Chuck Prow
Analyst · Drexel Hamilton. Please proceed with your question
Thank you, Mike. Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for joining us on the call today. Please turn to Slide 3. This year is off to a great start with solid first quarter financial results that showed growth due to improving sales and operational execution and the great program performance of our teams throughout the world. Revenue increased 11% year-over-year to $321 million, while backlog increased to $3.3 billion, the highest level since becoming a public company. Additionally, adjusting for the required adoption of ASC 606 and one-time transaction cost associated with SENTEL, our operating margin for the quarter was 4%. Matt will discuss the impact of ASC 606 adoption later in the presentation. Our first quarter results, combined with the recent contract wins and extensions, have increased our overall revenue visibility and as such, we are modestly increasing our full year 2018 guidance for revenue and EPS. I have visited our programs in all areas of operation, the U.S., the Middle East and Europe thus far in 2018 and can attest to the progress our teams are making in all aspects of our strategy. Through the application execution of innovative tools and methods, technological convergence, leveraging best available commercial practices and through our enterprise-wide management approach, Enterprise Vectrus, Vectrus is transforming the way in which we sell and deliver services within the federal facilities, logistics and select IT markets. These efforts have the opportunity to significantly improve the outcomes of our clients’ missions, while creating a higher value growth-oriented platform. I would like to thank all of our employees for their hard work as we continue to execute our long-term strategy and position Vectrus as a leader in the converged infrastructure market. In particular, I would like to take this moment to recognize our veteran workforce. Vectrus remains a leading employer of veterans, with over 35% of our almost 7,000 employees reporting prior military service. Our veterans bring leadership skills that create a rich employee base from which they cultivate our future leaders, our veteran posses the unique understanding of our clients’ needs and requirements, which is extremely important as we seek to improve the outcomes of our client missions. I am exceptionally proud of our veterans. And I am honored to announce that Vectrus has, for the fifth time, been recognized with the military-friendly employer designation from Victory Media. On a similar note, this month we will recognize Memorial Day as we honor the brave men and women who gave their lives in the service of our country. I would like to thank all of those, past and present, who have served to protect our freedom. As mentioned, 2018 is off to a good start and our strategy is yielding demonstrable results. For example, during the first quarter, we won over $120 million of new business. These wins include the $108 million U.S. Army DFAC 3.0 contract. Under this 5-year contract, Vectrus will provide continuous operation of 9 dining facility locations in Kuwait. This win represents our strategy and action and we anticipate this new win to add $20 million of annual revenue through 2023. Additionally, during the quarter, we were awarded our fifth task order under the AFCAP IV program at Al Dhafra Air Base in the United Arab Emirates. With this new $16 million order, our team has now successfully won more than $60 million worth of new task orders under the AFCAP IV program. I am pleased with our record on this new contract vehicle for Vectrus. Furthermore, we continued to expand our presence with the Air Force, which now makes up 20% of our revenue compared to 11% for the first quarter of 2017. Net of our very important K-BOSSS contract, the Air Force comprises 34% of our portfolio. We have also increased our geographic footprint with the Air Force and now provide services to the Air Force in 10 countries. Importantly, both of these awards were based in the Middle East, which further positions Vectrus as a leading provider of services in the DoD, CENTCOM area of responsibility. Our existing business also continues to show momentum. And during the quarter, we were awarded a $31 million 1-year contract modification under our Turkey-Spain Base Maintenance contract and a $385 million 9-month extension of our K-BOSSS contract. The K-BOSSS contract is now expected to run through December of 2018 and has one additional option period that affects our site could extend current performance through March of 2019. As we have talked about in the past, our client has incorporated the current K-BOSSS contract at the task order under the LOGCAP V competition, which I will discuss in greater detail in a moment. Additionally, during the quarter, we were awarded a $106 million contract modification by the U.S. Army to continue providing enterprise network capabilities and services in support of the U.S. Central Command in Southwest Asia under the OMDAC-SWACA contract. Our new business awards, extensions and modifications, in addition to the SENTEL acquisition, resulted in a 13% year-over-year increase in backlog. Total backlog, which is a leading indicator of future revenue, now stands at $3.3 billion. With total backlog that is over 2.5x at midpoint of our 2018 revenue guidance, we have a significant opportunity to continue applying innovation and our enterprise wide improvement initiatives to drive performance improvement through 2018 and beyond. Our prospects for new business continue to trend favorably with $1.4 billion of bids submitted awaiting award. While timing of awards is difficult to predict, we believe Vectrus is well positioned to win its fair share of these awards. Our bid submitted number is up from last quarter due to the LOGCAP V bid submittal. The $1.4 billion is all new work and does not include any re-competes. On the topic of re-competes, we have very little re-compete risk in 2018, which in total comprises of about 1 percentage point of our 2018 revenue at the midpoint. Our pipeline of identified opportunities that we plan to bid for over the next 12 months remains solid at $8 billion. This number is up from $7 billion last quarter due to the SENTEL acquisition. We are already benefiting from the acquisition of SENTEL. And together with our opportunities, that neither company would have been able to pursue as a prime contractor previously. As a reminder, in January 2018, we announced the acquisition of SENTEL Corporation for $36 million. Even though it’s been a short time since we have owned SENTEL, the acquisition is tracking favorably and as a matter of fact, SENTEL revenue in the first quarter was ahead of our internal forecast. From a client perspective, we have visited all of the SENTEL programs and the feedback continues to be very positive. Additionally, during the quarter, SENTEL was awarded a re-compete task order to continue providing full software