Good day ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Q4 Stoneridge Earnings Conference Call. My name is Alison and I'll be your operator today. At this time all participants are in listen-only mode. We will conduct a question-and-answer session towards the end of this call. (Operator Instructions) I’d now like to turn the call over to Mr. Ken Kure, Corporate Treasurer and Director of Finance. Please proceed sir.

Good morning everyone, and thank you for joining us on today's call. By now you should have received our fourth quarter earnings release. The release and the accompanying presentation has been or shortly be filed with the SEC and has been posted to our website at www.stoneridge.com. Joining me on today's call are John Corey, our President and Chief Executive Officer and George Strickler, our Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Before I begin, I need to inform you that certain statements today may be forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements include statements that are not historical in nature and include information concerning our future results or plans. Although we believe that such statements are based upon reasonable assumptions, you should understand that these statements are subject to risks and uncertainties and actual results may differ materially. Additional information about such factors and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ may be found in our 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission under the heading Forward-Looking Statements. During today's call, we’ll also be referring to certain non-GAAP financial measures. Please see the Investor Relations section of our website for a reconciliation of these non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measures. John will begin the call with an update on our current market conditions, operating performance in the fourth quarter and growth strategy, business development and his thoughts on future initiatives, including our 2013 guidance. George will discuss the financial and operational aspects of the fourth quarter and our 2013 guidance in more detail. We’ve prepared and published an earnings presentation to provide more detailed schedules to help your understanding of our fourth quarter results, trends for continued improvement in 2013 guidance that we released on February 7, 2013. A copy of these items can be found on our website at www.stoneridge.com in the investor relations section. After John and George have finished their formal remarks, we will then open up the call to questions. With that, I’ll turn the call over to John.

Good morning. Fourth quarter results announced today are consistent with our February 7’s release which updated our estimated fourth quarter of 2012 results and provided our guidance for 2013. Revenues in the fourth quarter were $222.7 million, an increase of $36.7 million or 19.7% over the fourth quarter of 2011. Our fourth quarter results included consolidated PST sales of $44.5 million. Excluding PST’s fourth quarter revenue, sales for the Stoneridge base business was $7.8 million or 4.2% lower than the fourth quarter of 2011. Earnings per share was $0.10 compared to our fourth quarter 2011 EPS of $1.56 which included a $1.72 per share gain for the purchase of the additional 24% share of PST on December 29, 2011. Our fourth quarter results reflect the extended weakness in the commercial vehicle markets, especially in Europe where OEM manufacturers reduced production days in December to adjust their inventory levels and in Brazil where sales were slightly improved over the third quarter but not at the double-digit rates we projected for the fourth quarter. As discussed in prior calls, each business unit reduced cost structures as much as practical with the market demand. Where possible we've implemented pricing adjustments to partially offset higher commodity costs and are continuing to work to reduce material costs and improve manufacturing productivity. Slide 13 of our deck shows the direct material impacts of these actions on Stoneridge’s core gross margin for the year which are helping to keep our core margins nearly unchanged on the lower volumes. In the fourth quarter, we generated operating cash flows of $35.5 million compared to $18.3 million in the fourth quarter of last year, in part due to inventory reductions, cost control and lower receivables due to lower sales in December. Slide four of our deck has a complete P&L…

Thank you, John. Before we discuss the fourth quarter and 2013 guidance, in our press release we indicated that to adhere to accounting guidelines, we will disclose four operating segments starting in the fourth quarter of 2012. The four segments will be control devices, electronics, wiring and PST. We have been a leader over each one of the four reportable business units. We’re responsible for developing a global product, customer and technology strategy for each business segment. This will allow our investors to better understand the four distinct business units in consolidated Stoneridge. As John has shared with you his thoughts on the changes in the markets and the macroeconomic factors that have affected our performance in the fourth quarter, I will focus my comments on near-term market conditions and how we will improve our profitability in 2013 and the modest increase in sales. Even with the difficult market conditions we have maintained cash flow generation as one of our primary objectives for the year. And as indicator on slide 19, we improved the total debt to EBITDA ratio from 3.5 at the tail end of last year to 3.3 at December 31st of 2012. With our 2013 guidance we expect our debt to EBITDA to be in the range of 2 times to 2.5 times by the end of this year. And during 2012 we have reduced debt by $65.7 million. We have paid off our core business’ ABL debt balance of $11 million in the fourth quarter while PST reduced their debt by $9.8 million during the fourth quarter. PST has paid down their high interest real denominated working capital loans at the end of the third quarter. We will begin to pay down the U.S. dollar denominated debt in 2013. In addition to our core business paying…

(Operator Instructions) And your first question comes from the line of Justin Long from Stephens.

