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| The third quarter was going up against difficult prior-year comparisons that was aided by macro tailwinds, driving up sales by 14.9% in the prior-year quarter |
| Property management solutions and our professional consulting and project work continue to enhance consolidated gross margins and companies return profile |
| So this team shines bright and that is a relationship business in whole and the team does an amazing job in making sure that they are offering solutions to our customers and it turns into results and revenue |
| And now that we have the new sales force marketing territorial mapping tool that we've been able to utilize, we anticipate that's going to allow us to really penetrate into these larger markets a lot better than we have been able to in the past |
| We are benefiting from new service and solution offerings from our acquired businesses, and we are pleased to have invested in these differentiated businesses that offer nearshore and offshore IT capabilities and higher end finance and accounting solutions |
| The National Apartment Association expects added capacity with approximately 4.3 million new apartments planned to be built by 2035, and we plan to significantly benefit from this industry growth |
| We believe that our unique offerings across our two segments as well as good diversification of clients in the end markets position us well in this environment |
| We have made significant progress and changes in both segments and believe we are well positioned for profitable growth |
| Although our stock has traded down and it's mostly in line with the industry, we believe that we are better positioned for future growth, higher gross margins, and meaningful cash flow generation leading to long-term shareholder value |
| Our full suite of Professional Services & Solutions includes our acquisitions, has strengthened our go-to market value delivery proposition |
| We remain bullish on the company's prospects based on a significant progress of our strategic repositioning over the last several years, which includes higher value consulting, managed solutions, and a growing property management platform |
| But that team is an amazingly engaged team and they really did great things within the industry |
| The Property Management segment, all organic, continued to show strength and grew revenues by 8.2% in the third quarter |
| The third-quarter gross profit margins expanded to 35.9%, up from 35.7% in the prior-year quarter |
| It seemed like the Property Management was extremely strong |
| It seems like it's your best quarter ever and it seems to be continued momentum there |
| What makes it so successful because at one point, it felt like it was decelerating a little bit and now it's really back on track and doing very well |
| Third-quarter total revenues grew to $83.5 billion, up 6.3% from the prior-year quarter |
| So we've hit that this last quarter, but keeping in mind that our third quarter is our highest quarter in revenue, we like -- we're going to wait to see what happens in December to see how it stabilizes, but that's far from we've been pleased |
| The Professional segment gross margins were 33.2%, up 130 basis points due to the acquired businesses and continued shift away from low margin IT placements |
| So as those two companies get integrated in the organization and the sales teams get more aligned and being able to cross-sell those efforts, we expect those revenues to increase and grow and actually make as offering that our customers won't have to go outside us but continue to keep all the business with us |
| Our strategic investment in people, process, and technology over the last three years have given us more stability and capabilities to succeed than three years ago |
| And then you referenced Q4 for professional, you expect it to be up year over year, mainly from the acquisitions, but you have an improvement on the core organic |
| This growth was on top of 34.1% revenue expansion in the third quarter of last year |
| So we think that we're going to get major benefits from that |
| Our goals are to grow through organic and inorganic revenues and by diversification actions to higher value and specialized offerings in both segments |
| Our performance for the third quarter reflects continued progress on our long-term strategic initiatives |
| Our third-quarter performance reflects this progress with sales growth of 6.3% that resulted in total revenues of $83.5 million |
| We've talked in the past and we have the ability to be able to help somebody pick a software |
| We did not have managed services in that F&A world, and that has proved -- started to prove out to be very beneficial for us |
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| Organic sales and professional declined by 20.6% in the third quarter versus the prior-year quarter |
| Sales softness in this year's first quarter was primarily related to staff augmentation placement and technology implementation starts |
| Property Management gross margins were 39.5% compared to 40.8% in the prior-year quarter due to lower permanent placement |
| The effects of economic uncertainties and high interest rates of 2023 continue to cloud our industry and create a choppy demand environment |
| So if you look at our business, you look at the last two years as it's tough to see the seasonality |
| The first two months of the quarter really wasn't slower |
| We hate to say that for six weeks means stabilization, but we have seen that level off on a sequential week basis |
| I wondered if you could dive a little deeper on the ERP consulting trends that you're experiencing now and the technology innovation starts being pushed out delayed or not happening |
| Company still have the need to be able to do it |
| We reported adjusted earnings of $0.36 per diluted share compared to $0.37 per share for the second quarter, which was lower primarily due to the impact of more interest expense this quarter |
| They are just a little bit nervous on when to pull the trigger on those things |
| Looking into fourth quarter, despite continuing difficult comps, we expect the professional segment to stabilize somewhat |
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