Operator
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Good day, ladies and gentlemen, and thank you for standing by. And welcome to the Magna International Fourth Quarter and Year-End 2015 Results. During the presentation, all participants will be in a listen-only mode. Afterwards, we will conduct a question-and-answer session. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded today, Friday, February 26, 2016. It is now my pleasure to turn the conference over to Don Walker, Chief Executive Officer of Magna. Please go ahead, Mr. Walker. Donald J. Walker - Chief Executive Officer & Director: Thank you. Hello, everybody, and welcome to our fourth quarter and yearend 2015 conference call. Joining me today is Vince Galifi, Chief Financial Officer, and Louis Tonelli, Vice President of Investor Relations. Yesterday, our board of directors met and approved our financial results for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2015. And we issued a press release this morning for the quarter. You will find the press release, today's conference call webcast, our updated quarterly financial review, and the slide presentation to go along with the call, all in the Investor Relations section of our website at www.magna.com. Before we get started, just a reminder the discussion today may contain forward-looking information or forward-looking statements within the meaning of applicable securities legislation. Such statements involve certain risks, assumptions and uncertainties, which may cause the company's actual or future results and performance to be materially different from those expressed or implied in these statements. Please refer to today's press release for a complete description of our Safe Harbor disclaimer. 2015 was another successful year for Magna. We made important strides to reposition our product portfolio for the future and in particular, entering into the transaction to acquire Getrag, which puts us in a great position to support automakers' needs for improved fuel efficiency, and disposing substantially all of our interiors business. This business was not core for us and expect future returns do not support remaining in this product area. From an operations perspective, excluding the negative translation impact from the strong U.S. dollar and the reported results, I was satisfied with our performance. Our North American segment generated strong sales and EBIT despite the headwinds of lower scrap recoveries, higher launch cost, and underperformance in certain operations. We believe we will overcome the challenges in these operations as we work our way through 2016. In Europe, EBIT margins improved once again last year, and we see opportunities to make further improvements to returns over the next few years. In Asia, results by quarter were choppy in 2015 with a particularly soft third quarter. However, overall results were good, and our operations have performed well there. In the Rest of World segment, we managed to reduce losses again in 2015 despite a very difficult volume environment. All in all, a year of good operating results for Magna. Looking forward, we are launching a substantial amount of business over the next few years. This should allow us to continue to outgrow industry production, a trend that stretches back a lot longer than the 28 years I've been at Magna. As importantly, we believe that Magna's ability to generate our vast capabilities and technologies position us well to supply a growing portion of the car in the future, which takes us well beyond our business planning horizon. We're going to have more to say about this at our Investor Day in Toronto on March 9. With that, I'll pass the call over to Vince. Vincent J. Galifi - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: Thanks, Don. And good morning, everyone. I would like to review our financial results for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2015. All figures discussed today are in U.S. dollars. Please note that operating results for the interiors operations that we sold in 2015 are presented as discontinued operations and this review of results will address continuing operations only. The slide package accompanying our call today includes a reconciliation of certain key financial statement lines between reported results and results excluding unusual items. In fourth quarter 2015, we recorded restructuring charges related to our European exteriors and roof systems businesses. These reduced operating income and net income attributable to Magna each by $15 million and EPS by $0.03. In the fourth quarter of 2014, we recorded restructuring charges entirely related to our European exteriors and interiors businesses. These reduced operating income by $6 million, net income attributable to Magna by $5 million and EPS by $0.01. The following quarterly earnings discussion excludes the impact of these unusual items. In the fourth quarter, our consolidated sales declined 3% or $222 million relative to the fourth quarter of 2014 to $8.6 billion. The weakening of certain currencies against our U.S. dollar reporting currency in particular, the euro and Canadian dollar, had a significant negative impact on our reported sales for the fourth quarter of 2015. Foreign currency translation reduced our sales by about $770 million as compared to the fourth quarter of 2014. Excluding the impact of foreign currency translation, our total sales increased 6% in the fourth quarter of 2015 compared to the fourth quarter of 2014. Reported North American production sales increased 5% in the fourth quarter to $4.7 billion. Excluding the impact of foreign currency translation, North American production sales increased 11% while North American vehicle production increased 4% to 4.5 million units. The North American production sales increase is a result of the launch of new programs and higher production volumes of certain programs partially offset by net divestitures and net customer price concessions. Reported European production sales declined 12% from the comparable quarter. Excluding the impact of foreign currency translation, European production sales increased 1% while European vehicle production increased 7% to 5.5 million units. The increase was primarily the result of the launch of new programs and acquisitions completed subsequent to the fourth quarter of 2014. These were partially offset by lower production volumes at certain existing programs, programs at end of production