UPS - Q2 2013
July 23, 2013
Transcript
Moderator (participant)
Good morning. My name is Steven, and I'll be your conference facilitator today. At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to the UPS Investor Relations second quarter 2013 earnings conference call. All lines have been placed on mute to prevent any background noise, and after the speaker's remarks, there will be a question-and-answer period. Please note, we will only take one question from each participant to accommodate more analysts during the call. Thank you for your cooperation. It is now my pleasure to turn the floor over to your host, Mr. Andy Dolny, UPS Treasurer and Investor Relations Officer. Sir, the floor is yours.
Andy Dolny (Treasurer and Head of Investor Relations)
Good morning, and welcome to our second quarter earnings call. Joining me today are Scott Davis, our CEO, and Kurt Kuehn, our CFO, along with Chief Operating Officer David Abney, International President Jim Barber, President of US Operations Myron Gray, and UPS Chief Sales and Marketing Officer Alan Gershenhorn. Before we begin, I want to review the safe harbor language. Some of the comments we'll make today are forward-looking statements that address our expectations for the future performance or results of operations of the company. These anticipated results are subject to risk and uncertainties, which are described in detail in our 2012 Form 10-K and first quarter 10-Q reports. These reports are available on the UPS Investor Relations website and from the Securities and Exchange Commission. In our remarks today, all full year comments and comparisons will refer to adjusted results.
In addition, we will discuss UPS's free cash flow, which is a non-GAAP financial measure. Reconciliations of free cash flow and adjusted results, along with the webcast of today's call, are available on the UPS Investor Relations website. Finally, as a reminder, our goal is to allow as many as possible to participate on today's call. So please ask only one question and then get back in the queue. Again, no multipart questions, as we will select which part to answer. Thanks for your cooperation. Now, let me turn it over to Scott.
Scott Davis (CEO)
Good morning. UPS second quarter results reflect the impact of customer behavior and market trends. International freight forward operating profits and margins continue to be influenced by moderating demand and changes in shipper preference. Customers around the world continue to put greater emphasis on cost rather than time in transit, trading down in the UPS product portfolio. We believe this trend is primarily cyclical. Over the last few quarters, there's been a trough in the innovation cycle. Demand for new high-tech products traditionally drives express small package and air freight out of Asia. On the other hand, some of the trade-down is likely permanent. More international trade is being conducted regionally, and supply chains are becoming more efficient, so the need for the fastest express options may not grow quite as strong in the future. Here in the US, volume growth was a little less than we expected.
Some opportunities were missed due to labor negotiations. Regarding labor, on June 25th, we announced that the Teamsters National Master Contract received majority approval. We believe this agreement provides a fair and competitive wage and benefit package that rewards our employees while also enabling UPS to remain competitive for the long run. UPS and the Teamsters have committed to address unresolved local supplements in UPS Freight. The supplements cover specific geographic areas and include topics such as bidding and local area work rules. Until then, the current agreements remain in place, including UPS Freight. The company and the Teamsters have agreed to contract extensions while we continue to discuss the remaining issues. Looking forward at the macro picture, though global economic expansion for the second half of 2013 is still expected, forecasts have been lowered in 10 of the 12 largest economies, including here in the US.
One area the US continues to struggle with is exports, especially to Europe. So UPS strongly supports the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. This is a great opportunity for the US and the EU to set the standard for trade pacts. Business cycles are creating short-term challenges, similar to those we have faced many times before. UPS still sees great growth prospects in B2C throughout the world, emerging markets and healthcare solutions. In healthcare, for example, during the quarter, we announced the opening of two new distribution facilities in Hangzhou, China, and Louisville, bringing our total healthcare space to more than 6 million sq ft worldwide. At UPS, the key to expanding operating profit is to adapt our integrated network and expand our portfolio to capitalize on changing market conditions. In a moment, David will provide details of several operational cost initiatives and growth opportunities.
First, Kurt will take you through the financial results and updated guidance. Kurt?
Kurt Kuehn (CFO)
Good morning, everyone. As Scott noted, we faced several trends during the quarter that continued to impact revenue and operating profit growth. Total company revenue was $13.5 billion on volume gains of 2.3%. A couple of weeks ago, UPS announced our second quarter results of $13 per share, slightly below our expectations. The profit of our forwarding business unit dropped significantly, and our international results were reduced as customers continued to choose lower-yielding products.
In addition, we lowered guidance for full-year earnings per share to a range of $4.65-$4.85, reflecting a 4%-13% improvement for the back half of the year, as economists around the world reduce their outlook. Now let's review the segment results. U.S. Domestic total revenue was up 2.3% on average daily volume growth of 1.9. Operating profit was flat with last year, and margin declined 40 basis points to 13.7%. As productivity improvements did not fully offset higher driver wage and benefit costs. Daily ground volume increased 2.3%, and deferred was up 1.4. Our Next Day Air volume declined for the first drop in 5 quarters. Next-day package volume gained slightly. However, letter volume was down more than 5%.
During negotiations, our ability to win new business was hampered. Even though we received the handshake early, we missed some opportunities and did experience some minor volume diversions. Our average revenue per package was relatively flat, and though we see consistent base rate improvements, lower fuel surcharges and changes in mix and package characteristics weighed on reported yields. Now for our international results. Total international revenue was up 1.6%, while operating margin contracted 40 basis points to 14.7%. Operating profit was down slightly to $451 million. It was lowered by shifting customer preference for deferred products, especially out of Asia. Network and in-country cost reductions partially offset this revenue shortfall, and fuel and currency were also a drag of about $15 million more than we expected.
Daily export shipments increased 5%, driven by gains from Asia and Europe, which were somewhat offset by lower US exports. Local day comparisons aided the growth rate by about 1.5%. Domestic products were up 5.1%, also aided by local day comparisons. The emerging market of Turkey led the way with double-digit growth, while Canada and Italy also had solid improvement. Currency-neutral yields declined 2.8%, as our non-premium products, like Worldwide Expedited and Transborder Standard, jumped by more than 10%, while our premium express products were flat compared to last year. Moving on to the Supply Chain and Freight segment, where operating profit declined from the record levels achieved in the second quarter of 2012. Total revenue dropped 3.2%, and operating profit was down more than 20%.
