NYSE:WT WisdomTree Q2 2024 Earnings Report $8.72 +0.04 (+0.46%) Closing price 04/28/2025 03:59 PM EasternExtended Trading$8.70 -0.02 (-0.23%) As of 04/28/2025 06:30 PM Eastern Extended trading is trading that happens on electronic markets outside of regular trading hours. This is a fair market value extended hours price provided by Polygon.io. Learn more. Earnings HistoryForecast WisdomTree EPS ResultsActual EPS$0.16Consensus EPS $0.14Beat/MissBeat by +$0.02One Year Ago EPSN/AWisdomTree Revenue ResultsActual Revenue$107.03 millionExpected Revenue$103.75 millionBeat/MissBeat by +$3.28 millionYoY Revenue GrowthN/AWisdomTree Announcement DetailsQuarterQ2 2024Date7/26/2024TimeN/AConference Call DateFriday, July 26, 2024Conference Call Time11:00AM ETUpcoming EarningsWisdomTree's Q1 2025 earnings is scheduled for Friday, May 2, 2025, with a conference call scheduled at 11:00 AM ET. Check back for transcripts, audio, and key financial metrics as they become available.Q1 2025 Earnings ReportConference Call ResourcesConference Call AudioConference Call TranscriptSlide DeckPress Release (8-K)Quarterly Report (10-Q)Earnings HistoryCompany ProfileSlide DeckFull Screen Slide DeckPowered by WisdomTree Q2 2024 Earnings Call TranscriptProvided by QuartrJuly 26, 2024 ShareLink copied to clipboard.There are 9 speakers on the call. Operator00:00:00As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. It is now my pleasure to introduce your host, Jessica Zaloom, Head of Corporate Communications. Operator00:00:08Thank you, Jessica. You may begin. Good morning. Before we begin, I would like to reference our legal disclaimer available in today's presentation. This presentation may contain forward looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Operator00:00:27A number of factors could cause actual results to differ materially from the results discussed in forward looking statements, including, but not limited to, the risks set forth in this presentation and in the Risk Factors section of WisdomTree's Annual Report on Form 10 ks for the year ended December 31, 2023, and quarterly report on Form 10 Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2024. WisdomTree assumes no duty and does not undertake to update any forward looking statements. Now, it is my pleasure to turn the call over to WisdomTree's CFO, Brian Edmondson. Speaker 100:01:09Thank you, Jessica, and good morning, everyone. I'll be covering our Q2 results along with commentary on our forward looking guidance before turning the call over to Jarrett and Jono for additional updates on our business. We ended the quarter with record AUM of $109,700,000,000 driven primarily by favorable market conditions. And while our flows were largely muted during the quarter due to outflows from our commodity products, which tend to be tactical in nature, we continue observing strong engagement in our U. S. Speaker 100:01:42Listed ETFs and offshore UCITS ETF suite. These products generated a combined $1,900,000,000 of net inflows during the quarter and nearly $4,200,000,000 of net inflows year to date, representing an 11% annualized pace of year to date organic growth. Our flow profile over the course of the year has remixed our blended fee rate higher, averaging approximately 37 basis points during the quarter. Our record AUM continues to drive revenue growth and expanding margins, demonstrating the scalability of our business model. Next slide. Speaker 100:02:24Revenues were $107,000,000 during the quarter, an increase of 10.5% from the 1st quarter and up approximately 25% versus the prior year quarter, driven by higher average AUM. We also observed an 87% increase in other revenue versus the Q1 due to updates in asset based revenue arrangements on certain European listed products. Other revenue totaled $8,100,000 this quarter and reflects ETP revenues captured away from the expense ratio, providing further revenue diversification. Looking back over the longer term, the magnitude of other revenue generated this quarter is almost 5 times what was realized in June of 2022. There are asset based and transaction based elements driving other revenue. Speaker 100:03:17And while difficult to forecast, we would suggest the magnitude of other revenue generated in this most recent quarter serves as a fair approximation of what we could expect going forward. On a year to date basis, our revenues have grown 21.5% and our adjusted operating margin was 32.6%, representing expansion of over 840 basis points versus the prior year or 480 basis points organically when adjusting for the impact of our gold royalty buyout, which was accomplished in May of last year. Our adjusted net income for the quarter was $27,100,000 or $0.16 a share. Next slide. Now, a few comments on our forecasted guidance. Speaker 100:04:08We are updating our forecasted compensation expense guidance, which will be provided as a percentage of revenue going forward rather than as a range of fixed dollar amounts. Having taken into consideration a variety of scenarios, including the potential magnitude of our flows over the course of the year, revenue and operating income growth, forecasted margin expansion and our