Stratech Security posts strong Q4 with 6% revenue growth; outlines transformation plans and cautious outlook for fiscal 2026 amid market uncertainty.

OPERATOR - (00:01:11)

Greetings and welcome to the Strattec Security Corporation Fourth Quarter Fiscal Year 2025 Financial Results Conference call. At this time, all participants are in a listen only mode. A brief question and answer session will follow the formal presentation. If anyone should require operator assistance during the conference, please press Star0 on your telephone keypad. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. It is now my pleasure to introduce your host, Deb Pawlowski, Investor Relations for Strattec. Thank you. You may begin.

Deb Pawlowski - Investor Relations - (00:01:45)

Thank you and good morning everyone. We greatly appreciate you joining us for Strattec's fourth quarter and fiscal 25 year end financial results conference call. Joining me on the call this morning are Jennifer Slater, President and CEO and Matthew Polley. Joe Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Jen and Matt will review our financial results, the progress being made to transform Strattec and our expectations for fiscal 2026. You can find a copy of the press release and the slides that accompany our conversation today on the Investor Relations section of the Company's website. If you are reviewing these slides, please turn to Slide 2 for the safe harbor statement. As you are aware, we may make some forward looking statements on this call during the formal discussion as well as during the Q and A. These statements apply to future events that are subject to risks and uncertainties as well as other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from what is stated on today's call. These risks and uncertainties and other factors are discussed in the earnings release as well as with other documents filed by the Company with Securities and Exchange Commission. You can find these documents on our website as well. I want to also point out that during today's call we will discuss some non GAAP measures which we believe will be useful in evaluating our performance. You should not consider the presentation of this additional information in isolation or as a substitute for results prepared in accordance with gaap. We have provided reconciliations of non GAAP to comparable GAAP measures in the tables accompanying the earnings release and slides. So with that, if you would please turn to slide 3, I will turn it over to Jen to begin. Jen.

Jennifer Slater - President and CEO - (00:03:28)

Thank you, Deb and welcome everyone. We ended fiscal 2025 on a strong note with solid sales growth, expanded margins, strong cash generation and a much better business from where we were at the beginning of the fiscal year when I. Joined the company as CEO. Our success was the result of our team whom I want to thank for their energy, perseverance and hard work. We covered a lot of ground and underwent significant change in fiscal 25. We have a refreshed and energized executive team. We added critical talent throughout the organization and continue to do so. We simplified our operations and reduced headcount by 15%. We implemented an operating cadence and created communication channels that had not existed in the organization before. We also began the work to reshape our product portfolio and we advanced our plans to modernize our manufacturing operations. These efforts were clearly demonstrated in our financial results which I will now touch on for the quarter and the year. We delivered very strong cash generation as we generated $30 million in cash from operations for the quarter, $71 million for the fiscal year. In addition to achieving stronger cash earnings, we improved our working capital velocity and benefited from some one time opportunities to unlock value from the balance sheet that Matt will discuss later. Revenue grew 6% in the quarter and 5% for the year. Higher sales and favorable foreign currency exchange combined with the initial benefits from our restructuring efforts helped to drive 370 basis points of gross margin expansion for the quarter as well as 280 basis points of margin improvement for the year. Fourth quarter EBITDA margin of 8.5% also demonstrated our continued progress through the year, but was up against a tough comparator in the prior year that benefited from a one time engineering cost recovery of $4.8 million. Our efforts result in an EBITDA margin expansion of 220 basis points for the year to 7.7%. Please turn to Slide 4. Our priorities for fiscal 2025 were to create shareholder value which we believe our transformation actions to date have accomplished across key focus areas of the business. This is demonstrated by the significant progress we have made to improve our underlying operations, unlock working capital and build a strong team. As we move into fiscal year 26, we will continue to focus on these same priorities. While we did unlock most of the low hanging fruit, we still believe we have opportunity to improve our margin profile. We are also focusing on leveraging our product expertise in key areas of the business such as digital key and power access to expand our customer base and facilitate growth. Our healthy balance sheet will help us weather any weakening market condition and continue to invest in the growth of the business and create value for our shareholders. If you will turn to Slide 5, you can see that there were a number of drivers to sales growth in both the quarter and the year. The fourth quarter benefited from our strategic pricing initiatives as well as higher demand. Throughout the year we have had the advantage of sales, several new program launches as well as being well positioned on better selling platforms. We are expecting our growth from new vehicle launches to moderate as we are in between significant launch cycles with our existing customers. Due to the long cycle nature of our business, we are actively working today to be included on model year 29 and 30 platforms. We are also working to broaden our reach to a larger customer set than we have addressed historically. We are excited about the future for Strattec and expect that over the long term we can continue to drive a growing stronger margin profile business with greater predictability and earnings power. Let me now turn it over to.

