Operator
Operator
Good morning and welcome to the Sonic Automotive Third Quarter Earnings Conference Call. All lines have been placed on mute to prevent any background noise. After the speakers' remarks, there will be a question-and-answer period. As a reminder, ladies and gentlemen, this conference call is being recorded today, Wednesday, October 28, 2015. Presentation materials, which management will be reviewing on the conference call can be accessed at the company's website at www.sonicautomotive.com by clicking on the For Investors tab and choosing Webcasts & Presentations on the left side of the monitor. At this time, I would like to refer to the Safe Harbor statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. During this conference call, management may discuss financial projections, information or expectations about the company's products or markets or otherwise make statements about the future. Such statements are forward-looking and subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from the statements made. These risks and uncertainties are detailed in the company's filings with Securities and Exchange Commission. Thank you. I would now like to introduce Mr. Scott Smith, Co-Founder and CEO of Sonic Automotive. Mr. Smith, you may begin your conference. Bryan Scott Smith - Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, President, Director: Thank you. Good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us on Sonic Automotive's third quarter 2015 earnings call. I'm Scott Smith, Sonic's CEO and Co-Founder. Joining me today are David Smith, our Vice Chairman; Heath Byrd, our Chief Financial Officer; Jeff Dyke, our Executive Vice President of Operations; and C.G. Saffer, our Chief Accounting Officer. Supporting slides that add color related to our quarter in this call will be located on our website. We're extremely pleased with the record-setting quarter and the announcement of an increase in dividend rate. We had an outstanding quarter, very pleased with our operations. One Sonic-One Experience is kicking ass. EchoPark is really doing a great job. We're very excited about ramping up the expansion of EchoPark. Just a little color, we hit $0.53 this quarter. I was hoping for $0.54, but Jeff just couldn't quite get us there and it was really outstanding. EchoPark, we've retailed 920 units in the quarter, an increase of 4.4% which was outstanding. On a capital perspective, we returned approximately 800,000 shares to our shareholders during the quarter or $17.3 million. And our board increased the dividend rate of about 50% to $0.375 (sic) [$0.0375] (3:34) per share for shareholders of record December 15, 2015. We are maintaining our guidance for the full year of adjusted EPS from continuing ops from $1.85 to $1.95. We believe that we'll be at the upper end of the range. So far things are looking pretty good for the quarter and we're internally very excited about the direction that we're headed in. That concludes our prepared remarks. With that, we now open the call for your comments.