Welcome to the TTM Technologies acquisition of Telephonics Corporation conference call. I would like to inform all participants this call is being recorded. As a reminder, TTM has posted an accompanying slide presentation on the investor relations section of its website at www.ttm.com. I would like to turn the call over to Sameer Desai, Vice President of Corporate Development and Investor Relations.
Thank you, Jenny. Operator, good afternoon, everyone. Before we get started, I would like to remind everyone that the comments made on today's call may contain forward-looking statements. Any forward-looking information we provide is given in reliance upon the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The comments we will make today are management's current beliefs, expectations, and assumptions based on information currently available, and there will be no assurances that the results contemplated in these statements will be realized or in TTM's ability to successfully receive regulatory approvals to complete the transaction on a timely basis. Actual results could differ materially from any implied projections due to one or more factors explained in the annual report on Form 10-K and other documents that TTM files with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
In addition, if the transaction is completed, the forward-looking statements made herein depend on TTM's ability to retain Telephonics customers, employees, and to successfully integrate Telephonics operations, product lines, and technology into TTM operations, among other factors. TTM does not undertake any obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or other circumstances, except as required by law. In addition, please refer to legal disclaimers noted on slide two of the investor presentation, which includes disclosures regarding the risks that may affect TTM and the risks associated with the proposed transaction. In addition to the financial measures prepared in accordance with GAAP, we will discuss on this call certain non-GAAP financial measures, such as adjusted EBITDA.
Such measures should not be considered as a substitute for GAAP, and we direct you to the reconciliation to the most comparable GAAP financial measure included in the appendix of our previous investor presentations, which are available on TTM's website at www.ttm.com. During this call, we'll be discussing the acquisition of Telephonics, and we request that any questions regarding our Q1 results, Q2 guidance, or general business trends be postponed until our upcoming quarterly earnings call on May fourth that we announced earlier today. Today's call will be led by Chief Executive Officer of TTM Technologies, Tom Edman. Please go ahead, Tom.
Thank you, Sameer, and thank you everyone for joining the call. We are excited to announce the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire Telephonics for $330 million in cash. On the call with me today is our EVP and President of TTM's Aerospace and Defense business unit, Cathy Gridley, along with TTM's Chief Financial Officer, Todd Schull. Cathy has been with TTM since 2019, when she joined from Northrop Grumman, and has been developing the vision and strategy of the A&D business unit, which has led to this acquisition announcement. Over the past several years, TTM has consistently emphasized that a key part of our strategy is to add value to the product solutions that we deliver to our customers, particularly in the aerospace and defense market.
In 2018, we closed the acquisition of Anaren, which broadened TTM's product portfolio into highly engineered RF components and subassemblies, as well as adding critical RF engineering capability and resources to TTM. Telephonics builds on Anaren and TTM's customer-driven culture and disciplined approach to manufacturing by further broadening TTM's Aerospace and Defense product offering vertically into higher-level engineered system solutions and horizontally into surveillance and communications markets while strengthening our position in radar systems. Now, we will share some highlights of the transaction before moving to your questions. Please turn to slide three, and I will provide an overview of this acquisition. Telephonics has minimal overlap with TTM's existing products and capabilities and offers a complementary product portfolio and capabilities that enhances TTM's strategic growth opportunities in Aerospace and Defense.
We expect significant benefits to our customers, driven by accelerated innovation, new engineering capabilities, and enhanced manufacturing discipline. In addition, Telephonics builds upon the prior acquisition of Anaren and expands our RF microwave product strategy. We expect that Telephonics has significant value creation potential from revenue and cost synergies. We see strong revenue synergies from new business opportunities, particularly in defense communications, surveillance, radar, and electronic warfare. Additionally, we expect to achieve an estimated $12 million in annual run rate cost synergies by the end of 2024 from organizational alignment, corporate and back-office integration, manufacturing and supply chain, and product and technology alignment. We expect that Telephonics will be immediately accretive to non-GAAP EPS. Please turn to slide four, and I will briefly summarize the key highlights of this transaction.
We are planning to acquire 100% of the equity in Telephonics on a cash-free, debt-free basis for $330 million in cash, subject to working capital adjustments at closing. We expect the transaction to be financed by cash on hand. This price represents a forward multiple of approximately 9x adjusted EBITDA of Telephonics, including the full impact of cost synergies. We project the transaction to be immediately accretive to non-GAAP EPS, and we expect to generate $12 million of run rate cost savings by the end of 2024. We expect leverage defined as net debt divided by last twelve months of adjusted EBITDA to be approximately 2.5x at closing. Rapid deleveraging will remain a high priority for TTM as we drive to reduce our net leverage to our target of 2.0x.
