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Inotiv, Inc. Q4 FY2023 Earnings Call

Inotiv, Inc. (NOTVQ)

Earnings Call FY2023 Q4 Call date: 2023-12-11 Concluded

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Greetings, and welcome to Inotiv's Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2023 Earnings Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. A question-and-answer session will follow the formal presentation. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. It is now my pleasure to introduce Bob Yedid, Investor Relations. Thank you. You may begin. Great. Thank you very much, Doug. And thank you, everyone, for joining today's call with Inotiv’s management team. Before we begin, I'd like to remind everyone that some of the statements management will make on the call are considered forward-looking statements, including statements about the company's future operating and financial results and plans. Such statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual performance or achievement to be materially different from those projected. Any such statements represent management's expectations as of today's date. You should not place any undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, and the company does not undertake any obligation to update or revise forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise. Please refer to the company's SEC filings for further guidance on this matter. Management will also discuss certain non-GAAP financial measures in an effort to provide additional information for investors. Definitions of these non-GAAP measures and reconciliations to the most comparable GAAP measures are included in the company's earnings release which has been posted to the investors section of the company's website and is also available in the Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission today. If you haven't obtained a copy of today's press release yet, you can do so by going to the Investors section of the company's website. Joining us from the company today are Bob Leasure, President and CEO, Beth Taylor, Chief Financial Officer, and John Sagartz, Chief Strategy Officer. Bob will begin with some opening remarks, after which Beth will present a summary of the company's financial results, and then we'll open the call for your questions. With those prepared remarks, it's now my pleasure to turn the call over to Bob Leasure, CEO. Bob, please go ahead.

