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Q4 2014 Earnings Call· Tue, Feb 3, 2015

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Operator

Operator

Good morning, and welcome to the Sensata Technologies Holding N.V. Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2014 Earnings Conference Call. At this time, I would like to inform you that this conference call is being recorded and that all participants are in a listen-only mode. For opening remarks and introductions, I will turn the call over to Jacob Sayer, Vice President of Investor Relations and Treasury. Mr. Sayer, you may begin.

Jacob Sayer

President

Thank you, Keith, and good morning, everyone. Earlier today, Sensata issued a press release describing our financial performance for the fourth quarter and full year 2014. If you did not receive a copy, you may obtain it from the Investor Relations section of our website at sensata.com. This call is being webcast live, and a replay will also be available in the Investor Relations section of our website. Today's discussion will contain forward-looking statements based on the business environment as we currently see it and, as such, does include certain risks and uncertainties. Please refer to our press release and our 10-Q and 10-K filings for more information on the specific risk factors that could cause our actual results to differ materially from the projections described in today's discussion. In addition to U.S. GAAP reporting, we report certain financial measures that do not conform to generally accepted accounting principles. We believe these non-GAAP measures enhance the understanding of our performance. Reconciliations between these GAAP and non-GAAP measures are included in the tables found in today's press release as well as in the Investor Relations section of our website under Financial Reports. Comments made during today's call will primarily refer to our non-GAAP financial results. On the call with me today are Martha Sullivan, our President and Chief Executive Officer; and Paul Vasington, our Chief Financial Officer. We will hold questions until after our prepared remarks, but if you’d like to get into the queue please do so by pressing the star key followed by the number one. I will now turn the call over to Martha to review highlights from the quarter and trends in the end markets we serve. Martha?

Martha Sullivan

President

Thank you, Jacob and thank you all for joining our fourth quarter 2014 conference call. The fourth-quarter [capped] an exciting year for Sensata. We closed the largest acquisition in Sensata’s history during the fourth quarter, extending our market lead in pressure sensing and significantly enhancing our sensing capabilities. Schrader was the fourth meaningful acquisition completed in 2014 demonstrating our ability to repeatedly identify and complete value creating M&A that is additive to Sensata in multiple ways and closely aligned to our strategy to win in sensing. We delivered approximately 7% organic revenue growth during 2014, including 6% content growth consistent with our plan and guidance. Core adjusted net income margins continued to improve reaching 19.8% for the full year 2014 compared to 19.4% in 2013 demonstrating our ability to grow earnings faster than revenue as a result of continuous improvement and we put nearly $1.5 billion in cash to work for shareholders during 2014 between M&A and share buybacks. I would like to thank the team at Sensata for delivering a great fourth-quarter and full-year in 2014. Financial highlights for the fourth quarter include net revenue was a record $705 million, an increase of nearly 40% from the fourth quarter of 2013. We are off to a great start with Schrader, which contributed nicely to growth in the quarter topping expectations for revenue at $133 million and adjusted net income for the fourth quarter was $98 million or $0.57 per diluted share. This includes $0.05 of dilution from Schrader, a better-than-expected outcome. The business is performing well in each of our largest end markets. For Sensata the most important driver of organic revenue growth is our ability to convert new business wins into revenue by designing new or additional sensors into automotive, heavy vehicle and industrial equipment. This additional content…

