Karen Howard - Investor Relations Wolfgang Dangel - President, Chief Executive Officer Tricia Fulton - Chief Financial Officer.

Mig Dobre - Baird.

Greetings and welcome to the Sun Hydraulics Corporation's Second Quarter 2017 Financial Results Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. A question-and-answer session will follow the formal presentation. [Operator Instructions] As a reminder, this conference is being recorded.

I would now like to turn the conference over to your host, Ms. Karen Howard, Investor Relations for Sun Hydraulics. Thank you. You may begin..

Thank you, Audre, and good morning everyone. We certainly appreciate your time today for our second quarter 2017 financial results conference call. On the line with me are Wolfgang Dangel, our President and Chief Executive Officer, and Tricia Fulton, our Chief Financial Officer.

Wolfgang and Tricia will be reviewing the results that were published in the press release distributed after yesterday's market close. If you don't have that release, it is available on our website at www.sunhydralics.com. You'll also find slides there that will accompany our discussion today.

If you look to the slide deck, on Slide 2 you'll find our Safe Harbor statement. As you may be aware, we will make some forward-looking statements during this presentation and also during the Q&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 where we are today.

These risks and uncertainties and other factors are provided in the earnings release, as well as other documents filed by the company with the Securities and Exchange Commission. These documents can be found at our website or at www.sec.gov.

I also want to point out that during today's call, we will discuss some non-GAAP financial measures which we believe are 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 comparable to GAAP to non-GAAP measure in the tables that accompany today's earnings release, as well as in the slides.

Wolfgang will get started with some highlights for the quarter, Tricia will go through the detail of the financial results, and then we'll turn it back to Wolfgang for his perspective on our outlook before we open up the line for questions and answers. So with that, it is now my pleasure to introduce Wolfgang..

Thank you, Karen, and good morning everyone. Please turn to Slide 3. We are very pleased with our team's performance in the second quarter, following a strong start to the year in the first quarter.

Growing global economic - economies continue to provide a solid foundation, as our teams coordinate to execute our growth plans, as well as establish Enovation Controls as a successful standalone business.

We are excited that our rapidly growing sales are driving the acceleration of some of our strategic plan, which I'll tell you more about in a moment. But first, I'll start with summarizing the results for the quarter.

Sales grew 76%, reaching a record $89.3 million, Enovation Controls contributed $27.8 million in the quarter, representing 44% growth over the 2016 second quarter on a pro forma basis.

For each quarter throughout this year we will isolate the Enovation Controls revenue so that you can appreciate how the acquisition is going and also have a basis for the organic comparison.

The Enovation Controls growth has been driven by strong demand in the vehicle technologies market, specifically recreational markets, as well as power controls benefiting from economic improvement and stable oil prices. The rest of our business also realized significant organic growth, up by 21% in the quarter over the prior year second quarter.

Sales in all of our markets around the globe grew considerably as our many initiatives are taking hold. Recall that within our hydraulic segment we added sales application specialists in the field. We are engaging with our customers more than ever to solve their hydraulic application problems, helping us to drive market share gains.

Our consolidated sales growth has been particularly strong in Asia, which increased 50% over the prior year second quarter. The growth trends we realized in both of our segments continued through July. Turning to the bottom line, earnings per share were $0.27 for the quarter. On a non-GAAP basis EPS was $0.52, double the 2016 second quarter EPS.

The non-GAAP number is calculated in the table at the end of both the slide deck and release. It excludes acquisition related cost for amortization of intangible assets and to change in fair value of contingent consideration, which Tricia will discuss in more detail.

Similarly, our adjusted EBITDA nearly doubled to $25 million, representing about 28% of sales for the quarter. This result is a testament to the many people within our global organization working hard every day to proactively service our customers and be as productive as possible.

Finally, given our stronger than expected sales growth in both segments, we are increasing our guidance for 2017. We now expect consolidated revenue in the $350 million to $330 million range and consolidated operating margin before acquisition related amortization of intangibles of 22% to 24%.

