Rogers Corp (ROG) 2015 Q1 法說會逐字稿

Good morning. My name is Phoenix, and I will be your conference operator today. At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to the Rogers Corporation first-quarter 2015 earnings conference call. All lines have been placed on mute to prevent any background noise. After the speakers' remarks, there will be a question-and-answer session. (Operator Instructions)

I would now like to turn the call over to Bill Tryon, Director of Investor and Public Relations. You may begin your conference.

Thank you, Phoenix. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the Rogers Corporation first-quarter 2015 earnings conference call. The slides for today's call can be found on the investors section of our website along with the news release that was issued yesterday.

Turning to slide 2, with me here today is Bruce Hoechner, President and CEO; David Mathieson, Vice President Finance and CFO; and Bob Daigle, Senior Vice President and CTO.

Please turn to slide 3. Before we begin, I would like to note that statements in this conference call that are not strictly historical are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and should be considered as subject to the many uncertainties that exist in Rogers' operations and environment. These uncertainties include economic conditions, market demands and competitive factors. Such factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those in any forward-looking statement.

Also, the discussions during this conference call may include certain financial measures that were not prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. Reconciliation of those non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures can be found in the slide deck for today's call, which can be found in the investors section of our website.

I will now turn the call over to Bruce.

Thanks, Bill. Good morning, everyone. In Q1 2015, Rogers completed its acquisition of Arlon LLC, an excellent addition to our portfolio. Bolstered by this acquisition, Rogers achieved substantial growth in earnings, excluding discrete acquisition-related charges, delivering $0.94 per diluted share, an increase of 19% versus Q1 2014. In addition, we delivered all-time record net sales of $165.1 million, up 12.6% over Q1 2014. We attribute this success to our effective execution of the four vital elements of our growth strategy: achieving a market-driven mindset within our Company; delivering industry-leading technology innovation; effectively identifying and integrating synergistic acquisitions; and enhancing our operational excellence capabilities. We believe this approach, in addition to our strong customer focus, engaged employees and a positive outlook in a number of our core markets, will enable us to continue to drive robust revenue and profit performance into the future.

Turning to slide 4, I would like to review our strategy in greater depth and share updates on our progress towards our growth targets. We take a market-driven approach across our Company, where the term outside-in has become part of our daily lexicon. For example, we continually evaluate attractive growth opportunities in the market. As we stated in our Q4 2014 earnings call, we are directing increased attention to safety and protection as a key megatrend focus for Rogers due to the growth we have experienced in worldwide demand for innovative solutions for consumer safety and protection. I will discuss more about our megatrend changes later in the call.

Since 2012, we have increased our investment in technology innovation. We introduced 6 new products in 2014, and the team at Rogers' innovation center and divisional R&D are continuing to build a strong pipeline of opportunities. Our technology innovation is focused on next-generation project and solutions as well as emerging and long-term game-changing technologies. We are very pleased with our progress to date, and we are now moving ahead on plans to expand innovation center model into our Asia region.

We are very pleased with our progress in synergistic M&A and the Arlon acquisition. Given the EBITDA multiples in the market today, we believe the 7.3 EBITDA multiple on full-year 2014 earnings we paid for Arlon was very reasonable. We are now three months into the integration, and it's clear that Arlon is an excellent fit with our PCM and HPF business segments. We are very enthusiastic about the talent and passion our new colleagues bring to Rogers. We are also getting positive feedback from customers, several of whom have expressed interest in our ability to develop new materials as a result of the acquisition. We have finalized and implemented the new organizational structure, and the combined business teams are now focused on driving top-line growth. We remain on target to our goal of completing the integration by the end of 2015. David will discuss more about Arlon during his portion of the call.

We are also excited about our progress within the final element of our strategy: operational excellence. Over the past two years, we have deepened our focus on our processes and systems to increase efficiency while reducing costs. Shortly, I will speak more about the yield improvements, throughput increases and investments in new technology that are helping us reduce costs and improve on-time delivery.