share price performance in relation to our peers, we currently estimate our comp to revenue ratio to be 28% to 29% for the year. This range is largely aligned with current estimates and would represent a compensation ratio lower than the 31.4% we realized last year. Our discretionary spending was $30,500,000 year to date. We are reiterating our full year discretionary spending guidance of $64,000,000 to $68,000,000 The range is largely dependent on the magnitude of marketing spend associated with WisdomTree Prime over the remainder of the year as we continue testing messages to further define our target customers while enhancing the app with additional features. Speaker 100:05:24Due to seasonality, the discretionary spend for the remainder of the year will likely be more skewed toward the Q4. We reported a gross margin of 81.2% in the 2nd quarter and we are updating our gross margin guidance to be between 80% 81% for the year, a 1 percentage point improvement considering current AUM levels and higher forecasted other revenue going forward. If AUM scales higher from continued organic flow growth or favorable market conditions, we would anticipate further gross margin expansion. Our 3rd party distribution expense was $5,000,000 year to date. We are maintaining our guidance of $10,000,000 to $11,000,000 for the year. Speaker 100:06:10We are also maintaining our annual adjusted interest expense guidance of $14,000,000 dollars As a reminder, our adjusted interest expense guidance is exclusive of any interest cost we are required to impute under GAAP related to our interest free financing of the shares we repurchased from the World Gold Council last November. Our interest income year to date was $2,800,000 and we are maintaining our interest income guidance for the year to be about $5,000,000 based upon the magnitude of our forecasted interest earning assets. Our adjusted tax rate was 25% in the 2nd quarter and our guidance of 24% to 25% remains unchanged. And our weighted average diluted shares were 165,900,000 year to date and our guidance of $166,000,000 to $168,000,000 for the year remains unchanged as well. As a reminder, this guidance does not take into consideration any variability in shares approaching $11 per share, is higher than the $9.54 conversion price related to convertible notes scheduled to mature in 2028. Speaker 100:07:28While our notes require principal to be paid in cash, our diluted shares would need to be increased for any incremental shares associated with the conversion option once our stock price exceeds $9.54 per share. An illustration is included within our earnings presentation to assist in quantifying the incremental shares associated with the conversion option going forward. That's all I have. I will now turn the call over to Jared. Speaker 200:07:56Thank you, Brian, and good morning, everyone. In the second quarter, WisdomTree had another strong quarter of AUM growth and expanding operating margins, all while continuing to ramp up our efforts in tokenized assets and blockchain enabled finance, which we expect will open up new revenue opportunities for us in the coming years. In the quarter, we generated $340,000,000 of net inflows, but the underlying trends were even more impressive. To start, we experienced meaningful flows into our more strategic product lineup in the U. S. Speaker 200:08:36And into our UCITS business in Europe, where we have achieved 11% annualized organic growth this year. Further, over the past several quarters, net inflows have come into higher fee funds, which has provided a boost to our blended fee rate, which now stands at 37 basis points, expanding from 36 basis points last year. Finally, while we continue to see growth across current customers as measured by average funds held per customer and total AUM per customer, we're also seeing healthy growth in new customers, which gives us confidence in continued growth going forward. Models also continue to be a steady growth driver. As a reminder, our approach is to grow the number of advisors who have access to our models, while also further penetrating this accessible market and growing the number of advisors actively using WisdomTree models. Speaker 200:09:41Last quarter, I mentioned that our accessible market stood at 70,000 advisors and that we expected it to grow to about 80,000 advisors by year end. I'm happy to report that we now have new partnerships in hand which will take our accessible market to over 85,000 advisors and nearly $18,000,000,000,000 of assets by year end. Further, the stability and predictability of our pipeline continues to hold as we continue to add new advisor model users at our expected pace of approximately $250 per quarter, while our model AUM continues to grow at a rate of 10% to 12 percent of U. S. ETF flows. Speaker 200:10:31We're also ramping up our portfolio consultation service where we assist advisors who build their own client portfolios and are looking for help in improving risk adjusted returns. This is another tool in our portfolio solutions offering that helps to generate sticky flows and assets that are stackable on top of our already strong organic growth