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Operator

Operator

Good day, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Terex Corporation Second Quarter 2017 Financial Results Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. Later, we will conduct a question-and-answer session and instructions will follow at that time. [Operator Instructions] I would now like to introduce your host for this conference call, Mr. Brian Henry, Senior Vice President, Business Development and Investor Relations. You may begin.

Brian Henry

Analyst

Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us for today's second quarter 2017 financial results conference call. Participating on today's call are John Garrison, President and Chief Executive Officer; and John Sheehan, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Following the prepared remarks, we will conduct a question-and-answer session. Last evening, we released our second quarter 2017 results, a copy of which is available on our website at terex.com. Today's call is being webcast and is accompanied by a slide presentation, which includes a reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP financial measures that we will use during this call and is also available on our website. All per-share amounts in the presentation are on a fully diluted basis. We will post a replay of this call on the Terex website under Investor Events in the Investor Relations section. Let me direct your attention to Slide 2, which is our forward-looking statement and description of non-GAAP financial measures. We encourage you to read this as well as other items in our disclosures, because the information we will be discussing today does include forward-looking material. With that, please turn to Slide 3, and I'll turn it over to John.

John Garrison

Analyst

Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us and for your interest in Terex. I will start by summarizing our second quarter performance, followed by a review of the progress we are making executing our strategy and a discussion of our business segments. John will cover the capital market actions we are taking and review the financial results including details of our improved full year 2017 guidance. I will follow with a brief summary before we open up the line to your questions. We continue to make progress in the second quarter, sales of 1.2 billion were better than anticipated, driven by a stronger than expected North American market for Aerial Work Platforms. Cranes returned to profitability in the quarter as we are seeing the benefits from their restructuring actions. This is a significant accomplishment by the Cranes team. AWP benefited from higher than expected volume although margins remained under pressure. MP continued its strong performance. We delivered adjusted earnings per share of $0.51 and generated $23 million of free cash flow. For the second straight quarter, we grew year-over-year backlog in each segment. When we remove the impact of the divested businesses, our backlog grew 36% and bookings grew 17%. Combining first half results with the current view of market dynamics, operational expectations for the second half of the year and our ongoing capital market actions, we are increasing full year adjusted EPS guidance to a $1.05 to a $1.15. John will walk through the details of our financial results and improved outlook. Turning to Slide 4. I am pleased by the progress we have made over the past 12 months with our strategy to focus the portfolio, simplify the company and implement our “Execute to Win” business systems. We are starting to see the benefits in our…

John Sheehan

Analyst

Thank you, John. Slide 9 demonstrates how we continue to execute our disciplined capital allocation strategy. In May, we monetized 7 million Konecranes shares for proceeds of $277 million, bringing our year-to-date proceeds up to $549 million. As planned, in April, we repaid the remaining $254 million of our 6.5% notes. This completed the debt refinancing program that in total will reduce our annual interest expense by approximately $30 million in 2017 and $35 million on an annual basis starting in 2018. We are investing in our “Execute to Win” priority areas. We are making transformative changes that will benefit Terex for years to come. And we continue to fund restricting programs that removing structural cost and simplifying the company. Finally, we continue to return capital to the shareholders. We repurchased approximately 15.9 million shares for about $517 million in the first six months of the year. We continue to repurchase shares and as of last Friday, we had approximately $128 million remaining under the previously announced authorization. This disciplined capital allocation strategy including the efficient return of capital to shareholders through share repurchases, we'll continue to govern how we deploy capital. Turning to Slide 10. Overall, the financial results in the quarter were better than forecasted. Revenue of $1.2 billion was down about 9% from the prior year, driven largely by a reduction in sales from the divested construction businesses. Sales in AWP were flat, Cranes was down 15% and MP was up almost 10%. The impact of foreign exchange rates on sales was most pronounced in MP. Excluding the impact of foreign exchange rates, MP sales grew approximately 14%. On an as-adjusted basis, our operating margin was 6.9%. Lower volume in cranes, pricing and steel costs pressure in AWP and the unfavorable impact of foreign exchange rates were…