At the bottom of this slide, you will see our interim three-year financial goals, which serve as a check point in our long-term plan. We are a growth Company, and we have strong confidence in our three-year goal of achieving a 15% compounded annual growth rate of combined organic and acquired growth. Some years, this will be driven primarily from organic growth and other years will come through acquisitions.

Turning to slide 5, I'd like to review our Q1 operating highlights. As previously mentioned, we achieved net sales of $165.1 million, an increase of 12.6%, and delivered strong earnings with non-GAAP EPS of $0.94 per diluted share, which is a 19% increase over last year.

On a currency-adjusted basis, we delivered organic sales growth of 3.2% over Q1 2014, with Arlon contributing $20.2 million of net sales and earnings of $0.17 per diluted share in the quarter. Fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates since the first quarter of 2014 unfavorably impacted the revenue of legacy Rogers businesses by approximately $6.5 million, or 4.3%. David will review both of these items later in the call.

Our operational excellence initiatives contributed to solid margin improvement with a non-GAAP gross margin of 38.8%, which is an increase of 200 basis points over Q1 2014, and non-GAAP operating margin of 15.8%, up 120 basis points over Q1 2014. We expect to see continued margin strength from ongoing commitment to process and system improvements.

Turning to slide 6, you will see our first-quarter highlights for printed circuit materials, where we had another record quarter. PCM achieved net sales of $71.3 million, including $10.5 million from Arlon, which is an increase of 21.8% over Q1 2014. We see healthy demand for high-frequency circuit materials for wireless infrastructure, automotive safety radar applications for advanced driver assistance systems and aerospace and defense applications.

This strong growth offset lower demand in mobile Internet device wireless antenna applications caused by higher than expected inventory levels in the supply chain. We are expecting this market to rebound in the second half of 2014.

While keeping pace with unprecedented demand, the PCM teams are also helping drive operational improvements to enhance profitability. In order to increase capacity to meet market demand, PCM has delivered sizable yield and productivity improvements across our three global manufacturing facilities. In addition, our investments in a new treater and new lamination press in China are now coming online.

Looking ahead in PCM, we believe we see continued strong demand for wireless infrastructure applications to support the 4G LTE build-out in China, where the three major telecom operators plan to build a combined 800,000 mobile broadband base stations in 2015. We are also starting to see 4G LTE demand growing in markets beyond China such as India, Japan and Europe.

In addition, strong consumer demand is helping to drive growth in automotive advanced driver assistance systems as mid-range cars adopt features that were previously only available in luxury cars.

Turning to slide 7, our high-performance phone segment achieved net sales of $44.6 million, including $5.2 million from Arlon, yielding an increase of 8.1% over Q1 2014. Weaker demand in portable electronics was primarily due to a slowdown in the China OEM smart phone market, as reported by Mobile World Live, where Chinese vendors experienced a 30% drop in demand for the period. This partially offset higher demand in general industrial and consumer applications.

HPF has implemented a number of process improvements to reduce costs and improve output. For example, the team designed, fabricated and installed new process systems enhancements and minimized scrap and increased throughput with meaningful cost savings. Another effort involved working closely with a supplier to upgrade raw material quality, which led to improved yields.

From a market standpoint, we believe that smart phone rollouts in the second half of 2015 will rebound. HPF has intensified its efforts on general industrial applications, which now represent roughly 30% of HPF sales. In addition, we have expanded our investments into higher-growth consumer comfort and impact protection segment to accelerate our market penetration. We see opportunities for sales and profitability growth at HPF through geographic expansion of both consumer and general industrial offerings.

Turning to slide 8, PES net sales were $38.5 million, a decrease of 5.6% compared to Q1 2014. PES sales grew 6.9% on a currency-adjusted basis from the prior year, indicating solid volume growth. Our results reflect strong demand in EV/HEV applications and mass transit.

