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Iron Mountain Incorporated (IRM)

Q1 2013 Earnings Call· Wed, May 1, 2013

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Operator

Operator

Good morning. My name is Bonnie, and I will be your conference operator today. At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to the Iron Mountain First Quarter 2013 Earnings Call Webcast. [Operator Instructions] Thank you. I would now like to turn the conference over to Ms. Melissa Marsden. Please go ahead, ma'am.

Melissa Marsden

Analyst

Thank you, Bonnie, and welcome, everyone to our first quarter 2013 earnings conference call. I'm Melissa Marsden, Senior Vice President of Investor Relations for the company. This morning, we'll hear from Bill Meaney, our CEO, who will discuss highlights and strategic initiatives; followed by Brian McKeon, our CFO, who will cover financial results. After their prepared remarks, we'll open up the phones for Q&A. Per our custom, we have a user-controlled slide presentation at the Investor Relations page of our website at www.ironmountain.com. Referring now to Slide 2. Today's earnings call and slide presentation will contain a number of forward-looking statements, most notably our outlook for 2013 financial performance. All forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties. Please refer to today's press release, the Safe Harbor language on this slide and our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10-K for a discussion of the major risk factors that could cause our actual results to differ from those in our forward-looking statements. In addition, we use several non-GAAP measures when presenting our financial results. The reconciliations of these non-GAAP measures, as required by Reg G, can be found at the Investor Relations page of our website, as well as in today's press release. With that, I'd like to turn the call over to Bill Meaney.

William L. Meaney

Analyst · Macquarie

Thanks, Melissa, and thank you to everyone for joining us today. We're off to a good start in 2013 with first quarter financial results in line with our expectations. Total revenues were $747 million, adjusted OIBDA was $227 million and adjusted earnings per share was $0.27 per share. Operating performance also is tracking in line with our full year ranges with consistent storage rental constant dollar growth of 4.4% and storage rental internal growth of 3%. As noted in recent quarters, we continued to see a decrease in activity-based services. These trends continue, but we are able to offset these impacts to deliver solid profit results. I'll turn it over to Brian to cover the details of our results in a few minutes. But first, I'd like to talk about what we're seeing in our markets and some of the ways in which we plan to sustain the durability of our core business. Since our last report to you, we've continued to make progress on many fronts and have integrated our strategic review into the budget process for 2014. More specifically, some of the areas of focus include: preparing to operate as a REIT; continue to emphasize organic growth, both in the mature and emerging markets; expanding through acquisitions which are accretive and which meet our strategic and financial hurdles; and evaluating close-in adjacencies. With respect to the REIT, we are moving forward with plans to build on our solid foundation and enhance our strategy. As we've said before, we can't comment on the specifics of our PLR, or Private Letter Ruling. We can say that in general, the process can take about a year, but we don't control the timing. As you know, we filed our PLR in mid-July 2012 and we continue to prepare for conversion moving full…

Brian P. McKeon

Analyst · Macquarie

Thanks, Bill. Let's turn now to Slide 3 which highlights the key messages from today's review. We delivered good operating results in Q1, driven by a consistent storage rental growth which supported solid profit performance. Overall growth trends were consistent. Storage rental growth grew 4.4% on a constant dollar basis in the quarter, supported by 2% gains in North America and 12% growth in International, including benefits from our 2012 acquisitions in Brazil and Europe. While storage growth remains solid, we saw similar declines in query-based core service activity leading to lower retrievable refile and transportation revenues in mature markets. Service growth declines were a bit higher in Q1, as expected, reflecting some tougher comparisons in International markets, as well as declines in storage destruction and termination fees. We expect these impacts to moderate as we work through the year. Adjusted OIBDA was up 2% and on-track with our full year outlook. Our profit results continue to be supported by International margin gains and sustained cost controls. Overall, Q1 was in line with our expectation, supported by solid storage growth, strong International gains and continued efficiencies in capital investment. Today, we're reiterating our full year 2013 performance outlook. In addition to our revenue and profit performance, our capital expenditures and free cash flow generation are all tracking to plan. Let's move on to Slide 4 to review our financial results in more detail. Slide 4 compares our results for this quarter to the first quarter of 2012. As noted, Q1 results were as expected, supported by solid storage rental growth. Enterprise revenues grew 0.5% on a constant dollar basis, as our International segment continued to produce strong revenue performance. International posted 7% constant dollar revenue growth, supported by 12% storage rental growth, including benefits from our acquisitions in Brazil and…

Operator

Operator

[Operator Instructions] Our first question comes from Kevin McVeigh of Macquarie.

