Earnings Call: Q3 2018

Oct 23, 2018

Summary

Q3 revenue rose 14% and net income 35% YoY, with record truck production and strong parts and finance results. Supplier shortages pressured margins, while robust backlogs and demand supported positive 2019 expectations.

Good morning, and welcome to Paccar's third quarter 2018 earnings conference call. All lines will be in a listen-only mode until the question and answer session. Today's call is being recorded, and if anyone has an objection, they should disconnect at this time. I would now like to introduce Mr. Ken Hastings, Paccar's Director of Investor Relations. Mr. Hastings, please go ahead. Good morning. We'd like to welcome those listening by phone and those on the webcast. My name is Ken Hastings, Paccar's Director of Investor Relations. Joining me this morning are Ron Armstrong, Chief Executive Officer, Harrie Schippers, President and Chief Financial Officer, Preston Feight, Executive Vice President, and Michael Barkley, Senior Vice President and Comptroller. As with prior conference calls, we ask that any members of the media on the line participate in a listen-only mode. Certain information presented today will be forward-looking and involve risks and uncertainties, including general economic and competitive conditions that may affect expected results. A summary of risks and uncertainties is described in more detail in our periodic reports filed with the SEC. For additional information, please see our SEC filings and the investor relations page of paccar.com. I would now like to introduce Ron Armstrong. Good morning. Harrie Schippers, Preston Feight, and I will update you on our excellent third quarter results. Paccar's third quarter sales and financial services revenues were $5.8 billion, and third quarter net income was $545 million, a strong 9.5% after-tax return on revenue. Revenues were 14% higher, and net income was 35% higher than the third quarter last year. Paccar's truck divisions produced a record number of trucks in the third quarter, and Paccar Parts achieved 14% revenue growth compared to the third quarter last year. I am extremely proud of our 28,000 employees who have delivered the world's highest quality trucks, parts, and financial services to our customers worldwide. Paccar delivered 47,800 trucks during the third quarter, 3% higher than the second quarter. Increased build rates in North America were partially offset by fewer build days in Europe due to DAF's regular summer shutdown. Truck and parts gross margins were 14.1% in the third quarter. Truck pricing was good, with price realization comparable to the second quarter at about 3%. Costs were impacted by parts shortages from a small number of North American suppliers, including a few affected by Hurricane Florence. As a result of these parts shortages, we incurred additional material and labor costs. Our Tier 1 suppliers are investing in additional capacity and working closely with tier 2 suppliers to meet Paccar factory delivery requirements. We expect the situation to normalize in the near term. Our Peterbilt and Kenworth teams in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico did a fantastic job of managing record third-quarter production and achieving the highest operating margins in the industry. In the fourth quarter, we're expecting 4%-8% higher deliveries compared to the third quarter, primarily due to an increase in the number of production days in Europe and higher daily build rates. Truck and parts gross margins are estimated to be higher in the fourth quarter at around 14.5%. Preston Feight will now provide an update on DAF, Paccar Parts, and Paccar Financial Services. Thanks, Ron. Our 2018 forecast is for Europe's greater than 16-ton market to be in the range of 310,000-320,000 units, reflecting continued strong demand and growing European economies. We expect 2019 to be another excellent year, with the market in the range of 290,000-320,000 trucks. The Eurozone's GDP growth expectation for this year is 2%, with 2019 projected at a similar level. Freight transport activity on German highways is at record levels, up 3.5% this year. DAF has had an incredible year in 2018. DAF XF and CF trucks, which were honored as International Truck of the Year 2018, achieved European above 16-ton market share of 16.6% year to date, compared to 15.1% in the same period last year. DAF is making great progress towards its goal of 20% share. Paccar's parts business generated strong quarterly revenues of $960 million, 14% higher than the same period last year. Parts quarterly pre-tax income was $189 million, 24% higher than last year. The growing number of Paccar trucks and engines in operation and consistent investments in parts distribution capacity and customer-focused technologies drove these results. We are pleased to have opened our new 160,000 sq ft parts distribution center in Toronto this month. We expect parts sales to grow an additional 5%-8% next year. Paccar Financial Services' third quarter pre-tax income increased 12% to $79 million, compared to $71 million a year ago. The portfolio, which was a record $14.1 billion this quarter, continued to perform well. Kenworth and Peterbilt Class 8 used truck values increased more than 10% compared to the third quarter of last year. Kenworth and Peterbilt truck resale values command a 10%-20% premium over competitors' vehicles. Paccar Parts and Paccar Financial Services profit contributions are much larger than they were 15 years ago. These businesses are inherently less cyclical than the sale of new trucks, and their consistent profitability enhances Paccar's financial results throughout the business cycle. Harry Schippers will now provide an update on Kenworth and Peterbilt and Paccar investments. Thanks, Preston. We have raised our estimate of retail sales for this