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spk04: Hello and welcome to the Benchmark Electronics, Inc. first quarter 2023 earnings conference call. All participants will be in listen-only mode. Should you need assistance, please signal a conference specialist by pressing the star key followed by zero. After today's presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask questions. To ask a question, you may press star, then one on your telephone keypad. To withdraw from the question queue, please press star, then two. Please note, this event is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to Paul Manske with the Benchmark Electronics Company. Please go ahead.
spk05: Thank you, MJ, and thanks, everyone, for joining us today for Benchmark's first quarter fiscal year 2023 earnings call. Joining me this afternoon are Jeff Bank, CEO and President, and Ruth Lockerager, CFO. After the market closed today, we issued an earnings release pertaining to our financial performance for the first quarter of 2023, and we have prepared a presentation that we will reference on this call. Both are available under the investor relations section of our website at bench.com. This call will be webcast live and a replay will be available online following the call. The company has provided reconciliation of our gap to non-gap measures in the earnings release as well as an appendix of the presentation. Please take a moment to review the forward-looking statements advice on slide two in the presentation. During our call, we will discuss forward-looking information. As a reminder, any of today's remarks that are not statements of historical fact are forward-looking statements which involve risks and uncertainties as described in our press releases and SEC filings. Actual results may differ materially from these statements and most notably due to the global supply chain constraints, macroeconomic conditions, and semi-cap equipment spending. Benchmark undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements. For today's call, Jeff will begin by providing a summary of our first quarter results. where we'll then discuss our detailed financial results and our second quarter guidance. Jeff will then return to provide more insight on sector demand trends, business wins, and closing commentary. If you will, please turn to slide three. I'll turn the call over to our CEO, Jeff Banks. Thank you, Paul.
spk06: Good afternoon, and thanks to everyone for joining our call today. Our first quarter was once again demonstrated our ability to continue to grow our business without compromising our margin objectives. even in a less certain macro environment. Total revenue in the quarter was up 9% year over year. Both GAAP and non-GAAP gross margins were 9.2%. GAAP operating margin was 3.3%. On a non-GAAP basis, we delivered operating margin of 3.7%. As a reminder, unlike most of our peers, our non-GAAP operating margin includes stock-based compensation, which in the March quarter equated to approximately 70 basis points. Our first quarter gap earnings were $0.35 per share, and our non-gap earnings were $0.42 in line with our prior guidance. Supply chain premiums, which we previously disclosed to be zero margin pass-through revenue, came in at $18 million in the quarter. This was down nearly 70% year over year. Excluding the effect of this no margin revenue, we delivered non-gap gross margin of 9.5% and non-gap operating margin of 3.8%. Before turning the call over to Ruth, I'd like to share a few high-level thoughts on demand and our outlook. In the first quarter, we continue to experience strength across the majority of our market sectors, led by healthy double-digit year-over-year growth in our advanced computing, industrials, medical, and next-generation communications sectors. As we guided the last quarter, Semicap was a challenge during the period. However, I should note, unlike last quarter, we did not see incremental weakening during the first quarter. We believe in the secular trends that will support our future growth in this sector and are investing accordingly, even in this downturn, an example of which is the grand opening in March of our new precision technology facility in Mesa, Arizona, which was supported by our governor, Katie Hopp. We have and expect to continue to outperform the broader wafer front-end market. Indicators are pointing to a better second half of 2023 and a potentially much stronger 2024. Looking at the broader market, although we see growth across the majority of the sectors we serve, we are aware of the uncertain macro trends outside of our control. Based on that, we began proactively implementing expense controls in the quarters. which will continue into Q2. These are designed to enable us to continue investing in future growth while protecting profitability amidst the current environment. Our commitment to operational discipline, combined with our continued success in gaining share in the market, positions us exceptionally well to deliver to our financial targets. Finally, I want to take a moment to highlight our continued commitment to ESG. In February, we published our second annual sustainability report. This report builds upon last year's inaugural edition in that for the first time, we established specific intensity targets for greenhouse gases. I encourage you to read the report, which can be found at bench.com slash sustainability. Now, let me pass it over to Ruth to share more details on the quarter and our guidance for 2Q.