John Sheehan

Analyst

Thanks, John. To summarize, we are increasing full year guidance for the second consecutive quarter due to stronger than expected end market, continued progress on our transformation program and the implementation of our disciplined capital allocation strategy. The North American market for AWP equipment is improving sooner than we expected. Our Cranes segment is executing on its structuring program and results are improving. Materials Processing, our most consistent performer is having a strong year and becoming a more important part of our portfolio. While our progress and momentum are encouraging, we have a lot more to do. We met our commitment to focus on our three core segments. We continue to simplify the company implementing our footprint and cost restructuring plans. We will continue to build capabilities through our “Execute to Win” priority areas that will enable us to meet our longer term performance commitments. Finally, we will continue execute our disciplined capital allocation strategy and return capital to shareholders. With that, let me turn it back over to Brian.

Brian Henry

Analyst

Thanks, John. As a reminder, during the question-and-answer session, we ask you to limit your questions to one and a follow-up to ensure we have time to get everyone. With that, I'd like to open it up for questions. Operator?

Operator

Operator

[Operator Instructions] Our first question comes from Jamie Cook with Credit Suisse.

Jamie Cook

Analyst

Hi. Good morning. I guess two questions, one on Cranes and then the second on Aerials. Even as the adjustments, the profitability in the Crane segment was surprisingly positive in the second quarter, so can you just give more color on the drivers behind the profitability, to that speed up how you're sort of thinking about your longer term targets and then just sort of the backlog surprise queue I guess how sustainable that is that how much is market versus market - end market demand versus market share? And then my second question on the Aerial side, the margins were a little lower than what one of your peers put out this morning, I mean you talked about material cost headwinds, but then you also raised your margin target for the year, so I'm just trying to understand the drivers behind that to the pricing headwinds become less of an issue in the second half? Thanks.

John Garrison

Analyst

Thanks, Jamie. In terms of Cranes, it was a major milestone for us to return the Cranes business to profitability in Q2. And we are pleased with the progress the team is making. They are focused on executing our strategy, simplifying the business and deploying our “Execute to Win” business systems. In terms of sustainability of the backlog, we are pleased by the bookings and backlog. I would say that the markets on Cranes remain challenging but they are clearly stabilizing and we're seeing that stabilization pretty much across the globe. In terms of Steve and the team is working hard to strengthen our relationship with customers, executing our commercial excellence initiatives and that is translating to improvements in our bookings in backlog that were up significantly over the prior year. So on the on the market side a lot of hard work, the market remains challenging, but it clearly a stabilizing as we go around the world. On the profitability it's really being driven by the execution of our restructuring program, in Q2 we did close the Jinan manufacturing site in China, and we're beginning to see the benefits of the closed plants from previous Waverley, Waukesha, and exiting Aerials business in Brazil. So those activities are showing up. We also saw a better product mix, so we expect that product mix to continue into the second half of the year and with the better visibility that we have to the order book in order coverage on the claim side. We expect that's also going to help drive manufacturing productivity for our Cranes business. So we're on track, the teams working hard, a lot of work to continue to do to execute the restructuring program, but clearly we're pleased to see the business return on profitability in the quarter.

Jamie Cook

Analyst

Okay. Thank you.

John Garrison

Analyst

On the AWP.

Jamie Cook

Analyst

On the Aerial side, yes.