year's U.S. and Canadian Class 8 truck market to a range of 280,000-290,000 units. In 2019, we expect the U.S. and Canada Class 8 truck market to expand further to a range of 280,000-310,000 vehicles. U.S. economic and freight indicators are very strong, with 3% GDP growth and nearly 4% industrial production growth expected this year. Freight tonnage growth has been a robust 7.5% year-to-date. We head into 2019 with great momentum, including the industry's best products and factory visibility that extends into the second half of next year. The record truck orders this year are driven by a strong economy. In the past, the surge in orders was often driven by a pre-buy related to an emissions change. Customers across all segments are experiencing strong demand from growing freight volume, very high fleet utilization, and strong pricing. Customers are also benefiting from the industry-leading operating efficiency provided by DAF, Peterbilt, and Kenworth trucks, as well as superior aftermarket support from Paccar Parts and Paccar Financial Services. Paccar is creating innovative products and technologies for the future. DAF showcased several advanced powertrain vehicles at the IAA truck show last month. The DAF CF Electric, LF Electric, and CF Hybrid trucks are entering field testing with customers. We look forward to customer demand for electric and hybrid powertrains in certain applications such as refuse, urban delivery, and port operations. Longer term, electric vehicles will be competitive in more applications. While we are preparing for the long term by making investments in alternative powertrain technologies, we do expect diesel to remain the most efficient powertrain technology in heavy truck applications for the foreseeable future. We estimate capital spending of $425 million-$475 million and R&D expenses of $300 million-$310 million this year. In 2019, we're planning for increased capital investments of $525 million-$575 million and increased R&D expenses of $300 million-$330 million. These investments will develop the next generation of Kenworth, Peterbilt, and DAF trucks, enhance Paccar's diesel and alternative powertrain technologies, and add additional capacity and efficiency to the company's manufacturing and parts distribution facilities. During the third quarter, we repurchased $59 million of Paccar stock, with $241 million remaining of the $300 million authorization approved by the Paccar board in July. Thank you. We'd be pleased to answer your questions. At this time, if you would like to ask a question, press star, then the number one on your telephone keypad. To withdraw your question, press the pound key. Your first question comes from Joel Tiss with BMO Capital Markets. Your line is open. Wow, I'm a little shocked here. I usually don't even get on. How are you? Joel, we love you. Anyway, can you just explain, maybe philosophically, the gap between very strong truck shipments and the driver shortages, and is that kind of setting up cancellations in the future? Or how are all these fleets absorbing all these new trucks? I think the number of trucks is not at sort of the historical peak levels, but it's strong and they're getting the increased operating efficiency, and there's additional demand. We've seen more used trucks also being sold, and the utilization of the fleets now are at record levels. They've really shown no issues of being able to absorb the trucks, and I think what we hear is that there would be even more trucks purchased if there were drivers to put in the seats. Can you just help us maybe look forward a little bit, and there's some new emission standards coming, and there's a particulate emission standard coming in 2023. Is there enough sort of advancements and changes that are likely to come, say, over the next five years to kind of keep the run rate of truck demand at a higher level? Or do you think the normal cyclicality that we see, especially in North America, is going to be more the way that the next five years look? I think the capability of engines for the last couple of iterations has been to improve fuel efficiency, which translates into lower total operating costs for our customers. That won't change as we look forward. We have greenhouse gas reductions in 2021, 2024, and 2027 in North America. Europe is close to proposing some limitations beginning in 2025 and 2030. We're going to continue to innovate and improve the efficiency of the diesel engines for the foreseeable future. In addition, obviously, we're working on alternative powertrains, and those will be attractive for certain applications, which I think Harry Schippers mentioned those in his comments, that applications like refuse, port, et cetera, there could be a reasonable business case for those particular applications. Sorry, just last one. Do you think that those forces are strong enough to be able to change the shape of the historic cycle, or it's not a fair question? Boy, it- I think in the past, the cycles were very much focused on soot and NOx emissions with no benefits for our customers. Future cycles or future emission legislation is all about greenhouse gas reduction. There will be cost increases for new technology to be added, but it brings a benefit for our customers, too, Joel. Okay. All right. Thank you very much. Thanks, Joel. Your next question comes from Jerry Revich with Goldman Sachs. Your line is open. Yes. Hi, good morning and good afternoon. Good morning, Jerry. Can you folks talk about where the supply base stands today in terms of catching up with the really robust order cycle we've had, and at which point do you expect industry lead times to try to stabilize, and maybe start to come down towards your historical target, 10 to 12-week lead times? I think from my perspective, the supply base is making progress. As I mentioned, they're