Apogee Enterprises, Inc.

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Apogee Enterprises, Inc. (APOG) Q4 2010 Earnings Call Transcript

Published at 2010-04-08 16:10:29
Executives
Mary Ann Jackson – Director, Investor Relations Russell Huffer – Chairman, Chief Executive Officer James Porter – Chief Financial Officer
Analysts
Eric Stine – Northland Securities Brent Thielman – D. A. Davidson Robert Kelly – Sidoti & Co. Ryan Levenson - Privet Fund Rod Hinze - KeyPoint Capital
Operator
Welcome to the fourth quarter 2010 Apogee Enterprises conference call. (Operator Instructions) I will now turn the presentation over to your host for today’s call to Ms. Mary Ann Jackson.
Mary Ann Jackson
Good morning and welcome to the Apogee Enterprises fiscal 2010 fourth quarter and year end conference call on Thursday, April 8, 2010. With us on the line today are Russ Huffer, Chairman and CEO, and Jim Porter, CFO. Their remarks will focus on our fiscal 2010 fourth quarter and full year results and the outlook for fiscal 2011. During the course of this conference call, we’ll make forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements are based on current expectations and the current economic environment and are of course subject to risks and uncertainties, which are beyond the control of management. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and actual results may differ materially. Important risk and other important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements and projections are described in the company’s annual report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended February 28, 2009 and in our earnings release issued last night and filed on Form 8-K. Russ will now give you a brief overview of the results, and then Jim will cover the financials. After they conclude, Russ and Jim will answer your questions.
Russell Huffer
Thank you, Mary Ann. Good morning and welcome to our conference call. Apogee achieved solid operating performance and our third highest earnings ever during fiscal 2010, even though we experienced difficult domestic commercial construction market conditions. We executed well as we worked off Architectural segment backlog booked in a stronger market and focused on improving productivity and aggressively managing costs in the face of the most difficult market in my career. It was a year that saw pricing and margins decline as the year progressed. Despite the challenges, I’m proud of our success at positioning Apogee with a strong balance sheet, leading products, services and brands and people focused on the company’s future opportunities. Apogee earned $1.13 per share from continuing operations on revenues of $696 million, which was down 25%. I’m pleased that we further strengthened our balance sheet as cash and short-term investments grew to $102.6 million at the end of fiscal 2010. Architectural segment revenues declined 27% while operating income decreased 51%. Architectural segment revenues were down comparable to our markets served which have been impacted by tight commercial real estate credit and depressed employment levels. The fiscal 2010 market for large projects, those projects greater than ten storeys which are especially important to our Architectural glass business was down 50% to 60%; this twice the decrease for overall market for Apogee project types. Our success and growth in institutional market share were not enough to offset the decline in large office projects. We have also been successful with our strategy to grow share in underserved architectural glass markets. We grew international export revenues 45% to $36 million in fiscal 2010 and made significant inroads serving new and existing customers in the smaller project market. Earnings declined with low Architectural segment capacity utilization, declining pricing, as we completed work bid in stronger commercial construction markets. In the fourth quarter, only about 20% of the Architectural revenue was from work that had been booked in stronger markets. During fiscal 2010, our Large-Scale Optical segment maintained revenues and operating income in weak retail market conditions as new an ongoing value added product customers continued to convert to our best picture framing products. Turning to the fourth quarter, we generated cash and again reduced costs as the Architectural segment fully felt the impact of the commercial construction downturn, with further volume and pricing declines, resulting in a quarterly loss for the segment. Company wide fourth quarter revenues were $148.6 million or down 26% and earnings from continuing operations were $0.01 per share versus $0.40 per share in the prior year period. Architectural segment revenues declined 30% with an operating loss of $3.6 million. Revenues declined due to the challenging domestic commercial construction market conditions, as the new business from institutional small projects and international work, couldn’t offset the core market decline, especially for large and office projects which are important to the architectural glass business. Regarding the Architectural segment operating loss, lower revenues and pricing along with low capacity utilization notably in our Architectural glass business, more than offset productivity improvements, cost reductions and good installation project margins. The Architectural segment backlog ended at $227.5 million compared to $246.4 million at the end of the third quarter and $316.2 million in the prior year period. Bidding activity has increased slightly, although average project values have declined and bid to award timing continues to be slow. Institutional work, institutional including stimulus work, remains the largest sector of potential work for Apogee, which is ideally suited to meet the sector’s demand for energy efficient and value added products and services. As we had expected, our