Operating margin, though, still exceeded 7%. The decline in revenue and operating profit was primarily due to the forwarding business unit. UPS experienced double-digit reductions in forwarding revenue, driven by lower demand for airfreight forwarding from Asia. Revenue is heavily concentrated from large, high-tech shippers whose business is down significantly from last year. In addition, we did see large declines in the military sector. Reduced operating costs could not offset these headwinds. UPS is focused on diversifying our revenue base, and David will tell you more about that in a moment. In our distribution business, revenue was up about 4%. Operating profit declined from last year as a result of continued investment in healthcare infrastructure. The unit did generate a margin of approximately 8%. UPS freight revenue was $731 million, driven by LTL tonnage improvement and truckload revenue gains.
Operating profit growth was relatively flat as margin was negatively impacted by higher pension and healthcare benefit costs. Now let's review our financial strength. For the six months ended June 30th, UPS generated $2.5 billion in free cash flow after capital expenditures of $990 million. So far this year, UPS has paid $1.1 billion in dividends, an increase of almost 9% per share. In addition, we've repurchased 21.8 million shares for approximately $1.8 billion. Note that our Q2 tax rate increased slightly to 35% due to a higher mix of profits from the U.S., and we do expect that rate to be between 35% and 36% for the rest of the year.
Speaking of guidance, earlier in July, we provided new full-year expectations for earnings per share of $4.65-$4.85. This is based on the anticipation that the market trends experienced during the second quarter will persist through the remainder of 2013. Our new range also reflects the latest forecast for economic expansion. As Scott indicated, 10 of the 12 largest economies are now expected to grow a little slower than originally thought. While we did bring down our numbers, it's important to note that UPS still expects improvement. In fact, the midpoint of our range calls for about 8% earnings per share growth over the second half of 2012.
Looking at the remainder of 2013 for the segments, in our US Domestic segment, we expect daily volume will increase between 2% and 3%. Growth should get stronger as the year progresses, as we convert missed opportunities from earlier in the year. Revenue growth should be slightly higher than volume. Package characteristics and lower fuel surcharges will continue to mask base rate improvement somewhat, and profitability will be up at a mid-single-digit pace. For our international segment, in the back half of the year, we expect revenue and daily volume growth of approximately 4%-5%. Yield improvement will be hampered by continued mix changes as well as commodity fluctuations. We expect currency to negatively impact profit comparisons by approximately $100 million. However, we anticipate operating profit improvement in line with our revenue growth of 4%-5%.
Third quarter operating profit expansion will be relatively flat due to comparisons with last year. Looking at supply chain and freight for the remainder of the year, we expect revenue growth to be flat, with an operating margin of approximately 8%, driving mid-single-digit profit improvement. Before I turn things over to David, let me assure you, UPS is focused on both our long-term strategies and on making the necessary adjustments to adapt to current market conditions. Now, David will take you through some of our key initiatives. David?
David Abney (COO)
Thanks, Kurt. I want to spend a few minutes discussing how UPS is adapting to the conditions that Scott and Kurt just identified in their opening comments. Economic cycles and consumer behaviors change, creating challenges and opportunities. The key to long-term success is adapting our model to capitalize on these changes. This is something we've been doing for more than 100 years. It goes without saying that we have already identified overhead and discretionary cost reduction opportunities. I can assure you that I have an internal checklist of these items, but that's not all I want to discuss. Today, I'm going to provide insight into how UPS is making strategic changes to our network and portfolio to meet the evolving needs of the market. In our US domestic operations, UPS is wrapping up technology implementations like ORION, which takes route optimization to a new level.
To give you an idea of the scale of this project, we have assigned almost 500 people to this multiyear development. At the same time, we're delaying some projects that don't deliver immediate results. Additionally, we have identified opportunities to move more premium volume over the road, taking advantage of Worldport capabilities and the UPS integrated network. To meet customer demand, we are leveraging our relationships with retail shippers to develop more sophisticated distribution models that better utilize their store inventory. The implementation of omnichannel fulfillment is still in the early stages, and we're seeing great results, including B2B shipment growth. In our international business, margins do benefit from the adjustments we make to our global air network. Maximizing aircraft utilization has always been important.
We have already cut our Asia capacity by about 20%, and we will continue to reduce truck routes and scheduled frequencies, making adjustments from Asia to the US and Europe, being mindful that we must remain nimble enough to react to surges in demand. We're making changes to address the risk and opportunities of a changing marketplace, expanding our presence in emerging markets with an array of solutions for customers. Notably, we expanded our worldwide expedited service to 145 new destinations and 60 new origins earlier this year. We now provide shippers in these emerging markets with an economical alternative to express shipping. To increase more premium revenue into our aircraft, we introduced UPS Worldwide Express Freight. This service offers shippers in key markets guaranteed, day-definite, door-to-door freight options. In the supply chain and freight segment, our primary focus is on the forwarding business unit.
To better manage our purchase transportation, we're implementing a system that optimizes buy rates to match real-time market conditions. Additionally, we are diversifying our revenue base. To take advantage of the trade downtrends in the air freight forwarding market, UPS expanded our ocean freight capabilities, a business we've been in for over a decade. For example, we extended the reach of our ocean less than container load service to hundreds of new lanes around the world. UPS Preferred LCL service accelerates ocean shipments and has been expanded to several key markets in Europe. When customers seek less expensive freight options, UPS offers a complete portfolio of solutions. Also, across the entire supply chain and freight segment, we expect to reduce overhead and operating costs utilizing UPS technology....
Given our long history of adapting to changing conditions and the actions I just reviewed, we are confident that we will deliver a solid second half in 2013 and beyond. Now, back to Kurt.
Kurt Kuehn (CFO)
Well, great. Thanks, David, and hopefully, you can see that we do have a wide array of both opportunities and initiatives in motion to address current conditions. Operator, I'll turn it over to you now, and we'll take your questions.
Operator (participant)
As a reminder, please, limit it to one question. Our first question will come from the line of Brandon Oglenski, Barclays. Please go ahead.
Brandon Oglenski (Director, Senior Equity Analyst)
Yeah, good morning. Thanks for taking my question. So I want to talk about your domestic growth. You know, last year, you had pretty good traction with the new Next Day Saver packages. We could see that in the numbers, but I'm wondering if, at this point in time, have you reached a saturated point in the market where that new premium offering has met, you know, a level where you can't drive much more share with that? And what are the type of innovative products that you can leverage the integrated network with relative to your competitor?