making some investments, working with all levels of the supply base, Tier 1, Tier 2. Hurricane Florence, we have a couple of suppliers who are located in the Carolinas, and unfortunately, due to the time they had to take to shut down and some of the impacts of floods, et cetera, that had an impact. We're working through each one of those, and as I said, we expect that in the near term, we'll work through those. I had a discussion with one of our suppliers yesterday, a good discussion, good, healthy discussion. Everybody's got the same interest at heart, and so we'll work through it probably during this quarter. From a margin standpoint, you folks had margins in the high 14% range at the gross margin line in the first half of 2018. Once you work through those supply chain issues, can you get back towards that level of gross margin performance that we saw in the first half of this year before these supply chain issues started to play out? Yeah, I think certainly the possibility is there, Jerry. Okay. Your retail market share is up significantly in Europe. Can you just give us a sense for where your order market share is tracking? Is that retail momentum set to continue based on how the orders look heading into the fourth quarter? We don't get order market data. We only know what we have done. The DAF order percentage has been strong this year with year-over-year increases. We head into next year with a good, solid backlog and expect to be able to continue at our current pace at least for the near term. Lastly, can you talk about how significant an input the supply base is from China for your sourcing strategy, and whether we should expect a pickup in inflation in early 2019 as the tariffs move to 25% from 10%? Yeah, our team has done a good job of evaluating the impacts of tariffs and other trade arrangements. I would tell you the effect is hundreds of dollars per truck. It's not a major item, but it's something, obviously, that just like other cost increases that we manage that into our costing and pricing projections and work with that with our customers on quotes for future deliveries. Okay. I appreciate the discussion. Thank you. Absolutely. Your next question comes from Ann Duignan with JPMorgan. Your line is open. Hi. Good morning. Morning. I have to dig and find a few questions remaining. Can you talk a little bit about, we had heard during the quarter that a lot of dealers were ordering for inventory because lead times were extending, not necessarily Paccar's dealers, although one of them was a Kenworth dealer. Can you talk a little bit about where your dealer inventories are versus maybe historical norm? Is there any risk that they are ordering to inventory and that that could cause a significant downturn when the market rolls over? No, we're really in good shape dealer inventory-wise. I think we comment historically that if we're in the 60-day range in terms of inventory, plus or minus, that's right where we're at in North America as well as in Europe. So the dealer inventories are in excellent shape as we sit here today. Okay. That's good to hear. I appreciate that. Specifically on the gross margin for Q4, I know once you get all these supply chain issues resolved, the probability is that as long as volumes are up, gross margins will go back to the 14.5%-15%, but specifically for Q4, should we anticipate that supply chain issues will still weigh on gross margins? Thank you. Yeah, at this point, we think something around 14.5% is probably a reasonable expectation for the fourth quarter. Okay, I'll leave it there and get back in queue. Thank you. Okay, thanks, Anne. Your next question comes from Alex Potter with Piper Jaffray. Your line is open. Hi, guys. Thanks. I was wondering if you could comment, there's been a couple announcements recently, I'm sure you're aware, of SCR catalysts and things of this nature degrading over time. Just wanted to see what your confidence is that there won't be any charges coming from Paccar for addressing similar issues. We're not aware of a similar deterioration effect in our aftertreatment. That's subject to ongoing testing, and there's no assurance. At this point, we feel good about our approach and the chemistry that we've used in our aftertreatment system. Okay. It's good to hear. Tax rate was a bit low in the quarter. Just wondering if you could provide any guidance regarding what we should be modeling for the next quarter and year, I guess. I think Michael can address that, yeah. Yeah, we had a couple of positive one-time items in the quarter that we don't expect to repeat. You should expect a range of 22%-23% going forward. Okay. That's very helpful. Last one, I guess, if you could just comment on, you mentioned that the portfolio is still doing really well with the FinCo. Used vehicle pricing is doing okay, it looks like. If you could just provide maybe a crystal ball over the next year. We've got a changing interest rate environment. Any commentary you might give around the likely performance of that segment would be helpful. Yeah. As long as the freight demand is there, and we're at record levels of freight activity in both North America and Europe, that obviously provides a great opportunity for our customers to earn a profit. We're seeing that the past dues continue to be at about 50 basis points, really historical low levels. There's nothing that we see in the near term that is going to impact the performance of the portfolio. Our teams continue to exercise very prudent credit underwriting and taking advantage of data analytics tools to continue to enhance that capability on the way forward. Okay, very good. Thanks, guys. Thank you. Your next question comes from Seth Weber with RBC Capital Markets. Your line is open. Hi, thanks. This is Brendan on for Seth. Just going back to your dealer