backlog mix shifted even more toward institutional projects in the fourth quarter. Institutional projects now account for 65% to 70% of our backlog, up from 60% to 65% in the third quarter. We also saw a slight increase in the dollar value of the institutional projects from the third quarter to the fourth quarter. The other sectors of our Architectural backlog are office projects of 20% to 25% of the backlog, hotel/entertainment sector 5% to 10% and condos 0% to 5%. To illustrate the change in our product mix during fiscal 2010, here’s our backlog by sector a year ago. Institutional was 40% to 45%, Office 35% to 40%, hotel/entertainment 5% to 10% and condos 10% to 15%. In the fourth quarter Large-Scale Optical segment revenues increased 13%. Volume mix of our best value added picture framing products increased compared to a weak prior year quarter. Large-Scale Optical segment operating margin was 19.9% compared to 22.8%. Next, I’ll cover our outlook. We’ve been stating since last fall that fiscal 2011 will be very challenging for our architectural businesses, based on the degree of visibility we have from our bidding activity and backlog. Apogee is a late cycle commercial construction company and our markets are worse than the last trough as the commercial construction downturn appears to be deeper and longer than I’ve ever seen before. In addition, we’ve worked off the majority of projects booked in stronger markets. We believe that the two most important variables that will move commercial construction markets are growth in employment and the thawing of credit for commercial real estate, and we have yet to see the needed improvement in these metrics. The March employment report was a positive sign, and we are seeing a few examples of financing being provided to commercial real estate projects. Our markets are expected to be down 15% to 20% for fiscal 2011. We’ve adjusted the calendar McGraw Hill forecast for our lag to the market, which is approximately eight months as well as for the sectors we serve. Our revenue outlook is somewhat better than the forecast for our markets. We are currently estimating companywide revenues for the year will be down 10% to 15%. We believe we are beginning to see some positive movement in our business as our bidding activity and inbound order rates have increased slightly. However, it is too soon to call it a trend. We have focused on making our business as competitive as possible in difficult market conditions. We have aggressively reduced costs by more than 57 million on an annualized basis over the last year and a half and are working continuously on productivity improvements. However, we are strategically maintaining architectural capacity and people to respond to the potential growth in fiscal 2012. Further capacity reductions would be structural, difficult, costly and possibly slow to ramp up; but we will continue to monitor the market and evaluate this strategic decision. We are incurring $4 million to $6 million in annual costs to maintain this capacity. Moving to our earnings outlook, we believe we have the potential for positive earnings per share in fiscal 2011. We anticipate that earnings from our Large-Scale Optical segment will offset losses in our Architectural segment where we expect the second half will be stronger than the first half. With our $103 million in cash, and short-term investments and our untapped $100 million revolver, we are confident that we have the financial strength to work our way through the expected ongoing weak market conditions and remain focused on our growth strategies for the recovery. Our Architectural businesses have strong brands and operations that are well positioned to serve the aesthetic, energy efficient, hurricane and blast resistant glass requirements for commercial buildings, while our picture framing business continues to successfully convert customers to its industry leading framing products. During fiscal 2011, our Architectural segment will be focused on continuing to penetrate underserved markets for smaller architectural glass projects and new installation project geographies; maintaining our facilities at state of the art, including excess capacity if we feel the recovery timing and opportunities support this decision; maintaining and developing our key people; evaluating upgrading facility and equipment capabilities that enable new products and productivity improvements, as well as growth capital for the future; since we have some attractive incentives primarily for architectural glass, that may justify committing sooner than we otherwise would; and completing our analysis of international growth and expansion possibilities for architectural glass. During this challenging year, we are willing to invest in projects that we believe present attractive long-term opportunities to grow, gain share and create shareholder value. Despite the unprecedented tough market conditions, I’m feeling good about our architectural businesses and the strategic and operational progress we’re making. Our installation business is winning projects in new markets at decent margins. The window business is successfully penetrating its targeted institutional markets and our architectural glass business is growing previously underserved small project and international export markets. We also believe that international will present some exciting additional growth potential. In addition, we continue to develop and introduce new products for the new and retrofit green building industry, which is expected to be stronger than ever when markets improve. Curtain walls and windows are cost effective and important contributors to the energy efficiency of green buildings and I’m communicating this message as frequently and as passionately as I can. I’ll be glad to take any questions in this area. Jim will now comment on the financials.