Closing of the transaction is subject to Hart-Scott-Rodino approval. We currently expect to close the transaction by the end of the Q2 of 2022. In the meantime, until receiving these approvals, we will continue to operate as independent companies focused on day-to-day execution on behalf of our global customer base. After the transaction closes, Telephonics will reside in TTM's Aerospace and Defense business unit. We are excited to join forces with the many highly talented and skilled employees at Telephonics. I would now like to turn the call over to Cathy to walk through the strategic rationale and provide more information about Telephonics.
Thank you, Tom. Please turn to slide five. Tom and I are both excited about this transaction, and now I'll highlight the strategic rationale. We expect Telephonics to be highly complementary and to provide meaningful synergies over the long term, where the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. Telephonics builds upon our long history of producing quality electronic products for U.S. national security and the previous acquisition of Anaren, providing complementary capabilities and the addition of RF-based integrated systems for key defense mission areas. Telephonics also broadens TTM's Aerospace & Defense product offering vertically into higher-level engineered system solutions and horizontally into surveillance and communications markets while strengthening our position in radar systems. The addition of Telephonics continues TTM's journey to move higher up in the value chain and to become a larger provider of custom-designed solutions of highly engineered products.
Our A&D customers will be able to rely on TTM to deliver highly sophisticated system-level solutions with a vertical integration capability. Telephonics is expected to increase TTM's A&D end market exposure to approximately 40% of total combined company revenues, or approximately $1 billion, compared to 32% in TTM's fiscal year 2021. Telephonics expands TTM's A&D customer base through international opportunities and establishes TTM as a tier one supplier to the Department of Defense. Telephonics also provides us with additional engineers and managers with extensive experience in system integration and more than doubles A&D's design and development engineering organization. Finally, we see compelling value creation in this transaction through cost and revenue synergies, with Telephonics expected to be immediately accretive to our non-GAAP EPS. To give you more background on Telephonics, please turn to slide six.
Telephonics is a leading designer and manufacturer of defense electronics for maritime surveillance and other critical missions. The company is recognized globally as a leading provider of highly sophisticated intelligence, surveillance, and communication solutions that are deployed across a wide range of land, sea, and air applications. Telephonics has a strong installed base of integrated systems across a diverse range of platforms and customers which allow for follow-on opportunities as well as aftermarket services and spares. Their product and technology roadmaps focus on next-generation platforms as well as existing modernization programs. Telephonics has approximately 625 employees, with 25% being engineers. This talented engineering team brings TTM additional engineering expertise in RF microwave and adds valuable systems engineering capability. The company is on over 100 platforms, with the majority being sole-sourced.
95% of the company's FY 2021 revenues were from the aerospace and defense end market, with approximately 25% of the A&D revenues from international sales. Finally, on the right, you can see that the business is organized into four primary business lines, with FY 2021 revenues split as shown, radar systems at 50%, communications 24%, surveillance 21%, and Telephonics Large Scale Integration, TLSI, at 5%. Moving on to slide seven, you can see the various programs and customers both companies are engaged with. You will notice there is very little overlap in programs between TTM and Telephonics, offering opportunities for cross-program engagement. While there is some overlap in a few key customers, TTM has a much broader tier one OEM customer base, while Telephonics is more narrow with tier ones.
However, Telephonics relationships with direct government agency customers such as the U.S. Army, U.S. Coast Guard, and Defense Logistics Agency will create new customer access for the broader TTM A&D offering. Moving on to slide eight, we can see how Telephonics is complementary to the A&D business's current capabilities. From a product standpoint, our main focus has been historically tier 3 and 4 RF and microwave components and subassemblies, including printed circuit board and printed circuit board assemblies. Currently, printed circuit boards still make up over 50% of A&D's product revenues, with the remainder being value-added integration and RF microwave subassemblies and components. Telephonics is strong in tier 1 and 2 integrated RF and microwave systems, an area where TTM has historically had no presence. In addition, Telephonics adds custom integrated circuit design, expanding TTM's microelectronics manufacturing and assembly capabilities, and strengthens our microelectronics product offering from design through manufacturing.
