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Graham Corp (NYSE:GHM)
Q3 2021 Earnings Call
Jan 28, 2021, 11:00 a.m. ET
Contents:
- Prepared Remarks
- Questions and Answers
- Call Participants
Prepared Remarks:
Operator
Greetings, and welcome to the Graham Corporation's Third Quarter Fiscal Year 2021 Financial Results Conference Call. [Operator Instructions]
I will now turn the conference over to our host, Chris Gordon, Investor Relations for Graham Corporation. Thank you, sir, you may begin.
Christopher M. Gordon -- Investor Relations
Thank you, Diego, and good morning, everyone. We appreciate you joining us today to discuss Graham's fiscal 2021 third quarter results. You should have a copy of the news release that was distributed across the Wire this morning. We have -- we also have slides associated with the commentary that we are providing here today. If you do not have the release or the slides, you can find them on the company's website at www.graham-mfg.com.
On the call with me today are Jim Lines, our President and Chief Executive Officer; Jeff Glajch, our Chief Financial Officer; and Alan Smith, Vice President and General Manager of our Batavia, New York facility. Jeff will start with the financial overview of the period, Alan will then provide an overview of our operations, and Jim will wrap up the prepared remarks with a strategic overview of our business and provide our outlook for the rest of fiscal year 2021. We will then open the lines for Q&A.
As you are aware, we may make some forward-looking statements during this discussion as well as during the Q&A. These statements apply to future events and are subject to risks and uncertainties as well as other factors, which could cause actual results to differ materially from what is stated on the call. These risks and uncertainties and other factors are provided in the earnings release and in the slide deck, as well as other documents filed with the company -- by the company with the Securities and Exchange Commission. These documents can be found on our website or at www.sec.gov.
I also want to point out that during today's call, we will discuss some non-GAAP financial measures, which we believe are useful in evaluating our performance. You should not consider the presentation of this additional information in isolation or as a substitute for the results prepared in accordance with GAAP. We have provided reconciliations of comparable GAAP to non-GAAP measures in the tables accompanying today's earnings release.
With that, it's my pleasure to turn the call over to Jeff Glajch.
Jeffrey F. Glajch -- Vice President-Finance & Administration, Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Secretary
Thank you, Chris, and good morning, everyone. If you could turn to Slide 4. Q3 sales were $27.2 million, up from $25.3 million in Q3 last year. Our COVID-19 impact in the quarter was small compared to Q1, but we still lost approximately $900,000 of revenue due to employee absences related to COVID. Strong sales in Asia supported our refining business. Sales in the defense, the Navy market were $4.5 million in the quarter and now stand at $17.4 million year-to-date, approximately one quarter of our total sales through December.
Q3 net income of $1.1 million or $0.11 per share, up from breakeven in Q3 last year. Cash is still strong at $69.3 million. Orders in Q3 were in excess of $61 million, our strongest order recorded ever, driven by $52 million in defense orders. Almost all of the defense orders will not start to convert to revenue until fiscal 2023 and beyond. Our backlog is now nearly $150 million, 70% of which is in the defense market.
Moving on to Slide 5. I'll discuss the sales detail in the last slide with the quarter at $27.2 million. The sales split in the quarter was 39% domestic and 61% international. Last year's third quarter was 53% domestic, 47% international. The stronger international sales in the quarter were primarily driven by projects in Asia, particularly China where we had one large project, which was accounted for on a completed contract rather than a percent complete basis and a second project, which is in -- currently in process and is on -- being accounted for on a percent complete basis.
Gross profit increased to $6.2 million, up from $4 million last year primarily due to improved project mix as well as volume. Gross margin was 22.9%, up 6 -- up 160 -- I'm sorry, up from 16% last year, which was a particularly poor quarter last year. EBITDA margins were 6.7% up from 0.7% in last year's third quarter. And as I mentioned earlier, net income was $1.1 million up from breakeven last year.
Onto Slide 6. Looking at our year-to-date results, sales in the first nine months of fiscal 2021 was $71.8 million, up from $67.5 million last year. This is despite our challenging Q1 when the production was at 50% of capacity due to COVID impacts. Year-to-date sales are 52% domestic, 48% international compared with 65% and 35% respectively last year.