Thank you, Bob, and good afternoon, everyone. As we head into the end of the year and the holiday season, on behalf of the Inotiv team, I want to wish everyone a warm welcome to our Q4 earnings call. I can confidently say that 2023 has been a year of operational success and transformation. The Inotiv team collectively expanded our full-service pre-clinical CRO service capabilities, offering a growing customer base, nimble solutions, and custom capabilities. In addition, we also executed on a plan to integrate and optimize our research models facilities, which provide a stronger foundation for future operational efficiencies and performance of that business. Since 2018, we believe that the best course of action for generating strong long-term shareholder returns was to transform and build our business with aspirations to become a competitive leader in the industry as a global preclinical CRO. Now in less than six years, through both acquisitions and adding new services organically, we've expanded our discovery and safety assessment or DSA capabilities, as well as the RMS business, growing the top line from $24 million to $572 million with annual revenues, which is where it stands today, producing a compounded annual growth rate of nearly 70% in this time period. Today, amidst market challenges across the CRO and biotech industries, we continue advancing our businesses, integrating our acquisitions, and right-sizing our operational footprint, all while expanding Inotiv’s global service offerings. We understood that achieving our goals would not happen overnight, and we've been able to maintain focus on our long-term vision. We've made significant investments in our business to continue to build on the comprehensive suite of products and services we can offer to our customers across the drug development continuum, from early discovery to bringing a new medicine and products to market. We understand market conditions and external factors are constantly changing, and we feel we've been able to pivot as market conditions require. We continue to be guided by eight pillars building market share and cash flow, including right-sizing our infrastructure, reducing dependency on third-party providers for external services in order to become a full-service provider, making strategic capital investments, growing our sales and market share, building our brand and brand awareness, fostering workplace satisfaction and a positive work environment, obtaining and maximizing supply chain synergies, and investing to be a leader in animal welfare. On this last point, since our expansion into the research model business, we have prioritized improvements in animal care and welfare by enlarging our veterinary team and consolidating facilities, which allows us to make significant infrastructure improvements in the remaining facilities. Ultimately, we believe these efforts will allow us to increase our margins and remain competitive with regards to new business development, while continuing our key strategic objective of enhancing animal welfare. Through our journey in 2023, we were also very proud to announce that Inotiv was the recipient of Energage’s Top Workplaces USA Award, and we have been very focused on recruiting and retaining people this year. Additionally, in terms of awards, we were recently recognized and named to Deloitte's 2023 Technology Fast 500 list recognizing the fastest growing companies between 2019 and 2022. Before we dive into our operational review, let's quickly get to the highlights of our financial results, which Beth will go into more detail shortly. We ended fiscal 2023 with revenues of $572.4 million, up 4.5% versus 2022. With increasing DSA revenues and margin dollars, included revenue for our DSA business to $6 million or 13.6% in Q4 2023 over 2022, and 12% overall in fiscal 2023 versus fiscal 2022. Operating income for DSA improved $7.4 million in Q4 2023 versus Q4 2022. We have begun to see research models and services expenses go down as our site optimization initiatives get completed. The DSA business gross book-to-bill for the year was 1.11 times and 0.91 times for Q4. The net book-to-bill was 0.92 times for the year and 0.65 times for Q4. The lower net book-to-bill in the latest quarter was primarily due to high cancellations in Q4. We saw increased conversion rates from 30% in Q4 of 2022 to 33% in Q4 of 2023. In the fourth quarter, the number of NHPs we imported increased versus the other quarters this year, and we've had our first shipments from one of our newly qualified farms. The fourth quarter was the first quarter in fiscal 2023 that we imported approximately the same number of NHPs as we sold. The average selling price of the NHP in Q4 increased approximately 5%, which is the lowest quarterly increase we have seen in the last three quarters. Cash balance this quarter also improved, and we finished the year with $35.5 million in cash and nothing drawn on a revolver of $15 million. This is a meaningful improvement compared to $18.5 million in cash and $15 million drawn on the revolver at September 30, 2022. We are now well into the Q1 fiscal year 2024 quarter. Over the last four months, we have seen positive trends for requests for quotes and awards so far for Q1 of fiscal 2024, plus a reduction in cancellations this quarter compared to Q4 of 2023. Some of the increases in quotes and awards year-over-year are related to the new services we have introduced and some rebound in our discovery and translational science business. We are pleased with our process of selling some of the assets we've identified for sale. We continue to validate new facilities and equipment in the businesses we recently expanded or built. We would like to see growth in our DSA backlog that are comfortable with our current DSA backlog and an increase in conversion rates. So we would expect DSA sales in Q1 2024 to show growth over Q1 2023. For example, at September 30, 2022, we had a backlog of $147 million compared to a $132 million backlog at September 30, 2023. In Q1 of fiscal 2023, we converted 28% of that backlog into sales. In Q1 fiscal 2024, we'd expect to convert our conversion rate to be in the low to mid-30s. As noted earlier, we pivoted our strategy in 2023 to reduce focus on M&A activity and increase focus on execution. We recognized there was uncertainty surrounding the third-party sales of NHPs, so we focused on aggressively improving margins from our small research