Kevin D. McVeigh - Macquarie Research

Analyst · Macquarie

Bill, I'd love to kind of get your thoughts, your first quarter out of the gate, any upside surprises, downside? It's kind of interesting it -- you really get a sense of the durability of the business model within all the additional responsibility in terms of managing through the REIT conversion process. So just any thoughts on that initially would be helpful.

William L. Meaney

Analyst · Macquarie

Kevin, I think not really any big surprise. We're tracking as planned. I think the only thing that coming is from an outsider coming in, it's always good to see that even though Europe is not doing well from a macroeconomic standpoint -- if you look at the mature markets in Western Europe, is we continued to have solid, physical growth in terms of the -- in terms of storage rental. So we're still tracking quite well even in the mature markets. And then, emerging markets, we're continuing to find more and more upside. So I've been spending quite a bit of my time internationally over the last month or so, and we do have real opportunities there and it's starting to show in our results. So no real surprises, I think we're pretty much within expectations. But it's nice to see that things are tracking ahead.

Kevin D. McVeigh - Macquarie Research

Analyst · Macquarie

Great. And then Brian, it looks like we're able to update kind of the REIT-related and other expenditures out through kind of '14 to '16. And I know we can't comment on the PLR, but any sense of what gave us the confidence to do that. Just within the context of the PLR overall would be helpful.

Brian P. McKeon

Analyst · Macquarie

Well, I think we've said all along that going through this process, we felt we had good arguments on the key issue areas that we need to resolution in the PLR and it's not certain. That's why we need to get feedback from the IRS, but we feel confident in our arguments and made the decision to move forward with the investments, because we need to, given the scope and complexity of our conversion effort to make sure that we're on track for the January 1 conversions. So the estimates that we provided, Kevin, are consistent with what we've highlighted in the past. I think we're just giving you some clarity on how that's playing out in terms of the phasing in 2013. But it's the same range we've been highlighting.

Kevin D. McVeigh - Macquarie Research

Analyst · Macquarie

No, no, no, I know that. I guess, I thought the '14 to '16, that incremental data was new. It looked like the '13 range was consistent, but I hadn't seen the '14 to '16 so I didn't know if that was something that -- just what drove the decision to provide that.

Brian P. McKeon

Analyst · Macquarie

I think it's consistent with what we've been sharing so...

William L. Meaney

Analyst · Macquarie

Yes, Kevin. If we had put that out previously and it's really more to do with like the timing of tax payments, primarily that drags it out to '16. There are a couple of conversions that would likely take place past 12/31/13 which are also in that column, but we've put that out before.

Brian P. McKeon

Analyst · Macquarie

It's all consistent with the same plan we've been outlining.

Operator

Operator

Our next question comes from George Tong of Piper Jaffray.

George K. Tong - Piper Jaffray Companies, Research Division

Analyst · Piper Jaffray

I just wanted to get some additional color around your progress in converting your systems to be REIT-compliant by the end of this year and to begin operating as a REIT by the beginning of next year. Could you discuss your progress there? And how you expect the rollout to progress as we move forward?

Brian P. McKeon

Analyst · Piper Jaffray

Sure, no. We again are targeting to be ready for the election on January 1. And to be positioned to do that, we have to align our legal entities internationally and we have the initial countries that we're converting, which is the U.S. and several other countries and need to have all our information systems aligned so that we can measure performance in qualified REIT subsidiaries, taxable REIT subsidiaries, and ensure that we're complying with the key requirements like the asset test. So we're -- to do that effectively, we're touching a lot of our ERP systems. We have more than one in our company. We've used different versions in International operations. We're in the midst of the heavy lifting of all of that and preparing for kind of a transition over in -- this summer so that we can test this well in advance of the January 1 conversion. And I would say, there's a ton of work going on. We're obviously investing a lot behind that, but everything is on-track, and we feel good about the progress that we're making there.

George K. Tong - Piper Jaffray Companies, Research Division

Analyst · Piper Jaffray

That's very helpful. And then, as a follow-up question, could you discuss the dynamics in your various International markets as it relates to storage growth? And any opportunities you're seeing in specific countries and strategies you have to increase the performance of some of the markets that you may not be a leader in currently?