Gross profit year-to-date is $15.5 million, up from 13.7% last year and gross margin is up 130 basis points to 21.6%. Year-to-date, EBITDA margins were 5.6% versus 3.1% in the first nine months of last year. Finally, net income was $2 million or $0.20 a share, up from $1.3 million or 13% -- I'm sorry, $0.13 a share last year. Again, the first quarter of this year had a loss due to COVID but we have more than recovered in the second and third quarter.
Onto Slide 7. Cash is at $69.3 million, up $1.4 million from the end of Q2 but still down from $73 million at the end of fiscal 2020. This is primarily due to timing of working capital. Cash per share is $6.94. Our quarterly dividend remains firm at $0.11 a share and we have paid out $3.3 million year-to-date. Capital spending to-date is $1.5 million similar to last year and we expect this -- the total for the year to be between $2 million and $2.5 million in capital for the full year.
Finally, as we are continuing to work on our acquisition pipeline and activities, COVID has not had an adverse impact on our efforts as we have built some very good relationships over time and these continue, however, many are now remote rather than in-person communications.
Alan will continue our presentation by providing more depth on our operations in Q3 and then Jim will provide a market update and our updated guidance for fiscal 2021. Alan?
Alan E. Smith -- Vice President and General Manager
Thank you, Jeff. Good morning, everyone. I would ask that you refer to Slide 9. Sales for the third quarter were $27.2 million. Sales for the refining industry were $16.5 million up from $12.2 million. $9.4 million of the revenue were from two projects for the Chinese refining market. Sales to the defense industry were $4.5 million and were up slightly year-on-year.
We continue to see improved backlog conversion as we grow our naval workforce. On prior calls, we discussed first article or first-time fabrication work. We are largely past that now for which is currently in our backlog. We do plan to expand and take on new first article work, however, for now that type of heavy lifting is behind us.
Lastly, our annual guidance remains at $93 million to $97 million, which was communicated during our second quarter earnings call. The fourth quarter is set up well for backlog conversion, however, there is always a few million dollars of in and out revenue within any quarter.
Moving to Slide 10. We experienced the second wave of COVID-19 infections in Western New York from November through the middle of January. The company's COVID-19 protocols have been tested and have been proven to be effective in minimizing the spread of the virus within the company. At the peak of the second wave in early January, the production departments were operating at no less than 90% capacity.
Due to the outbreak, we temporarily paused our efforts to recruit skilled workers. As of January 19th, we have lifted the pause and are actively recruiting skilled workers. I am pleased to report that we have several candidates in our pipeline.
We continue to prioritize improving our productivity in the Navy areas. Productivity enhancements are focused on build flows, faster welding processes, employee training, the creation of jigs and fixtures and lastly, applying lessons learned.
I will now turn the presentation over to Jim.
James R. Lines -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Thank you, Alan, and thank you, Jeff, for your remarks. I ask that everyone refer to Slide 12 as I begin my prepared remarks.
This chart illustrates how orders can vary considerably from quarter-to-quarter. A highlight though is the order level of the last two quarters from the defense industry, specifically orders for the U.S. Navy. The orders for defense during the last two quarters were $65 million. These orders can be large in value and will have multi-year conversion cycles. We have visibility into the Navy's long term procurement plans. That is a great help and lessens investment risk that may be needed to support growth associated with stronger defense segment revenue.
We are operating within challenging energy and chemical/petrochemical markets. Low oil prices due to supply and demand imbalance along with demand destruction for chemical and petrochemical derived consumer products have contracted orders within our more traditional non-defense end markets.
It is important to point out the defense strategy where $100 million of new orders were secured in the last 12 quarters, representing 30% of total orders has been a terrific counter balance to headwinds within our more traditional markets. Also another set of actions were implemented about two years ago to change participation, success and execution plans within more price-sensitive international markets where we historically did not play. That too has been executed successfully. Across those same 12 quarters, $40 million in orders were won because of a different execution plan and different selling strategy.
Stated differently, approximately 60% of orders in the past 12 quarters were from our traditional markets or customers and 40% from strategies to broaden revenue streams. I commend our team for terrific effort on both strategies, it has really made a big difference in order level during the -- this pull back by our historic customers.
Let's move on to Slide 13. There is not too much different from last quarter to report. Refining is weak as an overall comment. There are mid and large sized projects upcoming in India, China and for the Mid East and North Africa but overall, refining opportunities have contracted. An active area within U.S. refining markets, however, is related to renewable diesel investment. This is supported by tax policy under the Renewable Fuels Standard and California's Low Carbon Fuel Standards. These are smaller, fast-moving projects, however, it has created demand for our products and that is important right now.