This performance was offset in part by weaker demand in variable-frequency drives, where demand was affected in Q1 by downstream supply chain adjustments. PES made key investments in 2014 to drive manufacturing process improvements. Automating processes in our PES manufacturing operations helped to reduce operational cycle time and improve productivity, enabling greater speed to market and driving yield improvements.

Looking ahead for PES, we see continued growth in EV/HEV markets and in variable-frequency drives due to the worldwide demand for greater energy efficiency.

Turning now to slide 9, as mentioned previously, we are introducing safety and protection as our new megatrend category in order to align with the growth we have experienced in worldwide demand for our consumer safety and protection solutions. We will continue to focus on the Internet connectivity and clean energy megatrends as well. Mass transit remains strategically important and will be realigned primarily within our clean energy and safety and protection megatrend categories. Key applications in safety and protection include automotive safety radar, consumer impact and protection, and materials used in food safety, industrial and mass transit applications.

In Q1 2015, safety and protection applications grew 41% over Q1 2014, representing 10% of our overall sales. These results were due in large part to strong demand for Rogers' and Arlon's applications in automotive radar systems. We believe this market will see continued growth, with industry experts predicting a compound annual growth rate of more than 30% through 2020 and growth from less than 20 million units in 2014 to nearly 96 million units in 2020. With the Arlon acquisition, our 3 megatrend categories now represent a greater portion of Rogers' revenues at 68% versus 61%, excluding Arlon.

In Q1, strong demand for high-frequency circuit materials for wireless infrastructure yielded an increase of 20% in Internet connectivity applications. This improvement was somewhat tempered by weakness in demand for portable electronic devices, which we expect to rebound in the second half of 2015. We believe strong demand will continue for applications found in wireless communication base stations and antenna systems.

In the clean energy category, our volumes were up slightly. However, currency headwinds led to a decrease of 6% from Q1 2014. We see ongoing opportunities for Rogers' unique solutions in energy-efficient motor drives, which comprise approximately 35% of PES sales. In addition, the vehicle electrification market is expected to have a compound annual growth rate of roughly 15% through 2019.

I will now turn the call over to David, who will report our Q1 results in greater detail as well as additional financial highlights. David?

Thanks, Bruce. Coming to slide 11, in the first quarter of 2015 we achieved net sales of $165.1 million, up 12.6% compared to the first quarter of 2014. Net sales were slightly below the bottom of our guidance, primarily due to softness in the portable electronics market. Earnings exceeded guidance due to the benefits of operational excellence initiatives, favorable absorption and strong cost control.

Turning to slide 12, organic growth in the quarter was 3.2%. We estimate an unfavorable currency impact of 4.3%. The acquisition of Arlon on January 22, 2015 contributed $20.2 million, or 13.8% of additional revenues in the quarter.

On slide 13, we have introduced a waterfall chart to help explain the changes to EPS from the first quarter of 2014 to this quarter in 2015. Starting with $0.78 of EPS last year, this is increased by a gross margin improvement of $0.12 due to the continuation of our efforts in operational excellence plus favorable absorption, partially offset by $0.05 in commercial expenses as we have increased investments in both our sales efforts and R&D capability. We further offset another $0.05 with a combination of a slightly higher tax rate, where Arlon, due to the higher proportion of income in the USA, brings our tax rate up and to (inaudible) dilution.

Arlon added $0.17 to EPS, which is from a partial quarter starting on 22 January. Taking away from the $0.17 is $0.04 of recurring purchase accounting costs, which is also a partial quarter. This results in a subtotal $0.94, which is the non-GAAP earnings from these adjustments, after which we deduct a non-recurring purchase accounting of $0.06 and the $0.16 of integration cost to arrive at our GAAP EPS of $0.72 for the quarter.