and net customer price concessions. Asian production sales increased 10% or $42 million to $473 million from the comparable quarter. This was primarily as a result of the launch of new programs primarily in China and India, as well as acquisitions completed subsequent to the fourth quarter of 2014. These were partially offset by the weakening of the Chinese RMB against the U.S. dollar and net customer price concessions. Rest of World production sales declined 49% or $82 million to $87 million for the fourth quarter, primarily as a result of the weakening of the Brazilian real against the U.S. dollar and lower production volumes of certain programs. Complete vehicle assembly volumes declined 24% from the comparable quarter and assembly sales declined 15% to $628 million. Excluding the impact of foreign currency translation, complete vehicle assembly sales declined 3%, largely due to the decline in assembly volumes on the MINI Countryman and Paceman as well as the end of production during the third quarter of 2015 of the Peugeot RCZ. In summary, consolidated sales, excluding tooling, engineering and other sales, declined approximately 2% or $195 million in the fourth quarter, but increased 6% if you exclude approximately $685 million associated with the impact of foreign currency translation. Tooling, engineering and other sales declined 3% or $27 million from the comparable quarter to $878 million. Excluding foreign currency translation, tooling, engineering, and other sales increased by approximately $56 million. Gross margin in the quarter declined to 14.4% from 14.8% in the comparable quarter. The gross margin percentage was negatively impacted by operational inefficiencies in certain facilities, in particular at certain body and chassis operations in North America; lower recoveries associated with scrap steel; and higher launch costs. These factors were partially offset by a decrease in the production of complete vehicle assembly sales relative to total sales, which have a higher material content than our consolidated average, decreased commodity costs; decrease in the proportion of tooling, engineering, and other sales relative to total sales that have low or no margins; a decrease in the proportion of sales earned in Europe relative to total sales which have a lower margin than our consolidated average, primarily due to the weakening of the euro against the U.S. dollar; and productivity and efficiency improvement at certain facilities. Magna's consolidated SG&A, as a percentage of sales, was 4.8% in the fourth quarter of 2015, which is unchanged from Q4 2014. SG&A declined $8 million to $412 million in the fourth quarter of 2015, primarily due to the weakening of certain currencies against the U.S. dollar and the elimination of Stronach & Co. fees at the end of 2014. These factors were partially offset by costs related to the investment in our IT infrastructure and higher professional and consulting costs. Our EBIT margin percentage was 7.7% in the fourth quarter of 2015 compared to 8.1% in the fourth quarter of 2014. This decline substantially relates to the lower gross margin percentage of sales. Interest expense increased $5 million to $17 million in the fourth quarter of 2014 (sic) [2015] related to the increase in debt assumed to purchase Getrag. In Q4 2015, our effective tax rate decreased to 22.2% from 25.8% in the fourth quarter of 2014. This was primarily the result of a benefit recorded on the write-off of historical tax basis in a South American subsidiary and a decrease in permanent items. These factors were partially offset by lower favorable audit settlements, a decrease in utilization of losses not previously benefited, and an increase in non-creditable withholding tax on repatriations in 2015. Net income attributable to Magna from continuing operations declined $23 million to $498 million for the fourth quarter of 2015 compared to $521 million in the comparable quarter. Diluted EPS from continuing operations was $1.22 compared to $1.24 in the fourth quarter of 2014. The decline in diluted earnings per share was a result of a decrease in net income from continuing operations attributable to Magna, partially offset by a decrease in the weighted average number of diluted shares outstanding during the quarter. The decrease in the weighted average number of diluted shares outstanding was due to the repurchase and cancellation of common shares pursuant to our normal course issuer bids. Let me now quickly review our cash flows and investment activities. During the fourth quarter of 2015, we generated $773 million in cash from operations prior to changes in non-cash operating assets and liabilities, and $243 million in non-cash operating assets and liabilities. For the quarter, investment activities amounted to $894 million, including $604 million in fixed assets, $221 million for acquisitions and a $69 million increase in investments and other assets. In the quarter, we issued €550 million of eight-year, 1.9% senior notes as well as CAD 425 million of seven-year, 3.1% senior notes. And we repurchased 3.5 million common shares for $164 million pursuant to our normal course issuer bid. Overall, reflecting all these cash flow activities, our cash balance increased by over $800 million in the fourth quarter. The cash resources built up over the third quarter and fourth quarter were used to fund previously announced acquisitions. Our balance sheet remains strong with $2.9 billion in cash as of December 31, 2015, approximately $840 million if you pro forma for the completion of the Getrag transaction. We also had additional $2.25 billion in unused credit available to us. And next, let me cover our outlook. The only change to our 2016's full year outlook compared to that which we disclosed last month in Detroit was a modest increase in European light vehicle production. We expect 2016 European light vehicle production to be approximately 21 million units, up slightly from 20.9 million units in our January outlook. We are assuming a slightly higher euro and slightly lower Canadian dollar, each relative to the U.S. dollar. Neither the currency movements nor the European volume increase were significant enough to change our previous outlook ranges. In addition, we have made no changes to our expected segment margin percentages of total sales. This now concludes our formal remarks. Thanks for your attention this morning. We'll be pleased to answer any questions you may have.