First question I had for you, looks like you benefitted pretty substantially from working capital improvement in the quarter. How does that change your thought process in terms of expectations for 2013 free cash flow? Is it fair to say that there was some pull-forward into the end of 2012 or are there other areas on the balance sheet that you think can help drive cash flow, outside of just the improved profitability you are forecasting?

Justin, I think a lot of – when we said we reduced inventory $28 million a lot of that was really bringing the inventory down that we had higher levels in the wiring business and PST. I think the inventory levels we’re looking at today, we do have some continued improvement in PST probably in the range of maybe $5 million to $8 million. But here is really the cash generation, which we've always said tends to run in the range of $25 million to $30 million will come from profitability and the continued management of our working capital specifically inventory and our level of capital expenditures.

And on Brazil, it seems like things are starting to improve or at least stabilize. But I get the impression that it's a lot more difficult to gain visibility into this market. Are there things that you're planning in Brazil maybe further diversification in terms of the product mix going forward that might help reduce some of the volatility you've seen in this business over the last year?

Well the products that we are launching the cargo tracker and home alarm products will start to launch and benefit somewhat 2013 and more in 2014. But there'll be no major new initiative there, we want to leverage some of our investment we put into those products and into the engineering and try to leverage that investment. Over time though you'll see that we will start looking at how we can bring perhaps Stoneridge products down into Brazil, notably for the OEM manufacturers and then products that we can take from Brazil out to other parts, we’re going to engage in some studies around the various global markets for alarm systems and look at the opportunities there. Justin, one other thing though is we are incentivating sort of demand at the local level. And as you know, we have no planned orders because we’re more in the aftermarket dealer and or retail business and that’s merchandisers. But we’ve created sort of a unique program, we have 15 promoters now around the country that they visit to the 100 small dealers every week. They have to visit them twice during the month. They each are fitted with a vehicle that has our parts on it that can be sold to the small dealers and also with an iPad that they can get direct feedback from the marketplace in terms of pricing activities in different parts of the country or things that we need to understand about the market. So I think our guys are starting to do a much better job of understanding the demand in the market because a lot of that we can actually create demand by being more visible with our products and our activity with our dealers. So we are starting to focus and spend more time in those areas to understand the local market better.

That makes sense. And John, you mentioned potential discussions with OEMs about leveraging some of your products, maybe domestically in the Brazilian market. Are those discussions happening now or is that something you expect to play out longer term, call it a few years from now?

It will play out longer-term, we’ve had discussions with people of note notifying them of our presence down there and what we can -- what our capabilities are. I think one of the things that we would have to consider as we look at the maybe a potential product shipped to more OE is a different engineering alignment. So and then the support levels we would bring here. But I would say that 2013 will be a year that really starts scoping that out and then looking more towards 2014 in the future.

And in terms of the seasonality of the business, you gave some color in terms of how you expect the topline to progress in the first half and the second half. But from an earnings perspective, is there anything outside of the normal seasonality that we typically see that would impact the cadence of earnings throughout this year?

I think Justin, there will be no what I call major seasonality but I think what we’ve alluded to is that demand picks up especially more in the second half both in Brazil and in our North America commercial market. So as you look at our earnings trend, I think it’s going to be somewhere about 40% weighted in the first half and 60% in the second half. So that sort of follows the sales trend and then profitability just follows from that.

And I think my last question was on M&A. Are you seeing any pickup in activity as it relates to the M&A market? It appears from a macro perspective, things are at least getting incrementally better. So just curious what you are seeing out there today.