James Porter
Thanks, Ross. Given the difficult market conditions, our fiscal 2010 performance was solid. We made progress in penetrating target and underserved architectural markets, increased our picture framing glass market share, improved productivity and aggressively managed our costs. We earned $1.13 per share on revenues of $696.7 million, both down from the prior year, which was a record year for earnings per share and revenues. Overall, full year revenues were down 25%, slightly below the prior guidance of a 22% to 24% decline. Apogee’s operating margin for the year was 6.5% compared to 8.4% in fiscal 2009, consistent with our prior guidance for margin ranging from 6.3% to 7% for the year. Architectural segment revenues declined 27%, comparable to our overall markets served, but the large office projects, so important to our architectural glass business, were down significantly more. This illustrates our success in penetrating underserved architectural glass market and serving new geographic markets for installation projects. Architectural segment operating income for the year was $31.6 million, down 51%. Fiscal 2010 segment earnings were impacted by low segment capacity utilization and declining pricing, somewhat offset with work we completed that was bid in stronger commercial construction markets. Despite soft retail markets, our Large-Scale Optical segment maintained revenues and operating income for the year. Our superior product attributes, which prevent fading and controls reflection are allowing us to continue to convert more customers to our value added and best value added products. In addition, the business is operating well as it leverages investments made previously. Fiscal 2010 net earnings including discontinued operations were $1.15 per share compared to $1.81 per share the prior year. Fiscal 2010 and 2009 discontinued operations results reflect settlement of litigation and warranties. At year-end, our cash and short-term investments totaled $102.6 million compared to $83.1 million at the end of the third quarter and $27.1 million at the end of fiscal 2009. During the year, we generated $87 million of free cash flow. We define free cash flow as net cash from continuing operations less capital expenditures. Our long-term debt remained at $8.4 million throughout fiscal 2010 as we continue to hold low interest industrial revenue bonds. Capital expenditures for the year were $9.8 million, down from $55.2 million in fiscal 2009. Key strategic investments for both segments were completed last year. Day sales outstanding at year-end held at 45 days from 44 days at the end of fiscal 2009. In general, we continue to feel good about the quality of our receivables in this tough economy. We closely monitor this and have lien rights on a majority of our outstanding accounts receivables. With the market and industry realities we face, we do expect our DSO’s to increase in fiscal 2011. In the fourth quarter of fiscal 2010, as Ross said, we fully felt the impact of the commercial construction downturn. Operating earnings from the Large-Scale Optical segment offset losses in the Architectural segment as we continued to reduce costs and generate cash in the quarter. Apogee revenues of $148.6 million were down 26% and earnings from continuing operations were $0.01 per share compared to $0.40 per share in the prior year period. Fourth quarter architectural segment revenues declined 30% with an operating loss of $3.6 million. Lower revenues, pricing and capacity utilization more than offset productivity improvement, cost reductions and good margins on installation projects being completed. As expected, approximately 20% of our revenue in the quarter had been booked in stronger markets, down from about 40% in the third quarter. With this significant decline in revenues booked and healthier market conditions, we really felt the impact of extremely competitive pricing and margins. Overall, pricing is down approximately 10% compared to a year ago and we expect pricing to be pressured until the market recovers or industry capacity declines. Roughly three points of this decline has been offset by cost reductions and productivity improvements. Fourth quarter capacity utilization in our architectural segment averaged approximately 50%. The full year capacity utilization level is 57% compared to 78% for fiscal 2009. The current segment capacity utilization is lower than it was the last cycle trough which was roughly 60%. In the fourth quarter, Large-Scale Optical segment revenues increased 13%, as the volume and mix of our best value added picture framing products increased compared to a weak prior year period. Operating income at $3.6 million