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spk04: Good day, everyone, and welcome to the Consumer Portfolio Services 2020 Third Quarter Operating Results Conference Call. Today's call is being recorded. Before we begin, management has asked me to inform you that this conference call may contain forward-looking statements. Any statements made during this call that are not statements of historical facts may be deemed forward-looking statements. Statements regarding current or historical valuation of receivables because dependent on estimates of future events, also are forward-looking statements. All such forward-looking statements are subject to risks that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. I refer you to the company's annual report filed March 16th and its quarterly report filed May 5th and July 31st for further clarification. The company assumes no obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information further events or otherwise. With us here now are Mr. Charles Bradley, Chief Executive Officer, and Mr. Jeff Fritz, Chief Financial Officer of Consumer Portfolio Services. I will now turn the call over to Mr. Bradley.
spk02: Thank you and welcome everyone to our third quarter conference call. So I guess in the midst of the pandemic and all these other problems in the world, it's kind of a great thing that we actually had a very good quarter. So we must be doing something right in the fact that these are challenging times, and yet we put together a really, really solid quarter. Our earnings are way up, but just across the board, both in earnings. One thing we are doing is we're focused a little more on profitability rather than growth. Given the uncertain times, A quarter or so ago, at the beginning of this whole thing, call it February, March, April, we decided that rather than try and fight through the pandemic in terms of growth, we should focus on profitability. And so we have. And we are, in fact, beginning to grow again, and we would like to get a little more growth going as the next couple of quarters go by. But currently, profitability seems to be a very good focus for us, and it's working out tremendously well, along with strengthening all the departments top to bottom and cutting costs where we can. And as you can see in all the numbers, we've done a lot of that. The performance in the portfolio has been extraordinarily good. We're buying really good paper. Our collections forces are doing great. So our numbers are both, our charge-off and DQ numbers are very good this quarter, best in a long time. So really, across the board, it's real good. Wall Street's doing real well. We did a securitization. It was the cheapest money we've had in six years. And so, granted, that helps everyone. It helps all things, floats all boats. But for us, it's just one more thing that's working the right way. The auction recoveries, people were very worried that the auction prices were all going to be in trouble. We had one of the best auction recovery quarters we've had in years. So there's lots of things that are going probably maybe a little bit, not abnormally right like the auctions, but certainly they're helpful too. But even taking out sort of the things that might be momentarily related to what's going on with the pandemic and things. Still, the strength in terms of the paper we're originating, the way we're collecting the paper, our access to Wall Street and funds are all super strong and super good. So I'll talk more specifically about that and a few other things after Jeff goes through the financials.
spk05: Thanks, Brad. Welcome, everyone. Let's begin with the revenues. $70.7 million for the quarter. is a 5 percent increase over the June quarter this year and a 17 percent decrease compared to the third quarter of 2019. The nine-month revenues for this year, $208.7 million, a 20 percent decrease from the first nine months of 2019. And so, we continue our transition to the fair value portfolio. The legacy portfolio is down to about 26 percent of the total, just under $600 million. That legacy portfolio yielded almost 19% or around 19% in contributing to the revenues this quarter, so that was very good, actually. The fair value portfolio is now 74% of the total, $1.7 billion. That yielded 10.4%. Remember, please, that that yield is net of losses, which are baked into that number. And then you'll note that we did a booked a $3.1 million markdown on the fair value portfolio, which is essentially an estimate of future higher, somewhat higher credit losses related to the virus. Moving on to expenses, $64.8 million for the quarter. That's a 4% increase over the June quarter this year, but a 22% decrease compared to $82.7 million in the third quarter last year. For the nine months, $195.1 million in expenses, a 23% decrease compared to the first nine months of 2019. So there's a lot of moving parts in the expense side. The biggest reduction in expenses year over year is the provisions for credit losses, but we've also had significant reductions in most of the core operating categories year over year, employee costs and benefits. interest expense, really had a lot of good efficiencies and improvements in the expense side of the ledger. I mentioned the provisions for credit losses. We did book $7.4 million on the legacy portfolio this quarter. That's an increase compared to 3.1 that we recognized in the second quarter of this year, but a decrease of 19.9 compared to 19.9 million in the third quarter of last year. So for this year, provisions for credit loss has been $14.1 million, a 78% increase compared to $64.3 million for the first nine months of 2019. So recall that we adopted the CECL method of accounting for the