profile. Here, our models team analyzes each portfolio and recommends enhancements. We have recently improved our review process greatly increasing our capacity and efficiency, reducing turnaround times from a couple of weeks to a couple of days, allowing us to service a greater number of advisors and drive further net inflows. Speaking of efficiency, it was another strong quarter of margin expansion achieved by expanding our other revenue streams on top of disciplined expense management. Speaker 200:11:37On the revenue side, we've been proactive with our European counterparties and we've been able to capture additional asset and transaction based revenue streams that we previously did not share in. As Brian mentioned, this quarter's approximate $8,000,000 run rate seems sustainable going forward each quarter, which is roughly double the 20 23 run rate and almost 5 times the 2022 and earlier year run rates. We also showcased margin expansion once again in the quarter with our margins up 5.70 basis points from last quarter and up over 800 basis points year over year delivering Q2 operating margins of 35.3 percent. This margin expansion is a combination of disciplined expense management, but also a function of scale. Based on our 50% plus incremental margin, we see a meaningful opportunity for further margin expansion in the years to come. Speaker 200:12:46In conclusion, we're generating strong revenue growth from flows, from market and from opening up new revenue streams. With well managed expenses and scale benefits, we are expanding our operating margins. And all of that translates into an accelerated pace of earnings growth and strong returns for shareholders. And with that, I will now turn it over to Jono. Speaker 300:13:14Thank you, Jarrett, and hello, everyone. Today, I will be brief. WisdomTree continues to thrive with record assets under management. Our efficiency once again on display as margins have expanded by over 800 basis points from last year, achieving over a 35% operating margin for the 2nd quarter. Earnings per share was up 78% year over year and 33% sequentially. Speaker 300:13:47Momentum remains strong. As I reflect on both our prior accomplishments and the opportunities ahead of us with only 300 employees worldwide, I'm not only proud of how much WisdomTree has accomplished, but that we have achieved success so efficiently and ahead of the curve. WisdomTree continually strives to be forward looking in our mission and those efforts are bearing fruit today, while also setting the company up for success in the future. Nearly 5 years ago, we launched our first crypto ETPs in Europe and began strategically thinking about opportunities in both tokenization and blockchain enabled finance. Although the lengthy regulatory process has taken longer than we initially anticipated, my optimism and confidence about the opportunity ahead is greater today than when we first began the journey. Speaker 300:14:57As we've mentioned on prior calls, we are pursuing both business to business and direct to consumer efforts. On the B2B side, we expect to provide a broader update next quarter when our institutional platform is expected to go live. On WisdomTree Prime, our direct to consumer effort, we are now live in 44 states and available to nearly 80% of the U. S. Population with more to come in the near future. Speaker 300:15:33Early marketing campaigns are proving key learnings, allowing us to tighten our client segment focus and allowing us to test newer approaches like reward offers and in app marketing campaigns. With the marketing campaigns really in the early stages and the institutional platform launching in the next few months, it is still too early to share any new digital asset metrics. However, we are committed to begin sharing more metrics with you early next year in line with the timing of our 2025 guidance. As I continue to mention in recent quarters, it's a very exciting time for WisdomTree. We have record assets under management, a meaningful margin expansion opportunity and leverage to secular shifts in ETFs and tokenization. Speaker 300:16:38Thank you. Operator, would you please turn the call over to our Head Speaker 400:16:53Hey, thank you, Jono, and good morning, everybody. Per usual, we will take a couple of questions here from retail shareholders and then take it over to you guys to ask some questions to management. So first one, John, I'm going Speaker 300:17:06to direct this to you, Speaker 400:17:09is what is the company's 5 year plan? Speaker 300:17:14Thank you, Jeremy. WisdomTree is blessed in that we compete in many of the most exciting areas of asset management. And by that I mean, global ETFs, models and solutions, plus tokenization and blockchain enabled finance. When you try looking out 5 years, it's always about getting the prioritization of investments right, that you're able to grow today and be in a position to grow tomorrow or 5 years out. If you look back 5 years, we did get our prioritization of investments right and we executed. Speaker 300:17:57This quarter's results proves that this quarter also proves how well our business model scales. So if you're looking out 5 years from