William L. Meaney

Analyst · Piper Jaffray

Well, I think that -- thanks, George. I think, let's kind of divide the International between 2 groups, so the emerging and the mature markets. On the mature side, I think we continue to see some opportunity for tuck-in acquisitions. But even absent of that, we have seen consistently over a number of quarters now is solid -- not just solid revenue growth around storage, but also solid cube growth. So absolutely showing that where people are storing more and more paper and tapes with us during that period. So that's good to see and that's both in countries where we have already established our market-leading position and those of countries where we are not in a market-leading position. And in mature markets, obviously, we have to be more thoughtful in terms of looking at acquisitions that truly complement our current operations and build in terms of our franchise. In the emerging markets, we have, first of all, very strong fundamental underlying growth. But there's also, in a number of countries, we've already established our market-leading position, like Chile, but we're also finding other countries where there's good acquisition opportunities to continue to build on those franchises. And as I say, the underlining franchise themselves are showing very high physical storage growth and revenue growth. In addition, in a number of the emerging markets, specifically around Latin America, we're finding a lot of growth around BPM, or Business Process Management. And that many cases leads us to have even a stickier relationship with a number of our customers. In fact, the number of our customers start with more -- with our work around BPM or managing some of their paper processes and then it leads to storage, rather than the other way around. But as I say, it strengthens our relationship with those customers and we're showing good growth both on the Business Process Management, whilst it has a lower margin, but it has a very high return on invested capital and as I say, and continued strong underlying growth in the physical storage business.

Operator

Operator

Our next question comes from Andrew Wittmann of Baird. Andrew J. Wittmann - Robert W. Baird & Co. Incorporated, Research Division: I wanted to just dig in a little bit on your comments, Bill, on M&A. It sounds like you're looking at a lot of stuff right now. I think previously, we were thinking about the company over kind of like a 10-year period and thinking $100 million a year was kind of the right way to think about what capital allocation to M&A could be. Is that, in the near term, maybe elevated from that level based on what you're seeing out there today?

William L. Meaney

Analyst · Baird

It's hard to comment at this point. We're pretty -- we're very disciplined in terms of our acquisition process. And right now, we're not constrained by capital, but we are seeing more and more opportunities and, as I say, International expansion is an important part of our strategy. We did, as you know, a fairly large acquisition last year in Brazil. We continue to see acquisitions in our pipeline. I think you can expect that we'll continue on that trend. To say what our total appetite is in terms of expenditure around that at this point, it's hard to say, but I wouldn't change our guidance at this stage. But we are aggressively looking at what makes sense from an acquisition standpoint and we will continue to do that. But as I said, it was a very clear view in terms of what our hurdle rates are in terms of return. Andrew J. Wittmann - Robert W. Baird & Co. Incorporated, Research Division: Got it. And just in terms of managing the balance sheet, maybe Brian on this, you're going to poke a little bit above the targeted level. How comfortable are you about going -- or how high would you go and for how long would you go if the right deal came around above that kind of targeted range?

Brian P. McKeon

Analyst · Baird

Yes, that's a good question. I mean, as a company, we've operated above 5x leverage. I'm not saying that that's what we'd be targeting to do. But I mean, I think our business has a lot of capacity to support higher leverage. I think we would look at it in the context of the opportunity. We'd likely perhaps move more towards the 5x range if we needed to temporarily. But I think we'd look at different alternatives and what's the right way to finance the acquisition, too, if we get something more significant. But our longer-term goals are the same. The intent would be to manage our leverage back down towards the 3x to 4x target range. And we feel quite comfortable with the business that we have, that we can both manage the short term and get back to where we're hoping to be over the long term. Andrew J. Wittmann - Robert W. Baird & Co. Incorporated, Research Division: And maybe just one more, kind of on this theme. Bill, you kind of talked about you're exploring wholesale data centers on existing land. I think strategically, it makes some sense from a high level, just given your focus on data management and outsourcing key data protection services. But obviously, you're clearly a technically more complex business in terms of what the building actually is and there are specialized developers and owners of that real estate today. As you look at potentially getting into that business, is this something you think you have the skill set in-house? Or is this an area that you think you'd have to kind of bring in a platform to do that?

