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ProfileEarnings HistoryForecast Accuray EPS ResultsActual EPS$0.01Consensus EPS $0.03Beat/MissMissed by -$0.02One Year Ago EPSN/AAccuray Revenue ResultsActual Revenue$127.54 millionExpected Revenue$123.78 millionBeat/MissBeat by +$3.76 millionYoY Revenue GrowthN/AAccuray Announcement DetailsQuarterQ4 2025Date8/13/2025TimeAfter Market ClosesConference Call DateWednesday, August 13, 2025Conference Call Time4:30PM ETConference Call ResourcesConference Call AudioConference Call TranscriptSlide DeckPress Release (8-K)Annual Report (10-K)Earnings HistoryCompany ProfileSlide DeckFull Screen Slide DeckPowered by Accuray Q4 2025 Earnings Call TranscriptProvided by QuartrAugust 13, 2025 ShareLink copied to clipboard.Key Takeaways Negative Sentiment: In Q4, total revenue fell 5% year-over-year to $128 million, driven by a 14% drop in China sales due to tariffs and a 34% decline in EMEA shipments amid geopolitical unrest. Positive Sentiment: Service revenue rose 4% to $56.9 million with a nine-point margin improvement, reflecting pricing initiatives and lower parts consumption. Positive Sentiment: Accuray completed a debt refinancing securing $190 million in new financing with TCW, extending debt maturity by five years and boosting liquidity. Positive Sentiment: Book-to-bill stood at 1.2 in Q4 with a backlog of $427 million (over 18 months of product revenue), underpinning strong near-term revenue visibility. Neutral Sentiment: Guidance for FY 2026 calls for revenue of $471–485 million and adjusted EBITDA of $31–35 million, with about 55% of sales expected in the second half of the year. AI Generated. May Contain Errors.Conference Call Audio Live Call not available Earnings Conference CallAccuray Q4 202500:00 / 00:00Speed:1x1.25x1.5x2xThere are 6 speakers on the call. Speaker 100:00:00Welcome to the Accuray fourth quarter fiscal 2025 financial results conference call. All participants will be in a listen-only mode. Should you need assistance, please signal a conference specialist by pressing the star key followed by zero. After today's presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask questions. To ask a question, you may press star, then one on your telephone keypad. To withdraw your question, please press pound, then one. Please note this event is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to Steve Monroe, Vice President of Corporate Financial Planning and Analysis. Please go ahead. Speaker 200:00:40Thank you, and good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to Accuray's conference call to review financial results for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2025, which ended June 30, 2025. During our call this afternoon, management will review recent corporate developments. Joining us on today's call are Suzanne Winter, Accuray's President and Chief Executive Officer, and Ali Pervaiz, Accuray's Chief Financial Officer. Before we begin, I would like to remind you that our call today includes forward-looking statements. Actual results may differ materially from those contemplated or implied by these forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause these results to differ materially are outlined in the press release we issued just after the market closed this afternoon, as well as in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. We base the forward-looking statements on this call on the information available to us as of today's date. Speaker 200:01:38We assume no obligation to update any forward-looking statements as a result of new information or future events, except to the extent required by applicable securities laws. Accordingly, you should not put undue reliance on any forward-looking statements. A few housekeeping items for today's call. First, during the Q&A session, we request that participants limit themselves to two questions and then re-queue with any follow-ups. Second, all references to a specific quarter in the prepared remarks are to our fiscal year quarters. For example, statements regarding our fourth quarter refer to our fiscal fourth quarter ended June 30, 2025. Additionally, there will be a supplemental slide deck to accompany this call, which you can access by going directly to Accuray's Investor Relations page at investors.accuray.com. With that, let me turn the call over to Accuray's Chief Executive Officer, Suzanne Winter. Suzanne? Speaker 400:02:37Thanks, Steve, and welcome to our fourth quarter earnings call, and thank you all for joining today. Overall, I'm pleased with our performance in the fourth quarter, especially how we navigated a turbulent geopolitical environment, which impacted several key regions at various points in the quarter. Our solid revenue growth, overcoming these obstacles, was a testament to the resilience and flexibility of our operations and commercial teams to deliver product and provide service to the markets that were open during various periods within the quarter. Service was a highlight for the quarter, with solid service revenue and margin growth, as well as the continued positive customer response to our new product innovations, like Tomos for China and Helix in international markets, both of which have been a central part of our growth strategy. Speaker 400:03:29Finally, we put a major milestone behind us by successfully completing refinancing of our debt and securing a strong strategic partner that has invested in our long-term success. Before I go into the specifics of the quarter, I'd like to review the macroeconomic and geopolitical backdrop we continue to navigate through and provide some context on the guidance we provided last quarter and the resulting impact on our performance. Recall that in early April, trade negotiations escalated between the U.S. and China. The U.S. government announced a 145% tariff on goods from China entering the U.S., and China imposed a 125% tariff on goods coming from the U.S. Speaker 400:04:13After evaluating the potential impact to our business, we provided guidance during our fiscal third quarter financial results to reflect these developments in trade policy, which included revenue adjustments to account for an anticipated stall in China revenue, which at the time we expected would be partially offset by other regions like EIMEA. Fast forwarding to May, the U.S. and China came to an agreement and each announced reduced 10% reciprocal tariffs, a significant improvement from the original April announcement. These actions reopened the China markets for us, allowing us to resume shipments. Weeks later in June, there was an unexpected unrest in the Middle East, which affected trade in a significant portion of the EIMEA region, essentially halting shipments to several countries within the region. Speaker 400:05:03All of these events created significant challenges within our supply chain as we pivoted several times within the quarter to deliver product to different regions of the world. The net result of all of this was that we were able to shift a portion of sales back into China in May, allowing us to deliver our overall revenues in line with our expectations. However, due to this regional shift of revenues into China and out of EIMEA, we had a $1.7 million higher margin deferral into future quarters, which impacted adjusted EBITDA. We expect to realize this margin as a positive adjusted EBITDA impact starting in the first half of fiscal 2026, as these products are delivered to their end customers. Speaker 400:05:49Despite these dynamics, I'm incredibly proud of how our team stepped up in a major way to mitigate the impact of the tariff volatility through focused actions, which Ali will speak to in greater detail. These include, first, executing a drawback of duties paid on components, which were subsequently exported. Second, managing logistics to drop ship service parts directly to bonded warehouses and customer sites directly. Third, establishing dual source capabilities for key components. Most importantly, advancing progress in our plans to establish our mass manufacturing site as a foreign trade zone in the second half of the fiscal year 2026, which is expected to mitigate a significant portion of fusion tariffs. Now turning to the fiscal fourth quarter, total revenue for the quarter was approximately $128 million, down 5% year over year, driven by lower product revenue in our