spk07: Thanks, Jeff, and good afternoon. Please turn to slide five for our revenue by market sector. Total benchmark revenue was 695 million in Q1, which is 7% lower sequentially and 9% higher year-over-year. Excluding the effect of supply chain premiums, revenue was up 17% year-over-year in the period. The reconciliation of this and our sector-level performance excluding supply chain premiums can be found in the appendix section of the presentation material. Turning to slide six, Excluding supply chain premiums, medical revenue for the first quarter was up 26% versus the prior year. Our growth was fueled by strength in existing programs, new programs ramping, and an improving supply chain environment. Semi-cap revenue decreased 16% year-over-year in line with our expectations. A&D revenue was down 2% year-over-year. Defense for us continues to be challenged by supply availability coupled with the timing of program ramps. We expect this to improve as we go through the year. Meanwhile, commercial aerospace continues to show strength. Industrial's revenue for the first quarter increased 24% year-over-year, as new customer programs test and measurement and energy efficiency. Advanced computing increased an impressive 81% year-over-year. as we benefited from the continued execution of multiple high-performance computing programs. In the next-gen communications sector, revenue was up an equally impressive 53% year-over-year. Our year-over-year performance was driven by continued secular strength in 5G infrastructure and satellite communications. In the first quarter, our top 10 customers represented 51% of total revenue.
spk08: Please turn to slide seven.
spk07: Our GAAP earnings per share for the quarter was 35 cents, which represents 13 percent growth on a year-over-year basis. Our GAAP results included restructuring and other one-time costs totaling $1.4 million related to both the previously announced closure of our site in Moorpark, California, and the more recent 2023 expense actions discussed earlier. For Q1, our non-GAAP gross margin of 9.2 percent decreased 40 basis points sequentially, primarily due to the lower revenue, specifically within our semi-GAAP sector. Excluding supply chain premiums, our gross margin was 9.5 percent, which is in line with guidance. Our SG&A was 38.2 million, down sequentially as a result of the expense actions begun in Q1, coupled with lower variable compensation. Non-GAAP operating margin was 3.7%, excluding supply chain premiums. Operating margin was 3.8%, representing the high end of our guidance range. In Q1 2023, our non-GAAP effective tax rate was 19.2%. For the quarter, non-GAAP EPS was 42 cents, which is in line with the midpoint of our Q1 guidance. Non-GAAP ROIC in the first quarter was 9.6%, a 30 basis point improvement year over year. Please turn to slide 8 to discuss the effects of supply chain premiums on a trended basis. In Q1, supply chain premiums declined to $18 million versus $46 million in Q4 2022 and $57 million in Q1 2022. Excluding supply chain premiums, our revenue in the first quarter was $677 million, a sequential decrease of $28 million, or 4%, and a year-over-year increase of 98 million, or 17%. The growth on a year-over-year basis was driven by advanced computing, next-generation communications, and medical. Please turn to slide nine to review our cash conversion cycle performance. Our cash conversion cycle days were 109 in the first quarter of 2023, compared to 96 days in Q4 2022. The largest contributor to the increase was investment in inventory, as we continue to manage through pockets of supply chain constraints. So the inventory increased sequentially in Q1 by $50 million, which was partially offset by a reduction in accounts receivable of approximately $30 million. Please turn to slide 10 for an update on liquidity and capital resources. In Q1, we used $25 million of cash in operations and invested $39 million in CapEx to support continued growth in our Mexico facility and enhance capabilities in our Precision Technologies business unit. While we will continue to invest throughout the year, given the timing of these specific initiatives, we anticipate annual CapEx to be first half weighted in 2023. We expect our CapEx spending in Q2 to be between $10 and $15 million. Our cash balance on March 31st was $212 million. As of March 31st, we had $130 million outstanding on our term loan, $275 million outstanding borrowings against our revolver, and $171 million available to borrow under our revolver. As announced today, to further support our strong liquidity position and growth, we expanded our revolver capacity by $100 million by executing the accordion within our existing credit facilities. The expansion of the revolver was done at the same terms as the current credit facility. Turning to slide 11 to review our capital allocation activity. In Q1, we paid our regular quarterly cash dividend equating to $5.8 million. Turning to slide 12 for a review of our second quarter 2023 guidance. We expect revenue to range from $670 million to $710 million. Excluding the effect of supply chain premiums, we expect gross margin to be between 9.4% to 9.6% in the quarter. SG&A expense will range between $36 and $39 million. Also excluding supply chain premiums, our non-GAAP operating margin range is forecasted to be 3.9% to 4.1%. Our non-GAAP guidance does exclude the impact of amortization of intangible assets and estimated restructuring and other costs. Between the previously announced site closure and our more recent expense actions mentioned earlier, we expect to incur restructuring and other non-recurring costs in Q2 of approximately $1.8 to $2.2 million. Our non-GAAP diluted earnings per share is expected to be in the range of $0.43 to $0.49 or a midpoint of $0.46. Other expenses net are expected to be $7 million due primarily to interest expense. We expect that for Q2, our non-gas effective tax rate will be between 18% and 20%, the weighted average share count of $35.6 million. Now turning to free cash flow for 2023. We continue to expect improved working capital throughout the year. This will be driven primarily by reducing inventory. We have a number of working capital initiatives in place, including increasing advanced deposits, inventory claims, and aligning clear-to-build schedules. For the year, we continue to anticipate 2023 pre-cash flow generation of $70 to $90 million. And with that, I'll turn the call back over to Jeff.