Microelectronics is a strategic focus area for the Department of Defense, and this combination will enable TTM to expand our offering in this critical growth area. Telephonics also offers platform and systems-level integration as well as aftermarket support, whereas TTM does not have these capabilities today. Finally, Telephonics will strengthen TTM's classified testing capability. With testing being another critical need for defense microelectronics and in high demand, the combined stronger classified test capability enhances TTM's overall value-added offering. Following the acquisition of Telephonics, more than 55% of A&D revenues are expected to be generated from value-added integrated offerings and the addition of a new product category of integrated systems. Post-acquisition, TTM will also be able to offer our customers more competitive and comprehensive vertically integrated solutions from base PCB and RF components through to a complete, highly engineered and tested solution, further moving TTM up the value chain.
I will now hand over to Todd to walk through the financial impact.
Thanks, Cathy. Moving to slide nine. We see significant opportunities to create shareholder value through both revenue and cost synergies. We expect new business opportunities in RF and microwave integrated subsystems and complex assemblies through cross-program and cross-customer engagement. In addition, we expect growth in new submarkets such as electronic warfare, surveillance, communications, and space, while strengthening our position in radar. From a cost synergy standpoint, we expect $12 million in run rate cost synergies by the end of 2024 through corporate and back-office integration, organizational alignment, customer coordination, manufacturing and supply chain efficiencies, and product and technology strategies. In terms of financial impact, we expect Telephonics to be approximately 10% of the combined company revenues. Further, we expect the transaction to be immediately accretive to non-GAAP EPS. We expect to pay for this transaction from cash on hand.
Now I'll hand it back to Tom to wrap it up.
Thanks, Todd. Finally, I'd like to close on slide 10 by summarizing the key takeaways from today. First, the acquisition of Telephonics further increases TTM's exposure and strengthens our differentiated position in the highly attractive A&D end market. This complements our existing RF and microwave business and enhances TTM's A&D product offering through highly engineered integrated system solutions. We expect meaningful value creation from this opportunity, driven by strategic fit and synergies. Finally, we expect the transaction to be immediately accretive to adjusted non-GAAP EPS. Telephonics represents a strategic acquisition that benefits all stakeholders. Now we will take your questions. Jenny?
Thank you. If you would like to ask a question, please signal by pressing star one on your telephone keypad. If you're using speakerphone, please make sure mute function is turned off to allow your signal to reach our equipment. A voice prompt on the phone line will indicate when your line is open. Again, press star one to ask a question. We'll pause for just a moment to allow everyone an opportunity to signal for questions. We'll go to our first question from Jim Ricchiuti of Needham & Company.
Hi, good afternoon. Congratulations. Sounds like a nice announcement. I wonder if you could talk a little bit about customer overlap. It sounds like you guys have been working with them for a bit. I assume on the AESA program.
Hi, Jim. Thank you for the question. Yes. There has been some work in the past with the companies. We see a real opportunity to deepen that engagement. In terms of customers, you'll see there is some overlap certainly with the major customers, and as Cathy highlighted, also opens up some new opportunities for TTM overall, directly with the government. Cathy, anything to add to that?
Yeah, I think that this is some overlap with the customers, but not significant. We do share a couple of major customers, but you make a good observation, Jim, on AESA. We have worked together a small amount historically, but not in a significant way, and we've not competed with one another or found ourselves overlapping in AESA in any way yet.
Got it. Is there anything you can say about the margin profile of the business? I also had a follow-up question just in terms of their backlog, which I guess they talked about their backlog at the end of September being around $350 million. Is there any update at all that you can offer in terms of their business, their backlog, at the end of December?
Go ahead, Todd.
Yeah. Hi, Jim. Todd here. Your first part of your question in terms of the margin profile, the size of the business. We're estimating that they'll represent about 10% of our combined business. They're in that, you know, $250 million-$260 million revenue range on an annual basis. From a margin standpoint, well, I should say from an EPS standpoint, they will be accretive right out of the gate. From a margin standpoint, they're slightly less than us at this point in time. They're probably in the mid-single digits, maybe a little bit higher on their operating margins.
We expect that over the next two years while we're implementing the synergies, you know, which we hope to complete by the end of 2024, that that'll actually be above our average today. We think there's a lot of opportunity for us to improve the P&L profile of the business. In regards to your backlog question, I'm trying to remember if it's $346 million as of the end of December, and 66% of that is actually shippable in the current year. They have a strong backlog position, not unlike our own A&D business. We're very excited about that. They've got good customer relationships and a strong pipeline.