now, it's continued execution against our current strategic initiatives, continued expansion of the global ETF lineup, grow our global AUM of ETFs stellar performance, what we call modern alpha. And it's working and it's driving results in our proprietary funds. It's also having our team, our fantastic sales, marketing and research teams work together to drive growth. Very important to us is that we continue to grow our UCITS lineup and our AUM in Europe just generally. Speaker 300:18:49Usage have grown from nearly 0 AUM 5 years ago to nearly $7,000,000,000 today. We're very, very bullish on what the next 5 years in USITs will be. And we need to continue to expand our portfolio solutions franchise to a much larger percentage of our overall AUM, leading to even greater stability of inflows as well as just greater stability of AUM. And we execute against our early leadership position to drive a footprint or a sizable footprint in tokenized assets and blockchain enabled finance. It's a priority that we grow that business lines profitably and that it accelerates our overall growth rate. Speaker 300:19:42And as always, we need to do all of that in a very disciplined approach to expenses. But if we continue to do all of that, we'll see much higher AUM, it will translate into much higher margins that are materially higher than where we are today and drive accelerated growth in earnings per share, which should hopefully continue to lead to a meaningful appreciation in our stock like we've seen in the last 4 5 years. I think that answers the question, Jeremy. Speaker 400:20:20Great. Thanks, Jono. We'll cut it there on that one. So operator, please feel free to open up the lines to questions from the analyst community. Operator00:20:29Great. We will now be conducting a question and answer session. Our first question comes from the line of Mike Grondahl with Northland Securities. Please proceed with your question. Speaker 300:21:14Hey, guys. Thanks and congratulations on a nice quarter. On the models and their accessibility increasing to 85,000 advisors on year end, What was the driver of that? Was that a couple of wins? And then secondly, could you just talk about how penetration of those accessible advisors is going? Speaker 300:21:43Garrett, why don't you start? Speaker 100:21:47Sure. Speaker 200:21:49Yes, you pretty much put your finger on it, on growing the accessible market. That's a couple of additional wins on a couple of additional major platforms. And so we've anticipated a number of wins, but a couple of them came sooner than even we had planned. So great news there. Your next part of your question is really also very important and where a big part of our focus is, is every model win is really a 2 part project. Speaker 200:22:271, you've got to win with the organization and get on the platform. And then number 2, once you're on the platform, it's sort of hand to hand combat and you've got to then work on the individual advisors. Speaker 500:22:40So that's where Speaker 200:22:40we are now. That's where the focus is and that's going quite well also where the pace of bringing on new advisors each quarter continues as we expected. But I will say that's an area of increased focus, again, in that 2 part battle. Early, the majority of focus was let's get on more platforms, let's have more advisors have access to our models. We're now shifting the focus really to let's start penetrating even quicker than we are today, but both sides are going quite well. Speaker 300:23:21And I'll just add that our pipeline is as strong as it's ever been. I don't think we've ever been as confident about the pipeline of penetration. So thanks for the question, Mike. Speaker 200:23:33Yes. And I'd just add one other quick thing. When you look at it, 85,000 advisors, that's about 28% of the advisors in the U. S. So there's still room to go there, but that 28% controls 18,000,000,000,000 dollars of advised assets in the country, which is 2 thirds of the advised assets. Speaker 200:24:00So we've done a great job of penetrating the accessible market. And now the focus again really shifts more to penetration. Speaker 300:24:09Great. Hey, thanks guys. Operator00:24:15Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Keith Hossum with Northcoast Research. Please proceed with your question. Speaker 100:24:24Great. Appreciate it. Hey guys, just trying to challenge you guys a little bit on the European fund outflows. It looks like the commodity and currency funds have seen outflows for 15 of the past 17 quarters. It seems like there is something going on there that I don't know if it's broken or a little bit more than a tactical play. Speaker 100:24:42But can you perhaps provide a little bit color about what you guys are doing to perhaps reverse that trend? Speaker 300:24:49I'm going to just start and then Jared, maybe you could jump in. When you really look at our European footprint, it's got an extraordinary overweight to commodities that and we knew that with the acquisition of ETF Securities 5 years ago that our number one purpose would post acquisition other than integrating it and cutting costs and all that was to diversify revenue