Matthew Polley - Vice President and Chief Financial Officer - (00:07:47)

Matt Thanks Jen and good morning everyone. Let's begin with slide 6. Fourth quarter gross profit increased to 25.4 million and gross margin expanded by 370 basis points to 16.7%. Gross profit improvement was the result of a $3 million benefit from a stronger US dollar, strategic pricing actions, $1.7 million in tooling gains, higher production volumes and $1.3 million of restructuring savings. These gains more than offset $1.6 million of net tariff expenses stemming from recent changes in US trade policy and higher labor costs in Mexico, albeit on a lower headcount. Based on the currently enacted tariff rates, we estimate that the annual cost increase is between 5 to 7 million. Before any mitigation efforts, however, we have taken steps to change our logistic routes, review our supply chain and implement price increases or tariff recoveries from customers. Our tariff mitigation efforts have continued after our fiscal year end and as of today we have line of sight to recover the majority of the cost. But the recovery of tariff costs will lag the associated expenses. For the full fiscal year. Gross margin improved by 280 basis points reflecting these same drivers, pricing actions, cost optimization and FX partially offset by elevated labor costs in Mexico and ongoing tariff headwinds. Turning to slide 7, selling administration, administrative and engineering expenses or SAE was 16.9 million. Prior year SAE benefited from 4.8 million of one time engineering recoveries. That makes the year over year comparison difficult. What's important to take away is that we are holding our SAE steady at about 11% of sales. The absolute spend reflects deliberate investments in our transformation initiatives as well as a $2.2 million increase related to incentive compensation and bonus expense that were the result of strong financial performance for the year. For the fiscal year, our SAE included $6.7 million of incremental incentive compensation costs given our financial performance, $1 million in additional executive transition costs and $1 million of business transformation costs. Let's move to Slide 8 where we summarize our profitability. Net income attributable to stratech for the quarter on both a GAAP on an adjusted basis declined primarily due to the prior year's engineering recovery benefit that I mentioned earlier and the increase in bonus provision. This year on improved performance, adjusted EBITDA was 13 million, representing an adjusted EBITDA margin of 8.5%. Our results reflect the team's commitment to delivering sustainable margin improvement. Let me point out that over the long term, we believe the business model would suggest a low teen EBITDA margin. Now turning to Slide 9, which highlights our cash flow, balance sheet and capital priorities. Operating cash flow was strong for the quarter at 30.2 million, a 55% improvement over the same period last year. This reflects higher cash earnings, disciplined Working Capital Management, the collection of about 5 million of historical VAT balances in Mexico, and the benefit of timing on receivables. During the quarter, we also had an $11 million reduction in inventory levels, partially attributable to reduced in transit inventory. While this benefited Working capital, I should point out that we will need to increase some inventory to maintain timely deliveries to our customers. For the year, operating cash flow reached 71.7 million, a record for the company. We had the one time opportunities captured during the year that I mentioned earlier, which makes repeating this performance a challenge until we gain more scale. Year to date Capital expenditures totaled 7.2 million, consistent with our focus on new product programs, productivity enhancements and IT infrastructure upgrades. This resulted in free cash flow for the year of 64.5 million. We ended the year with a very healthy cash position of 84.6 million. We also have approximately 52 million available under our revolving credit facilities. Our capital priorities in the near term are to create organic growth through investment in our commercial initiatives, drive operational improvements through modernization and continue new product innovation. We are also being conservative with our cash through these uncertain times, including moderated market conditions. Over the longer term, once we've established a greater amount of predictability in the business, we'll be in a better position to consider shareholder distributions as well as material. If you turn to Slide 10, I'll outline in general our expectations for fiscal 2026 given our perspective on our end markets as we know it today. As most of you are aware, we are a very long cycle business and the work we are doing today, as Jen mentioned, will be apparent in model years 2029 and beyond. In the meantime, our sales will generally follow North American OEM production volumes. Given that, we will lap several key launches that we benefited from in fiscal 25, current third party industry projections estimate that North American automotive production for our fiscal 2026 will be lower by about 5 to 6% with softness more prevalent in the second half of the fiscal year. We expect that we will still benefit from our recent pricing actions, especially in the first half of the year. We believe the business over the longer term and with sufficient volume is capable of achieving gross margins and in the 18 to 20% range. Until then, we will continue to focus on what we can control with margins, productivity, working capital and cash generation. As I mentioned earlier, we had a very robust year from a cash generation that was boosted by several one time opportunities for 2026 and beyond. We expect to continue to generate solid cash from operations, but at a more normalized rate. In summary, we are pleased with our solid financial progress and and the momentum we are building through our strategic execution with that operator. We're ready to open the line for questions.

