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Analyst · John Watson with Simmons Energy. Your line is now open
Thank you, Prady, good morning. Total orders for the company were $275 million, down $36 million or 11% from the second quarter. The decrease was primarily due to the large subsea capital equipment order received last quarter and to a lesser extent a slowdown in U.S. completions activity. The book-to-bill ratio was 103%. Our third quarter revenue was $267 million, down only $7 million or 3% sequentially despite the slowdown in completions activity. Net loss for the quarter was $3 million or $0.03 per diluted share. Results for the quarter included restructuring and other charges totaling $8 million on a pre-tax basis, offset by $1 million of foreign exchange gains. We provided a reconciliation table of these special items in our earnings release for your reference. Our adjusted EBITDA was $29 million or 10.9% of revenue, a sequential improvement of 90 basis points. Our adjusted net income was $0.03 per diluted share, excluding special items. I will now summarize our segment results on a sequential basis. In our Completions segment, orders decreased 5% to $115 million. Segment revenue was $119 million, a decrease of $8 million or 6%. This was due to a slowdown in completions activity partially offset by higher market penetration of our artificial lift products. Adjusted EBITDA margins were 23%, consistent with the prior quarter as the impact of tariffs was offset by higher mix, of high margin downhole products. Production and infrastructure segment orders were $100 million, an increase of 1% on strong orders of well site production equipment, as operators prepare for 2019 development plans. This was partially offset by decline in orders for valves after the product line delivered two consecutive quarters of record orders. Demand for valves in the quarter was somewhat negatively impacted by the recently imposed tariffs. Segment revenue was $95 million, a 8% increase resulting primarily from higher sales of valves as well as surface production equipment. Adjusted EBITDA margins were 8% for segment, an improvement of approximately 80 basis points. In our drilling and subsea segment, orders were $60 million, a 33% decrease due to the large rescue submarine award received last quarter. Orders in our drilling product line increased by 11% as we continue to win international award. The book-to-bill ratio for the segment was a 110%. Segment revenue was $55 million, a decrease of $5 million, or 9%. This was due to the timing of drilling equipment deliveries and lower revenue recognition on subsea projects. Adjusted EBITDA for the segment improved to $1.5 million with positive contribution from both product lines. In October, subsequent to the quarter, we acquired GHT for $52 million in cash and an earn-out under which additional cash consideration will be paid if certain conditions are met in 2019 and 2020. We expect GHT to generate approximately $12 million of EBITDA in 2018. Consistent with U.S. hydraulic fracturing activity, GHT 2018 results will be weighted more towards the first half of the year. I will now discuss some additional details about our results and financial position at the Forum level. Our free cash flow after net capital expenditures in the third quarter was negative $4 million, an improvement of $8 million over the second quarter. Despite the inventory investments made in anticipation of strong U.S. completions activity in the second of this year, we are on track to be free cash flow positive in the fourth quarter and for the second half of the year. Our net capital expenditures in the third quarter were $5 million. We expect our net capital expenditures for the year to be under $25 million. Our balance sheet and financial position remains strong. Our liquidity position at the end of the third quarter before the acquisition of GHT was approximately $246 million, net debt was $440 million and our net-debt-to-total-capitalization ratio was 24%. Our reported diluted share count for the third quarter was a 109 million shares. Since our adjusted net income was positive, our adjusted diluted share count, including the impact of options was a 111 million shares. Interest in depreciation and amortization were $8 million and $19 million respectively in the third quarter. We expect this to remain at similar levels in the fourth quarter. Adjusted corporate expenses were $7 million in the third quarter, a sequential decrease of $2 million due to a reduction of variable compensation expenses. We expect corporate expenses to return to the second quarter level of approximately $9 million in the fourth quarter. We estimate that our effective tax rate in the fourth quarter will be over 25%, since we continue to have unrecognized international tax benefits. For more information about our financial results, please review the earnings release on our website. Now, let me turn the call over to Lyle to discuss some key operating initiatives.