legacy portfolio in January of this year. At that time, we booked what was intended to be a lifetime provisions for credit losses establish an allowance for lifetime losses. So all these 14.1 million of losses that we've recognized this year are what we would consider COVID-related for the legacy portfolio. Pre-tax earnings for the quarter, $5.9 million, 28% increase compared to the second quarter this year, and 111% increase compared to 2.8 million in the third quarter last year. For the year-to-date numbers, $13.6 million this year is a 64% increase compared to $8.3 million in the first nine months of 2019. Net income, $3.8 million for this quarter, a 27% increase compared to $3 million for the second quarter of this year, and a 111% increase compared to $1.8 million in the third quarter of 2019. Year-to-date net income, $117.5 million, a 224% increase compared to the first nine months of 2019. You may recall that this year we recognized a significant tax benefit in the first quarter, $8.8 million, resulting from the CARES Act and how it changed the carrying value of our deferred tax assets. So those numbers, those net income numbers for this year include that $8.8 million tax benefit. Diluted earnings per share, 16 cents this quarter is a 23% increase over the 13 cents for the June quarter this year, and 100% increase compared to the 8 cents we earned in the third quarter of 2019. Year-to-date diluted earnings per share, 74 cents compared to 22 cents for the nine months of 2019. Remember that tax benefit reflects about 37 cents of this year's 74 cents of earnings per share. Moving on to the balance sheet, we continue to have a very strong liquidity position. It looks like there is a significant increase in restricted cash in the consecutive quarters and even the year-over-year quarters. About $60 million of that increase in restricted cash is a result of doing our securitization in September. We normally do our securitizations in the first month of the quarter, Because of the timing of the lower volumes and the pandemic this year, we did our securitization in September, and so we have this pre-funding $60 million, which essentially goes away in the month of October this year. Moving on to the finance receivables, these are the legacy portfolio receivables. You might note that the allowance there is now up to 16%. of that active portfolio, so it's got substantial lifetime losses set aside against it. On the debt side of the balance sheet, you may notice that warehouse balances are down. We've really had somewhat lower warehouse usage due to lower originations production and our strong liquidity position. Looking at some of the performance metrics, Net interest margin for the quarter was $45.8 million. That's a 12% increase over the June quarter this year of $40.8 million, and a decrease of 21% compared to the third quarter last year. Nine-month net interest margin of $130.4 million is a 26% decrease compared to last year's first nine months. So remember, we're still, the transition to fair value is really influencing these numbers, particularly the year-over-year numbers. It's helpful to note that the blended cost of all the ABS debt for this quarter was 4.4%, which is a decrease compared to 4.5% in the third quarter of last year. As you may recall, for the most part, we've done really well in the execution of the coupons, blended cost of funds for securitizations this year. The risk-adjusted margin... is $38.4 million for the quarter. That's a 2% increase over the June quarter, and also a 2% increase over the third quarter last year. And year-to-date risk-adjusted NIM, $116.2 million is a 3% increase over last year. And so this is being influenced by the lower provisions for credit losses this year, but also the lower interest rates on the debt, as I mentioned. Core operating expenses. For the quarter, $32.5 million is a decrease of 2% compared to the second quarter of this year, $33.1 million, and a decrease of 7% compared to the third quarter of 2019. Year-to-date core operating expenses, $102.6 million is a 2% decrease compared to the first nine months of 2019. So our operating costs, this year they've been somewhat influenced by the low originations volumes but also influenced by investments we've made in technologies, which have made us more efficient, particularly in the servicing side of the business, and we're really starting to see some benefit from those changes. As a percentage, the core operating expenses for the quarter were 5.7%. That's a 2% increase over 5.6% in the June quarter this year, but a 2% decrease compared to 5.8% for the third quarter last year. On a year-to-date basis, it's also 5.8 percent, which is about the same compared to last year. So, this metric is showing a year-over-year improvement, even though we have a slightly smaller portfolio due to the lower growth this year. The return on managed assets pre-tax, 1 percent for the quarter. That's a 25 percent increase compared to the second quarter of this year, and 100 percent increase compared to 0.5 in the third quarter of last year. and on a year-to-date basis 0.8% return on managed assets pre-tax compared to 0.5% for the nine months ended September of 2019. So this encompasses all these things, the better efficiencies and the core operating expenses, lower interest expense, and lower provisions for credit losses. Brad mentioned the credit performance. We're just really pleased with the credit performance these last two quarters in particular. The delinquencies were 10.3%, which is almost a 500 basis point reduction compared to September of 2019. The net losses for the quarter, 6.4%. Again, a significant reduction compared to 8.07% for September of 2019. And the