That infers that our second half will be softer than our first half, which is typically the case due to buying patterns in our industry and seasonality. Please turn to slide 4, and I will touch on investments and capital expenditures that we are accelerating due to our significant sales growth.

As I mentioned a moment ago, we realized 50% sales growth in Asia in the second quarter, adding to the significant growth in the first quarter we've realized 41% growth in Asian sales for the first half of 2017 compared with the 2016 first half.

This rapid growth has prompted us to accelerate our strategy to manufacture products in Asia for the Asian market. We recently identified property in South Korea that we believe is ideally suited for this purpose.

We intend to purchase the land and some equipment later this year and then begin development of a production facility, probably starting in the first quarter of 2018. At this point, we expect to complete the project and commence full scale manufacturing in South Korea by the end of next year.

This initiative complements our plans in China where we are expanding our lease office and warehousing space. I'll provide more details on that next quarter as we implement our plans. Here in the US, we have accelerated our plans to purchase the facility in Tulsa, that houses our Enovation Controls operation.

This provides us flexibility as we continue to grow that business, as well as pursue strategic complementary acquisitions. We envision that location serving as the competence hub for our growing North American electronics business. These actions are causing us to increase our CapEx guidance for 2017, which I will summarize later.

With the overview of the quarter and new capital projects, I will now turn the call over to Tricia, to review the financial results for the quarter and first half year in a bit more detail..

Thank you, Wolfgang and good morning everyone. I'm starting on slide 6th with the review of our second quarter consolidated results. Second quarter sales were $89.3 million, up 76% compared to last year's quarter. This includes $27.8 million for Enovation Controls business indicating that the organic business grew approximately $10.7 million or 21%.

We didn't have any price increases in 2016, so pricing did not affect the comparability. Foreign currency translation had an unfavourable 900,000 impact for the quarter compared with last year's quarter. I will now touch on sales by region, which are designated here in the sales bar chart.

We inserted a chart in the back of the press release and the supplemental slides summarizing this information. As we noted on last quarter's call, we start experiencing progressive improvement in all of our geographic markets last September and that has continued to the present time. We realized year-over-year second quarter growth in each region.

In the Americas sales more than doubled to $52.7 million, driven by the Enovation Controls business, as well as organic growth. The Enovation Controls business is heavily weighted to the US, driving our sales to the Americas market up to 59% of the consolidated total.

EMEA realized 22% growth to $19.2 million and the Asian Pacific region was up 50% to $17.4 million. Our organic business grew 24%, 5% and 38% in the Americas EMEA and APAC respectively.

We have made investments in sales and marketing, including the addition of sales application specialists in the field which we believe are generating sales to complement the market expansion. Regarding profitability, our consolidated adjusted EBITDA nearly doubled to $24.8 million, representing 27.8% of sales in this year's second quarter.

That was up from 25% in last year second quarter. The improvement was driven by the increase in sales and the leverage realized on our fixed cost base in both cost of goods sold and SEA, as well as the result of cost saving activity. Turning to the bottom line, adjusted earnings per share were $0.52, double last year's second quarter of 2016.

I'd like to point out that there are some acquisition related costs that impacted GAAAP net income that aren't shown here, but are highlighted with our earnings release and some are itemized on the non-GAAP reconciliations in the back of our earnings release and slide deck. These costs are reported in our corporate and other segment.

So they don't impact our operating segment. They are as follows. First, $2 million pretax for amortization of intangibles with net of tax amount to approximately $0.05 per share. Next we recorded $8.2 million pretax of contingent consideration which net of tax amounts to approximately $0.19 per share.

This represents additional purchase price for the Enovation Controls business in accordance with the earn-out in the purchase agreement. It is based on defined revenue and EBITDA target through early 2019.

This is a win-win for both parties, resulting from the stronger than expected operating and financial performance of the business, as well as the outlook. Finally, we realized $1.4 million of incremental net interest expense, primarily due to the cash and debt used to fund the acquisition. This amounts to approximately $0.03 per share.