John Garrison

Analyst

Yeah, thanks Jamie. On the AWP side, again from a market standpoint, we were encouraged as we saw the significant increase in the year-over-year bookings and backlog and again what was encouraging about that Jamie was really across the globe. We saw that North America, Europe and Asia, and so that was encouraging sales were higher than we had forecasted driven principally by the North American market. Again as we put that in context, as we went into this year, it was the third consecutive year of lower areas volume. The good news is the strength in the construction cycle, is mitigating the replacement cycle impacts. So on the revenue side we feel pretty good about where the market - about where the market is. As you've indicated on the margin side in my comments, we did see margin compression really driven by four factors; the global pricing dynamics continues to impact us, and I think if you putting that in context that many of our large customer agreements were entered into in the fourth quarter of last year, a very different economic environment in terms of what we anticipate, and I think what the market anticipated the sales to be so that impacted the agreements that we did have and again as we go forward maybe year that impacted us for the remainder of the year. But we do have customers that are not on program agreements and we're entering into discussions about that. We did see higher steel cost as we talked about in our in our Q1 earnings call we saw a pretty significant rise in steel played especially in Q4 went up of about 42% in state elevated. And the other thing that did impact us in the quarter as a result of our higher production volumes, we actually did have to go into the steel spot market that wasn't covered by some of our steel contracts and purchased more steel on the spot market which impacted our margins in the quarter. FX did impact us unfavorable euro and the pound sterling offset somewhat by favorable RMB in China, and then we also had a slightly unfavorable product mix in the course. So those are four things that impacted the margin in the quarter. We do expect steel prices remain a headwind for the second half and factored that into our guidance. On the pricing side we've already started the conversations with our customers about 2018 pricing, but also more importantly the customers that aren't covered by program agreements about the impact of things like steel on the cost structure. And finally we believe we're going to see better manufacturing productivity in the second half of the year with better order visibility and especially compared to what we saw in the fourth quarter of last year. So I think that's what's driving some of the margin activity in AWP, overall though encouraged by the market dynamics and we're working on the margin aspect.

Jamie Cook

Analyst

Okay, thanks. I appreciate the color. I'll get back in queue.

John Garrison

Analyst

Thank you, Jamie.

Operator

Operator

Our next question comes from Nicole DeBlase with Deutsche Bank.

Nicole DeBlase

Analyst · Deutsche Bank.

Yes, good morning, guys.

John Garrison

Analyst · Deutsche Bank.

Good morning Nicole.

Nicole DeBlase

Analyst · Deutsche Bank.

So I just want to start by following up on Jamie's question on Aerials. So you mentioned that you are currently talking to customers about increased pricing related to pushing to higher steel cost. I guess what do you think the likelihood is that you'll be able to get higher pricing since the market has been competitive for a while I guess from a competitive perspective, do you think that everyone in the market is trying to increase pricing or is it something that's a little bit unique?

John Garrison

Analyst · Deutsche Bank.

No, I think overall what you know we don't control what the market pricing is. We know what's the competitive industry, what we can do is not to over supply the market, so we try to keep what we believe the supply and demand balance to be in place. I do think there's an opportunity to have informed conversations with customers their business people as well. And when you look at some of the cost inputs that we've seen in the dramatic increase in steel that's the conversation that you can have. Now clearly it will not impact the agreements that we our annual agreements that were in place for this year our program agreements, but where we don't have a program agreements and then setting up the conversations for 2018 we believe we can we can begin to have that price realization or conversation. I think also within overall improving markets and market dynamic basically globally, I think that's also going to help Nicole as I said it's been successive years of year-over-year declines in this business and seeing the demand environment firm up will help the pricing conversations that need to be add.

Nicole DeBlase

Analyst · Deutsche Bank.

Okay, that's really helpful, thanks. And then just a quick question on the guidance and understand that you've now embedded the repurchases that you've done in the second quarter about you know you mentioned that you continue to buy back stock through Friday, so have you included any incremental repurchases in 3Q in your guidance and I guess maybe like your last quarter I think you gave us the approximate share count that was embedded in the full year guidance?

John Garrison

Analyst · Deutsche Bank.

Yes, the full year guidance that we provided the $5 to $15 per share does include the completion of the existing share authorization, and it does assume an average of 95 million shares outstanding for the full year.

Nicole DeBlase

Analyst · Deutsche Bank.

Okay, thanks. I'll pass it on.

John Garrison

Analyst · Deutsche Bank.

Thank you, Nicole.

Operator

Operator

Our next question comes from Ann Duignan with JP Morgan.

Ann Duignan

Analyst · JP Morgan.

Hi Good morning.

John Garrison

Analyst · JP Morgan.

Good morning.

Ann Duignan

Analyst · JP Morgan.

Can you give us an update on the strategic sourcing endeavor such if undertaken meaning it seems like there's a significant opportunity there, but at a I think you said $10 million cost this year, can you size the opportunity, timing of the opportunity any color you can give us, and then it sounds like sourcing was not centralized previously, is that true and be why would we not have been buying at least steel centrally previously?

John Garrison

Analyst · JP Morgan.