OPERATOR - (00:14:04)

Thank you. We will now be conducting a question and answer session. If you would like to ask a question, please press Star one on your telephone keypad. A confirmation tone will indicate your line is in the question queue. You may press Star two if you would like to remove your question from the queue. For participants using speaker equipment, it may be necessary to pick up your handset before pressing the star keys. One moment please, while we poll for questions. Thank you. Our first question comes from the line of John Franzarev with Sidoti. Please proceed with your question.

John Franzarev - Equity Analyst at Sidoti - (00:14:40)

Good morning everybody and congratulations on another great quarter.

Jennifer Slater - President and CEO - (00:14:44)

Morning, John.

Matthew Polley - Vice President and Chief Financial Officer - (00:14:45)

Morning, John.

John Franzarev - Equity Analyst at Sidoti - (00:14:47)

I'd like to start with the transformation process. Jen, I'm curious, how far along do you think you are on it and how long do you think it will take before you're satisfied with the majority of it being completed?

Jennifer Slater - President and CEO - (00:15:00)

Thanks for the question, John. You know, I would say we're still. In the early innings of the transformation. We did have the opportunity this past fiscal year to address a lot of the low hanging fruit. And now as we focus on further transformation items, they'll be more longer term in nature than what we were able to see in fiscal year or 25.

John Franzarev - Equity Analyst at Sidoti - (00:15:25)

Okay. And when I looked at that slide on slide page four, I was wondering, does that mean you're considering exiting or divesting product lines? Is that a possibility in that process?

Jennifer Slater - President and CEO - (00:15:40)

I think I can give one example. We had some products really our switch product line. And when we look at that market, there's less and less switches in the vehicle today. It's already a crowded market. We have other areas of our business like our power access products and our digital key fobs that we feel we have a lot of opportunity. So we're still supporting our customers that we have in production, but we're really refocusing our engineering efforts around those products that we feel have more growth and provide more value to our customers.

John Franzarev - Equity Analyst at Sidoti - (00:16:19)

I mean, I guess the other side of that question on Slide 4 is the larger customer set. I assume that means outside the automotive market. Can you give some examples or how you get any hits yet or what you'd be looking at?

Jennifer Slater - President and CEO - (00:16:35)

Yeah, it doesn't necessarily mean outside of the automotive market, John. If you look at our customer concentration, we've been pretty concentrated around some of the larger North American customers. So we feel we have opportunity within automotive. And then the second layer of that. Is if you think about transportation, you know, heavy vehicle off road, there's opportunity for us there too. But our priority really is to continue to start within automotive.

John Franzarev - Equity Analyst at Sidoti - (00:17:05)

Okay, thanks. Thanks for clarifying that for me. And I guess one last question. I'll get back into Q. On the gross margins, two great quarters of above 16%. I believe Matt said the long term target is 18 to 20% range. What should we think about in fiscal 2026 is kind of a sustainable range for gross margin?

