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Stephen Oswald

Okay. Thank you, Suman. Thanks, everyone, for joining us today for our fourth quarter conference call. Today, and as usual, I will give an update of the current situation at the company, after which, Suman will review our financials in detail. Let me start off again on this quarterly call with Ducommun's Vision 2027 game plan for investors.
The strategy and vision were developed coming out of the COVID pandemic over the summer and fall of 2022. We unanimously approved by the Board, the common board in November 2022 and then presented to investors the following month in New York, where we got excellent feedback.
Since that time, Ducommun management has been executing the Vision 2027 strategy. by increasing the revenue percentage of engineered product and aftermarket content, which finished at 23% for 2024, up from 19% in 2023, consolidating our rooftop footprint in contract manufacturing, continuing the targeted acquisition program, executing our offloading strategy with defense primes and high-growth segments of the defense budget driving value-added pricing and expanding content on key commercial aerospace platforms.
All of us here as well as my fellow board members continue to have a high conviction in the Vision 2027 strategy and financial goals and believe that many catalysts ahead present a unique value creation opportunity for shareholders. The Q4 2024 results are another example of our strategy initiatives working with much more to come in the next few years. Q4 was our 15th consecutive quarter with year-over-year growth in revenue, growing 2.6% over prior year to $197.3 million despite significant headwinds in commercial aerospace build rates, destocking at BA and SPR and the strategic pruning of our noncore industrial business, which I've mentioned in the past.
It was also our sixth consecutive quarter above $190 million in revenue. Strong growth in our missile and electronic warfare programs, F-16 and military ground vehicle programs, drove our military space revenue to 5% growth over prior year. The Fed business has now been over $100 million in revenues for the fifth time in the last 6 quarters and remain optimistic about the growth ahead. I also want to point out that 3 of our top 5 customers in Q4 were defense primes, and that is consistent with all the quarters in 2024. There is great momentum as we move to build scale at other defense primes such as Northrop Grumman, outside of RTX, our largest customer.
Also on the defense side, obviously, a lot of discussion going on for European defense budgets. On January 6, we put out a press release and did announce a major order in Q4 from Bayern-Chemie, a new customer for DCO based in Germany, and is 100% owned by MDBA. This order is in support of NATO and the Patriot PAC 2 missile. Bayern-Chemie makes the rocket motor and came to DCO in Joplin, Missouri for best-in-world cabling solutions. All POs were received in Q4, which totaled over $40 million in cable assemblies and shipments will begin in 2025 through 2030.
We're obviously thrilled with this new customer and expect more activity with FMS in 2025. We are very well positioned. In our commercial aerospace business, we continue to see excellent growth on the A220 program where we make the skins for the entire fuselage. The A220 program grew more than 40% during Q4, and we continue to see growth on other Airbus platforms as well. The commercial rotorcraft business grew over 50% in Q4 over prior year.
with strong growth on the S-92 platform as well as our BLR fast fin business for helicopters, DCO's most recent acquisition. This growth was partially offset by weakness on Boeing platforms that we all know as they slowly resumed production after the strike in Q4.
Overall, commercial aerospace grew 4% year-over-year in the quarter, we have now grown year-over-year revenue in our commercial aerospace business for 14 consecutive quarters. This is a great story showing the resilience of our business even in a challenging environment with Spirit and Boeing. Gross margins also grew $4.7 million to 23.5% in Q4, up 180 basis points year-over-year from 21.7% and so we continue to realize year-over-year benefits from our strategic value pricing initiatives, productivity improvements, growing the engineered products portfolio of aftermarket and initial restructuring savings, partially offset by some unfavorable product mix and onetime expenses during the quarter.
Our Monrovia, California facility is now closed, and our Berryville, Arkansas facility is down to less than 10 people to make capability until the receiving plant in Guaymas, Mexico is certified for the Tomahawk missile program that is expected very soon. We're already seeing cost savings for these facility closures, we'll see those savings be higher as the receiving plants ramp up production in 2025. Stay tuned. For adjusted operating income margins in Q4, the team delivered 8.2%, which was about flat to the prior year of 8.3%.