Thanks Ann, so let me start by saying we were very excited about the supplier days that we had. We had well over 2000 suppliers basically a 1000 each representing 1200 companies in Mannheim, Germany through European and Asian suppliers and then in the Dallas for North American supplier. So there was a keen interest, Ann it's really the first time that Terex is presented itself to the supply base. We've grown through 80 acquisitions over time, and if you're supplier you kind of add new which door to go through. So centralizing our strategic sourcing under one organization is something that is new for us we have implemented that. We have not leverage spend horizontally across Terex with the minor exception in some cases in steel buy in North America, but it's an opportunity for us to leverage the overall global spend. So we decided to make the investment to increase our strategic sourcing organization and as we said it's about $10 million that's Paul and his team is important to know that it's centrally coordinated the team members are on wave teams, they remain in the businesses, they're cross functional teams it's not just strategic sourcing people, it's engineers, it's quality supply engineers, and the like and we think that's an investment that's going to pay off significantly for the company as we go forward. Now in terms of timing Ann, of the timing associated really we are following a very rigorous process to ensure that we can maximize potential from the activity. After the supplier conferences we put out the RFIs and RFQs to wave one commodity suppliers that will take us about six to nine weeks to get that back. Then the team is going to have to evaluate RFIs and RFPs and will then select…

Ann Duignan

Analyst · JP Morgan.

Okay. Yes, it does. Should we anticipate saying it shopping gross margins first or SG&A, I mean is the hanging fruit and things like material cost or is it like indirect spend?

John Garrison

Analyst · JP Morgan.

Yeah. Thanks Ann. Principally it's going to show-up in gross margin. Direct material cost is going to be the principal driver. We do have some indirect teams, one of the first way teams is an indirect team, so we anticipate some improvement on the SG&A side and the indirect expand. But I would say the lion share should show-up an improvement in gross margin.

Ann Duignan

Analyst · JP Morgan.

Okay. I appreciate the color. I will get back in line. I'll it there. Thanks.

John Garrison

Analyst · JP Morgan.

Thanks, Ann.

Operator

Operator

Our next question comes from Steven Fisher with UBS.

Steven Fisher

Analyst · UBS.

Hi. Thanks. Good morning.

John Garrison

Analyst · UBS.

Good morning. Steve.

Steven Fisher

Analyst · UBS.

So, it sounds like the improving market conditions and AWP is going to help the segment with the way as you just have to wait for some of those Q4 resets, but as you think about where you are today with the margins and what's possible all the initiatives and if you assume your base case of market demand, would you have any line of sight to getting back to double-digit margins in AWPs in the next one to two years?

John Garrison

Analyst · UBS.

In terms of the - I think to describe Steven the impact on AWP margin near term, overall driving margin improvement is something we recognize that we have to do would expect to see incremental margins much closer to the 25% to 30% range on incremental volume in AWP which would drive to that double-digit margin that you're talking about. So we are focused on the AWP team in that margin improvement and that's what we'd anticipated going forward in that business. In a competitive environment, we still think that's achievable.

Steven Fisher

Analyst · UBS.

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John Sheehan

Analyst · UBS.

So, I would start by saying that this company from my perspective being the new guy is doing absolutely outstanding job on working capital at 22% of sales at for Q2. I think the working capital is managed very well. As we see the stronger backlog that we're experiencing as we see the stronger markets, we are building inventories in the second half of the year for in anticipation of 2018. I would point out that we maintained our free cash flow guidance in the $0 million to $50 million range. As a result of that as the positive performance from the cash flow - positive performance in the operation and the cash flow from that is being offset in the free cash flow area. I wouldn't necessarily put an exact size on it, but I would say in the $50 million to $100 million range and - but this company will continue to manage working capital very, very tightly.

Steven Fisher

Analyst · UBS.

Great. Thank you.

Operator

Operator

Our next question comes from Andrew Casey with Wells Fargo.

Andrew Casey

Analyst · Wells Fargo.

Hi, good morning, everybody.

John Garrison

Analyst · Wells Fargo.

Good morning.

Andrew Casey

Analyst · Wells Fargo.

I'd like to go back to the sales guidance where the declines were kind of cutting half to down 6%, what if any change in that was related to currency?