The Navy bookings pipeline remains healthy. Orders, they will be intermittent and likely not as strong as the past two quarters. Nonetheless, we expect to build backlog within this segment during the next year with a book-to-bill above 1.
The chemical sector is still contracted. We have not seen a change in spending by this market. Global markets need to lift up from the pandemic before we are to anticipate more typical order levels. Short cycle and plant MRO or plant maintenance, repair and operating spending is also pulled back. While defense orders have a positive outlook, order levels from our more traditional customers or markets are expected to stay sluggish.
Let's move on now to Slide 14. The two bright spots during this pandemic are our cash position that was highlighted by Jeff and our backlog. Backlog is $150 million with approximately $100 million for defense and $50 million for the company's more historic markets. The operational benefits or synergies between defense and commercial markets permit effective utilization of our operating assets, while commercial markets and here I'm referring to, refining and chemicals/petrochemicals are contracted. 45% to 50% of our backlog is anticipated to convert during the next 12 months. The fourth quarter is now essentially set up for backlog conversion with, as Alan said, a few million dollars, which typically comes in and out in a quarter, thus we have high confidence for the full-year guidance.
With that, let's move on to the guidance page. We guide to revenue for the full year to be between $93 million and $97 million, implying fourth quarter revenue between $21 million and $25 million. Full year gross margin should fall between 21% to 22%. SG&A expense at $17.3 million to $17.8 million for the full year and our effective tax rate is planned to be between 22% and 24%. It is important to highlight that the guidance reflects, we do not have significant COVID-19 related disruptions or unforeseen impacts in our fourth quarter.
I will close with a quick progress review on strategic initiatives. Let's move on to Slide 16. We have had an effort to reduce the volatility of our business performance with greater focus on expanding our predictable revenue streams. The Navy is one of those revenue streams as is revenue from our installed base. Our progress with the Navy has been -- or defense has been very strong. Our backlog has grown and importantly, we've moved our position from competitively bidding most opportunities to sole-source bidding under a larger percentage of those opportunities. So that all is directionally very favorable.
For our installed base, with the pandemic and COVID, we've had difficulty gaining access to our plant -- customers' plant sites. However, we've been working on IT tools and data analytics to analyze different applications and different products so we can implement programmatic processes to drive proactively our installed base. That's under way, but we have had a pause on building out our installed base team, however, there is work ongoing on the IT side.
We are also looking at acquisitions to build stronger, more predictable revenue. Jeff and Chris have done a really -- Chris Johnston, have done a really fine job of bringing us some high-quality targets into the conversation and we have active dialog with those now and we're advancing those discussions.
Another initiative, and now this will be in an area of our project work. So it does have variability, a cyclical nature to it, however, we have implemented some strategies to change how we participate in more price-sensitive markets, which is primarily in Asia. We've been expanding and modifying our execution path there. I'd say that's gone remarkably well as we jumped into that segment of the sandbox in a different way the last couple of years. 15% of our total orders since late in fiscal 2019 have come from this strategy.
We have had to be more measured in how we're evolving our organization and our structure to go after this work as we think about the upcoming income statement tied to the pandemic. However, this strategy has been executed well and has had an impact. You may have recalled -- you might recall that we did win two very large projects in India in the recent past and we are queuing up two or three other projects that we're focused on, that we're going to pursue aggressively, and hopefully win those over the next three to six quarters.
And then, ultimately, all of this rolls up into strengthening Graham's financial performance. One of the key levers is operational throughput and expanding our revenue conversion here in Batavia. That translates into building out our welding, machining and production workforce. As Alan said, we did place that on pause, that additional team member build out in the last couple of months due to COVID, however, we have that back opened up. We have 20 positions that we are hoping to fill over the next two years that would allow us to expand our backlog conversion and drive revenue growth. That's a very important parameter and we have a very good program for accessing the direct labor and bringing them on board, putting them through our weld school and training labs and then, having them proficient and productive in a short period of time.
I did mention earlier, another way to financial our -- improve our financial strength is the naval strategy and the evolution of competitively bid toward a higher percentage in sole-source bidding. That has two benefits, one, it increases the predictability of future orders and asset-based loading and lessens the risk we would have around any capital investments to support the revenue growth. And then, secondarily, but not always, it can provide a stronger margin profile for that work.
