Aug 4, 2008
Executives
Ryan McGrath – IR - Lambert, Edwards & Associates Leigh Abrams – CEO Fred Zinn – President Joe Giordano – CFO and Treasurer Jason Lippert – President and CEO, Lippert Components, Inc. David Webster – President and CEO, Kinro, Inc.
Analysts
Ed Aaron – RBC Capital Markets Kathryn Thompson – Avondale Partners John Diffendal – BB&T Capital Markets Mitch O'Brien – CJS Securities Peter Eisele – Snyder Capital Barry Vogel – Barry Vogel & Associates Jamie Wilen – Wilen Management Arnold Brief – Goldsmith & Harris Adriano Almeida – DGHM
Operator
Good day ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the second quarter 2008 Drew Industries Incorporated earnings conference call. My name is Katrina and I will be your coordinator for today.
At this time, all participants are in a listen only mode. We will conduct a question and answer session towards the end of this conference.
(Operator instructions) As a reminder, this conference is being recorded for replay purposes. I would now like to turn the presentation over to our host for today's call, Mr.
Ryan McGrath with Drew Industries Investor Relations. Please proceed.
Ryan McGrath
Thank you. Good morning everyone and welcome to Drew Industries 2008 second quarter conference call.
I'm Ryan McGrath with Lambert Edwards, Drew's Investor Relations firm. I have with me today members of Drew's management team including Leigh Abrams, CEO and a Director of Drew; Fred Zinn, President and a Director of Drew; David Webster, President and CEO of Kinro and Director of Drew; Jason Lippert, President and CEO of Lippert Components, and a Director of Drew; and Joe Giordano, CFO and Treasurer of Drew.
I want to take a few minutes to discuss our quarterly results. However, before we do so, it is my responsibility to inform you that certain statements made in today's conference call regarding Drew Industries and its operations may be considered forward-looking statements under the Securities Laws.
As a result, I must caution you there are a number of factors, many of which are beyond the company's control, which could cause actual results and events to differ materially than those described in the forward-looking statements. These risk factors are identified in our press releases, our Form 10-K for the year ended 2007 and in our Form 10-Q for three months ended March 31, 2008, all filed with the SEC.
With that, I'd like to turn the call over to Leigh Abrams. Leigh?
Leigh Abrams
Thank you, Ryan and good morning and welcome to all of you on this call and to all of those listening on the Internet. As Mark Twain said in The Tale of Two Cities, “This is the best of times and the worst of times.”
We all know about today's worst of times. The general economy is bad and possibly in recession.
The consumer confidence is at extremely low levels. Both the RV and manufactured industries have experienced deep sales declines to some of the lowest levels in many years, and as a result, Drew sales and profits are below last year for the second quarter and six months periods.
However, for the best of times, despite all of the difficulty, we continue to report profitable results to generate strong cash flow, to reduce our debt, and to gain market share. In addition, we just completed the acquisition of Seating Technology with pre-acquisition annual 2007 sales of about $40 million and also acquired a patent to effectively stabilize parked towable RVs.
We believe that both transactions will result in positive growth for Drew. These transactions along with Drew's stock buyback of about 197,000 shares utilized about $36 million of our cash.
Even though we also reduced debt during this period and had to pay much higher prices for inventory, we still have cash available. While our sales have declined, our sales content per RV continues to increase, which confirms market share growth in our RV segment.
This RV content growth has been accomplished by continued emphasis of our strategic goals, which are to gain market share, to introduce new products, to make acquisitions while keeping overhead low. The healthy RV Industry in the longer term will work with our customers in their efforts to build RVs that address consumer concerns about higher fuel costs.
Our industry along with the rest of the country will ultimately find better and more efficient sources of energy. I am confident that this country will be successful in that endeavor as we have been in most endeavors to improve our society over the last 235 years.
The RV industry continues to offer products that make it easier for its customers to travel with their families and enjoy the vast natural resources of the US. RV travel still provides a low cost way to vacation and many who have experienced an RV vacation say it's the best way to travel.
In fact, the RVA [ph] just reported the results of a study showing that RV family vacations are on average 27% to 61% less expensive than other types of vacations studied and this is despite the gas increase. As studies have also shown that people continue to use their RVs during times when fuel prices are high, but they just tend to take shorter trips or spend more time parked.
As for manufactured housing, today's manufactured home is well built, attractive, and the most affordable housing available. People will buy a good product if they know about it.
I am only hopeful that the RV industry is prepared to embark upon an industry-wide advertising campaign to broaden its customer base and improve its image. Steps are currently being taken in that – along that line.
We anxiously await its commencement. We continue to expect a slight decline in manufactured housing sales for 2008.
But several factors point to a recovery thereafter. These include the lack of sub prime financing for site built housing, the eventual return to the manufactured housing industry of retirees who have been unable or unwilling to sell their homes, and the Federal Housing Legislation which was signed into law yesterday by the President.
That legislation will offer benefits to manufactured housing buyers. First, it increases from about $49,000 to $70,000 the amount of chattel mortgage that can be guaranteed by the FHA.
Second, it offers a tax credit of up to $7500 to first time home buyers. Both of these provisions should directly help buyers of manufactured homes.
Despite the current vicarious state of the US economy, we continue to be optimistic about the future, maybe not for the next few quarters but over the longer term. We believe we are well positioned to weather this downturn, and further, we continue to prepare for and are very well positioned for the eventual recovery of both the manufactured housing and RV industries.
And finally, as I say as often as possible, say it at the end of every one of my speeches, Drew's success is attributable directly to our extraordinary operating management team headed by Dave Webster and Jason Lippert. It's no secret that a good management is the key to a successful business, but the real test of the management team is in difficult times.
Despite the decline in both the industries we serve, Kinro and Lippert have remained profitable, gained market share, introduced new products, made great acquisitions, and most importantly have simultaneously kept costs low and quality and customer service high. I'll now ask Fred Zinn, our new President, to say a few words.
Fred Zinn
Thank you, Leigh. Since this is my first presentation to you as President of Drew, I thought I would give you a brief insight into my vision for the company.
As you know, Leigh and I worked together for many years, probably more years than either one of us would like to admit and I really don't envision any sweeping changes in Drew's direction, because Leigh and I have the same basic philosophy on the key factors that have and will continue to make Drew successful. The first key factor in our success has been our focus on cash flow.
For more than 25 years ago, when we were in very different businesses, Drew went through some difficult times. And during the difficult years that followed that period, we learned the extremely valuable lessons of focusing on cash flow and low overhead.
