Operator
Operator
Please standby. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the Gentex Third Quarter 2015 Earnings Conference Call. Today's call is being recorded. And I'd now like to turn the meeting over to Mr. Josh O'Berski, with Gentex's Investor Relations Manager. Please go ahead, sir. Josh O'Berski - Head-Investor & Media Relations: Good morning and welcome to the Gentex Corporation Third Quarter 2015 Earnings Release Conference Call. I'm Josh O'Berski, Gentex Investor Relations Manager, and I'm joined by Steve Downing, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer; and Kevin Nash, Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer; and Neil Boehm, Vice President of Engineering. This call is live on the Internet by way of an icon on the Gentex website at www.gentex.com. All contents of this conference call are the property of Gentex Corporation and may not be copied, published, reproduced, rebroadcast, retransmitted, transcribed, or otherwise redistributed. Gentex Corporation will hold responsible and liable any party for any damages incurred by Gentex Corporation with respect to any unauthorized use of the contents of this conference call. This conference call contains forward-looking information within the meaning of the Gentex's Safe Harbor statement included in the Gentex Reports Third Quarter 2015 Financial Results and Additional Share Repurchase Authorization press release from earlier this morning, and as always, shown on the Gentex website. Your participation in this conference call implies consent to these terms. Now, I will turn the call over to Steve Downing, who will give the third quarter 2015 financial summary. Steve R. Downing - Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer & Senior VP: Thank you, Josh. For the third quarter of 2015, the company is pleased to report net sales of $389.8 million, which was an 11% increase compared to net sales of $350.9 million in the third quarter of 2014. On a quarter-over-quarter basis, foreign currency fluctuations accounted for approximately 1% of revenue headwind. The gross profit margin in the third quarter of 2015 was 39% compared with a gross profit margin of 39.5% in the third quarter of 2014. On a quarter-over-quarter basis, foreign currency fluctuations accounted for the majority of the reduction in gross profit margin, while annual customer price reductions were essentially offset by purchasing cost reductions. Sequentially, from the second quarter of 2015, the gross margin improved from 38.4%, primarily due to increased purchasing cost reductions and improvements in product mix. Operating income for the third quarter of 2015 increased 13% to $116.3 million when compared to operating income of $103.2 million for the third quarter of 2014. Other income decreased to a loss of $0.2 million in the third quarter of 2015 compared with other income of $0.8 million in the third quarter of 2014, primarily due to increased interest expense as a result of the company's newly implemented interest rate swap, combined with lower realized gains on the sale of equity investments. Net income for the third quarter of 2015 increased 8% to $78.3 million compared with net income of $72.3 million in the third quarter of 2014. Earnings per diluted share in the third quarter of 2015 increased 8% to $0.27 compared with earnings per diluted share of $0.25 in the third quarter of 2014, which reflects the December 31, 2014 stock split which was effected in the form of 100% stock dividend. During the third quarter of 2015, the company repurchased 2.1 million shares of its common stock, and through nine months ended September 30, 2015, the company has repurchased 4.9 million shares. The company's board of directors has also recently authorized the repurchase of up to an additional 5 million shares of the company's outstanding common stock under the existing terms of the most recently announced share repurchase plan. As of September 30, 2015, the company has approximately 6.3 million shares remaining available for repurchase in the plan, including the most recent share authorization. The company intends to continue to repurchase additional shares of its common stock in the future, depending on macroeconomic issues, market trends, and other factors that the company deems appropriate. During the third quarter of 2015, the company paid down $25 million on its revolver loan in addition to its normally scheduled principal payment on the company's term loan. The company may, at its discretion, pay additional principal toward its loans in the future depending on macroeconomic trends, capital expenditure spending, cash and money market interest rates, the amount of available free cash and other factors that it deems appropriate for timing and amounts of incremental debt repayments. Now to Kevin Nash with third quarter 2015 financial details.