inventories, are you doing anything, extra vetting or anything like that, to discourage any double ordering there? No, we monitor the level of order intake for customer orders, for stock orders, and so our divisions are very adept at managing that and ensuring that what we have in the backlog is buildable to the best extent that we can. I think the other thing we're doing is we're making sure that the customers are putting deposits down on vehicles so that we understand the relationship to the customers well enough to know when it's a serious order and not a serious order. So we're carefully managing the firmness of the backlog. Okay. I apologize if I missed this, but could you give a color on your outlook for the Brazilian market and what's happening with your market share there? Yeah, the market share continues to tick up. We've progressively increased build rates throughout this year. We have one more increase coming in the month of December. So we're going to deliver about 2,300 trucks this year, and at the build rate that will end this year, there's no reason at this point to say that that won't progress. We'll probably deliver over 3,000 trucks next year. So from a market perspective, Ken, you have some thoughts? Yeah, I do. For 2018, the above 16-ton truck market we expect to be 45,000-55,000 vehicles. Next year we're expecting 60,000-70,000 vehicles. Okay, great. Thank you. Thank you. Your next question comes from Andy Casey with Wells Fargo Securities. Your line is open. Thanks a lot. Good morning out there. Morning, Andy. Just wanted to take your temperature. The really strong order intake that we've seen, how far into 2019 are your lead times? We're hearing some of the products are quite extended. If we assume supply chain normalization occurs, how quickly do you think some of those lead times can be reduced? The backlog is extended. It's longer than it has been for some time. As we always do, we work closely with our suppliers to manage their capabilities, our capabilities, so that we get the right support of our customers, and we can meet their delivery needs. The clarity of sort of how that progresses is a little bit fuzzy at this point, but I suspect the supply base will continue to improve its capability to deliver in the coming months, for sure. Okay, thanks, Ron. I think it may have been Preston talking about deposits for orders to manage the firmness of the backlog. Is that something Paccar's done in the past? Yeah, we do some of that, then there's a cancellation policy that we put into effect, a cancellation fee that is there to require that the orders are buildable and more firm. Okay, thanks. Then just on pricing, first on truck, then on parts. Are the orders, given that you've taken deposits and you have that cancellation fee, are the orders in backlog price protected? Or for some of these orders that are way out, can you actually increase prices? Well, typically, we've got a commitment at a price. We've factored in our best estimate of what we think future costs are going to look like when we deliver those trucks, so we have a pretty good feel about what we think the realization will be when we deliver those trucks. Yeah, we have the pricing in place for the first half of next year for North America. Like we said, the backlog is already extending into the second half of next year. With that pricing, cancellations fees, we feel pretty confident that dealers will only put in those orders that they really need. Okay. Thank you, Harry. Skipping over to parts. The tariff impact, if it is going to impact anything, maybe it is there, but should we think about any increases that you may see within the parts portfolio? Should we expect that just to be offset by pricing? If so, how much of the, I believe I heard 5%-8% growth in 2019 is unit volume. Yeah, I would say most of that is unit volume growth. Our teams look very closely at the components that are affected by tariffs and manage that. Our expectation is generally that that will be passed on to the market. Okay. Thank you very much. Thank you. Oh, go Sox. We'll see. Your next question comes from Jamie Cook with Credit Suisse. Your line is open. Hi. Good morning. I guess a couple questions. One, obviously the market's very concerned that truck is peaking, and the stocks are pricing that in. You made the comment earlier, people probably underappreciate your Paccar Parts contribution, et cetera. Is there any way you can help us frame as you're thinking about potentially the next downturn in earnings, what are the factors that would allow Paccar to earn a higher trough relative to where we were? How you think about share purchase in that context, just given where your stock is today versus your view on the market? Yeah, I think our factories, we continue to make investments in our facilities to improve efficiency. You've been to our factories. You know the efficiency that we have in our factories, and we continue to try and move the needle to manage our cost as the lowest cost manufacturer during all phases of the cycle. That doesn't change, and we'll continue to make those investments. Obviously, the lower tax rate has a significant incremental effect on earnings versus a 31% rate historically versus a 22%-23% rate. Currently, that changes a little bit depending on where the earnings come from, but that's a significant enhancement from what we've seen historically. Parts and finance are making sizable contributions to the profitability of our operations. We excel during the cycles, and we will continue to excel. We can manage our cost structure better than anybody in the industry. Okay. Just when you talk about, I know you have fairly good visibility extending into beyond the second half of 2019 or whatever. Is that fairly broad based, small versus large fleets vocational? Can you just