spk06: Thanks, Ruth. Please turn to slide 14. First, let me provide some additional color on what we're expecting by way of sector-level demand for the upcoming quarter and full year. All metrics I reference are excluding the effective supply chain premiums, which we believe provides the best insight into the performance of our sectors In medical, revenue grew 26% in the first quarter, better than our expectations coming into the period. We were helped by some improvement in the supply chain during the quarter, but still remained constrained in our ability to fully meet demand. With the strength and macro resiliency of our existing customer base and programs, new wins continue to ramp throughout the year, and with expected easing of supply conditions, we anticipate medical to continue to deliver growth for us in the current quarter and for the full year. Following 30% growth in SemiCap in 2022, first quarter of 2023 saw a correction, declining 16% versus both the prior year and quarter. This was in line with our expectations provided with our Q4 earnings call. With our customers' latest forecast, share gains, and the timing of new program ramps, we are somewhat more optimistic on the second half of the year than we were 90 days ago. In Q2, we expect SEMICAP to be flat to up sequentially, albeit still down modestly year on year. Looking further out, everything we are hearing today points to the potential for a broadly improved environment in 2024. We remain confident that even during this down cycle, we will significantly outperform the end market for wafer fab capital equipment. While the majority of industry forecasts are centering around a 25% decline, for the market in 2023. We expect our revenue to be down only in the high single digits this year. We remain as committed as ever to Semicat and are actively investing to continue to capture more than our share of the long-term growth of this market, which is supported by increased silicon content in all things, the geographical diversification of semiconductor manufacturing, and state and federally sponsored investments via measures including the CHIPS Act. Moving to the A&B sector, revenue was flattish year on year in the quarter, slightly below our guidance. Commercial aero demand continues to improve for us, but our defense subsector remains the most heavily supply constrained. Also impacting growth is the timing of defense program ramps. In Q2, we expect these conditions to improve resulting in growth in the quarter and for the year. Turning to industrials, here too we saw solid growth, with revenue up 24% versus the prior year. We have positioned ourselves to participate in megatrends, specifically automation, environmental, and energy efficiency solutions. Similar to medical, supply conditions are showing some improvement, which we expect to continue throughout the year. This leads us to anticipate year-on-year growth in the quarter and for the full year. In advanced computing, we delivered an exceptionally strong quarter with revenue growth above 80%. As a reminder, our advanced computing efforts are not in support of cloud or data center infrastructure. Rather, we helped build some of the largest and most sophisticated high-performance computing machines in the world. These are often government agency-sponsored and by definition, relatively macro resilient. They are, however, programmatic, which can lead to some lumpiness quarter to quarter, driven by built schedules with existing programs and the timing of new wins. Our first quarter revenue benefited from revenue that pushed out of Q4, as we discussed on our last call. For Q2, we expect completion of one of our large HPC programs. As such, we anticipate sector revenue to be down sequentially. On a full-year basis, we are forecasting flattish performance. Lastly, next-generation communications revenue grew greater than 50% year-on-year, coming off a year in which sector revenue was up 24%. We are well-positioned to capture investment in broadband infrastructure, demand for satellite communications, and new broadband connectivity programs focused on rural areas. While some of these initiatives are potentially exposed to infrastructure deployment delays, we believe each are supported by multi-year catalysts and strategic imperatives for our customers. As such, we may see demand modulate in the near term, but we continue to anticipate sector growth for the full year. Turning to slide 15, let me finish our sector discussion by highlighting some key programs we secured in the March quarter. We again saw good balance of wins across our sectors, reflecting the diversity of complex projects that we take on in support of our customers throughout the life cycle, from design to manufacturing. In medical, we continue to be awarded programs based on our ability to deliver