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| Global RIM adjusted EBITDA margin was 44.7%, up 100 basis points sequentially, driven by strong services mix and productivity |
| We are pleased to report another outstanding year for Iron Mountain |
| We achieved record revenue and adjusted EBITDA in both the fourth quarter and the full year |
| Our record results are a testament to the devotion and hard work of our team and our resilient and growing business model |
| In the fourth quarter we achieved revenue of 1.4 -- $1.42 billion, yielding 8.7% total organic revenue growth and record adjusted EBITDA of $525 million up 11% |
| For the full year we delivered record results across the board, revenue of $5.5 billion, adjusted EBITDA of $2 billion, and AFFO of $1.2 billion |
| We feel very, very good about the gross margins in the company |
| We're very pleased with the margins in that business in light of revenue management, et cetera and the volume trends over the last several years |
| Building on a strong long-term relationship with the customer, we are now implementing a rigorous compliance program that will reduce the cost and meet records retention requirements leading to a more efficient service |
| So when you think about the Records Management Physical Storage Business, that's a very high gross margin business and continued to perform very well |
| And together with the fact that candidly our team here does a great job driving productivity across our services organization |
| As I alluded to in the prepared remarks, we had very good mix within our services |
| And so they -- to underscore Bill's point, they really know what they're doing, and I think the combination is an excellent one |
| So we're -- so first of all, the leaders that we got with that business, we're very excited about |
| As I said in my script and also Barry is that, we're really excited about the Regency acquisition, not just because of the footprint that it gives us, it gives us stronger even scale within the United States, but also the leadership team |
| So we feel very good about where we're at |
| And, frankly, if you look at the storage revenue growth that the team is putting up, it's I think quite impressive, including the acceleration |
| And thank you for the point, volume has been quite good and that speaks to our commercial team's ability to continue to win new business |
| Our successful delivery of digital mailroom and imaging on demand solutions during the COVID pandemic has led to a new Master Services Agreement for digitizing services worth more than $10 million over the contract length |
| We will preserve, scan around 47,000 rolls of microfilm to produce 240 million images on our InSight platform, helping the agency to process compensation claims faster than ever and delivering a solid recurring revenue stream to drive our growth |
| But we are very pleased with our retention and our customer satisfaction scores |
| So we feel very good about where we're at |
| We continue to be pleased with the growth trajectory of our data center business, which has only accelerated with the rapid adoption of AI-enabled services |
| Another level, it allows us to continue to build momentum and drive growth in that business because each year we're replacing less than we were before |
| We continue to see tremendous opportunity in serving both hyperscale and co-location customers and significant growth potential for our footprint |
| In fact, across most of our businesses, we maintain a pretty strong pipeline behind our targets |
| Also in the U.S., we were pleased to win a data center deal with a secure cloud storage company that is growing rapidly across North America |
| But we're very comfortable that we're continuing to build momentum in the business and we're maintaining these 20% plus growth rates on a very quickly or very rapidly growing base |
| So on the pipeline as you would expect, especially with the hyperscale, you know the market extremely well is that, we have a very strong pipeline going into the year |
| We feel very good about that projection and I think it does imply an opportunity for us to certainly achieve the midpoint on the Global RIM number at 6% |
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| But on the storage side, you have all other storage costs going up by $11.5 million, pushed the gross margin down by about 80 basis points sequentially |
| So whereas last year, we were faced with really significant challenges of component pricing continuing to decline earlier in the year and then staying at those trough levels, we have assumed a modest amount of pricing benefit on component pricing as we move through the year |
| And then we assumed a fairly slow ramp, slower than what all the industry prognostications are for component pricing |
| As you know, as you'd see from our peer companies that are public as well as some of the other companies in the data center space, the gross margins on data center generally as an industry are lower than our records management business |
| It looks like your dividend payout ratio has dipped below the 65% LTM target, which is where you raised the dividend earlier |
| Compared to 2023, this results in a full year FX headwind of $25 million to revenue and approximately $10 billion to EBITDA and AFFO |
| Hey, it looks like the total volumes increased in time to the storage, but the retention slipped a little bit |
| And so we had anticipated a little lower margin mix in the services portfolio |
| So, you talked about pricing continuing to ramp in the data center ecosystem and we've seen demand outstripping supply |
| And then the other part of it is the scarcity |
| It seems like the costs were contained while the revenue increased |
| If you think about the services that we were selling five, six years ago when our service revenue was down in the 40s, right, and so obviously 10 times that today just on digital and when I'm talking about digital services now that portion of the service business |
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