China and EIMEA businesses. Speaker 400:06:52As I alluded to earlier, reduced sales in China were linked to the tariff impacts in May, resulting in a 14% decline versus last year. Later in the quarter, the escalating tensions in the Middle East impacted our EIMEA business, resulting in a 34% decline versus last year. Additionally, Japan declined 11% in the quarter. Outside of these regions, we saw outstanding revenue performance in our APAC region, which was up 22%, driven by improved demand. We were pleased to see a return to revenue growth in the Americas at 24%, with a solid conversion of backlog. Service revenue was a highlight for the quarter at $56.9 million, up 4% versus the prior year. We see tremendous opportunity in our service business for both revenue and margin expansion as we grow our installed base of customers. Speaker 400:07:48All regions showed installed base growth, with the exception of the U.S., which essentially remained flat. A key area of focus in the quarter was driving improvement in service margins. I was encouraged to see service margins up nicely, both year over year and sequentially. This will be a continued area of focus for us in the future, and we believe that we have laid out the foundation, including strategic pricing, development of high-value support and education offerings, and finally driving efficiency in our cost to service. Over the last two years, we have focused R&D investment in making our current designs more robust and have started to realize more substantial benefits here. Speaker 400:08:31One of the biggest factors in improving service margin is reducing service parts consumption, and we are now positioned well to execute on this initiative and feel it is a big opportunity for us over the next few years. Additionally, order trends continue to support our target book-to-build ratio of 1.2, a level which we believe to be a healthy balance to grow our company. From a regional perspective, the biggest highlights were 50% growth in orders in APAC and 34% year-over-year growth in Japan, followed by a 15% growth in China and a 12% growth in EIMEA. These were partly offset by slower order demand in the U.S., which was down as the replacement market had yet to recover in a meaningful way. Growth in the emerging markets where we have introduced new products like the Helix and Tomos in China are seeing strong demand. Speaker 400:09:24These are among the highest growth markets in the world, which we are actively targeting and are an integral part of our growth plan in the next few years. Reflecting on our fiscal full-year performance, I remain proud of what our team has accomplished this year and remain humbled by our mission, which is centered around advancing care through innovation, expanding patient access to radiotherapy globally, and delivering superior service to our customers. Global revenue for the year grew 3%, and I'm very pleased by the strong performance in our international markets. China product revenue grew 20% year over year, whereas the rest of APAC grew over 200% year over year. Speaker 400:10:05Offsetting growth in these regions was a decline in product revenues in some of the developed markets, which had a substantial impact on the year-over-year EIMEA growth, which was down 32%, and a decline in our Japan region, where the economy has slowed over the past few quarters and was down 19%. Service was strong, with revenue up 4% for the full fiscal year, which represents the highest annual growth we've seen over the last several years and over nearly all regions. Growth was primarily driven by three factors, including expansion of our installed base, increased service contract capture rates following warranty, and additional value-added service offerings like CyberComm, all of which demonstrated meaningful results in nearly all regions. Leading the way here was China, where we saw 21% year-over-year growth in service revenue. Speaker 400:11:01This was followed by 10% growth in Japan, 7% growth in the EIMEA regions, and 3.5% growth in APAC, which were partly offset by the Americas, which declined 7%. While region product revenue varies from quarter to quarter, the growing contribution from our service business, particularly service contract revenue, provides greater revenue predictability and a base to expand margin. During the year, we also kicked off the Accuray Care service initiative with focused R&D investment to further strengthen our existing platform designs to improve system uptime performance, extend service parts life, and improve our customer response times and time to repair. We're leveraging system data, AI, and predictive analytics to improve cost to serve by reducing parts consumption with a goal of no patient having to be rescheduled for treatment due to system downtime. In summary, I'm proud of what we've accomplished this year. Speaker 400:12:05We've built a strong foundation for top-line growth driven by international markets, achieved a strong market position in key markets like Japan and China. We grew our installed base of customers as well as delivered strong growth in our service business. Despite the near-term challenges and capital equipment budget cycles, we believe that the long-term potential of developed markets like the U.S. remains intact, with the advanced age of installed base of radiotherapy systems providing a catalyst for upgrade and replacement opportunities. We were pleased to see revenue growth in Q4 from the U.S. and expect to see a gradual improvement from this region accelerating in fiscal year 2026. Before I hand it over to Ali, who will provide more details, I want to take a moment to talk about the refinancing transaction that closed during the quarter and what it has meant for our company in the long run. Speaker 400:12:58This transaction was driven by our desire to find the right partner for the business and create financial flexibility. We are looking forward to working with TCW and our newly appointed independent board member. I believe they're going to be a tremendous asset to us as we grow our business in the upcoming years. I'll now turn it over to Ali, who will cover our financial performance report. Speaker 200:13:23Thank you, Suzanne, and good afternoon, everyone. I'd like to begin by recognizing our global cross-functional teams for unwavering dedication and execution. Their efforts enabled us to deliver a strong fiscal year 2025 performance while navigating a challenging macroeconomic environment. Turning to our financial results for the fourth quarter and full year, net revenue for Q4 was $128 million, down 5% year over year, or $126 million on a constant currency basis, a 6% decrease. For the full fiscal year, total revenue reached a record $459 million, up 3% from last year, with foreign exchange having minimal impact. While U.S. revenue was affected by softer macroeconomic conditions, our international business remained strong, growing 4% year over year and now representing 80% of total revenue, a clear sign of our global momentum. Speaker 200:14:16Product revenue in Q4 was $71 million, down 11% year over year and 12% on a constant currency basis, reflecting the regional dynamics Suzanne described earlier. For the full year, product revenue was $238 million, up 1.5% from the prior year, with foreign exchange having a negligible impact. Service revenue for the quarter was $57 million, up 4% year over year and 2% on a constant currency basis. Notably, contract revenue within our service business grew 3% in Q4 and 2% for the full year as our installed base continues to expand globally. Full-year service revenue was $221 million, up 4% from last year, with contract revenue now making up about 90% of total service revenue. Gross orders for Q4 were approximately $85 million, resulting in a book-to-build ratio of 1.2. For the full year, gross orders totaled $288 million, also with a book-to-build of 1.2. Speaker 200:15:15We ended Q4 with a backlog of about $427 million, which represents over 18 months of product revenue, giving us strong visibility and confidence in future revenue conversion. As part of our ongoing diligence, we proactively canceled one unit, about $3 million, to maintain a high-quality backlog. Gross margin for the quarter was 30.6%, up 200 basis points year over year. Product gross margin declined 3.4 points, primarily due to higher margin deferrals from