talk about if it's broad based or specific to one type of customer? Yeah, it is broad based. Obviously, the fleets are probably better at getting their orders in earlier, and there's probably some smaller guys that will come. But our teams are closely managing backlog to make sure that we meet the needs of all of our customers from the smallest to the biggest. Okay. Thank you. I'll get back in queue. Thank you. Your next question comes from Steve Volkmann with Jefferies. Your line is open. Hi. Good morning, guys. Hi, Steve. Most of my question has been answered, but I wonder if you have a sense of the supplier issues that you saw in the quarter. Any broad sense of what that might have impacted your gross margin? It's one of those deals that it's really tough to, some things you can quantify specifically, others are a little bit vague. I would guess probably 50 basis points would be the effect on the overall margin for the third quarter. It was significant. Our teams did a great job managing the schedule and managing the offline flow in our factories. We're still managing through that, but I think we're seeing our way to the end of the tunnel. Okay, super. As we look out into 2019, even though maybe people are starting to think about what a downturn would look like, it seems like the 2019 outlook is actually up a bit. I'm curious how you think we should think about profitability. Can you grow gross margin with a little more volume and maybe a little less supplier issues and so forth? Or should we think more in the sense of gross margins being kind of flat and you lever on SG&A? I think all those things are possible. As we think about next year, something probably in the 14%-15% range for overall total gross margin is sort of where our heads are at currently. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Your next question comes from Steven Fisher with UBS. Your line is open. Thanks. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. Just a couple of questions on Europe. Can you give us a little more color on the European region? Curious what your order trends are looking like if we segmented Europe into Eastern Europe, continental Western, and then U.K. Sure. Just talking about Europe for a second, the 16.6% share is again, a record. Where we're seeing growth is pretty uniform. We're seeing growth throughout. A couple points, we've become the leading import brand in Germany, which is roughly 20% of the European market, so that's a nice accomplishment by the team in Europe. We're also seeing Eastern Europe grow as an even more important part of the sector, and DAF is very strong there. We're a market leader in several countries in Eastern Europe, with growing share year-over-year, sometimes 2%, 3% and 4%. As the total of Europe evolves and matures, DAF is really well-positioned for strong growth in the future. U.K., if you could comment on that. Well, the U.K., we're the market leader in the U.K. We'll continue to be the market leader. Obviously, there are some dynamics in the U.K. with the general economy, but we continue to be strong in the U.K. as well, it's just down as a percentage of the total market. Okay. Related to Brexit, how much of your European production would you say is in the U.K., maybe on a year-to-date basis, and how much is exported to continental Europe? If we ended up with a hard Brexit scenario, what would you do to manage that? I mean, would you consider relocating any production? Well, we have great flexibility as one of our real strengths, is that we're able to produce the full range of products that we make in our factory in the U.K. at Leyland, which is something that is a unique advantage for us. So we can make the medium duties as well as all the heavy duties in the U.K. So we're well-positioned for any kind of scenarios that would happen, hard or soft. We have great, obviously, manufacturing capacities in our main plants in Eindhoven. So we're watching what's happening there, but we feel very well-positioned. Yeah. When I was over there several weeks ago, Preston and I met with the team and really had a good discussion about what the range of outcomes could be. We're prepared to manage that, whatever the outcome might be. Okay. I will follow up there. Just one last clarification on the emissions degradation. Are you guys using the same suppliers that your European peer is that announced their issues? No. Okay. Thank you. Yeah. Our next question comes from Ross Gilardi with Bank of America. Your line is open. Good morning. Hey, guys. Hey, Ross. Ron, just had kind of a philosophical question. Most of my questions have been answered, but Paccar has been an outstanding stock over the long term. But in the last 5 years, you've had earnings double, you continue to establish all sorts of internal records, you've got an extremely robust cycle right now, and the stock's essentially flat, even if we ignore today's move. What is the market missing about Paccar, and does the stock performance influence how you look at the business or your strategy? More importantly, how do you drive value in the stock from here? Well, I think we just continue to, we're at record truck deliveries, record truck revenues, record parts revenues, record financial services portfolio. Our focus is to continue to grow the company and grow the earnings over the long term, and that will pay off eventually. You probably know more about why today is what it is in the market. Doesn't make any sense to us, but we're going to continue to focus on what we do, how we do it, and execute better than anybody in the industry. Got it. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Curious, anything in your North American business, I mean, we've seen the oil service companies talk about at least a temporary slowdown in the Permian. Are you seeing any slowdown at your Gulf Coast dealers at all due to what's going on down there? Any granularity in order trends in that region? Ross, we've not seen anything like that. Again, oil affects a small percentage of our total truck production and overall business. It's not something that we monitor that closely. I think the Peterbilt and Kenworth trucks, we have great customers in the oil field, and we're continuing to see pretty steady demand, I think, from those customers. Not much impact. Oil prices have rebounded nicely, and I think that bodes well for For the midterm for that segment. It also has a nice benefit for our winch business. Got it. Thanks, Ron. Thank you. Your next question comes from Courtney Yakavonis with Morgan Stanley. Your line is open. Thanks, guys. Just curious, obviously you are working through some of these parts shortages currently, but if we think about your guidance for next year or the industry guidance for North America truck retail sales kind of coming in at the high end, what are the other bottlenecks we need to be thinking about in terms of getting your build rates higher to meet that increased level in demand that we could potentially see next year? I think right now the suppliers are the pacing item. Again, we are working closely on additional investments, and that is the item that will make the difference for us. Okay, and just to make sure that I fully understand, the view is that is a near-term issue that will be fixed. Yes by the end of the fourth quarter? That is our goal, for sure. And our suppliers. Okay. We have great suppliers. Again, some were dealt some pretty difficult hands with the hurricane affecting their operations. That is all temporary and can be worked through. Okay, great. Thanks. Also, just thinking about the pricing environment heading into next year. I believe you said this quarter it was pretty similar to last quarter. Can you just give us any sense of how you guys are thinking about the pricing environment? I would say steady. A lot of orders taken and negotiated with many of our customers. I think we feel good about the direction of pricing. It is very reasonable for the current market circumstances. Okay, great. Thank you. Thank you. Your next question comes from David Raso with Evercore ISI. Your line is open. Hi, thank you. Just quick question, really more for my modeling. I am trying to understand why the deliveries were up 19%, but the truck revenues were only up 14.5%. It has been a little while since the truck revenues were below the deliveries. First thought you would say, well, maybe it is the mix geographically, but really your best growth rates were in some of the higher price point trucks, North America, Europe. Is there something within the mix of the size of the trucks, type of trucks that went out that would have the deliveries up that much more than the revenue growth you booked? Yeah, Michael has some thoughts that he can share on that. Well, you will probably notice that in Europe, our deliveries were up 14%, 15%, and truck revenues were down, and that is mostly due to, we had more truck sales that were deferred because they were associated with guaranteed residual value contracts, which resulted in us deferring the sales and revenues over the term of the residual value guarantee. Okay. That just worked out this quarter to be in effect that was noticeable. There was a reason why it was greater, and maybe if you could help frame it for us a little bit, how much greater than normal? The percent of trucks that went out in Europe with the deferred. Yeah, I think typically, David, that is just really a function of the particular customers that you are doing business with in any particular quarter. Preston, you have any Yeah, I was just going to say, it is a timing, and we have grown in the large fleets. We talked earlier in the call about fleet growth, Eastern Europe, and DAF has done a good job of making penetrations, and some of those large fleets come with GRVs, but largely it is timing. Okay. Even when we were in Germany, the idea of your market share higher in some of the Eastern European countries, some of the bigger logistic truck companies are the ones gaining share out of that region. Yeah. This is reflective of that, essentially. Yes. Yeah, I think you're starting to see that the DAF trucks in Europe, they have the best fuel economy, the lowest operating costs, and that's having the biggest fleets take a really good look at us, and we're winning share there. And one other element, currency, and I apologize, I jumped on late. Have you given the exact currency impact for the quarter? Yeah, the currency impact for the quarter with respect to revenues is about $50 million or so of a reduction of revenues due to currency movements. The dollar was strong during the quarter compared to last year. And impact on income this quarter was pretty minimal. And that was 50 or 15? 50. 50. Okay, I appreciate it. Thank you. You bet. Thanks, David. Your next question comes from David Leiker with Baird. Your line is open. Hi, this is Joe Vruwink for David. Hey, Joe. Just one question from me. Everything on the call has sounded really positive, and the industry is doing well. So what, if anything, are you worried about as you look into 2019? The backlogs and the business conditions are very good, and we feel really good about, like I said, we're at record levels in all of our segments. Our focus is to continue to grow, take advantage of the current market opportunity. I'd say there's not any major concerns on our horizon. Trucks are performing great, and all our customers are very happy with the trucks that they are buying. Pretty good position to be in. Maybe I will throw one idea out there. When you look at pricing trends and the spot market and how that ultimately flows into your customers' core rates, there