William L. Meaney

Analyst · Baird

A good question. Well, first of all, I think we start getting into this business because our customers asked us to start providing services. So as you know, we're already providing wholesale data center service to 7 customers in our underground facility as we sit here today. And it's pretty much along the lines that you're saying is that there is an opportunity to continue to both expand that business and then, when we look at what customers want is our underground facility outside Pittsburgh is more of a disaster recovery site and a number of the customers are also asking for wholesale data center services or retail services that service their day-to-day data processing needs. And those need to be closer to their headquarters or their centers of operation. So there's a link between aboveground and underground facilities. That being said, both because the question you asked and do we have the full skill set in-house and because it is a market where there are a number of competitors, is we're doing it in a very thoughtful way in letting our customers lead us into these arrangements rather than spending a lot of capital upfront and building it and see if they come, if you know what I mean. And we are as part of this process adding the right people at the right spots. But this is not large numbers of people, but it's actually hiring the right senior leadership team to support Mark Kidd, who is actually leading that effort for us, to make sure that we have the right critical skill set that can evaluate the opportunity properly.

Operator

Operator

Our next question comes from Gary Bisbee of Barclays.

Gary E. Bisbee - Barclays Capital, Research Division

Analyst · Barclays

I wanted to first ask about the color on the pipeline of new business opportunities, in the commentary that you're optimistic and a lot of it is from new customers of the company. We haven't heard a lot of comments in the past around that pipeline. So can you give a little color on where you're seeing opportunities? And is this an acceleration from what the trend has been in recent years? And just what makes you have that positive commentary?

William L. Meaney

Analyst · Barclays

I wouldn't say it's an exploding trend. I think that similar to what we said I think -- I believe we said on the last call this verticalization, I think of it as a way of actually taking out the drill bits and doing the hard mining to get to the next level in the vein of resources. So it's similar along the lines of what we say, we're starting to see some what I call the green shoots in the federal market with our win in the veterans area. And we're seeing some green shoots in the health care area, which is the vertical that we've been operating in the longest, and we're getting into some related areas for our traditional health care clients, which is now almost a 1-for-1 set off on a revenue basis of what we were losing on the service side because the medical records becoming electronic. And yet it's at a -- it had more than a 2x margin because we're replacing that business, the service business, around electronic medical records with more physical storage in areas like pathology, but also in terms of other physical records that is a 1-for-1 almost trade-off in terms of revenue, but at more than 2x the margin. So this is a trend where, as I say, is through the verticalization is mining deeper either in our current client relationships or clients that are in that sector but have traditionally not outsourced or completely outsourced their storage business.

Gary E. Bisbee - Barclays Capital, Research Division

Analyst · Barclays

And then just following up on that, can you give an example or 2 of how the offerings have changed in health care? Are you doing things different or is it really understanding the pain points for the customer and how to adopt the current offerings to help them relieve their issues?

William L. Meaney

Analyst · Barclays

It's a little bit of both. So I mean, one area and a new area which we've started in just the recent months is in the whole pathology area, which was an area that, oddly enough, we were in way back when through an acquisition we did in Boston, our first acquisition in Boston, but it's now a business that we're coming back into. As well, it has a number of areas where they weren't as sensitive to the documentation that they were keeping, either from a compliance standpoint or a space standpoint. So it's more areas where there was less sensitivity in terms of space and or compliance requirements and they now need to have those documents stored in a secure way. And the other side, as I say, is areas like pathology, which people now are realizing that those types of samples need to be stored in a proper way.

Brian P. McKeon

Analyst · Barclays

Gary, I'd also highlight that I think the dedicated sales focus in the health care vertical, we had other product offerings. We do DMS-type work, we have our product offering around digital records center for medical imaging. And being in the flow of all the change that's going on in the health care space has enabled our organization to identify opportunities, to do things like grow storage. So I think that part of the concept around the verticalization strategy is having more -- having sales and account management resources that have more specific industry insight. And by being involved with the changes that our customers are going through, we're better able to identify opportunities to do business with them. And that's certainly been the case in health care.

Gary E. Bisbee - Barclays Capital, Research Division

Analyst · Barclays

Okay, that make sense. And then, just one last one which is, just what gives you confidence -- in the commentary I heard, a comment I heard a couple of times that you think the service declines will ease as we move through the year. Is it really just a comps issue or is there anything else going on?