Two years ago, these lessons and the business climate led us to focus on cost reduction and return on assets. Since then, we've closed 19 plants and eliminated nearly $11 million of fixed costs.
We reduced capital expenditures from an average of $25 million annually in 2004 through 2006 for less than $9 million this year in 2008. During the last two years, we've collected over $25 million from the sale of facilities.
All this has significantly strengthened our balance sheet and that will be critical in our ability to take advantage of strategic opportunities that usually arise in difficult economies like this. The second key factor is the careful disciplined acquisition strategy.
Caution doesn't mean that we're going to avoid all risks; it means we evaluate many opportunities to find those few where we are most likely to control the risks and reap the rewards. Although we'll continue to be careful and disciplined in the future, that also doesn't mean we won't develop a slightly broader view of what we do well in the times of opportunities we should evaluate.
One example of that viewpoint was our recent acquisition of Seating Technology, manufacturer of RV furniture; that's an entirely new product line for us. We were still very disciplined in this acquisition, paying less than six times EBITDA as we always have and also evaluating the acquisition in light of the current economic conditions.
However, despite current industry and economic conditions, we believe this acquisition affords a significant growth opportunity by taking advantage of a fragmented regional market and leveraging our marketing and manufacturing capabilities against significant market share over the long term. At the same time, we will work toward reducing Seating Technology's costs and improving their production efficiencies.
The third key factor in our success has been and will continue to be our incentive compensation plan. We firmly believe that through these incentives, we can achieve several important goals.
First, we motivate people to focus on profitability and focus on continuous improvement. Second, a performance-based compensation plan attracts the best, the brightest and the most creative managers, those who are confident in their ability to earn big rewards by outperforming in the market.
Third, the best and the brightest managers attract other managers with those same important qualities. Finally, it fits with what stockholders want, paying for performance.
If our earnings declined as they are expected to this year, management is highly motivated to take every appropriate step to improve our results, in part because Drew's lower earnings will cost management compensation to decline. I don't' want to digress too far from the business at hand, the business of managing Drew through a very difficult economic environment, and giving you an understanding of our results.
So, I'll let Joe Giordano, our new CFO, to give you some additional color about our results this quarter. Joe is our Corporate Controller for more than five years and before that, he had more than 10 years experience as a CPA with KPMG and Deloitte & Touche.
Joe led us through the very difficult task of complying with Sarbanes-Oxley and much more importantly, he has developed and refined our financial and management reporting systems that give us valuable insight into our historical results and our future opportunities. As you get to know Joe, and I know you will, I am sure you will agree that his promotion to CFO is well deserved.
Joe?
Joe Giordano
Thank you, Fred. In addition to the decline in demand for RVs and manufactured homes in 2008, we have experienced extraordinary increases in our raw material costs.
Based on our current sales volume, we now estimate these raw material cost increases aggregate more than $70 million on an annualized basis. However, we are working with our customers to pass these cost increases along as quickly as possible.
Despite this, these factors point to an adverse impact on Drew's operating results for the balance of 2008 and likely into 2009. And at this point, we are unable to quantify the impact.
While there are no short-term cures for the difficulties that confront Drew in the industries we serve, we have prepared for these conditions by streamlining operations and reducing fixed costs over the last two years. During the 2008 second quarter, fixed cost reductions added $1.4 million to operating profit as compared to the 2007 second quarter.
These fixed cost reductions are expected to benefit operating profit by approximately $5 million for all of 2008 in addition to the $6 million in savings we realized in 2007. Further, we have reduced our manufacturing work force by over 450 employees since June 2007.
In the RV segment, an important key to our growth has been the ability to increase our content per RV. I should point out that the reference in the press release to our $1,725 content per travel trailer and fifth-wheel RV produced over the last 12 months does not include the impact of the July acquisition of Seating Technology, which will add approximately $150 to our content per unit.
June manufactured housing industry production statistics are not yet available, but we estimate that our content per manufactured home produced was approximately $1600 for the 12 months ended June 2008. This 14% decline from the $1853 per manufactured home reported for the 12 months ended June 2007 is partly due to a reduction in the average size of the homes produced by the manufactured housing industry.
For the first five months of 2008, multi-section homes represented 63% of the total homes produced, down from 70% for the same period last year and 80% in all of 2003. In addition, we exited certain business in the latter half of 2007 because of inadequate margins.
Comparing our consolidated second quarter 2008 results to the first quarter of 2008, sales were down $9 million, yet segment operating profits increased by nearly $1 million. This increase was achieved through continued cost cutting and efficiency improvements as well as lower overtime and payroll taxes.
In addition, Worker's Compensation and health insurance costs which were high in the first quarter of 2008 moderated in the second quarter. Pre-tax income for the second quarter of 2008 was increased by other items aggregating $1 million consisting of asset sales partially offset by legal expenses.
These other items for the second quarter of 2008 were classified in the income statement as a $1.8 million reduction in cost of sales and an $800,000 increase in SG&A expenses. Other items in the second quarter of 2007, which reduced pre-tax income by $1.1 million, were almost all included in cost of sales.
These other items in the second quarter of 2008 added $0.03 per share to EPS while other items in the second quarter of 2007 reduced EPS by $0.03 per share. Excluding these other items, gross profit margins declined approximately 1% in the 2008 second quarter from the prior year second quarter.
Also, excluding these other items, SG&A costs were 14.8% of 2008 second quarter sales, up from the second quarter of 2007. This higher fuel costs and the spreading of fixed costs over smaller sales base more than offset the additional cost-cutting measures.
Over the past 12 months, our strong cash flow enabled us to increase cash, net of debt, by $33 million despite investing $11 million for the acquisition of Extreme Engineering in July 2007. As a result, our interest expense for the 2008 second quarter declined compared to the same period in 2007.
We currently invest our excess cash in US Treasury Money Market accounts with a current yield of approximately 1.6%. With the use of $31 million for the recent acquisitions of Seating Technology and the patent for JT's Strong Arm Stabilizer for RVs, our interest income will decline beginning in July 2008.
However, this decline in interest income should be more than offset by the operating income generated by these investments. Further, higher raw material costs will continue to increase our investment in inventory and reduce invested cash over the short term.
Our $70 million line of credit will expire in June 2009. Accordingly, the $6 million of borrowings under the line of credit are classified as current debt in the balance sheet.
Excess cash was not used to pay down these borrowings under the line of credit, as these borrowings are associated with an interest rate swap which results in a favorable fixed interest rate of 4.4%. We expect to enter into a new long-term borrowing arrangement within the next several months.