Matthew Polley - Vice President and Chief Financial Officer - (00:17:29)

Yeah, John, this is Matt. I think we finished the year at 15% gross margin. For the fiscal year. We provided a little bit of view on what we see on a go forward basis on Slide 10, but revenues will be down to flattish in fiscal 26. So you know, we do have the tailwinds in, in 1H26 around the pricing that we implemented in January, which is about 8 million and some of the restructuring actions. But on the flip side, we also have incremental costs around Mexico, labor inflation, which we'll see in the, in the.

John Franzarev - Equity Analyst at Sidoti - (00:18:04)

Back half of the year, you know, I guess. Matt, I'm curious, this might be too soon to ask this question, but do you have a sense of what the incremental decremental margins of the company are going to look like after some of these actions are completed?

Matthew Polley - Vice President and Chief Financial Officer - (00:18:19)

Yeah, we generally see incremental decremental margins in kind of the 25 to 30% range.

John Franzarev - Equity Analyst at Sidoti - (00:18:25)

Okay, great, thanks. I'll get back into queue.

Jennifer Slater - President and CEO - (00:18:28)

Thanks, John.

OPERATOR - (00:18:31)

Our next question comes from the line. Brian Sponheimer with Gabelli. Please proceed with your question.

Brian Sponheimer - Equity Analyst at Gabelli - (00:18:38)

Hi, good morning everyone and congratulations.

Jennifer Slater - President and CEO - (00:18:42)

Morning, Brian.

Matthew Polley - Vice President and Chief Financial Officer - (00:18:43)

Hey, Brian.

Brian Sponheimer - Equity Analyst at Gabelli - (00:18:45)

A couple of questions on the balance sheet and then just a couple on operations and product. So you know, you mentioned that you want to invest organically, invest in new products, but you know, it's $21 a share, $22 a share and 21 and a half dollars a share in cash. To what extent are you willing to, to hold that substantial amount of cash where basically what's your cushion given the uncertain times and then what is in excess of what you would consider to be the appropriate cushion for this business and then how you would think about the excess cash on the balance sheet?

Jennifer Slater - President and CEO - (00:19:31)

Yeah, thanks for the question. Brian and Matt and I were expecting to get this question, you know, really where we are right now. The good thing is we're not worried day to day about liquidity, which is really helping us focus on driving the improvement in the underlying business. There's a lot of uncertainty still in North America production. And as you heard Matt say, you know, we really are following what those productions, what North America production schedule is. So when we have this market uncertainty. We feel very comfortable that we've got the cash that we have to help us continue to focus on the transformation of the business. So I think, you know, as we. Think about it, we really look to make sure that we've got stability in the underlying business, continuing to focus on the transformation and then get through a little bit more certainty on what's going to happen in the market before we can get to a point where we're thinking about what is that cash cushion and how do we want to allocate longer term shareholder value.

Brian Sponheimer - Equity Analyst at Gabelli - (00:20:40)

Okay, understood. You know, you mentioned investing in new products with digital key fob as an area for growth. I'm curious how you see that digital key fob balancing with potentially the secular decline of more the physical key fob business that you've had in, whether it's kind of a net neutral for the overall business and whether there's any sort of subscription revenue that could come from a digital key fob product.

Jennifer Slater - President and CEO - (00:21:18)

Yeah, you know, we've done a lot. Of third party market studies on, you know, what does it look like for a digital key fob longer term. And we still see that there's both a consumer drive and a customer drive to have the physical key fob, which helps us get our confidence around having a digital key fob that's connecting to the car and the phone. For the consumer as far as subscription services, a lot of the customers are holding that opportunity. So I think it's premature, Brian, with where we are in our product development to think about where we have further subscription opportunity. But obviously that something we'll continue to understand as we work with our customers and see what their needs are for themselves and the Consumers.

Brian Sponheimer - Equity Analyst at Gabelli - (00:22:11)

Okay, great. Last one for me. You know, you talked about next year being more of a flattish year. But if you were to take $2 in earnings for the quarter in what traditionally hasn't been, you traditionally haven't been the most seasonal of businesses. But obviously, you know, you extrapolate that out to seven and a half, $8 a share, you know, how much do you think the performance of this $2 a share earnings is repeatable and how many, how much potentially were some more one time items that you, that you think we shouldn't be considering? And if we're thinking about an earnings number for 2026, 2027.