away from just gold and broad commodities. And we've been doing it. It's just that it's still much larger than the rest of the suite but becoming smaller. So that's all the insights that I have on it. Speaker 300:25:32Jared, is there more that you'd like to add? Garrett, if you are, you're on mute. Speaker 200:25:44Yes. Thanks, John. I was on mute. Yes, just piling on really two things. But first is the sort of tactical nature of the commodity suite that Jono mentioned and the way that people that invest in commodities use them. Speaker 200:26:06And when you see generally pricing going up, clients are selling into it. And when prices are coming down, clients are buying into that. And that's the sort of tactical nature. So that is the nature of a large part of the suite. You also have to look at the UCITS business, which is separate from that And that's been an area of focus for us that, as Jono has already mentioned, it grew from 0 several years ago to nearly $7,000,000,000 today. Speaker 200:26:40And then finally, if you look at a big part of what we talked about in the prepared comments was on the other revenue side. So the overall revenue capture is actually very healthy. And actually overall, you put that all together, it's the opposite of broken. Europe is a high contributor to our overall results and is going fantastically well. Speaker 100:27:09Great. And that other income is a great surprise for the quarter. I know investors appreciate that. And I can switch gears and you have a little follow-up question and actually going back to the modeling. You guys are making great progress in the U. Speaker 100:27:21S. With the advisors. How about with Europe? Is Europe an opportunity down the road? Or is that also where you guys are working at right now as well? Speaker 100:27:30Garrett? Speaker 200:27:33Yes. It's up and again, 2 quick things here. It is an opportunity that we're looking at. The nature of the market is a little different, a little more fragmented, a little different in terms of servicing advisors. But nonetheless, it is an opportunity. Speaker 200:27:52And in the quarter, we actually announced a deal in Europe where we're now providing our models on a platform partner. And that's a first over there. And it's just an example of, yes, there is more opportunity internationally, and that is part of the next frontier for us on models. Speaker 100:28:14Great. Thank you. Appreciate it. Operator00:28:19Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of George Sutton with Craig Hallum. Please proceed with your question. Speaker 600:28:29Hey, good morning guys. Logan on for George, who is actually down at the Bitcoin conference in Nashville right now. And kind of piggybacking off that first question that was asked relative to the models, one of the things that we've kind of been taking away from that conference is that the Bitcoin ETFs could be making their way into some of those kind of the mega shops could be making their way into their models in the next 6 months. I'm just wondering if you guys are feeling that same demand or kind of how you see that playing out? Speaker 300:29:01Jeremy, would you want to touch on that? Speaker 500:29:04Sure. Yes, this is Jeremy Schwartz, our Global CIO. We have been actually running we were first perhaps to launch a suite of plus crypto models. And so we had we've been running some models that have things like a 5% allocation to Bitcoin. And we did it from a sixty-forty perspective where at that point when we first launched it, we thought bonds were less attractive and we did the sixty-forty funding it from bonds and then we did an eighty-twenty model where we funded it from stocks with more risk. Speaker 500:29:36So we've been managing these. We'll think about it from our full model suite. We've had it in we have another model that we had launched recently called our geopolitical risk aware model where we have allocations to Bitcoin in some of those. So I'd say we're already sort of in a leadership way already including these in some of our model portfolios already. Speaker 600:30:04Got it. Appreciate it. And just one other, I know you've talked about kind of the Prime offering and kind of slowly ramping the marketing spend there. Is there a point at which you guys really start to pick that up? Is there something that would trigger that? Speaker 300:30:19Will, do you want to start? Yes. Speaker 100:30:24It's Will Peck, Head of Digital Assets. Yes, I mean, I think as we continue to get full state coverage, if you look at the map, there's a big state missing in Texas. So to continue to get full state coverage and continue to expand kind of the full product feature offering that we have in WisdomTree Pride, we'll continue to increase that marketing spend. And I think it's just continued to do it in a managed role that way. Like we mentioned in the prepared remarks, we're actually seeing great results so far, declining cost of customer acquisition, accelerating open account growth. Speaker 100:30:54So continuing to lean into that and growth from there. Operator00:31:07Our next question comes from the line of Michael Cyprys with Morgan Stanley. Please proceed with