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Good day, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the Q4 FY 2014 Team, Inc. Earnings Conference Call. My name is Julie, and I will 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 the conference. As a reminder this call is being recorded for replay purposes. Now I'd like to turn the call over to Ted Owen, President and CEO. Please go ahead, sir. Ted W. Owen - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: Thank you and good morning. It's my pleasure to welcome you all to the Team, Inc. web conference call to discuss recent company performance. My name is Ted Owen and I'm the President and CEO of Team. And joining me again today is Greg Boane, our Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. The purpose of today's call is to discuss our recently-released financial results for the company's fourth quarter and the full fiscal year 2015. As with past calls, our primary objective is to provide investors and analysts with an enhanced understanding of our company's performance and prospects. This discussion is intended to supplement our quarterly earnings releases and our SEC filings. In a moment, Greg will begin with a review of the financial results, and I will follow with a few more remarks and observations about our performance and our outlook. But before I turn it over to Greg, I want to make some broad comments about the quarter and our recent acquisition of Qualspec that we will both elaborate on more fully in our commentaries. It was a record fourth quarter and a record year for Team, a return to our Team-like ways. Operationally, we reported adjusted earnings of $0.77 for the fourth quarter, with an operating leverage of over 20% on revenue growth of 13%. It was the sixth consecutive quarter of year-over-year growth in revenues and in earnings. For the year, we achieved our revenue and earnings targets with total revenues of $842 million and adjusted earnings of $2 per share. That's a 12% revenue growth and a 35% earnings growth on an adjusted basis. I think that's incredibly impressive performance and I couldn't be more proud of all our colleagues who delivered it. We achieved these results despite the headwinds of weaker foreign currencies versus the U.S. dollar, refinery strikes in the U.S., weak commodity prices and resulting pressures from our customers on our rates. We've also been very busy, as you know, on the acquisition front. We're a month into the largest transaction in our history, the Qualspec acquisition that we reported in early July. We're very pleased with how that's going. Qualspec adds $180 million to our revenue base, making us a $1 billion company, and making us the leading provider of NDT inspection and assessment services in our North American markets. More importantly, Qualspec brings nearly 1,000 valued colleagues into our organization, significantly enhancing our capabilities in resident refinery inspection programs. We'll talk more about how Qualspec will impact our fiscal year 2016 budget in just a few moments. So with that as an introduction, let me turn it over to Greg for a more full discussion of the financial results for the quarter and the year. Greg L. Boane - Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer & Senior VP: Thanks Ted. Good morning. I'll open with our Safe Harbor guidance. Any forward-looking information discussed today is provided in accordance with the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. We've made reasonable efforts to ensure that the information, assumptions and beliefs upon which this forward-looking information is based are current, reasonable and complete. However, a variety of factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated in any forward-looking information. A description of these factors is set forth in the company's SEC filings. There can be no assurance that the forward-looking information discussed today will occur or that our objectives will be achieved. We assume no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements made today or any other forward-looking statements made by the company, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. The discussions today will include certain non-GAAP financial measures. We have excluded certain non-routine items when arriving at adjusted net income, adjusted EBIT and adjusted EBITDA. Reconciliations of these adjusted financial measures are provided in our fourth quarter 2015 earnings release. As Ted stated earlier, fiscal year 2015 was a record year for Team, with revenues of $842 million, up 12% over 2014 and adjusted earnings of $2 per diluted share, up 35% over 2014. We estimate the effects of the strong U.S. dollar and related foreign currency translation impacts during 2015 resulted in decreases in annual revenues of about $16 million or about 2% of revenues, and EBIT of $1 million or $0.03 per diluted share. I'll now focus on the results for the current quarter. Revenues increased 13% to $239 million for the current quarter, compared to $211 million for the prior-year quarter. Adjusted earnings for the current quarter increased 23% to $16 million or $0.77 per diluted share, compared to $13 million or $0.63 per diluted share for the prior-year quarter. Gross margin was $76 million and improved to 32% from 31% in the prior-year quarter. Adjusted earnings before interest and taxes, or adjusted EBIT, increased to $27 million or 11% of revenues for the current quarter, compared to $20 million or 10% of revenues in last year's quarter. Operating leverage for the current quarter, which we define as