China shipments, a timing issue we expect to reverse in the first half of fiscal 2026. Excluding the China margin deferrals, product gross margins would have been 33.2%, nearly flat with the prior year period. On a full-year basis, product gross margins would have been 34.8%, a 1 point increase over the prior year when excluding the China margin deferrals. Service gross margins improved by 9 points, driven by lower parts consumption and successful pricing initiatives. Speaker 200:16:13For the full year, gross margin had a slight increase of 10 basis points from 32% to 32.1%. Adjusting full-year gross margin for the China margin deferral would have resulted in 33.7% gross margin, which would have been 60 basis points higher than the same adjustment for the prior year. Operating expenses in Q4 were $34.7 million, up from $31.6 million last year, mainly due to the timing of R&D and marketing investments. For the full year, operating expenses were $139.1 million, down 2% year over year, reflecting our ongoing focus on cost control and ROI. Operating income for Q4 was $4.2 million, down $2.6 million last year due to the timing of investments. For the full year, operating income improved to $7.8 million from $0.5 million in fiscal year 2024. Adjusted EBITDA for Q4 was $9.4 million. Speaker 200:17:10For the full year, adjusted EBITDA was $28.3 million, up 44% year over year. It's important to note that the China JV accounting treatment had us defer $7.6 million of margin related to FY25 shipments into future quarters. Turning to the balance sheet highlights, accounts receivable were $83 million, up $5 million sequentially. Inventory was $141 million, down $5 million versus prior quarter. Accounts payable were $34 million, down $12 million versus prior quarter as we prioritized key supplier payments. Total cash and cash equivalents were $62 million, down from $80 million last quarter, reflecting $8.9 million in refinancing fees and working capital investments that we spoke about earlier. As Suzanne mentioned, in early June, we completed a comprehensive debt refinancing that we believe better positions Accuray for long-term growth and financial flexibility. The transaction itself had several key elements. Speaker 200:18:11The company exchanged approximately $82 million of its 3.75% senior convertible notes due in 2026 for approximately 8.9 million shares of common stock and $68.6 million in cash. Concurrently, Accuray entered into a new senior secured credit agreement with TCW, securing $190 million in new financing costs across three facilities: the $150 million five-year term loan, a $20 million delayed draw term loan, and a $20 million revolving credit facility. The proceeds were used to fully repay existing debt with Silicon Valley Bank. This refinancing extends our debt maturity by five years and adds meaningful liquidity to support high-return initiatives. Importantly, it consolidates our capital structure under a single counterparty, allowing us to focus on execution with greater clarity and confidence. We view this transaction as a critical milestone that enhances our ability to invest in innovation, drive margin improvement, and deliver long-term value to our shareholders. Speaker 200:19:14Turning to tariffs, as Suzanne noted earlier, we are working on several initiatives to mitigate the potential impact of tariffs on our global business. Our operations and trade compliance and commercial teams have quickly responded to both challenges and opportunities and have already activated work in a variety of mitigating action plans. Firstly, there's a significant portion of tariffs on imported goods that can be refunded back by the authorities if the product does not remain in the U.S. This is referred to as the duty drawback program and requires an application process and documentation verification with the Customs and Border Protection agencies that we have already started to engage with and begin to process. This will give us the ability to recoup this tariff cost for products that will not remain in the U.S. and reclaim the associated cash. Speaker 200:20:03This is important given that greater than 80% of our product sales occur outside the U.S., and having the ability to recapture any tariffs paid on those can lessen the impact of these costs. In the near term, this will be an incremental use of cash, given an upfront payment to the Customs and Border Protection associated with these duties. Secondly, we're working with multiple government agencies to establish a foreign trade zone for Accuray. A foreign trade zone is a designated area within the U.S., often near a U.S. port of entry, where goods are considered to be outside of U.S. customs territory. This allows companies to import goods, process them, and potentially re-export them without paying immediate U.S. customs duties or following standard customs procedures. This would give the company the ability to only pay tariffs for goods remaining in the U.S. Speaker 200:20:53and will therefore only limit any cash outlaid to those products. Third, we are working with our supply partners to accelerate dual sourcing capabilities for materials currently procured outside the United States. Lastly, our commercial teams are working diligently to adjust prices for both product and service to combat the impact of tariffs and protect our profitability and cash flow. As the only pure-play radiation therapy company headquartered in the United States, we are also working with state and federal government to ensure that Accuray is positioned well to weather the impact of these challenging exogenous factors impacting our business. In the fourth quarter, the company incurred approximately $4 million of cash tariffs, and approximately 50% of those tariffs were mitigated through the initiatives described above. Looking ahead, we are well positioned to accelerate top-line growth in APAC and EIMEA while anticipating a recovery in the U.S. market. Speaker 200:21:50As we go into fiscal year 2026, we are focused on driving further adjusted EBITDA margin expansion through cost productivity, process efficiency, and pricing actions. We look forward to sharing more on these initiatives as we progress through the coming quarters. I will now turn it over to Suzanne for comments on our fiscal year 2026 outlook. Suzanne? Speaker 400:22:10We're proud of our progress in fiscal 2025. We grew revenues, particularly from the service portion of our business, which represents a more predictable revenue stream and growing part of our focus. We also refinanced our debt, which brings additional flexibility to our balance sheet as we enter the next phase of our operational improvement, where we will be able to further our efforts in high return on investment projects and pursue some targeted areas of improvement. Additionally, when Ali and I took over a few years ago, our biggest initiatives were to penetrate emerging markets and improve Accuray's operational model with a big focus on adjusted EBITDA and profitability. We're already seeing the benefits of our initiatives. Today, the majority of our revenue comes from emerging markets, and over the last three years, we grew revenues from these markets at a CAGR of approximately 9%. Speaker 400:23:05On the operational side, we've completed our ERP, rationalized many areas of our business, including several restructurings, and identified commercial actions that will allow us to attain the highest growth on both top line and margins. Looking ahead, fiscal 2026 represents a new chapter for the company. We're looking forward to ASTRO in October, where we will showcase new solutions around adaptive radiotherapy. This offering is targeted for the U.S. and developed markets and is designed to provide our aged installed base with a premium solution that delivers the most advanced radiotherapy capabilities to care for their patients. The CyberKnife S7 momentum is expected to continue to gain traction as the only robotic dedicated SRS SDRT system. Additionally, we'll have a full year of our Tomos products in China and plan to enter other high-growth emerging markets with Helix. Speaker 400:24:06We expect our installed base to grow substantially in FY26, as we are carrying in a strong backlog of installations that were in process from fiscal year 2025. This installed base growth will feed directly into our service business with