William L. Meaney

Analyst · Barclays

It's a comp issue in that we knew we were up against, particularly in International, some shredding account losses and we had a DMS account that we're working through. And so we know we'll be up against more favorable compares. But also that we're targeting improved growth in areas like DMS as we work through the year and that will help as well. We just really wanted to highlight that this isn't a change in trend. This is a kind of a consistent underlying trend on activity-based volume. We do have some tougher comps and we expect those numbers to improve.

Operator

Operator

Our next question comes from Scott Schneeberger of Oppenheimer.

Unknown Analyst

Analyst · Oppenheimer

For Scott. Can you take us a little deeper on the drivers of International margins in the quarter, and if you see any particular dynamic that might enable you to exceed your long-term target there?

William L. Meaney

Analyst · Oppenheimer

The key drivers there, we were having good underlying storage growth. In the International business, we had a 12% constant dollar, 5% internal, solid growth across the business. And I think that is a good -- helps everything. It's a high-margin business and helps us to build scales across our business. And we continued to see the flow-through benefits of the improvement plan in Western Europe. If you recall the portfolio review and the productivity improvement plan that we implemented, those benefits to continue to just flow through. We're comfortable that we're on track towards the goal that we outlined in the 2-year plan of the 25% margin growth. This achievement, this year, not signaling any upside to that. And we've indicated over time, we think there is room for additional margin improvement in International but want to temper our expectations there where we think future gains will be more moderate, and that we're really focused on maximizing the value opportunity there. But -- so no change in the expectations, but we feel good about the progress that we're making.

Brian P. McKeon

Analyst · Oppenheimer

Yes, and just one thing to add to that, Scott, is remember -- and again, I think we mentioned this last time, you have to look at our International business, because of the growth potential there, as a portfolio. So as countries, for instance, if we take again Chile, which has amongst the highest margins of our operations worldwide, mature or emerging markets, is because if we've got our market-leading position there, there will be other places where we continue to build a market-leading position so it would generally drift those margins up. But we are adding in new areas where we have real opportunity. So it's a portfolio approach of adding less mature opportunities into a group of countries that may be getting more mature. So net-net, you have to -- it's not clear that it would even be the right strategy to say that our average margin would go up internationally because that would signal that we're not finding new markets to actually go into and eventually build a market-leading position. So you have to look at it as a portfolio approach in International. The key in International is to make sure that when we're doing acquisitions, we have a clear discipline in terms of our return on invested capital and return on equity. And we have a clear strategic vision of how that country or that investment will eventually build into a market-leading position.

Operator

Operator

Our next question comes from Steven Shui of Stifel. Steven Shui - Stifel, Nicolaus & Co., Inc., Research Division: You guys had mentioned that the improvement in North American margins are partially due to the realignment of the sales force for the health care vertical. Can you give us a sense of how much North American margins can potentially improve as you guys realign the sales force verticals beyond health care?

William L. Meaney

Analyst · Stifel

We had a little trouble hearing you. But -- the end of the question you're saying how much more could North American margins increase? Steven Shui - Stifel, Nicolaus & Co., Inc., Research Division: Yes, once you realign the sales force beyond health care.

Brian P. McKeon

Analyst · Stifel

The sales force realignment that was done last year wasn't just related to health care, it was a broader realignment. And we've been consistently signaling, don't expect margin improvement in North America. I think we've got a very high margin business operation. We're trying to sustain that and be balanced about an appropriate level of investment to ensure we have a healthy and sustained annuity over time. So those efficiencies enabled us to sustain good returns and that's what you should expect for this year.

William L. Meaney

Analyst · Stifel

And just to emphasize Brian's comment, the verticalization is about maintaining our consistent storage revenue growth in North America. It's not about margin expansion. There was a one-time benefit of that in terms of the realignment to the sales force that allowed us to be more efficient. But the verticalization is really about to be able to maintain our consistent revenue growth performance around storage in North America. Steven Shui - Stifel, Nicolaus & Co., Inc., Research Division: Okay. And to change direction, given where paper prices are now at a relatively depressed level compared to last year, have you guys seen any improvement to the pricing environment for Shredding?

Brian P. McKeon

Analyst · Stifel

Paper prices have been in a relatively consistent range, $150 to $160 a ton, for several months now. So I think that stability, it's a bit below the longer-term averages, which would be in the $200 a ton range. And I think the Shredding business, we feel good about progress there. But I wouldn't signal that there's any meaningful change in kind of pricing dynamics. It's been a relatively stable environment.