Kurt Kuehn (CFO)
Yeah, Brandon, the major driver of the reduction in our Next Day Air business for the quarter was a reduction in letters. The actual package business, which is more related to the B2C, and certainly, the omni-channel, continued to grow moderately. But we did see a big decline in letters, and that we do see some cycle there with refinancing dropping a bit, and also, it certainly was impacted by some of the uncertainty in the second quarter.
Brandon Oglenski (Director, Senior Equity Analyst)
Thank you.
Operator (participant)
Our next question will come from the line of Art Hatfield of Raymond James. Please go ahead.
Art Hatfield (Senior Equity Analyst)
Hey, morning. Just, real quick, you know, despite some of the slowing demand trends or some of the markets where there may be a little bit of excess capacity, are you seeing any irrationality in, in pricing in any of your markets?
Kurt Kuehn (CFO)
In general, I think the small package market remains rational. Clearly, there's a desire for customers to trade down. Probably the one area, you know, that has the most volatility is in the freight forwarding arena, most notably Asia. I'll have maybe Jim Barber comment a little bit on the trends there.
Jim Barber (President, International)
No, I think that's right, Kurt. Obviously, you know, you look at, at the international segment, the, we feel very strong about, about the Europe piece of the business, and very solid foundations are good, pricing's rational. As the market capacity moves largely out of Asia, you get a lot of pressure through the network and pricing and capacity with, with freighters coming out of the market and then belly space coming in. So we've got to manage to that. But in general, the pricing position within UPS, we feel very good about.
Art Hatfield (Senior Equity Analyst)
Thank you.
Operator (participant)
Our next question will come from the line of David Vernon of Bernstein. Please go ahead.
David Vernon (Vice President and Senior Analyst)
Hey, good morning. You guys have been very successful in offsetting some of the international small package, sort of, yield headwind from trade downs by managing up the air network utilization. I was trying to get a sense for what the level of utilization is right now in the Transpacific, and how much more you might be able to offset ongoing yield headwinds if these trends continue.
Kurt Kuehn (CFO)
Well, certainly, as David mentioned, we're doing a lot of work on the network changes. So David, maybe let's start with you.
David Abney (COO)
Yeah, I think that, it's an area we've done a great job, over the years in managing that balance, managing capacity to volume trends. In fact, since 2011, we have reduced our Asia capacity by 20%. And even this last quarter, from an international standpoint, with export volume up 5%, block hours were down 1.2%. That being said, though, it's an ever-changing environment, and we have to watch it very closely. And for this next quarter, we plan to reduce from 8 to 7.5 truck routes out of Asia. We also are reducing 1 weekly frequency from Asia to Europe.
But we also have the ability to plan in advance, and when we see days that are going to have less volume, we will shut down lanes for particular days of the week, which we're having a lot of success with. So it's something that we're actively managing.
Jim Barber (President, International)
I think this is Jim Barber. To add on to what David said, obviously, internationally, I think if you look at the results over the years in our operating margin, the network has a big play into it. But the other factor that we believe we do very well in international is to manage our in-country operations. You can see that come through in the margins. We feel like we've done it very well over the last couple of years as the economies have moved across the world. So it's a balance of the network, as well as our UPS leadership across the world to manage the in-country operations. And the result of that, I think, as you can see, is our international margins. So we're pretty comfortable with that.
David Vernon (Vice President and Senior Analyst)
Thanks.
Operator (participant)
Our next question will come from the line of Tom Wadewitz of J.P. Morgan. Please go ahead.
Tom Wadewitz (Senior Equity Research Analyst)
Yeah, good morning. I wanted to ask you a little bit more on the trade down. What is the [audio distortion] what do you think is timing? And I don't know if you have product launches in mind. That's one of the things with, you know, weakness with tech shippers you mentioned on trade down. But what do you think is potential timing where you would have some more evidence to say either, you know, we're right, this is trade down cyclical, or you say, you know, maybe it's a bigger issue and it's more persistent? Is that a couple of quarters out, or is it just, you know, how would you look at the kind of visibility and timing for potential trade change in that trade down dynamic? Thanks.
Scott Davis (CEO)
Thomas, Scott. You know, I think I'd start with the fact that, you know, clearly there's less need for speed in a soft global environment.
I think we've seen that, and we've been in that environment, unfortunately, for a couple of years now. But I do think that what gets it going again, what gets Express going again, is obviously innovative and high-value goods. And as I said earlier in my opening comments, we've been in a trough. We'll come out of that trough at some point in time in the future. For me to say it's going to be two quarters, three quarters, I'm not sure, but we know there's new product launches coming up, new innovation coming up. We're not done innovating new products. And when that happens, again, you'll see the Express product grow.
Well, I'm not sure you'll see Express products grow as fast as you did 10 years ago, unless you get a strong economy, global economy, and good growth in global trade. But I do think that the fact is, you know, we talked 5 years ago about the Next Day Air market in the US being a market that was going nowhere. The last 2 years, we grew that market faster than the ground. So again, I think we sometimes overreact on these things, and I do expect it'll be back.
Kurt Kuehn (CFO)
Yeah, and I think, you know, as, as David mentioned, we're doing a lot of product innovation and expansion, both to increase the yield on our aircraft and add some new product capabilities at, in the lower arenas. Maybe, Alan, you can talk a little bit about the portfolio and how we're adding products.
Alan Gershenhorn (Chief Sales and Marketing Officer)
Yeah, I guess first, you know, Scott alluded to, you know, high tech launches, and, we're certainly, looking forward to some of the launches that should take place in late third, fourth quarter this year. We've got a great, a great portfolio there to help, high tech companies with those launches. David talked about, Worldwide Express Freight, surpassing our expectations. Again, this is a, a new piece of the express market that we've entered. So you know, you know, we're excited because there's a tremendous amount of upside for UPS there, and, we're also able to bundle that to, to win other express package. And then on the yield management side, again, David talked about the expedited expansion.
Again, a couple of keys there is that, utilizing our lower cost integrated network, we're able to utilize ground, Transborder Standard ground network, in Europe, as well as our Second Day Air and ground network in the United States to lower the cost and keep the packages off the planes. And one interesting note there is that, 75% of the new volume we're getting on those lanes are coming from shippers that never shipped on those lanes before. So it's new business, and it's not down trading from Express.
Tom Wadewitz (Senior Equity Research Analyst)
Great. Thank you. I appreciate it.
Operator (participant)
Our next question will come from the line of Ken Hoexter of Merrill Lynch. Please go ahead.