installation and training revenue and will serve as a strong growth driver for revenue and margins long term. Finally, as a company, we have launched a focused internal initiative to help us accelerate margin expansion by simplifying our processes and harnessing GenAI tools in all aspects of our operations, reducing our indirect costs, and optimizing pricing tied to customer value so that we're well prepared for the next cycle of growth. Despite these initiatives, we remain cautious to continued market uncertainties and macro and geopolitical dynamics, which have historically been a headwind to our performance. Speaker 400:25:04As we gain greater clarity throughout the year, we will adjust our guidance accordingly and will keep you informed of our progress. Therefore, for our guidance for fiscal year 2026, we are guiding to a revenue range of $471 million to $485 million and an adjusted EBITDA range of $31 million to $35 million. In closing, we couldn't be more excited about our next phase of operational performance, where we will further penetrate the fastest growing markets in the world, expand patient access globally, execute on further operational efficiencies, and improve our profitability while focusing on increasing our cash flow generation. This concludes my prepared remarks. I will now pass it on to the operator for Q&A. Operator, please proceed. Speaker 300:25:59We will now begin the question and answer session. To ask a question, you may press star, then one on your telephone keypad. If you're using a speakerphone, please pick up the handset before pressing the keys. To withdraw your question, please press pound, then one. At this time, we will pause momentarily to assemble our roster. Our first question today will come from Marie Thibault with BTIG. Speaker 500:26:28Hi, good evening. Thanks for taking the questions. Suzanne and Ali, congrats on a good quarter despite all the external factors you had to navigate through. I wanted to ask a little bit more detail on China. Certainly encouraging to see the tariff rates come down. Where are we now in terms of the temperature on the ground? Are customers eager to take shipments? Are they still hesitant? Could we see further improvement from here? How would you sort of characterize that anecdotally? Speaker 400:26:59Yeah, I would say we are in a better position than we were at the end of Q3 earnings call, obviously, but I don't think it's completely returned back to normal. That is baked into the guidance that we have. I think the demand, the customer demand for our products is still very strong. Tomos had a very solid year, so we're really pleased with the traction. We believe our Type B strategy is working. Additionally, we know we have been awarded licenses for the CK and the Type A market, but we also see that the funding is a little bit slower coming from the government to fund those licenses. I would say we are in a better position, but we are cautiously guiding, I think, on our China growth for FY2026, and hopefully we think it'll improve throughout the year as conditions improve. Speaker 200:28:01Marie, as you know, the tariffs were only extended for another 90 days, and that's obviously something that we continue to monitor as well because that is, you know, that can change at any point, and we certainly don't know how that's going to end up and take shape throughout the fiscal year. Speaker 500:28:14Yeah, that makes sense, and thanks for that. I heard you say that the guidance, you know, you will keep us updated as things progress, given all the various dynamics going on on the macroeconomic front. I heard that, but I also heard that you are hoping to have this foreign trade zone exemption in place for the second half of your fiscal 2026. Is that being assumed in the guidance today, or could that be further upside to the margin as we think about that exemption being put in place? Speaker 400:28:44That is assumed in the guidance. Speaker 500:28:47Okay. All right, I appreciate it. I'll jump back in queue. Speaker 200:28:50Thanks, Marie. Speaker 300:28:52Once again, if you'd like to ask a question, please signal by pressing star one. Our next question will come from Jason Wittes with ROTH Capital. Operator00:29:03Hi, thanks for taking the questions, and also congrats on a solid quarter given all the macro headwinds here. I'll start with actually a domestic question. You did mention some optimism about the U.S. improving throughout the fiscal year. Can you just enlighten us in terms of what's behind those assumptions? Speaker 400:29:21Yes, we're very pleased with Q4 performance in the Americas and really a big focus on our teams working with customers to convert our backlog and get installations accelerated at key customer sites. I think that's the good news, and I think we expect to see that going into FY2026. Where we do want to see more uptick is on the orders side. I think there was some cautiousness in the U.S. market still. We still haven't seen sort of that meaningful uptick from an orders perspective. However, we're very excited going into ASTRO here in the fall. We've got some new solutions that we're going to be showing that are targeted for the premium developed markets. We expect that that will be an additional catalyst, especially for some of the older aged IV in our developed markets, specifically in the U.S. and in Western Europe. Operator00:30:26Okay, great, that's helpful. For Helix, I believe it's launched in India now. Can you give us sort of what the outlook is for that region and also just other emerging markets where that might be applicable too? Thanks. Speaker 400:30:41Absolutely. This was the first year of Helix, and I think we had a very solid year with Helix, and I think it is similar to what we saw in the first year of Tomos in China. We're excited about that. The regulatory approval, the local regulatory approval in India took a little bit longer, but we do now have that in place, and they're on the board with Helix, and we do expect in FY2026 we're going to see more Helix. In India, the surrounding areas like Bangladesh, Morocco also has ordered Helix for Northern Africa, and we also think there's tremendous interest in Latin America for Helix. It's great that we have a full comprehensive portfolio from premium to the value segments so that we can really address all customer needs. Operator00:31:36Okay, I'd like to sneak in one last clarification question. I think you said this quarter there's about a $4 million impact from tariffs, which I believe you said half you mitigated. Is that the kind of run rate we should expect for the oncoming fiscal year, or how should we be thinking about the impact on tariffs? Again, understanding that it's a moving target. Speaker 200:32:02Yeah, that's exactly right, Jason. We had $4 million of a cash impact, and then, as we sort of stated, half of that we were able to mitigate through the actions that we've taken in terms of a duty drawback. The other half is actually capitalized into inventory, and that's going to come hit the P&L over the course of the next couple of quarters. That's exactly, I think, how we are thinking about it from a run rate basis as we go into fiscal year 2026, and that's what we've assumed in our guidance as well. Speaker 200:32:35Speaking about guidance, as we sort of think about next year, and we've spoken about this in greater detail, Jason, when we think about our revenue profile, we're really thinking our first half of revenue is going to be roughly about 45% of our total guidance, and then the second half is really going to be about 55% of our total guidance. I think it's also important to note that from an EBITDA standpoint and contribution to EBITDA, that really comes really based upon how our volume trends. Since the volume is more towards the back half, that's when our EBITDA is going to also come in through the back half. The way that we're thinking about it is roughly 30% of EBITDA coming in the first half and 70% coming in the back half. Operator00:33:25Great, I appreciate that, Keller. I'll jump back in queue. Speaker 300:33:30If you would like to ask a question, please signal by pressing star one at this time. We'll pause for just a moment to allow everyone an opportunity to signal. This concludes our question and answer session. I would like to turn the conference back over to management for closing remarks. Speaker 400:34:04Thank you, and I want to thank everyone for joining this call. We look forward to updating all of you on our fiscal first quarter earnings conference call this fall. Thank you. Speaker 300:34:15The conference is now concluded. Thank you for attending today's presentation. You may now disconnect. The host has ended this call. 