Got it. I'll jump back in the queue. Thank you.
Thanks, Jim.
We'll hear next from Srini Pajjuri of SMBC Nikko Securities.
Thank you. Let me echo my congrats, guys. I guess, Tom, first, I totally see the strategic rationale and also the sales synergies here. I'm just curious, you know, given your, you know, PCB manufacturing expertise, how do you kind of see the manufacturing synergies, if any? I have a couple of follow-ups.
Sure. Thanks. Thank you, Srini. Yeah, no, you're hitting the nail on the head. We don't historically, again, we've had relationships. We certainly, that's included printed circuit boards and some integration capabilities, but they haven't been substantial. Absolutely, as part of that synergy number, we've you know, we're gonna be going after what the combined you know, the manufacturing capabilities, foundational capabilities of TTM can provide to Telephonics. I would say that that's two major areas. One is absolutely, there could be opportunities for synergy attainment there in terms of lowering Telephonics' costs as a whole.
I'd say even more importantly, this is gonna be about time to market. As we can with our manufacturing infrastructure, help to speed the delivery of product to customers, that's gonna be a real win for the combination. Clearly in, you know, in these times when supply chain issues are top of mind, the ability of TTM to support Telephonics going forward is something we're really excited about.
Okay. That makes sense. Just to follow up to that, Tom, you know, I think they did about $270 million, just I'm looking at their annual report last year, and you're guiding to $250 million-$260 million. Can you talk about the long-term growth profile of the business? I know you know you talk about kind of low single digits for your defense business in general. You know, longer term, how do you see this business? Are there any kind of legacy issues that we should be aware of in terms of some revenue going away? Are there any new programs that might be kicking in the next couple of years that we should be aware of?
Let me address. You know, I think first, that your number historically is a pretty good number, you know, in that 260-270 neighborhood. The go forward, how we do is after we close, you know, we are looking to grow that business. As you know, we've looked at aerospace and defense as being a 2%-4% kind of growth rate. We're acquiring a business here in Telephonics that has a real strength in radar and communication systems, an opportunity to grow above that rate.
We'll, you know, as we get to close, we'll provide more visibility into this and certainly address that other question you had about programs. What I can tell you is there are certainly some developments that Telephonics is involved in going forward. With the radar area in particular, we think we can again help speed the time to market there. The combination, pulling together two companies with extensive RF knowledge and you know really combining our RF knowledge and their integrated system engineering capability, that could provide for some optimal solutions here for some critical programs. What I can tell you, Srini, is that there's definitely, we believe, an opportunity to grow above that 2%-4% range going forward.
Okay. Then my last question. Tom, I think when you mentioned the valuation, you said it's 9 times EBITDA. Then if I do the math, I'm getting close to 15% EBITDA margin. I just wanna, you know, clarify something. Is this what you're expecting for the next 12 months, or are you assuming on a kind of a pro forma basis, you know, that's what the, you know, target is for you longer term?
Doug, do you wanna cover that?
Sure. The nine times forward earnings is really kind of our view. It includes synergies. Obviously, we're not gonna have the full run rate synergies for, you know, that will happen gradually here over the next two years. But when you factor that in, and then you back that out and come out with your adjusted EBITDA number, and that's the number that we predicated the pricing on, which is what we're looking at more or less, for there, you know, for the 12 months here that we're looking at on a forward basis. It can move around, obviously, but it's adjusted, so if you're looking at numbers on a historical basis, they'll be different, because there's issues there that won't occur and there's things that we expect to do.
It all factors into what our assessment is of the earning potential of the business. We did the 9x multiple on that.
Got it. Thanks, Doug, and congrats again.
We'll go to our next question from William Stein of Truist Securities.
Great. Thank you for taking my questions. First, congrats on announcing the deal. Sounds like, you know, good continuation of expanding and vertically integrating. That really relates to my first question: Is Telephonics a customer of either the heritage TTM PCB business or the Anaren business?
Yeah. We'll have a very small historical customer and on both sides. It has been a relationship, but the actual business volumes have been limited. That again is really one of those opportunities that we see in terms of synergies and bringing the two together.