Please turn to slide 7 for review of our hydraulics segment second quarter operating result. Sales grew 22% to $60.8 million with particular strength in the APAC and Americas region. Recall last quarter we mentioned that growth in the Americas market was lagging the rest of the world.

This seemed to turn as we saw sequential growth resulting in 25% year-over-year growth for the quarter in the Americas region. Gross profit increased by 38% to $25.6 million on the higher sales driving gross margin up to 42.1%. This compares favourably to last year which realized 37.4% gross margin.

The improvement resulted from leverage on the higher sales volume, as well as the benefit of our cost reduction initiative. SEA expenses increased by $1.1 million to $9.2 million to support our growth initiatives, including the addition of new talent.

Operating income increased 55% to $16.4 million or 26.9% operating margin, compared with 21.3% operating margin in last year's second quarter. Similar to the improved gross margin on our higher sales volume, we realized further leverage on our SEA expenses.

This along with the reduction of - along with the result of cost reduction initiatives drove the operating margin improvement. Please turn to slide 8 for a review of our electronics segment second quarter operating results.

As a reminder, the 2016 electronics segment numbers include only a very small HCT business, and the 2017 numbers include both our Enovation Controls business, as well as HCT. Enovation Controls contributed $27.8 million of the segment $28.5 million second quarter 2017 sales.

On a pro forma basis, Enovation Controls realized 44% growth over the pre-acquisitions 2016 second quarter. Similar to the strong pro forma growth realized in the first quarter, we attribute this to our proactive sales initiatives, as well as new products and overall increasing market demand in the power controls and recreational vehicle end market.

The segment generated 45.6% gross margin and 22.5% operating margin in the quarter. Please turn to slide 9 for review of our year-to-date consolidated results. Sales of $170.7 million were up 68% over last year's first half.

This includes $54.3 million for the Enovation Controls business, indicating that the organic business grew approximately $14.6 million or 14%. Foreign currency translation had an unfavourable $1.9 million impact for the first quarter compared with last year.

Regarding profitability, our consolidated adjusted EBITDA grew 75% to $47.5 million, representing twenty 27.8% of sales in this year's first half, that was up from 26.6% last year. Turning to the bottom line, adjusted earnings per share were $1, up from $0.57 last year.

As I noted for the quarter, I will summarize the acquisition related costs that impacted operating income and GAAP net income for the year-to-date period, as reported in our corporate and other segment, they are as follows. First, $1.8 million pretax for amortization of inventory step-up, which was fully recognized in the first quarter.

It is included in the positive sales and amounted to $0.04 per share. Next $4.3 million pretax for amortization of intangibles which net of tax amount to approximately $0.11 per share. Third, as noted previously for second quarter $8.2 million pretax for contingent consideration was net of tax amounts to approximately $0.19 per share.

Finally, we realized $2.3 million of incremental net interest expense primarily due to the cash and debt used to fund the acquisition, this amount to approximately $0.06 per share. Please turn to slide 10 for a year-to-date review of the hydraulic segment.

Sales grew 15% to $114.9 million with particular strengthen in the APAC and Americas region, which grew 28% and 14% respectively. As Wolfgang mentioned, we are experiencing increased demand in expansion in all of our markets, driven by the results of our sales and marketing initiatives, as well as global economic growth.

Gross profit increased by 26% to $47.6 million and the higher sales driving gross margin up to 41.4%, this compares favourably to last year which realized 37.9% gross margin. Operating income increased 33% to $30.1 million or 26.2% operating margin, comparing with 22.5% operating margin in last year's first half.

Like the quarter, our or improved profitability is benefiting from the leverage realized on our fixed cost with higher sales volume, as well as the results of our cost reduction activities. Now please turn to slide 11 for our first half year review of the electronic segment.

