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| I believe that a high quality CAP coupled with a macroeconomic construction market is fueled by the IIJA with granted in the strongest position for growth and profitability in over a decade |
| We also said we were going to obtain margin expansion through higher margins on bid day and through improved execution |
| For fiscal year 2023, adjusted net income improved to $140 million and adjusted diluted earnings per share improved to $3.14 |
| You keep raising the bar and you should be proud of this achievement |
| Most importantly, in 2023, we had the best stage results in Granite's history for a second consecutive year |
| We finished the year strong with fourth quarter adjusted net income of $36 million and adjusted diluted earnings per share of $0.82 |
| In 2023, we made significant strides in our financial performance on our path to achieving our 2024 financial targets |
| In our construction segment, we strengthen our home markets by selecting the right owners, projects, subcontractors, and vendors while leveraging our local market intelligence to win more projects at higher margins |
| With stabilized costs, more efficient operations, and consistently strong quarter volumes, when combined with further expected price increases, we anticipate growing segment revenue and profitability in 2024 |
| So we got a healthy market both on the public side and the private side that we're excited about |
| So we're very fortunate to have good weather |
| Our 2023 Q3 and Q4 were very high activity levels, which generated very nice cash generation, obviously, in Q3 and Q4 |
| Our focus on raising prices, investing in automation, purchasing reserves, bolt-on acquisitions, and geographic expansion not only gives us confidence that we will meet our financial targets, but that we will continue to sustainably grow revenue |
| In the construction segment, annual revenue increased $188 million or 7% year-over-year to $3 billion aided by a strong finish to the year in the fourth quarter with an increase of 19% year-over-year |
| For unbilled receivables, Q4 was a very strong quarter for us for reduction of unbilled receivables |
| So we feel really good about the opportunities there and an opportunity to continue to grow that business for us |
| So the pipeline has gotten stronger, margins gotten better |
| And so we're getting to see the benefit of that, because obviously that not only impacted our bottom line, but really our ability to generate cash |
| And so we made we made nice strides with that for 2023 and we see that continuing into 2024 |
| Moving to the Materials Segment, we completed another strong performance in the fourth quarter |
| With our de-risk business model, we are seeing the positive effects on our ability to generate cash |
| Cash generation, we're excited with our cash generation for 2023 |
| Nice cash flow this quarter |
| So our margins are getting better, if not pretty consistent with what we saw last year, which are really healthy margins in the market |
| It is truly a testament to Granite's strength in our home markets, our experienced teams, and the strong public and private market environment |
| They are long-standing, well-regarded companies that are positioned for growth |
| We demonstrated our ability to drive strong organic revenue growth with higher levels of profitability than Granite has seen in many years |
| We're excited about the opportunities we see in the state of California, certainly on the public side, if you look at the SB-1 monies that are out there, they continue to grow |
| We finished 2023 with a strong fourth quarter to continue to build on momentum from the third quarter |
| For the year, revenue increased $208 million or 6% with the fourth quarter completing a strong second half of the year |
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| Moving into the construction segment, it is frustrating that our really strong fourth quarter was tempered by negative impacts on the legacy Tappan Zee and I-64 High Rise Bridge projects |
| This resulted in a negative impact to gross profit of $19 million during the fourth quarter |
| We really don't bid these -- the mega projects that we historically had been that it caused us a lot of challenges in organization |
| They are a challenge and frankly, they're a drag on our cash |
| In addition, even though construction activities are now substantially complete on the I-64 project, weather related delays negatively impacted costs and fourth quarter gross profit by $14 million or $7 million after non-controlling interest |
| Last year, obviously, we had a really tough quarter weather-wise |
| In 2022, there was a little bit more tougher market I should say, than what we have historically seen and what we have in the last couple of years |
| We did get some emergency work last year, but it wasn't enough to really offset the weather that we were impacted by |
| They were underinvested from a reserve perspective |
| You know, obviously a lot of extreme weather and flooding in late January and through the month of February |
| When we set this range, we said we were going to replace legacy projects dragging down profitability with lower risk, higher margin projects |
| So yes, we don't have any concerns |
| But I think our materials business, where we're going to see the impact, probably the greatest |
| After the second quarter, I mentioned that the weather delay start to the year had impacted the timing of our cash generation and that would change in the second half of the year |
| We saw some bolt-on opportunities, ways that we could preserve the market position we had |
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