Jennifer Slater - President and CEO - (00:22:57)

I think I'm just going to frame that a little. Bit with the market again, Brian, because I think, you know, as we talked about it will be connected to where the North America production market is. And if you were to look at third party projections earlier in this calendar year versus later in the calendar year, you know, production levels dropped 10% to what they were projecting earlier from a third party standpoint.

Matthew Polley - Vice President and Chief Financial Officer - (00:23:23)

I'll let Matt add on from his perspective. Yeah, it really comes down to volume. I think we've done a good job over the past year of the things that we can control. So we've been more aggressive on pushing pricing where we have the opportunity. And also on the cost takeout, which is what you see kind of in the back half of the year. We'll balance that with some of the inflationary pressures that we see on a, on a go forward basis as well as kind of the headwinds from volume and some of the investments we still need to make in the business.

Brian Sponheimer - Equity Analyst at Gabelli - (00:23:54)

Understood. Well, clearly you're on an excellent track and we look forward to seeing what's ahead.

Jennifer Slater - President and CEO - (00:23:59)

Thanks so much, Brian. Thank you.

OPERATOR - (00:24:03)

Our next question comes from the line of Dennis Scannel with Rutabaga Capital. Please proceed with your question.

Dennis Scannel - Equity Analyst at Rutabaga Capital - (00:24:10)

Yes, good morning Jen and Matt and congratulations on a great quarter and a great finish to the year. Just a couple of quick things to follow up on the margin question to get to that low teens EBITDA margin potential. Is that just volume growth or will that take, how do I want to put it? Kind of like the new programs that you're targeting in the say the 2930 model year in terms of achieving that kind of margin improvement.

Matthew Polley - Vice President and Chief Financial Officer - (00:24:43)

Yeah, so the margin improvement really comes at the gross margin line and I think there's kind of three drivers there that'll help us get to those longer term margins. So first off it's pricing. So we've demonstrated the ability to get price. I think we'll continue to drive pricing where we command a premium. The second piece is around volume, which is the new model year launches and then the third is really around operational improvements. And so there's a funnel of continuous improvement ideas around both the four wall costs as well as supply chain. And we've added two new leaders to help us there and identifying kind of the opportunity set. And then longer term there's obviously kind of structural changes we could make around our footprint on a go forward basis.

Dennis Scannel - Equity Analyst at Rutabaga Capital - (00:25:30)

Yeah.

Jennifer Slater - President and CEO - (00:25:31)

And I think I would just add on to that. Matt touched on the two new leaders. So we've recently added a vice president of operations. He's hit the ground running and helping us, as Matt said, look at our forward costs and making sure that we're implementing standard operating procedures and understanding what the opportunity is on that side of the business. We also added supply chain talent for us to look at logistics and our overall supply chain. And as we talked about our low hanging fruit that we addressed last year, you know, we've done some cost efficiency opportunities, but we haven't really looked at that longer term structural changes.

Dennis Scannel - Equity Analyst at Rutabaga Capital - (00:26:13)

Got it. Great, thank you. Just a couple other quick things. So you know, obviously a great year in terms of cash flow and some benefiting from some one time items. So Matt, when you said that you expect free cash flow to return to more normalized levels again, I feel like you guys have changed the business a lot. So what do you see as normalized levels? Is that kind of 20 to 30 million free cash flow per year or how do we think about that?

Matthew Polley - Vice President and Chief Financial Officer - (00:26:41)

Yeah, so I'd reference our results in 25. You know, we delivered 71 million of cash from operations. I'd say about half of that is kind of the normal and the other half was kind of recovery of some pre production balances which we reduced by about 50% during the year and then also a $25 million reduction in working capital which I categorize that as kind of low hanging fruit. So I'm encouraged by the efforts the team has made around our working capital. At the beginning of the year it was roughly 22% of our sales and at the end of the year here it's a little over 16%. We've stated kind of our longer term target around primary working capital, that being receivables, inventory and payables is 15%. So we've made a nice move here in the fiscal year.