Also, and Alan has mentioned this, as we get past the first article fabrications, we now can move into repetitively -- repetitive builds and then optimize our production workflows to drive productivity and shorten cycle times and that will lead to margin enhancement as well. Obviously, our energy markets and petrochemical markets are in a rough spot. So we will balance our investments to benefit us long term with realities of short term income statement pressure. And ideally, we have this fantastic balance sheet with an incredible amount of cash that we've had for quite some time and our focus -- the focus of our Board is to put that capital to use with an investment in new revenue streams.
And with that, I'd like to open the call up, Diego, for questions. Would you please open the line?
Questions and Answers:
Operator
Thank you. [Operator Instructions] Our first question comes from Theodore O'Neill with Litchfield Hills. Please go ahead with your question.
Theodore O'Neill -- Litchfield Hills Research -- Analyst
Thanks very much. My first question is about the naval business. The -- on the General Dynamics call yesterday, it said that work on the Columbia submarines, which I understand, they're working on the first two, will expand significantly. How much of the submarine work is driving your growth in the naval business and do you think it will also be a long term driver of growth as they do?
James R. Lines -- President and Chief Executive Officer
I'll take this one, Theo, and thanks for the question. The submarine programs, which historically throughout our 80-year history, up until the last five years, we weren't in the submarine programs. However, because of our execution on the carrier program, we did get the door opened and we have grown into both the Virginia and Columbia-class programs.
Our naval growth is driven off of driving into deeply the submarine programs. The call from Electric Boat and the narrative from their conference call was very bullish on the submarine programs and the cash generation from that and we believe we will be a benefactor of that based on our participation and our strength in those two programs.
Theodore O'Neill -- Litchfield Hills Research -- Analyst
Okay. My next question is about the renewable diesel. Valero Energy said this morning that its Board had approved a new 470 million gallons a year renewable diesel plant in Port Arthur, Texas. Is that the sort of opportunity that we would see an opportunity there for Graham? And is that the sort of thing you'd be looking at?
James R. Lines -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Absolutely. With Valero, in particular, they entered renewable diesel in about 2011 or 2012 and at that first sight, we were a participant with our equipment in that first installation, which has been replicated three times at that location and now they are expanding into Port Arthur with yet a -- another renewable diesel project in partnership with Darling, it's called Diamond Green Diesel. And those two projects -- or those projects involve our equipment on both the pre-treatment side, the feedstock side and then on the refining side.
Now, to be clear, these are smaller opportunities, they don't compare to a large classic refining opportunity for us. These are in the range of probably $250,000 to $750,000 per item and there is a couple items in these opportunities. So they are smaller, they move fast and not only with Valero, but with Marathon, with Phillips 66, HollyFrontier, there's a host of renewable green diesel projects that are under way, driven-off of tax policy and also, California's Low Carbon Fuel Standards and we are a participant and we're focused on it.
Theodore O'Neill -- Litchfield Hills Research -- Analyst
Great, thanks very much.
James R. Lines -- President and Chief Executive Officer
You're welcome.
Operator
Our next question comes from John Franzreb with Sidoti & Company. Please state your question.
John Franzreb -- Sidoti & Company -- Analyst
Good morning, guys, and nice quarter. I want to start with the defense business. You pulled in a nice number in the orders bookings of this quarter, almost exceeding -- certainly, it seems to be exceeding what your initial expectations were three months ago and you also alluded to the fact that you expect the book-to-bill to remain above 1.0. So I guess two questions, firstly, as the orders that you booked in the December quarter, was there something unusual with those orders being pulled forward in any regard?
And secondly, when you think about the book-to-bill into next year, is that largely weighted toward the Virginia-class or the Columbia-class or do you expect maybe additional other work that you might get involved in?
James R. Lines -- President and Chief Executive Officer
I'll take that one as well. The modeling that we had a few quarters back, it did not consider that -- the enterprise program would buy another Columbia vessel from us now. However, that did arrive and we were able to secure that in our quarter that we just recently reported. We were only modelling some Virginia-class work and the carrier program work. But fortunately, we were able to be a benefactor of stepped up cadence for the Columbia program.