Enovation Controls contributed $57.3 million of the segments $55.7 million first half 2017 sales. On a pro-forma basis, Enovation Controls realized 40% growth over the pre-acquisition 2016 first half. The segment generated 45.8% gross margin and 22.7% operating margin in the first half of 2017.

As Wolfgang indicated, this sales growth and profitability is exceeding our initial expectations. We are very pleased with the team's attention and focus to attaining or achieving - exceeding their goals. Please turn to slide 12 for a review of our cash flows and capital structure.

During the first half of 2017 we generated $21.7 million of cash from operating activities comparable at $21.9 million in the first half of 2016. Our significant growth requires some working capital usage, particularly accounts receivables and inventories offsetting an increase in cash flow from our earning.

Recall that in the first quarter we used $16 [ph] million and started repaying the debt we incurred for the Enovation Controls acquisition. We didn't repay any more in the second quarter as we intend to use some of our cash for the first earn-out payment in accordance with the Enovation Controls acquisition agreement.

During the fourth quarter we will be paying $16.7 million of contingent consideration, plus interest based on the exceptional performance and favourable outlook of the business through August 2017.

This payment represents approximately one third of the current estimated liability with the next instalment due in July of 2018 and the final instalment due in April of 2019. Other than that and our dividend, our primary use for cash is for capital expenditures and acquisitions to support our strategic growth plan.

We finished the quarter with $82.5 million of cash and short term investments and $124 million of debt or $41.5 million of net debt. Our net debt to net capitalization was down to 14%. At the end of 2014, we had $81 million in cash and short term investments and $140 million of debt or $59 million of net debt.

That had net debt to net capitalization at 20%. Wolfgang, I'd like to turn it back to you for your perspective on outlook before we open the lines for Q&A..

Thanks, Tricia. Please turn to slide 14. We've seen improvement in all of our global regions for almost a year now. As noted here, leading indicators are signalling ongoing growth. As a matter of fact, US industrial production recently transitioned to the accelerating growth phase of the business cycle.

Within the US economy, it has been reported that consumer spending is accelerating, driven by higher wages and strong employment levels. As a result, business-to-business commerce is increasing. Most economies in the rest of the world are increasing, especially in Asia.

In that region, we are experiencing particular strength in China, South Korea, Japan and India. Considering the industry sectors that are most relevant to Sun, the construction industry is generally expected to continue to expand in 2017. Further the manufacturing sector is also growing, driving industrial growth.

Indicators for the North American electronics sectors as published by the Institute of Printed Circuits Association also suggest growth, but with some anticipated volatility. All of those factors bode well for Sun for the remainder of 2017. Please turn to Slide 15 for additional thoughts regarding our outlook.

As I've noted previously, the growth trends cited on the prior slide do not consider changes in economic policy that might be implemented by the US Administration, which continued to remain uncertain. Considering geopolitical risks, Germany has a major election in September, which we will be watching closely.

Additionally, we are cautious about other geopolitical risk that can potentially impact global trade such as those in Turkey, Syria, Ukraine, Russia and North Korea. Please proceed to find 16, where we summarized our guidance for 2017.

As I mentioned earlier, our trends up for this year have led us to increase our revenue and operating margin guidance, as well as on CapEx guidance. You can see here that we increased our consolidated revenue guidance by $20 million, at both the top and bottom end of our range. This represents about a 7% increase.

We also increased our operating margin guidance by 2 percentage points, also at both, the top and bottom ends of our range. As we have previously indicated, it is normal for our first half year to outpace our second half, as a result of purchasing patterns in our industry and seasonality.

Accordingly, we believe that our guidance numbers reflect our current outlook for the remainder of the year. As shown here, we increased our CapEx guidance quite considerably to incorporate the two facility purchases I spoke of earlier, in South Korea and Tulsa.

Before we open the lines for Q&A, I want to mention that we are planning an Investor Day at the London NYC hotel in New York City on Tuesday September 12th. We will have key members of our leadership team explaining our plans to achieve our vision 2025 goals.