On slide 14, consolidated non-GAAP gross margin of 38.8% in the quarter improved by 200 basis points compared to the previous year. Gross margin from organic business improved by 260 basis points from operational excellence programs and also from favorable absorption, largely due to building some inventory, especially in PCM, where we have been running flat out to meet demand for quite some time, and a favorable mix especially in the power electronics business. This was partially offset by a lower margin from Arlon.

On slide 15, year-over-year non-GAAP SG&A increased by 50 basis points from 18.8% to 19.3%. This amount excludes the integration costs but does include $3.1 million of costs associated with the Arlon acquisition, $2 million from SG&A and $1.1 million of purchase accounting. Organic SG&A increased by 100 basis points, mainly because of the unusually low expenditure in Q1 2014 and also due to the higher investment in sales and marketing this year. Our SG&A, however, was below our expected run rate and work-smart costs and other admin expenses, and we expect this to increase going forward.

Arlon helped improve overall SG&A by 120 basis points. However, this was partially offset by the purchase accounting impact of 70 basis points.

Research and development was $6.1 million, or 3.7%, compared to $4.9 million, or 3.3%, in the first quarter of 2014. The overall increase of 40 basis points was driven by a 70-basis-points increase in organic R&D due to continued investments in the innovation center. Lower R&D in Arlon partially offset spending by 30 basis points.

On slide 16, non-GAAP operating income was $26 million, up 20.8% from the prior year. Non-GAAP operating margin was 15.8% in Q1 of 2015, up 120 basis points from prior year. This was due to an increase in gross margin of 200 basis points, driven by organic margin improvement that was partially offset by increase in commercial expenses and R&D of 80 basis points.

On slide 17, PCM achieved first-quarter sales of $71.3 million, up 21.8% from Q1 2014. The sales increase was driven by organic growth of 5.2%, partially offset by currency of 1.3%. The Arlon acquisition increased net sales by 17.9%.

Non-GAAP operating income was $16 million, up 31.4% from Q1 2014, or 221 basis points as a percent of sales. This increase was the result of organic and the acquisition revenue growth, favorable energy absorption and operational efficiency improvements that were partially offset by purchase accounting expenses.

On slide 18, high-performance phones achieved first-quarter sales of $44.6 million, up 8.1% from Q1 2014. Organically, sales were down 3.2%, and currency lowered sales by 1.4%. This was offset by the Arlon acquisition that added 12.7% to net sales. Non-GAAP operating income was $5 million, down $0.7 million from Q1 2014, or 270 basis points as a percent of sales. This decline was the result of lower volume in purchase accounting expenses.

On slide 19, PES achieved first-quarter sales of $38.5 million, down 5.6% from Q1 2014. Sales were positively impacted by an organic growth of 6.9%, which was more than offset by an unfavorable impact of currency of 12.5%. Operating income was $2.4 million, up $0.8 million. As a percent of sales, the increase was 230 basis points. This increase is due to favorable product mix and yield improvement programs.

On slide 20, in the first quarter of 2015, we acquired Arlon for an aggregate purchase price of approximately $157 million. We used borrowings of $125 million under our bank credit facility, in addition to cash on hand, to fund the acquisition. Cash flow from operations for the three months was $12.9 million, with capital expenditures of $8.5 million. And we repaid debt, including leases of $5.1 million. We ended the quarter with a cash balance of $199.9 million and a debt balance of $180 million.

On slide 21, guidance for the second quarter is for our revenues to be in the range of $175 million to $185 million and for non-GAAP net earnings to be in the range of $0.81 to $0.93 per diluted share. This excludes $0.10 of integration costs. GAAP EPS is expected to be in the range of $0.71 to $0.83 per diluted share. This includes a recurring purchase accounting impact of an expected $0.06 per diluted share.