We continue to be pleased with the growth in our engineered product businesses and are encouraged by the performance in our electronic business this quarter, resulting from the impact of our strategic pricing initiatives. Our restructuring savings during the quarter was offset by lower margins in our Structures business due to unfavorable mix and onetime expenses. Adjusted EBITDA continues to grow compared to last year at 13.8%, up $4.3 million and exceeding $27 million. Great to see.
This represents an expansion of 180 basis points above prior year. This continues our year-over-year momentum we've seen each quarter in 2024 as we work towards the 18% goal in our Vision 2027 plan. GAAP diluted EPS was $0.45 a share in Q4 2024 versus $0.34 a share for Q4 2023.
And with the adjustments, diluted EPS was a solid $0.75 a share compared to diluted EPS of $0.70 in the prior year quarter. The higher GAAP and adjusted diluted EPS during the quarter was driven by improved operating income as well as lower interest costs due to our proactive hedging strategy, which took effect in January 2024.
The company's consolidated backlog continues to be strong, at $1.06 billion, increasing $17 million sequentially and over $67 million year-over-year despite headwinds from VA.
The defense backlog increased $98 million compared to the prior year quarter, and is now at $625 million, with new orders from previously discussed, Bayern-Chemie, the -- missile case, Mesa airborne surveillance as well as other platforms. As discussed, we experienced a pause in the order cycle for the toll missile case, but now will be coming back strong with better pricing, we manufacture in our Guaymas Mexico facility, where previously it was produced in Monrovia, California.
The commercial aerospace backlog decreased sequentially by $14 million. Full year 2024 revenue grew 3.9% to a record $786 million. Our commercial aerospace business grew 8% in 2024, with strength in Airbus, commercial rotorcraft and business jet platforms, partially offset by weakness on Boeing platforms. Our military and space business grew 4% in 2024, driven by strong performance across missiles, missile defense, radar, naval and F-15 programs, partially offset by weakness on the F-18 and F-35 programs. Our noncore industrial businesses was down 24% as well in 2024, as we continue to selectively prune noncore business to refocus our portfolio for the long term.
Full year 2024 adjusted EBITDA margins expanded 140 basis points to 14.8%. An excellent performance as we make steady progress towards our Vision 2027 target of 18% EBITDA margins. I'm also delighted to share a significant progress on what I believe one strategic goal under our Vision 2027 strategy. In December 2022, we set a target of generating 25% plus of our revenues from Engineered Products from 9% in 2017 and 15% in 2022.
In 2024, our engineered product revenue was 23% of our total revenue, up from 19% in 2023, positioning us well ahead of the curve achieving our Vision 2027 goal, and we're pushing for a lot more. We achieved this both through focused investment driving organic growth on our current businesses as well as the BLR acquisition.
This tremendous progress, and I cannot be happier. As for 2025 revenue, we are positioned to benefit from the expected recovery as the year progresses as well as the upcoming certification of 3 major revenue programs being transferred from our closed plants.
We are guiding to mid-single-digit growth for the year with a flattish first quarter due to destocking and lower build rates, slightly better revenue in Q2 and then renewed strength in the second half of 2025. Now let me provide some additional color on our markets, products and programs.
Beginning with our military and space sector, we saw revenues of $109 million compared to $104 million in Q4 2023. Growth was driven by missile programs such as the MI, the tow circuit cards along with next-generation Jammer and the F-16. These are partially offset by weakness on the F-35, Apache and the well-documented F-18.
Fourth quarter military space revenue represented 55% of Ducommun's revenue in the period, down from 59% for the full year back in 2022 and 70% in 2021. We expected this trend and reflects commercial aerospace getting stronger for DCO, providing good balance. We also ended the fourth quarter with a backlog of $625 million, an increase of $98 million year-over-year, representing 59% of Ducommun's total backlog. Within our commercial aerospace operations, fourth quarter revenue continued to grow, increasing 4% year-over-year to -- excuse me, $82 million driven mainly by growth on the A220 and S-92 platforms, offset by lower rates on the MAX.
As mentioned earlier, we believe a much better story ahead for BA and the MAX. Now the production is ramping up again. We also have high confidence in Kelly Ortberg and his team. The backlog within our commercial aerospace business was $416 million at the end of the fourth quarter, decreasing $15 million compared to the prior year driven by the Boeing strike. We expect this to recover as production rates ramp up in 2025.
Revenues in our industrial business declined by 1/3 to $6 million during Q4 and as we continue to strategically prune noncore business from the portfolio.
This will benefit the company in the longer term as we transition our capacity to our core aerospace and defense platforms. Okay. With that, I'll have Suman review our financial results in detail.