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The CyberKnife platform is widely used for stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) and stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT), supporting treatments across a range of tumor types and anatomical sites. The TomoTherapy and Radixact systems incorporate integrated imaging, adaptive planning and dose-shaping capabilities that support daily adjustments in treatment delivery, helping to improve patient outcomes and operational efficiency in oncology centers. Founded in 1990 and headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin, Accuray serves a broad network of hospitals, cancer centers and research institutions in North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific and other regions. The company maintains additional offices and service centers in locations such as Sunnyvale, California; Milan, Italy; and Singapore to support its global customer base. Since September 2017, Accuray has been led by President and Chief Executive Officer Peter C. 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There are 6 speakers on the call. Speaker 100:00:00Welcome to the Accuray fourth quarter fiscal 2025 financial results conference call. All participants will be in a listen-only mode. Should you need assistance, please signal a conference specialist by pressing the star key followed by zero. After today's presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask questions. To ask a question, you may press star, then one on your telephone keypad. To withdraw your question, please press pound, then one. Please note this event is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to Steve Monroe, Vice President of Corporate Financial Planning and Analysis. Please go ahead. Speaker 200:00:40Thank you, and good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to Accuray's conference call to review financial results for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2025, which ended June 30, 2025. During our call this afternoon, management will review recent corporate developments. Joining us on today's call are Suzanne Winter, Accuray's President and Chief Executive Officer, and Ali Pervaiz, Accuray's Chief Financial Officer. Before we begin, I would like to remind you that our call today includes forward-looking statements. Actual results may differ materially from those contemplated or implied by these forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause these results to differ materially are outlined in the press release we issued just after the market closed this afternoon, as well as in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. We base the forward-looking statements on this call on the information available to us as of today's date. Speaker 200:01:38We assume no obligation to update any forward-looking statements as a result of new information or future events, except to the extent required by applicable securities laws. Accordingly, you should not put undue reliance on any forward-looking statements. A few housekeeping items for today's call. First, during the Q&A session, we request that participants limit themselves to two questions and then re-queue with any follow-ups. Second, all references to a specific quarter in the prepared remarks are to our fiscal year quarters. For example, statements regarding our fourth quarter refer to our fiscal fourth quarter ended June 30, 2025. Additionally, there will be a supplemental slide deck to accompany this call, which you can access by going directly to Accuray's Investor Relations page at investors.accuray.com. With that, let me turn the call over to Accuray's Chief Executive Officer, Suzanne Winter. Suzanne? Speaker 400:02:37Thanks, Steve, and welcome to our fourth quarter earnings call, and thank you all for joining today. Overall, I'm pleased with our performance in the fourth quarter, especially how we navigated a turbulent geopolitical environment, which impacted several key regions at various points in the quarter. Our solid revenue growth, overcoming these obstacles, was a testament to the resilience and flexibility of our operations and commercial teams to deliver product and provide service to the markets that were open during various periods within the quarter. Service was a highlight for the quarter, with solid service revenue and margin growth, as well as the continued positive customer response to our new product innovations, like Tomos for China and Helix in international markets, both of which have been a central part of our growth strategy. Speaker 400:03:29Finally, we put a major milestone behind us by successfully completing refinancing of our debt and securing a strong strategic partner that has invested in our long-term success. Before I go into the specifics of the quarter, I'd like to review the macroeconomic and geopolitical backdrop we continue to navigate through and provide some context on the guidance we provided last quarter and the resulting impact on our performance. Recall that in early April, trade negotiations escalated between the U.S. and China. The U.S. government announced a 145% tariff on goods from China entering the U.S., and China imposed a 125% tariff on goods coming from the U.S. Speaker 400:04:13After evaluating the potential impact to our business, we provided guidance during our fiscal third quarter financial results to reflect these developments in trade policy, which included revenue adjustments to account for an anticipated stall in China revenue, which at the time we expected would be partially offset by other regions like EIMEA. Fast forwarding to May, the U.S. and China came to an agreement and each announced reduced 10% reciprocal tariffs, a significant improvement from the original April announcement. These actions reopened the China markets for us, allowing us to resume shipments. Weeks later in June, there was an unexpected unrest in the Middle East, which affected trade in a significant portion of the EIMEA region, essentially halting shipments to several countries within the region. Speaker 400:05:03All of these events created significant challenges within our supply chain as we pivoted several times within the quarter to deliver product to different regions of the world. The net result of all of this was that we were able to shift a portion of sales back into China in May, allowing us to deliver our overall revenues in line with our expectations. However, due to this regional shift of revenues into China and out of EIMEA, we had a $1.7 million higher margin deferral into future quarters, which impacted adjusted EBITDA. We expect to realize this margin as a positive adjusted EBITDA impact starting in the first half of fiscal 2026, as these products are delivered to their end customers. Speaker 400:05:49Despite these dynamics, I'm incredibly proud of how our team stepped up in a major way to mitigate the impact of the tariff volatility through focused actions, which Ali will speak to in greater detail. These include, first, executing a drawback of duties paid on components, which were subsequently exported. Second, managing logistics to drop ship service parts directly to bonded warehouses and customer sites directly. Third, establishing dual source capabilities for key components. Most importantly, advancing progress in our plans to establish our mass manufacturing site as a foreign trade zone in the second half of the fiscal year 2026, which is expected to mitigate a significant portion of fusion tariffs. Now turning to the fiscal fourth quarter, total revenue for the quarter was approximately $128 million, down 5% year over year, driven by lower product revenue in our China and EIMEA businesses. Speaker 400:06:52As I alluded to earlier, reduced sales in China were linked to the tariff impacts in May, resulting in a 14% decline versus last year. Later in the quarter, the escalating tensions in the Middle East impacted our EIMEA business, resulting in a 34% decline versus last year. Additionally, Japan declined 11% in the