We haven’t really seen any major adjustment. I think as we've always stated though that we are active in terms of looking at M&A now. In fact, we had a process pretty well in place in 2008 till the market took a downturn in the second half of 2009. We continue to explore opportunities, we have gaps in our European business especially in control devices. We’re clearly growing the emerging markets in China, India and Brazil, which lends itself to opportunities and clearly the sensor market globally is very fragmented. So we believe we have opportunities both in the automotive space and outside of that to strengthen our control device business. And these acquisitions I'm talking about tend to be what we reconsider bolt-on that we can handle with our own capital structure. The sales levels will tend to be somewhere in the range of $30 million to $80 million and I think that -- I think we have been fairly disciplined as we look at businesses in terms of EBITDA multiples. There’s clearly a variance right now between debt valuations and equity valuations. But our philosophy has been that we tend to stay in the range of 4 to 5 times the EBITDA. So I think you'll find that we will be a very disciplined buyer. Justin, are you still there? Hello.

Justin’s line has disconnected. I am sorry, yes. So we move on to our next question for you, that comes from the line of Jimmy Baker of B. Riley Caris.

I have a couple questions on your net new business cadence that you updated earlier this week. But first, I did notice that despite the $150 million in net new business in your core segments, that you actually anticipate PST jumping from about 19% of sales here in 2012 to 25% of your total business in five years. So can you maybe just talk about how you arrived at that magnitude of growth for PST, and if we should expect any change in the margin profile of the business as it ramps into that level of revenue?

Well, I think the two things that I talked about, the two most recent launches will be cargo tracker which is the security system of tracking freight in the Brazilian and Argentinian markets, so that, that will launch and we think that’s going to be a very good market for us and have high growth rate in that market because there is a high theft problem down there. And then the second will be the home alarm market which is going to be a more gradual approach but we will grow into that, and that will allow us to leverage our service center business because similar to what you do here, we sell a home alarm, we’d install a home alarm through a independent installer and then we would monitor that home alarm through our service center for a fee. So over time you'll see that the margin on the business should potentially improve but I think that as we look at price pressures and other things we will be happy to maintain the margins in the ranges that they are at today, probably a little bit higher, I think our expectation is somewhere 45% to 47%. And so we are targeting to get to there but I think as we see every happening that that we feel comfortable trying to drive to that range.

And Jimmy, just to add on to that is that, we are seeing a fundamental shift in the market in Brazil and we’ve really started out in the aftermarket, accessory market and now we move into the dealer channels especially with the OEMs. But now we’ve built an infrastructure that tracking has become a significant part of our business and today it's about 10% of our overall sales volume. But now looking over the next five years we will continue to grow but not at the same pace we have the last five to 10 years in alarm systems and accessories, our growth is going to come from as John mentioned is in more in the tracking device. And so it's not only our existing tracking device business with commercial and automotive and motorcycle, it will now expand beyond that into cargo and home security and that tends to be a very rapidly growing market. It will grow more double-digits in that side and our traditional business will grow more in the range of probably somewhere between 2.5% and 7% over the next five year period. So that's why you're seeing a little bit of a shift in the growth. And then I also wanted to comment on the 150 net new business, that does not include anything with PST, that's the old Stoneridge core business. As we get better at PST we will probably have a definition of growth with PST but the 150 is traditional Stoneridge base business.

George and I will be down in Brazil by the end of this month and one of the things we are going to investigate is we think there has been an indication by one of the large audio producers that they are going to exit the market. That should create some opportunities for us to fill in some share points around our audio line. But of course, as you know our audio line doesn’t command the same types of margins as our alarm line does. However it could give us some nice volume growth. So that might have a play in things but we’re going to look at that further when we are down there. So there’s lot of moving items into the Brazilian market.

Thanks for the color there. I'm also interested -- just getting back to the $150 million in net new business in your core segments, I think you previously expected, at the midpoint, about $61 million in net new business during ‘13. And now that's reduced to about $23 million at the midpoint. So, I'm wondering maybe what other – what programs other than the Chinese EGT, that maybe was lost or pushed out? And then for 2014, it looks like you went from an expectation of a midpoint of net new business at about $68 million to now 0. So can you just kind of bridge those two changes in your net new business cadence?