was down 2%. The Large-Scale Optical operating margin was 19.9% compared to 22.8%. A $1 million write off of older technology production equipment that we were unable to sell, more than offset improvements in product mix and productivity. I’ll turn to our outlook. With the current domestic commercial construction downturn appearing to be deeper and longer than the last downturn, we are again expecting revenues to decline in fiscal 2011 and believe we have the potential for positive earnings per share. We are projecting that earnings from our Large-Scale Optical segment will offset losses in our Architectural segment for the year. On a consolidated basis, we expect losses in the first half of the year in part because we entered the year with a gap between completion of some projects and start up of new project work in our Architectural segment. We expect our revenues will be down 10% to 15%. We believe we can outperform our markets, despite the historical importance of large and office projects, which are forecast to be continue to be significantly down in the first half of fiscal year 2011. Our success in the institutional sector, along with the growth of smaller projects and international work are expected to somewhat offset the severe downturn in large building and office projects. We are projecting positive free cash flow for fiscal 2011 based on maintenance capital expenditures of $10 million to $15 million. As we continue to focus on our longer-term strategic initiatives to expand the breadth and capacity of our energy efficient architectural glass offering in the U.S. and internationally, along with the valuation of incentives we have available, we will consider additional strategic capital spending in fiscal 2011. For example, just this week, we took advantage of long term low interest financing and received $12 million in recovery zone bonds for future investments in our Architectural glass facility in St. George, Utah. We have three years to invest the dollars, which we’ve primarily targeted for extending the energy efficient products offered out of this facility to better serve the Southwest market, especially California where there are now more stringent energy codes. We also have been awarded energy investment tax credits available the next three years for similar investments in better energy efficient product capabilities for our architectural glass facilities in Utah and Minnesota. We expect to complete our analysis regarding whether to expand internationally by the summer. As Russ said, we are willing to invest if the timing is right for attractive, long-term opportunities. Although we’re facing a tough start to the year, we feel we may be beginning to see small positive signs in our Architectural businesses as bidding, hit rates and inbound order rates appear to be improving slightly. We continue to focus our sales efforts on markets where we can differentiate ourselves with our value added, energy efficient, aesthetic hurricane and blast products. We’ve seen strong bidding activity for projects in the institutional sector; education, health care and government projects, including Federal stimulus work. We remain focused on productivity improvements and managing our costs in an effort to somewhat offset the impact of declining revenues on earnings. With more than $100 million in cash and short-term investments, our priorities for use of the cash are that we intend to invest and grow our international architectural glass business where we already have a leading international brand but no offshore fabrication. We’ll also continue to invest in maintenance and safety, productivity improvement and new product development, and we plan to continue paying our dividend. We are focused on effectively managing through the slowdown and emerging stronger than ever when our markets rebound. We’re well positioned financially, have leading products, services and brands, and remain focused on operational and strategic initiatives to strengthen our business for the rebound in our markets.
Russell Huffer
I’m very proud of our employees and management team. They have been very proactive in managing costs and profitably gaining market share in this troubled economy. Apogee is in great shape to survive the downturn and thrive when the markets recover. Let’s turn it over to questions at this time.
Operator
(Operator Instructions) Your first question comes from Eric Stine – Northland Securities. Eric Stine – Northland Securities: I was wondering if you could discuss kind of the linearity of revenues and maybe the gap that you said you’re experiencing in the first quarter. Should we read into that the revenue levels could be similar to the fourth?