John Sheehan

Analyst · Wells Fargo.

I would say that overall, the change in revenue is really being driven much more by volume then it is by currency. You can see in the chart that we provided with respect to the guidance change that was in the chart set, the components of the change in the revenue for the full year, currency is not a significant impact. I would also say that in general as you've been seeing, we've been seeing a stronger euro in general, a stronger euro is better for us, especially within our AWP and materials processing business and therefore that could be a benefit for us on a going forward basis here.

Andrew Casey

Analyst · Wells Fargo.

Okay. Thanks, John. And then I guess following-up quickly on your AWP comment. The guidance implies about 160 basis point improvement in the second half to about 9.3% on margin. You mentioned working on price and manufacturing productivity, are you factoring any of that reversal in currency as benefit within the margin?

John Garrison

Analyst · Wells Fargo.

I wouldn't say that we're factoring a significant amount of currency benefit into the revised guidance that we provided here today for AWP. You are correct that we are projecting improved margins in the second half of the year. And John when he was speaking earlier in his comment, laid out several of the factors just to reiterate some of them, we are expecting more favorable manufacturing productivity in the second half of the year as we increase the production rates especially as compared to last year, we will be producing in Q4 ahead of the sales volume as we build inventory for 2016. Number two, we did have very low sales volume in Q1 and you may recall that there were operational issues that affected AWP back in the first quarter and reduce their margins. Steel will continue to be a headwind in the second half of the year, but with the volumes being lower, the sales volumes being lower, we do expect less spot market buys for steel and we are expecting an improved product mix in the second half of the year fewer sales under program agreement. So overall, those are the factors that are really driving the improvement in the margin in the second half of the year.

Andrew Casey

Analyst · Wells Fargo.

Okay. Thanks. And if I can ask a second set of questions on Cranes. You mentioned improved tower crane orders in the UK and I'm wondering whether that was concentrate at the beginning of the quarter or if you saw some of that strength potentially extended to July? And then secondly, can you comment whether any of your product line availability within Cranes might be taking orders for 2018 at this point specifically interested in the all-terrain segment? Thanks.

John Garrison

Analyst · Wells Fargo.

Thanks, Andy. On the last part of the question, we have been successful with the re-launch of our all-terrain cranes with the Demag and we are talking orders and filling in. And are actually starting to fill on some models the late 2017 into 2018. So that launch has been successful. On the tower crane side, I would say we saw a good tower crane order activity in volume basically driven by the U.S. and the UK principally. And in terms of commenting on the order activity in July, again we don't want to get into specific months, but again the underlying market dynamics have remained constant through this period of time. So we're not - I can say this, we're not seeing a precipitous falloff in any market activity. So overall, I think the underlying markets have been pretty consistent from what we've seen, higher than we had anticipated and that's what's driving both the bookings and the backlog year-to-date.

Andrew Casey

Analyst · Wells Fargo.

Okay. Thank you very much.

John Garrison

Analyst · Wells Fargo.

Thanks Andy.

Operator

Operator

Our next question comes from Stephen Volkmann with Jefferies.

Stephen Volkmann

Analyst · Jefferies.

Hi, good morning.

John Garrison

Analyst · Jefferies.

Morning, Steve. I'm wondering if we can stay with cranes for a minute here, and just talk a little bit about the competitive dynamics in that market, and we've talked a little bit over the past few quarters about pricing pressures, and in certain types of cranes, especially I think kind of coming out of Asia, and then I'm just curious sort of how that coming on?

John Garrison

Analyst · Jefferies.