We have also held discussions with Prudential Capital Group to increase the balance of our uncommitted shelf loan facility from $25 million to $125 million. In the second quarter of 2008, the effective tax rate increased to 40% from 38.9% in the first quarter or 39.4% for the six months ended June 2008.
The second quarter increase in the company's effective tax rate was due primarily to the estimated annual effect of lower profits on state and federal tax rates. We're in the process of tax audits in several jurisdictions and the outcome of these audits could impact future tax expenses.
We review our tax positions quarterly based on the most recently available information and update our tax reserves accordingly. Thank you for your time.
Now, I will turn it back to Leigh.
Leigh Abrams
Thank you, Joe, and again we congratulate you on your promotion. Katrina, with that, we'll take questions.
Operator
Thank you. (Operators instructions) The first question comes from the line of Ed Aaron representing RBC Capital Markets.
Please proceed.
Ed Aaron – RBC Capital Markets
Hi good morning everybody. Few questions for you.
I was hoping you could give us the change – the year-over-year change in your inventory on the balance sheet, if you adjust out the impact of inflation.
Leigh Abrams
Inflation and higher quantities both impacted our inventories this quarter. As you know, sales dropping rapidly and some of the longer term commitments for inventory purchases we had, we did see an increase in the quantities as well.
It's probably, I don't know, two-thirds or half quantities and the balance raw material costs.
Ed Aaron – RBC Capital Markets
That's helpful. Thanks.
Leigh Abrams
I should point out also that it is raw materials. We carry, as you know, very, very little cash goods.
So in terms of our risk of obsolescence or any of those types of things, it is almost nothing. We have only about two weeks of finished goods or less actually on hand.
Ed Aaron – RBC Capital Markets
Okay, that's helpful, thank you. And then you mentioned in the press release the increase in the value of the inventory on the balance sheet for steel compared to what ran through the P&L for the second quarter.
Would you happen to have those – if you would have made those comments in your last quarter press release, what would that increase have been?
Leigh Abrams
I honestly don't remember. I don't think we have that information.
We can look into it and get back to you.
Ed Aaron – RBC Capital Markets
Okay thanks. And then just lastly, what was the contribution from price increases both in the RV segment and manufactured housing in the quarter?
Leigh Abrams
Yes. I'd really not give that information right now.
We are working and developing that. We will have some additional disclosures in the 10-Q.
It wasn't a huge amount of selling price increasing but clearly we did have selling price increase.
Ed Aaron – RBC Capital Markets
Okay, thanks guys.
Operator
The next question comes from the line of Kathryn Thompson representing Avondale Partners. Please proceed.
Kathryn Thompson – Avondale Partners
Hi Thanks. Could you remind us what percentage of cost of goods sold is of steel and then aluminum?
Leigh Abrams
Well, just broadly, we haven't really disclosed that type of information very specifically. But broadly, raw materials are about half of our sales dollar, a little bit more, and about half of those raw materials are steel and be a little bit more with the rise in steel.
Aluminum is a lesser amount. I'm going to guess it is about, I don't know, 10% or 12% something in that range.
Kathryn Thompson – Avondale Partners
Okay. And are there any offsets to cost of goods sold in terms of raw materials going into the back half of the year, above and beyond steel and aluminum, which are obviously –?
Joe Giordano
Price increases which we are working with our customers on.
Leigh Abrams
You mean, offsets to help us or other –?
Kathryn Thompson – Avondale Partners
Are there any other raw materials where you are seeing prices come down as opposed to increase?
Leigh Abrams
No, I wish we were. Things are volatile, so one day you might see it down, next day – but generally prices are headed up except where we have been lucky enough to get some nice commitments, but generally prices even for our smaller raw materials are going up.
Kathryn Thompson – Avondale Partners
In line of that, how do you again plan to get on pricing in the current market and how do you manage particularly around a market where dealers are liquidating inventories, you have overall lower volumes and just to continue march-up and commodity pricing?
Joe Giordano
That's why we are very unspecific in the press release. It is just too difficult to quantify just what's happening because price increases are going up constantly and our management team is constantly working with costumers to try to adjust what they are doing and that's why this has too many unknown factors to try to quantify what it is going to be.
All I can tell you is that, over the years, our team has handled price increases very, very effectively. They have handled it effectively in the first six months of this year.
Sure they will continue to handle it in the last six months of this year. And if you go back and look at our operating results for the last ten years, except for one quarter where we have a goodwill write-down, we have been profitable every single quarter.
Whether times were good or times were bad or whether prices were going up or going down, both David and Jason are able to handle that, so [ph] operations was just not easy.
Kathryn Thompson – Avondale Partners
Would you say that this is the most challenging pricing environment you've encountered in the past ten years at least?
Leigh Abrams
Very difficult.
David Webster
This is Dave Webster, but at the same time, I don't think that we have experienced anymore price increases. Sure, this has been a difficult time but take 30 years ago, we went through price increases and we continue to go through price increases.
But, I don't feel like that this is anything new really. It is just something that we have to deal with and when we do, you deal with it.
Leigh Abrams
Price of steel doubled in – price of hot rolled steel doubled in 2005 and it was challenging, but you go out and do what you got to do, just like any other supplier.
Kathryn Thompson – Avondale Partners
Okay. So, do you feel like you are able to get margin on your price increases?
I mean, not just pass on from a dollars basis but also in debt.
Leigh Abrams
I think in this type of economy, that would be very, very difficult. I don't anticipate we'll be doing that.
As you know, in the past, we've tried to work with our customers wherever we can. We are not trying to get any margin really on these price increases.
We are just trying to hold our own.
Kathryn Thompson – Avondale Partners
Okay. And just remind me, are you expecting to see a similar hit on SG&A given with fuel pricing, I know that was an issue in the previous quarter?
Leigh Abrams
Yes, fuel, those are more – much, much more marginal issues. We don't use a whole hell of a lot of fuel, it is not a great percentage and sometimes it ticks up a little bit.
Certainly, it has ticked up a little bit for us, but it's not going to be a startling change for us.
Kathryn Thompson – Avondale Partners
Okay.
Leigh Abrams
Because the bigger impact really on our delivery costs is if volume is down, we are putting less on the truckload or that kind of thing, but fuel is a factor but not that big.
Kathryn Thompson – Avondale Partners
Okay. And then my final question, are your costumer balance sheets an issue in getting pricing in the current environment?
Joe Giordano
No. We always look at our costumer balance sheets.