James Porter
I think that’s right for the first quarter. Just a reminder, you know we had projects that we were wrapping up in Q4, and even though we had projects in backlog in the pipeline, there were a number of projects that actually didn’t begin until into Q1, so that’s a reasonable assumption. Eric Stine – Northland Securities: Turning to the margin mix, it sounds like it was 20% older business. Should we think of that similar level in the first or should that basically be almost 0% if you’re all the way through it.
Russell Huffer
We’d pretty much work through it all by the end of the quarter. Eric Stine – Northland Securities: So directionally, margins potentially lower than we saw in this quarter.
Russell Huffer
Potentially. Eric Stine – Northland Securities: Maybe we could touch on operating expenses. It sounds like you’re pretty committed to keeping the business where it is to be ready for fiscal year 12, so should we assume that this is a good run rate for SG&A?
James Porter
Yes, I think that’s the right assumption.
Russell Huffer
We certainly are committed to maintaining our position so we can go forward much more strongly than if we would make more cuts.
James Porter
Quarter to quarter, as you know, it moves around a little bit, but it’s a reasonable run rate for next year. Eric Stine – Northland Securities: Any cancellations in backlog?
Russell Huffer
I really haven’t seen that. That’s really gone away for us.
James Porter
Over this entire fiscal year, actually there’s one really small project, but we have one project that we consider a cancellation, but really it got moved out almost two years and so we treat it as a cancellation, but really other than that, nothing.
Operator
You're next question comes from Brent Thielman – D. A. Davidson. Brent Thielman – D. A. Davidson: With respect to Q4 on the architectural business, just wanted to check, but was there any impact from seasonality or weather in terms of that segment. Obviously, the market had an impact as well, but any impact from seasonality or weather.
Russell Huffer
We would say no, nothing that we can point at. Brent Thielman – D. A. Davidson: Can you talk about the competitive environment right now and the pricing environment relative to what you saw in the last cycle? Is it better or worse, a little more rational this time around. Any clarity there?
Russell Huffer
It does vary a lot. If I had to put a blanket over all of it I would say that now we’re starting to see a lot more people bid than we would have seen on a bid. So that’s one thing that’s taking place, and that makes it very competitive. We are seeing though, especially on the institutional side, but even on other projects where people are recognizing that they need to have strong suppliers, so bonding and things like that are important so we really say that there’s less fall out.
James Porter
One of the factors if we compared to last cycle, I think we actually saw probably more industry capacity and more competitors actually going out of the market at this point. We haven’t seen that yet in this cycle. Generally, we thought we’d see a little bit more of it by this point but we haven’t and so I think that’s probably put a bit more pressure on us from a pricing standpoint at this point in the cycle than we experienced last time. Brent Thielman – D. A. Davidson: I guess for those that are still around, you ended your stance on current capacity, are you aware of any of your competitors taking out capacity at this point.
Russell Huffer
There certainly has been some capacity reductions in the marketplace but in the past downturns we’ve actually seen some major players exit and we’ve not seen that occur at this time. Brent Thielman – D. A. Davidson: On the Large-Scale Optical, I think you mentioned $1 million related to the write off, so that implies that your operating margins were closer to 25% without that write off.
James Porter
That’s right. Brent Thielman – D. A. Davidson: In terms of excess cash, could you take any shot at it. I guess if you backed out what you need for working capital purposes, but obviously, the cash position sort of continues to build here. What would you think you have available to you?
James Porter
I’d say our working capital needs really, until we start to see significant growth in the market, are going to be pretty insignificant so it’s going to be less than 10% on near term that we need for working capital.
Operator
You're next question comes from Robert Kelly – Sidoti & Co. Robert Kelly – Sidoti & Co.: Can you touch on the $57 million in savings? How much of that was fixed costs?
Russell Huffer
Probably a little over $10 million of that we consider to be permanent or structural. Robert Kelly – Sidoti & Co.: That’s between fixed capacity reduction and people that you don’t expect to hire back?