highly sophisticated products in the medical device and life science markets. This quarter, we won new manufacturing business for products, including an automatic external defibrillator, a minimally invasive surgical system, and a next-gen CT scanning platform. In SEMICAP, despite the near-term capital spending constraints, we continue to secure new wins that positions us for the future growth driven by the evolution to next-generation processes and geometries. To that end, this past quarter we awarded a new engineering win for a test platform and a vacuum system serving these leading-edge processes. In the A&D sector, we secured multiple manufacturing wins in the commercial electric aeronautics market. Within defense, we were pleased to win the manufacturing business for optical sensors to be used in a space application. Also in defense, we won RF design opportunities spanning multiple projects, which speaks to our experience and skill set in this space. In industrials, we continue to benefit from our track record, particularly within the energy efficiency and management, automation, and test and measurement markets. Examples of which are wins this quarter that include the manufacturing of a wireless seismic detection and prediction device, as well as flow control devices, both going into the energy market to improve safety and efficiency. Within engineering, we were awarded a next-gen inspection tool designed to ensure compliance with electrical wiring standards in buildings. In advanced computing and next-gen communications, as an example of the synergy between engineering and manufacturing, this quarter we won a combined opportunity at a household name to provide IoT-enabled smart sensors for municipalities, which will be used to improve energy efficiency and management. This is a great example of our deep partnership with our customers from concept to manufacturing. In summary, please turn to slide 16. Our diversified sector positioning and focus on execution enabled us to again deliver to our targets. Excluding supply chain premiums, we delivered 17% revenue growth and 21% non-GAAP operating income growth in the quarter. We grew four of our six sectors and are expecting growth in four and potentially five of the six for the year. The one notable exception we see is in Semicat, where a business will contract, but we expect to perform significantly better than the market in 2023. While we are optimistic about the resilient demand forecast we are seeing across the majority of our sectors, we are also being proactive to manage discretionary spending while protecting our investment and our future growth. Although our inventory growth has impacted our cash flow in recent periods, we expect this trend will change in the quarters to come as the supply chain improves, we execute our working capital initiatives, and we continue to enjoy demand strength. This provides me confidence in our ability to execute to our commitments both in 2023 and beyond. With that, I'll now turn the call over to the operator to conduct our Q&A sessions.
spk04: Great, thank you. We will now begin the question and answer session. To ask a question, you may press star then 1 on your telephone keypad. If you are using a speakerphone, please pick up your handset before pressing the keys. To withdraw from the question queue, please press star then 2.
spk03: At this time, we will pause momentarily to assemble our roster. Today's first question comes from Jason Schmidt with Lake Street.
spk04: Please go ahead.
spk01: Hey, guys. Thanks for taking my questions. Just the first one I wanted to start with, just to confirm that you still feel comfortable with that 2023 guidance you laid out last quarter of kind of 7% to 9% growth ex those supply chain premiums.
spk06: Yeah, I'll start that and let Ruth add to it. We still feel, you know, that things are tracking, you know, essentially to where we were a quarter ago. So, you know, you see Q1 kind of came in. in line with expectations, and we're certainly guiding in line with our last update there. So we still, you know, obviously there's a lot of macro uncertainty, but, you know, as we look at our feedback from our customers and what we're seeing, you know, we feel pretty good about what we laid out last quarter.
spk07: Yeah, Jason, this is Rupert. I'll just add to Jeff that just in terms of, you know, the profile of it overall, obviously there are some things we're monitoring. that can get influenced. But overall, for the full year, we're still comfortable with what we laid out in Q1 or at the February call.
spk01: Okay, that's helpful. And then you noted increased confidence in the semi-cap business. Just curious if that is more due to order patterns that you're seeing or the fact that it bottomed in Q1 when maybe you thought it wouldn't bottom until Q2?