year-to-date losses, 6.9%. Again, a reduction compared to 7.9%. for the first nine months of 2019. Brad mentioned the auctions. The general talk on the street is dealers are finding it difficult to get inventory, and it's pushed up the values at the auctions. We got a return of 45.1% of our collateral at the auctions this quarter. That's up from 34% in the second quarter and also up from 34% a year ago. I did a little math, and I can tell you that if the auction values for this quarter were the same as they have historically been around that 34%, we would have incurred $2 million more in charge-offs this last quarter. And even though these numbers are, you know, exceptionally good and probably going to revert to the mean at some point, you know, that's $2 million that we saved and we'll never have to give back. On the ABS market, we just did our securitization a couple of weeks ago, 2020C. It was a $252 million deal. We had great demand across the capital structure. All classes of bonds were significantly oversubscribed. And the combination of the low, low benchmarks and the very tight spreads resulted in a blended yield of 2.39%. which, as Brad just mentioned, is the lowest we've seen since 2014. Another benefit of this deal, or positive of this most recent deal, is we were able to structure in a Class F single B bond, which brought the leverage and the advance rate back to the better levels that we prefer. With that, I'll turn it back over to Brad.
spk02: Okay, so I'm running through a couple of things. So as I mentioned, sales and originations are performing very strongly. We have tried to focus a little more on quality than growth, even though we are now growing again. It's been a little bit trying to figure out what's the appropriate timing to start growing given the pandemic and trying to figure out how it's all going to play out. But on some level, I think we've managed it rather well in that we've increased profitability. We've sort of tightened up in a lot of areas. We cut our workforce by 20%. We've cut expenses across the board. So a lot of those things have really worked out. We're still getting the kind of performance we want. We have an APR that's over 19% again and strong originations fees. So we're really doing well in terms of profitability on the paper. And the LTV is down about 113%, which is the lowest it's been in a long time. So again, that's probably a good indicator of representative of the quality of the paper we're buying. We've got a little bit of a shift to the upper tier. We might try and sort of even that out to more of our norm. But either way, the production's really good. The metrics on the productions are very strong. And the collections are good. Collections, interestingly enough, we're performing very well across all areas of the country. There doesn't seem to be any holes in sort of our coverage. We've added some near-shore collections, which just supplements what we're doing. It has some cost factors that are good. But overall, we haven't seen, you know, as the winter season comes along, that will, of course, change a few things. But for now, we're seeing strong performance collection-wise across all segments of the United States. It's all very good. Another thing to point out is everybody said, gee, the CARES Act stimulus package and then the higher unemployment, that's all boosting the collections. You know, that trip's kind of come and gone. I mean, the unemployment stopped in July, and we're still getting remarkably good performance So, you know, as much as you can sort of say that helped, and it probably did, I think in the end, really, it's how we're collecting the paper and the paper we're buying that's really showing today. So, you know, they've got another stimulus package put together. That's great. But again, I don't know that we necessarily need that to keep the performance we have. Also, the portfolio shrunk. This is something we'd like to fix. Since our peak portfolio size, we've gone down almost $200 million. So, again, with a shrinking portfolio, it shows how well your performance is even better. And so, again, that's a good thing. We do want to begin growing enough to at least level out the portfolio so it stops shrinking. We would probably expect to get there over the next two quarters or three quarters. And then we'll, again, sort of grow slowly or, again, at least see what's going on in the marketplace in terms of what we do next. As we mentioned, Wall Street... Wall Street is probably as good as it's going to be for a while. We have super low costs for the ABS markets. The credit lines are all doing great. So we have real access to capital when we need it. And probably lastly, as probably most people know, we did receive an offer, an unsolicited offer of the company. We addressed that in a press release. We, as the board, will consider it extensively and sort of look into that offer. We will respond, I think the deadline is October 30th. Again, it was unsolicited. I personally have never spoken to the company and have yet to speak to the company. But even so, we will take a look at the offer and value it. But, you know, the company is doing great, so maybe at some point somebody realizes how well we are doing. With that, we'll open it up for questions.
spk04: The floor is now open for questions. At this time, if you have a question or comment, please press star 1 on your touchtone phone. If at any point your question is answered, you may remove yourself from the queue by pressing the pound key. We do ask that while you pose your question, that you pick up your handset to provide optimum sound quality. Thank you. Our first question comes from David Sharp of JMP Security. Your line is open.