Thanks. Overall the cranes market it remains challenging, but it clearly has stabilized. We've seen a stabilization of around the world pricing is the cranes unlike AWP the cranes transactions are more transactional based, so it's transaction by transaction commercial excellences is helping as they're having visibility. But is still is the competitive market, we try to compete prudently aggressively, but prudently on the pricing dynamics. As we think about the cranes markets as we go or just kind of do around the world walk, we did see some lower sales in Europe, but then again that was principally driven in the crawler cranes business by the change in the German subsidies. Our Demag all-terrain cranes a lot those produced go into the Middle East and that market's been a little bit softer for us. In North American market is stabilizing, it's not robust by any stretch of imagination, but it has stabilized, we think stabilization of oil and on the oil side of the businesses is helping us there. And then again markets like Australia, which in my opening comments, I said we haven't really seen any volumes since 2014, we're beginning to see not only volume for imports specifically our German cranes produced our Demag line, but also seeing our picking carry line pick up. Towers as we indicated picked up and then our utilities business is relatively stable, principally a North American based business, but we do have sales in to China and they're doing a decent job on the operating side to drive operating margin improvement. So as I look at cranes that that's the market dynamics, it's still challenging, but clearly we're seeing stabilization as we go around the world in our crane efforts.

Stephen Volkmann

Analyst · Jefferies.

And John you made a comment on AWP is that when volume improves pricing discussions go little bit easier, I guess that would apply here too.

John Garrison

Analyst · Jefferies.

It would, I'm not ready to - the cranes business and our forecasting is the challenge it's not quite as clear on the AWP side, we do believe that there is a risk replacement cycle that can be modeled we've shown the model it varies a little bit, the cranes replacement cycle is not nearly as clear as the AWP cycle, but clearly is volume picks up, and there's opportunity that does help firm up the pricing conversations no doubt about that.

Stephen Volkmann

Analyst · Jefferies.

Great. And then just another one as we think about 2018 volume would be whatever it is we can come up with our own estimations there. But I'm just curious relative to the things that you've been doing here in 2017, how should we think about the carryover kind of EBIT benefit from the various cost saves that you've achieved in 2017, what's the carryover impacts of that in 2018 if we hold everything else kind of stable here?

John Garrison

Analyst · Jefferies.

Yeah. So, overall as we're the simplified part of our plan and then restructuring activities yield is about $25 million thus far specifically in the Cranes business in 2017, we think that's going to be a $30 million kind of run rate going forward on the crane side. Our SG&A savings as you recall we talk about $41 million out in 2016 another $21 million out this year of course, we have the incentive comp it that offset that in the strategic sourcing. So those types of activities are what we're seeing going forward John, do you want to comment any more on that?

John Sheehan

Analyst · Jefferies.

No I would also just add that as you know we did restructure our capital earlier this year that will drive a $35 million reduction in interest expense on an annualized basis and the Crane business with has dropped our breakeven now down here to $1.2 billion versus where it was much higher previously as a result of the positive results from the restructuring. I think it's also important to look at the MP business, the MP business is one that doesn't get as much focus by externally, but it's been a consistent contributor for us the sales were up 9.5% this quarter in the margin up 130 basis points up to 12.7% we've seen great growth in our concrete, our Fuchs and our crushing and screening business and that's been quite honestly a consistent performer for us and an increasingly important part of our portfolio. So I would also think about that as you think about modeling 2018.

Stephen Volkmann

Analyst · Jefferies.

Okay, thank you.

Operator

Operator

Our next question comes from Joe O'Dea with Vertical Research Partners.

Joe O'Dea

Analyst

Hi, good morning.

John Garrison

Analyst

Good morning John.

Joe O'Dea

Analyst

First just to understand a little bit more on comments around stabilization in cranes, I mean when you look at backlog it's up 29% and I think first half of 2017 orders are running north of 20% better than last year's run rate it seems like it's a little bit better than the stabilization of the bottom, and you're seeing some growth and so, just for clarification on expectations that current demand levels are sustainable and in your view and now it actually set up pretty nicely in terms of what it means for growth next year?

John Garrison

Analyst

Again clearly don't want to get into the 2018 revenue guidance at this time. But I can say it's part of our commercialized initiatives in working on the account management in the pipeline management. We are having better visibility coding activity, coding activity is picking up, not necessarily always leading to orders, and so the word as I talk of cranes, customers the word that they're using is more stabilizing versus a return to significant growth, and so that's what we're characterizing it. We're obviously pleased by the backlog increases that we're seeing, but again offer relatively small base as well. So yes, we are encouraged not downplaying that, but stabilization on the cranes market is the word we're using for now and as we see it going forward you know we could potentially change our outlook, but that's the word we're using right now.

