Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. And welcome to the Bio-Rad Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2023 Earnings Results Conference Call. At this time, all lines are in a listen-only mode. Following the presentation, we will conduct a question-and-answer session. I would now like to turn the conference over to Edward Chung. Please go ahead.

Thanks, Jenny. Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you for joining us. Today, we will review the fourth quarter and full year 2023 financial results and provide an update on key business trends for Bio-Rad. With me on the call today are Norman Schwartz, our Chief Executive Officer; Andy Last, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer; and Simon May, President of the Life Science Group. Before we begin our review, I would like to caution everyone that we will be making forward-looking statements about management’s goals, plans, and expectations, our future financial performance, and other matters. These statements are based on assumptions and expectations of future events that are subject to risks and uncertainties. Our actual results may differ materially from these plans, goals, and expectations. You should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements and I encourage you to review our filings with the SEC where we discuss in detail the risk factors in our business. The company does not intend to update any forward-looking statements made during the call today. Finally, our remarks today will include references to non-GAAP financials, including net income and diluted earnings per share, which are financial measures that are not defined under Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. Investors should review the reconciliation of these non-GAAP measures to the comparable GAAP results contained in our earnings release. With that, I will now turn over the call to Andy Last, our Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, to provide an update on Bio-Rad’s global operations.

Thank you, Ed, and good afternoon to everyone. We appreciate your presence today. The fourth quarter of 2023 met expectations, showing a continuation of the macroeconomic trends we observed earlier this year in the biotech and biopharma sectors, as well as challenges in China and geopolitical issues with Russia. However, we saw a notable revenue increase compared to Q3 in both Life Science and Diagnostics, although the Life Science business didn't see much of a budget flush in Q4 as anticipated. During the quarter, we resolved the remaining operational challenges related to our SAP Go Live in Q3 in Asia-Pacific and are now functioning on a single global instance of SAP across all our operations. In Life Science, we faced a significant core business decline compared to Q4 of last year, partly due to tough comparisons stemming from strong budget flush, backorder reductions, and the successful launch of the QX600 ddPCR platform. We were happy with the growth in our Clinical Diagnostics business in Q4, particularly in Asia-Pacific, where we focused on placements to leverage some robust growth trends, especially in our diabetes testing sector. We have overcome our supply chain challenges and ended the quarter with a more normalized year-end backlog. Overall, our ddPCR franchise had a lackluster 2023, with flat sales excluding COVID, compared to the previous high growth driven by our focus on biotech and biopharma. Nonetheless, we remain optimistic about maintaining our leading market share and are looking forward to the QX Continuum launch as we target the lower-end market later this year. Furthermore, we are committed to investing in application and assay development for the platform, with additional launches planned throughout the year. We're also excited to introduce several new Life Science products this year, including our next-generation ChemiDoc Western blot platform and the single-cell ddSEQ sample preparation solution. We were satisfied with the Q4 results for our Clinical Diagnostics business, particularly the double-digit year-end growth in Asia-Pacific driven by demand and prioritized placements, which enabled us to achieve mid-single-digit growth overall for the quarter. Throughout 2023, our teams diligently worked to reduce back orders in the clinical sector and ramped up production in Singapore for products moved from France. We were encouraged by the advancements made in our core franchises in quality controls, immunohematology, diabetes, and autoimmune, despite challenges in Russia and China. In Q4, inventory levels remained high, similar to Q3, as we continued to manage the impact of transferring clinical instruments from France to Singapore and reduced demand affecting inventory use in Life Sciences. We maintained strict cost control in Q4, which included lower employee-related expenses resulting from reduced incentive compensation accruals. Looking ahead to 2024, we expect a more normalized year for customer demand in our Clinical Diagnostics business. However, we are cautious about the recovery pace and dynamics in our Life Science business. We predict the first half of the year will see a decline due to ongoing softness in biopharma and biotech and challenging year-over-year comparisons. Nevertheless, we anticipate improvement in the latter half of the year as funding increases and the broader biopharma market stabilizes. The recovery pace in China is uncertain, but it remains a key market for our future growth. Overall, we view 2024 as a transition year for recovery, with above-average uncertainty for our Life Science operations due to expected improvements in biotech and biopharma in the second half and the recovery in bioprocessing de-stocking. We start 2024 with a softer order book for process chromatography than in previous years, largely due to certain large customers working through elevated inventory levels. On a positive note, our process chromatography resins were included in five novel therapeutics approved by the FDA in 2023. We are also looking forward to the go-live of our new Singapore distribution center later this year, which will support logistics improvements in the Asia-Pacific region and globally for both businesses. We have made progress in refining our cost structure, but we anticipate a significant increase in costs in 2024 due to employee incentive compensation accruals, along with annual merit increases that will present a notable cost challenge. Additionally, we foresee ongoing tightening of sanctions against Russia, making it increasingly difficult to meet demand in our clinical business there. In conclusion, we continue to pursue our strategy, emphasizing execution in our priority market segments and platforms, enhancing processes and efficiency surrounding our single global SAP instance, and maintaining our investment levels to foster innovation in our core platforms. Thank you, and I will now pass the call to Norman to review the financial results.