As we look at the next 12 months, the order slate is principally from the two submarine programs and some of it is repeat work and some of it is hopefully breaking into new programs within those two classes of submarine. We don't have those orders yet but our team is focused on certainly breaking into the new program and also holding our order pattern for those components that we have built several times now.
John Franzreb -- Sidoti & Company -- Analyst
Got it, got it. Second question. Interestingly, I heard something last week from one of the companies I covered that suggested that maintenance work in the energy market is being flattened, they're actually seeing some orders being pulled forward into the first quarter that normally would be second calendar quarter and some being pushed back into the third quarter that would normally be second calendar quarter type maintenance work. Are you seeing anything like that? I'm curious, if it's just something that's happening in the industry or is it stand-alone for them?
James R. Lines -- President and Chief Executive Officer
As an overall remark, what we have observed is MRO spending, maintenance repair, routine spending that's in the operating budget has moved to the right, has been pushed out as the refiners and also the petrochemical companies focused on in-year cash preservation with the dramatic change in demand. We honestly haven't seen any material change in that decision making of moving things to the right, pushing those spends out.
Our refining customers are saying to us, they had to get into 2021 before they could make those types of spends. However, we're only three weeks into 2021 and all I can comment upon is our sales team, our market-facing teams aren't seeing any change in that behavior by those two markets.
John Franzreb -- Sidoti & Company -- Analyst
Got it. And regarding the balance sheet and M&A, can you remind us what you think optimal targets would be for acquisitions, size and markets, maybe even, what do you think the kind of products they might produce would be best -- good for you?
Jeffrey F. Glajch -- Vice President-Finance & Administration, Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Secretary
Sure. John, this is Jeff. First off -- and if I missed one of your questions, please remind me. With regard to the markets, we're looking to improve our predictable business -- our predictable base business, so how do we do that? We do that really one of a couple of ways. One is looking at opportunities in the Navy and the defense markets, which as we show them here. Certainly this last quarter, the ability to get large orders and then ultimately to have them fabricate over a number of years is just a very helpful base load of predictability to our business.
And then, secondly, perhaps looking at things in the commercial markets, more on the aftermarket or MRO side, is another area we would consider, but I would say, of the two, the defense and the Navy side is much more interesting to us right now and much more in front of us right now.
With regard to size, we've pretty consistently talked about looking at businesses somewhere between $20 million and $60 million of revenue. Purchase price probably at a similar range, perhaps a little bit higher if there are higher margins or profit-level businesses. And the companies that we've looked at over the last number of quarters or a couple of years have been in that range, but we've also looked outside of that range, we've looked above that range and we've looked below that range. So we're not limiting ourselves necessarily to that range but it's kind of the sweet spot for us if we could find some way in there.
Did I answer all your questions or did I miss something?
John Franzreb -- Sidoti & Company -- Analyst
No. I guess, my next thing would be, would you kind of stick to tangential kind of products to what you make like maybe something next to the objective like the silencer or you just -- would you actually think about equipment that is really maybe a step into beyond your core technology?
Jeffrey F. Glajch -- Vice President-Finance & Administration, Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Secretary
I think we would look at both. Particularly, if we're looking at similar customers that we have, the ability to get a larger share of that customer's wallet, even if it's not a tangential product is something we would consider also.
John Franzreb -- Sidoti & Company -- Analyst
Okay, thank you. I appreciate you taking my questions.
Operator
Thank you. Our next question comes from Brett Kearney with Gabelli Funds. Please state your question.
Brett Kearney -- Gabelli Funds -- Analyst
Hi guys, good morning. Thanks for taking my question.
James R. Lines -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Morning, Brett.
Jeffrey F. Glajch -- Vice President-Finance & Administration, Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Secretary
Good morning, Brett.
Brett Kearney -- Gabelli Funds -- Analyst
Morning. I noticed the press release and then also your slide deck, you have kind of note on opportunities, potential involvement for Graham in kind of the broader energy transition. I guess we touched on this -- or you touched on it a little bit already on the call. Just wondering, what areas kind of stand out for potential opportunities for Graham? Anything in kind of carbon capture or in the newer kind of fuel sources that folks are talking about or governments are putting funding toward?