We have probably one of the best credit departments in the industry as you could see. June 30th, our day sales were 17 days outstanding.
So, we have a terrific credit department but we have worked very closely with our customers. In the past, when we had to take a bad debt, we took a bad debt but as of now, we are in very good financial shape and our customers are paying on time as you can see about 17 days.
Kathryn Thompson – Avondale Partners
Okay. Great, well thank you so much.
Leigh Abrams
Thanks.
Operator
The next question comes from the line of John Diffendal representing BB&T Capital Markets. Please proceed.
John Diffendal – BB&T Capital Markets
Yes, good morning. A couple of questions.
You mentioned that July sales I believe were down about 20% and I assume that includes the Seating acquisition in that. If you back that out, there were things implied that ex acquisition, that decline was even more.
Can you break that out for us a little bit, or give some thoughts there?
Leigh Abrams
It was even more and probably would add on the order of 5% – 4% or 5%.
John Diffendal – BB&T Capital Markets
Would have been down 24% to 25%, ex the acquisition?
Leigh Abrams
As all of you know, the first part of July was particularly difficult. Our costumers were closing their factories for longer than they had last year, and that certainly impacted us and that is why that number is so big.
John Diffendal – BB&T Capital Markets
I hear you. And the MH margins were back 11%, 12% after being in sort of single digit for a while.
Give us some indication of what's driving that and is this sustainable?
Leigh Abrams
Again, we did exit late last year a bunch of low-margin product sales. Removing those low-margin product sales helped increase profits, and in addition to that, I think Fred can add some more.
Fred Zinn
Yes. Specifically, we saw some nice improvements in our production efficiencies, our labor cost also.
We are still a reasonably small company, so some of our accruals like for group insurance or workers' compensation, they fluctuate over time. And we saw some nice pickups in some of those areas relative to the prior year when those were a little bit higher than we would have liked.
John Diffendal
That's great. Thank you.
BB&T Capital Markets
That's great. Thank you.
Operator
The next question comes from the line of Mitch O'Brien representing CJS Securities. Please proceed.
Mitch O'Brien – CJS Securities
Thank you. I have a quick question on cash.
After the closing of the acquisitions, what would the cash balance be?
Fred Zinn
Well, what do we have, $43 million.
Leigh Abrams
Less than $31 million.
Fred Zinn
Less than $10 million.
Leigh Abrams
Yes. I mean, we used $31 million just for the acquisitions.
Mitch O'Brien – CJS Securities
Right. And then you mentioned the manufactured homes exiting some of the less profitable businesses.
Which order did that begin last year?
Leigh Abrams
I'm sorry. Could you speak up, Mitch?
Mitch O'Brien – CJS Securities
You mentioned you exited some of the lower performing parts of the business. When did that start?
Leigh Abrams
It really started late in the second quarter and continued on primarily in the third quarter and into the early fourth quarter.
Mitch O'Brien – CJS Securities
Okay. So you've basically lapped it now?
Leigh Abrams
No. We're just starting to lap it.
So we'll see probably some impact on the third quarter and maybe a little bit on the fourth quarter.
Mitch O'Brien – CJS Securities
Okay.
Leigh Abrams
But as we said, I think in the press release or in the speech, we are starting to see a little bit of turnaround there in terms of our market share in manufactured housing, picking up some business, not huge amounts but meaningful amounts. So hopefully that will help.
Mitch O'Brien – CJS Securities
And still on manufactured housing, typically you see a little bit of margin decline off the peak in 2Q through the remainder of the year. Do you think that trend will remain or is there anything to really throw that off?
Leigh Abrams
We really do not talk about future, but then you have to look at the past history. But we are – Fred mentioned in his speech our incentive compensation plan.
As a result, our management team works very hard to control costs.
Mitch O'Brien – CJS Securities
Right. But there's no fundamental change out there, so historical trends are probably better than nothing, right?
Fred Zinn
Yes. Although you know that things have changed so much with –
Mitch O'Brien – CJS Securities
But the volumes in the space are – I mean, you're having some negative leverage related to the multi-section versus single.
Fred Zinn
Yes. We have a [ph] little of that now.
Mitch O'Brien – CJS Securities
But all things being equal, it's not that you're rating more than maybe I'm expecting. I mean, the plan is pretty good in the quarter.
Obviously, the COGS are a bigger issue in 3Q and it's just a matter of getting that aligned a little better. And the RV Segment, and just overall, if you take the July 20% down and assume that for the quarter, you end up running at about 140 for the quarter in revenue and you ran it at about 140 in Q4 of 2007.
Is there any reason based on that run rate that you couldn't attain the same consolidated margin?
Leigh Abrams
Yes. There is probably 100 reasons.
I mean, raw material cost structures are entirely different. The product mix is very different.
We've had significant cost cutting since then, facility consolidations. Though you can use it as a guide, there are a lot of things that have changed since then.
Unfortunately, it's never simple.
Mitch O'Brien – CJS Securities
Okay. So it's just – net-net, there's probably –?
Leigh Abrams
Pluses and minuses.
Mitch O'Brien – CJS Securities
It's not a very safe assumption, that's why.
Leigh Abrams
No. You're right, it's –
Mitch O'Brien – CJS Securities
Yes. But – okay, that's fine.
Let's see, is there anything else? No.
That's it. Thanks a lot, guys.
Leigh Abrams
Mitch, thanks.
Operator
The next question comes from the line of Peter Eisele representing Snyder Capital. Please proceed.
Peter Eisele – Snyder Capital
Thanks, good morning Leigh and Fred. Given the current environment, as you mentioned pretty tough, I would imagine that there is a – you're seeing a lot of opportunities on the acquisition side.
Can you talk about that? And given that, where is your comfort level in terms of how much leverage you would apply to the balance sheet?
And lastly, how do you take that into consideration versus perhaps buying your own stock?
Leigh Abrams
Well, as you know we'll start out with the buying the stock question. We announced back I guess in November that we would buy up to 1 million shares of stock and so far we bought just under 200,000 shares, and we will continue to buy stock.
As to leverage, at the current time, we have less than $20 million of debt, most of it is mortgage debt. There is no pressure on it.
We have plenty of lines of credit. But historically, we have never been – Fred and I have been relatively conservative and with feeling never look to go to more than two times EBITDA and at this point, there is no risk of even coming anywhere near that even if we would buy back a substantial amount of stock because cash flow is still very strong.
Peter Eisele – Snyder Capital
And can you talk, I mean, are you seeing more acquisition opportunities?