spk06: Yeah, I mean, obviously it's a dynamic environment, right? But we obviously, particularly with the supply chain environment, we have good forecasts now through the end of the year. So certainly we look at the forecast. It doesn't mean that we can't see changes there. But, you know, probably had less, a little less, you know, turmoil in the quarter. In the fourth quarter we saw quite a bit of demand moving in the quarter. First quarter was, you know, not that there weren't some ins and outs, but it was, you know, a lot. more consistent. And then, you know, obviously with the guy this quarter, and then just talking to a lot of the customers about what they're seeing, you know, we still know there's memory weakness and concerns about China and some of that, but the legacy nodes seem to be doing pretty well. And from that standpoint, there's pretty good demand strength. And we know we have a number of new wins that we're working on that is driving some revenue, particularly as you get into the back half of the year. And then everyone is sort of looking at 24. If you look at over the last four down cycles, you know, these typically have lasted, frankly, less than a year. And I know this cycle may be different, but we sort of think of it a similar way. So, you know, I guess that's what's led us to where we believe that, you know, we're a little more constructive. We're not ready to say, hey, we're off to the races, but we feel good about where we're headed for 2Q.
spk01: Okay, that makes sense. And then just the last one, and I'll jump back into Q. Are you seeing attach rates for your engineering and design services remaining fairly consistent? And then I guess relatedly, is that attach rate pretty consistent across all segments, or are there some segments that are lagging?
spk06: Good question. We did have a good quarter of engineering bookings, and the attach rate, you know, I shifted that goal to be over 70%, and the team cleared that again in the first quarter. So I feel pretty good about the engineering pipeline. You know, we obviously have a long history in medical engineering devices and quite a bit of work going on. in aerospace and defense and industrial. We've had a nice spread of engineering projects across this sector, so I can't say it's more heavily necessarily dominated. It's good to see some work going on in the communication and the SEMICAP space. We talked about a couple new wins, actually, in that realm. So I would say I'm pretty pleased with the diversity of engineering projects right now that we're winning. And it's also because some of those, you know, lead to winning the manufacturing as well, which is, you know, while it's great to be a really strong design house, you know, we do it with the intent of building the product too down the road.
spk08: Okay. No, really good to hear. Appreciate the call, you guys. Thanks. Thanks, Jason.
spk04: Thank you. The next question comes from Stephen Fox with Fox Advisors. Please go ahead.
spk00: Hey, good afternoon, guys. I guess first of all, just to get on the semi-cap side, there's a lot of different conclusions coming out of the supply chain right now in terms of what's going on. I know everyone's got a different mix, et cetera, and different rate of new programs. But getting back to what you're seeing, like how much can you dive deeper into like sort of the one, the semi-cap trends that are benefiting you to see more stable outlook, and then two, maybe just remind us where the new program momentum is coming from, and then I had a follow-up.
spk06: Steve, I heard your question. I presume you didn't get my answer. I guess the line dropped.
spk00: Yeah, great. Yeah, so go ahead.
spk06: Yeah, so sorry about that. So what I was trying to articulate was that we have traditionally been more exposed to logic than memory. We do have wins across both and tools that we work on across both, but We've been more traditionally more logic, you know, heavy. The other thing I mentioned was that depending on the position on tools with different OEMs, you know, some are seeing different impacts there. As we talked in the past about, you know, the backlog on EUV and, you know, consistent in our strong demand there, you know, benefit us a bit because of our involvement there with with customers that are engaged in that. When it comes to the, I think you also asked about some of the new tools. Some of the new tools are certainly on the I'm sort of the leading edge, so it's technology that hasn't necessarily come to market yet. And when you talk about the new geometries and some of that are, you know, going to benefit us down the road as customers move there. And I think we saw some of those schedules move a bit just because of, you know, introduction of a branded platform. If an OEM is looking at trying to manage their spending and when they think the introduction makes sense, you know, do we do it in a downturn or not? but I'll leave that to the OEMs to decide how that plays out. The other dynamic is just we also have a pretty good exposure to some of the 200 millimeter, 300 millimeter solutions, which there's been a lot of talk about some of those legacy nodes, and is there still a demand there, particularly in areas that that are like IoT and some of the technology solutions that may not require, you know, five nanometer and smaller geometries. So that's a little bit. Oh, and then lastly, we are more front-end exposed. Like, you know, we have the privilege of being, you know, in the chamber. And so, you know, I know some of our competitors do more back-end test and measurement and those kind of solutions. we tend to be more front-end dominant.
spk00: Great. That's helpful. Yeah. Yeah, no, it really does. I just want to make sure I was clear on that. And then secondly, Rup, when you're taking some costs out, you seem to be seeing like stable trends with new programs ramping, et cetera. So how do we think about operating leverage into the second half? I mean, it seems like you have sort of some pent-up profits that could flow through the income statement even if you're just like on your sales targets. Can you just talk a little bit about that potential? Thanks.