James R. Lines -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Great question. We are -- we play in the renewable diesel. I spoke about that a moment ago as it pertains to the refining or the use of a bio-based feedstock for producing diesel, but outside of that, in the energy transition now, we're in the early phases. We're trying to make sure we're in the conversation, we're a supplier to these markets, we are also in the hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicle market. And there we serve that market with across three types of customers. We are working with the industrial gas companies that provide the hydrogen, if you will. The hydrogen application for fueling cells is very high pressure. For a vehicle, it's at 10,000 PSI, for mass transportation, it's at about 5,000 PSI. The gas has to be compressed to those high pressures. We work with compressor OEMs for our equipment that supports their compression equipment then we also work with integrators that take the components and put them into a fueling system and there on the back end of the system, the hydrogen, when it is dispensed into a vehicle needs to be at about minus 40 degrees C, minus 40 degrees F. We provide heat exchangers that provide that cooling and deliver the hydrogen to the vehicle at the right temperature.
Now these are smallish applications, they are -- an average selling price for us is $10,000 to $50,000. It's important that we're there, this is a long term play. These would be highly engineered standard products, which would be different from our ETO-type large project work. Similarly, in the compressed natural gas value chain, which can also be for fuels, can also be for natural gas distribution in remote areas, there we play in a similar manner. Those distribution systems are at about 5,000 psig for compressed natural gas. It's a compressor OEM or a system integrator that we're working with.
So those are a couple of examples of how we're in the conversation, taking our products into those markets and making sure we are participating in the evolving energy market as that moves from using fossils -- fossil fuel to other complementary alternative fuels. So renewable diesel also renewable chemicals, we do play in that, we have been playing in that for probably over a decade. Those are very intermittent type projects but we do play there as well. And then, of course, as I said, renewable diesel or bio-diesel, which is different and we've been in those projects for about a decade as well along with when ethanol took off, we played there as well. But today, I'd say the big movers are renewable diesel, the hydrogen economy and the natural gas value chain.
Brett Kearney -- Gabelli Funds -- Analyst
Terrific. Thank you so much, guys.
James R. Lines -- President and Chief Executive Officer
You're welcome.
Operator
[Operator Instructions] Our next question comes from Tom Spiro with Spiro Capital. Please state your question.
Thomas Spiro -- Spiro Capital Management -- Analyst
No, Tom Spiro, Spiro Capital. Good morning, gentlemen.
Jeffrey F. Glajch -- Vice President-Finance & Administration, Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Secretary
Good morning, Tom.
James R. Lines -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Tom, good morning.
Thomas Spiro -- Spiro Capital Management -- Analyst
First, my congratulations on strong bookings for the quarter year-to-date. They really validate the diversification strategies that have been implemented for the last few years and it validates your decision earlier this year to hang in there with the employment and keep the faith. So, congratulations, it's most impressive.
James R. Lines -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Thank you, Tom.
Thomas Spiro -- Spiro Capital Management -- Analyst
Just a couple of questions. With respect to our new business in India and China, we have more exposure now to foreign partners. I was just wondering whether you have any concerns with the pandemic, which may be brought under control here in the U.S. making it to be a much greater problem over there and our foreign partners may have difficulty performing.
James R. Lines -- President and Chief Executive Officer
A great question. In the Asian economies, we are seeing the pandemic or COVID be more pervasive and a larger problem in certain Southeast Asian countries. I don't want to site them, but we've seen in Southeast Asia that for about three or four months, projects have just stopped. Now, we're not executing any projects in Southeast Asia with the fabrication partner, we have done it in Northern Asia and we do it in China and also in India where thus far, COVID has not created execution delays of any magnitude. However, we are watching that, we have localized our quality inspection services, Graham Personnel.
We've hired individuals in China, we've hired individuals in India to surveil and support our local fabrication partners, while being complemented when we can by our fabrication experts here in the U.S. So it is a potentially challenging situation, but right now in China and in India, those are the two areas where we have projects ongoing now, large projects, we haven't had a COVID-led problem.
Thomas Spiro -- Spiro Capital Management -- Analyst
That's all. Thanks. Jeff, do you have a preliminary capex budget for the next fiscal year?
Jeffrey F. Glajch -- Vice President-Finance & Administration, Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Secretary
Tom, at this point, we do not.
Thomas Spiro -- Spiro Capital Management -- Analyst
Okay. Would you expect it to vary just dramatically from your historical numbers? Is there anything kind of unusual coming up we need to think about?
Jeffrey F. Glajch -- Vice President-Finance & Administration, Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Secretary
Nothing out of the ordinary.