spk06: Hey, good morning, and thanks for taking my questions. Hey, Brad, a couple things. The first is just to maybe get a little more color on maybe the near and medium-term outlook in terms of just competition because It seems like there are a lot of competing factors. You noted how robust the ABS market is, and that's sort of reminiscent of when the industry became so competitive after the last financial crisis and rates came down. But at the same time, it looks like your yields have trended up, both within the legacy and in the fair value portfolio. Are you seeing more pricing flexibility, or is that just a reflection of more caution and a little higher FICO focus given the pandemic?
spk02: Excellent question. We're certainly happy to have the higher pricing, and I guess I could simply say, yes, I think there's more pricing flexibility out there. But, of course, going back to the beginning with the way you said, with the ABS market being so strong and the cost of funds probably across the board, for everything, both warehouse lines, borrowing money, and ABS, you know, certainly a high tide floats all boats, and it certainly has to help everyone. And so one would think, you know, to the extent companies were struggling out there, having better access to capital is helping them. You know, maybe people are trying to be more cautious. I think some of the non-prime guys are pushing pretty hard. But, you know, in our industry, our neck of the woods in the industry is We haven't heard too much. Certainly, I think the access to capital or cost of funds is helping anyone who's struggling. But I also don't know that anyone, it wouldn't be surprising if most people are taking, give or take the approach we are, which is proceed with caution, do what you can, but try not to get over your skis in case something else happens. So as much as our numbers are really good, our performance has been really strong, our access to capital is really good, You know, it's not like we're going to step on the accelerator real hard just in hope for the best. And probably, I would imagine, most of the folks in the industry feel the same way. And as a result of that, you probably have gotten a little more pricing flexibility. We also probably think our model works really well and things like that, but everybody else can say the same. So one might think some of the folks have backed off or some of the smaller guys are harder hit. It's a little hard to say. You know, it's not like any big guys have disappeared. But, you know, I would agree with you. It certainly appears that there's a little more pricing flexibility in the marketplace today.
spk06: Okay, but just to be clear, I'm not getting a strong sense that we ought to be thinking about gross yields trending higher from Q3 levels. Is that fair?
spk02: Yeah, that's probably fair. We're probably give or take. If it gets better than this, then, you know. Something's changing, Tim.
spk06: Right, right. Got it. Hey, and one follow-up, you know, on the recovery side, obviously throughout the pandemic, it's been a consistent theme in the industry about dealers being short supply of used vehicles, driving prices up. It seems like new vehicle sales may be on the cusp, you know, kind of reoccurring. picking up once again, a lot of the manufacturing bottlenecks and really in the pandemic of kind of working their way through and that should drive up, you know, trade in inventory or volume. Do you think this past quarter represents sort of the maybe the peak of collateral value that we ought to be? I mean, you had noted the recovery rate was unusual this quarter, we got that loud and clear. But just Thinking more broadly, we've probably seen the peak of these auction values.
spk02: I agree with you. I think new car production is beginning to trend up. I've always said for a while that I think the new car production got way ahead of themselves. probably one of the many groups or a few groups that really thought the pandemic helped them out would be the manufacturers because they got to take a drop back and let the world catch up to the production. So I don't know that they're going to come storming back, and obviously they want to produce cars and make lots of money, but that lull is going to make the market a lot stronger for them going forward. So certainly the number was so high this third quarter that it could be the peak, but it wouldn't shock me if the fourth quarter hung in there and it was a slower transition back to what we'll call normal. I mean, I don't know. Who knows what the big guys will do, but if I were them, I wouldn't try to flood the market with new car vehicles. I think all the dealers need new cars. They're going to try and provide new cars. I don't know if they're going to try and create another glut of new cars. And if not, that will keep the recoveries a little higher than normal for probably another, it'll probably take at least another quarter or two to get back to what we'll call normal.
spk06: Got it, got it. Okay, thank you.
spk02: Thank you.
spk04: Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Kyle Joseph of Jefferies. Your line is open.
spk01: Hey, good morning, guys. Thanks for taking my questions. I just wanted to get sort of your thoughts on how the different portfolios are performing. Obviously, this quarter we saw a smaller fair value mark on that portfolio, but a larger provision, and then We can see the legacy charge also running higher, but at the same time, you talked about a better yield in there. So just kind of walk us through the differences in the performance between those two portfolios.
