guidance cut, when I look at what you'd change for Brazil and FX in your assumption, I think it's only a few pennies. So could you just walk me through kind of the delta between that and the full $0.10 change that you made this quarter? Thank you. Christopher A. Chapman - Chief Financial Officer & Senior Vice President: Yeah. If you bring the pieces together, so the 1% change in currency, just call that $30 million and with a 15% drop rate, net income before tax, you're looking at an approximate – call that about $0.05. And so that's the currency impact change in guidance. And then you look at the other piece of that movement and that's attributable to the change in our outlook for the Brazil markets, that's the breakdown of the $0.10, really 50:50 split.

Matt Lipton - Autonomous Research

Analyst

Thanks guys.

Operator

Operator

And we'll take our next question from Kartik Mehta with Northcoast Research.

Kartik Mehta - Northcoast Research Partners LLC

Analyst · Northcoast Research.

Hey, good morning. Andy, I wanted to ask you about the sustainability of the gross margins. Impressive gross margins on both hardware and services. And as you move forward, do you anticipate – is this sustainable? Or are there some one-time issues that allow you to kind of get to where you are? Andreas Walter Mattes - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: Well, Kartik, the way you want to think about it is you always have seasonality in each quarter. You have deal mixes in each quarter. Every quarter where we have a huge hardware deal in it, for instance, puts pressure on the overall margins. But in general just rule of thumb. If you think about the industry, on the hardware side you're usually facing a 5%ish type of headwind and your design to cost efforts have to make sure that you get your arms around it. Going to a next gen hardware platform and rolling that out, that was a major step forward for Diebold. On the service side, you usually have about a 1% to 2% cost headwind in each geography and there you got to drive your efficiencies through service utilization, higher degree of automation, and higher degree of remote service capabilities, and that's right in the wheelhouse of what we're trying to accomplish with our IT upgrades. So business can always be seasonal, business can always have ups and downs, but we've got solid plans on how we're going to work on the sustainability on our gross margins.

Kartik Mehta - Northcoast Research Partners LLC

Analyst · Northcoast Research.

And then as you look at the EMEA region, obviously based on the revenue growth you had, you probably had some market share wins. I know it's only the first quarter, so you don't want to get carried away there. But what is specifically driving that? Now I know the base is small, but what is specifically driving your ability to gain market share in that region? Andreas Walter Mattes - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: We have a very targeted approach. And if you think about Europe it was basically a market that was divided up between two of our main competitors and when a third, more innovative party enters the picture and gives the customer more attention, more agility and more flexibility combined with latest day technology, customers listen and we're having a lot of very interesting conversations right now.

Kartik Mehta - Northcoast Research Partners LLC

Analyst · Northcoast Research.

And then just one last question Andy. You talked about obviously what Walmart is doing and then you made reference about other retailers. Is that just your thought that as other retailers witness what Walmart is doing, they'll want to do it or is that more of a commentary that you're having discussions with other retailers that are looking to provide some financial services for their customers and then there lies the opportunity? Andreas Walter Mattes - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: Actually Kartik you want to think about it on a little higher level. As banks are going through their evaluation, how many branches should I have? Where should I have a branch? The real estate in the groceries, in the supermarkets become extremely valuable, so you have two trends. You have companies like Walmart who want to embrace the population and in many cases the under bank population, which in the U.S. is a much bigger number than people would normally think of. And by the same token you have a lot of banks. I am aware of two major RFPs globally right now where banks are really interested in putting kiosks into the retail space to attract the customers right there and then, so this is going to be a very important piece of the puzzle as people think through how to provide financial services as an infrastructure to the respective population in each country.

Kartik Mehta - Northcoast Research Partners LLC

Analyst · Northcoast Research.

Thank you very much, Andy. I appreciate it.

Operator

Operator

We'll take our next question from Meghna Ladha with Susquehanna.

Meghna B. Ladha - Susquehanna Financial Group LLLP

Analyst · Susquehanna.

Hi. Thanks for taking my questions. What was the EPS or what is the EPS accretion from the Phoenix acquisition embedded in your fiscal 2015 guidance? Christopher A. Chapman - Chief Financial Officer & Senior Vice President: It's neutral this year, Meghna, just given some of our integration costs, and some of that loss in the top line from the purchase accounting, so no impact to EPS in 2015.

Meghna B. Ladha - Susquehanna Financial Group LLLP

Analyst · Susquehanna.

Okay. And then maybe if you can talk a little bit about branch transformation. I remember last quarter you all talked about expecting 20% growth in branch transformation this year and could we see an upside to this number? Andreas Walter Mattes - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: Meghna, first things first. There is still no definition out there in the market what branch transformation, or how we want to think about it, branch automation really all entail. From what we know leading market research companies are pretty close to coming up with a definition. And if we read the tea leaves properly at the moment, we're extremely well positioned, it's a very solid growth number. And I'd say definitely north of 20%. But I want to refrain from giving an exact number until we have a clear definition of what the starting point is. And I referenced Walmart earlier. That's a great example. It's a very big deal. Is that in or out? It clearly has all the technical functionality of branch automation, it just does not happen to fit in a physical branch, it fits in a retail floor space. So these are the type of things where the industry has to get its arms around. I would summarize it on a higher level, and say, financial services are transforming, financial services are being more automated, and that's cash, and noncash. If you take for example the work that we've done UBS in Switzerland, which was a competitive win for us that's where – the bank really went out by saying we want to automate the noncash functionality in a branch like account openings. You can actually walk up to a kiosk, do all your data and get your bank card within a few minutes after you're doing this thing, right there and then, and use it five minutes later down mainstream in a store as a debit card. So tons of opportunity, still lack of definition, lots of interest, very opportunity rich from a growth point of view.

