Operator
Operator
Welcome to the XPO Logistics Q4 2015 Earnings Conference Call and Webcast. My name is Cynthia and I will be your operator for today's call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. Later, we will conduct a question-and-answer session. Please note that this conference is being recorded. Before the call begins, let me read a brief statement on behalf of the company regarding forward-looking statements and the use of non-GAAP financial measures. During this call, the company will be making certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of applicable securities laws which, by their nature, involve a number of risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements. A discussion of factors that could cause actual results to differ materially is contained in the company's SEC filings. The forward-looking statements in the company's earnings release or made on this call are made only as of today and the company has no obligation to update any of these forward-looking statements, including its outlook, except to the extent required by law. During this call, the company also may refer to certain non-GAAP financial measures as defined under applicable SEC rules. Reconciliations of such non-GAAP financial measures to the most comparable GAAP measures are contained in the company's earnings release and the related financial table. You can find a copy of the company's earnings release which contains additional important information regarding forward-looking statements and non-GAAP financial measures in the Investors section on the company's website at www.xpo.com. I will now turn the call over to Mr. Brad Jacobs. Mr. Jacobs, you may begin. Bradley S. Jacobs - Chairman & Chief Executive Officer: Thank you, Cynthia. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to the call. With me today are John Hardig, our CFO; our Chief Strategy Officer, Scott Malat; and our Head of Investor Relations, Tavio Headley. As you saw last night, we delivered a very strong fourth quarter. We more than quadrupled our total revenue year-over-year. Organic revenue growth ex fuel accelerated to 8.4% in the quarter. We increased our organic net revenue margin across all of our transportation businesses: in freight brokerage, last mile, expedite and global forwarding. And we generated $218 million of EBITDA in the quarter, more than five times the EBITDA we reported in the fourth quarter of 2014. Year-over-year, organic EBITDA growth in the quarter was a robust 33% companywide. Throughout 2015, we continue to meet or exceed every financial projection we publicly stated. We did this while growing XPO from a North American entity to a top ten global industry leader. For 2016, we are on track to deliver at least $1.25 billion of adjusted EBITDA. We now generate about two-thirds of our revenue from asset-light businesses and one-third from asset heavy. We've grown our asset-light freight brokerage business to over $3 billion globally. We are driving this growth by our proprietary technology platform and improved employee productivity. We continue to grow both the top and bottom lines in brokerage. And we've generated margin improvement in brokerage in 10 quarters of the last 11 quarters. Our last mile logistics business is also an asset-light model. As you know, we're the leader in the heavy goods sector of last mile. We arranged approximately 10 million last mile deliveries in 2015 and we are on track to arrange more than 12 million last mile deliveries this year. We have a number of very large contracts in our pipeline mainly due to the growth in e-commerce, which is a tailwind for our retail customers. And we're also ramping up a new last mile service in Europe. Our sales pipeline in our logistics business is also accelerating. During economic uncertainty companies often look to take out internal costs by outsourcing segments of their supply chain, but demand is also being driven by customer interest in our advanced solutions and our deep vertical experience in retail, e-commerce, aerospace, telecom, food and beverage, chemicals; and two new high growth verticals that came with Menlo, high-tech and healthcare. The entire Con-way integration is going extremely well. In LTL our service quality has increased from what we're already industry-leading levels. Our on-time pickup performance is up, our on-time delivery performance is up, our damages and claims have improved, our line-haul productivity has also improved, and we continue to offer more next day and two-day lanes than any other LTL provider. We cover about 99% of all the zip codes in North America. Our new LTL leader Tony Brooks is doing a fantastic job and he's brought greater urgency and accountability to the table. We've already taken a substantial amount of unnecessary costs out of the LTL business and we have a large number of initiatives underway for the next waves of profit improvement. We currently have RFPs out on over $1 billion of spend in purchase transportation and other services. We're optimizing the network, analyzing it lane by lane, and making adjustments to improve profitability, while maintaining extremely high levels of customer service. And we're also hiring local sales talent and strategic account managers to accelerate our growth. So we're executing on a high growth LTL plan. We have a great degree of confidence that we can grow the profitability of our LTL business at a rate that significantly outpaces the industry. Companywide, given our comprehensive service offering and all the avenues of growth available to us, we're well positioned to manage the business across a range of economic conditions. We're executing on dozens of major initiatives to ramp-up profitability both in North America and in Europe. We have a clear path to $1.7 billion of EBITDA for 2018 and we have a management team that's energized and get things done. With that, I'll turn it over to John to review the quarter. John?