Russell Huffer
Correct. Robert Kelly – Sidoti & Co.: As far as you’ve seen positives on bidding, when would a job bid today or accepted today, when would that hit your backlog?
Russell Huffer
Unfortunately, it depends. Certainly, on our installation and window business we have a different cycle. Those can hit the backlog sooner, especially the smaller projects. On the glass side, it really has to wait until the window glazing awards are made before those bids come through so it’s a little longer time. So the answer is, it just depends. I’d say on par, it’s probably awarding sooner than it did under normal times.
James Porter
It really is a range as Russ said, but we are seeing, particularly in some of the Federal Government projects, we’re seeing projects that have been identified, and as you know there’s been some comments about how quickly some of this stimulus money is getting moved. We are seeing some projects that actually both you’re seeing a bit of an acceleration between bid and award and also a bit of an acceleration between award and when they actually want activity to happen in the field. So normally at this point, it gets hard especially for any meaningful sized project to impact the current fiscal year, but we are seeing opportunities that will have a shorter time horizon than that. Robert Kelly – Sidoti & Co.: I’m just trying to reconcile what you have in backlog to ship in F11 and then what you’re going to need to do to hit that kind of down 10% to 15% range. Do you expect the new order flow or the book to bill stuff that we don’t see enter backlog to remain steady in F11?
Russell Huffer
Actually, we expect it to grow. I think it’s a great point because we have seen that increase both as we’ve been successful with the smaller project market. But I think we talked about it before too. Some of these international projects actually have a shorter time horizon and some book and bill aspect to it as well. So we have seen already some growth in the book and bill within the quarter and we see that growing during the year. Robert Kelly – Sidoti & Co.: So what do you have on a book and bill basis in 1Q11 so far versus what you did in 4Q if you have that at your fingertips?
Russell Huffer
I don’t have that, but I think traditionally what I think we’ve talked about is about 25% of our revenues is a book and bill basis, and in Q4 we saw that grow up to about 30% and so we see that continuing to grow a little bit. Robert Kelly – Sidoti & Co.: On the international business, it grew nicely in F10. If you were to take a guess on where that shakes out for dollar level in F11?
Russell Huffer
We’ll get a similar growth so it will increase nicely.
Operator
You're next question comes from Ryan Levenson - Privet Fund. Ryan Levenson - Privet Fund: I’m wondering if you could tell us what the embedded margin in the backlog is?
James Porter
The margin in the backlog is really consistent with the outlook that we’ve given which is going to be kind of the considering [ph] the Q4 performance into losses in fiscal 11. Ryan Levenson - Privet Fund: I’m just trying to figure out what the new normal is because there was a quarter of your business, I think a quarter of the sales you indicated in the fourth quarter were old bid level type sales so I’m just wondering what the new pricing matrix is.
James Porter
I think Q4, you know for the 80% of our revenues in Q4, I think represented the new normal from a pricing standpoint. Obviously, that 20% goes away. We continue to find in our businesses where we can have differentiated products or I think Russ mentioned where we have an advantage from a bonding capability as opposed to our competition. We still have the ability to have some percentage of our business retain the type of historical margins that we’ve seen. Ryan Levenson - Privet Fund: Historical for – there’s been a few cycles. So I just wonder if you could put a range on it.
James Porter
If you look at our fiscal ’09 margins, the differentiated portion of our business is continuing to be priced at those levels. Ryan Levenson - Privet Fund: Can you clarify what you mean by shorter bid to award time? Specifically I’m just wondering if that bid, that the award time is being held until later before the project starts or is it that you’re submitting a bid and getting a quick response?
Russell Huffer
Let me talk at it a couple of ways. In our glass business, as you go from larger projects to smaller projects, there’s a significant reduction in bid to award time, so from months to weeks. So that’s a different one. And then in our other businesses we have, the larger projects are still taking about the same amount of time, but we’re just doing more smaller projects and those have a shorter bid to award time. Ryan Levenson - Privet Fund: With that anecdotal commentary, I’m just wondering if you can help me reconcile something. If I look at what you have in backlog that you’re indicating is going to work off in fiscal 2011, by my estimates, just to reach the low end of your guidance, you’re going to have to put at least $200 million into backlog during this quarter and at five weeks into the quarter, can you tell us how much you’ve put into backlog already or how much you think you have out there that you think is going to come in this quarter? I’m just wondering if you can help us understand that because it’s a pretty critical quarter for your backlog.