Leigh Abrams
There are acquisition opportunities. There are lots of different opportunities now and that's why we are going ahead and negotiating lines right now.
We have not rushed into them. Lines were available to us at any time we wanted them and we're just kind of waiting for what we hope will be the best time.
But, at this particular moment, there is absolutely no need to worry about raising cash. But acquisitions are available, we made the one and we made the little patent acquisition.
There are other companies out there but just like the homeowner who doesn't want to sell his $300,000 home that he's quoted was worth for $250,000. A lot of companies don't want to sell their company which they thought may have been worth $10 million and today is worth $7 million.
So, you have that to contend with and we are just at this point continuing to look – always looking at acquisitions. When the right one comes along, we will make it.
Peter Eisele – Snyder Capital
Okay, great. Thanks very much.
Operator
The next question comes from the line of Barry Vogel representing Barry Vogel & Associates. Please proceed.
Barry Vogel – Barry Vogel & Associates
Good morning gentlemen.
Leigh Abrams
Hi Barry. How you doing?
Barry Vogel – Barry Vogel & Associates
Good. First question, it goes back to that raw material cost squeeze and maybe you can give us a little bit of color.
Assuming the current trends continue, which includes obviously a worsening of the trend in RVs, going to the second half versus where it was in the first half, can you tell me the generality, again if current trends continue with worsening trends, what the raw material cost squeeze in the second half can be versus the first half? Again, it's a general question.
Leigh Abrams
Yes. It is very difficult, Barry.
First, I wish I had a good answer for myself, and second of all, I wish could be specific but really we can't do either one. We have raw – we have so many different raw materials that are all volatile.
They are adjusting and increasing at different rates. The industry is in a flux.
It's very, very difficult to say. We did say in the press release that on an annualized basis, our cost increases, our scheduling added about $70 million at current sale.
Joe Giordano
Annualized over the next 12 months.
Leigh Abrams
Annualized at current sales levels. But in terms of the varying impacts of the industry and future raw material cost, it's impossible to say.
Barry Vogel – Barry Vogel & Associates
Okay and –
Joe Giordano
We go back to the basic question, Barry.
Barry Vogel – Barry Vogel & Associates
Excuse me?
Joe Giordano
We go back to the basics. What is our management team going to do, are they going to do what they have done very successfully in the past?
Barry Vogel – Barry Vogel & Associates
I understand that. Now, it's obvious with the bankruptcies and closures that are occurring in RVs that you are going to have the most significant consolidation in this industry in a long time.
And a perfect example of the consolidation is the announcement by Monaco of what they're doing in the Midwest which is really massive. If there is continuation of this consolidation, loss of individual costumers, how does that affect you as a company in terms of profitability if that continues?
Fred Zinn
I think really, Barry, we have very large market shares and as companies consolidate, hopefully they are becoming more efficient too so they're helping here, which is good for us in the long term. But in terms of the mix of customers, if one customer goes away or reduces its market share, someone else is picking it up and we're staying fairly stable.
So I do not view it as a real risk. I view it as a long-term benefit to the industry, healthier industry is better for us.
Barry Vogel – Barry Vogel & Associates
Okay.
Jason Lippert
This is Jason. I just want to add something real quick there.
I think one of the important things to know is that both Kinro and Lippert are taking market share in a down market and that's about one of the only things you can do when business gets as bad as it is. But Monaco has made the announcement where their whole game plan and they already have 50% capacity right now, so – or whatever it was that they announced the other day.
So, I mean, we have seen that trickle in the last four or five or six months, so we have seen the most of those effects. Their consolidation moved to Oregon and down to Warsaw from where they are at in Wakarusa, will have some effect to us because I think they continue to do a little bit less volume.
But I mean, the bulk of what they are down, I mean, they're at right now in my opinion so.
Leigh Abrams
And besides, we have plans both in Oregon and throughout Indiana.
Barry Vogel – Barry Vogel & Associates
Okay. Now, as far as Seating Technology, if the RV pocket remains in its current state in the second half of the year, would this be accretive?
Leigh Abrams
Yes.
Barry Vogel – Barry Vogel & Associates
Can you give us some idea of the accretion?
Fred Zinn
Actually, it's not a big number. You can play with the numbers yourself, probably I would rather let you do that, but we paid them six times EBITDA.
We did mention that last year. It's $40 million and we are gaining market share.
Obviously, they're going to have a hard time maintaining that $40 million with the industry down, but with the cash in the bank, we were earning 1.5% on and an opportunity to extend Seating Technology, it should be nicely accretive.
Barry Vogel – Barry Vogel & Associates
In the second half?
Fred Zinn
Yes.
Barry Vogel – Barry Vogel & Associates
Even though (inaudible) deteriorating conditions?
Fred Zinn
Yes. Don't forget, we were earning 1.5% to 1.6%.
Barry Vogel – Barry Vogel & Associates
I know, I understand.
Leigh Abrams
We took that into effect when we made the acquisition.
Barry Vogel – Barry Vogel & Associates
Now, as far as buying back stock versus acquisitions, I know you announced that the buyback, I think you stopped at about 24 or 25?
Leigh Abrams
Right.
Barry Vogel – Barry Vogel & Associates
And I believe you got down to as low as 15. That is a major change in the price to buy yourselves, and of course you know your company better than any acquisition.
Leigh Abrams
Right.
Barry Vogel – Barry Vogel & Associates
And I know you said you are going to continue to buy stock. But do the matrix change, with the stock let's say theoretically at $15 a share and I know it's rallied, compared to when you started it, will you might be more aggressive on a share buyback?
Leigh Abrams
Let me first start out, Barry.
Barry Vogel – Barry Vogel & Associates
(inaudible)
Leigh Abrams
Let me first start out. At least in my opinion, we operate for the long term.
Acquisitions benefit a company in the long term more than a stock buyback. But if I had to make a choice between a buyback and an acquisition, I would make an acquisition.
But in the present financial condition that we are in, we can do both and we will continue to do both.
Barry Vogel – Barry Vogel & Associates
Okay.
Fred Zinn
In terms of the dynamics, Barry, of course, when you are looking at a stock price, it's 30% lower, 40% lower than (inaudible) changes your view but – so it's what's going on in the world. In a weaker economy and a weaker industry also change your view.
But at this level, it is much lower, it changes out view a little bit.
Barry Vogel – Barry Vogel & Associates
Okay. So, you basically – you will lean towards an acquisition of your common stock at the right prices unless you had an acquisition that was so phenomenal that would change things?