At the midpoint, our Q2 revenue guidance represents organic growth of 6% over Q2 2014. However, the Company expects sales will be unfavorably impacted by approximately $7.7 million due to the decline in value of the euro on a year-over-year basis, bringing sales growth down to 1% over Q2 2015. Acquisition growth will be approximately 17.3% from the prior year. We have used an average euro rate of [$1.08] for the second-quarter forecast. And for our year of note, the second quarter of 2014 we averaged [$1.38] for the euro.

Guidance for the EPS has a midpoint of $0.77 per diluted share. This guidance was an increase of $0.19 per diluted share compared to the EPS in Q2 2014. This increase is due to several reasons, including $0.13 per diluted share related to the Arlon acquisition including purchase accounting costs. Secondly, volume and gross margin improvement of $0.05 per diluted share (inaudible) international expenses and other items, adding $0.11 per diluted share, partially offset by number four integration costs of $0.10 per diluted share.

This completes my commentary, and I will turn the call back over to Bruce.

This concludes the prepared portion of our call. We will now open up the line for questions and answers.

(Operator Instructions) Daniel Moore, CJS Securities.

Bruce, in the prepared remarks, obviously you talked about China and the 4G base station opportunity and the strength that you are continuing to see. We have heard mixed things over the last couple of months. Maybe just give us a little bit more detail. The 800,000 base stations that the top three are adding in 2015, how does that compare to 2014? And a little bit more color outside North America and Europe and then India would be great.

Great. Good. Well, first of all, the 800,000 compares very favorably with what was built last year, 2014, in China. The interesting thing is, at this point in the year to have the clarity from the three carriers about their building plans is different than last year. If you recall, last year it was very unclear in the first half of the year what really was going to happen. So this is good news for us. We think that we have such clarity and people have announced their intentions, at least in China, on the base stations.

The other thing that we've seen, moving outside of China, has -- we see in Japan, we see Europe, we see India -- a total of about 200,000 to 220,000 base stations have been announced across the world when we look at that, with the bigger areas being in India, Japan and Europe. So that is also boding well for the future as we see the build-out in 2015.

I think the other thing that we need to also focus on, and this is a little bit more broad beyond 4G LTE -- but we also see the back calls, the demand for our materials in back call as well as small cell repeaters. So that's another area that we will see some continued growth there. And then, more broadly, when we look at the radar, automotive radar, that growth continues to be very, very strong. And we are talking 30% growth over the next years through 2020. So that's going to continue to drive PCM growth in sales as well.

So as we look ahead, perhaps it looks a little bit light in the first quarter. We think for PCM this should be another strong year.

Helpful. Maybe switching gears to the cost side, if you adjust for the non-recurring or the integration, selling and administration of about $32 million, it was actually quite a bit below our estimates or models. If you normalize that for a full quarter of Arlon, is that level sustainable? Or should we expect some investment in spending to pick up as we go through the year?

Yes; I think I mentioned in my script that we were kind of light in cost for the first quarter. So we would expect selling more in the second quarter. We got off to a slow start in some of our programs like work smart, for example. So we had an unusually low quarter, I would say.

Any color as to what the Q2 number might look like embedded in that guidance and if that would be more of a cleaner run rate?

Yes. I think certainly selling more is -- I wouldn't like to give the exact number. But we expect our SG&A to go up.

Okay. We can back into it. Maybe one bigger-picture question -- obviously, even after Arlon, still in a net cash position. By our estimates, you will generate $60 million or $70 million in free cash this year. So maybe just update us on your appetite for additional acquisitions in the near term and other uses of capital over the next 12 months.

Sure. Again, our stated strategy from an acquisition perspective is to look for properties, firms, that are close in to our three major businesses. And so we continue to evaluate and look at our target list and continue discussions. So that's something that we would anticipate. Of course, we are patient. And as you know, with Arlon, we were probably talking with them for two years and got to the point that we did get the 7.3 EBITDA multiple, which we were very pleased with.

So we continue to evaluate opportunities and continue to talk to people. So that's a clear use of our cash.