models, diet, and discovery and safety assessment businesses, while at the same time working to maintain our NHP business margins during 2023. Our focus in 2023 helped us to restructure and integrate many of our acquisitions and startup initiatives to enhance margins and decrease expenses going into 2024, which also reduces our dependency on NHP margins from third-party sales for 2024. The majority of Inotiv’s RMS site optimization plans have been completed. In total, our plans included the closure of 11 sites along with investments in existing sites, and we have successfully concluded 10 site closures to date. We have brought on additional capacity at multiple discovery and safety assessment sites, adding complementary service offerings, and we believe these investments will expand our range of services, generate higher revenue growth, increase margins, and improve our ability to recruit and retain talent. These include the finishing of our new facility build-out in Rockville, Maryland, and we have now also completed much of the validation process for assays and equipment. We completed site improvements and expansion projects in Boulder, Colorado for discovery operations and further integration and operation improvements to that business. The expansion activities at Fort Collins, Colorado were completed by the end of October 2023, and the expanded site is completing the validation of the facility and equipment and plans to be operational early in the second quarter of fiscal 2024. We expanded our project management, safety pharmacology operations, reporting capabilities, and histopathology capacity in teams. We have also initiated the expansion of our internal archiving space capabilities. We have aggressively moved to reduce the number of software platforms while upgrading our hardware and software. We continue to improve, recruit, and build and develop our team. Through today, we have sold two of the six closed locations we owned, with four left to sell. We also closed on the sale of our Israeli businesses and now own our previously leased feed mill facility in Wisconsin. As a result, we are much better than we were 12 months ago. We still have much more to build upon in 2024. Moving forward, projects which we have announced for 2024 include continuing site infrastructure and animal welfare improvements, continuing to evaluate and improve our RMS transportation system and network based on our new site footprint, which should allow us to further reduce expenses and improve the client experience. Further expand our NHP supply base and customer base. Completing final site consolidations and expansion plans in the UK, validation and growth of our new services and added capacity for existing services, focus on expanding our customer base or continuing to improve and provide exceptional client experience, and lastly, as we validate new services, we plan to further reduce outsourcing costs and increase the speed of discovery and development processes for our customers. In 2023, DSA sales grew 12% over 2022, driven by new services and growth and safety assessment business, primarily related to price increases and partially offset by a decrease in our discovery service revenue in 2023 versus 2022. With the investments we have made in the DSA business, we believe we will have the physical capacity to ultimately expand our sales by an additional 40% over the $185 million in revenue recognized in 2023. We think growing DSA sales another 10% to 12% in 2024 is achievable. This would represent DSA sales of at least $200 million. This would also drive operating leverage and enable us to improve upon the DSA margins we saw in 2023. Overall, we are pleased with the annual progress from $165 million in revenues in 2022 to $185 million in DSA revenues in 2023. As I mentioned earlier, for the past few months, we have seen an increase in discovery quotes and awards and are optimistic we may see a reversal of the decrease in discovery sales going into fiscal 2024 and actually see growth in these services. Our DSA margins in Q4 were significant and demonstrate the leverage we have in our business model as revenues grow. Q4 also shows that the DSA business can currently achieve a run rate of approximately $200 million in sales with significantly improved margins. While the DSA business is still developing and growing, we think we are directionally headed in a positive direction. In fiscal 2024, we will continue to expand our DSA sales team, dedicating resources to expanding our market share. With recent expansion in services that we have added, we are now expanding our customer base by increasing our sales efforts in the chemical and crop protection markets, recently adding a medical device salesperson, increasing our discovery and translational service sales team, and continue building our drug development and safety assessment sales teams. In our RMS segment, we grew modestly in 2023 amidst industry challenges with NHP imports and the focus on our site optimization efforts which were mainly centered around our small research model facilities, our diet business, and the related transportation systems. As outlined in prior discussions, we believe we will ultimately achieve approximately $20 million of expense reduction, mainly coming from the RMS business. We realized roughly $5 million of that target this year, and we expect the remainder to be achieved during 2024. Moving into fiscal 2024, we believe we will be a much more operationally efficient and we will be able to increase our focus on growing our RMS business. We don't currently have any updates from US Fish and Wildlife related to future imports of NHPs, and we remain focused on expanding and validating our supplier network for the import of purpose-bred NHPs. We continue to have sufficient NHP supply to meet our internal DSA requirements. For 2023, the volume of NHPs we sold to third parties was down 37% from fiscal 2022. Specifically, in Q4 of 2023, the volume was down 60% from Q4 of 2022. We expect Q1 volumes in fiscal 2024 to be less than Q1 fiscal 2023. Even with increased pricing in 2023 and the fact that we acquired some of our NHP businesses during fiscal 2022, overall NHP sales dollars for 2023 were approximately 5% lower than 2022. For 2024, we will again seek to maintain overall sales and margins as we did in 2023. But due to uncertainties in the NHP market, initially our guidance projects reduced NHP sales and margins for 2024.