For further details or to register, please visit the events page in the Investor Relations section of our website. We hope you can join us. So with that, let's open up the line for questions and answers..

[Operator Instructions] The first question comes from the line of Mig Dobre with Baird. Please state your question..

Yes. Good morning, everyone. I don't normally do this, but I will say that this was a very impressive quarter, as far as I can tell looking at my model, this is probably the best quarter you had in six or seven years. So congratulations on that..

Thank you..

I actually have quite a few questions. And I guess, maybe we can start with your hydraulics business, growth here is very solid and I'm wondering given that you have access to the FDPA numbers and other industry data.

Can you help frame for us what are you doing versus the industry, it feels to me clearly that there is some outgrowth, maybe you can comment by geography as to where you think you're outgrowing the industry and maybe your thoughts as to what some of the drivers are any outgrowth?.

Yeah. Mig, good morning. Well, first of all I think there is still a lot of tailwind in the economy. If you look at the end markets we are operating in everything is boding well for Sun.

You asked specifically about some of the differentiating factors, I think we are seeing now the benefit of some of the initiative we have been taking in previous quarters. You might recall that we put regional application specialists into the field, started doing that about 18 months ago. So we are seeing first successes and first results there.

I think the second key factor is definitely the activities in Asia where we have accelerated considerably and obviously trying to add with some of the investments that we introduced this morning in order to take advantage of the situation over there.

So I think it's in a nutshell probably the more intense collaboration with channel partners and customers, more presence in the field and maybe a little bit more global alignment and better coordination between the US and our regional subsidiary..

Okay. But are you - Wolfgang, are you seeing increased penetration at OE level? Is it that you know, you're seeing more growth in the distribution channel.

How do we think about that?.

I think right now we are seeing growth across the board. So it's with the channel partners whether it's distributors or integrators, but also with the OEMs where we have direct collaboration with.

So it's across the board and it's actually across all geographies, I couldn't single out one single geographies where we are not performing with either of the sales channels we are using..

Well, I don't mean to get stuck on this, but can you help me understand how your performance year-to-date this quarter, however you want to frame it, has stacked against the industry numbers that you're tracking.

Are you outgrowing the industry?.

I think if we look at some of the statistical data that is available and obviously not all the information is fully transparent, we are probably outgrowing the industry right now. I would say particularly in Asia, but probably also in this part of the world here in North America..

Okay. Then you talked about investments in sales specialists and I do remember you talking about it for a year and a half. Can you maybe give us some framework in terms of the headcount that you've added? What are you looking to do going forward on this basis.

Maybe you're looking into 2018 given your expansion plans in Asia?.

Yes, sure. So I think we are looking probably at a global headcount that we added over the last 18 months I would think probably 12 to 15 people. The majority of them here in North America, as you Mig traditionally we have gone to market here only through distribution, so that has been changed.

And so in North America we added seven people, we added somebody in Latin America and then the balance of the people we brought on in Europe and in Asia. As far as 2018 is concerned, I mean, first of all, all these people still need to get up to speed. It takes some time to get accustomed with the company the way we are doing business and so forth.

We are obviously very happy what we are seeing from those folks. But I would expect further acceleration from this very team. And then in 2018 and 2019 we will add resources as we deem necessary.

There is still a couple of white spots, you heard me say that in the past, that probably is still be - probably need some further attention and I would think that we are turning our attention to some of those geographies then in 2018 and. 2019, just for the sake of getting optimum market coverage..

And for perspective 12 to 15 people, that's added on a base of what to begin with? What was the initial number that you started with?.

In the US it was zero, because we went to market through distribution and integrators, in Latin America it was zero, because we had nobody there in the field as well, in Europe and Asia and I think combined we are looking at probably 15 people, we added those people to a base of 15 people that were directly or indirectly engaged in field activity..

Got it. Okay, that's helpful. And then maybe we can talk a little bit about your investment in South Korea, as I understand it, this would be a facility that would be predominantly or if not exclusively producing hydraulics type product.

Am I correct?.