Thomas Spiro -- Spiro Capital Management -- Analyst
I see, OK. And lastly, on the acquisition subject, stock market is high, in fact, the stacks out there trying to buy everything, lots of money floating around. I was curious whether the acquisition possibilities that you folks are reviewing that you're seeing pricing strengthen and it's multiples going up and it's becoming more challenging to find opportunities that fall within your price range.
Jeffrey F. Glajch -- Vice President-Finance & Administration, Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Secretary
So Tom, given where we're looking at and I spoke earlier on an earlier question, we're focused on the defense market and the -- to a lesser extent on the aftermarket and the commercial markets, both of those are markets, particularly the defense, which have had pretty high multiples to begin with. So we haven't necessarily seen that move to get worse, but that is certainly a headwind for something that we have to work through but now the availability of cash is, while it's impacting the pricing in the markets, really the specific markets that we're focusing on are such good markets that they already -- we're at pretty high multiples. So we'll just work our way through it and that's a part of our process.
Thomas Spiro -- Spiro Capital Management -- Analyst
Well, thanks very much, and good luck.
Jeffrey F. Glajch -- Vice President-Finance & Administration, Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Secretary
Thanks, Tom.
James R. Lines -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Thank you, Tom.
Operator
Our next question comes from John Deysher with Pinnacle Capital Management. Please state your question.
John Deysher -- Pinnacle Value Fund -- Analyst
Good morning, everyone. I was just curious...
James R. Lines -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Good morning, John.
John Deysher -- Pinnacle Value Fund -- Analyst
When you talk about the Navy business and you're moving beyond first article cost structure to standardize defense manufacturing processes. Could you remind us exactly what you're talking about there?
James R. Lines -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Alan will take this.
Alan E. Smith -- Vice President and General Manager
Yeah, this is Alan. What we're doing, first article builds, there is a lot of testing that needs to be done of the material and specialized jigs and fixtures that need to be developed because these are new builds, haven't existed and we have to prep our manufacturing process. That effort is fairly involved and in the remarks, I was trying to indicate that we are past that effort. We have the materials approved, we have built all of the first to Graham equipment in fabrication processes and now it's becoming more real as we take on subsequent work from the Navy.
John Deysher -- Pinnacle Value Fund -- Analyst
Okay.
Jeffrey F. Glajch -- Vice President-Finance & Administration, Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Secretary
When there is a first-time build in industry shock-testing.
Alan E. Smith -- Vice President and General Manager
So -- yeah, so for -- what Jeff's referring to, for the Columbia-class because it is a brand new ship for the Navy, it's important that the equipment can withstand attacks from the enemy. So when we build our equipment, we also build a prototype unit, which is actually subjective to step charges to make sure that the equipment can withstand the shock and survive it and still work properly.
John Deysher -- Pinnacle Value Fund -- Analyst
Okay. So the infrastructure is in place, have you actually bought raw materials yet for those Navy contracts?
Alan E. Smith -- Vice President and General Manager
Yeah, so the contract is in our backlog, we have the material and we've actually moved into production. So not only are we -- do we have the material, we are actually actively fabricating those jobs in our backlog.
John Deysher -- Pinnacle Value Fund -- Analyst
Okay. And you're doing all of that in-house, you're not outsourcing it to anyone else, correct?
Alan E. Smith -- Vice President and General Manager
Yes, yes.
John Deysher -- Pinnacle Value Fund -- Analyst
Okay. And when do you anticipate invoicing the Navy for those products? I would guess there's milestones that have to be met, but what's your best guess as to when you're going to start invoicing the customer?
Alan E. Smith -- Vice President and General Manager
We have been invoicing the Navy for some time now. Our work is a mix of milestone-based as well as percent complete. So on percent complete, as we appoint labor, we are invoicing our customer each month.
John Deysher -- Pinnacle Value Fund -- Analyst
Okay. Did I miss it on the presentation, what percentage of the revenues for Navy in this -- in the December quarter?
Jeffrey F. Glajch -- Vice President-Finance & Administration, Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Secretary
In the -- this is Jeff. In the quarter, that was about 4.5 -- approximately $4.5 million and year-to-date, it's a little over $17 million.
John Deysher -- Pinnacle Value Fund -- Analyst
$17 million and what do you anticipate it to be for the full fiscal '21?