Paul Vasington

Chief Financial Officer

Thank you, Martha. Fourth quarter 2014 net revenue of $705.3 million increased 39.7% compared to the fourth quarter of 2013. Of this acquisitions contributed 37.5% and organic revenue growth was 2.4%. Organic revenue growth for the full year was 7%. Adjusted net income was $97.7 million or 13.9% of net revenue. Adjusted EBITDA for the fourth quarter was $158.7 million or 23.5% of net revenue. When compared to the prior year, profitability indices are lower due to the impact of acquisitions, which include integration costs of $15.9 million. Productivity gains continue to be robust and more than offset price declines in increased R&D investments needed to support our growing new business pipeline. Excluding the impact of acquisitions, adjusted net income as a percent of net revenue for the fourth quarter was approximately 21%. Cash taxes in the fourth quarter were approximately $8.4 million or 6.1% of adjusted earnings before interest and taxes, consistent with our overall target. During the quarter, we recorded deferred tax income tax benefits of $45.6 million, primarily due to the release of a portion of the U.S. valuation allowance in connection with the acquisition of Schrader, for which deferred tax liabilities were established, primarily related to acquired intangible assets. We expect cash taxes for the full year 2015 to be in the range of 5% to 6% of adjusted EBIT. Financing and other transaction costs were $13.1 million, primarily related to M&A deal costs in the fourth quarter were added back to our non-GAAP results. Restructuring and special charges of $5.9 million to improve our operating systems and process to deliver greater productivity were also added back in the quarter. Schrader was dilutive to Sensata’s adjusted net income per diluted share by $0.05 in the fourth quarter. This was better than expected and due to strong…

Operator

Operator

[Operator Instructions] Your first question comes from the line of Wamsi Mohan from BofA Merrill Lynch. Your line is open.

Wamsi Mohan

Analyst · BofA Merrill Lynch. Your line is open

Yes, thank you. Good morning. Martha, can you talk a little bit about the organic growth trend. It looks like through the course of 2014 we saw some deceleration as we went through the quarters, you have got a lot of moving pieces as we look through in 2015 given the impact of Schrader and Euro 6 being positive and OWS being a negative, so how should we think about organic growth progression as we go through 2015 and then I have a follow-up for Paul?

Martha Sullivan

President

Sure. So 2014 played out really very much in line with the way we called it. So you will recall that we had expected products obsolescence to have a stronger impact in the second half of the year which we did. And so, what we saw was stronger content first half 2014 slowing a bit due to that obsolescence impact as we got to the second half of the year and that’s the trajectory we’re on now. As we look to the impact of Euro 6, we’ll see the mirror image quite frankly in 2015 of the year we saw in 2014. So, when we look at backlog, the new products we know we’ll launch, the impact of Euro 6, we’ll see an increase in contribution from content as we move through the year.

Wamsi Mohan

Analyst · BofA Merrill Lynch. Your line is open

Thanks Martha and just to clarify, you’re not including any of the content growth associated from Schrader in your comments of 7% to 8% content growth in ’15, is that correct?

Martha Sullivan

President

That’s correct.

Wamsi Mohan

Analyst · BofA Merrill Lynch. Your line is open

Okay, great. And then, Paul we saw $16 million integration charges in the fourth quarter, how should that trend as we go through 2015, can you give us a rough sense of the magnitude of the integration cost that you expect in 2015? Thanks.

Paul Vasington

Chief Financial Officer

First thing there, 15.9 significant portion of that relates to the Schrader that we’ve been signaling that all along that we will be accelerating the integration cost into Q4 and you will see that on the gap and the portion that we view as, report as restructuring charges. Going forward we’re not to give specific numbers on all the acquisitions, but we have said that Schrader give up $48 million of integration cost each year over next three years as we integrate that business.

Wamsi Mohan

Analyst · BofA Merrill Lynch. Your line is open

Okay, great, thank you.

Operator

Operator

Your next question comes from the line of Mark Delaney from Goldman Sachs, your line is open.

Mark Delaney

Analyst · Mark Delaney from Goldman Sachs, your line is open

Good morning and thanks very much for taking the question. Question for Paul, you talked a little bit about the hedging program in place and FX impact that you expect for 2015, I was hoping you help us think about, how we should think about that for 2016 and I know you guys have jobs for 24 months, so imagine some of the hedges that you’re able to take out for 2015, we’re taking out before the Euro weekend as much as it has until point in time and we think it’s correspond rate for the whole, I mean, how much of incremental FX headwind would there be for 2016?