the period change in EBIT divided by the period change in revenues, was 22.5%. Adjusted EBITDA increased 25% to $34 million for the current quarter, compared to $27 million for last year's quarter. Fiscal year 2015 adjusted EBITDA was $99 million, a 12% margin on annual revenues of $842 million, and increased 28% in 2015 as compared to 2014. The effective tax rate was 36% for both the current quarter and year-to-date. Now, I'll spend a few minutes discussing the non-routine items in the current quarter that we do not consider to be indicative of our normal ongoing operating activities. Non-routine items during the current quarter totaled $1.5 million before tax or $0.05 per diluted share after tax. First of all, we spent $0.5 million before tax, or $0.02 per diluted share, on acquisition expenses related to the recent acquisitions of Qualspec and DK Amans Valve service business in California. We will expense an additional $3 million in Q1 2016 as the timing of these transactions crossed over May 31 and actually closed in fiscal year 2016. Secondly, during the fourth quarter, we spent $0.6 million before tax, or $0.02 per diluted share, related to non-capitalizable ERP system implementation costs. As disclosed in the fourth quarter of 2014, once the ERP project shifts from design phase to the training, data migration and roll-out phase, non-capitalizable project costs also start to ramp up and are charged against earnings. Overall, we're approximately halfway through the project. We plan to start a phased roll-out to our U.S. branch locations in 2016, beginning with an initial pilot test in January 2016, followed by four sequential roll-outs over the course of calendar year 2016. We currently expect to be completed with the roll-out by the end of calendar year 2016. We've capitalized $15 million to-date on the project. We expect the total capital cost of the project to be around $30 million. We plan to capitalize around $12 million in fiscal year 2016. Going forward our expected run rate on ERP implementation expenses is around $825,000 per quarter during fiscal year 2016. Finally, we spent $0.4 million before tax, or $0.01 per diluted share, on legal fees for the prosecution of a patent infringement suit we filed in December 2014 related to Quest Integrity's data presentation software. I'll now wrap up with some balance sheet information. At quarter end, total debt was $78 million. However, considering the borrowings related to the Qualspec and DK Amans businesses acquired subsequent to year end, total debt has increased to around $354 million, with $154 million borrowed under the revolving facility and $200 million borrowed under a five-year term loan. Our leverage ratio or the debt-to-EBITDA ratio is slightly higher than three times, but well below the existing leverage covenant of four times. Borrowing capacity under the new facility is around $105 million. 2015 CapEx was $29 million, $10 million related to the ERP project. That completes the financial review. I'll now turn it back over to Ted. Ted W. Owen - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: Thanks, Greg. Now let's look in more depth at each of our business units. As you all know, we're organized into three business units, Inspection and Heat Treating or IHT, which accounts for a little more than half of our revenues; Mechanical Services, which is about 35% of our revenues; and Quest Integrity Group, which is about 10% of our revenues. First, let's talk about IHT. The IHT Group continued its growth trend by increasing revenue in the fourth quarter by $14 million, a 12% increase over the prior year. Growth was broad based across all regions and all services. For the full year, IHT revenue was up $59 million or a 14.4% increase from the prior year. Operating income hit a new record for IHT, increasing 32% over the prior year, with a 25% operating leverage. Nearly every region and service line offering saw broad-based double-digit growth. Inspection services increased 13% compared to fiscal 2014 and heat treating services increased 16% for the year. Now Mechanical Services; our Mechanical Services Group experienced an 11% increase in revenue, up $8.3 million in the fourth quarter versus the prior-year quarter. Helping fuel that growth was turnaround activities in various service line expansion initiatives. We're especially delighted to have added to our valve capabilities on the West Coast with a recent acquisition of the DK Amans business in June, which will add about $10 million annually to our revenue base. For the full year, Mechanical Services grew $25 million or 9%. Of our three business units, Mechanical Services has the highest exposure to the impact of foreign currency weakness. If the euro and Canadian dollar had had the same exchange rate as in fiscal 2014, the Mechanical Service growth rate would have been over 11% for the year. Over the past year, we talked extensively about process improvements being made in our Mechanical Services Group, upgrades to our engineering procedures and processes, and the development of technical reference cards for each of our Mechanical Service offerings that has strengthened our ability to deliver safe and reliable services. These enhancements are already paying dividends and we look forward to an outstanding year in 2016 for this business unit. Now Quest; Quest Integrity generated $6.4 million in operating income on $23.3 million in revenue for the fourth quarter, representing a 26% growth year-over-year in revenue and 96% growth year-over-year in operating income. Quest's strong 27.6% operating profit performance in