quarter. Outside of these regions, we saw outstanding revenue performance in our APAC region, which was up 22%, driven by improved demand. We were pleased to see a return to revenue growth in the Americas at 24%, with a solid conversion of backlog. Service revenue was a highlight for the quarter at $56.9 million, up 4% versus the prior year. We see tremendous opportunity in our service business for both revenue and margin expansion as we grow our installed base of customers. Speaker 400:07:48All regions showed installed base growth, with the exception of the U.S., which essentially remained flat. A key area of focus in the quarter was driving improvement in service margins. I was encouraged to see service margins up nicely, both year over year and sequentially. This will be a continued area of focus for us in the future, and we believe that we have laid out the foundation, including strategic pricing, development of high-value support and education offerings, and finally driving efficiency in our cost to service. Over the last two years, we have focused R&D investment in making our current designs more robust and have started to realize more substantial benefits here. Speaker 400:08:31One of the biggest factors in improving service margin is reducing service parts consumption, and we are now positioned well to execute on this initiative and feel it is a big opportunity for us over the next few years. Additionally, order trends continue to support our target book-to-build ratio of 1.2, a level which we believe to be a healthy balance to grow our company. From a regional perspective, the biggest highlights were 50% growth in orders in APAC and 34% year-over-year growth in Japan, followed by a 15% growth in China and a 12% growth in EIMEA. These were partly offset by slower order demand in the U.S., which was down as the replacement market had yet to recover in a meaningful way. Growth in the emerging markets where we have introduced new products like the Helix and Tomos in China are seeing strong demand. Speaker 400:09:24These are among the highest growth markets in the world, which we are actively targeting and are an integral part of our growth plan in the next few years. Reflecting on our fiscal full-year performance, I remain proud of what our team has accomplished this year and remain humbled by our mission, which is centered around advancing care through innovation, expanding patient access to radiotherapy globally, and delivering superior service to our customers. Global revenue for the year grew 3%, and I'm very pleased by the strong performance in our international markets. China product revenue grew 20% year over year, whereas the rest of APAC grew over 200% year over year. Speaker 400:10:05Offsetting growth in these regions was a decline in product revenues in some of the developed markets, which had a substantial impact on the year-over-year EIMEA growth, which was down 32%, and a decline in our Japan region, where the economy has slowed over the past few quarters and was down 19%. Service was strong, with revenue up 4% for the full fiscal year, which represents the highest annual growth we've seen over the last several years and over nearly all regions. Growth was primarily driven by three factors, including expansion of our installed base, increased service contract capture rates following warranty, and additional value-added service offerings like CyberComm, all of which demonstrated meaningful results in nearly all regions. Leading the way here was China, where we saw 21% year-over-year growth in service revenue. Speaker 400:11:01This was followed by 10% growth in Japan, 7% growth in the EIMEA regions, and 3.5% growth in APAC, which were partly offset by the Americas, which declined 7%. While region product revenue varies from quarter to quarter, the growing contribution from our service business, particularly service contract revenue, provides greater revenue predictability and a base to expand margin. During the year, we also kicked off the Accuray Care service initiative with focused R&D investment to further strengthen our existing platform designs to improve system uptime performance, extend service parts life, and improve our customer response times and time to repair. We're leveraging system data, AI, and predictive analytics to improve cost to serve by reducing parts consumption with a goal of no patient having to be rescheduled for treatment due to system downtime. In summary, I'm proud of what we've accomplished this year. Speaker 400:12:05We've built a strong foundation for top-line growth driven by international markets, achieved a strong market position in key markets like Japan and China. We grew our installed base of customers as well as delivered strong growth in our service business. Despite the near-term challenges and capital equipment budget cycles, we believe that the long-term potential of developed markets like the U.S. remains intact, with the advanced age of installed base of radiotherapy systems providing a catalyst for upgrade and replacement opportunities. We were pleased to see revenue growth in Q4 from the U.S. and expect to see a gradual improvement from this region accelerating in fiscal year 2026. Before I hand it over to Ali, who will provide more details, I want to take a moment to talk about the refinancing transaction that closed during the quarter and what it has meant for our company in the long run. Speaker 400:12:58This transaction was driven by our desire to find the right partner for the business and create financial flexibility. We are looking forward to working with TCW and our newly appointed independent board member. I believe they're going to be a tremendous asset to us as we grow our business in the upcoming years. I'll now turn it over to Ali, who will cover our financial performance report. Speaker 200:13:23Thank you, Suzanne, and good afternoon, everyone. I'd like to begin by recognizing our global cross-functional teams for unwavering dedication and execution. Their efforts enabled us to deliver a strong fiscal year 2025 performance while navigating a challenging macroeconomic environment. Turning to our financial results for the fourth quarter and full year, net revenue for Q4 was $128 million, down 5% year over year, or $126 million on a constant currency basis, a 6% decrease. For the full fiscal year, total revenue reached a record $459 million, up 3% from last year, with foreign exchange having minimal impact. While U.S. revenue was affected by softer macroeconomic conditions, our international business remained strong, growing 4% year over year and now representing 80% of total revenue, a clear sign of our global momentum. Speaker 200:14:16Product revenue in Q4 was $71 million, down 11% year over year and 12% on a constant currency basis, reflecting the regional dynamics Suzanne described earlier. For the full year, product revenue was $238 million, up 1.5% from the prior year, with foreign exchange having a negligible impact. Service revenue for the quarter was $57 million, up 4% year over year and 2% on a constant currency basis. Notably, contract revenue within our service business grew 3% in Q4 and 2% for the full year as our installed base continues to expand globally. Full-year service revenue was $221 million, up 4% from last year, with contract revenue now making up about 90% of total service revenue. Gross orders for Q4 were approximately $85 million, resulting in a book-to-build ratio of 1.2. For the full year, gross orders totaled $288 million, also with a book-to-build of 1.2. Speaker 200:15:15We ended Q4 with a backlog of about $427 million, which represents over 18 months of product revenue, giving us strong visibility and confidence in future revenue conversion. As part of our ongoing diligence, we proactively canceled one unit, about $3 million, to maintain a high-quality backlog. Gross margin for the quarter was 30.6%, up 200 basis points year over year. Product gross margin declined 3.4 points, primarily due to higher margin deferrals from China shipments, a timing issue we expect to reverse in the first half of fiscal 2026. Excluding the China margin deferrals, product gross margins would have been 33.2%, nearly flat with the prior year period. On a full-year basis, product gross margins would have been 34.8%, a 1 point increase over the prior year when excluding the China margin deferrals. Service