Philip J. Hawk
Analyst · CJS Securities
Thanks, Ted. Now I would like to provide some additional perspectives on our recent performance and outlook. As I have done in past year-end earnings conference calls, I will briefly touch on fourth quarter performance, and then direct the bulk of my comments to our performance and progress throughout the entire year. This reflects our belief and philosophy that our longer-term performance trends are more meaningful indicators of our overall progress than our results, strong or weak, in a particular quarter. I'll then wrap up with a few comments about our expectations for the current fiscal year 2013. Wow. As Ted indicated, Team finished our fiscal year with a flourish. We achieved record financial performance in a number of areas. Our revenues, operating profit and adjusted net income were all the best quarterly results in Team's history. Our growth this quarter is particularly noteworthy because we are comparing against a very strong record performance in the prior year fourth quarter period. Ted indicated Team's fourth quarter revenues totaled $188 million, quarterly revenue growth was about $26 million or 16%. From a service line perspective, we achieved double-digit growth in all of our major service lines segments, inspection services and assessment, turnaround services and online services. From a geographic perspective, the growth was concentrated in the United States, reflecting the presence of major projects in Canada and our rest of world regions in the prior year fourth quarter period. Operating profit for the quarter increased $5.5 million or 30%. Operating profit, as a percentage of revenues was 12.9%, up 1.3 percentage points from the prior year quarter. The primary driver of this margin improvement was improved gross margins due to slight improvement in job mix, good indirect cost management and volume leverage. Overall, we are obviously pleased with our performance in the quarter. Let's now shift to a more extensive discussion of our full year performance. I'm pleased to note that many of the themes are very similar. Team achieved record performance in virtually every aspect of our business. As Ted indicated, overall revenues for Team during the year were $624 million, an increase of $116 million or 23% greater than last year. Approximately, $16 million of that growth was related to the acquisitions either during last year or this year. The remaining $100 million in revenue growth was the result of -- excuse me, was the result of organic business development or expansion. Our overall growth during the year was broad-based across service lines, geography and customers. Looking at our growth from a service line perspective, our business in every service line increased last year. Inspection and assessment service revenue grew approximately 28%. Currently, these services represent about 40% of Team's total business. Turnaround service revenue grew approximately 21%. Currently, these service lines represent about 35% of Team's total business. Online mechanical services grew approximately 10%. These legacy service lines for Team currently represent about 25% of our total Team revenues. Looking at our growth from a geographic perspective, we also enjoyed strong growth in all regions. U.S. business grew about 21%. Canadian business grew about 22%. European business grew about 30%. And our business in the rest of the world, including Asia and central and South America grew more than 40%. Our business is also broad-based from a customer perspective. We are delighted to have developed significant relationships with virtually all the major energy companies, as well as the leading companies in other industries we serve. However, no single relationship represents more than 5% of Team's total business. No single plant facility, the level at which most service decisions are made, represents more than 2% of Team's total business. I'm pleased with and proud of this business growth and development by my Team colleagues. In my view, there are a number of factors contributing to this performance. First, in a service business such as ours, everything begins with outstanding service and support to our customers. A very high percentage of our business is repeat business for existing customers. We understand that, that next service opportunity is earned with each current service job. I'm proud of my Team colleagues and their commitment to our customers. Every 1 of our 3,800 Team members has the opportunity to be a difference maker for our customers and our company. Our growth, both this year and over the past decade, reflects our outstanding service performance. Second, we enjoyed a bit of a market tailwind this year, as it relates to major turnaround projects. Our project activity on the Gulf Coast, West Coast and Canada reflected very busy turnaround schedules in those regions. Third, we keep expanding our capabilities. In the past year, we have significantly expanded our business in dial service capabilities, facility, mechanical integrity programs, guided wave inspection services, expanded heat exchange or repair services beyond the Gulf Coast, expansion of the insert valve product offering, new coding and structural composite service capabilities. And we enjoyed exciting growth and expansion of Quest Integrity Group capabilities in a number of areas, including newly developed and introduced in-line inspection tools for the 16-inch to 24-inch diameter pipelines, expanded pipeline project management capabilities and pipeline integrity programs. And expanded tank inspection and assessment programs, in conjunction with other Team units and the launch of new HYDRA UT [ph] inspection capabilities for piping systems within both refining and petrochemical facilities, as well as with both nuclear and fossil power facilities. Finally, Team continues to benefit from long-term procurement consolidation trends by our customers. Put simply, larger customers increasingly prefer to work with fewer, larger, more professional service providers when it is appropriate. This represents a natural advantage for the larger multi-service line geographically broad-based service companies such as Team. Approximately 35% of our total business is currently derived from our multi-service line, multi-plant, MSA agreements with our customers. Despite our sustained growth over many years, our industry remains highly fragmented. This will remain an advantage for Team for many years to come. To summarize, the key driver of Team's attractive business growth is not just one thing. It reflects a fundamentally good strategic position in an attractive market, great service performance and execution, and a continuing expansion of our capabilities in related areas. Let me wrap up my discussion of our performance with this final comment. For the year we've just completed, the revenue growth, operating profit growth and earnings per share growth rates were 23%, 33% and 33%, respectively. For the 13-year period between fiscal year 1999 and the recently completed fiscal year 2012, the compound average annual growth rates for revenue, operating profit and earnings per share were at 21%, 29% and 36% respectively, virtually identical to this year's growth rates. We are proud that we have sustained consistent and attractive business growth over the long term. Our growth isn't based on just one thing and our growth isn't based on just one good year either. And our outlook remains bright. We continue to see attractive growth opportunities in virtually every area of our business. Let's now shift to the year ahead. We expect to continue to build upon the strong business momentum we have generated in the past. As has been our practice for the past several years, we will provide full year guidance that we will review and update as appropriate on at least a quarterly basis. For our fiscal year 2013, ending May 31, 2013, we expect total Team revenues to be in the range of $680 million and $700 million. We expect our full year earnings to be in the range of $1.85 to $2 per fully diluted share. I also remind those of you modeling quarterly Team results to be mindful of the significant seasonality in our business. Please note that a disproportionate share of our total annual earnings will likely occur in our second and fourth fiscal quarters. Let me wrap up my remarks with a couple of final comments before we take your questions. All of us at Team are proud of our company and our performance track record. Looking ahead, our outlook and opportunities are as attractive as they've ever been, yet we can never rest on our laurels. To realize the growth opportunities available, we need to continue to stay focused on the basics of our business. These are providing great service with every service opportunity, continuing to capitalize on our service network advantages, creatively expanding our service capabilities and the value we can deliver to our customers and conducting our business all of the time in all activities in a manner that fosters pride from all Team colleagues and respect from our customers. In our view, that is how great organizations are built and sustained. That concludes my remarks. Let's now open it up for questions.