Okay. Thank you, Andy. So, first, I’d like to review the results of the fourth quarter and the full year. Net sales for the fourth quarter of 2023 were $681.2 million. It’s a 6.7% decline on a reported basis versus $730.3 million in Q4 of 2022 and a 7.7% decline on a currency-neutral basis. Similar to the prior quarter, the fourth quarter year-over-year revenue decline was primarily the result of ongoing weaknesses in the biotech and biopharma end markets, again, primarily impacting sales of our Life Science segment products. In addition, we continue to experience weak demand for Life Science products in China. I think both as a result of the macroeconomic environment, as well as to some extent, the local made-in-China initiatives. COVID-related sales in the prior year were $13.4 million and immaterial in the fourth quarter of 2023. Therefore, core revenue, which excludes COVID-related sales, decreased 6.0% currency-neutral. And then on a geographic basis, currency-neutral revenue decreased year-over-year in the Americas and Europe and was relatively flat in Asia. The sales of the Life Science Group in the fourth quarter of 2023 were $291.1 million, compared to $359.7 million in Q4 of 2022, which is a 19.1% decline on a reported basis and 19.9% on a currency-neutral basis. Excluding COVID-related sales, the Life Science year-over-year currency-neutral core revenue experienced a broad-based decline of approximately 17%. In addition to the challenging biotech, biopharma end markets and soft macroeconomic conditions in China during the quarter, ddPCR and qPCR sales faced difficult compares due to the backorder burn down and other factors Andy mentioned in the year-ago period. And when excluding process chromatography sales, the underlying Life Science business decreased 22.1% on a currency-neutral basis versus Q4 of 2022. And finally, the Life Science Group revenue excluding process chromatography and COVID-related sales decreased 18.7% currency-neutral. On a geographic basis, Life Science year-over-year core revenue decreased across all three regions. Conversely, we saw broad-based growth for the Clinical Diagnostics Group, fourth quarter sales of the Clinical Diagnostics Group were $389 million, compared to $369.6 million in Q4 of 2022. This represents a growth of 5.3% on a reported basis and 4.2% growth on a currency-neutral basis. And then core Clinical Diagnostics year-over-year revenue, which excludes COVID-related sales increased 4.3%. The Clinical Diagnostic Group benefited from particular strength in diabetes product sales, as well as from the reduction of elevated backorders. On a geographic basis, the Diagnostics Group revenue is primarily driven by strong growth in Asia. For the company, Q4 reported gross margin was 53.8% on a GAAP basis and compares to 54.4% in the fourth quarter of 2022. The year-over-year gross margin decline was due to a number of factors including lower manufacturing volume, the impacts of inflation, and inventory reserves. Amortization related to prior acquisitions recorded in cost of goods was $4.5 million, as compared to $4.4 million in Q4 of 2022. SG&A expenses for the fourth quarter of 2023 were $207.1 million or 30.4% of sales, compared to $212.2 million or 29.1% in Q4 of 2022. The lower SG&A in the quarter was mainly due to lower employee-related expenses, partially offset by a weaker dollar and a facility lease impairment. And total amortization expense related to acquisitions recorded in SG&A for the quarter was $1.2 million versus $1.7 million in Q4 of 2022. Research and development expense in the fourth quarter was $63.9 million or 9.4% of sales, compared to $66.2 million or 9.1% of sales in Q4 of 2022. The lower expense levels reflect both lower employee-related and project expenses. Fourth quarter operating income was $95.3 million or 14% of sales, compared to $118.7 million or 16.2% of sales in Q4 of 2022. And looking below the operating line, the change in fair market value of equity security holdings, which are substantially related to Bio-Rad’s ownership of Sartorius AG shares added $324.3 million of income to the reported results. During the quarter, interest and other income resulted in net other income of $8.8 million, compared to net other expense of $6.1 million last year, primarily driven by increased interest income from investments. Effective tax rate for the fourth quarter of 2023 was 18.4%, compared to 24.2% for the same period in 2022. Tax rates for both years were driven by unrealized gains in equity securities and the lower rate in 2023 was primarily a result of changes in the geographical mix of earnings. Fourth quarter reported net income was $349.7 million or $12.14 diluted earnings per share, compared to net income of $827.7 million or diluted earnings per share of $27.78 in Q4 of 2022. This change from last year is again largely related to changes in the valuation of Sartorius holdings. So moving on to the non-GAAP results. On a non-GAAP basis, we have excluded certain atypical and unique items that impacted both gross and operating margins, as well as other income. These items are detailed in the reconciliation table in the press release. So looking at the non-GAAP results for the fourth quarter, in cost of goods, we have excluded $4.5 million of amortization of purchased