Fred Zinn
Yes, but as Leigh said, fortunately for us, right now, we don't have to make that choice because the types of acquisitions that we do, we could still make a couple of them and we can still buy back shares and be fine in terms of our leverage.
Barry Vogel – Barry Vogel & Associates
Thank you very much. You are doing a great job as usual.
Operator
The next question comes from the line of Jamie Wilen representing Wilen Management. Please proceed.
Jamie Wilen – Wilen Management
Hi fellows, a couple of little different things. In the quarter, were the material fluctuations helpful or hurtful to your numbers?
I was talking about your pretax profit numbers.
Fred Zinn
Material costs were up this quarter.
Jamie Wilen – Wilen Management
So it already had an impact to margins in this quarter as well?
Fred Zinn
Right. But as you said it didn't impact it quite as quickly as we estimated three or four months ago, because volume was down, but it clearly did impact us.
Jamie Wilen – Wilen Management
And as you move forward, obviously people would like to lightweight the chassis a little bit and that would cost us less money. Do we have any capabilities of altering our materials or light-weighting our chassis so it can be more fuel efficient and more economical and we get less material cost conscious?
Leigh Abrams
Both Kinro and Lippert have products that they have spoken to our customers about, that will hopefully reduce the weight of an RV. Kinro, we have talked about it for years, has this new composite material that they can use for the outer skin.
And Lippert has likewise at various shows introduced a number of products which they think can reduce the weight. And I think that that is the number one question right now why customers have them, how can they reduce the weight of the RV?
Now, you have two choices. You can reduce the size, you reduce the weight, or you can do something to increase fuel utilization and I think probably the industry will work on all three areas at the same time.
Jamie Wilen – Wilen Management
When you are talking about your acquisition criteria of six times EBITDA, is that current EBITDA or adjusted EBITDA after you've done all your (inaudible)?
Leigh Abrams
No. That's a combination.
Firstly, it's pro forma EBITDA that a former owner who was not going to come with us, was earning $1 million per year. We'll add that back less what we have to replace him with.
It could be some very easy fixes we'll give to sell a credit for, for instance. He is buying material much worse than we are.
We may give him credit for part of that material savings. But if we have to fix the product then we have to fix the factory; that we don't give him credit for.
The easy stuff, we give him credit for. The stuff that we have to do work on, we don't give him credit for.
Jamie Wilen – Wilen Management
Got you. Did you increase your availability by $100 million, is that what you said?
Fred Zinn
No, we are just saying that our – we have a shelf line with Prudential and they've indicated their willingness to increase it significantly.
Leigh Abrams
The history of that, it was originally $60 million. We used $35 million.
We prepaid part of it, but we have $25 million availability and they actually came to us and said we'll need to take that up much, much higher and they sent us close to $425 million and our banks are currently at $70 million, with an accordion feature that could go to $90 million. And we're deciding what numbers we want for both banks, for both Prudential and for the banks.
That's something Fred will make decisions going forward on.
Jamie Wilen – Wilen Management
Got you. And lastly on the competitive front, obviously you have to be much more well capitalized and probably more well managed than some of your competitors.
Are any of them having difficulty and have any of them gone out of business?
Fred Zinn
I don't know if they're going out of business, but certainly they are – as you said, we're stronger than some of our competitors and hopefully we are starting to win some of those competitive battles.
Leigh Abrams
We did lose one or two competitors, small ones in the last year or so. But people just – it wasn't for financial reasons.
They just couldn't make money competing against us and they exited the product lines.
Jamie Wilen – Wilen Management
Okay, very good. Great job, fellows.
Thank you.
Leigh Abrams
Okay, then.
Operator
The next question comes from the line of Arnold Brief representing Goldsmith & Harris. Please proceed.
Arnold Brief – Goldsmith & Harris
Could you give us a little more color on how you view the impact of the housing legislation? What are people generally putting down on these mortgages with the down payment and raising the amount of the chattel mortgage versus the prices of the units?
Give us some idea of the significance of this.
Leigh Abrams
Some of our customers recently indicated that the average price of a home is $45,000, probably that's combined single section and multi-section. But in the past, the $40,000 limit that the FHA would guarantee was only basically for single section home.
With $70,000 now, more multi-section homes will be qualified for FHA financing. So, that's got to help the industry whether it helps it by 100 units or 10,000 units, at this point, it's too early to say.
Arnold Brief – Goldsmith & Harris
What are the average prices for multi units?
Leigh Abrams
Oh, probably $70,000 or $80,000.
Arnold Brief – Goldsmith & Harris
So you can finance almost the whole purchase at this point?
Leigh Abrams
Yes.
Fred Zinn
Of an average one.
Leigh Abrams
And then in addition (inaudible) $7500 credit I think will be very valuable.
Arnold Brief – Goldsmith & Harris
I was trying to get to that. What is the average down payment required to get a chattel mortgage on this?
Leigh Abrams
Well, it could be 10% but that again changes daily with the financing markets today.
Arnold Brief – Goldsmith & Harris
Okay. My point is that if I bought a $60,000 unit and put 10% down?
Leigh Abrams
Yes.
Arnold Brief – Goldsmith & Harris
I get all my cash back from the tax credit?
Leigh Abrams
Basically, assuming you pay taxes.
Fred Zinn
Don't forget that tax credit is really a loan by the government. You have to pay it back over 15 years.
First of all, it's the maximum. It depends on lots of factors, the price of the house, income levels, and it is a loan that you pay back to the government.
So, it's not quite as –
Leigh Abrams
But it does –
Arnold Brief – Goldsmith & Harris
On a cash basis, you can finance the home with nothing down?
Leigh Abrams
Basically, yes.
Fred Zinn
If you get the full credit; if you're eligible for the full credit.
Arnold Brief – Goldsmith & Harris
Is the industry excited about this bill? Are they –
Leigh Abrams
It certainly won't hurt us. The only question is how much will it help us?
It certainly will help us but the question is by how much?
Arnold Brief – Goldsmith & Harris
Aren't most homes financed?
Leigh Abrams
Yes, except for the retiree homes that very often use cash.
Fred Zinn
It should – there's no question. As Leigh said that this will be a help and clearly the industry is, I don't know if I'd say excited, but very happy about it.
You look on the manufactured housing, (inaudible) Web site and you'll see some very nice commentary on it. Everybody is very happy about it.
Back in the – just to put in perspective, back in the mid 90s when we were in the manufactured housing boom, there were 25,000 and more homes that were financed by FHA-insured loans. And last year, there were less than 2,000.