Thank you, Bob. Our fiscal year ended September 30, 2023. Revenues totaled $572.4 million, a 4.5% increase from the $547.7 million recorded during fiscal year 2022. RMS revenue for 2023 increased 1.3% to $387.3 million from $382.4 million in 2022. In RMS, we continue to operate in an extremely dynamic pricing environment for larger research models, in particular the NHPs. DSA revenue increased 12% to $185.1 million in fiscal year 2023 as compared to $165.3 million in fiscal year 2022. The increase in DSA revenue was primarily driven by additional fiscal year 2023 revenue generated from integrated laboratory systems that was acquired in January 2022, plus new services related to genetic toxicology and favorable pricing in general toxicology services. These increases in DSA service revenues were partially offset by decreases in our discovery services, primarily related to the decline in overall biotech funding in the market. For the 2023 fourth quarter, total revenue decreased 6.5% to $140.7 million from the $150.5 million recorded during the prior year period. DSA revenues increased by 13.6% to $50.2 million when compared to the prior year period of $44.2 million. As previously mentioned, the higher revenues experienced in our DSA segment were primarily driven by new services related to genetic toxicology and favorable pricing in general toxicology services, which were partially offset by declines in discovery services, which were impacted by lower biotech funding. RMS revenue for the fiscal fourth quarter was down 14.9% to $90.5 million year-over-year mainly due to a reduced volume of NHP sales, somewhat offset by favorable pricing on several products, particularly NHPs. Consolidated net loss attributable to common shareholders in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2023 totaled $9.7 million or a $0.38 loss per diluted share. This compared to a consolidated net loss attributable to common shareholders of $244.2 million or a $9.54 loss per diluted share in the fourth quarter of 2022. For the quarter, adjusted EBITDA improved to $23.7 million or 16.8% of total revenues from $18.3 million or 12.1% of total revenues in last year's fourth quarter. Operating income for the fourth quarter was $2.5 million compared to a loss of $242.5 million from last year's fourth quarter, which included $236 million of goodwill impairment loss. Additionally, the current quarter had lower G&A, amortization, and other operating expenses compared to Q4 of 2022. The decrease in G&A and other operating expenses was driven primarily by decreased acquisition, integration, and restructuring expenses and a decrease in other third-party expenses. Non-GAAP operating income for our DSA segment in the fourth quarter increased to $12.6 million or 25.1% of segment revenues from $5 million or 11.4% of segment revenue in last year's fourth quarter. DSA non-GAAP operating income in Q4 2023 was favorably impacted by the increase in DSA revenue over a relatively fixed cost operating structure, recognition of cancellation fees, and reduced outsourcing costs. We have seen an increase in awards for discovery services in Q4 and continuing into the current quarter. As our new services start to come online, we expect to generate further demand for both new and current customers alike. Ultimately, with the broader range of services and the capacity that we have added, we believe we will be able to boost our DSA margins from the mid-30% range in 2024, with long-term targets going consistently into the upper 30% range. The net book-to-bill ratio for DSA in the fourth quarter was 0.65 times and the net book-to-bill ratio for the year was 0.92 times. The lower net book-to-bill in the quarter was primarily due to high cancellations in Q4. DSA backlog was $132.1 million at September 30, 2023 compared to $147.2 million at September 30, 2022. Additionally our conversion rate, which is our ability to convert our backlog to sales, has continued to improve over Q4, 2022. Non-GAAP operating income for our RMS segment in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2023 was $24 million or 26.5% of total revenue compared to $28.2 million or 26.6% of revenue in last year's period. The decrease in RMS revenue noted above was offset by a decrease in cost of products and services, which is driven by a decrease in NHP volume and decreased costs as a result of site optimization. Furthermore, there was a decrease in RMS amortization expense. Interest expense in Q4 2023 increased to $11.3 million, up from $8.9 million in last year's fourth quarter, reflecting our higher debt balance for borrowing obtained for capital investments and the higher interest rates. Net cash provided by operations for the fourth quarter was $18.8 million compared to cash provided by operations of $0.2 million in the same period last year. Net cash provided by operations for fiscal year 2023 was $27.9 million compared to cash used in operations of $5.2 million for fiscal 2022. The increase in cash provided by operations was primarily driven by improved networking capital compared to the same period last year. Capital expenditures in the fourth quarter were $6.2 million or 4.4% of total revenue and reflected investments in completing our DSA capacity expansion in Rockville, Maryland and Fort Collins, Colorado, enhancements in laboratory technology, and improvements in animal welfare. For fiscal year 2023, capital expenditures totaled $27.5 million or 4.8% of total revenue. Our balance sheet as of September 30, 2023 included $35.5 million in cash and cash equivalents as compared to $22.2 million at June 30, 2023. Total debt net of issuance cost as of September 30, 2023 was $377.7 million compared to $375.6 million at June 30, 2023. The balance sheet also includes assets held for sale of $1.4 million as of September 30, 2023. Fiscal 2024 revenues are expected to be in the range of $580 million to $590 million. We expect gains in DSA sales and flat to decreasing RMS sales based on the possible reduction in NHP sales. Adjusted EBITDA guidance is expected to be in the range of $75 million to $80 million. The increase in adjusted EBITDA over fiscal 2023 is expected to be driven by increased margins from the DSA segment and cost reductions we initiated in fiscal 2023 and the projected reduction in future NHP margins. We expect to continue to remain in compliance with our financial covenants for the fiscal year. We expect capital expenditures to be approximately 4.5% of revenue in fiscal 2024, as compared to an annual average of 10.3% over the last five years as we expanded sites and grew service capacity. We are pleased with our financial performance this quarter and with the progress that was made to complete the capacity expansions for the DSA segment in order to increase revenue and improve margins and the significant progress made on the site optimization plans for the RMS segment in order to achieve cost savings. With the DSA expansions and RMS site consolidation efforts mostly behind us and the additional talent that we have added to our sales team, we remain optimistic as we work to grow and capture a significant portion of the opportunities in our market.