Ken Hoexter (Managing Director)
Hey, great. Good morning. Domestic margins took a bit of a downturn here year-over-year. What was the growth of SurePost, and how is the shift to SurePost and e-commerce impacting margins, and how is that dealt with in the negotiations? Thanks.
Kurt Kuehn (CFO)
Yeah, I'll take at least the pure growth part of that, and then Myron can talk a little bit about our productivity and other issues. But you know, we've wrapped a lot of the ramp up of SurePost. It's continuing to grow. Clearly, B2C continues to outperform the B2B in our portfolio, and we're doing fine with that. The biggest issue, clearly in the second quarter for domestic was the slowdown of volume growth below what we'd expected. And Myron, clearly, you guys are adapting to that.
Myron Gray (President of US Operations)
Yeah, on the heels of slower growth than what we expected, when you look at the ramp of the basic product in the SurePost, we were able to improve our operating margins by deploying SurePost Redirect, where in the second quarter, on average, we saw 17.5% of the packages that would have been delivered by the post office, we were able to redirect through our package delivery drivers, with matching them up with other stops that were going to residential, to residences, which drove density. So we'll see continued expansion of our productivity, and moving into the third quarter, we'll try to hone those productivity improvements.
Operator (participant)
Our next question will come from the line of Kevin Sterling of BB&T Capital Markets. Please go ahead.
Kevin Sterling (Managing Director - Equity Research Analyst)
Thank you. Good morning, gentlemen.
Kurt Kuehn (CFO)
Good morning.
Kevin Sterling (Managing Director - Equity Research Analyst)
Can I dive a little bit more into your freight forwarding comments? The weakness that you're seeing, is it mainly a mix issue, buy rates, follow the buy rates, volume? Really, what's driving that deterioration in forwarding?
Kurt Kuehn (CFO)
Okay. Yeah, Jim, why don't you go ahead and take that?
Jim Barber (President, International)
Sure. I think it's, you know, you mentioned, Kevin, all three of those points. It's all of those together, quite frankly, and some of the comments we started with. We know that in our network right now, we're really concentrated in a couple of ways. We're at a. The Asia lane is driving a lot of the growth historically. It concentrates in high tech, and Scott talked about some of the innovation through. You heard some comments about military and defense. We've had some of those movements going on across the world. But so some of those pressures combine to where we are right now in the current quarter. But looking forward, as David said, we're pretty confident. We've been investing in freight, the UPS freight forwarding way over the last couple of years.
He mentioned, David, kind of a go-forward, new piece of go-to-market on how we're going to go to the procurement side of freight. So we're comfortable that we can, we can take that and continue the growth, and we also have to take a look at emerging markets. And quite frankly, we feel like the emerging market announcements we've had recently, as the trade patterns in the world move, it's going to provide us great opportunity to match our network with that emerging market investment and continue to grow all of those together. And at the end, even in these tough times, the margins weren't the worst you've ever seen, so we're kind of holding those year-over-year comps aren't the best, but by, by the end of the day, we still have some pretty strong margins in freight.
We continue to keep going down that path, and we'll manage them together.
Kevin Sterling (Managing Director - Equity Research Analyst)
Okay, great. Thanks for your time this morning.
Operator (participant)
Our next question will come from the line of Chris Wetherbee of Citi. Please go ahead.
Chris Wetherbee (Senior Research Analyst)
Thanks. Maybe a question just on the second half guidance when you think about the 8% midpoint. Can you give us a little bit of, you know, some of the inputs and the expectations, I guess, of volume progression as you move throughout the year that kind of gets you to that point? I guess maybe what I'm asking is, you know, how much is it reliant on maybe a somewhat more normalized peak or some product launches that go on later on in the second half of the year?
Kurt Kuehn (CFO)
Yeah, no, we're not, you know, we're not basing our guidance on any significant kind of ramp up economically. As I, as I think I mentioned, we're, we're looking for basically a steady state, economy, unexciting, a little underperforming, clearly, from where we thought it would be at the beginning of the year, but not radically down. You know, we do expect the U.S. business to ramp up a bit as we, as we ramp up some of the customers, perhaps, that, that got deferred or delayed during the, during the negotiation period. So we expect to see volume growth strengthen with, Q4 clearly being, stronger than Q3. On the international side, you know, kind of steady as she goes on that.
Clearly, there's volatility in the air freight, but we feel pretty good that the, the core business is very strong. Europe continues strong. So no real unique shape to the, the rest of the year as far as, economic conditions.
Chris Wetherbee (Senior Research Analyst)
Great. Thank you.
Operator (participant)
Our next question will come from the line of Kelly Dougherty of Macquarie. Please go ahead.
Kelly Dougherty (Senior Analyst for Logistics and Transportation)
Hey, thanks for taking my question. I just want to follow up on forwarding a bit. You talk about air freight overcapacity. And I'm wondering if you can talk to some of the moving parts. Are you seeing that in lower purchase transportation costs? Or, you know, maybe you have to then pass that through more quickly from a pricing standpoint. So if you could help us think about how that's working on the air freight side and then maybe a little color on ocean as well, please.
Kurt Kuehn (CFO)
Yeah, I think the major overcapacity in the forwarding is that it's not so much on the dedicated cargo carriers, but the passenger airlines clearly have added capacity. And our real strategy is, as Jim said, to adapt so we're as flexible as we can be to reflect buy rates, and then importantly, also to develop the portfolio to help customers move up and down, much as we do in our package environment. So, you know, the forwarding market is volatile and cycles happen quite a bit. We think we're reacting accordingly and building a good base.
Kelly Dougherty (Senior Analyst for Logistics and Transportation)
Any color maybe on the ocean side?
Kurt Kuehn (CFO)
Ocean remains solid, and that's part of the reason we're building and expanding for it, is we, you know, we're profitable in ocean and looking forward to growing it.
Kelly Dougherty (Senior Analyst for Logistics and Transportation)
Thanks.
Operator (participant)
Our next question will come from the line of Justin Yagerman of Deutsche Bank. Please go ahead.
Justin Yagerman (Director/Equity Research Analyst)
Hey, good morning, guys.
Kurt Kuehn (CFO)
Morning, sir.
Justin Yagerman (Director/Equity Research Analyst)
In David's remarks, you guys talked about moving from 8 to 7.5 truck routes. I think you were talking about the Asian market. And I was just—I think it's the first time you've given color around that. And I was kind of curious, as I frame up the international small package business, can you give us a sense of how much of that business stays on the ground as opposed to actually flying, in either your owned or chartered aircraft? That'd be helpful, I think, in terms of getting an idea of the profitability of the business.