Paul Vasington

Chief Financial Officer

Mark that’s a great question and can’t stay why you want to know that. I think, we’re about third hedged in ’16 on the Euro, so you’re right, we did get in early, our hedge rates reflect rates that going to affect part of the down draft that you saw in the Euro in the lsat 45 days and so it will continue with our hedging program with a tenure of 24 months, we’re looking out hedging each month over 12 months to 24 months period. So, we’re going to see lower foreign exchange rates in the hedging program if rates stay the way they are.

Martha Sullivan

President

The only other thing I would add here is, what we focus on is protecting earnings, creating stability around our earnings. As we get into longer time period there is some things happening at Sensata that will help us naturally hedge. We talk about our best delivered cost footprint and one of the things that we have been doing now since we acquired Sensor-Nite is taking advantage of a production site and supply chain we have in Bulgaria. So, we actually have increased that footprint, we broke around on a new building, we are moving more of what we provide to Europe and to Bulgaria that will have a natural impact on hedging although the driving for this is quite frankly a much improved cost picture and optimization over the long run and the ancillary benefit is less exposure to Europe.

Mark Delaney

Analyst · Mark Delaney from Goldman Sachs, your line is open

That’s helpful, thanks. And on profile Martha, you mentioned moving some of the center business that was previously categorized in the center segment into controls that’s more [indiscernible] you actually run the business, is there any sort of financial implications to that for the P&L that we should have in mind either OpEx or maybe potential revenue synergies by having those groups work more closely together going forward?

Martha Sullivan

President

We’re seeing much better growth performance. So, just to give you a little color, we put together across business team going back 18, 24 months ago to look at this particular product area which was frankly in decline inside of sensor and that’s not only turned around, but it’s growing double digits. So, we do expect that this is going to have an additive benefit to the control segment, has it really creates a content initiative inside of control.

Mark Delaney

Analyst · Mark Delaney from Goldman Sachs, your line is open

Thank you.

Operator

Operator

Your next question comes from the line of Rob Wertheimer from Vertical Research Partners, your line is open.

Rob Wertheimer

Analyst · Rob Wertheimer from Vertical Research Partners, your line is open

Hi good morning, everybody. I just wanted to make sure that I understand the organic components of your outlook for ’15, you have 6% content, 6% overall I think, price downs included in content and I guess as the implication that your total end markets are flat overall?

Paul Vasington

Chief Financial Officer

We said 7% to 8% content growth that does not include pricing dig downs. So, the organic growth is 6% content, 7 to 8 we’ve to – so, on price we’re assuming markets to be relatively flat in 2015.

Rob Wertheimer

Analyst · Rob Wertheimer from Vertical Research Partners, your line is open

Perfect, okay, thank you. And then, just very briefly, any other headwinds to the content 15 from legacy or just up class and I assume we’re getting past and you mentioned that you saw the comp affect. And then, just in general, your thoughts on, as you look out with your conversations with auto OEMs, the impact was stimulus impact of lower oil, do you think that’s kind of embedded in what you’re seeing and what your customers are seeing or do you think there is more upside risk based on oil [indiscernible]? Thanks.

Martha Sullivan

President

I think to answer your first question, there is a lingering tail on the product adolescence we’ve been discussing now for quite a while until the first half of ’15 which is why we expect content growth in combination with Euro 6 launch to be stronger in the second half of ’15 than it is in the first. Your question relative to oil and price of gas, I think the impact we’re seeing is some vehicle shift in the marketplace that does not have a big impact on Sensata, so there is greater take rate on SUVs, plug in electric vehicles are piling up, not a lot advent for those, none of that has a huge impact on Sensata as overall content. We think the current demand rate reflects the discretionary income that consumes resourcing and we think it’s great for the overall market. Keep in mind the current prices could increase significantly and still stay well below in our gasoline prices that we saw even two years ago. So, between that credit and places like Europe built up scrapping demand, we think it continues to be a good market.

Rob Wertheimer

Analyst · Rob Wertheimer from Vertical Research Partners, your line is open

Okay, thank you.

Operator

Operator

Your next question comes from the line of Ambrish Srivastava from BMO Capital, your line is open.