Well, it's mainly used for hydraulics manufacturing. But when we look at Asia Mig, I would segregate Asia in three parts. I would look at Greater China as one market by itself and then I would look at the rest of East Asia which is Southeast Asia and Japan and then we are looking at Southeast Asia and Pacific.

So the intention with the facility obviously in Korea is to first and foremost the East Asian market place. So that means Korea, but we also obviously have hope that we get access and deeper penetration in Japan.

And in order to fill that capacity as fast as possible we'll probably tap into certain Southeast Asian markets as well and try to serve them out of the South Korean manufacturing..

Right. So - but again, it sounds like you're talking about hydraulics. And here is sort of my question. I remember some years back Al talking about capacity and framing Sun's existing capacity in hydraulics as being able to support the $300 million worth of revenue that was back when the second facility in Sarasota was added.

Now you're talking about adding a new facility in Korea, again for primarily for hydraulics.

Where will your capacity be, what sort of revenue base can you support on this expanded footprint?.

Well, first of all, I mean when you're referring to the statement as Al has made in the past, if I recall correct, I was here at the time, but if I recall correct, obviously at that point in time Sarasota was sitting on quite a bit of idle capacity and could easily serve the global markets from here.

Secondly, let's not forget at those times the exchange rate between the US dollar and major currencies around the world was much, much, more favourable than it is today. I'm personally a very strong believer that you need to serve the region from within the region because it's not just the manufacturing aspect itself.

As soon as you set up manufacturing the interaction and the collaboration with your customers is intensifying. You automatically pull through much, much more engineering activity as well and you raise your competence level in the region.

From a capacity standpoint, I think this factory probably will suit us well for the next five to seven years to get to an acceptable market share level in East Asia..

Well, you're answering my question, but not really answering my question. I guess I'm wondering you know, as you are looking at your 2025 vision right, you're adding capacity this year, next year.

What I'm trying to figure out is whether or not incremental capacity or maybe how much incremental capacity will need to be added in order to fulfil that vision.

Do you feel that after the South Korean facility is fully operational that from a footprint standpoint you are where you need to be?.

No definitely not. As I said and this is why I started off by looking at the Asian market three-folded. I think down the road we will have to embark on much more value add activities also in China because China being the single largest market. So the answer is clearly just with the Korean factory you will not be able to cover the Asian market.

And obviously I mean, we are doing this because we look beyond 2025. So I mean, there is life beyond 2025 I hope. And we want to serve those customers locally in those sub regions in Asia. So down the road you probably can expect that we also have manufacturing at least in China, maybe on a long-term basis even in Southeast Asia itself..

Is there some sense as to how this facility will start impacting the P&L, Tricia kind of going back once again to what you've done with the second facility that you added in Sarasota? You provided some guideposts in terms of how the incremental costs will flow through.

Do you have a sense or a view at this point or is it too early?.

It's a little too early. I think by mid 2018 when we have the building more complete and you know, any equipment purchased that we need in addition to what we have now we'll have a better idea of that. We're still in the initial planning phases of the lay out of the building and also trying to develop the full building cost with the architect..

Understood. Then lastly on hydraulics, you mentioned in the slides cost reduction efforts.

Can you help me understand what those are and you know, why now, what's going on going forward in this regard?.

Yes. Sure, Mig. So I mean, despite the tailwind we are seeing, I think this is an excellent opportunity to still work on the cost base, because if you don't pay attention to that during booming times, the cost tend to get out of control relatively quick.

And we've launched a number of initiatives here internally to watch cost and to look at the breakeven point, just in order to make sure that we are not losing sight of track doing all the good time and that we are well prepared because we are living in a very volatile business as you know and there will definitely be times again where the order situation is not as it is right now.

So we are working on both, we are working on progressing on the front end of our business, penetrating markets, trying to increase market share, but at the same time this has to be an as well as strategy at the same time we are watching very carefully what we are doing on the cost side and trying to keep costs under control..