David Abney (COO)
Okay, well, to, to just clarify, last quarter, we were at eight truck routes, and this quarter, we're moving to 7.5. And what that means is there'll be some days that are, that are every week, that are eight, and then there are other days that are seven. But these truck routes, of course, are the routes that are very important, connecting Asia to the US and Asia to Europe.
Kurt Kuehn (CFO)
Clearly, you know, the issue is more of a challenge for us coming out of Asia, where you fly the goods. You know, when you look across border in Europe, you can obviously move between air and ground and have flexibility. But the challenge for us, obviously, is when business slows down coming out of Asia, you fly it.
Justin Yagerman (Director/Equity Research Analyst)
Yeah. Got it. And so just in framing up the back half of that question, you know, in terms of the overall percentage of the international small package business that stays on the ground, any color around that?
Jim Barber (President, International)
So this is Jim. You know, most of that question really pertains to our European operations because of the way we've been at it since we went over there in 1976. We built the network we built that is both transborder, air, and ground allows us to essentially keep about 85% of what we pick up in Europe to stay in Europe. And the customer's choice, they can fly it, or they can put it on the ground. And the power of that network allows them to do both. So that's kind of gives you a feel for, I guess, the materiality of a European operation.
David Abney (COO)
Yeah, and you know that Europe is over half our revenue in international, so it's a big piece. Canada is also a decent-sized operation.
Kurt Kuehn (CFO)
Yeah.
Justin Yagerman (Director/Equity Research Analyst)
All right.
Alan Gershenhorn (Chief Sales and Marketing Officer)
This is Alan. I was just going to say that, you know, we've got a material business between U.S. and Canada, and we just recently launched a ground business to Mexico. So we now have, U.S. to Mexico Standard, Mexico to U.S. Standard, which, is again, also, exceeding our expectations in terms of growth.
Justin Yagerman (Director/Equity Research Analyst)
Got it.
Operator (participant)
Our next question will come from the line of Scott Group of Wolfe Research. Please go ahead.
Scott Group (Managing Director)
Hey, thanks. Morning, guys.
Kurt Kuehn (CFO)
Morning.
Scott Group (Managing Director)
Maybe just an update on the Teamsters negotiations and the contract status there. With the tentative deal on the package side, are you starting to see any of the domestic volumes come back more than you thought in the second quarter? And then on the LTL side, are you seeing any of the volumes start to go away, given that you seem further away on the deal there?
Kurt Kuehn (CFO)
Well, Scott, I'll start with that, and I'd say, yeah, first of all, you're right. We got the National Master Agreement done, and the National Master covers the important things on the package side, and it covers the wages, the pension, and the health and welfare. We do have some supplements also that we've got to work our way through. We're working with the Teamsters and our employees right now on those issues. They generally involve work rules. I'd say that as we said before, we're really not seeing additional diversion or any diversion at this point in time. We missed some opportunities, and as we negotiated, it took us a while to put these new wins, you know, on board to convert them.
I think we'll see that, we'll see more in the third quarter, and we'll see more in the fourth quarter. So I don't see any more losses from that perspective. On the LTL side, still, we've got to finish that agreement. We do have an extension, which gives our customers, you know, a little bit of a calm feeling as we have the extension. And I'd say, you know, currently, we're really not seeing a lot of lost volume on the LTL side. We think we feel pretty good about it. Just, like, need to get that agreement done.
Scott Group (Managing Director)
Okay, thanks.
Operator (participant)
Our next question is from the line of Bill Greene of Morgan Stanley. Please go ahead.
Bill Greene (Managing Director)
Yeah. Hi there. Good morning.
Kurt Kuehn (CFO)
Good morning.
Bill Greene (Managing Director)
Scott or Kurt, I'm wondering if you could comment on something that we get asked a lot, which is, when we look at sort of what appears to us as a duopoly in the US market, it seems somewhat surprising that we don't see more, I guess, stronger sort of pricing power overall. And I realize there's always puts and takes and mix shifts and whatnot, but I'm wondering if you can comment at all about how you think about the progression of this market. DHL has been gone for quite some time, so maybe talk a little bit about how you think about pricing.
Kurt Kuehn (CFO)
Yeah, Bill, this is Kurt. First thing I have to do, I guess, is take issue with your framing of the market as a duopoly. Clearly, this is a competitive market. The post office is a very large player in the ground business, especially, and there's a number of regional players. In general, you know, pricing is rational in this industry, and that's one of the great elements. But I think some of the trends we've talked about do create some challenges and mask that the goods are getting smaller and lighter, the average weights are down 2%-3%, typically year-over-year. And that there's been a transition of goods, you know, to some extent from business to business to business to consumer. So, pricing remains rational. It is somewhat masked.
It's sometimes hard for you guys to see all the moving parts, but, if you factor out the average weight and some of the other product changes, we're still looking at core base rates of over 2%.
Operator (participant)
Our next question will come from the line of Ben Hartford of Baird. Please go ahead.
Ben Hartford (Senior Equity Research analyst)
Hey, good morning, guys. I'm wondering if I can get some perspective on My Choice and where you think that technology is, as it relates to capturing B2C benefits, both in terms of volume and utilization in the network. Maybe just kind of framing where that product technology is and whether we're on the front end or back end of realizing the benefits.
Kurt Kuehn (CFO)
Great. Now, I'm sure Alan would be happy to talk about that.
Alan Gershenhorn (Chief Sales and Marketing Officer)
Well, first, I'd say we're on the front end of that. We have over 3.3 million consumers signed up right now, and certainly by the end of this quarter, we should approach or exceed 4 million enrollments. We have 54 million deliveries that have taken place, and about 14% of those deliveries, the consumer actually takes action on them. So there's some real value being created there. Certainly on the cost side, for us, we're reducing our send agains. We're making sure that more packages are being delivered on the first attempt. Just recently, we introduced the ability to upgrade your SurePost packages to UPS Ground, and that's also resonating well with our customers and exceeding our expectations.
We're the only provider out there in the marketplace now that enables all residential services to have consumer day before, day before visibility and ability to reroute or reschedule. The other exciting thing is we just launched the UPS My Choice Facebook app, and that enables, you know, a Facebook login and also My Choice capability on Facebook. It's just out just a couple of weeks, and we have 120,000 new users that have linked their UPS My Choice or the UPS their myups.com to Facebook. So, you know, we're excited about that. We're also listed as one of the top 10 Facebook apps right now. Just some other interesting stats.