Ambrish Srivastava

Analyst · Ambrish Srivastava from BMO Capital, your line is open

Hi, thank you. I had a question on seasonality, now that you have quite a few acquisitions in there, as we look through the year Paul and Martha, how should we be thinking about seasonality versus what we’re custom to over the last several years? And then I had a follow up as well please.

Martha Sullivan

President

Yes, you’re going to see some dampening on our normal seasonality, there is no question. Part of that is you’ve got the addition of Schrader which will be more like our sensors overall business and so, think of more the sensor seasonality as you think of Schrader. The compounding aspect of that and it’s a good challenge is that Schrader’s growing business. So, Schrader in of itself has content growth and in 2015 that will further blur the overall seasonality. So, we will expect to see stronger second half and we normally would when we think of our seasonality.

Ambrish Srivastava

Analyst · Ambrish Srivastava from BMO Capital, your line is open

Okay. And then, Martha, in the past you do give us the business versus the auto manufacturing in Europe as a sign of how you’re doing in Europe, what was the number for the full year?

Martha Sullivan

President

Trying to understand the question, you’re asking about our overall revenue?

Ambrish Srivastava

Analyst · Ambrish Srivastava from BMO Capital, your line is open

Yes. And you always give us an indication of European growth versus auto production growth as a sign of how you’re doing in Europe?

Martha Sullivan

President

Yes. So, it was another month of increased registration. I think in total the registrations were up 5.6% from the demand perspective. Our revenue is up stronger than that as you can see in overall Europe. So, as the marketplace continues to develop as we had expected, we are expecting a slight improvement in the production rate as we go from 2014 to 2015 in Europe. That's a little bit better of a call then you will see for example from IHS. So, not major help from the marketplace, but we do simply see 1% to 2% improvement on production.

Ambrish Srivastava

Analyst · Ambrish Srivastava from BMO Capital, your line is open

Okay, and I had a quick follow-up please if I could. Order trends and I know you folks see changes in business relatively quickly reflected in your order rates, as you look compared this year versus last year heading into a new year, what are order trends telling you in terms of the overall health of the business? Thank you.

Martha Sullivan

President

Backlog feels good. We talked about our fill rates very typical. So, fields like normal business we saw some challenges in the fourth quarter around for example the off road equipment market. So, we could see some correction there in the fourth quarter that's coming back as expected. So, we feel very familiar in terms of what backlog should look like when we enter New Year.

Ambrish Srivastava

Analyst · Ambrish Srivastava from BMO Capital, your line is open

Thanks much.

Operator

Operator

Your next question comes from the line of Rich Kwas from Wells Fargo. Your line is open.

Richard Michael Kwas

Analyst · Rich Kwas from Wells Fargo. Your line is open

Just I wanted to delve into the market assumptions. So Martha, you just talked about 1% to 2% growth in European auto production, North America should be up, China should be up. That's a good chunk of your business auto. What are the offsets that get you to flat market assumption for the year?

Martha Sullivan

President

Yes, it’s in some of these ancillary areas for us Rich, keep in mind that rest of Asia is not up, it's actually down when you look at Japan and Korea, China is slower than what we would have seen in 2014, but yes you’re right, we expect that to be up. When we look at things like agriculture, construction where we deliberately increase our exposure that's not going to be a lot of help there when we look ahead of 2015. I’d say the other areas less impactful, but part of the equation when you look at some of the elements of the China domestic market where we have controlled exposure, we are not going to get help from that part of the business.

Richard Michael Kwas

Analyst · Rich Kwas from Wells Fargo. Your line is open

Okay. So, is it fair to say overall global auto up some, but then being offset by parts of heavy vehicles to our point, [indiscernible] China for the domestic market?

Martha Sullivan

President

That's it, exactly.

Richard Michael Kwas

Analyst · Rich Kwas from Wells Fargo. Your line is open

Okay, alright. And then, on Controls Paul, so margin was better year-over-year, but we’re expecting a bigger ramp here in the second half, I think you talked to that in the middle of the year, last year, what’s going on there as we think about ’15?