your question. Speaker 700:31:15Hey, morning. This is Annalee on for Mike. Just curious your view on strategic or inorganic growth opportunities, whether it be through an acquisition or a partnership or JV? What are you looking at and how much time you guys spending here? Thanks. Speaker 100:31:31I'll start. Speaker 300:31:33We're always trying to be opportunistic. We look at a lot of things. We're very, very selective. But I will say that whether it's through M and A like what we did to build out our we made 2 acquisitions to build out Europe as a base. We've made investments to help us facilitate the launch of the digital asset platforms. Speaker 300:32:00So I think that there are always opportunities, but I would say it's primary. I think for us primary is our organic growth and we have a very high hurdle for M and A. Our acquisitions have actually been highly accretive, not so easy to accomplish through acquisitions. But if we can find a way to really strategically position ourselves better, you know that we do take a long we look out to where we think sort of the puck is going and we want to always strengthen that position. So I think that answers the question. Speaker 300:32:37Is there anything, Jared, you might want to add? Speaker 100:32:40Hey, Jono, it's Brian. I think the other things that I would just point out, we've been very episodic in the recent past. If you recall, just a year ago, we bought out our gold royalty obligation. It was a highly accretive transaction for us. We bought back preferred shares from the World Gold Council that we had previously issued on favorable terms. Speaker 100:33:01And we've been buying back stock over the course of the past few years as well and paying down some debt. So it's not just as it relates to just on the acquisition front, but if you think through the capital management priorities as well, we just don't want you to lose sight of that. Speaker 200:33:16Great point. Speaker 700:33:16Got it. Thanks. Speaker 300:33:17Brian, thanks for adding that. Speaker 700:33:20Perfect. And then maybe just a follow-up. Could you guys give us an update on new product creation and maybe talk about your key areas of focus and where you see the most opportunity? Thanks. Speaker 300:33:32Jeremy, would you take that? But obviously, you can only talk about you can't give your secrets away, but please take it, Jeremy. Speaker 500:33:41Yes, I'd say, we've been very focused on core exposures and continue to diversify the product set. I think high level, we are as diversified as a business as we've been, when you look at it holistically with U. S. And Europe. We started off very value focused in the U. Speaker 500:33:58S. And we're all waiting for the major value rotation in the market. But we've been increasingly focused on the quality franchise within WisdomTree, quality dividend growth, but now also quality growth. So we launched quality QGRW in the U. S. Speaker 500:34:15At the end of 2022, right after the big bear market in tech. That fund is now up to almost $500,000,000 We further launched that in Europe to get the global synergies, but we launched mid and small cap versions of that in the U. S. So sort of rounding out the product suite. We've been focused on thematics as part of that franchise growth products as well. Speaker 500:34:36And in Europe, we continue to have very strong flows and continue to launch a lot of interesting products. We launched a megatrend product that is a collection of themes, all trying to get diversified exposure. And so I think we're doing a lot in things like core family to give room for alternatives. We did that in the U. S. Speaker 500:34:58Some of our best performing products this year have been in that efficient core with gold overlays in the U. S, but they also launched EfficientCore for the U. S. Markets over in Europe. I think we're going to do more with that concept. Speaker 500:35:12But yes, we're continuing to execute and try to diversify the overall product mix that we have. Speaker 300:35:19Since we started the firm almost 20 years ago, we actually have quite a broad suite of funds. We're always looking to strategically fill out and strengthen our product set. But really much of our focus is to just grow our funds to $10,000,000,000 more $10,000,000,000 funds. I think we have a lot of potential in the existing suite and we can do a lot more with it. Operator00:35:53Thank you. Speaker 300:35:54Thank you. Next question. Operator00:35:57Our next question comes from Chris Kotowinski with Oppenheimer. Please proceed with your question. Speaker 800:36:06Yes, good morning. Most of mine have been asked, but I was just curious on the other revenues, if you could flesh that out a little bit more, like is that pure incremental revenue and I'm just wondering you're generally guiding to 50% incremental margins. Are these like 50% margin dollars or is it like 100% pure incremental? And then as an analyst, I was trying to model every line item P times Q and I'm over time, does that grow and does it grow with European AUM or what does it grow with if it grows? Speaker 300:36:44Great question, Brian. Yes, Speaker 100:36:47I'll take that