Speaker 3

Great, thanks. So, I think it's just a good place to start off. I know I'm getting a bunch of inbounds on this. So the guidance for RMS in 2024, I know you guys are thinking, initially NHP volumes will be down, but can you just help us understand the price volume dynamic there? So roughly flat, slightly down revenues. Is that down 20% on volumes, offset mostly by price? Order of magnitude would be really helpful here.

Hey, Tim. A couple of things. One, I think I indicated, we thought our Q1 volumes would be down versus Q1 of last year. Overall, year-over-year, I'm not sure that we will see a decrease in volumes over the 12-month period. I think what we could see and what we're expecting to see is a reduction in price. So the guidance that we're providing is probably more based on a price reduction than it is a volume reduction. We saw pretty good price increases last year. I think the price increases have slowed down, and I think that we will begin to see additional imports coming into the market next year. As I indicated, we had a new supplier, and we have a couple new suppliers coming on board. I think we will have some increase in volumes, but I also think others will have an increase in volumes, which could start to see decreases in pricing and margins. So I think that's what we are anticipating. It's probably not happened yet, but that's kind of what we're looking for in Q2, what our fiscal Q2 would be through the rest of the year. So it's not a predictable market. It's not a real sophisticated market, but it's our best guess at this moment, and we want to be cautious going into the year.

Speaker 3

I appreciate that. And then my second question here is on discovery, specifically, just drilling into that. So a bit more common positive tone on the discovery outlook than kind of most in the general kind of field we're getting out of the industry. So I know you guys have taken some idiosyncratic steps to help yourself in discovery, but could you just help us frame how much was discovery down this year overall? Maybe kind of what did that get worse or better in terms of the declines in the fourth quarter? Just any additional help here would be really helpful and thanks again everybody. Appreciate the time.

For the year, our discovery sales decreased by about 10% compared to the previous year. We had expected to see some growth, but it actually declined, which resulted in a shortfall of around $9 million to $10 million in sales. This was one of our significant misses for the past year, along with some elevated legal fees we previously mentioned. We closely examined this situation because we had also increased our capacity. The worst quarter for us was the one ending June 30, where we saw the biggest drop. We suspected that some of this decline could be linked to the issues surrounding Silicon Valley Bank, as over 10% of our customer base was associated with them, and we believe it affected our performance in that quarter. However, we observed a rebound starting in July. The question remained whether this recovery was due to the resolution of issues with Silicon Valley Bank, allowing customers to access their funds, and if this momentum could be sustained. Over the last four months, we've noticed a significant increase in our quoting and awards, exceeding double digits from the previous year, effectively compensating for the earlier 10% decline. It's encouraging to see this trend, and we hope it continues.

Speaker 4

Perfect. Maybe I'll start with one on the book-to-bill. I heard the comment around higher cancellations in line with the trend that's been occurring over the last couple of quarters. Can you maybe bring us a little bit deeper into where some of those cancellations reside, if it's a specific customer profile, and then talk a little bit more about the backlog, if you've looked into that in depth and understand if there's any heightened cancellation risk within that backlog and the expectations for cancellations as we look at fiscal year 2024?

Yes, Frank. We did have a couple large jobs that canceled in our fiscal Q4, which drove those cancellations up significantly to $10 million to $15 million of our backlog, and that's back into those numbers of what we provided—it's close to $15 million. It's pretty significant. And some of those were pretty big. And it also generated some cancellation charges, which benefited our quarter. So, that was a big quarter. We actually have changed some of our internal processes of how we communicate, look, and track those. Today though, through this quarter, it's down significantly. We're down over half of that. As a matter of fact, it could be closer to 25% of that rate that we're seeing. It's a significant drop off. Not saying that that will be the way the quarter ends, but looking at we're not aware of anything. We have cancellations, but we're not aware of anything significant like we had last quarter. And right now, we're not seeing the high cancellations, but I will say we are at times having people call in and delaying, so something that was going to start, in December they may want to start move the start date into February or February after June. And some of those things can cause some pressure on our quarters. But we're not seeing cancellations near like we saw, I would say, for the last four or five quarters. So that's encouraging. We also don't have the backlog going out two years like we did a year ago. We may now be looking at backlogs that go out six to 12 months, not 12 to 24 months. So some of that has a little bit to do with it. And as I say, they don't cancel, but they may delay. So we'll see where that goes. But right now, this quarter is looking fairly positive for book-to-bill compared to prior quarters. Yes, this is just our opinion. I don't have anything quantifiable. I can't tell you that there are additional farms in the world market that have been increasing their breeding and availability of NHPs over the last several years. So, I think the population in the world market may be increasing. It's been a year since the Cambodian imports were removed from the US market, but they are still available elsewhere in the world. Many people continue to import or use Cambodians; we just are not at this time. We are observing that some suppliers seem to have found ways to adjust. We expect that some of the price increases from last year may not persist, and we will see how that evolves in fiscal Q2 and Q3. We have additional suppliers and feel that we may be able to achieve the same volume we did last year, but I am unsure whether the margins will remain the same. I also believe that some pricing on the world market will start to decline due to the available capacity. However, there's still uncertainty surrounding what will happen in China and with Cambodia, which adds to the unpredictability. If that capacity enters the market, it could put additional pressure on prices.