I think the other areas of use for cash -- certainly, investing in our plants and in our required capacity because, as we have grown, obviously we need to add capabilities. So we will use our cash there as well.

And then the third thing is we are always evaluating with the Board what options we have on share buyback and so forth.

Okay. Thank you very much.

(Operator Instructions) Christopher Butler, Sidoti & Company.

I was hoping that you might give us an update on Arlon, how that business particularly performed in the quarter and anything new that you've come up with now that you've actually had it under your full care for a few months.

Thanks, Chris. Again, the Arlon acquisition from our perspective is all about growth and extending our product portfolio, our capabilities to penetrate new applications, new markets and giving us some additional technology. Bob has been leading the integration and the acquisition, so I'm going to ask Bob Daigle to comment more broadly on what we've seen since we now have them under our roof.

Yes. So, Chris, again, when we bought Arlon, the strategic reasons were really to try to get a much stronger presence in the 4G LTE antenna space. And in particular, again, if we look out over the next few years we believe the antenna space is going to be very strong. And that's going to be driven by the fact that, in order to support the high growth rates for data consumption, I think the last report out of Cisco, they projected 2014 to 2019 that the compounded annual growth rate for data -- wireless data is north of 55%, up around 57%.

So we think fundamentally there's going to be a need for much more bandwidth that's going to get allocated for wireless. And there's many bands out there. And as you move to multi-band LTE, you need better antenna performance, which will drive demand for these circuit materials.

So we are very pleased, frankly. No bad surprises at all, frankly, around what we acquired there in the circuit materials area. And, if anything, a little bit of upside in that we really weren't looking too closely around the thermal management circuit materials. But there's a couple of things that were being manufactured by Arlon which our sales organization is pretty excited about in terms of added growth.

There's also some nice opportunities, we believe, in terms of looking at some of the resident filler capabilities that we think are going to be synergistic between the two companies. So the R&D teams are working very closely together right now. And I think we're going to end up with some nice new products as a result of combining the organizations.

On the silicon side, again, a very, very strong business. We were excited about adding new capabilities to Rogers. We've got a nice portfolio of products, nice portfolio of capabilities that we are integrating into Rogers. We have got our -- we had a much stronger global commercial footprint that we now have the sales organization engaged in trying to further accelerate sales revenue based on those products. That's looking very encouraging.

Roughly speaking, you know, Bruce talked about the safety and protection megatrend. Roughly half of the -- or approaching half of the silicon products that we acquired in the Arlon acquisition are in the safety protection area -- food safety, aviation safety, process and industrial safety applications.

So, all in all, the integration is going very well. We are seeing, frankly, more upside in this than we believe there was going in. So we are very encouraged.

And if we are looking at the actual results exceeding your guidance and what you are expecting, is that just a byproduct of lower SG&A, like with the legacy Rogers business? Or was there something else that surprised you in the quarter?

Yes, I think -- well, we ended up -- I think, if you look at what we had embedded in our guidance in terms of revenue range and then the earnings that would be driven off that revenue, we ended up at the top end of our revenue guidance. And the operating performance was pretty much in line with being on the top end of the revenue range. So I think we pretty much hit what we expected to for margins.

Just an added comment on that -- when you have any acquisitions, one of the first things you want to make sure you are doing is protecting your top line. And we've done, I think, extremely well on the top line with Arlon. As Bob mentioned, the integration has gone very well. The quality of the people that we've inherited here from Arlon is very good. We are very pleased overall with the whole thing.

I appreciate your time. I'll get back in the queue.

Daniel Moore, CJS Securities.

Bruce, I think you touched on this in your prepared remarks as well. But the supply chain issues that impacted mobile Internet devices in Q1 -- I assume you expect to see some of that spill into Q2. And I think -- I just wanted to clarify. First, is it related mainly to tablets? And second, do you expect that to alleviate or abate in the back half of the year?