Suman Mookerji

Thank you, Steve. As a reminder, please see the company's 10-K and Q4 earnings release for a further description of information mentioned at all. As Steve discussed, our fourth quarter results reflected another period of solid performance with our commercial aerospace and military end markets.
We also continue to make good progress on our facility consolidation projects which are now nearing completion and will drive further synergies in late 2025 and into 2026. As we close out the recertification of the various product receiving facilities over the next few months.
As Steve highlighted earlier, we also made great truck build up our engineered product portfolio with those revenues now contributing 23% to our mix. These actions, along with our strategic pricing initiatives, drove strong margin expansion in 2024 and has put us on a strong footing to achieve our Vision 2027 goals. Now turning to our fourth quarter results. Revenue for the fourth quarter of 2024 was $197.3 million versus $192.2 million for the fourth quarter of 2023.
The year-over-year increase of 2.6% reflects growth in both commercial aerospace and military and space, highlighted by $5.1 million of growth across military and space platforms and $3 million of growth in our commercial aerospace platforms. We posted total gross profit of $46.4 million or 23.5% of revenue for the quarter versus $41.7 million or 21.7% of revenue in the prior year period.
We continue to provide adjusted gross margin as we have certain non-GAAP cost of sales items in the current and prior period relating to inventory step-up amortization on our recent acquisitions and restructuring charges.
On an adjusted basis, our gross margins were 24% in Q4 2024 versus 23.2% in Q4 2023. The improvement in growth by our growing engineered products portfolio, strategic pricing initiatives, productivity improvements and restructuring savings, partially offset by unfavorable product mix in our Structures segment and onetime expenses.
We continue to make progress working through operating environment with supply chain and labor. Through our proactive efforts, including strategic buys and our inventory investments, we have been able to avoid any significant impact thus far on our business.
Going forward, we will continue to work to improve the working capital returns in the business and improve our cash flow. Ducommun reported operating income for the fourth quarter of $10.4 million or 5.3% of revenue compared to $8.9 million or 4.6% of revenue in the prior year period.
Adjusted operating income was $16.1 million or 8.2% of revenue this quarter compared to $15.9 million or 8.3% of revenue in the final period last year. The company reported net income for the fourth quarter of 2024 of $6.8 million or $0.45 per diluted share compared to $5.1 million or $0.34 per diluted share a year ago.
On an adjusted basis, the company reported net income of $11.4 million or $0.75 per diluted share compared to adjusted net income of $10.4 million or $0.70 in Q4 2023. The higher net income and adjusted net income during the quarter was driven by the higher operating income and adjusted operating income. Additionally, our interest rate hedge helped to reduce our year-over-year interest expense. Now let me turn to our segment results.
Our Structural Systems segment posted revenue of $90.3 million in the fourth quarter of 2024 versus $85.6 million last year. The year-over-year increase reflected $6.4 million of higher sales across our commercial aerospace applications, including the A220 and S-92 rotorcraft platform.
Military and space applications were down 5%, driven primarily by a decline in Apache revenue as we shut down production in our Monrovia facility, partially offset by growth in Black Hawk and other military vehicles.
Structural Systems operating income for the quarter was $3.2 million or 3.6% of revenue compared to $6.6 million or 7.7% of revenue for the prior year quarter. Excluding restructuring charges and other adjustments in both years, the segment operating margin was 9.2% in Q4 2024 versus 14.6% in Q4 2023.
The decline in margin during the quarter was driven by unfavorable program mix and higher onetime costs. Our Electronic Systems segment posted revenue of $107 million in the fourth quarter of 2024 versus $106.7 million in the prior year period.
Higher revenues from the Mere next-generation Jammer and F-16 platforms were offset by lower revenues from in-flight entertainment electronics, along with a reduction in our industrial business as we chose to selectively prune noncore work.
Electronic Systems operating income for the fourth quarter was $19 million or 17.7% of revenue versus $9.8 million or 9.2% of revenue in the prior year period. Excluding restructuring charges and other adjustments in both years, the segment operating margin was 17.7% in Q4 2024 versus 10.2% in Q4 2023.
The year-over-year increase was primarily due to a higher mix of engineered products, strategic value pricing initiatives as well as savings from the restructuring program. The restructuring savings were driven by the consolidation of product lines from our variable performance center into our Joplin facility.
Next, I would like to provide an update on our ongoing restructuring program. As a reminder and as discussed previously, we commenced a restructuring initiative back in 2022. These actions are being taken to better position the company for stronger performance in the short and long term.
This includes the shutdown of our facilities in Monrovia, California and Berryville, Arkansas and the transfer of that work to our low-cost operation in Guaymas, Mexico and to other existing performance centers in the United States.
We continue to make progress on these transitions and are working diligently with our customers, Boeing and RTX to obtain their requisite approvals, which are expected to be completed over the next few months. During Q4 2024, we recorded $2.3 million in restructuring charges.
We expect to incur an additional $1 million to $1.5 million in restructuring expenses as we complete the program. Upon the completion of our restructuring program, we expect to generate $11 million to $13 million in annual savings from our actions and have already seen some realization of savings from these actions in 2024.
We expect the synergies to ramp up in late 2025 and into 2026 as the product recertification is complete and receiving facilities move off the learning curve and ramp up production. We also anticipate selling the land and buildings at both Monrovia, California and -- Arkansas.
Turning next to liquidity and capital resources. In 2024, we generated $34.2 million in cash flow from operating activities, which was an improvement compared to $31.1 million in 2023. The improvement was due to net income growth of $15.6 million, offset by investments in working capital.
We paid down $15 million on our revolver and $7.8 million on our term loan for a total of $22.8 million during the year. As of the end of the fourth quarter, we had available liquidity of $228 million, comprising of the unutilized portion of our revolver and cash on hand.
Our existing credit facility was put in place in July 22 at an opportune time in the credit market, allowing us to reduce our spread, increase the size of our revolver and allowing us flexibility to execute on our acquisition strategy.
Interest expense in Q4 2024 was $3.6 million compared to $5.4 million in Q4 2023. The year-over-year improvement in interest cost was mainly due to our interest rate hedge. In November 2021, we put in place an interest rate hedge that went into effect for a seven year period starting January 2024 and pegs the one-month term SOFR at 170 basis points or $150 million of our debt.
The hedge resulted in interest savings of approximately $1.8 million in Q4 2024 and will continue to drive significant interest cost savings in 2025 and beyond. To conclude the financial overview for Q4 2024, I would like to say that the fourth quarter results continued our momentum this year and positions us well for 2025 and beyond. I'll now turn it back over to Steve for his closing remarks.