Well, in ’13 I think some of that’s reflected more in the market but we had a delay, and we have lost no new business, Jimmy, to start the conversation that way. But clearly EGT in China has something that's continued to be pushed. If you hear the current the market is, it appears that the government because of Beijing and other things going on thus far that they are starting to accelerate that again, it’s been pushed to right around July of this year. I think time will tell that, that begins to pull in, then that will help us on that. But right now we've assumed that it would launch, we’re doing PPAP right now. We have a new unit sitting in China, they got fairly late in 2012, so that could have a significant influence over that number both in ‘13 and in ’14. And then we had a couple of delays really in two commercial accounts that were both in Europe that are now starting to accelerate and be – one will be in the late second-quarter, the other will be in the third quarter. So I think those platforms are coming back now. And I think somehow there’s little uncertainty in the market. In ‘14 the reason for that drop is we had – there is a business that rolls over and rolls out in 2014. Until we have final sort of approvals and discussions we just assume that would be lost at this point. We are working vigorously to back fill that position not only with the existing customer but also bidding and quoting on new business. So I think and already we've seen recently that we picked up about $20 million of additional business outside that contract that we have. So if we had to amend that right now, we’d be looking about $20 million of growth in ’14. So we are working hard at back filling that 2014 year right now.

And last one from me, and I'll back out in the queue. This is just a point of clarification that I'm not sure is very well understood. Has Navistar's move to SCR had any impact on your content or put any of your content at risk?

No, it really doesn't have any impact on – significant impact on us. Our harnesses are -- the chassis harnesses and stuff are not significantly impacted by the change in that. We may pick up some additional leads on some things but we don’t expect any significant change.

And Jimmy, the only business that will impact with the Cummins Engine they had a sensor that we were selling through Cummins, through Tenneco that was supporting the Navistar, so there's a little bit impact but it’s not significant.

Your next question comes from Robert Kosowsky of Sidoti. Robert Kosowsky - Sidoti & Company: One quick question, what's the tax rate assumption we should be using for this year?

For 2013 I think it's going to be split. The effective tax rate in Brazil right now is running at about 19% and I think most of you have seen the European rates have come down, our Swedish operation, which is our significant profit maker is down to 22% and in the U.S. as you know, we have a tax loss carry-forwards. So the blend of earnings that we’re looking at in the guidance this year that we just provided to $0.75 to $0.95, the overall effective tax rate will probably come in between 14% and 17%. And the cash taxes paid on that though will tend to be somewhere between $5 million and $8 million. Robert Kosowsky - Sidoti & Company: And then otherwise, looking at your operating income forecast, it almost looks like at the midpoint you're looking for maybe $20 million of growth 2013 versus 2012. And I'm just wondering, I can go through some of your prepared remarks and pull out about $7.5 million from amortization, from PST cost cuts. And I'm wondering what the other drivers are for that $13 million or so, given that we're going to have pretty flat volume throughout the year.

Well, I think the other side that’s probably missing out of this is that, when John and I both inferred to this lean enterprise that we are going in the wiring business, we are starting to make significant trends, not only in the wiring business but we’re taking that across the world on driving efficiency and productivity across the organization. So combination of that and the cost reductions we have, some the mix business and the profitability PST is what’s really accounting for that change. Robert Kosowsky - Sidoti & Company: What are you – how are you situated for copper going into this year and same thing for peso, because I believe last year you had about a $4 or so average cost position, I believe.

For this year we really have no material hedges outstanding. We now have 96% of our contracts with our customers that have covered some surcharge mechanism. They actually have a contract with one customer, we buy forward based on their forward requirements of copper. All the other surcharge mechanisms we have in place now they are quarterly adjustments. So we have I think through this program it's really been done with our wiring management team. We’ve taken a lot of the volatility out of copper. So our ability reflects with the volatility we see in the market will be much better than we experienced in 2011.

Our next question comes from Irina Hodakovsky of KeyBanc.

I just wanted to ask if PST appears to be the biggest driver of your margin improvement for next year. 1Q tends to pull back sequentially from 4Q, just going back through perhaps a history in the performance. And since 4Q was substantially below your expectations, do we expect a deeper decline in 1Q, and then stronger recovery in the second half, or a more gradual performance?