Paul Vasington

Chief Financial Officer

So, I think it continues to improve into ’15 as we continue to get more productivity out of the manufacturing process, I think, little like this year volumes were little lighter in the second half particularly in the fourth quarter, little bit of volume we had better margin rates so it’s – if that comes back in Q1. So those are two key drivers. Across the year, I mean, we definitely ramped up and will continue to move up in ’15.

Richard Michael Kwas

Analyst · Rich Kwas from Wells Fargo. Your line is open

Okay. So, it’s kind of steady improvement? Last one on Euro 6, what was the benefit for ’14 and then, is the target still 75 million to 100 million of content benefit exiting ’15, is that’s the least assumption?

Martha Sullivan

President

We’re still in that assumption, it came in a little bit stronger at the end of the year and so we had expected to finish at about 10% take on that and another with 10% of engines that would need to convert. We expected to beat Schrader, it was actually a little bit stronger as we got to the end of the year up a couple of 100 basis points there. But, very much on track to a strong ramp in the second half of the year, so it’s an important contributor to content growth for Sensata this year.

Richard Michael Kwas

Analyst · Rich Kwas from Wells Fargo. Your line is open

Okay, thanks, I’ll pass it on.

Operator

Operator

Your next question comes from the line of Craig Hettenbach from Morgan Stanley, your line is open.

Craig Hettenbach

Analyst · Craig Hettenbach from Morgan Stanley, your line is open

Yes, thank you. Just following up on the sensors within the Controls piece and sounds like that business has been reinvigorated, can you just talk about just kind of the pieces that you have in that market and how you envision the growth opportunities for a industrial type applications overtime?

Martha Sullivan

President

Sure. So again it’s not a hedged business, we are talking about 65 million, 70 million in revenue, really right in the sweet spot of what we do well, if you think about pressure sensing and the opportunity to leverage very cost effective sensing technology developed over on the centre side of the house. The opportunities that we see range from the installation of sensor in variable flow, unitary air-conditioning, we are getting some wins on that front. Lots of industrial applications around infrastructure, they come in volume chunks that are a little off the radar screen for the high volume sensors business and this team inside controls is really adapt at growing in fragmented end market. So the fit has been really nice, we’ve seen the topline have an impact and now we’re fully integrating that product line into Controls.

Craig Hettenbach

Analyst · Craig Hettenbach from Morgan Stanley, your line is open

Got it. Thanks for the call there and then as a follow up maybe for Paul, as we can think through kind of the Schrader integration. Any milestones we should think about moving through the year in terms of margins and as equation ramps?

Paul Vasington

Chief Financial Officer

So as we said, the integration of Schrader is going to take longer than the normal two years we have talked about or 18, 24 we talked about. The integration will be about three year period. The integration is going very well. The teams are highly engaged. We put forward in our restructuring plan, the new solid charge in these results here that that supports that. The business is ramping up very well. Our teams are working with the Schrader teams together. We are creating a lot of value within the business and meeting customer demand and we expect that to continue into 2015. So, 2015 from my perspective is continued execution of the ramp up in Europe, strengthening the innovation plan and starting to work that as we get into 2016 and 2017.

Craig Hettenbach

Analyst · Craig Hettenbach from Morgan Stanley, your line is open

Got it. Thank you.

Operator

Operator

Your next question comes from the line of Amit Daryanani from RBC. Your line is open.

Unidentified Analyst

Analyst · Amit Daryanani from RBC. Your line is open

Hi this is [indiscernible] filling in for Amit here. Set of quick questions first on gas prices. So, given that there is a large reduction, do you guys see any shift away from basically diesel vehicles to gas vehicles and how that would impact your business?

Martha Sullivan

President

Yes, I think we answered the question, you really have to put it in the European context. When we look at diesel take rates we’ve seen slight shift, nothing dramatic, we saw about 1% decline earlier last year. But to your point about fuel prices, diesel continues to be less expensive than gasoline and now we are talking on Euro to liter basis, now for example, right now in France, they have done a little bit of vocal about diesel, you are looking at something like a 30 [Euro cent] advantage for diesel. On top of it, diesel is significantly more fuel efficient than gasoline. So, even with the enhancements and things like gas direct injection and adding turbo charging, the volumetric efficiency that you get from diesel make them a very attractive investment for European consumers and that continues to be the case.