Stephen Oswald

Okay. Thanks, Suman. Just in closing, Q4 was another very good quarter for DCO to finish, I believe, an excellent year. In 2024, we achieved record revenues with record margin expansion and the Vision 2027 strategy in its second year really kicked in. We also delivered full year EBITDA margins of 14.8%, which was an expansion of 140 basis points during the year.
Solid progress towards our target we've been mentioning this morning of 18% by 2027. . We also discussed our Vision 2027 target of the very important 25% plus of engineered product revenues and 2024 coming in at 23% was terrific news. Finally, with the BA strike now behind us, commercial bill rates heading higher, along with, I believe, a very good defense backdrop for DCO, including FMS, I feel great about what lies ahead in the next few years for us, our shareholders and our other stakeholders. So with that, let's go to questions.

Question and Answer Session

Operator

(Operator Instructions)
Ken Herbert of RBC Capital Markets.

Ken Herbert

Yeah, hey, good morning, Steve and Zaman.

Stephen Oswald

Okay, good morning. Good morning. Hey Steve.

Ken Herbert

Yeah, maybe just to kick off. I appreciate the 2025 mid-single-digit top line outlook as we think about the year. Specifically, can you provide any color on expectations for defense and commercial markets, commercial aerospace? And then I guess within commercial aerospace, where are you shipping today on maybe the MAX?
Or I guess what do you see as continued destocking risk on that particular program into the first part of year '25.

Stephen Oswald

Yeah, All right. Ken, thanks for the question. First, let me just tackle the commercial part. I mean a big part of our MAX business is through Spirit, right? So that's a large part of our shipments, including what we sent to Boeing as well, less or so.
We think that -- everything we're hearing is that the first quarter and probably through the first half, there's certainly destocking headwinds in Spirit, okay? So I can't tell you exactly what, but that's why we feel like first half of the year is first quarter, especially the first half of the year is a bit challenging on the destocking.
I think after that, things will open up a bit. Really, all indications are that they're going to get to the mid-30s at least, okay? We're hoping, and we think that's in the cards now. So we think the second half is going to be better than the first. Our military side, I mean, I know the services companies and lots of other folks are seeing tremendous headwinds.
I mean I can only talk to our backlog. Our backlog is real good. We're on these programs that we like. I mean, I mentioned this new customer can who -- it's just 1 of many, but this whole Natal buy that we got in Q4 that just because we're good at cabling really good and we've been working with Raytheon in the past, we were able to get that order.
So feel good about defense. I think that we're going to write up more commercial aero in the second half of the year. First half destocking and sort of still moving build rates higher, I think, is the story for DCO.