Jeffrey F. Glajch -- Vice President-Finance & Administration, Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Secretary
For the full year, we have communicated that we expect to be about a quarter of our revenue, which is where it is year-to-date through December. I think we're at about 24-plus percent of our total revenue, we expect to be somewhere around a quarter of our total revenue, which given the guidance, that Jim spoke to, it'd be somewhere around $23 million to $24 million.
John Deysher -- Pinnacle Value Fund -- Analyst
Okay. And so -- and for the next fiscal year, fiscal '22, how does it ramp from there do you think?
Jeffrey F. Glajch -- Vice President-Finance & Administration, Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Secretary
So we haven't -- we haven't given explicit guidance there other than we have suggested that over the next number of years that that number will be between $20 million and $30 million and the opportunity to perhaps grow it beyond that upper limit somewhere in that window. But we've not give explicit guidance on what we expect that to be next year yet.
John Deysher -- Pinnacle Value Fund -- Analyst
Okay. So $20 million to $30 million per year.
Jeffrey F. Glajch -- Vice President-Finance & Administration, Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Secretary
Correct.
John Deysher -- Pinnacle Value Fund -- Analyst
Okay, good. And I guess, finally, do you have a credit line in place? I know you've got a lot of cash, but sometimes these government contracts can be a little lumpy in terms of money going out, but no money coming in. Is there a credit line in place to support the cash?
Jeffrey F. Glajch -- Vice President-Finance & Administration, Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Secretary
Yes, there is. The credit line we have in place right now, we have a $50 million revolver as well as we have two lines for letters of credit, one of $7 million with the -- with JPMorgan Chase, so we have our $15 million revolver with and we also have a $15 million letter of credit line with HSBC. And those two letter of credit lines are really helpful for our international business. Jim mentioned about the work we're doing in India and China as well as other international locations. Those letter of credit lines are really important to support that and to protect us going forward.
And then, I wanted to follow onto Alan's answer or to your question regarding our payments from the Navy. We do -- and the Navy is very similar to our commercial business and that we structure our payments and our invoicing and our payments to try to mimic our expected cash outflows so that our need for working capital to support these projects is relatively small. I think if you look back historically at our net working capital and I'll define net working capital as our net working capital, excluding cash, it's typically somewhere between 0 and 10% of sales, I think right now might be toward the higher end of that range, but our working capital needed to support our business is relatively small because of the way we structure our contracts and our larger projects are funded by the customers who were doing the workforce.
So the Navy for example is funding the project as we're doing the work, so we don't get too out of sync with regard to cash. There are times actually, we end up with a little bit of -- we end up ahead a little bit on some of those, but that's usually a short term thing. As we get cash in, we're typically using it fairly quickly for inventory purchases. So we try to manage our cash two ways. One is through the customer milestone payments, and then secondly, when we do need to utilize our cash, we're pretty careful about that, so we're not out on cash on projects at any point in time.
John Deysher -- Pinnacle Value Fund -- Analyst
Okay, good. And I guess, finally, is the profitability of the Navy business equal to greater than or less than the non-Navy business on an operating income line?
Jeffrey F. Glajch -- Vice President-Finance & Administration, Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Secretary
Sure. It's in a similar range at an operating level. It does have a lot of labor, so it -- we assume, we have a lot of cost that travel with that, but it's in a similar range.
John Deysher -- Pinnacle Value Fund -- Analyst
Okay, great, thanks. That's very helpful.
Jeffrey F. Glajch -- Vice President-Finance & Administration, Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Secretary
Sure. Thank you.
Operator
Thank you. [Operator Instructions] There appears to be no additional request for questions, I'll turn it back to management for closing remarks. Thank you.
James R. Lines -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Well, thank you, Diego, and thank you, everyone, for your attention and your thoughtful questions this morning. We appreciate the engagement and we look forward to updating you in the coming call. Stay safe. Goodbye.
Operator
[Operator Closing Remarks]
Duration: 49 minutes
Call participants:
Christopher M. Gordon -- Investor Relations
Jeffrey F. Glajch -- Vice President-Finance & Administration, Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Secretary
Alan E. Smith -- Vice President and General Manager
James R. Lines -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Theodore O'Neill -- Litchfield Hills Research -- Analyst
John Franzreb -- Sidoti & Company -- Analyst
Brett Kearney -- Gabelli Funds -- Analyst
Thomas Spiro -- Spiro Capital Management -- Analyst
John Deysher -- Pinnacle Value Fund -- Analyst
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