William Boor
Analyst · CJS Securities. You may begin
02:18 Thank you, Mark. Welcome, and thank you for joining us today to review our results for the second quarter of fiscal year twenty twenty two. We're very happy to report another record quarter for revenue and earnings. Revenues increased approximately thirty nine percent year-over-year, and diluted EPS was up nearly hundred and fifty percent. We also achieved a record housing gross margin of twenty four point one percent. This was partly due to average selling price continuing its upward trajectory with a thirteen percent sequential increase and partly due to the temporary while we saw in lumber and OSB pricing that flowed through our cost of good sales – goods sold during the quarter. Demand for our products remained strong and our backlogs continued to grow. 03:03 Excluding commodore backlogs were eight twenty eight million dollars and the acquisition added another two seventy nine million dollars, putting the total at one point one billion dollars. This represents about forty to forty two weeks of production. New Home supply has lagged for many years leading to a large housing deficit particularly for lower cost homes. 03:26 Demographics and low interest rates continue to underpin the strong demand we're experiencing. And is the cost of supply and labor input to increase. The efficiency advantages of factory-built housing relative to site built are increasing as well. This all results in a very positive and growing opportunity for our industry. By any measure, we're seeing continued strong demand and can sell every house we can make. 03:51 Regarding production, it won't surprise anyone on the call that supply issues have not led up and they're affecting nearly every material we use to build homes. Not much I can add to the information we're all hearing about availability of imports as well as domestically produced supplies. We have no ability to predict how long but expect the situation will persist for some time. Our teams continue to a great job managing through it and working to minimize significant impact this has had on production. 04:22 Labor difficulties also continue to negatively impact production. However, because of the holistic approach, we've been taking to address root cause with fundamental and lasting solutions, we're beginning to see signs of improvement staffing and retention. We've implemented increased wages and benefits, but equally is important. We are investing in recruiting onboarding and training processes. 04:46 Labor issues faced by nearly all manufacturers are complex and we're building systems in approaches that we believe will provide advantages long-term. That kind of fundamental systemic work is how we're building our team skills. In addition to this intense focus on labor solutions, our plant teams are continuing to simplify product offerings in order to increase volume for our customers. 05:10 Strategically, we push forward by taking action across the spectrum of our investment priorities. Our recent investment in Fort Worth is a great example of improving process flow to enable increased production. That investment as well on its way to improving throughput by approximately twenty percent. We're working to identify and pursue any opportunities to make similar investments across our network of plants. 05:36 With regard to our previously announced Glendale project, we have incurred permitting delays that have moved our start-up production to the second quarter of calendar year twenty twenty two. The good news is that we've now received the necessary permits and are executing on the build-out. This project will both nearly double our park model production in Arizona and free up a production line for incremental high capacity at our good year plant. 06:00 On the acquisition front, we closed on a Commodore transaction during the quarter, a little ahead of the planned third quarter timeline. After just a month and half since the closing integration is going well, we could not be happier about joining forces with the people at Commodore. 06:15 Beyond the geographic expansion and twenty five percent increase in capacity this deal brings, I remain as excited as ever about the manufacturing technologies and the best practices will be applying across the combined company. The challenges that are limited production have hidden the fact that our plants are improving their efficiencies. For example, our hours per floor produced have improved this year as our plants demonstrate their ability to drive through this period of understaffing and intermittent high-absenteeism, as we solve these issues and our supplies become more reliable, we're poised to see a new level of plant throughput. 06:53 So, strategically, we’ve not paused and we're looking forward to playing an increasing role in addressing the affordable housing issues that are facing perspective homebuyers. Today, we have our new CFO, Allison Aden with us on the call. She's been here for just a couple months now, we're very happy to have her onboard. With that, I'll turn it over to Allison to discuss the quarterly results in more detail.