Suman Mookerji

Okay. So that we are seeing improvements between January and February this year in our shipments, both to Spirit and Boeing. So we have seen a ramp-up and from kind of the teens into the 20s, both with Boeing and Spirit going from January to February. So that bodes well for Q1 and rest of the '25.

Stephen Oswald

This Spirit has a lot of fuselages, as you know, Ken.

Ken Herbert

Yeah, no, I appreciate that. So if I think about, again, relative to the mid-single digit, maybe upper end of that range in defense and lower end of that range or better growth in defense, I guess, in military and space in 25 relative to commercial. Is that the right way to think about it?

Suman Mookerji

I think we're going to see -- we are expecting to see good growth in commercial as well, but it's going to be more back half. I think defense growth is going to be more even through the year.

Ken Herbert

Okay. Perfect. And just a clarification, what percent of your maybe defense sales ultimately end up in Europe? And how much will you benefit just from what's expected to be a surge in defense spending there?

Stephen Oswald

Yeah, that's a good question. This whole order we got, this $40 million-plus order is, frankly, one of our first, okay? So we are getting lift with the Polish order for the Apache helicopters and kind of -- those type of things. We get a big lift from that, but that goes through our US defense price.
This is a new thing for DCO. So we're hoping for more on that. It's early but this is a direct shipment into Germany. So it's -- I think it bodes well for, hopefully, more this year and next year.

Operator

Mike Crawford from B. Riley Securities.

Mike Crawford

Thank you. I know it's a little early, but with potential offsets to defense budget spending are prioritized under the new administration, as much as 8% targeted. Where does Ducommun sit in the mix? Like let's just take, for example, growing platforms like the Exon 30 that is like a next-generation combat vehicle that's probably okay, some other older platforms might get hit on reprioritization of spending. So as you look at it now, how would you characterize your position amid all this.

Stephen Oswald

Yeah, I know it's a little early, but with potential offsets to defense budget spending are prioritized under the new administration, as much as 8% targeted. Where does Ducommun sit in the mix? Like let's just take, for example, growing platforms like the Exon 30 that is like a next-generation combat vehicle that's probably okay, some other older platforms might get hit on reprioritization of spending. So as you look at it now, how would you characterize your position amid all this.

Suman Mookerji

We don't have a strong reliance on any 1 program. No individual program is more than 10% of our defense revenues, including programs such as the F-35, the F-16 or F-18 so I think we are diversified in that way. And also the focus, as he mentioned on our missile, missile defense, electronic warfare, our focus in those strategic areas, I think, is going to bode well if there is that pivot that you're talking about. And we should hopefully see further growth in those areas offsetting weakness on the more legacy platforms.

Stephen Oswald

The only thing, Mike, we've been writing down the which we've signaled the last, I guess, year or 2 on the call, right? So we'll be writing that down. But the good news is, is that a lot of that lower revenue now is in the base. So we're not going to see as much headwind on that. That's our view.

Mike Crawford

Okay. And just to switch gears a little bit. So in the IMC business, you have this great relationship with ViaSat that has just about 4,000 commercial planes in service and another 1,570 planes in backlog. So that's still going to continue for a few more years, but -- this has been a great growth business for you in the last few years. But at what point do you start planning for capacity where that business will slow down at some point, if it's not next year or 2027 is going to happen at some point.
So when do you start planning for that transition?

Stephen Oswald

Yeah, we're actually -- how about lucky and good, right? So all that work really comes out of Appleton, Wisconsin. That's all the card work we do for ViaSat and they're great partners. And we have next-generation Jammer going in there.
We have lots of things that are queued up. So we actually are probably in the next year to looking for more space, even though the ViaSat work will go down. We've got lots of high demand for our Appleton products. So I'd say at least from where I sit today, we're in good shape.

Mike Crawford

Okay. And just the last one is what, if anything, are you seeing that's different or interesting in your M&A pipeline? .

Suman Mookerji

So we are continuing to work on multiple opportunities. The deal flow in the lower mid-market for the engineered product businesses that we have seen has been slower in the past 12 months. but there are active things in the hopper that we continue to work on, and we remain optimistic about being and confident about being able to execute our acquisition strategy and meeting the Vision 2027 goals.