the quarter was consistent with our expectations. Pipeline activity remained robust through the fourth quarter, including some material project activity in the Middle East, which came late in the quarter and has bridged over into the first quarter of fiscal 2016. For the full fiscal year 2015, Quest Integrity generated $14.7 million in operating income on $74.5 million in revenue. We were 13% ahead of prior year's revenue, but operating profit was up 59% versus the prior year, with a strong 20% operating profit margin for the year. The outstanding profit margin performance reflects a combination of attractive business mix and pricing and effective cost management. We're excited about the more diversified demand profile, both by sector and geographically that we see building in early fiscal 2016 for our core inspection and assessment solutions. As noted last quarter, Quest Integrity is also now seeing early-stage financial contributions from several new innovative technology developments related to proprietary NDT tools applied in the pipeline process and power sectors. Now let's turn our attention to fiscal 2016. Looking backward at the beginning of fiscal 2015, we acknowledged that we were not very good at guiding and instead told you what our budget was for fiscal 2015. As it turned out, we hit our revenue and adjusted earnings marks on the nose, though not precisely as planned, due primarily to the currency issues we discussed. And we achieved those results despite the headwinds throughout the year; refinery strikes, commodity price declines, rate pressures from our customers, et cetera. But even though we hit our budget targets in fiscal 2015, it doesn't mean that we feel any smarter about our ability to guide or forecast with precision. In fact, due to the Qualspec acquisition, our task is more difficult, particularly because, A, we haven't even closed the books on the first month of Qualspec yet; and B, even more importantly, the purchase price allocation between non-amortizable goodwill and amortizable intangibles will only be known after the asset valuation is completed in the first quarter. That will then drive the annual D&A expense associated with purchase accounting for the Qualspec acquisition. So rather than focus on a precise EPS budget at this point, let's start with revenue and EBITDA. Again, for us EBITDA means earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization and non-cash compensation expense. So, for fiscal 2016, we expect revenues to be $1.1 billion including 11 months of Qualspec. The last year, as Greg reported, our adjusted EBITDA was $99 million. Our adjusted EBITDA estimate for fiscal 2016 is $135 million, again including 11 months of Qualspec's trailing 12-month results as a basis. Because of uncertainty of amortization expense, and the natural integration aspects of a larger acquisition, we're unable to translate that EBITDA estimate into a precise budget for fiscal 2016 EPS at this time. We expect to have a better clarity on the EPS budget for fiscal 2016 by the time we report our first quarter results in early October. However, for planning purpose, you can expect that our budgeted EPS will be somewhere in the range of $2.45 to $2.60 per share. Also for clarity, that budget range is exclusive of non-routine charges we expect to incur over the next year, associated with the ERP implementation as well as the non-routine transaction and integration costs associated with the Qualspec acquisition. Now let me amplify some of Greg's comments about our ERP implementation by sharing a little bit about our vision for the next five years, a strategic initiative we call Team 2020. Building upon the foundations that we've laid over the past 17 years, we're turning our attention now to the next five years, an aspiration of doubling both the size of our company and shareholders' value. To be successful, Team 2020 must be more than an aspiration. It must become an integral part of all we do, and cause us to focus on human capital initiatives, innovation and technology, the sharpening of sales and marketing skills, operational and scale efficiencies, differentiation of specialized and proprietary services, and must involve, what I call, enterprise thinking, the close collaboration of all our business units toward that common growth objective. At the heart of Team 2020, there must be a highly efficient management information system that allows us to scale our business, invoice our customers quickly and accurately, and achieve efficiencies through business automation and provide better insights about our key performance indicators. That's why we're committed to the implementation of a new ERP system for Team. A project that we call Project Next, whose implementation, as Greg said, will begin during fiscal 2016. It's a major undertaking for Team, but a project we expect to be transformational for our business. Now, before turning this over to questions, I want to once again end today's call by reminding everyone about why we've been successful for a very long time. It's because of the dedication of our now nearly 6,000 colleagues responding to customer service requirements every day, all over the world. Our success depends upon outstanding service execution by all of us, all of the time. So now, to my Team colleagues including my new Qualspec colleagues; let's continue our focus on safety and quality execution and have another Team-like outstanding year. And most importantly, let's all go home each day the same way we arrived. And so with that, now let's open it up for questions from our analysts and investors.