spk07: Yeah. No, that's right, Steve. From a margin profile standpoint, we'll continue to see second-half strength from a margin standpoint. That's top-line growth. That fills in towards the growth rate that Jeff mentioned earlier. So we'll get continued operating leverage as we go through the year.
spk00: Great, got it. And I'm sorry, just one more on the supply chain premiums. So, like, how would you think it plays out? What's the updated view on how it plays out from here and, like, any other comments around just supply chain? Thanks, and that's it.
spk07: No, absolutely. I appreciate you asking on supply chain premiums. You know, as we predicted, we thought it would continue to come down. It's come down as we see it throughout the year. I mean, supply chain as a whole is still, you know, has – Pockets of constraints. Some lead times are improving here and there. Supply chain premiums have been reduced. And we think it's going to continue to come down, likely, as we go through the year, as the market continues to stabilize around it.
spk06: Yeah, we don't see that trend reversing at this point. I think that, you know, as things start to free up, we'll probably see less propensity for that. And, frankly, you know, nobody, you know, at this point wants to be... paying those premiums. So from that standpoint, I think we would say directionally it will continue to come down, although not evaporate overnight. So we'll continue to report kind of what we're seeing as we come through. It's a little hard to predict in front of it other than it's a downward trajectory.
spk00: Got it. Thank you so much.
spk08: Thanks, Ian.
spk04: Thank you. As a reminder, to ask a question, you may press star then 1. The next question comes from Anya Soderstorm with Sidoti. Please go ahead.
spk02: Hi, and thank you for taking my question. So I have a follow-up to Jason's question on the 2023 guidance. What's the biggest risk there? Have you sort of secured all the components for that, or could there be some hiccups there, or are there any other risks you – what are the biggest risks you see to achieving that guidance range?
spk07: Yeah, I mean, Anya, thanks for your questions. You know, I think first of all, as we just said, supply chain environment is improving, but, you know, there's still pockets of constraints. So there's still parts to be worked and figured out and sure we have clear to build from that standpoint for the rest of the year. So that's number one. Number two, as we think about, you know, possible headwinds, I mean, it's probably more to do with we've got a portfolio that is, we think, largely resistant to recessionary considerations if you think about medical technologies or these sort of things. But there are pockets where it's next-gen communications and broadband infrastructure deployment where it could be a little bit slower, and we're hearing some headwinds around that. So I think it's more so that. Now, on the other hand, as we talked about, folks are saying that Semicap could get stronger as you go through the year, and exiting 23 into 24 should likely be much stronger. So it's a matter of some of these aspects that might offset some of those headwinds as well that we're monitoring.
spk03: Okay, and then how should we think about the inventory levels going forward?
spk06: Well, there's a lot of effort right now on inventory, as you can imagine, really trying to match things up to be able to build what customers want. At the same time, we have a number of initiatives around this, right, working obviously not only to, you know, how do we bring our inventory down, but then also working through as customers, you know, have incremental demand, we're really saying, you know, how do we, you know, if we can't get, you know, things aligned that we pursue, you know, advanced deposits for customers to say, look, you know, in this environment, we really want to make sure that, you know, we've got everyone's skin in the game to go drive inventory beyond what we might have line of sight to clearing in a quarter. You know, I think you see everybody in this industry sort of dealing with this, and it's certainly, you know, an explicit focus for our team. But, you know, we kind of knew it was a multi-quarter challenge that wasn't going to just resolve itself overnight, but... But, you know, we clearly, you know, believe and really with Roop reiterating the free cash flow guidance for the full year that, you know, that you'll see as we get through the second half, some of that inventory coming down is going to contribute to that along with some of the other initiatives to getting that improvement.
spk03: Okay. Thank you. That was all for me.
spk08: Sure. Thanks, Anya.
spk04: Thank you. This concludes our question and answer session. I would now like to turn the call back to Paul Mamsky for any closing remarks.
spk05: Thank you, MJ, and thank you, everybody, for participating in Benchmark's first quarter 2023 earnings call. Before we go, I'd like to remind everyone that we'll be presenting at two conferences in the quarter. First will be the Sudoti Virtual Conference on the 14th of June. We will then be in New York on the 15th of June, presenting at the 2023 Cantor Tech Conference.
spk08: With that, thank you again for your support, and we look forward to speaking with you soon.
spk03: The call has now concluded. Thank you for attending today's presentation. You may now disconnect.
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