intangibles and a small restructuring benefit. These exclusions move the gross margin for the fourth quarter of 2023 to a non-GAAP gross margin of 54.4% versus 54.9% in Q4 of 2022. Non-GAAP SG&A in the fourth quarter of 2023 was 29.8% versus 28.5% in Q4 of 2022. In SG&A, on a non-GAAP basis, we have excluded amortization of purchased intangibles of $1.2 million, in vitro diagnostics registration fee in Europe for previously approved products of $1.8 million and $851,000 of restructuring-related expenses. Non-GAAP R&D expense in the fourth quarter of 2023 was 9.1%, basically the same as 2022. In R&D on a non-GAAP basis, we have excluded $1.3 million in the restructuring expenses and $400,000 in acquisition-related costs. And the cumulative sum of these non-GAAP adjustments result in moving the quarterly operating margin from 14% on a GAAP basis to 15.5% on a non-GAAP basis. This non-GAAP operating margin compares to a non-GAAP operating margin of 17.4% in Q4 of 2022. We’ve also excluded certain items below the operating line, which are the increase in the value of Sartorius equity holdings and a loan receivable of $324.3 million and a $965,000 loss on venture investments. The non-GAAP effective tax rate for the fourth quarter of 2023 was 22.4%, compared to 28.1% for the same period in 2022. The lower tax rate in 2023 was primarily driven by the geographical mix of earnings and a release of reserves related to resolution of certain tax positions. And finally, non-GAAP net income for the fourth quarter of 2023 was $89.3 million or $3.10 diluted earnings per share, compared to $98.5 million or diluted earnings per share of $3.31 in Q4 of 2022. So now, for the full year results. Net sales for the full year of 2023 were $2,671 million, which is a 4.7% decline on a reported basis, as compared to $2,802 million in 2022. On a currency-neutral basis, the full year of 2023, net sales decreased 4.1%. COVID-related sales for the full year were about $4 million, compared to $109 million in 2023. So that core year-over-year revenue, which excludes COVID-related sales, decreased 0.4% or effectively flat on a currency-neutral basis. Now, looking at the full year sales results by segment, sales of the Life Science Group for 2023 were $1,178 million, a year-over-year decline of 12% on a currency-neutral basis. When excluding COVID-related sales, Life Science year-over-year currency-neutral core revenue declined 4.9%. The majority of the year-over-year decline was driven by process chromatography, qPCR products, and Western blot. On a geographic basis, Life Science currency-neutral full year core revenue, which as a reminder, excludes COVID sales, declined in Asia and Europe while the Americas posted modest growth. Sales of the Clinical Diagnostic products for 2023 were $1,489 million, which represents a 3.2% growth on a currency-neutral basis. When excluding COVID-related sales, the Clinical Diagnostics year-over-year currency-neutral core revenue growth was 3.4% and was driven by diabetes, quality control, and blood typing products, partially offset by a decline in infectious disease products. On a geographic basis, Clinical Diagnostics currency-neutral full year core revenue growth grew across all three regions. Overall, the company full year non-GAAP gross margin was 54.2%, compared to 56.6% in 2022. The year-over-year margin decline was driven mainly by product mix, lower COVID sales, inventory reserves, and lower fixed cost leverage. Full-year non-GAAP SG&A expense was $814.6 million or 30.5% of sales, compared to $805.4 million or 28.7% of sales in 2022. The higher SG&A was related to SAP implementation in Asia, legal fees, a lease impairment, and higher discretionary spend, partially offset by lower employee-related costs. Full year non-GAAP R&D was $254.8 million or 9.5% of sales versus $256.7 million or 9.2% of sales in 2022. And full year non-GAAP operating income was 14.2%, compared to 18.7% in 2022, which reflects the effects of revenue decline, shifts in mix, and lower fixed cost absorption. And lastly, the non-GAAP effective tax rate for the full year of 2023 was 22.3%, consistent with our guidance range and compared to 22% in 2022. So moving on to the balance sheet. Total cash and short-term investments at the end of 2023 was $1,613 million, compared to $1,796 million at the end of 2022 and $1,765 million at the end of the third quarter of 2023. The change in cash and short-term investments from the third quarter of 2023 was primarily due to share repurchases, working capital, and the timing of tax payments. Inventory at the end of Q4 increased slightly to $780.5 million from $775.8 million in the prior quarter and was primarily due to a higher level of finished goods. As we move on from the supply chain challenges of the past two years, we continue to anticipate inventory decreasing to more normal levels over the next six to eight quarters. For the fourth quarter of 2023, net cash generated from operating activities was $81 million, which compares to $79.7 million in Q4 of 2022. This increase mainly reflects changes in working capital offset by the timing of tax payments. For the full year of 2023, net cash generated from operations was $374.9 million versus $194.4 million in 2022. This increase mainly reflects changes in working capital. During