So we have 3.6 million downloads now on our, you know, iPad, iPhone and Android apps. So, a lot of traction with My Choice, also really resonating with retailers.
Kurt Kuehn (CFO)
Great. So, yeah, if you don't get it, we're moving well on My Choice, and if you guys haven't signed up yet, you're missing a great service.
Ben Hartford (Senior Equity Research analyst)
Thanks for the time.
Operator (participant)
Our next question will come from the line of Nate Brochmann of William Blair. Please go ahead.
Nate Brochmann (Equity Research Analyst - Logistics/Transportation and Business Services)
Good morning, everyone.
Kurt Kuehn (CFO)
Morning.
Alan Gershenhorn (Chief Sales and Marketing Officer)
Morning.
Nate Brochmann (Equity Research Analyst - Logistics/Transportation and Business Services)
I wanted to talk just [audio distortion] actually, that's a great transition here to my question, which is, as you guys continue to get more B2C business, and you're able to leverage more off of your drivers, even by rerouting from SurePost into the regular ground network, what's that doing for your margins, kind of in that B2C business? And, you know, how much higher can that go as you continue to get more density and more business through those channels?
Kurt Kuehn (CFO)
Yeah, I think Myron clearly will fill you in on the Redirect and also ORION. In general, B2C is a bit more challenging, but through the innovation we've done, we're finding ways to grow very profitably with B2C. So, Myron?
Myron Gray (President of US Operations)
In David's opening comments, he addressed ORION, but before we go there, let me remind you that just last year, we finished completion of deploying telematics in the US. So in the quarter, we were able to drive 1.6 million less miles, while on top of 1.9% volume growth. Now, a couple on top of that, you talk about the 500 people that we've deployed with ORION, which is an on-road integrated optimization system that will allow us to reduce additional miles.
Keeping in mind that for every average mile reduced, there's a $50 million savings to UPS. So we feel very confident that as we grow B2C volume, we'll deploy technology that allow us to balance the cost. But as we get additional B2C, we'll also increase density, which obviously will help us improve margins.
Kurt Kuehn (CFO)
Right. And I guess just to reinforce, ORION is a major deployment that's going to take us 3-4 years to get fully rolled out. But it does create a very dynamic environment that allows us to do real-time adjustments.
Nate Brochmann (Equity Research Analyst - Logistics/Transportation and Business Services)
Thanks.
Operator (participant)
Our next question will come from the line of Scott Schneeberger of Oppenheimer. Please go ahead.
Scott Schneeberger (Managing Director)
Thanks. Good morning. Scott, could you speak to the back half guidance? What would be the two or three or four biggest swing factors to put you at the high end or the low end, as you approach it? Thanks.
Kurt Kuehn (CFO)
Well, certainly, the economic factors will be a big driver. I think in the domestic side, making sure that this nascent recovery continues. Our success clearly on bringing in customers to accelerate the volume growth and then normal execution. Internationally, the product launches, I think, in late Q3, Q4, have a big impact on demand conditions. Although in Europe, we're plugging along pretty strong. We had growth upper single digits in Europe and continue to see that work as our integrated network differentiates. So biggest factors really would be the economic environment.
Jim Barber (President, International)
Scott, it's our job to adapt to whatever we face in the second half of the year. The team here will adapt to conditions. Kurt said in earlier comments that we're assuming the same trends we saw, you know, coming out of the second quarter. You know, hopefully, it will get a little bit better, but, you know, we'll adapt to whatever we get.
Operator (participant)
Our next question will come from the line of Allison Landry of Credit Suisse. Please go ahead.
Allison Landry (Senior Equity Research Analyst)
I was wondering if you could talk a little bit about how much you expect to improve profitability at the forwarding division once you're able to implement some of the initiatives that you were speaking about earlier.
Kurt Kuehn (CFO)
Well, we have given guidance that the overall supply chain and freight will have 8% margins for the rest of the year. So clearly, that represents a very solid margin, and you know, we're comfortable that the actions were taken, you know, will get us to that point.
Allison Landry (Senior Equity Research Analyst)
Is there a longer-term expectation?
Kurt Kuehn (CFO)
We've not laid out exact numbers for that subsegment, but clearly, if that sector is in the 8%-10% margin over the long term, we're generating economic profit and feel good, or... And then, it's just a matter of continuing to grow that sector.
Jim Barber (President, International)
We think international air freight is at a trough, and it's hard to imagine it getting much worse going forward.
Allison Landry (Senior Equity Research Analyst)
Great. Thank you.
Operator (participant)
Our next question will come from the line of Jeffrey Kauffman of Buckingham Research. Please go ahead.
Jeffrey Kauffman (Director – Transport, Logistics & Machinery/Equipment Equity Research)
Thank you very much. Not to beat the forwarding question over the head here, I'm just trying to segregate what's more of a short-term issue versus a long-term issue. You mentioned weakness in the tech out of Asia, and you mentioned weakness in the military. How much of that do you believe is shorter term in nature or timing in nature, versus how much do you think is more of a secular issue?
Kurt Kuehn (CFO)
Yeah, okay. We'll let Jim talk a little more about forwarding, since that seems to be the topic du jour.
Jim Barber (President, International)
But, Jeff, don't feel bad. We've talked a lot about it here, too. I appreciate, I appreciate that opportunity. So, so I think, you know, Scott talked about the innovation trough in the beginning, so that's obviously a piece of the drag on the high-tech sector. The military and the defense side, you know, you can see what happens across the world and what's going on with that. And, and I think our real opportunity is to reverse the concentration in what we've got. You know, we've been investing, for instance, in healthcare over the last couple of years, and we expand that footprint. We're going to go down the path here into emerging markets, which, quite frankly, in their early years of development, as trade continues to grow, that's really a freight need that they have to connect to the world as opposed to an express product.
So all of those provide great opportunities for UPS in the years to come. So we're very comfortable. We're glad we're in forwarding. Right now, it is a bit of a trough. We hold the margins tight, we continue to invest, and we'll continue to grow it as UPS should.
Jeffrey Kauffman (Director – Transport, Logistics & Machinery/Equipment Equity Research)
Thank you.
Operator (participant)
Our next question will come from the line of David Ross of Stifel. Please go ahead.