So clearly there is quite a bit of room for expansion whether it is 1,000 homes or 10,000 homes, we'll find a way to save.
Arnold Brief – Goldsmith & Harris
Thank you.
Leigh Abrams
Thank you, Arnie.
Operator
The next question comes as a follow-up from the line of John Diffendal representing BB&T Capital Markets. Please proceed.
John Diffendal – BB&T Capital Markets
My question was also sort of about this $7,500 tax credit. I was wondering if we can get, David and Jason, sort of input on that.
I'm wondering if they Dave might remember back on the last time we had that and maybe give us any feedback they're hearing from their customers on that on whether – on what to expect to see in terms of any ramp up or just any sort of feedback from the customer space over the –
Leigh Abrams
I'll let them both answer but the law passed yesterday. I'm sorry.
John Diffendal - BB&T Capital Markets
No. I fully understand.
Leigh Abrams
Customer feedback is probably negligible.
John Diffendal - BB&T Capital Markets
Yes. I had to say, I mean one thing that you wonder about is people are sort of viewing it as almost like getting your down payment, but then you get it when you file taxes, so there is a gap there.
I'm just trying to assess whether – I mean, it's a positive and certainly something that you can sell off of, but I'm just wondering what they think the impact will be and what the difference is here.
Leigh Abrams
David, can you add anything?
David Webster
I think it will have an impact on it, but here again it's just passed and I think we will see more homeowners. I think we are seeing it in Texas right now more than anywhere else.
I think that the Texas market, as far as the manufactured housing industry is, is up over last year this month. I think with the type of home that we are building there and this being passed, I think it's going to help the industry.
I think it will be a positive.
Fred Zinn
Jason, do you want to add anything to that?
Jason Lippert
No.
John Diffendal - BB&T Capital Markets
And like you say, we haven't gotten the June shipment number yet. Is your sense given the flow of your business, I mean May was a disappointment, I mean it looked like we were tipping over as we were going into the better part of the selling season, is it your sense from an operating standpoint that June was similar to May and also should be down similarly?
David Webster
I don't expect to see a huge difference in the industry.
John Diffendal - BB&T Capital Markets
Okay. Thank you.
David Webster
Okay.
Operator
The next question comes from the line of Adriano Almeida representing DGHM. Please proceed.
Adriano Almeida – DGHM
Hey gentleman.
Leigh Abrams
Hi.
Adriano Almeida – DGHM
Hi. I'm wondering just to clarify here, is it the case that most of the raw material cost pressure, is that mostly on the RV side or is it kind of equally spread between RV and manufactured home?
Leigh Abrams
It's equally spread. We use steel for both.
And this time, we use aluminum for both industries so it's across the board.
Adriano Almeida – DGHM
Okay. Is there a difference in the lag between these two industries and passing along those higher prices?
Leigh Abrams
I think there are differences based upon products and not so much based upon industries but clearly we sell some products that have higher steel content over higher aluminum content, some we have lower. There are some differences.
Adriano Almeida – DGHM
Okay. I'm wondering on the, just kind of the negative operating leverage.
You guys have really been ahead of the curve in terms of shutting down capacity, closing plants, and consolidating your assets? Is there more that you can do here, or even kind of the same question, do you plan to do more of that?
Leigh Abrams
We really have to wait and see what happens with the economy. If things get really worse, we will have to look deeper.
Jason, you want to add anything to that?
Jason Lippert
We have been at it for maybe two years in October now. We have been scaling back, and a lot of the stuff, we probably could or would have done if the industry wasn't taking a downturn so a lot of this stuff just, a lot of the cost saving stuff we're doing on our end is just some more outsourcing.
We're doing some administrative stuff outsourcing more of our component and sell assembled needs and things like that for steel, electric motors, and whatnot. So, I mean, we're doing a lot of stuff anyway.
If things continue to get worse, we will continue to consolidate where we can. We certainly have plans on the table if we need to go that direction so we have already given it quite a bit of thought.
But, and as of right now, I think we are sitting pretty good, and the results reflect that I think.
Adriano Almeida - DGHM
Yes. That is a kind of where I am trying to dig in a little deeper there because the results in this quarter at least do reflect this notion that you have right-sized the business, but I guess a lot of the fear here and the negative commentary in your press release relates more to raw materials and not exactly kind of capacity utilization.
Jason Lippert
I think that – I think one of the other things to add is that you are seeing a lot of earnings reports and things like that, where people are just starting to look at that kind of stuff and I think the thing you have got with Drew is we have been at it for a couple of years now and we have been doing a lot and kind of stayed out ahead of it. So, we have at least been planning and have future plans if we need to execute those kinds of things.
Leigh Abrams
There are a lot of companies that sit and say, well, things will get better, so we shouldn't cut because when they get better. Whereas we have always been realists and if things are bad, let us start cutting.
We do not – if you are hoping for things to get better, because we think we always have the ability to add capacity real quickly. As we've talked about capacity, it is something that we really do not even focus on, because currently we are probably at an eight hour or less one-shift basis.
And when the hurricanes came a couple of years ago, we were able to go to a three-shift seven day a week basis and operating. You cannot do that for long time, but if the economy should suddenly dramatically improve and RVs and manufactured housing should dramatically improve, we could handle the increases without any problem at all.
And as a result, we can have always cut soon as we see a downtime or even before we can see a downtime.
Adriano Almeida - DGHM
Now, this notion that you are generally – historically, your track record has been to be ahead of the curve. That applies to getting through price increases as well, right?
I mean, you have experienced this high raw material prices at least a couple of months.
Leigh Abrams
As we said earlier, both David and Jason have been through this before, they have done a terrific job in the past and I have no doubt they will do a terrific job in the future.
Adriano Almeida - DGHM
Now, is it – I think you heard – I heard you say, I think to Kathryn's question, about 50% of your total cost to steel –?
Fred Zinn
50% of our raw materials.
Adriano Almeida - DGHM
Is raw material and half of that is steel. So, is it the case that you would need about a quarter of the price increase that steel has gone up?
Fred Zinn
Well. No, not really.
Adriano Almeida - DGHM
It does not work that way?
Fred Zinn
It does not really work that way. A quarter of the price increase – I have to think about it and play with it, but it is also true.
No matter how you look at it, again, we have different increases for different types of steel that is up a lot more than others. We have some types that are a lot more or less and we have given increases in our aluminum costs, we have products that use little steel or products that use a lot of steel.
So, I am not sure it is helpful to even think of it that way.
