Brandon Blossman
Analyst · Johnson Rice. Please go ahead
04:37 Thank you, Stuart, and good morning to everybody on the call. Let me try to provide some incremental color to our Q4 numbers. First, I'll start at net income. So here net income moved up quarter-over-quarter from a loss of $9 million in Q3 to a gain of $24 million in Q4, that's an increase of $33 million, driven essentially all by the positive impacts of the basic transaction and both on an operational and on an accounting basis. 05:13 The spread between last quarter's numbers and this quarter's numbers and also between the adjusted numbers for Q4 and the unadjusted numbers on both EBITDA and net income are particularly wide. So I'm going to take a little bit of time here to run through all of the adjustments that make up the delta between the net income and EBITDA as reported and as adjusted. So first on the net income, there is an adjustment of $6 million, that $6 million is a release of a tax valuation allowance that is associated with the 2021 tax year. And that is driven largely by the shift from a loss to a gain on the net income tax book basically. 06:03 Now everything else will also be included in the EBITDA adjustments. So here, we posted $9.1 million of adjusted EBITDA from Q4, and as you would expect post the major acquisition the adjusted numbers include meaningful adjustments related to the -- particularly the basic acquisition. So specifically the bridge between an unadjusted $32 million of EBITDA and our adjusted reported number of $9.1 million include the following items; One, a reduction in EBITDA of $37 million, that's net of tax, on the booking of a bargain purchase for the basic transaction, here the minimum reasonable net book value that we recorded for the basic assets was well above our purchase price, putting us in the unusual position of needing to book a gain on that acquisition. 07:03 Next on the add backs side, we recorded $7 million worth of transaction costs, which were associated with the basic acquisition itself, a related equity capital raise and the termination and refinancing of our revolver and Term Loan A along with the addition of the Term loan B. Also done in conjunction with the basic deal, as previously disclosed, we terminated our tax receivable agreement, which was settled with a $4 million stock issuance. This was also an add back to EBITDA and net income. 07:40 The unadjusted number also includes $1.5 million worth of bad debt expense, which we were adjusting out, which primarily relates to the still ongoing bankruptcy process of a former customer and this is related to work completed in early 2019. And finally, we recorded $1.4 million worth of Wireline perforating gun expense in Q4 on an inventory true up, which was more properly related to Q3 Wireline operating expenses. The sum of all of these ins and outs returns the reported $9.1 million of Q4 adjusted EBITDA. 08:25 All right. So that's over with and let’s move on to the segment details. As Stuart noted, this reporting season marks the beginning of our new segment reporting structure. And as I go through the segments, I'll take a moment to share some additional notes related to that reporting structure along with our historic KPI details that we generally provide. 08:48 First, the High Spec Rigs segment. This continues unchanged in structure from our legacy reporting. Here, we capture the revenue and expenses of our service rig fleet, along with the revenues associated with any additional related equipment or on-site services during that service delivery of the High Spec Rig. What is new in this segment this quarter is of course the addition of the basic service rig fleet. However, do note that beyond the addition of the basic employees, the location and the service rigs from the basic deal this segment remains fully comparable period to period. 09:29 So, on a quarter-over-quarter basis, so again, this is the pre-basic versus post basic comparison, the High Spec Rig segment revenue was up sequentially 2 times from $30 million to nearly $60 million of revenue, while segment EBITDA -- segment EBITDA margins moved down slightly from 16% to 15%. Average rigs working during the quarter moved from 67 to 167, an increase of 150%. 10:05 Period revenue hours, moved from 51,000 to 111,600, 120% increase. Note, that this 120% increase is fully attributable to the addition of the basic service rigs. The legacy Ranger hours were approximately flat quarter-over-quarter. Offsetting that increased in revenue hours was a drop in the composite revenue rate, which moved down 9% from 5.84 an hour to 5.33 an hour. 10:41Let me provide some color around that Q4 average rates. So that 5.33 as we entered into Q4, so the 5.32 was the average, as we entered into Q4 post acquisition the first months average was 4.96, quite a bit lower, but we exited the quarter of Q4 at $561 per hour rate. I'll also note that as we move forward through the Q1 a little bit of a teaser here, we're back to at least the rates that we saw pre basic acquisition on a composite basis. 11:17 Now moving to Wireline. A standalone Wireline segment is new to our reporting structure. In the past the Wireline business was co-mingled with other Ranger branded services and reported on a compositor collected basis. We are now disaggregating Wireline as a stand-alone reporting entity. This segment, as a reminder, includes last year's Patriot and PerfX acquisitions along with the legacy Mallard business. Here we will continue reporting the same set of operating metrics for the completion of Wireline business as we had historically. But note, that this segment now includes the three largely integrated Wireline services, as Stuart noted, completion work, production work and also rely Wireline related pumping work. 12:13 So, overall, this segment, again on a quarter-over-quarter basis had revenue moving down slightly from $46 million to $45 million, a drop of about 3%, while margins dropped from 3% to 2%. And then for the operating metrics, again note that the operating metrics that I'll provide are like what we have provided historically and relate just to the completion side of the business. However, this still constitutes more than 80% of the segment's total revenue, so obviously very relevant to the overall segment. 12:50 So, again just for completion trucks, the average working truck count moved from 20 to 18, a 10% decline, while the total completed stage count move down from 11,400 in Q3 to 9,900 in Q4, a 13% decline. Here, comparing Q3 to Q4, both the average working truck count and the periodic stage count declines were largely attributable to the weather and holiday schedule disruptions that we typically see in Q4. 13:27 On the revenue side, the rate largely offset the declines in stage count and increased from $3,400 a stage to $3,800 a stage. This on a combination of both customer mix shift and customer -- individual customer price increases. And then finally, our last new recast segment. As Stuart noted, the Processing Solutions -- the new Processing Solutions and Ancillary Services segment is the sum of our legacy Torrent businesses, along with several other service lines, both legacy Ranger and new to us from the basic acquisition. 14:09 Given that this segment includes such wide -- such a wide-ranging group of business lines, we do not yet have a single set of operational metrics that stand out as useful in understanding the segment as a whole. We will continue to evolve on that front and hopefully as perhaps some of those businesses grow in size, we'll be able to break out some operating metrics. But we have nothing to share today on the operating metric side. 14:39 And then just to wrap up on a Q4 comparison basis, revenues in this new segment moved up from $6 million in Q3 to $19 million in Q4. That's more than 3 times, again like the rigs business largely on the addition of the basic service lines. Offsetting that slightly, margins moved down modestly from 23% to 19%. 15:07 That's it for the segments, and now back to the overall company. CapEx for the quarter in total was $2 million with the majority of that spend associated with a multitude of small upgrades to the basic rig fleet necessary for those rigs to meet Ranger standards. At the end of Q4 net term debt stood at just over $34 million, that consists of a Term Loan A and a Term Loan B, each with an approximate balance of $12 million and our PerfX acquisition debt, which has a current balance of right around $10 million. 15:47 Liquidity at year's end stood at $19 million, that was up $5 million from Q3's ending $14 million, and that $19 million was composed of $27 million of draw against a $45 million borrowing based on our revolver, plus approximately $1 million of cash on hand. Mid-week this week that number was largely unchanged and stood at approximately $18 million of liquidity. 16:18 I think that's it from me and the numbers, and let me hand it back over to Stuart.