Dennis Scannel - Equity Analyst at Rutabaga Capital - (00:27:29)

Excellent, excellent. Just one other little thing. So on the VAT recovery, nice to hear that we collected 5 million during the year. It's still pretty hot. Elevated relative to where it was a few years ago. I kind of remember something under 10 million. Is that, I don't know, do you expect that to come down or is that kind of. Is that, will it kind of. Will that receivable kind of stay in that kind of 19 to 20 million dollars level?

Matthew Polley - Vice President and Chief Financial Officer - (00:27:58)

That's, that's one of the opportunities we have on a go forward basis to leverage our balance sheet. We collected 5 million in the quarter. It's about 50% of the balance that we were trying to collect from 2023. And then obviously there's some for 2024 that we need to collect as well. So that's an opportunity for us on a go forward basis.

Dennis Scannel - Equity Analyst at Rutabaga Capital - (00:28:17)

Got it. Great. Hey, thanks a lot and really nice job and look forward to tracking you guys going forward.

Jennifer Slater - President and CEO - (00:28:25)

Thank you so much.

OPERATOR - (00:28:29)

Our next question is a follow up from John Franz Red with Sidoti. Please proceed with your question.

John Franzarev - Equity Analyst at Sidoti - (00:28:35)

Yes, I was just curious about the comments on inventory. Matt, you alluded to it was a temporary drawdown. How much does that have to go back up to be equal in equilibrium with your demand profile? Can kind of frame that for us?

Matthew Polley - Vice President and Chief Financial Officer - (00:28:53)

Yes, I think you know, our inventory turns at the end of the year were just over seven and so yeah, it was a temporary reduction. We'd expect it to go up here in 26 just from an on time delivery with our customers. But you know, our inventory at the end of the year was roughly about 65 million. I'd probably put it in the 5 million ish range of we'd be more comfortable with another 5 million of inventory. Obviously we're going through the process to understand on a part level basis kind of make to stock, make to order and what's the right levels of inventory by item?

Jennifer Slater - President and CEO - (00:29:27)

Yeah, and I think I would add on to that, John. The two leaders we just added to the team are going to also help us make sure we've got the right level of inventory and the right places to serve our customers.

John Franzarev - Equity Analyst at Sidoti - (00:29:40)

And since you brought that up, Jen, I'm just curious, how much more personality do you need to add to your team or you think you have the proper people around you to execute what you're looking for on a go forward basis?

Jennifer Slater - President and CEO - (00:29:53)

Yeah, I think Matt and I are. Comfortable with the levels of investment that we have. You know, on a percent revenue basis basis we've put investment in place. But as a whole I feel good with what we have. John, we'll continue to address the organization where we need to add capability, but it doesn't necessarily relate to always incremental investment.

John Franzarev - Equity Analyst at Sidoti - (00:30:18)

Okay. And one last question. I'm just curious. Where do you stand on selling the Milwaukee facility? Any kind of update there?

Jennifer Slater - President and CEO - (00:30:25)

Yeah. So again, kind of with our cash. Position, we're not in a hurry to exit the building. We want to make sure that we've got the right opportunity for our operations and our headquarter and getting it at the right price. So we're still in the process, John. But there's no new update.

John Franzarev - Equity Analyst at Sidoti - (00:30:46)

Okay. All right, thanks and congrats again.

Jennifer Slater - President and CEO - (00:30:49)

Thanks, John.

OPERATOR - (00:30:52)

Our next question comes from the line of Mario Gabelli with Gabelli and Company. Please proceed with your question.

Mario Gabelli - Founder and Chairman - (00:30:59)

Thank you for taking the question. Just a couple of dots. Currency, how hedged are you? And is your cash strictly in US Banks or still some in the outside the United States and subsidiaries in Mexico or elsewhere?

Matthew Polley - Vice President and Chief Financial Officer - (00:31:17)

The majority of our cash is in the. In U.S. bank accounts. And from a hedging standpoint, we have stop.