the fourth quarter, we purchased 659,000 shares of our stock for a total cost of $200 million or an average purchase price of approximately $303 per share, as we continue to be optimistic with our buyback program. Probably useful to note, we still have nearly $280 million available for share repurchases under the current board-authorized program. And further, just so you understand, full year share buybacks totaled 1,268,000 shares for approximately $429 million. Again, that’s for the year. As a comparison, we purchased about 479,000 shares of our stock for $216 million in 2022. Adjusted EBITDA for the fourth quarter of 2023 was $136.8 million or 20.1% of sales and adjusted EBITDA in the fourth quarter of 2022 was 21.4%. Full year adjusted EBITDA, including the Sartorius dividend, was $535.9 million or about 20.1%, compared to 23.8% in 2022. Net capital expenditures for the fourth quarter of 2023 were $42.1 million and full year CapEx spend was $156.5 million. And finally, depreciation and amortization for the fourth quarter was $37.2 million and $145.9 million for the full year. So, moving on to the non-GAAP guidance for 2024. So, as Andy alluded to earlier, we do see 2024 as a recovery transition year, so with higher levels of uncertainty than usual for our Life Science business and a steady growth outlook for Diagnostics. Given the operating expense headwinds and muted revenue growth, I think it’s fair to say that margin expansion will be difficult this year. Keep in mind that employee-related expenses impacting our P&L represent somewhere between a 250-basis-point to 300-basis-point headwind that we need to overcome in 2024 and we have continuing geopolitical issues, especially as it relates to China and Russia. However, we remain focused on improving our cost structure, we’re well-positioned for operating margin leverage and as revenue growth returns. Again, I think 2024 is certainly very different from a normal year. This year, revenue is expected to be a bit more back-end loaded than usual based on the anticipated recovery in biotech and biopharma. Consequently, we do expect soft gross growth and operating margins in the first half of the year, particularly in the first quarter, with improvements in the second half kind of in line with the market recovery and revenue normalization. So with all that as a preamble, here’s how we see the year rolling out. We’re guiding a currency-neutral revenue growth in 2024 to be between 1% and 2.5% overall. The Life Science Group, year over year of currency-neutral revenue growth is expected to be between zero percent and 2%. And for the Diagnostics Group, we estimate currency-neutral revenue growth to be between 2.5% and 3%. With the backdrop of working through elevated backorders in the last year, we realized a little over 1% from price improvement at the corporate level, which was below inflationary trends to our overall cost. We are targeting to achieve a similar level of price realization this year, mainly through the Life Science Group. We’d also like to call out the sale of a non-core contract manufacturing business in December that was part of a prior acquisition. This business is reported under other operations, contributed revenue of $3 million to $4 million annually, but had really an immaterial impact on our overall financial results. Full year non-GAAP gross margin is projected to be between 54% and 54.5%, with steady improvement anticipated throughout the year. Gross margin for the first half of the year is expected to be below the full year range, with the second half anticipated gross margin recovery driven by improved sales volume. Full year non-GAAP operating margin is projected to be between 13.5% and 14%. We estimate the non-GAAP full year tax rate to be between 22% and 23%, and CapEx is projected to be approximately $160 million to $180 million as we continue to invest in our infrastructure to support our multiyear growth strategy. And finally, full year non-GAAP EBITDA excluding the Sartorius dividend is expected to be between 18.5% and 19%. And when we include the recently announced reduced Sartorius dividend, the adjusted EBITDA is expected to be between 19% and 19.5%. So in concluding today’s prepared remarks, just a few comments about Bio-Rad’s ongoing corporate transformation and key accomplishments, maybe a little bit as a baseline for 2024. I would say in spite of all the macro variables, we feel we have a good realistic outlook for 2024. We’re clear of the pandemic. We’ve resolved our supply chain constraints. We successfully transitioned key diagnostics platforms to our Singapore manufacturing facility. We completed our global SAP implementation. And I think most importantly, we continue to make progress on our journey of transformation. In addition, as Andy mentioned, we have a number of exciting products in our pipeline to help us drive 2024 as we look forward to our Life Science markets recovering later in the year. Certainly looking back over the last four years, I think it’s important to note that our underlying business has grown at a currency-neutral compound rate of 4.6%, including, I might mention Life Science, which has grown at over 8%. Overall, I think we feel good that we’re making solid progress and I do think we have a lot to look forward to.