I think when we look at the fourth quarter I think we did – that the two impacts were as we said that Brazil did not improve as we thought but – and in the rather shut and cutback in commercial vehicle production coming out of Europe in the December month. As we look at the first quarter, we expect that we should be better than the fourth quarter because of these cost reductions actions we’ve taken and we have factored in the volume. I think one of the things that the story in the fourth quarter is that as you will see with the lower volume we were able to outperform and so that’s a reflection of the manufacturing initiatives to improve operations and the cost reductions that have gone on to take this out of the business.

And Irina, what we've seen is the schedules that we've had in the first two months already, they are more stable than what we experienced and John is right, I mean we had a significant cutback in Europe in December which had a major impact on us and Brazil’s growth was – it’s there. So far in the first two months we are trending that we will be at least equal to or better than what we had in the fourth quarter, and it's a combination of the efficiencies we’re driving in our wiring operations especially really across all plants, the cost initiatives and then the mix of business.

So 1Q sounds like about flat with 4Q. And then just ramping up, there is the back half. And how do you see your margin improvement going through? Is that also -- the cadence with that improvements steadied throughout the year, more weighted towards the back half, driven by volume? Or how are you breaking out the internal improvements and how those are going to come up versus volume improvements? And what will be driving those in the back half?

Well, I think, and if you look at 2012, most of our cost action improvements we took in the second and third quarters, and started to benefit in the fourth quarter, those will all be there in the first quarter. So I think you are correct that those will flow through. And then as we see the volume come back, we will be able to leverage that, that should improve our margins.

Your next question comes from Jimmy Baker of B. Riley Caris.

Just a quick one here on your other expense line, it’s just become a pretty sizable line item for the full year reaching nearly $5 million. Can you just kind of remind us of what's running through there and why it’s ticked up recently?

Well, most of it, Jimmy, goes back to the second-quarter 2012 and that’s when we had the significant exchange difference in Brazil. In fact, there was roughly about 2.6 million in the second quarter. And then we’ve had continued exchange difference both in Brazil because Brazil continue to devalue and stabilized finally at about 205 at the peak, now it’s come down as you know, it’s sitting about 198. So most of it had to do with currency exposure that we had both in Brazil which was most of that expense we had some in Europe in the third quarter.

Understood. So if let's say the reais holds here, you might actually recognize income in that line in the back half, when you lap against that (inaudible)?

Yeah, we’re still sitting there with about $20 million to 22 million at dollar debt and at the end of the year was sitting right around 203. So and the real has been around one 198, 199, so we should at least be – it should be no impact or a benefit based on the current rates that we’re seeing. So I think that line can be rather minimal this year, in fact, that’s what we're seeing right now is the currencies and commodities are fairly stable.

And did you give a CapEx expectation for 2013?

No but it will run in our base business between $21 million and $23 million, which is about what it did last year and then in PST it’s a little unique because they tend to show capital of about $10 million. But what we found is we were not accelerating of the addition of new subscribers as rapidly as we wanted. So what we started doing is buying the tracking devices and then we put it in the monthly service fee that they reimburses over the contract. So the real capital and we’re recovering $6 million, and that’s what the tracking device costs. So Brazil’s real capital last year was around four, they will spend about five this year and then the others recovered through our monthly recovery of service fees to our subscribers. So real capital I would look at is $21 million to $23 million Stoneridge base business and about $4 million to $5 million for PST.

Thank you. I’d now like to turn the call over to John Corey.

Thank you. I think if you look at 2012 we started the year in a fairly good position and the markets weakened rather significantly, started with Brazil in the second quarter and then continued in the commercial vehicle markets both in the third and fourth quarters. Our plan in the 2012 as we saw that start was that we went after the cost reductions and we went after generating cash flow to pay down debt. And I think you can see that in our fourth quarter results we see the impact of those cost reductions. So I feel we have done a good job there and we have done a good job in reducing our debt structure and generating cash. So as this leads to 2013 our outlook really is for very modest growth and that would be good because rapid swings up or down just cause havoc for suppliers. But modest growth and with this cost base that we put in place and control event costs, we will deliver these results. So with that, I would like to thank you.

Thank you for joining today’s conference. This concludes the presentation. You may now disconnect and good day.