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| Progress on these metrics reflects increased confidence in our expectations for the year |
| These metrics reflect healthy demand and disciplined bidding |
| I am especially proud that CACI received a number of recognitions for our support of our veterans, including being named the Best Employer for Veterans by Forbes |
| And I think the underlying operations of the business, while we reiterated the year in our guidance, we feel like we’re off to a really strong start, but we’re going to operate here for another quarter or so and reassess |
| The investments we have made and the value proposition we offer our people continue to drive a number of positive outcomes, including lower attrition, increased referrals of new hires by existing employees, innumerous awards, recognizing CACI is one of the best places to work in the country |
| Against those elements, we delivered 15% organic revenue growth, $174 million of EBITDA, free cash flow that exceeded our expectations |
| We had strong performance on our recompetes as well |
| We have a very favorable capital structure in that regard |
| Look, we are well positioned there |
| First quarter operating cash flow, excluding our accounts receivable purchase facility, was $93 million reflecting solid profitability and strong cash collections |
| The combination of these successes is driving free cash flow per share growth and shareholder value |
| We are winning high-value enduring work that supports long-term growth |
| We continue to see healthy demand for network modernization and a strong pipeline of additional opportunities |
| We continue to show that we are strategically positioned in the right markets with differentiated capabilities |
| The business is performing well and we remain confident in our ability to continue to drive long-term growth, increase free cash flow per share and generate additional shareholder value |
| In addition, our unique software-defined capabilities, coupled with our deep understanding of Signal’s and the electromagnetic spectrum, continues to differentiate CACI in the marketplace |
| To wrap things up, first quarter was a great start to the year and we are pleased to be able to raise our full year revenue, adjusted EPS and free cash flow guidance |
| As it pertains to the jobs that we have already submitted were waiting for the government to select the award, awardee and for the submitted bids, but we’re very confident that the work that we have is in the deep streams of funding that are exactly those areas of the budget that are not being touched |
| These metrics provide good long-term visibility into our business |
| Our first quarter book-to-bill of 1.7x reflects strong performance in the marketplace and our first quarter awards have a weighted average duration of over 6 years |
| Turning to our forward indicators, CACI’s prospects continue to be strong |
| We continue to show the value of our technically superior proposal and we are receiving positive feedback from our customer executives |
| As was the case last year and as we shared in our guidance call last quarter, we see higher profitability in the second half of the year |
| We have a great partnership with the Navy and our customer is pleased with our performance |
| Customer demand remains high, driven by the elevated global threat environment, the pacing capabilities of our adversaries and the significant opportunity for modernization in government to enhance both efficiency and security |
| Beyond that, the underlying performance of the business is slightly ahead of our expectations for the first quarter, and we think we’re on a good path |
| We are proud that our team was able to rapidly and efficiently respond to these requests with $100 million of the material delivered in our first quarter and another $100 million slated to be delivered next quarter |
| We remain well positioned to deploy capital in a flexible and opportunistic manner to drive future growth and shareholder value |
| In summary, our first quarter results were strong, and fiscal year ‘24 is off to a great start |
| Demand signals are healthy and we are well positioned to address key customer priorities |
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| First quarter reported EBITDA margin reflects 60 basis points of drag from the higher material volume I just mentioned |
| I think the attack on Israel is a reminder that despite the increase of near-peer threats, you’ve all heard me say this, contourism is still a major concern |
| As we have said many times, the world is a dangerous place and recent events have only confirmed that view |
| Look, we’ve said many, many times, right? Unfortunately, the world was a dangerous place |
| We displaced a long entrenched incumbent |
| Is the – frankly, the valuations and the seller’s expectations have been relatively slow to adjust to a changing market dynamics |
| Louie DiPalma Electronic warfare has proven particularly disruptive in Ukraine |
| Given the recent budget uncertainty, just such an opportunity arose when we received requests to purchase nearly $200 million of network equipment, cybersecurity licenses and other material before the government fiscal year ended |
| I mean we are continually looking at the pipeline and when we see a combination of factors where we don’t see maybe near-term opportunities that are interesting to us, we see some market weakness in our share price, those are times that we’re going to stop and buy back some shares |
| The unplanned material buys were not pull forwards |
| Even with an extremely complex environment and technical requirements, we have hit the ground running because we invested ahead of customer need |
| I think in the current environment, that’s going to be less |
| In addition, we were just notified of a $200 million DoD network modernization win |
| The fact that we had $200 million of zero margin revenue come in |
| If there are no protests on it, we will see some lighter revenue come in, in the third quarter and fourth quarter, but nothing that’s going to change our guidance |
| Matt Akers So you mentioned that, I guess, the $200 million of material buys that I think maybe shifted based on some of the uncertainty that’s going on, people pull that forward |
| I guess if you strip that out kind of your base business was there any kind of pull forward in that business as well? I’m just curious how people are sort of your customers are acting around some of the uncertainty around the budget |
| Certainly, raise the urgency level around defense and national security globally, frankly |
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