Okay. Following up on that, these look like, for those of us who are not, you know, super sophisticated in military projects, these look like full systems that Telephonics is selling, and it strikes me that perhaps Telephonics competes with some of your existing customers. Is that correct, and how do you plan to manage that in the sales channel?
I'm gonna let Cathy address that on the product side. Go ahead, Cathy.
Great. Thanks, Tom. In terms of the opportunity here, you know, Telephonics really does compete at the tier one, tier two level, and we really see the opportunity in the full, vertical integration and the systems integration. We don't, you know, anticipate that in reality, our customer relationships are gonna strengthen each other. We have that strong tier one OEM customer interface, and Telephonics has that direct DoD interface, and we actually see those complementing each other very well.
Mr. Stein, did you have anything further?
Thank you.
Thanks, Will.
As a reminder, it is star one if you would like to ask a question at this time. We'll go next to Matthew Sheerin of Stifel.
Yes, thank you, and thanks for the details so far. Yeah, I wanted to just ask a question regarding the competitive environment. It looks like this is your very sophisticated A&D-EMS business, right? Where you're building full systems for customers. Are you competing with other EMS companies with, you know, robust solutions in the defense and aerospace area? Who are the competitors out there?
Yeah, I'll start this, and Cathy, I'll ask you to pile on here. From the perspective of our majors or the major primes, there's really not a competitive situation there. In fact, those primes are customers for both companies. They're customers for Telephonics as well. You can think about your. I think your characterization is actually a really good one, Matt, and yours as well, Will. From the standpoint of what we're looking at here is further integration capabilities beyond what TTM had in the past. You're still looking at, you know, really what I would call parts, you know, parts of larger system assemblies.
You know, you're looking at communication systems that may be embedded in a larger platform. We're gonna be selling to those major primes. From a competitive standpoint, it tends not to be the EMS providers that you would think of, mainly smaller specialized defense primes that Telephonics would be competing with. Cathy, anything to add to that?
Sure, absolutely. When you think about where Telephonics products are, they're higher in the value chain. Many of the customers are looking for more integrated, engineering-driven, value-added products. You know, when it comes to the Telephonics competitors, it includes other system-level providers of these types of defense electronics. I think some of the ones that come to mind, Selex ES, Hensoldt, Thales, those are sort of a few that you might think of that would be more in line with the Telephonics competitors.
Okay, thank you. Just back to the margin profile, excluding the $12 million of synergies, it looks like, you know, as Todd said, you're looking at sort of a single-digit operating margin business, and it would seem like the margin profile would be higher given the sophistication and given the vertical expertise. Is that just because as an EMS business, there's a lot of component pass-through, and there's sort of a limit in terms of margins, or is there more value add, you know, where the margins can look better than the company as a whole than TTM?
This is Todd. Two comments on that. I think I would make a distinction between the Telephonics business and an EMS company, an important element. EMS companies generally build products to a customer's design. Telephonics is a product company where they design solutions and build those solutions. The difference is in margin usually. That kind of gets to your margin question. Well, their margins at this point are in the, you know, mid plus or minus single-digit %. But we see an opportunity to improve on that. That's really some synergy opportunities that we see that are relatively, I think, near term, you know, one-two years, that we think we can implement that will then pull those margins up to where you would probably expect them to be. That's the opportunity in this business, right?
It's also why we got a, you know, a 9x multiple as opposed to a more typical A&D multiple of 14x. It gives us an opportunity to add some value to the business quickly and improve the margins, and they bring to us another avenue in terms of I think it's been well discussed here in terms of vertical integration as well as additional markets from a horizontal perspective. Hopefully that sheds a little more light on it.
Okay. Todd, just, in terms of working capital requirements of a business like this, given the system integration, are you looking at, you know, higher levels of inventory, working capital days, because of that? What does that do to the overall, you know, balance sheet, cash cycle, et cetera, for TTM?
Yeah, definitely. The business that we're acquiring has a cash cycle day or a cash cycle, if you will, that is longer than TTM's traditional cycle. Typical in these businesses, you have longer investment cycles. There's the international sale component to it. There's a, you know, a significant piece of the business that comes from that market. Those tend to have longer terms. There will be some increase, but again, this is not a huge percentage of our business. You're talking 10% of our revenue, potentially, near term, and so it's not going to be dramatic in terms of its impact on our working capital.