Joe O'Dea

Analyst

Got it. And do you think you're getting a bigger piece of the part and you were getting a year ago on some of the initiatives which you've implemented over the past six to nine months?

John Garrison

Analyst

We have implemented and I would say this you know across our product offerings, it's a competitive marketplace out there. When you bring a competitive product when you listen to the customer and bring to the customer a competitive product that meets their needs you're successful. We have seen where we've launched our new product, new product introductions really across our portfolio, when we've brought those new products to market place. We do see an increase in order activity enhance and improvement in our overall market position, as a result of those new product and service introductions. So we are pleased and that's why product development and innovative product development is a critical part of our strategy is not just the transformational priorities, they're absolutely needed across the business. But we also are focused on innovative products that meet the needs of the customer drive ROIC for the customer and in doing that we find that we're able to be successful in the marketplace. so yes, we are pleased with where we brought new products to the market crane specifically, but I'd make that comment generally across the portfolio, new product introductions, new service introductions, meeting needs of the customer, we can be successful, and that's why it's going to continue to be an important part of our capital allocation of driving organic growth through product and service development.

Joe O'Dea

Analyst

Very helpful. Thank you.

Operator

Operator

Our last question comes from David Raso with Evercore ISI.

David Raso

Analyst

The share count fully diluted at the end of the quarter, I'm just trying to get a feel for how much share report you have in the second half of the year to get the full year average share countdown 95, it seems fairly substantial is to make sure I know where we we're starting the third quarter?

John Sheehan

Analyst

So at the end of June, we had 91 million shares outstanding and there's a common stock equivalent at this company of about $1.4 million, so there was 91 million shares, 92 million shares outstanding and here as of yesterday, we were in the 89 million range of shares outstanding.

David Raso

Analyst

Okay, I assume well. I would think that implies the rest of the corner shares are no longer there by the end of 2017, so we think about the dividend for 2018 in late March, early April we should assume no dividend?

John Garrison

Analyst

Turning over to Konecranes shares obviously we've sold down a significant percentage of Konecranes earnings just we all about 6.6% of Konecranes, let me say that obviously if you look at depreciation of the Konecranes shares it's driven about $300 million of value for us, so we think it's going to tremendous transaction for our shareholders as well as the Konecranes shareholders. So the dividend percentage into 2018 David would be significantly reduced even if we didn't - if we held our shares for the remainder of the year into 2018, I'm not going to comment about timing of share sales, we're obviously you know watching it very closely, we've been prudent with that investment, and we would see a significant reduction for no other reason than in our ownership percentage has fallen from 25% to 6.6%.

David Raso

Analyst

And it appears when you think of 2018, the share count as much as you're saying 95 for the average for 2017, the math seems so just you're going to end the year right kind of how you start your 2018 modeling as well as about 85 million shares, 85 million shares is that a fair?

John Garrison

Analyst

Yeah I think it's fair to think about a number like that, just to reiterate again though the assumption in the guidance with the 95 million shares is the completion of the existing share authorization, nothing further after that.

David Raso

Analyst

Okay, that's helpful. And two small things, if my memory serves me when Fuchs starts working that historically when I was bared in construction it was a pretty high margin business, is that still the case and can you size that business little a bit of math I think you used to be $150 million, $200 million and I think is big anymore, but can you remind me the Fuchs margins relative to MP's average?

John Sheehan

Analyst

So right now David, in terms of Fuchs contribution it is pulling down the overall average of MP as the volumes return, it has been a profitable business is one of the reasons why we decided to keep the benefits that dips in the MP portfolio, so we would expect overall Fuchs to be a positive contributor to the overall MP margins versus a drag on margins that is today as volume improves. And in terms of sizing, I don't think David we're going to want to begin the size in the specific components of the overall MP at this time, but I will say it's not helping margins today, but it is the volume returns it will be a positive contributor to MPs overall margins.

David Raso

Analyst

I appreciate the time. Thank you.

Operator

Operator

Ladies and gentlemen does conclude today's presentation. And thank you for your interest in Terex, if you have any additional questions please follow up with Brian.

John Garrison

Analyst

Thank you all again. Thank you for your interest in Terex and again if you have any questions please follow up with Brian or John or myself. Thank you.

Operator

Operator

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