spk02: For the most part, I mean, the legacy portfolio is older, so it's going to not perform as well because as the paper reaches the end of its days, it's going to sort of have higher losses. I think part of what we're doing is trying to be super cautious in both portfolios, in terms of, again, I mean, we seem to be doing quite well in the pandemic, but you never know what's around the corner. So until that thing really evens out, it's going to, you know, I think we're going to be cautious. I don't know that the levels in either one are particularly relevant in terms of the performance. I mean, it's easy enough to say the legacy portfolio is not going to perform as well as the fair value. Probably we would both say that fair value is outperforming itself by a bit right now, even given the pandemic and everything else.
spk01: Um, got it. And then, um, you know, just obviously a lot of uncertainty there, uh, out there right now in terms, in terms of the stimulus, um, delinquencies are still down a lot year over year, which is great. Um, they're up a bit sequentially, which you would expect from a normal seasonal perspective, but can you kind of walk us through what delinquencies did by month through the quarter? Did you know, were they, did they go down again in July and then they ticked up post-stimulus, or what's driving that?
spk05: Well, after, Kyle, after the June quarter, yeah, we saw nominal sequential monthly increases in delinquencies throughout the third quarter ending where we just announced. And And as you pointed out, that's a normal seasonal pattern we'd expect to see because the third quarter represents a time period where people are typically taking vacations and going back to school. So typically we see a big increase from second quarter to third quarter. This year we saw a nominal increase because people aren't traveling probably as much as they normally would. And even though there's stimulus, Their bonus employment benefits have run out during that period, most likely. I think people just have more money in their pockets because they have less to do. And so our collectors have done a good job staying on top of the customers. And what we've seen is a seasonal increase, but not as great as we've seen in the past.
spk01: Got it. And I know you addressed that. The offer on your sales, so I think thinking about it more broadly, can you give us your sense for, you know, potential consolidation in the industry? Is it, you know, at this point no one's really struggling because there was so much stimulus, but, you know, going forward as losses really manifest, do you see some potential consolidation opportunities for the industry?
spk02: Well, you know, I always say yes when we have that question, and I've been mostly wrong. So, you know, I think... you're still going to have some folks out there who aren't doing exactly what they're supposed to be doing. I think probably you might have had a bit of a reckoning for some of the really smaller guys over the last couple of quarters. I mean, the larger people, sort of us and bigger, I don't really see too much going on there because certainly the lower cost of funds and the access to capital probably has helped everyone at what we'll call medium to large size a lot. And so... You know, I think there's still a decent chance, you know, you'll have some consolidation. You're still going to have the PE guys, you know, they're still sitting in those same companies they probably don't want to be in. You know, maybe they're feeling a little better about the company, but they still at some point got to get out. So I don't know how that plays, but yes, I think there'll be consolidation. You know, I think, you know, maybe after the election, you see how that shakes out, you know, what happens. But the easy answer is, you know, low cost of money is going to be there now for a while. And that's going to help a lot of folks. I don't know that it'll cause anybody to come into the market. So it's kind of a weird setup because you have a whole lot of people, because of all the low costs and stuff, access, they're all going to probably hang in there. It doesn't mean the PE guys still don't want to get out. So at some point, something's going to happen. But given the current access to capital, I'm probably not thinking it happens very soon, which means it'll happen tomorrow, which would be great. So there you go.
spk01: Fair enough. Thanks very much for answering my questions, guys.
spk03: Thank you.
spk04: Thank you. Our next question comes from John Rowan of Janney. Your line is open.
spk03: Hi, guys. Hi, John. So I just wanted to drill on something. You said that you cut 20% of the workforce, but, I mean, employee costs are down significantly. less than 1%. And how much of that is variable just given, I mean, you're obviously purchasing fewer contracts than you were last year. Obviously, it's come up a little bit of late. But it doesn't seem like that full 20% run rate has really hit your employee costs.
spk02: Well, it would be more over time, too. It wasn't like we just did it this quarter. There's probably other facts. Part of it's the new accounting.
spk05: Well, we had a little staff reduction where we actually laid off about 10% of the workforce. That was midway through the second quarter. And then we've had just some attrition because the volumes have remained low. So I don't think that the sequential quarter comparisons or even the year-over-year necessarily have reflected that. But the headcount is down about 20%.
