Steven E. Nielsen
Analyst · KeyBanc Capital Markets
Thanks, Rick. Now moving to Slide 4 in the review of our second quarter results. As you review these results, please note that we have included adjusted EBITDA, certain revenue amounts excluding revenues from acquired subsidiaries and storm restoration services, certain expense amounts excluding acquisition-related costs and write-off of deferred financing costs and adjusted earnings per share, all of which are non-GAAP financial measures to our release and comments. See Slide 16 through 20 for a reconciliation of the non-GAAP measures to the GAAP measures in the slide presentation provided for this call. For clarity and to ensure comparability between periods, our comments will now address our non-GAAP results. Revenues for the quarter increased year-over-year to $369.3 million, an increase of 38.1%. After excluding revenues from acquired subsidiaries of $75.9 million and storm restoration services of $16.7 million, revenue grew 3.5% organically. Volumes during the quarter were solid from telephone companies as a whole, with some companies growing meaningfully, while all carefully manage routine capital and maintenance expenditures. The spending by cable customers increased year-over-year. Gross margins increased by 72 basis points year-over-year, reflecting improved operating trends and storm restoration services in part. Despite the integration cost of approximately $1 million, general and administrative expenses declined slightly as a percentage of revenue year-over-year, reflecting continued good cost discipline. All of these factors produced adjusted EBITDA of $37.2 million for the second quarter or 10.1% of revenue. Results from businesses acquired during the quarter, excluded interest cost, were $800,000 after approximately $6.1 million of depreciation in noncash amortization expense. Net income of $0.15 per share for the second quarter increased from last year's earnings per share of $0.10, reflecting improved margins, offset in part by less other income as we reduced the amount of assets we sold during the quarter. After $63.5 million in operating cash flow in the quarter, liquidity was solid with cash and availability under our current credit facility totaling $233.4 million. This operating cash flow enabled us to repay $70 million, which we had borrowed during the quarter to fund the purchase of substantially all of Quanta Services' domestic telecom infrastructure services subsidiaries. Going to Slide 5. The purchase of these subsidiaries was completed on December 3, 2012, for a purchase price of $275 million and other items totaling $45 million. The transaction was structured to produce attractive tax -- cash tax benefits, it has strengthened our company and created scale as industry announcements indicate customer expenditures are growing. The purchase was funded through borrowings under our new 5-year $400 million credit facility and a $90 million add-on to our existing senior subordinated notes, which mature in January of 2021. Moving to Slide 6. During the quarter, we experienced the effects of a steady industry environment. Revenue from CenturyLink was $54.2 million or 14.7% of revenue. CenturyLink was our largest customer. AT&T was our second largest customer at 13.6% of total revenue or $50.1 million. AT&T grew 34.9% organically year-over-year. Revenue from Comcast was $40.8 million or 11% of revenue. Comcast was our third largest customer. Verizon was Dycom's fourth largest customer for the quarter at 9.1% of revenue or $33.5 million. Revenue from Windstream was $32.3 million or 8.8% of revenue. Altogether, our revenue grew 3.5%. After excluding revenues from acquired subsidiaries and storm restoration services, this represents our eighth consecutive quarter of organic growth. Our top 5 customers combined produced 57.1% of revenue, growing 9.1% organically, while all other customers decreased 4.4%. Now going to Slide 7. Backlog at the end of the second quarter was $2.019 billion versus $1.376 billion at the end of the first quarter, an increase of approximately $643 million. Of this backlog, approximately $1.242 billion is expected to be completed in the next 12 months. Both backlog calculations grew sequentially after adjusting for acquired backlog, reflecting solid performance as we continue to book new work, renew existing work and look forward to substantial future opportunities. With Windstream, we renewed 3-year construction and maintenance services agreement to New Mexico, Oklahoma, Mississippi, Kentucky, Alabama, Georgia and Florida. For Comcast, we secured extensions of both cable installation services and construction and maintenance services agreements in Washington, California, Maryland, Vermont, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Florida. With AT&T, we renewed a construction and maintenance services agreement in Florida for 3 years. With CenturyLink, new 3-year underground facility locating services agreements for Washington and Oregon. And finally, we secured rural broadband projects on a number of states including Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Kentucky, Tennessee, West Virginia and Georgia. Headcount increased during the quarter to 10,135. Now I will turn the call over to Drew for his financial review as well as additional information about our recent acquisition.