James Porter
First of all, when we look at the outlook of our business and if you recall, in our backlog, our backlog includes the full contractual value for our window and installation business and for our glass business. We have commitments and then the backlog only represents where we’ve received purchase orders for the next six weeks of production relative to that project that we have a commitment to. So the point would be between our visibility of our backlog and our commitments and our bidding activity, as well as our current trend in terms of the in quarter book and bill rate, we feel comfortable with the revenue outlook that we provided. Ryan Levenson - Privet Fund: The last few quarters the actual results have come in consistently lower than the guidance and now you’re also indicating that you’re going to exceed the performance that some of the trade groups are saying, are indicating what they’re expecting for the upcoming 12 months. I’m just wondering if you could maybe get a little bit more granular with that and help us understand what you have in hand today, because what are you going to have in hand in Q3 is really not going to help much for the year. So if we can understand where it’s going to shake out for this quarter, and where you think backlog is going to be, is now and where it’s going to be at the end of this quarter, that could give us a lot more comfort that you could in fact hit that low end even, or maybe even the top end of guidance.
Russell Huffer
A couple of things and I’ll let Jim answer as well, but we are seeing our win rate up nicely, especially on institutional projects, stimulus projects. That has been a real boost in our confidence and what we see going forward, so those are the kinds of things that are giving us confidence. The other part of it is simply the amount of work that’s turning during the quarter. So you have a lot more. We’re winning nicely in smaller quick turn projects. Ryan Levenson - Privet Fund: But that’s a third of your business, right?
Russell Huffer
And that continues to be a very - we expect that to continue to show nice improvement. Ryan Levenson - Privet Fund: But on the other two-thirds, if you could, you’ve always had this kind of book and bill business. I’m just wondering if you can give us a couple of numbers here.
James Porter
First of all, I think I tried to articulate it which is our book and bill number has grown as a percentage of our business. Ryan Levenson - Privet Fund: That’s the 30% number right?
James Porter
Right, and is continuing to grow as a percentage of our business. Ryan Levenson - Privet Fund: Is that going to grow to 70% though?
James Porter
No. Ryan Levenson - Privet Fund: But on that other 70%, I just wonder if you could hash it out a little bit for us.
James Porter
I’m not sure what else we can articulate other than given the backlog that we have on our books, the commitments that we have in house, the bidding activity that we’re pursuing and our confidence factors associated with our bidding activity, we believe that we have the potential to achieve the revenue outlook we’ve provided. Ryan Levenson - Privet Fund: How about new bookings to date number for the quarter?
James Porter
We haven’t provided that.
Russell Huffer
I appreciate – we watch that, but it’s a lumpy number. Those come in. Those contracts come in and we’ll get the full value of those contracts in our installation and window business and that number can be very misleading. You need to look at it over a longer period of time than five weeks.
James Porter
Consistently we’ve been communicating that even quarter-to-quarter backlog is not the appropriate way to measure our business and within the quarter, that’s even more so. Ryan Levenson - Privet Fund: But looking at it from over the course of the quarter, are we going to see a backlog number at the end of this quarter that’s in the say $300 million range in total with maybe $200 million, $225 million that could be worked off for the rest of this year?
Russell Huffer
We’re not - we don’t forecast our backlog.
Operator
(Operator instructions) Our next question is from the line of Rod Hinze with KeyPoint Capital. Rod Hinze - KeyPoint Capital: My question has been answered. Thank you.
Operator
And at this time, there are no other questions in the queue.
Russell Huffer
Thank you very much. We certainly appreciate it and certainly, we’re always available to do any follow up. The company is in great shape and we’re excited about our future. So have a great day.