Sure. I appreciate that. I'm just trying to understand if you're talking about is this manufacturing cost and lean.

Is this something that you are doing on, administrative cost, is this engineering, what sort of costs are we managing here?.

Yes. It's across the board. So we look at it from an enterprise perspective, not just in the manufacturing arena, but obviously manufacturing is a significant part of that. The key enabler for that is lean, you mentioned the right vehicle because that allows us to bring transparency to this type of exercise..

And can you quantify at all as to what these initiatives are yielding and your own framework as to what they should be yielding going forward? Is this something you can either talk about today or the Analyst Day perhaps?.

Well, I think we can talk more about it at the Analyst Day. I mean, I'm not giving a specific target. I'm trying to embed this in the mindset of continuous improvement, so that we identify areas where we believe we have ways and can attack those in order to get cost under control as well.

So - but it's not a - it's not a top down target that we are doing and it covers to come back to your question, it covers functional areas across the company and it's a holistic enterprise approach..

Okay.

But backward looking you are not able to disentangle these savings specifically for us to understand the magnitude?.

I could show you individual projects that are driven obviously by certain goals, but I didn't add up to tell you the truth. So I didn't add up all these projects. As is said, it's a continuous improvement mindset. We are launching and initiating these projects as we go to through enterprise in all different functional area..

Sure. I understand that Wolfgang. I'm just basically trying to understand all the moving pieces here because there's a lot going on with your business and you know, from an outsider's perspective, we're trying to understand how to build up operating income going forward, right. Maybe one last question for me and I'll go back in the queue.

On Enovation, you know, we're looking at 44% growth and it's almost hard to really put that in a proper framework in terms of what this business is doing, given that we're on - I'm not as familiar with it, as I am when you are hydraulics business.

So can you help me out a little bit, I'm trying to understand how much of this is driven by new product that Enovation would have introduced in the past call it 12, 18 months and where we are in terms of the product rollouts and new product rollouts? And then how much of it in your opinion is driven by just pure end market growth?.

Yes. It's a very good question. I would say the majority probably, if you push me to put percentages on it, I would think 70% is driven by new products and just the degree of Enovation, that Enovation Controls as an organization has and then I think 30% is driven by end markets. I mean, I can give you an example there.

So if you look at vehicle technologies, which is being exceptional the growth here has been achieving growth much higher than forecasted, there we see a trend that basically projects that we have previously committed to are now going into production at a much higher pace at much higher volumes as we anticipated. That's one element of it.

The second element of it is Vehicle Technologies, we might have started off and talking to the customer about one specific panel on his piece of equipment and because I think of wrong application engineering approach the colleagues in Oklahoma and Texas do have and do possess, I think they were able to pull through much higher value add per vehicle.

So they ended up not with one panel, they ended up with much more software work and maybe with two or three panels at the vehicle where they went in on an RFU based on one panel. So it's a combination of both.

I think their strategy of forming the customer and basically deeply understanding the application of the vehicle itself is definitely paying tribute here and is the main reason I think for the high growth numbers that you will see.

Having said that, I think we should not get - try to get used to growth of 44% for a quarter or half of the year obviously, but we are very convinced and I mentioned it to you on numerous occasions, we are very convinced - we were convinced already after doing the due diligence that this company has the horsepower and the capability to continuously grow significantly above market growth.

So we are not completely surprised. We are surprised at the high numbers as well, but that can be explained based on the content per vehicle and based on their power in terms of Enovation, I think at the end of the day..

Great. I appreciate it. Thank you..

Welcome..

Thank you. [Operator Instructions] There are no further questions. At this time, I will turn it back to our management team for closing comment..

Thank you again for participation this morning. Thank you to all of the hardworking Sun employees who are driving these results at the end of the day. So we hope to see you at our Investor Day in New York City on September 12th and we look forward to updating you then again on our third quarter progress in early November.

Thank you very much and have a great day..

This concludes this conference. Thank you for your participation. You may disconnect your lines at this time..