That concludes our prepared remarks. And we will now open the line to take your questions. Operator?

Yes. Thank you. Your first question is from Patrick Donnelly from Citi. Please ask your question.

Great. Thanks for taking the questions, guys. Norman, I guess, this will be for you on the margins. Just in terms of the ramp throughout the year, can you just talk about the moving pieces? It sounds like the incentive comp is obviously going to hit pretty hard here in the first half. Is it a bit of a Singapore ramp picking up steam in the second half? Is it volume leverage? Maybe just talk about the cadence and the ramp of that margin story throughout the year here and just kind of how we should think about the pace?

Yeah. I think it really has the most to do with the sales volumes. We get a lot of leverage from the sales and I think we should see the margins ramp with sales.

Okay. Understood. And then just on the CFO search, maybe can you provide an update of where we stand, timing when that could happen? We’ve got a few questions on just a little bit of an update there would be helpful.

Yeah. We’re really making good progress and candidly we’re hoping to have a new CFO on board by the next earnings call.

Okay. In the coming months, could you provide your outlook on China, specifically regarding the Life Science and Diagnostics sectors? I understand these are distinct narratives. It would be helpful to know what you’re currently observing in each area and your expectations for 2024.

Yeah. Yeah. I’d say, near-term, it seems to be a kind of a tough market, not many signs of immediate recovery and a little bit of uncertainty I think as to when we will see that. I think the good old days of double-digit growth in China, I don’t see that in the foreseeable future. For a life science business, I think we’ve seen the combined impact of the anti-corruption initiatives in China and in general, a kind of a tough funding environment affecting the business. For Diagnostics, I think we’re continuing to see steady growth, but we do continually also continue to carefully monitor the situation with these value-based pricing tenders, wondering if that may spread to some of our platforms or some of our more specialty products from the kind of higher volume products that have seen that in the short-term.

Understood. Thank you, guys.

Thank you. Your next question is from Jack Meehan from Nephron Research. Please ask your question.

Thank you. Good afternoon. I would like to ask about the Life Sciences business. Can you discuss the backlog reduction we saw in the PCR and ddPCR sectors? How long do you anticipate this trend will continue into 2024, and when do you expect a turnaround?

Yeah. This is Simon. I think we’re really largely through the backlog burn down compares as we head into 2024. I think the short answer is the slate's pretty clean now. We’ve obviously got a bunch of other macro conditions impacting the business as we referred to in the script and the H1 versus H2 contrast. But as we’re sitting here today, we don’t see backlog burn down as an issue going forward.

The comment was related to the comparisons from Q4 2022, where Life Science had a significant impact from the reduction of backlog.

Got it. Okay. And then I was curious how process chrom played out in the quarter versus your expectations. I know you talked about starting the year with lower backlog there. Were there some larger than expected shipments in the quarter?