Mike Crawford

Thank you so much.

Stephen Oswald

Thanks.

Operator

Jason Gursky of Citi.

Unidentified Participant

This is Jerry Jason on for Jason Gursky. I just kind of wanted to understand sort of how much of the margin hit this quarter in Structural Systems was like mix as opposed to like costs that would fade away once Mexico is up and running. And so like if it's mixed, how long does that mix sort of persist for?

Suman Mookerji

Right. Great question. And I would say it's kind of about evenly split between mix as well as onetime expenses that were specific to the quarter. and the mix as well was unusual to the quarter, and we do expect the margins in the structures business to fully recover in Q1.

Unidentified Participant

Got you. Got you. I really appreciate that. And so my follow-on question is just if that's the case. So it sounds like Boeing programs are a bit more profitable than Airbus so first of all, is that the case?
And also, what can you guys do to like improve Airbus program profitability.

Suman Mookerji

I think we would -- we avoid talking about specific customer profitability or product line profitability. That being said, we ensure that we're getting paid for the value that we bring to the customer, and we continue to work on opportunities with both the customers you mentioned to raise projects where it is appropriate and make sure that we are earning sufficient margin. And those actions have taken place over the last year as you've seen growth in our margins. and there are active ongoing initiatives to drive that going forward in 2025 as well.

Unidentified Participant

Perfect. And then 1 last one. Just -- so how much of like additional costs did you guys sort of incur in this past quarter that were not backed out like? And sort of when do those potentially go away?

Suman Mookerji

Got you, I Appreciate the color. I, I'll pass it back.

Unidentified Participant

Yes.

Suman Mookerji

So, it's about half of the drop in margin was on account of onetime expenses. . Just for this quarter -- specific quarter for Q4.

Operator

Alexandra Many of True Securities.

Unidentified Participant

Hi, this is Andre Mandiri on for Michael Ciarmoli with Truist Securities. I just had a question on the cash flow statement. It looks like there's 1 item titled legal fees for unsolicited nonbinding acquisition offer -- in 4Q and $3.145 million year-to-date. Can you just add more color on this item and what it entails?

Suman Mookerji

Yeah, So it's not an expense we are happy about that we didn't want to spend certainly be spending shareholder money on something like this, but it was the right thing for us to do to protect shareholder interest and make sure that we preserve the value of the company for our existing shareholders.
And so in making sure that we were properly -- the management and the Board was properly advised in response to the offer received from Albion River. We did engage both financial advisers as well as legal advisers over the course of the year, and those are the fees that were paid to both those legal and financial advisers that advise Board and management.
Now since in Q4 and then in February of this year, we did see a 13G filing stating that Albion no longer holds position in Ducommun, and they have sold off their entire position. So we are not expecting these expenses to continue in 2025.

Unidentified Participant

Okay, great, that makes a lot of sense and I just had a quick follow up related to defense exposure and programs. So do you have any thoughts on doge and potential changes for the better or worse as a result of doge? Thanks.

Stephen Oswald

Yeah, thank you for the question. I know it's top of mind for everyone. We don't really have a viewpoint right now. Again, we've mentioned earlier on the call, we feel we have a wide breadth of products that we make for defense.
A lot of it is electronic warfare. A lot of it is things, cards, cabling, things that are important for missiles and missile defense, and we do feel good about all our programs, I mean, I did signal a year or 2 ago for the F-18, and that's the 1 program which we are winding down and most of that's already in the base.
So we feel good. But again, we don't -- we're not -- we don't have any view as yet as far as on the -- side. We just have the DCO view.

Unidentified Participant

Okay great awesome thanks.

Operator

(Operator Instructions) Noah Poponak of Goldman Sachs.

Suman Mookerji

I think there may be a connection issue. Let's, move forward.

Operator

Okay. I'm showing no further questions. I would now like to turn it back to Chairman, President and CEO, Stephen Oswald, for closing remarks.

Stephen Oswald

Okay. I want to thank everyone for joining us. I very much appreciate it. Again, I felt we had a very good quarter. I think we're well positioned.
I know there's lots of discussion about defense right now. Again, let me reiterate finally that our view is, at least from our product line, we feel very good about this year. So we'll have to see what we -- that's our view. We feel strongly about our Vision 2027 and look forward to speaking with you after the first quarter. So thank you again for your support and have a great and safe day.

Operator

Thank you for your participation in today's conference. This just conclude the program, you may not disconnect.