gross margins improved by 9 points, driven by lower parts consumption and successful pricing initiatives. Speaker 200:16:13For the full year, gross margin had a slight increase of 10 basis points from 32% to 32.1%. Adjusting full-year gross margin for the China margin deferral would have resulted in 33.7% gross margin, which would have been 60 basis points higher than the same adjustment for the prior year. Operating expenses in Q4 were $34.7 million, up from $31.6 million last year, mainly due to the timing of R&D and marketing investments. For the full year, operating expenses were $139.1 million, down 2% year over year, reflecting our ongoing focus on cost control and ROI. Operating income for Q4 was $4.2 million, down $2.6 million last year due to the timing of investments. For the full year, operating income improved to $7.8 million from $0.5 million in fiscal year 2024. Adjusted EBITDA for Q4 was $9.4 million. Speaker 200:17:10For the full year, adjusted EBITDA was $28.3 million, up 44% year over year. It's important to note that the China JV accounting treatment had us defer $7.6 million of margin related to FY25 shipments into future quarters. Turning to the balance sheet highlights, accounts receivable were $83 million, up $5 million sequentially. Inventory was $141 million, down $5 million versus prior quarter. Accounts payable were $34 million, down $12 million versus prior quarter as we prioritized key supplier payments. Total cash and cash equivalents were $62 million, down from $80 million last quarter, reflecting $8.9 million in refinancing fees and working capital investments that we spoke about earlier. As Suzanne mentioned, in early June, we completed a comprehensive debt refinancing that we believe better positions Accuray for long-term growth and financial flexibility. The transaction itself had several key elements. Speaker 200:18:11The company exchanged approximately $82 million of its 3.75% senior convertible notes due in 2026 for approximately 8.9 million shares of common stock and $68.6 million in cash. Concurrently, Accuray entered into a new senior secured credit agreement with TCW, securing $190 million in new financing costs across three facilities: the $150 million five-year term loan, a $20 million delayed draw term loan, and a $20 million revolving credit facility. The proceeds were used to fully repay existing debt with Silicon Valley Bank. This refinancing extends our debt maturity by five years and adds meaningful liquidity to support high-return initiatives. Importantly, it consolidates our capital structure under a single counterparty, allowing us to focus on execution with greater clarity and confidence. We view this transaction as a critical milestone that enhances our ability to invest in innovation, drive margin improvement, and deliver long-term value to our shareholders. Speaker 200:19:14Turning to tariffs, as Suzanne noted earlier, we are working on several initiatives to mitigate the potential impact of tariffs on our global business. Our operations and trade compliance and commercial teams have quickly responded to both challenges and opportunities and have already activated work in a variety of mitigating action plans. Firstly, there's a significant portion of tariffs on imported goods that can be refunded back by the authorities if the product does not remain in the U.S. This is referred to as the duty drawback program and requires an application process and documentation verification with the Customs and Border Protection agencies that we have already started to engage with and begin to process. This will give us the ability to recoup this tariff cost for products that will not remain in the U.S. and reclaim the associated cash. Speaker 200:20:03This is important given that greater than 80% of our product sales occur outside the U.S., and having the ability to recapture any tariffs paid on those can lessen the impact of these costs. In the near term, this will be an incremental use of cash, given an upfront payment to the Customs and Border Protection associated with these duties. Secondly, we're working with multiple government agencies to establish a foreign trade zone for Accuray. A foreign trade zone is a designated area within the U.S., often near a U.S. port of entry, where goods are considered to be outside of U.S. customs territory. This allows companies to import goods, process them, and potentially re-export them without paying immediate U.S. customs duties or following standard customs procedures. This would give the company the ability to only pay tariffs for goods remaining in the U.S. Speaker 200:20:53and will therefore only limit any cash outlaid to those products. Third, we are working with our supply partners to accelerate dual sourcing capabilities for materials currently procured outside the United States. Lastly, our commercial teams are working diligently to adjust prices for both product and service to combat the impact of tariffs and protect our profitability and cash flow. As the only pure-play radiation therapy company headquartered in the United States, we are also working with state and federal government to ensure that Accuray is positioned well to weather the impact of these challenging exogenous factors impacting our business. In the fourth quarter, the company incurred approximately $4 million of cash tariffs, and approximately 50% of those tariffs were mitigated through the initiatives described above. Looking ahead, we are well positioned to accelerate top-line growth in APAC and EIMEA while anticipating a recovery in the U.S. market. Speaker 200:21:50As we go into fiscal year 2026, we are focused on driving further adjusted EBITDA margin expansion through cost productivity, process efficiency, and pricing actions. We look forward to sharing more on these initiatives as we progress through the coming quarters. I will now turn it over to Suzanne for comments on our fiscal year 2026 outlook. Suzanne? Speaker 400:22:10We're proud of our progress in fiscal 2025. We grew revenues, particularly from the service portion of our business, which represents a more predictable revenue stream and growing part of our focus. We also refinanced our debt, which brings additional flexibility to our balance sheet as we enter the next phase of our operational improvement, where we will be able to further our efforts in high return on investment projects and pursue some targeted areas of improvement. Additionally, when Ali and I took over a few years ago, our biggest initiatives were to penetrate emerging markets and improve Accuray's operational model with a big focus on adjusted EBITDA and profitability. We're already seeing the benefits of our initiatives. Today, the majority of our revenue comes from emerging markets, and over the last three years, we grew revenues from these markets at a CAGR of approximately 9%. Speaker 400:23:05On the operational side, we've completed our ERP, rationalized many areas of our business, including several restructurings, and identified commercial actions that will allow us to attain the highest growth on both top line and margins. Looking ahead, fiscal 2026 represents a new chapter for the company. We're looking forward to ASTRO in October, where we will showcase new solutions around adaptive radiotherapy. This offering is targeted for the U.S. and developed markets and is designed to provide our aged installed base with a premium solution that delivers the most advanced radiotherapy capabilities to care for their patients. The CyberKnife S7 momentum is expected to continue to gain traction as the only robotic dedicated SRS SDRT system. Additionally, we'll have a full year of our Tomos products in China and plan to enter other high-growth emerging markets with Helix. Speaker 400:24:06We expect our installed base to grow substantially in FY26, as we are carrying in a strong backlog of installations that were in process from fiscal year 2025. This installed base growth will feed directly into our service business with installation and training revenue and will serve as a strong growth driver for revenue and margins long term. Finally, as a company, we have launched a focused internal initiative to help us accelerate margin expansion by simplifying our processes and harnessing GenAI tools in all aspects of our operations, reducing our indirect costs, and optimizing pricing tied