Unidentified Analyst

Analyst · Amit Daryanani from RBC. Your line is open

Great. And then, one quick follow-up if I may. So, for the 2015 guidance, can you provide any granularity basically on the organic versus inorganic growth and the FX impact on the bottom line, I understand the top line portion, but I wonder how that flows to that EPS side?

Paul Vasington

Chief Financial Officer

I understand your question, we gave an indication of $0.03 to $0.04 impact on the bottom line attributing to FX.

Unidentified Analyst

Analyst · Amit Daryanani from RBC. Your line is open

So, any color on organic versus inorganic growth as well, that impact on the bottom line as well?

Paul Vasington

Chief Financial Officer

So we think the guidance for the required revenue is appropriate and takes that into account.

Unidentified Analyst

Analyst · Amit Daryanani from RBC. Your line is open

Got it. Thank you.

Operator

Operator

Your next question comes from the line of William Stein from SunTrust. Your line is open

William Stein

Analyst · William Stein from SunTrust. Your line is open

Great, thanks for taking my question. I am hoping you can talk about earnings contribution for the other two big deals done in the last year DeltaTech and Wabash, you gave us expected EPS contribution from Schrader, I’m wondering if we can hear about the other two?

Paul Vasington

Chief Financial Officer

So, Wabash continues to integrate. It's now finishes first year, has performed as expected. We expect to get a little profitability improvement next year, but it's not significant given the size of the business. But, it will improve a bit. And as it relates to DeltaTech, DeltaTech we acquired in August, its deepened integration, we are not expecting it to contribute much next year in terms of profit. So, 2014 and 2015 will be fairly similar on the bottom line although we will get more revenue, but since we’re on the business for and extended for seven additional months.

William Stein

Analyst · William Stein from SunTrust. Your line is open

Great, thanks and one follow-up if I can. There was step up in RD&E in the quarter and you may have said something about that in your prepared remarks. So apologies if I missed it, but can you comment as to what that relates to and whether that is more of an ongoing increase in RD&E or is that more of a sort of special onetime thing?

Paul Vasington

Chief Financial Officer

So, we’ve talked about the increased in resource development and engineering cost going along, needed to support our growing this pipeline. The spike that you are seeing in addition to that needed growth to support that growth into the business is related to acquisition, so as we’ve been layering on DeltaTech and Schrader those costs are increasing because of those acquired businesses.

William Stein

Analyst · William Stein from SunTrust. Your line is open

Thank you.

Operator

Operator

Your next question comes from the line of Shawn Harrison from Longbow Research. Your line is open.

Shawn Harrison

Analyst · Shawn Harrison from Longbow Research. Your line is open

Hi, first question I wanted to go back to Schrader better than expected performance in the fourth quarter, so it was only $0.05 dilutive. But, you are holding onto the $0.18 to $0.21 accretion forecast for 2015, if you could just help me bridge the upside in the fourth quarter with me for maintaining 2015 guidance?

Paul Vasington

Chief Financial Officer

On the cost side, we are right where we thought we’re going to be for the most part. On the top line we are much better and the business performance is very, very well and we are able to execute on all the demand that the customers are bringing to them and we are able to get their capacity online. So, the revenue was higher than we expected and that contributed to the over delivery results from Q4. For 2015, we’re onto the planned process and we feel comfortable with the revenue they are going to produce next year and that still supports the $0.18 to $0.21 EPS that we originally guided to.

Shawn Harrison

Analyst · Shawn Harrison from Longbow Research. Your line is open

And that revenue number is still 600 million or is it higher than that?

Paul Vasington

Chief Financial Officer

We said it was about 10% growth off of 2014 so it will be a bit higher than the 600.