Mario Gabelli - Founder and Chairman - (00:31:24)

Majority means 51%. Give me a. Can you give me a better number?

Matthew Polley - Vice President and Chief Financial Officer - (00:31:32)

It's over 70% of it's in the.

Mario Gabelli - Founder and Chairman - (00:31:33)

U.S. all right, so that means 30% is not. But the currency moves sometimes have impacts on your quarters. Second question is tax bill that was just passed, when you're doing R and D on your digital, is that expensed or is that what else benefits in terms of any other elements?

Matthew Polley - Vice President and Chief Financial Officer - (00:31:56)

Yeah. So the tax bill. The tax bill will benefit us from a cash tax savings going forward. We have about a $10 million deferred tax asset that we'll realize because we don't need to defer those R and D expenses from a tax standpoint on an annual basis. That's probably the biggest benefit is on the R and D side.

Mario Gabelli - Founder and Chairman - (00:32:17)

All right, that's great. Thank you. And I have a few more, but I'll get those through Brian and others. But one strategic. Just to kind of go back to the question of your fob business of fobs, let's assume there's 300 million vehicles on the roads in the United states and another 1.4 billion around the world. How much DNA do you have on the FOBs in the US and who's your competitor? Just refresh us.

Matthew Polley - Vice President and Chief Financial Officer - (00:32:46)

Yeah. So again, Mario, traditionally we've served the North America big three customers. So our focus has been there. Our competitors in that space are Continental, Dunzo and Hoof.

Mario Gabelli - Founder and Chairman - (00:33:04)

Any discussions of taking over their DNA, so to speak, of their base, given all of the challenges that are taking place in tariff movements?

Matthew Polley - Vice President and Chief Financial Officer - (00:33:17)

Yeah. We're continually looking at where we can provide value if it's new incremental for us or if it's opportunity with our footprint for our customers.

Mario Gabelli - Founder and Chairman - (00:33:27)

This is a question from us. You know, how do I get recurring revenues on an ongoing basis from subscriptions? This is like direct or direct to consumer. Right now most of your channels are distributed. I walk into a Ford dealer for my lost car key and I'm paying X dollars. How easy is it to look at given that channel of distribution going to a direct to consumer type, bypassing the Ford's dealerships.

Matthew Polley - Vice President and Chief Financial Officer - (00:33:57)

Yeah, we do have some aftermarket business today. 7% of our revenue is through aftermarket and some of that's dealer direct, some of that's through distributors. This is something that we're focusing on, but it's a little. We're still in kind of the early stages of understanding where we would have further opportunity there.

Mario Gabelli - Founder and Chairman - (00:34:17)

Well, thanks for the update, Jen. And obviously the only reason you asked that it has an impact on the multiple some of the AI parts of the world would pay for your stock earnings. Look forward to continuing to congratulate you on all your accomplishments. Take care.

Jennifer Slater - President and CEO - (00:34:34)

Thank you, Mario.

OPERATOR - (00:34:37)

Thank you. We have no further phone questions at this time. Ms. Polowski, I'd like to turn the floor back to you for web question.

Deb Pawlowski - Investor Relations - (00:34:45)

Thanks. Christine and I did have one question from one of our investors who congratulated Stratech on a nice quarter and year and wanted to know if we have any thoughts to share at present on possible new product offerings or new revenue opportunities. Opportunities over the next three to five years.

Jennifer Slater - President and CEO - (00:35:03)

Yeah, thanks for the question. You know, we're pretty comfortable with the. Products that we have and understanding that we think we have continued opportunity to expand our customer set within our current product portfolio. And that's where our focus is around our power access business and our digital key and addressing the customers we have today but also expanding into new customers.

Deb Pawlowski - Investor Relations - (00:35:28)

Excellent. And so everyone, thank you very much for joining us today. This concludes our call. I will point out that we will be at the Midwest Ideas Conference on 26th September and also participating in. We'll actually take that back so maybe we can see you at the Ideas conference. Thank you very much. Have a great day.

OPERATOR - (00:35:55)

Ladies and gentlemen, this does conclude today's teleconference. You may disconnect your lines at this time. Thank you for your participation and have a wonderful day.