to customer value so that we're well prepared for the next cycle of growth. Despite these initiatives, we remain cautious to continued market uncertainties and macro and geopolitical dynamics, which have historically been a headwind to our performance. Speaker 400:25:04As we gain greater clarity throughout the year, we will adjust our guidance accordingly and will keep you informed of our progress. Therefore, for our guidance for fiscal year 2026, we are guiding to a revenue range of $471 million to $485 million and an adjusted EBITDA range of $31 million to $35 million. In closing, we couldn't be more excited about our next phase of operational performance, where we will further penetrate the fastest growing markets in the world, expand patient access globally, execute on further operational efficiencies, and improve our profitability while focusing on increasing our cash flow generation. This concludes my prepared remarks. I will now pass it on to the operator for Q&A. Operator, please proceed. Speaker 300:25:59We will now begin the question and answer session. To ask a question, you may press star, then one on your telephone keypad. If you're using a speakerphone, please pick up the handset before pressing the keys. To withdraw your question, please press pound, then one. At this time, we will pause momentarily to assemble our roster. Our first question today will come from Marie Thibault with BTIG. Speaker 500:26:28Hi, good evening. Thanks for taking the questions. Suzanne and Ali, congrats on a good quarter despite all the external factors you had to navigate through. I wanted to ask a little bit more detail on China. Certainly encouraging to see the tariff rates come down. Where are we now in terms of the temperature on the ground? Are customers eager to take shipments? Are they still hesitant? Could we see further improvement from here? How would you sort of characterize that anecdotally? Speaker 400:26:59Yeah, I would say we are in a better position than we were at the end of Q3 earnings call, obviously, but I don't think it's completely returned back to normal. That is baked into the guidance that we have. I think the demand, the customer demand for our products is still very strong. Tomos had a very solid year, so we're really pleased with the traction. We believe our Type B strategy is working. Additionally, we know we have been awarded licenses for the CK and the Type A market, but we also see that the funding is a little bit slower coming from the government to fund those licenses. I would say we are in a better position, but we are cautiously guiding, I think, on our China growth for FY2026, and hopefully we think it'll improve throughout the year as conditions improve. Speaker 200:28:01Marie, as you know, the tariffs were only extended for another 90 days, and that's obviously something that we continue to monitor as well because that is, you know, that can change at any point, and we certainly don't know how that's going to end up and take shape throughout the fiscal year. Speaker 500:28:14Yeah, that makes sense, and thanks for that. I heard you say that the guidance, you know, you will keep us updated as things progress, given all the various dynamics going on on the macroeconomic front. I heard that, but I also heard that you are hoping to have this foreign trade zone exemption in place for the second half of your fiscal 2026. Is that being assumed in the guidance today, or could that be further upside to the margin as we think about that exemption being put in place? Speaker 400:28:44That is assumed in the guidance. Speaker 500:28:47Okay. All right, I appreciate it. I'll jump back in queue. Speaker 200:28:50Thanks, Marie. Speaker 300:28:52Once again, if you'd like to ask a question, please signal by pressing star one. Our next question will come from Jason Wittes with ROTH Capital. Operator00:29:03Hi, thanks for taking the questions, and also congrats on a solid quarter given all the macro headwinds here. I'll start with actually a domestic question. You did mention some optimism about the U.S. improving throughout the fiscal year. Can you just enlighten us in terms of what's behind those assumptions? Speaker 400:29:21Yes, we're very pleased with Q4 performance in the Americas and really a big focus on our teams working with customers to convert our backlog and get installations accelerated at key customer sites. I think that's the good news, and I think we expect to see that going into FY2026. Where we do want to see more uptick is on the orders side. I think there was some cautiousness in the U.S. market still. We still haven't seen sort of that meaningful uptick from an orders perspective. However, we're very excited going into ASTRO here in the fall. We've got some new solutions that we're going to be showing that are targeted for the premium developed markets. We expect that that will be an additional catalyst, especially for some of the older aged IV in our developed markets, specifically in the U.S. and in Western Europe. Operator00:30:26Okay, great, that's helpful. For Helix, I believe it's launched in India now. Can you give us sort of what the outlook is for that region and also just other emerging markets where that might be applicable too? Thanks. Speaker 400:30:41Absolutely. This was the first year of Helix, and I think we had a very solid year with Helix, and I think it is similar to what we saw in the first year of Tomos in China. We're excited about that. The regulatory approval, the local regulatory approval in India took a little bit longer, but we do now have that in place, and they're on the board with Helix, and we do expect in FY2026 we're going to see more Helix. In India, the surrounding areas like Bangladesh, Morocco also has ordered Helix for Northern Africa, and we also think there's tremendous interest in Latin America for Helix. It's great that we have a full comprehensive portfolio from premium to the value segments so that we can really address all customer needs. Operator00:31:36Okay, I'd like to sneak in one last clarification question. I think you said this quarter there's about a $4 million impact from tariffs, which I believe you said half you mitigated. Is that the kind of run rate we should expect for the oncoming fiscal year, or how should we be thinking about the impact on tariffs? Again, understanding that it's a moving target. Speaker 200:32:02Yeah, that's exactly right, Jason. We had $4 million of a cash impact, and then, as we sort of stated, half of that we were able to mitigate through the actions that we've taken in terms of a duty drawback. The other half is actually capitalized into inventory, and that's going to come hit the P&L over the course of the next couple of quarters. That's exactly, I think, how we are thinking about it from a run rate basis as we go into fiscal year 2026, and that's what we've assumed in our guidance as well. Speaker 200:32:35Speaking about guidance, as we sort of think about next year, and we've spoken about this in greater detail, Jason, when we think about our revenue profile, we're really thinking our first half of revenue is going to be roughly about 45% of our total guidance, and then the second half is really going to be about 55% of our total guidance. I think it's also important to note that from an EBITDA standpoint and contribution to EBITDA, that really comes really based upon how our volume trends. Since the volume is more towards the back half, that's when our EBITDA is going to also come in through the back half. The way that we're thinking about it is roughly 30% of EBITDA coming in the first half and 70% coming in the back half. Operator00:33:25Great, I appreciate that, Keller. I'll jump back in queue. Speaker 300:33:30If you would like to ask a question, please signal by pressing star one at this time. We'll pause for just a moment to allow everyone an opportunity to signal. This concludes our question and answer session. I would like to turn the conference back over to management for closing remarks. Speaker 400:34:04Thank you, and I want to thank everyone for joining this call. We look forward to updating all of you on our fiscal first quarter earnings conference call this fall. Thank you. Speaker 300:34:15The conference is now concluded. Thank you for attending today's presentation. You may now disconnect. The host has ended this call. Goodbye.Read morePowered by