It’s Simon again. I think at a macro level we saw the conditions that we’ve been talking about all year with de-stocking continue to persist, and again, as I think Andy called out in the script as we enter Q1 our order book remains softer than we’ve seen it in previous years. I guess the follow-on question there is about are we seeing any green shoots and there’s certainly a lot of tentatively encouraging data starting to emerge as we look at our customer base. I think we’re seeing that a number of our customers we’re really anticipating are going to be through the destocking impacts in 2024 and we’ll see something like a return to normality. But at the same time we’ve got some larger customers who all the indications are they’re not going to be through it and so I think that’s going to net out to be tentatively we’ll see some recovery in the second half but there’s still a fair amount of uncertainty around it.

Great. Okay. And then last one just was curious for any color on kind of below the line items within the guide for this year, just anything you would call out there. I think Sartorius announced their dividend for the year, just any color on that would be helpful.

Yeah. They did cut the dividend. We baked that into our guidance and it’s understandable given the kind of cash constraints that they have.

Thank you. Your next question is from Dan Leonard from UBS. Please ask your question.

Thank you very much. I had another question about phasing for 2024. You mentioned that the year will be more back-end loaded. Could you elaborate on that? How much more back-end loaded than typical?

Yeah. It’s a really good question. Normally it’s something like, kind of more like 49-51 when we think of a normal year and I think we’re going to see a much wider spread than that for 2024. I think it’s anybody’s guess exactly what it’s going to be, but I think we’ll see a kind of a bigger delta between the first half and the second half.

Much wider than the 2-point spread typically?

Yeah.

Yes.

I think more closer towards 4 points or 5 points spread between first half and second half then.

Appreciate that. And can you share what are your growth assumptions for process chromatography, Droplet Digital PCR and comment on whether a couple of these new product launches you talked about the Continuum and the ddSEQ, whether they’ll be launched in time to contribute to the year?

Yes. Simon again. I think for process chromatography as I mentioned previously we’ve got these competing forces of accounts that are de-stocked and accounts that are still destocking, and I think the net of that is going to be negative, because the accounts that are destocking are our larger accounts. I think there’s still some ongoing uncertainty around that as we keep saying. But the best read of the tea leaves that we’ve got right now is as mentioned. For Digital PCR we had a challenging Q4 for reasons that have been mentioned and that in the end made it a challenging year as well. As we look to 2024, I think we’re certainly seeing nice growth potential in Digital PCR. Again that’s predicated to some degree on recovery of the biopharma markets where we’ve been hit, we’ve got a very strong existing position there and also we’ve got some good new product launches coming out. So the way I think about it, it’s biopharma market recovery and it’s new product introductions. They’re both when not if events and so for the full year I think we’re looking at growth in Digital PCR.

That’s helpful. Thank you.

Thank you. Your next question is from Conor McNamara from RBC Capital Markets. Please ask your question.

Hey, everyone. Thanks for your questions. Regarding ddPCR, can you discuss the growth in the quarter or the decline in equipment compared to consumables? It's clear you faced tough comparisons on equipment placements from last year. Was there any growth in consumables, and how should we view consumables as a percentage of total ddPCR moving forward? Where do you see it going?

Yeah. I think the short answer there is again primarily driven by biopharma headwinds. We saw challenges in both instruments and consumables, I’d say with approximately equal weighting. I think we’ve got a healthy mix now overall in terms of consumables and instruments, and again, as the markets recover we think we’re going to be the beneficiaries of that.

Okay. Great. And then on capital deployment, obviously, you’ve still got some room on buybacks. Is buyback still the priority or is there anything on M&A that you’ve seen the opportunities open up or should we just think primarily about buybacks for 2024?

Yeah. We certainly, as we mentioned, we’ve got still several hundred million authorized by the Board and we’ll continue to be opportunistic with share repurchases, but we still have a focus to continue to look for good complementary business opportunities to tuck-ins, things that are complementary to the business. Probably no change in our thinking around acquisitions, so it’s a kind of a two-pronged approach. Could be buybacks, could be some tuck-in acquisitions.

All right. Thanks for that.

Combination of both.

Thank you. There are no further questions at this time. I will now hand the call back to Edward Chung for the closing remarks.

Thank you for joining today’s call. We will be at the Citi Unplugged Life Sciences Access Day in New York at the end of February and hope to see some of you there. As always, we appreciate your interest and we look forward to connecting soon. Bye-bye.

Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, the conference has now ended. Thank you all for joining. You may all disconnect.