Shawn Harrison

Analyst · Shawn Harrison from Longbow Research. Your line is open

Okay. Second question, just hoping for some commentary on both debt reduction and interest expense, so maybe interest expense for the first quarter and kind of how do you expect to use all free cash flow next year to take down that maybe is there, I know you have 6.5% notes out there that could potentially taken down just discuss maybe what options you are looking at with that reduction?

Paul Vasington

Chief Financial Officer

So, we’ve talked about our capital allocation strategy and any M&A that’s M&A, we are going to continue to use our free cash flow to pay down debt and that still in the plan for 2015. We have pre-payable debt in terms of term loans, we have some revolving credit debt outstanding. So, we will continue to pay that debt down as the free cash flow is generating and comes into the business.

Shawn Harrison

Analyst · Shawn Harrison from Longbow Research. Your line is open

Okay, just an interest expense number for the first quarter again?

Paul Vasington

Chief Financial Officer

No, we don't give out that level of detail.

Shawn Harrison

Analyst · Shawn Harrison from Longbow Research. Your line is open

Okay, thanks anyway.

Operator

Operator

Your next question comes from the line of Christopher Glynn from Oppenheimer. Your line is open.

Christopher Glynn

Analyst · Christopher Glynn from Oppenheimer. Your line is open

Hi, good morning. So, you talked about active engagement with the M&A pipeline. It sounded pretty enthusiastic, but 4x pro forma leverage versus 2x to 3x target, how do you think about the liquidity against that acquisition pipeline, it seems pretty attractive?

Martha Sullivan

President

Again, if you look at our past, our track record and you look into the comments that we have been making, we are excited, we have a number of dialogs that are interesting, we have patience. The other thing I would tell you is acquisitions are not a linear process and so each one of these projects is on a timeline of their own. We will make sure that given the right acquisition, we have the [indiscernible] and the timeframe to get that done. I think as Paul commented earlier, in the near term will continue to pay down our debt.

Christopher Glynn

Analyst · Christopher Glynn from Oppenheimer. Your line is open

Okay. And what was the adjusted EBITDA in the fourth quarter just reported?

Paul Vasington

Chief Financial Officer

603 for the full year, 158.7 the quarter.

Christopher Glynn

Analyst · Christopher Glynn from Oppenheimer. Your line is open

Okay. Thank you.

Operator

Operator

Your next question comes from the line of Jim Suva from Citigroup. Your line is open.

Jim Suva

Analyst · Jim Suva from Citigroup. Your line is open

Thank you very much and congratulations. Can you give us a couple of examples of the integration of Schrader in the timeline of what we can expect whether it’s ERP systems, manufacturing, you mentioned a multi-year plan, but if you could just help us visualize in context labor product, what is in process now and that is in process down the timeline, so we kind of think about the milestones and some efforts. Thank you very much and again congratulations.

Martha Sullivan

President

Sure. A couple of near term ones that they were executing right now. We have already released capital for production in China or tire pressure something products that’s really an important milestone because the market there wants suppliers to produce there and Schrader was not doing that. The great thing about our matchup is, we have existing space and capability in Jiangsu, China where we produce today. And so, we already have a team of people on the ground looking at that space readying that space, training people, expect that product line to be in place for us probably late ’15, early 2016 that’s an important milestone. With that action we have been able to say to Chinese OEMs we commit to being there for you. And they have committed to us ahead of actually having the production in place. So, we actually were awarded a pretty significant piece of business in China as a result of the match up here, so that’s just one example. I think in terms of actually integrating, aligning up systems, we have down all of the obvious things we’re well connected on the parts of our IT infrastructure that we’re happy to communicate well. We are taking advantage of the fact that Schrader brings significant scale in low pressure sensing. And so, what do we mean by that there are portions of our material spend that allow us to improve our cost structure in low pressure sensing and so we can talk about when that we’re having a low pressure sensing, our content growth will be, this will be part of maintaining our 7% to 10% content growth as well. So, I think those are good examples. The fact that this is the business that is accretive early on is another example of what you should watch to make sure that we are on track with our overall integration.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. Your next question comes from the line of Steven Fox from Cross Research, your line is open.