Leigh Abrams
As we said in the press release, both David and Jason mentally are over careful on costs, but they constantly look at their products to see how they can improve their products, take out materials to do whatever they can to increase costs – decrease the cost of the product, and that has been an ongoing process for many, many years.
Jason Lippert
We are talking a lot about the cost savings and consolidating and stuff like that too, but we are spending just as much time on new product and new product innovation and market share pickups as we are though on cost-cutting and consolidations.
Adriano Almeida - DGHM
Yes, okay. Now, from a bigger picture trend perspective, at one point, that – I think we have discussed in the past, kind of this theme of the trend of some of the RV guys outsourcing more to suppliers.
Where are we on that? Has there – has that accelerated with this downturn or is it on hold?
Leigh Abrams
It should accelerate. I do not know if it has though.
And we have, in most of the products that we're in, we have very big market shares already.
Fred Zinn
I think largely the RV manufacturers outsource the vast majority of their components, not as true on manufactured house, still generally true in our manufactured housing but not as true. So, I am not sure on RVs there is a lot more for them to outsource.
The types of products that we are – the towables, travel trailers (inaudible) anyway.
Adriano Almeida - DGHM
Okay, yes. There was more opportunity, more on the –
Leigh Abrams
Manufactured housing side.
Adriano Almeida - DGHM
Okay. And on this manufactured housing, another theme we've talked about is that, that is where really a lot of your leverage lies, I mean, that industry has been kind of in a depression here for several years with some false starts.
But is it still the case? I mean, if you look at your two divisions, which one do you think actually has the potential to deliver more earnings over the next several years?
Leigh Abrams
Firstly, if you look at the margins, both industries' margins are fairly similar and have been in the past. Secondly, both industries are down.
Manufactured housing is down a lot more than RV industry. But they're both still producing lots of homes and lots of revenues.
I mean, for the first six months of this year, there was 162,000 RVs sold probably looking at close to 300,000 RVs sold for the year. So, we can keep talking about declines.
But the bottom line is, there's a lot of RVs being sold, there's a lot of homes being sold. And I think once the economy improves, both of them will improve.
Fred Zinn
Adriano, in terms of the kind of incremental margins that you're talking about, they're very similar, so there is not a lot more leverage really in one industry than the other. We have cut back on our capacity in manufactured housing so that we we're not – we wouldn't have that much more leverage than we do in RVs.
David Webster
And another thing about the RV industry is that you got to remember gentlemen, that the RV industry is down but yet still probably going to be one of the top five years of the entire industry. So, being down and as Leigh said, from 160,000, we will probably hit the 300,000 mark more than likely this year, and that's a pretty good year for the industry.
Adriano Almeida – DGHM
Yes, well that's why I was coming at it from a – I mean, I would have thought that from an upturn scenario perspective, there was a lot more upside in manufactured housing just because it's been depressed a lot.
David Webster
I think that's probably true. I think we will see more upside on the industry in the manufactured housing side of it because of the situation that we're going through right now and that we've been going through for the past seven or eight years.
I think there's a tremendous upside on the manufactured housing industry.
Adriano Almeida – DGHM
Now, why haven't you done more deals on the MH side then?
Leigh Abrams
Because, there's less products on the MH side. MH side is the lower cost housing.
There's a very few bells and whistles on manufactured housing. They are just very basic product.
We've looked at other products to get into and most of them just have not been profitable and that's why we exited some of those product lines last year. It's nice to get sales, but if you are getting sales at no margin, why bother spending the time and capital on it?
So, whereas the RV-er tends to like the latest gadgets and he always wants the most up-to-date RV, and that's why we're constantly looking and able to find new products. The stabilizer that we just found, I think, will be a nice improvement.
Last year, we added the suspension product. There's always some new gadget that you can get onto an RV.
Lippert today is one of the leading slide-out suppliers. Kinro has been the leading window supplier for many years.
So, and they constantly add new products.
Adriano Almeida – DGHM
Okay, that makes sense. Now, the content per unit numbers that you gave in this order that were up pretty nicely, that doesn't include the latest acquisition, right?
Fred Zinn
That's right. That's what was Joe saying in his speech that Seating Technology will add about $150.
Adriano Almeida – DGHM
Okay.
Leigh Abrams
We are going to take one more question.
Adriano Almeida – DGHM
Thank you guys.
Leigh Abrams
Okay.
Operator
Gentleman, your final question will come as a follow-up from the line of Kathryn Thompson representing Avondale Partners. Please proceed.
Leigh Abrams
Hi Kathryn.
Kathryn Thompson – Avondale Partners
Hi. You answered most of my questions.
I guess the one question I just wanted clarified, what I was trying to say earlier, because of the state of the industry and the balance sheet of some of your players, is it more difficult now to pass on price increases just conceptually?
Leigh Abrams
It's not so much the state of the balance sheet of our customers; it is the state of the economy.
Kathryn Thompson – Avondale Partners
Okay. Well, those kind of go hand in hand.
Leigh Abrams
Normally, when you have a declining economy, you have declining prices. In this particular environment, we have declining economy with rising prices.
So, when people are having trouble buying a product to begin with and then you want to raise price on it, it's going to make it even harder to raise the price.
Jason Lippert
It's never easy to go in with a price increase regardless of what the situation is, whether it's a declining market or an upswing in the market.
Leigh Abrams
In this downturn, all the parties have had to share in the pain. Suppliers have been hurt, customer, the manufacturer has been hurt, the dealer has been hurt, and in some instances, the customer has been hurt, the end customer, because he had to pay a higher price for the product.
Very difficult in a downturn, but again I go back to what we said earlier. If you have a good management team who's been through this before, they're going to accomplish and successfully accomplish getting through the price increases.
I'm extremely confident they will do it again this time.
Kathryn Thompson – Avondale Partners
Sure, yes, and you've always done a great job of that. I have no beef against that, but it's just really kind of getting a better understanding of how do you manage, because it does seem a bit different now than it was say even in ‘04 and ‘05 and even ‘91.
Leigh Abrams
It's harder and these guys will work harder to do it.
Kathryn Thompson – Avondale Partners
Okay great, thank you so much.
Leigh Abrams
Okay. All right.
With that again, I thank everybody for listening in. We will speak to you at the end of the third quarter and we will be around for many more years to come, and with our strong balance sheet and our ability to gain market share and to continually to increase new products – introduce new products and to make acquisitions, we are very optimistic in the long term that we will be successful.
So, thanks again.
Operator
Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for your participation in today's conference. This concludes your presentation.
You may now disconnect. Good day.