has definitely been some moderation there. When you think about orders that have been placed, Q3, Q4 of this year, and you think about your customers' pricing maybe moderating from the high levels it has been at, does that give you cause for concern? Or if there is any headwind from that dynamic, maybe it is more of a late 2019 phenomenon, ultimately. The financial services portfolio has been at less than 1% past dues for about six consecutive years, and that was during periods of really strong freight markets down to maybe not so strong freight markets. I do not see that the customer's ability to meet their obligations is going to be significantly affected by some moderate reduction in pricing in the freight market. It has just been extraordinarily good in the last six months. I do not see that being a factor in our customers' decisions to buy trucks or being able to meet their commitments. Okay. Great. Thank you very much. Thank you. Your next question comes from Sameer Rathod with Macquarie. Your line is open. Hi. Good morning. Thank you for taking my question. Just one quick question on wages and wage pressure. Are you guys seeing any lack of availability in terms of hiring people or seeing any increases in wages that you have to pay in the tight market? Thank you. We have great facilities. We have great reputations in the communities in which our factories and warehouses are located. We probably have some of the longest-tenured employees in the industry that work in our operations. When we have a need for employees, we probably get 10 apps for every job that we post. So we're viewed as a premium employer in the markets that we're in, and so we're able to find the people we need to do our staffing. That being said, there are some pockets where that's part of the supplier's challenge is getting employees in some of the areas in which they're in. So again, they're working through that to try and solve those challenges. Thank you. Thank you. Your next question comes from Joe O'Dea with Vertical Research. Your line is open. Hi. Thanks. Good morning. Morning. First, just talking about gross margins next year in the 14%-15% range and kind of in line with where you are this year. Then thinking about what looks like a setup for some tailwinds on price, supply chain issues abating, mix that looks like, if anything, it's a bit of a benefit on stronger North America. So, what some of the kind of offsets to that might be, such that we don't see year-over-year margin expansion? If all those things you said occur, there's no offset. But it's a dynamic world, and you got to manage the best you can the circumstances. That's what we do every day. Okay. Appreciate it. You bet. And then just on the cash side of things, ending the quarter with $3.8 billion of cash in marketable securities. Trying to think about deployment options and just any context around how much cash you feel you need to have on the balance sheet for the credit rating and for other operational uses. Whether you think about stepping above the typical payout range target or whether you think about other deployment options, just given we continue to see the cash balance move higher and presumably it's set to go even higher next year. Yeah, we think about all those things, but if you look at historically about our cash balance, if you go back 10 years, it's in the mid to high teens as a percent of our total assets, and that's where it sits currently. But it's an ongoing discussion and review with the board about payouts and buybacks, et cetera, and that will continue. Okay. Thanks a lot. Thank you. Your next question comes from Jeff Kauffman with Loop Capital Markets. Your line is open. Thank you very much. I guess the new guy gets back of the pack here. I got to be honest. Thank you very much. My questions have really been answered, and David Raso, I think, asked the big question I had on mix. Let me just dive a little deeper into it. I understand what you're saying about the residual value contracts in Europe. I was a little surprised the impact was as big as it was. If I look at your forecast fourth quarter, 4%-8% deliveries, I assume you're still getting 3% price and facing kind of a 1% currency headwind. Do these residual value guarantees, is it more related to you just traded a particular cohort of trucks in with low residuals during Q3? Is it more that we're just trying to clear some inventory out of market? When I think about revenues relative to deliveries, because as David said, that was kind of the part that surprised me, was the difference here. Should I be thinking about more one-to-one ratio as we head into Q4, or do these residual value deals continue to drag a little bit more heavily for the next quarter or two? I don't think we have the visibility to necessarily what the specifics of- but I think fourth quarter revenue, I think thinking about it on a one-to-one basis is probably the way to think about it. Okay, fair enough. Well, congratulations and thank you. Hey, thank you, Jeff. Your next question comes from Neil Frohnapfel with Buckingham Research. Your line is open. Hi, thanks. One more follow-up on the gross margin performance in 3Q. Ron, you indicated 3% new truck price realization in the quarter, but can you say if this more than offset higher average per truck material and labor cost? I know we typically have to wait for the 10-Q to get the specific numbers, but can you at least say whether the relationship was still positive in the third quarter? It was roughly offset. When you see the 10-Q as we've drafted it now, looks like it's pretty much an offset from material and labor. Okay, thanks. Ron, just going back to the heavy-duty share gains in Europe doing parts of the new product introductions. I believe you said that heavy-duty orders were up 26% in the first half of the