Okay, so there's two issues with mobile Internet devices, and we will separate them out. One was in the Wi-Fi antenna systems using our circuit materials for PCM. And that issue was specific to one OEM where they had excess inventory. We expect -- we fully expect that business to recover and to achieve through the year what we initially thought would be in our plans for the year. So that's just a question of getting things right in their shop.

The other issue on mobile Internet devices specifically to smart phones was in China, where the Chinese OEMs of smart phones saw a volume decline about 30% year on year. And that had a direct effect on our HPF business in terms of gasketing and so forth that's used in those applications.

So, again, the issue there was that there were no really substantial new rollouts of new phones in Q1. We anticipate -- certainly in Q3, which is the big quarter for rollouts for mobile Internet devices -- for that to be recovered. So we are optimistic about that.

Also, we are seeing some nice, very nice interest in HPF in our back pad Ripple Pad. And so we see that -- that's a new product that was introduced last year -- has started to take off. And that's protecting the screen from having the ripples when you put your fingers on it. And so a number of OEMs have designed us in, and so we are waiting for that to happen as well.

Very good. And then sort of a longer-term -- you've had this long-term 40% margin goal for a while, in a pretty short period down from the low 30s, and now you are approaching that. With Arlon in the mix, do you see additional upside to that goal, or do you think that's a fairly optimal level, given the current mix of businesses longer term?

We have a significant effort ongoing in the Company for process improvement, process excellence. And so we will continue down that path. And I would expect us to make improvements in the yields and so forth, which would have a direct effect on gross margin.

The Arlon financials are similar to Rogers' overall. So they are not pulling us down on that in any substantial way. We will continue to evaluate those targets. It's a good thing to reach your targets and then reassess.

We also -- I think the other thing I will point out is that our operating profit at 15%, which is our three-year target, we have achieved or we are achieving. And so we will step back and see, as we evaluate our capabilities, if we want to readjust that going forward.

Very helpful. Lastly, just a clarification -- when you talk about the three-year growth goals of 10% organic and 15% with acquisitions, does that include 2014? Or is that still a forward-looking from this point?

It does include 2014. And we put those targets out, I believe, at the end of 2013. So we continue to believe in our growth capability. Obviously, this quarter we had the headwinds of currency, a little bit slower in HPF than anticipated. But when we look at our markets, and we can call it the megatrend markets, the tailwinds continue to be very strong across all three of the majors. And so we are very encouraged, and we have conviction in our 10% and 15% growth targets.

Very good. Thank you again.

There are no further questions over the phone at this time. I will turn the call back over to Bruce for closing comments.

Thank you, Phoenix. In closing, we are pleased with our all-time record sales and strong profit performance in Q1 2015. The Arlon acquisition continues to exceed our expectations, and the integration is moving ahead smoothly. We will continue to capitalize on the many benefits associated with the acquisition of Arlon. As our teams engage more closely, we anticipate opportunities to expand our market reach, broaden our portfolio and deepen the customer relationships.

In addition, we will work to combine the best of both organizations in the area of operational excellence, maintaining our rigor around improving our business systems and processes to help us effectively and -- cost effectively and efficiently scale the Company as we grow. We have continued to make meaningful progress in operational improvement initiatives, and we have expanded capacity to keep pace with expected demand increases in the second half of the year.

Our results demonstrate that our transformational journey, started more than three years ago, continues to pay off. We believe that we are focused on the right global growth markets where indicators point to long-term growth. The addition of safety and protection to our strategic megatrends will provide a holistic view of application opportunities that are critical to consumer and workplace safety. Together with growth in automotive advanced driver assistance systems, we expect to see strong demand for applications in this new megatrend category.

And finally, we are effectively executing on the four strategic elements of our growth strategy: being market driven; technology innovation; synergistic M&A; and operational excellence as demonstrated by our strong results.

Thank you for joining us today on the call. Have a great day.

Ladies and gentlemen, this concludes today's conference call. You may now disconnect.