Meghna B. Ladha - Susquehanna Financial Group LLLP

Analyst · Susquehanna.

Thanks, Andy. That's helpful. And with regarding the Venezuela business, correct me if I am wrong, but you saw the same issue I believe last year as well. So can you help us understand, why, or what led you all to exit the business now? Andreas Walter Mattes - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: Let me start out with a flip comment and I'll let Chris take it from there. But from a business point of view, Venezuela has basically left the building. There is no rational way for us as management to get our arms around a country where you have absolutely no access to your currency and the currency itself is artificially being lowered in very short intervals. But I'll let Chris give you the more financially savvy answer on that one. Christopher A. Chapman - Chief Financial Officer & Senior Vice President: And when you look at this from our treatment in 2014, if you think about it 2012-2013, there were various movements in the bolivar and we were subject to those currency fluctuations when we were in the business and we were in the market. And so when we saw the devaluation occur last year, while it was substantial, and sizable, we were still in the location and we were still subject to those moves when you looked historically. When you think about it on a go forward basis with our decision to exit the business like several others have done and taken this treatment. You can look at Ford and some others that have taken pretty significant actions in Venezuela. We really viewed it from a forward-looking standpoint. The volatility and the impact of Venezuela, as you compare our results moving forward, are not going to be there, because we've changed the model. And so we thought it was prudent to remove that from our non-GAAP in 2015, because that's going to be more relevant when you compare us on a quarterly basis moving forward into 2016 and beyond. Andreas Walter Mattes - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: Now having said all of that the indirect model gives us the opportunity to continue to service our customers. There is a few really large international banks that have representation in Venezuela. We have the majority of the market share down there and this way we can make sure our customers are not left stranded because of political idiosyncrasy.

Meghna B. Ladha - Susquehanna Financial Group LLLP

Analyst · Susquehanna.

Okay, thanks Andy. Just a very quick follow-up to Chris on my first question. You said that the Phoenix EPS accretion is neutral, but isn't that neutral inclusive of integration cost, so wouldn't you back out the integration costs. I'm just trying to figure out what the non-GAAP EPS accretion from Phoenix? Christopher A. Chapman - Chief Financial Officer & Senior Vice President: Yeah. The integration costs are included both in our GAAP and non-GAAP numbers. We're not going to try to call out the integration costs of the Phoenix. It's not going to be extremely significant and we're really trying to get in a habit of keeping those non-GAAP adjustments to a minimum around the restructuring, legal costs, and real significant events. We're not trying to get every little item into the non-GAAP line.

Meghna B. Ladha - Susquehanna Financial Group LLLP

Analyst · Susquehanna.

Thank you.

Operator

Operator

And we'll take our next question from Justin Bergner with Gabelli & Company. Justin L. Bergner - Gabelli & Company: Strong top-line result. Andreas Walter Mattes - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: Sorry Justin, we missed the first half of your comment there, it cut out. Could you repeat? Justin L. Bergner - Gabelli & Company: I just said, good morning Andy and Chris. Congratulations on the strong top-line result. Can you hear me better? Andreas Walter Mattes - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: Yes. Christopher A. Chapman - Chief Financial Officer & Senior Vice President: Yes, thank you. Justin L. Bergner - Gabelli & Company: Okay. Great, a few quick questions. In Europe, obviously one of your competitors had a meaningful negative preannouncement and sort of made it seem like the market was worsening. In light of your strong performance in Europe, are you seeing deceleration in the market or is the market sort of showing stable growth? Andreas Walter Mattes - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: Well, just let's be fair. We're talking EMEA here and there are stories within the story, and our footprint is clearly helping us. We have little to no exposure to Russia, for instance, and the adjacent states. The second thing is we are taking a targeted account view. So even within economies that might be under pressure, there is always one or two banks that are very healthy, that are very good business partners, and that you like to be engaged with. And that's our criteria as we go around Europe. And then of course you add to it the amount of dedication, the amount of service, the amount of innovation. If you take a look for instance at our Brussels Innovation Center, it's a huge asset for our…

Operator

Operator

We'll take our next question from Saliq Khan with Imperial Capital.

Saliq Jamil Khan - Imperial Capital LLC

Analyst · Imperial Capital.

Great. Thank you. Good morning, guys. I'm speaking on behalf of Jeff Kessler as well along with myself. We just had a couple of quick questions for you. First one being is that while we see that EMEA grew double digits on a constant currency basis, we did notice that APAC was growing at low single digits. Given this, could we particularly, could we expect some sort of reshuffling of the leaders of the APAC to help you further grow this region. Andreas Walter Mattes - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: I'm not quite sure I fully understood the question, would you mind rephrasing?