Okay. Just lastly, regarding, I mean, the slide says subject to customer customary regulatory reviews. Can you walk us through some of the barriers there in terms of regulatory reviews, given the defense perspective here?
Okay. Yeah. So really it's HSR, so the antitrust filing that we, you know, have to go through. We'll do that in an expedited fashion and the deal doesn't require shareholder approval on either side. You're really looking at that being the major element. We'll, you know, again, with a lot of pre-work already done, we'll be moving forward with those filings as soon as we can, as soon as practical.
The operating footprint of the company of Telephonics is that mostly North America?
Yes. Yeah, no, exactly right. That's the reason why. You're looking at an operating footprint that's really in Long Island and North Carolina. U.S. operations. That's what we're acquiring and therefore, you've got a pretty straightforward regulatory process.
Okay, thank you.
We'll go to our next question from Mike Crawford of B. Riley Securities.
Thank you. That's a good segue for my question regarding whether those manufacturing facilities in Long Island and North Carolina are owned or leased.
Mainly owned. One of the Long Island facilities will be leased from Griffon. The balance of the facilities will be owned.
Any sense of the value of that property?
Yeah, we're not. Well, so, you know, clearly, let me give you a higher level response, Mike. You know, we are excited about. There was really already Telephonics has relocated some production to North Carolina. That's a really interesting location. I think proximity to some of the major customers is there. And so, really smart move we feel. The major Long Island facility for engineering and headquarters, if you will, is right near an airport location in Long Island. Again, very promising, you know, positive location from our standpoint.
Really, we're less concerned about real estate value than the operational and engineering locations and those are really positioned well with this acquisition.
Okay, thank you. Just back to kind of the revenue and the backlog. What was it that drove the decline in revenue at Telephonics last year versus the prior two years, where it had been $335 million-$341 million? You know, even the funded backlog was down a little bit, maybe not that much, year-over-year.
Well, I can give you a high level response, and maybe Todd can, Todd, if you can address this as well. As you know, we've had been going through this little thing that you're probably familiar with called COVID. That's put a crimp on all manufacturing in North America. We were not surprised to see a decline therefore, as a result. You've got COVID, and then of course, again, as all of us on this line have been experiencing, you have supply chain challenges that have loomed as we collectively, as an economy, tried to emerge from the COVID experience. They've been dealing with all of that.
That's caused program timing delays, certainly, and that has shifted things to the right. So that's really the major challenge for Telephonics. It's certainly, you know, a challenge that move was very logical from our perspective, given that their entire footprint is in the United States. Todd, anything else to add there?
Well, I would just add, the only other point would be just the labor challenges, both on production as well as with your customers. That's what's really driving a lot of the program timing delays. You know, it's all businesses have been impacted and programs are delayed as a result of that, both in approval and designs and just the processes. People have been out of the office for COVID for various issues. It's kind of the normal stuff. You can see some of that in the public disclosures that Griffon's had about that business over the last two years, and we refer you to that. As we think going forward, as COVID starts to stabilize, if I dare use that word, with the latest variant rolling through.
We see again a lot of opportunity to improve on that and to grow from here. We think the toughest part of that story is kind of behind us or behind them.
It's not related to, say, secular decline in rotary platform volumes or anything more broad based than that, other than.
No, no, Mike, you can see that reflected in the backlog, right? Strong backlog. It's the production execution challenge.
Oh, okay. Thank you. Final question, just based on the numbers Todd gave earlier, with the December backlog numbers, that means that you're only expecting to book and ship $20 million-$30 million of revenue with Telephonics this year. Is that less than normal or conservative?
Well, in terms of, I mean, that's our snapshot today. As we know, the A&D business in general, that marketplace over the last few years has been very robust and backlog has grown for many companies. Now, A&D goes through long cycles, and right now we're in a pretty strong cycle. In the near term, I think that's pretty representative. It will ebb and flow over time with the overall cycle of the business, which is a much longer cycle than some of the consumer businesses we're involved with, historically.
Okay, great. Thank you very much.
Thank you.
With no other questions in the queue, I will now turn the call back over to the presenters.
Okay. Well, thank you very much for joining us on short notice. Again, I'd just like to emphasize this is an exciting combination for TTM. We are really looking forward to welcoming the Telephonics employees to TTM, and building a, you know, really robust growth story going forward in the defense space and taking care of our customers there, as well as the warfighter. Thank you for joining us. Look forward to talking to you all soon.
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