Steven Bryant Fox

Analyst · Steven Fox from Cross Research, your line is open

Thanks, good morning. Just one question from me, Martha, you talked about in the beginning of the presentation new business wins that totaled $400 million in 2014, can you just sort of talk about the internal dynamics and maybe the market dynamics that drove that uptick and how that sort of goes through the numbers in 2015? Thanks a lot.

Martha Sullivan

President

Right. And so, we talked about Sensata being a long cycle business. Keep in mind the new wins we’re securing today begin production generally three years out and get to what we call typical stable year sometimes even beyond that. So that's important to understand. What we are doing now will contribute most likely in the 2017, 2018 and even 2019 timeframe and that's why we maintain confidence about our continued organic growth rates. What we are seeing are the same familiar [friends] to us, things like energy efficiency is driving a lot of design end around things like gas directed injection. We are seeing lots of fuel type applications increasing in overall content contribution. Tail pipe applications around high temperature sensing, low pressure sensing, we have some great new wins in China probably between China and Europe that it continues to drive the preponderance of our content growth. So again, the organic growth of Sensata is less about what those end markets are doing and a lot more about where we are being designed in.

Steven Bryant Fox

Analyst · Steven Fox from Cross Research, your line is open

Great, it’s very helpful, thank you.

Operator

Operator

And your last question comes from the line of Rich Kwas from Wells Fargo. Your line is open.

Richard Michael Kwas

Analyst · Wells Fargo. Your line is open

Hi, just couple of quick follow-ups. Martha on the [agg] and on the off road piece, is there any way that we can get an assumption behind the markets broadly speaking industry wide for this guidance for this year? There is a way it's going to be down and then if you are going to grow outpace that is that how should we make that assumption?

Martha Sullivan

President

Yes, I think we can help you there. I don't have that at my finger tips Rich, but that's probably information we can help with. We will outpace it a lot of the growth we are seeing in off-road is in DeltaTech which does grow year-over-year despite the weakness in the overall [agg] market. So that's a straight forward answer to your second question.

Richard Michael Kwas

Analyst · Wells Fargo. Your line is open

Okay. So, DeltaTech will, if DeltaTech was separated it still grow year-over-year?

Martha Sullivan

President

That’s correct.

Richard Michael Kwas

Analyst · Wells Fargo. Your line is open

Even with the macro. Okay, and then, just last one on the new business wins, the $400 million is that a gross number or net of programs that you are already on where you’ve added content? I just want to clarify that.

Martha Sullivan

President

Let me make sure to clarify you appropriately. It is what we call a net number, but what we look at is what do we know is going to roll – going to move off your businesses that we are not going to get and businesses that we are going to get. So it's a net-on-net impact. In terms of applications that are already launched and growing, those would have been in previous year closure rate. So that is not included.

Richard Michael Kwas

Analyst · Wells Fargo. Your line is open

So this is all new business that you won during the course 2014 that's not part of any other estimates you have given previously, correct?

Martha Sullivan

President

That's correct.

Richard Michael Kwas

Analyst · Wells Fargo. Your line is open

Okay, great, thank you.

Operator

Operator

As there are no more questions, I would like to turn the conference call back over to Mr. Sayer for closing remarks. Mr. Sayer.

Jacob Sayer

President

Thank you, Keith. I'd like to thank you all for joining our fourth quarter and full year 2014 financial results call today. Sensata will be participating in Goldman Sachs Technology Investor Conference in San Francisco on February 10. Barclays Industrial Investment Conference in Miami on February 18 and Goldman’s Leveraged Finance Conference in New York on March 11. We’ll also be hosting an investor event, the afternoon on February 24 at our Attleboro, Massachusetts headquarters. Each of these events will be webcast live and available for replay from the investor section of our website at sensate.com. We appreciate your continued interest and in support to Sensata and look forward to speaking with you on the road again next quarter. Thank you, and goodbye.

Operator

Operator

This concludes the call for today. You may now disconnect.