spk03: Okay. I mean, what's a good run rate going forward? I mean, does it continue to trickle down? I mean, obviously, if there was attrition or people let go in 2Q or in 3Q, do we continue to see a reduction in employee costs going into the end of the year?
spk05: Well, probably steady at these levels until the end of the year. We're trying to grow the business again. And when the business grows, when the originations volumes grow, Then we have more variable employee costs because the salespeople are on commissions for the most part. If originations grow significantly, we'd have to add some bodies in the credit departments. One area where we're going to see continued efficiencies, though, even as the business grows, is on the servicing side. We've really done some interesting and effective work. changes and investments in technology on the servicing side of the business, we're going to lever those people much more effectively in the future than we've been able to do in the past. And so we feel very good about the control of operating expenses, employee costs as the business starts to grow again.
spk03: Okay. Moving on. So I was a little surprised to see the provision for the legacy portfolio. I mean, is that just a function of the change in the allowance? I mean, going forward, if you don't have to make adjustments to the allowance ratio, should we not have any provision in the runoff portfolio?
spk05: Theoretically, I mean, when we – theoretically, when we adopted CECL in January, you know, were it not for the pandemic, there maybe wouldn't be any provisions for credit loss, right, because that's supposed to have been – At that time, a lifetime allowance, and that's what we calculated and that's what we booked. But because of the virus and the pandemic, the slowdown in the economy, it's hurt that seasoned portfolio. It seems to have hurt that seasoned portfolio more than the less seasoned fair value portfolio. And the reality is, and we talked about this before, those vintages of receivables, the 2015 and 16 receivables, you know, have really, we've really taken our lumps on those pools. And so, you know, what we just find is that even though they're nearing the end of their lives, you know, they're just, the incremental losses are not slowing down to the degree that we would expect. And so, you know, we want to be cautious and we want the numbers to reflect the true performance. At some point, you know, though, I think we'll, you know, slow down the economy or the economy will start to rebound. we'll start feeling better about the legacy portfolio, and eventually the legacy portfolio is going to go away and pay off. And so, you know, I think we'll have, hopefully have seen the worst or the most significant provisions for credit losses on the legacy portfolio are behind us.
spk03: Well, okay, so that leads into my next question, because there was, you know, credit obviously improved, except in the legacy portfolio where charge-offs were up year over year. Is that just a function of the book maturing and kind of narrowing down to those vintages where you've had some trouble?
spk05: Well, like I said, yeah, those underlying vintages, primarily 15 and 16, although 2017 is in the legacy portfolio too, which is a little bit better. Those pools started out. at higher losses earlier in their lives, and they just continue to run hotter, even though they're, like I said, approaching the end of their lives. And so, the other thing, too, is like, even though we've seen improvement at the auctions, you know, this quarter, these last six months, you know, those cars in the legacy portfolio are much older. And so, they're probably not benefiting from, you know, those better returns at the auctions as much as the fresher portfolios in the fair value segment are. And so, You know, it's just because of the age of the portfolio, the legacy portfolio, and the relatively weaker, you know, performance from the start of those portfolios, you know, they're just really kind of stumbling to the finish line a little bit. But we're comfortable that we have sufficient allowance against them now.
spk03: Okay, and just last question, kind of housekeeping. I just want to make sure I'm calculating it correctly. Am I right that there was about $11.8 million of actual dollar value charge-offs in the quarter?
spk05: On the legacy portfolio?
spk03: Well, just the charge-offs. I mean, it would be on the legacy portfolio, yes.
spk05: Yeah, that sounds right for the legacy portfolio, yes.
spk03: Okay. Okay, that's it for me. Thank you. Thank you.
spk04: Thank you. At this time, I'd like to turn the call back over to Mr. Bradley for any additional or closing remarks. Sir?
spk02: Thank you. Again, we appreciate you all joining us for the call. We had a real nice quarter. Certainly, the fourth quarter is always challenging from a collection point of view with the holidays and all, and given the election and all these other sort of wild little variables and the pandemic and the vaccine and whatever else you want to put on the list, we're still in interesting times, which is, again, why I'm glad the third quarter was so good. We're going to hope to keep that trend rolling, but you never know what's going to happen next. I wish we did, but we like what we're doing fundamentally. We like what the future holds. I think most everyone wants to get the hell out of 2020 and we do too. So we're looking forward to 2021 and, and, you know, having a real good year. So thanks for attending and we'll speak to you. Wow. Next year. Thank you.
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