David Ross (Managing Director and Group Head)
Yeah, good morning, gentlemen. UPS Freight, you know, showed an increase in density with shipment volume up nicely in the quarter, and yields were up just a little bit, but margins, you know, it said in the press release, declined slightly due to increases in compensation and benefit expense. Can you explain if that's anything out of the normal annual increase in wages and benefits? And then also, why the increased density wouldn't have driven margin improvement?
Kurt Kuehn (CFO)
Yeah, well, there was a bit of a tough comp to the previous year that gave us a little bit of a headwind. But Myron, maybe you could talk about some of the deployment of UPS technology into freight that should help us drive margins.
Myron Gray (President of US Operations)
Yeah, as Kurt noted, in the quarter, while we did see continued growth in revenue, we did see also continued abilities to attract additional market share, which boded well for us. However, with the increase in health and benefit costs, we, we were not able to improve margin expansion. We will continue to deploy customer-facing as well as operational technology. Customer-facing technology, like pickup notification, that utilizes UPS's WorldShip, that gives our customers an hour timeframe of when they'll get the pickup, and we'll continue to deploy small package technology and freight to get additional operational improvements.
Operator (participant)
Our next question will come from the line of Helane Becker of Cowen Securities. Please go ahead.
Helane Becker (Managing Director and Senior Advisor)
Thanks very much, operator. Thanks for squeezing my question in. I just have a question, Scott, on or Kurt, on capital allocation and capital deployment. I know you guys are very committed to the dividend and the share repurchase program, and yet, you know, your share count's going down, your revenue growth is flat, and your earnings are going down. So could you just talk about your thoughts with respect to capital allocation within the context of, you know, slowing revenue growth environment?
Alan Gershenhorn (Chief Sales and Marketing Officer)
Well, I'll start, Helane, and clearly, you know, we're committed to our distributions, we're committed to our dividends, we're committed to the share repurchase, the numbers we talked about in the past. But we're also committed to reinvesting in the business, and we have a lot of opportunities out there right now for us to reinvest, particularly in areas, the emerging markets we talked about a little bit earlier. There's all kinds of opportunities in healthcare that we're just tapping right now. And the B2C we've talked about throughout the call. Around the globe, there's just a lot of opportunities for us to enable our customers' growth in B2C. So we see plenty of ideas and plenty of opportunities to reinvest in the business.
Kurt Kuehn (CFO)
Yeah, and I think, Helane, I can't let you get off the phone here without taking issue with you. I mean, we're looking for profit growth in the next quarter and revenue growth and 8% midpoint for profit growth. So, we did have a bit of a hiccup in the second quarter, but we feel very confident in both the short-term and the long-term outlook for the company.
Helane Becker (Managing Director and Senior Advisor)
Okay. Well, that's fair. Thank you.
Kurt Kuehn (CFO)
Mm-hmm, you're welcome.
Operator (participant)
Our next question will come from the line of Jack Atkins of Stephens. Please go ahead.
Jack Atkins (Research Analyst)
Good morning, guys. Thanks for taking my question.
Kurt Kuehn (CFO)
Sure.
Jack Atkins (Research Analyst)
Just to go back to your comments earlier about airfreight capacity. You know, as an operator of your own assets, I'd be curious to hear sort of your thoughts on the long-term outlook for airfreight capacity, especially given the influx of passenger belly space we've seen here over the last several years. Would just like to kind of hear your broader thoughts on the capacity situation, both over the next 12 months and the next 3-5 years.
David Abney (COO)
Yeah, I think the first thing, you certainly hit it right. What's increased the capacity has been the belly space and all the passenger airlines that the aircraft that have been added. What you're seeing us do and other people in our marketplace, is to watch very closely the trade lanes and to make sure that we deploy those assets to match the volume in those trade lanes. So when we need to pick up the lift in certain areas, we quickly deploy that aircraft, and then on the other hand, when we need to pull back, we've shown we can effectively do that. One of the things that's unique, I think, to our company right now is we have not ordered any aircraft after the 767s that we're receiving this year.
That gives us a little time to just hold firm and see what's going to go on in the marketplace in the next couple of years.
Jack Atkins (Research Analyst)
Thanks for calling.
Operator (participant)
Our next question will come from the line of Keith Schoonmaker of Morningstar. Please go ahead.
Keith Schoonmaker (Director of Industrials Equity Research)
Thanks. You mentioned the double-digit revenue declines in forwarding, and Scott, I've heard you say in the past, all freight on board. I'd like to ask you to comment on, volume shifts. Namely, do you see customers who shipped air in the past diverting all the way down to ocean? Are you seeing shippers simply shipping fewer shipments? And as a corollary, are you margin neutral on these modes, or does slower ocean demand fewer UPS resources?
Kurt Kuehn (CFO)
Let's let Alan answer that. I think, I think clearly we're probably seeing all of the above, but Alan, take a shot.
Alan Gershenhorn (Chief Sales and Marketing Officer)
Yeah, we, you know, we're seeing, you know, some of our customers, you know, look for, you know, solutions that move the air freight to ocean. Certainly, there are certain products and that Scott talked about earlier in terms of innovation and high value that just don't fit that mode. You know, we recently introduced, and David talked about our Preferred Ocean LCL, which is really a combination of our ocean move, and then using our integrated network to expedite those moves once they hit the destination, you know, say, in the United States here, and where we've got some nice margins on that. That's obviously higher than regular ocean, and it speeds up the time in transit to faster than ocean, but still somewhat slower than air freight.
That's been boding well for us.
Keith Schoonmaker (Director of Industrials Equity Research)
Thanks. About the margins, is ocean more or less attractive to you compared to air?
Kurt Kuehn (CFO)
Well, in the short term, if we've got premium volume sitting in an aircraft, there's a higher incremental impact. It's harder to adjust, especially flights out of Asia, than it is other integrated areas. Over the long term, we are very profitable in ocean. In fact, we have major investments to help supplier management and to help accelerate ocean. So we're building the portfolio, classic UPS approach, and we'll make sure that the margins are appropriately, you know, compensatory for the investment.
Keith Schoonmaker (Director of Industrials Equity Research)
Thank you.
Operator (participant)
Our next question will come from the line of David Campbell of Thompson Davis & Co. Please go ahead.
David Campbell (Senior VP/Research Analyst)
Hi, good morning. I don't want to overdo on forwarding, but, I haven't heard, unless I missed it, how much forwarding air freight tonnage was down in the second quarter?