Speaker 5

Good afternoon, and I guess congratulations on kind of pushing through here over the past year. I know it was not an easy environment. Maybe the first question regarding gross margin and EBITDA margin, How should we be thinking about the progression over the course of this year? It sounds like Q1 is going to be off to a strong start and then maybe we start to see some pricing pressure weighing on those margins as the year progresses? Or can volumes help offset that so that you could maybe even see flat to up a little bit as the year progresses on those two lines?

First, start with Q1. I think Q1 typically has been our slowest quarter of the year. Last year, I think we were coming off a base of Q1 which was only $122 million, and it was down because we stopped selling the NHPs and then this year, I think the NHP volume will be less than last year. That being said, I think we'll exceed the $122 million, because some of the NHP pricing still is staying strong this quarter. I think we'll see again continued reduction of expenses in our RMS business and I think we'll continue to see hopefully some improved margins from our DSA business on sales growth in the DSA business. But typically, this is our slowest or lowest quarter. So I'm not looking for anything really great out of Q1, but it sure exceeded last year, which put a lot of pressure on us for the rest of the year and put a lot of pressure on our trailing 12. So, I hope to eliminate that. As far as the rest of the year, again, a lot of that will depend on where the NHP margins come out and what others do in terms of imports. But I don't see it changing a whole lot from last year. I think it’s still—eventually we’re still going to be back in the $20 million plus EBIT dollar range. That was the release we made, I think, last week. And this is something that we think is important to service. And there will also be another way to pay an expense. But the importance of service is our drivers are the face of our business. Many times they interact with our customers. They deliver the product. They get feedback. And we would like to drive a closer relationship between our drivers, our customer service, our salespeople, and our customers to enhance the service and the feedback. So we know what we can do to do better and become closer to that experience. Second of all, I do think that there's some duplication of costs between the two companies and the supplier we are using was doing a nice job for us. I don't have anything naked to say about it, but I think there are some duplication of cost that we could eliminate as we do this transition. And I'm very pleased that they're willing to help us and work with us to transition this service back to us in-house. But things such as insurance and audits, professional fees, and some of the qualities, some of the things that there's some duplicate costs that will probably come out. So, ultimately, it could save us a few million dollars, $2 million or $3 million more as we get that implemented. Okay, thank you everyone for joining today's call. I'm going to just quickly see if Dave called back in? No, okay. We believe we've laid out critical groundwork for Inotiv’s success going into 2024. As we continue to effectively execute across our planned initiatives, we hope to see a continued increase in awards for discovery services and a reduction in cancellations for the New Year, as well as closing contracts related to the final asset sales as part of our optimization plan. In NHP, we will continue our efforts to qualify new NHP sources and seek to reduce costs in the small animal and diet businesses. We will also continue our efforts to expand our quotes and awards in the DSA business where we have added capacity. We'll validate the new facilities and equipment and seek efficiencies across SG&A. We have improved our operating model significantly and the ability to leverage our current scale and a broad range of products and services. In completing — as a leading mid-size pre-clinical CRO, we currently operate 24 sites across the US and Europe, serving over 3,000 customers. We support these efforts with over 2,000 professionals worldwide, including industry-recognized experts across a wide range of scientific disciplines, and it is our aspiration to grow our reputation and become a leading CRO provider of choice. As the majority of our capital investment program has largely been completed, we believe we are well positioned to achieve this through increased sales volume driven by greater cross-selling to our existing customers, in addition to our enhanced commercial teams capturing new customer relationships. Thank you once again for your support as Inotiv enters this new stage of growth possibilities. Have a good afternoon. We look forward to speaking with everyone on our next call. Thank you.

Operator

Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, this does include today's teleconference. Thank you for your participation. You may disconnect your lines at this time and have a wonderful day.