Operator

Operator

Our next question comes from Andrew Steinerman of JPMorgan. Andrew C. Steinerman - JP Morgan Chase & Co, Research Division: Could you go back to internal revenue change in core service, the minus 7 is kind of a larger number relative to last couple of years. Do you feel like the things that have affected the first quarter will meaningfully get better through the year? Or do you feel like this will be a year of larger declines in core service than we've experienced in the past?

Brian P. McKeon

Analyst · JPMorgan

Andrew, we were trending minus 3 to minus 4 internal growth Q3, Q4. If you look back to Q1 of last year, we had growth in core service. So this isn't a fundamental change. I mean, I think we're seeing very consistent kind of pressures on the mature market activity-based services and we would expect to move back towards more kind of the range that we were in the last couple of quarters and with opportunity to improve on that because we have goals that we have in terms of driving project-based revenue and building aspects of our business. So I think it's -- we're trying to signal don't take Q1 and trend that out in terms of a growth rate that's more reflecting lapping and some specific things. But I think the trends that we saw later last year are probably more indicative of where we'll be heading in the next couple of quarters. Andrew C. Steinerman - JP Morgan Chase & Co, Research Division: That's helpful, Brian, and one more question on the same subject. You also cited declines in destruction as part of that dynamic in core service. And whenever I hear declines in destruction, I often think that, that should help the storage revenues. Is that dynamic happening or is this a different type of destruction?

Brian P. McKeon

Analyst · JPMorgan

Well, we did see, in terms of the destruction and termination fees, it's not a huge driver of the number in North America, but it was lower in Q1, down double digits. Some of that's timing, so I don't want to indicate like a fundamental change there. But you're right, that is a relatively positive dynamic. I think it's reflective of a lot of the work that we've been doing over the last couple of years on customer retention, customer excellence and the benefits of that. So yes, it should be something that helps us over time. Some of -- to be fair, I mean, some of this is just timing and when things happen. But I think that is a theme that hopefully you are hearing here that we feel quite good about the storage dynamic. I think it's consistent, it's healthy. We're expanding our footprint globally and as that, our International business continues to grow, it has very healthy underlying growth rates. We're feeling good about that as a longer-term trend.

Operator

Operator

Our next question comes from Gary Bisbee of Barclays.

Gary E. Bisbee - Barclays Capital, Research Division

Analyst · Barclays

Follow up. In thinking about all the investment you're doing in terms of preparing for the REIT, is that fully captured in the one-time cost and charges that you've been giving us that number for the REIT? Or are there some costs through SG&A and cost of sales that might fall off next year as you get through the process? And if so, how significant are those costs?

Brian P. McKeon

Analyst · Barclays

It won't fall off, Gary. It will go the other way candidly in the sense that we've been highlighting all along that as our anticipation, as we come through the conversion process, there's a whole bunch of one-time costs. We will have a level of incremental ongoing costs in we've -- our estimate, I believe, has been $10 million to $15 million. If you think about it, we're going to need additional tax resources, some additional financial resources, legal resources to just manage the incremental compliance requirements, things of that nature. We do anticipate that over time, we should get efficiencies as well out of this effort and that we're standardizing a lot of our systems and our approaches. I think that's going to take a little time to flow through because our focus really here is to make sure we're getting to the goal line on the right -- as quickly as we can and to make sure we don't miss that. But I wouldn't expect or I don't want to signal that we're going to see like a drop off in underlying costs. We really tried to be clear about segregating these costs and they're separate from our ongoing operational costs.

Operator

Operator

At this time, there are no further questions.

William L. Meaney

Analyst · Macquarie

Thank you, operator. To wrap up, we're off to a good start in 2013. Our durable growth in storage rental continues, we have attractive opportunities to sustain that growth through acquisitions and further expansion into emerging markets, as well as investment in our adjacent businesses -- opportunities. We are on track to deliver against our financial goals. We're making good progress on preparations for our planned conversion to a REIT and we have an attractive storage rental business with durable, high-quality net operating income that aligns well with REITs. As we continue to execute against our plan, we will be focused on prudent capital allocation, maximizing total returns and delivering sustainable value to our shareholders. Thank you for joining us this morning.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. This concludes today's conference call. You may now disconnect.