John Mengucci
Analyst · Stifel. Please go ahead. Your line is open
Thanks, Dan, and good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us to discuss our fourth quarter and fiscal year 2022 results, as well as our fiscal 2023 guidance. With me this morning is Tom Mutryn, our Chief Financial Officer. Slide four, please. In July, CACI celebrated our 60th year of business. I'd like to start this morning's call with a quick moment of reflection on this milestone. Bank in 1962, our two founders started CACI with modest means, a park bench and a telephone booth for an office. What they lacked in resources, they made up for an ingenuity, confidence and shared tenacity. That spirit survives today and is foundational to our culture. Today we generate more than $6 billion of revenue and support some of the most critical missions that keep our nation and the world safe. Our founders would be astonished and proud of what CACI has become, especially the positive impact we've had on countless customers, employees, families, communities and shareholders over the last six decades. We are all truly honored to carry on this legacy started over 60 years ago. So on to our results. Slide five please. Last night, we released our fourth quarter and full year results for fiscal year 2022. Our results were in line with our expectations. For the full year, we delivered revenue growth of 3%, adjusted EBITDA margins of 10.3% and strong free cash flow of nearly $700 million. And we also won $7.1 billion of contract awards, of which nearly 60% is new business to CACI. That represents a 1.1 times book-to-bill for the year with a good mix of recompete wins to support our base and new awards to drive future growth. Slide six, please. Turning to the external environment. As we look out over the next several years, prospects are positive. Demand is strong and there continues to be bipartisan support for national security priorities. A favorable government fiscal year 2023 budget is currently moving through Congress, with higher spending in Defense, the Intelligence Community and Homeland Security and in particular in key addressable areas, like Digital Solutions, Enterprise IT and C4ISR, cyber and space. This strong backdrop gives us confidence in our ability to drive long-term growth and margin expansion, robust cash flow and additional shareholder value. Slide seven, please. We continue to invest ahead of need and differentiated expertise and technology to address key priorities that will drive long-term customer demand and spending. Let me give you some examples. Within digital solutions, we are modernizing applications and consolidate and disparate systems across the federal government to drive efficiency improve data accessibility and enhanced cybersecurity posture. As an industry leader in actual software development and scale, including executing two of the federal government's largest Agile programs, we are seeing increasing customer interest and pipeline opportunities to leverage Agile software development, DevSecOps and open architectures to enable digital application modernization. Enterprise IT, network modernization is the key trend. Agencies need to improve cyber defense, support an increasingly dispersed workforce and consolidate and modernize legacy networks for efficiency. In addition, real-time multi-domain integrated data and communications won't be available for efforts like [indiscernible] without modern network infrastructure. To address these challenges, we bring deep capabilities from past performance. And we are making investments in new technologies, like Commercial Solutions for Classified or CSfC to enable access to classified networks from commercial devices from anywhere in the world. Broad modernization of both digital solutions and enterprise it across the federal government will drive healthy spending for the foreseeable future and is an area CACI is well positioned, with both capabilities and past performance. Turning to C4ISR and cyber. The electromagnetic spectrum remains critical for intelligence collection and modern warfare. For more than a decade, we have invested to address critical priorities in the electromagnetic spectrum including signals intelligence, electronic warfare, counter-UAS and secured communications. For example, we provide software-defined capabilities to detect state those used by our adversaries, determine the location and degrade to see their use as well as protect our own use of the spectrum. In the context of the global threat environment and near cure adversaries, these are even more critical and are gaining traction with customers recognizing the necessity. Lastly, in the increasingly important space domain, we are leaning forward to position CACI areas where we see the opportunity for a decade-long technology-driven growth. In photonics, we're very excited about our continued progress in optical communications and both the higher volume legal market and the more bespoke geo and interplanetary markets. Our photonics capabilities have been successfully demonstrated in space, not just in the lab and continue to generate interest and opportunities for government customers and space platform providers. In fact, we recently made our first production delivery optical communication systems to one of our OEM partners. We also remain on track to put an upgradable software defined Assured Precision Navigation and Timing or APMT payload into low earth orbit early next year. This payload will demonstrate a unique technology, qualify its capabilities in space, improve out an alternative to the existing vulnerable GPS systems, a vulnerability that needs to be addressed. Slide 8 please. As you all know a number of years ago, we embarked on a purposeful strategy to create a different company within our market. We made significant investments in both expertise and technology to drive differentiation and value for our customers and ultimately increase the quality of our revenue. As we stand here today, our EBITDA margins are more than 200 basis points higher than they were earlier in this journey. We delivered sustained durable long-term margin expansion over those years. And even with the success, we remain committed to continued long-term margin expansion. Revenue growth plus margin expansion compounded by effective capital deployment drives our leading free cash flow per share growth and ultimately shareholder value. With that in mind, I'll turn to our fiscal 2023 guidance. We expect revenue growth of between 4.5% and 7.5%, adjusted EBITDA margin in the mid- to high 10% range. In addition, we expect to continue generating healthy cash flow and Tom will provide additional details on all elements of our guidance shortly. To wrap things up, we remain committed to our stated performance goals of long-term growth and margin expansion. CACI will continue to invest ahead of customer need to drive future growth and differentiation. As we've discussed many times before, our goal is to drive free cash flow per share. And our commitment remains consistent: to utilize CACI's strong cash flow in a flexible and opportunistic manner to deliver the greatest long-term shareholder value. With that, I'll turn the call over to Tom.