Saliq Jamil Khan - Imperial Capital LLC

Analyst · Imperial Capital.

Sure, essentially what we're saying is that we're seeing a robust amount of growth coming out of the EMEA region, but not necessarily from APAC on a constant currency basis. Could I expect some sort of a reshuffling of the leaders to the APAC region from either EMEA, or North America, or elsewhere, or the hiring of additional leaders from your competitors to help you further grow that region? Andreas Walter Mattes - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: Well, Asia Pac is a beast of many colors. What you got to balance in your views and in your models is there is a lot of opportunity in Asia, in India, all across ASEAN, Australia-New Zealand. But by the same token, the political headwinds that all western manufacturers face in China are very real. There is a clear direction from the government to embrace local technology. So the Chinese market will become more contested with local players, and that is going, given its size and magnitude, that's going to impact the size of the addressable market for the western players.

Saliq Jamil Khan - Imperial Capital LLC

Analyst · Imperial Capital.

Okay. The other one being is that – it's been asked several times already regarding Walmart and the deployment itself. I'm not necessarily concerned about this being a four-year to five-year contract win, but what I do want to know is that how do you essentially approach this contract to be able to maximize cost efficiencies going forward? Andreas Walter Mattes - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: The best way to make money in a managed service contract is, A, to have a very good detailed contract with very clear SLAs, so both parties know exactly what they're signing up for. And those of you who know Walmart know how diligent that company is in defining their requirements. B, is to make sure that internally you got all your systems and your controls set up properly to deliver to that SLA. And C, then is flawless execution over the term of the contract. And we've done all of this. This has been a project in the making for many, many, many months. Those of you who've heard me talk about managed services deals, I've always told you that those have 12-month, 18-month, and in some cases even 24 month lead time, because the devil is in the detail. This is a good example of a well-thought out process over a long period of time that all participants feel very comfortable with.

Saliq Jamil Khan - Imperial Capital LLC

Analyst · Imperial Capital.

Okay. Andy, the last question I have for you as well, surrounding Walmart again. Is that – while Walmart is pretty secretive about the contract details, one of the good things about winning this contract is that you have a lot of the other top 10, top 15 and top 20 retailers looking at you and coming at you as well. So how do we think about more such contracts particularly in the U.S. over the next 12 months to 18 months? Andreas Walter Mattes - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: Well, look, this is a great question. I would say this is, it's unchartered territory. You won't find it in a market research report, which makes it so exciting and you're absolutely correct there is a lot of interest and we're already starting to get a lot of inquiries from other players. We'll have to see how this thing is going to play out.

Saliq Jamil Khan - Imperial Capital LLC

Analyst · Imperial Capital.

Great. Thank you guys. I appreciate it.

Operator

Operator

And we'll take our next question from Vignesh Murali with Sidoti & Company. Vignesh Murali - Sidoti & Co. LLC: Hey guys, thank you for taking my question. First question is on capital allocation priorities for the rest of the year. Are acquisitions still near the top of the list? And if they are, is it more likely going to be in the security side or the financial services side? Andreas Walter Mattes - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: I think what we've talked about before with regards to hitting the second half of that question is our focus would probably be more on the software and services side from an acquisition standpoint. If you look at what our capacity is, we still do have sufficient capacity on our balance sheet to go out after additional, what I would call, tuck-in acquisitions. So feel good about where we're at and our capacity to continue to focus more on that growth side as we continue to move forward. Vignesh Murali - Sidoti & Co. LLC: Great, thank you for that. And as a follow-up, on the electronic security side, what are the major drivers behind the continued strong performance of that segment and also can you provide an update on like the progress made by the SecureStat platform in terms of market share? Andreas Walter Mattes - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: Absolutely. This is clearly a we try harder approach. We are a very distant number three. We only focus on national and large regional accounts and you've already mentioned our secret sauce. The ability to have the SecureStat layer, which you can basically think of as a portal on any existing security infrastructure is very, very important for us to gain share. Again it's the concept of embracing heterogeneous environments, because what it enables a customer is to switch, for instance, their video monitoring over to Diebold without having to exchange a single camera, or without having to exchange a single keypad at the door. All you do is you roll out SecureStat and then you can connect with the Diebold remote center. And now with our partnership with Eagle Eye, you can actually also do the whole thing in the cloud, which will give you yet more flexibility. So we're rolling out SecureStat with just about every one of our wins that we are picking up these days. Vignesh Murali - Sidoti & Co. LLC: Great, thank you for the color. That's it from me guys, congrats on the quarter. Andreas Walter Mattes - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: Thank you. Christopher A. Chapman - Chief Financial Officer & Senior Vice President: Thanks.

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And we have no further questions in queue at this time. I would now like to turn the conference back over to our speakers for any additional or closing remarks. John D. Kristoff - Chief Communications Officer & Vice President: Thank you Kyle and thank you everyone, for joining our call today. As always feel free to reach out to myself or Steve with any follow-up questions. Thanks again.