Kurt Kuehn (CFO)
Yeah, it was down. Yeah, it was down a little over 10% in the quarter. And, as we've said before, the military was a big piece of that, and that was certainly a very volatile group as movements happen. And then the core underlying weakness also in high tech drove that data.
David Campbell (Senior VP/Research Analyst)
Thank you.
Alan Gershenhorn (Chief Sales and Marketing Officer)
Our next question will come from the line of David Vernon of Bernstein. Please go ahead.
David Vernon (Vice President and Senior Analyst)
Hey, Kurt, I was just wondering if you could maybe give us a sense for what the right level of maintenance CapEx should be on the airline side once you lap the new aircraft deliveries in the coming years?
Kurt Kuehn (CFO)
Well, we've got, you know, the youngest fleet in the industry, so at least the day-to-day maintenance is pretty minimal. But, we think in general, depreciation is a reasonable representation of maintenance CapEx. As David said, we're not real long on aircraft right now. We're bringing in a couple more 767s this year, and then the fleet's in great shape. And we'll, we'll be flexible and, decide what happens from there. But we feel real good about our capital position. Very few capital commitments and great cash flow for the company going forward. And the depreciation, we think, really represents a pretty good shot at what maintenance CapEx is.
David Vernon (Vice President and Senior Analyst)
Okay, thank you.
Operator (participant)
We have a question from the line of Mr. Scott Group of Wolfe Research. Please go ahead.
Scott Group (Managing Director)
Hey, thanks for the follow-up. So just following up on those comments about free cash should be really good the next couple of years. What prevents you from being even more aggressive with the buyback or the dividend? Because the stock up so far this year, you're below a 3% yield, and you've got $6 billion in cash. You used to run the business with closer to $1 billion of cash. Why not be more aggressive?
Kurt Kuehn (CFO)
Well, we have a, you know, a policy that we manage to fairly steadily, Scott, as you know, of distributing approximately 100% of net income in the form of either dividends or share repurchases. This year, we are more aggressive with a, you know, a stated target of $4 billion in share repurchase, partially to catch up for last year, where we held back, as we accumulated cash. But we think a steady programmatic approach is the best way to do it. We, you know, we do buy it back and retire the shares that we commit, and so I think investors can count on a programmatic approach that is understandable and foreseeable, and at least for now, that makes a lot of sense.
Clearly, if markets get crazy, we've got the cash if we want to become more aggressive in share repurchase, but right now, we're very comfortable with our current approach.
Alan Gershenhorn (Chief Sales and Marketing Officer)
And Scott, as I said earlier, I think that even though it's a slow-growth global economy, we see a lot of opportunities to reinvest in ideas we have out there.
Kurt Kuehn (CFO)
Yeah.
Operator (participant)
Due to time constraints, our last question for the day will come from the line of Kelly Dougherty of Macquarie. Please go ahead.
Kelly Dougherty (Senior Analyst for Logistics and Transportation)
Hi, thanks for sneaking me in. I just wanted to change gears and see if you could talk a little bit about the B2B side of things. You know, what you're seeing from perhaps maybe a stabilization or when you think that maybe you'll see growth reaccelerate. I think the omni-channel might fit into that, so maybe any color you could give on B2B would be helpful.
Kurt Kuehn (CFO)
Yeah, we did reference, in our earlier, a little bit of a slowing in the industrial base, so we saw some drag there. But, Alan, maybe you could talk about what's happening in the retail sector.
Alan Gershenhorn (Chief Sales and Marketing Officer)
Yeah, certainly, Kelly, your, your comment about omni-channel, that certainly does create B2B shipments. You know, we're real excited about helping brick-and-mortar retailers, provide a, an omni-channel experience for their consumers that, that obviously merges the, the online, with the brick-and-mortar. We're finding that there's, a lot of customers out there or consumers that, you know, want to ship, you know, order online and ship to store.
We're also enabling our retailers with our technology to be able to drop orders to their stores and ship to other stores or ship directly to consumers, which is a win-win-win for, you know, UPS, the retailer, you know, and the consumers, because the consumers are getting, you know, faster fulfillment of their orders, the retailers getting it at, you know, cost-effective rates, and obviously, we're getting new business. We've got, you know, probably about 25 retailers that are engaged with us today, you know, on that, and it's resonating well with them. The other thing I would just add is the one driver really resonates well with the retailers, because obviously the store personnel needs to stay focused on the in-store consumers.
Using our technology and one driver to pick up, you know, all the air and ground and deliver all the air and ground keeps those employees on track.
Kelly Dougherty (Senior Analyst for Logistics and Transportation)
Do you think that, you know, this omni-channel driving that can, can lead to a stabilization in the B2B volumes anytime soon?
Alan Gershenhorn (Chief Sales and Marketing Officer)
Yeah, I think certainly, certainly it's going to help, grow B2B. You know, obviously, you, you know, you wouldn't have thought in the past that, that the B2C or online would generate, B2B, but, you're finding more and more that, the folks are getting, you know, packages delivered to their work, delivered to stores. We certainly have our Kiala UPS Access Point model in Europe with 8,000 access points where consumers... Many consumers are preferring to pick up those packages at businesses versus at home. So, so yeah, we're excited about the prospects of, of, a more, balanced, you know, B2C market or, you know, online e-commerce market that generates more B2B than it has in the past.
Kurt Kuehn (CFO)
Kelly, in the second quarter, if you watched the economic stats, the inventories got liquidated, so inventories are pretty low level right now, and US exports were really weak in the quarter. So both those two areas could really help B2B going forward to get back to normal.
Kelly Dougherty (Senior Analyst for Logistics and Transportation)
Great. Thanks very much, guys.
Operator (participant)
That does conclude our Q&A session for today. I would now like to turn the conference back over to Mr. Andy Dolny for closing remarks.
Kurt Kuehn (CFO)
Yeah, I'm gonna turn it over to Scott for some final thoughts.
Scott Davis (CEO)
Well, thank you for joining us today. First, let me say that I am quite confident UPS will achieve the goals that we discussed today. Next, despite a slower global economic growth forecast and the trade-down we're experiencing, I want to reiterate the comments I made on Helane's question. I really can't remember a time in my 28 years at UPS when we had more opportunities in front of us. Opportunities like the omni-channel in US retail that we just got done talking about, market share expansion in the fast-growing emerging markets, healthcare solutions to assist an aging population, and UPS enabling global B2C business growth around the globe. Lots of opportunities ahead of us. Thanks for joining us today.