year. Are you able to say what DAF's order growth rate was in the third quarter? I don't have that detail handy here, but that's something that we can grab. If you compare the third quarter this year to the third quarter last year, total European orders are up 4% for the quarter in Europe and 17% year-to-date. Okay. There we go. We do have it. Great. Thanks. I'll pass it on. Thank you. Your next question comes from Fahim Sabeiha with Longbow Research. Your line is open. Hi, good morning. I was wondering if you guys can provide a little more color around the parts outlook for next year. Just wondering how much of that growth is expected to come from freight activity versus higher engine sales and higher TRP parts sales. I think it comes from a lot of different avenues. We continue to increase the level of MX engines in the truck park on an ongoing basis. Since we started production, I think we're at about 200,000, and so with engine production next year, that probably goes up another 15% or 20%. The engines that we produced three or four, five, six, seven years ago are getting more into their maintenance period, so that's going to be a positive effect. I think engine parts has been, and probably will continue to be, the highest percentage growth driver for Paccar Parts. You look at the increased level of TRP stores, the fleet services initiatives that our team is championing, the e-commerce initiatives to really make it easier to interface with Paccar Parts. The team has done a great job and really superb performance this year. Sounds good. In regards to the gross margin outlook for next year, what does that assume as far as the parts margin? Are you guys expecting the parts margin to be relatively flat versus 2018, or are you expecting continued growth there? No, I think that 27%, 27.5% range is probably a reasonable way to think about it. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Your next question comes from Scott Group with Wolfe Research. Your line is open. Hey, good morning, guys. It's Rob on for Scott. Hey, Rob. Looking out to next year with regard to the gross margins, are you expecting any sort of drag in the first half associated with the hundreds of dollars of impact that you called out on the tariffs, or should we be thinking about price like this quarter offsetting any of that cost inflation? I think we should think about it offsetting. All right. That's helpful. I had missed it if you provided some color in terms of the used truck pricing trends that you guys are seeing from your models. I know you're continuing to generate a premium to the overall market, but can you give us a sense of what you guys saw from that used price realization? Yeah, I think if you compare the third quarter of this year to a year ago, it's up about 10% overall. It's been good, and we see that in the results in our Paccar Financial Services business in North America. In Europe, pricing's a little bit flat compared to where it was a year ago. Got it. Helpful. Final one, in terms of the mix, was the revenue per unit in U.S. and Canada, how much was that down year-over-year? I realize that the price realization is up 3%, but I'm assuming there was some mix within that segment as well. Am I thinking about that right for the third quarter? Yeah, I don't think there's any dramatic puts and takes in terms of price per unit. It gets impacted a little bit by the mix of medium versus heavy duty. Again, I don't think there's anything there that's different than what we would normally expect. Okay. Really helpful, guys. Appreciate the time. You bet. Your next question comes from Ann Duignan with JP Morgan. Your line is open. Yeah. Hi, guys. I just had a follow-up since we just came back from IAA a couple of weeks ago, whenever it was. One of the things that I found most interesting was walking Iveco's exhibit and all the signage they had around their booth for no diesel. Can you just talk about your outlook longer term for the growth of electric vehicles in Europe in particular, just given the 2025 regulations that are going to come in place? Do you think that in Europe specifically, there'll always be the need for diesel also? I think, Anne, the economics of diesel just makes sense, and they're going to continue to make sense for a long time. It's going to be the dominant power source for long-haul trucking, certainly. There's obviously going to be opportunities that'll develop in urban areas that may bring about hybrids or electric vehicles, and so we're prepared for those. You obviously saw at the IAA show and drove our CF Electric. We have a full suite of vehicles in terms of all electric, heavy, light duty, and we do that both in North America and Europe. We're well prepared for the places where it makes sense, but we think there'll be local geographies more than they will generally widespread displacement of diesel for the foreseeable future. Yeah, I think there's a growing sentiment that maybe the diesel with a zero-emission hybrid capability may be the best economic solution for those inner-city applications where you need that zero-emission requirement as opposed to a full electric option, which, the batteries and the weight are still present, and absent a breakthrough, the economic case is a bit challenging. Yeah, maybe I misinterpreted Iveco's intent, that maybe it was more their approach to meeting these new non-diesel segments as opposed to there won't be any diesel trucks left. I appreciate your color on that. That's helpful. Sure. Thank you. Yeah, thank you. There are no other questions in the queue at this time. Are there any additional remarks from the company? We'd like to thank everyone for their participation, and thank you, operator. Ladies and gentlemen, this concludes Paccar's earnings call. Thank you for participating. You may now disconnect.