development lifecycle support for core IRS mission systems. Overall, I am thrilled with the new talent that SENTEL has added to our business and pleased with the performance of the business. I look forward to what the combined company will achieve. Turning to LOGCAP V competition, Vectrus is well-known for its ability to rapidly respond anywhere across the world in challenging and austere environments to meet our clients’ contingency mission requirements and we continue to believe that Vectrus is well positioned to win a seat on LOGCAP V. Our LOGCAP V proposal has been submitted and the contract is currently in source selection. We believe our proposal offers the client a differentiated and unique solution that is supported by our over 7 years of reliable and robust experience. Our capabilities and service is strongly aligned to our client requirements and the emerging operational environment. As a reminder, there are expected to be up to 6 indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract awards and the government intends to make an award in the fourth quarter of 2018. To retain the K-BOSSS contract, we would have to won a seat on the LOGCAP V vehicle and the associated CENTCOM task. As the incumbent on the largest existing CENTCOM task with excellent performance, we believe Vectrus is well positioned for both LOGCAP V and to win the CENTCOM task orders. Additionally, I would like to point out that our work for the Department of Defense in the Middle East or CENTCOM extends beyond K-BOSSS. In order to provide a sense of our CENTCOM footprint, during the first quarter Vectrus generated revenue of $221 million in the Middle East. Please turn to Slide 4. As you may recall, we have three core strategies: enhance the foundation, expand the portfolio and add more value. Our three core strategies each have a series of strategic comparatives that our teams are executing. I would like to outline some of the action we have put in place that will help us realize our strategic and financial goals. As it relates to the first strategy, enhance the foundation, this involves our efforts to enhance program execution and expand our business base. We have strengthened our methods and our approaches that have allowed us to grow in and around our business base, while delivering higher value, high impact services to our clients. This includes the integration of a continuous sales cycle that is resulting in increased organic growth within our current client set. Recent example of this includes DFAC 3.0, AFCAP and Keesler contract wins. Our progress so far has resulted in a significant expansion of our work with the Air Force. And during the first quarter of 2018, our revenue with the Air Force doubled year-over-year. Additionally, we are seeing the benefits of our enterprise-wide improvement program known as an Enterprise Vectrus, which employs process, technology and Lean principles. Examples include the role of Enterprise Vectrus on the recent phasing of our Thule program. As a result of Enterprise Vectrus, Thule has a foundational structure based on the most successful attributes of our current programs. This creates a platform from which our Thule program can demonstrate improved client outcomes, while yielding greater financial performance over the next 6 years. The next strategy is expand the portfolio and centers on infusing technology into our current facilities and logistics business, enhancing the full lifecycle aspect of our current IT business, strategically broadening our client set and further developing our relationship with commercial solution providers. A prime example of this is our recent IESS maintenance contract, which supports the intrusion detection system, closed circuit TV and a network in Qatar that I guess will provide a full range of maintenance and support services for this solution delivered in conjunction with our QBOSS facility contract in Qatar. Additionally, we are actively working on solutions to deliver smart, resilient basis, facilities and infrastructures and IT networks. This includes hardening and harvesting technologies that we acquired through SENTEL. For example, SENTEL is a pioneer in the Internet of Things and has core competencies in sensor integration and perimeter security solutions. The company has developed a data and visualization platform, which are capable of connecting multiple disparate sensors from various manufacturers on numerous platforms, such as UAV to provide a fully integrated common operational picture. This solution is also fully capable of performing in various operational environments, including remote and austere locations. This vendor agnostic and independent solution is using software to connect sensors in order to provide real-time information is an example of how we plan to integrate IT as we move towards fully converged infrastructure solutions. Finally, we are continuing to broaden our client set. We now have additional federal clients, such as the intelligence community, the FAA and the IRS. Additionally, we have expanded our geographic footprint. Our work in North America has increased 84% year-over-year, while our work in Europe had increased 67% year-over-year. The final core strategy of add more value focuses on the introduction of new higher value service offerings, strengthening our business model and more aggressively and systematically integrating our enterprise operations. Today, the key activities that have been implemented or initiated through the Enterprise Vectrus construct include deploying the Vectrus management system to increase accountability and improve outcomes, establishing a regional service center construct to leverage our global presence, enhance client support and lower cost and we have initiated efforts to catalog standardized and technology-enabled or core operational capabilities such as civil engineering, power generation and medical support to name a few. Today, in our business alone, Vectrus has over 120 core capabilities from which we deliver services. The Enterprise Vectrus construct and supporting management system will allow Vectrus to rapidly deploy the resources and capabilities necessary to solve complex mission-oriented challenges, while continuously improving our performance in support of our clients’ ever changing mission requirements. Please turn to Slide 5. All of the items I have just discussed are example of things we are actively doing in order to achieve our long-term strategic goal, to be an innovator and leader in the converged infrastructure market. As you have heard, we continue to make demonstrable progress and as a result, our business is a more diverse, more capable and higher value platform. In total, the aforementioned actions and continued execution of our strategy will allow us to reach our financial goal of $2.5 billion in revenue and 7% EBITDA margins by 2023. Now, I would like to turn the call over to Matt. He will go through our financial results and then we will open the call for questions.