question. So, as it relates to just run rate, I think there's a couple of different elements going through other revenue. And there certainly is a mix of asset based elements and there's transaction based elements. So, on the asset based side, if AUM were to grow, we may see a little bit of an uplift in other revenue. I don't want to necessarily assume that at this time. Speaker 100:37:12I think the $8,000,000 run rate that we said in the prepared remarks is a fair place to be when thinking about how to model this going forward for the time being. It is largely there really isn't much of an expense offset. I mean, the only thing I could say is, when it comes to compensation, our comp plans are very performance based. So, if there's a little bit more revenue, that might mean there's a little bit of incremental comp associated with that as well. But it clearly is it's much healthier than a 50% incremental margin when thinking about the impact of the other revenue. Speaker 800:37:50Okay, great. Thank you. That's it for me. Speaker 100:37:54Great. Operator00:37:56Thank you. There are no further questions at this time. I'd like to turn the floor back over to Jonathan Steinberg for closing comments. Speaker 300:38:06Thank you, everybody. We appreciate your time and your support. We'll speak to you next quarter. Enjoy your beautiful Friday in the summer. 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There are 9 speakers on the call. Operator00:00:00As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. It is now my pleasure to introduce your host, Jessica Zaloom, Head of Corporate Communications. Operator00:00:08Thank you, Jessica. You may begin. Good morning. Before we begin, I would like to reference our legal disclaimer available in today's presentation. This presentation may contain forward looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Operator00:00:27A number of factors could cause actual results to differ materially from the results discussed in forward looking statements, including, but not limited to, the risks set forth in this presentation and in the Risk Factors section of WisdomTree's Annual Report on Form 10 ks for the year ended December 31, 2023, and quarterly report on Form 10 Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2024. WisdomTree assumes no duty and does not undertake to update any forward looking statements. Now, it is my pleasure to turn the call over to WisdomTree's CFO, Brian Edmondson. Speaker 100:01:09Thank you, Jessica, and good morning, everyone. I'll be covering our Q2 results along with commentary on our forward looking guidance before turning the call over to Jarrett and Jono for additional updates on our business. We ended the quarter with record AUM of $109,700,000,000 driven primarily by favorable market conditions. And while our flows were largely muted during the quarter due to outflows from our commodity products, which tend to be tactical in nature, we continue observing strong engagement in our U. S. Speaker 100:01:42Listed ETFs and offshore UCITS ETF suite. These products generated a combined $1,900,000,000 of net inflows during the quarter and nearly $4,200,000,000 of net inflows year to date, representing an 11% annualized pace of year to date organic growth. Our flow profile over the course of the year has remixed our blended fee rate higher, averaging approximately 37 basis points during the quarter. Our record AUM continues to drive revenue growth and expanding margins, demonstrating the scalability of our business model. Next slide. Speaker 100:02:24Revenues were $107,000,000 during the quarter, an increase of 10.5% from the 1st quarter and up approximately 25% versus the prior year quarter, driven by higher average AUM. We also observed an 87% increase in other revenue versus the Q1 due to updates in asset based revenue arrangements on certain European listed products. Other revenue totaled $8,100,000 this quarter and reflects ETP revenues captured away from the expense ratio, providing further revenue diversification. Looking back over the longer term, the magnitude of other revenue generated this quarter is almost 5 times what was realized in June of 2022. There are asset based and transaction based elements driving other revenue. Speaker 100:03:17And while difficult to forecast, we would suggest the magnitude of other revenue generated in this most recent quarter serves as a fair approximation of what we could expect going forward. On a year to date basis, our revenues have grown 21.5% and our adjusted operating margin was 32.6%, representing expansion of over 840 basis points versus the prior year or 480 basis points organically when adjusting for the impact of our gold royalty buyout, which was accomplished in May of last year. Our adjusted net income for the quarter was $27,100,000 or $0.16 a share. Next slide. Now, a few comments on our forecasted guidance. Speaker 100:04:08We are updating our forecasted compensation expense guidance, which will be provided as a percentage of revenue going forward rather than as a range of fixed dollar amounts. Having taken into consideration a variety of scenarios, including the potential magnitude of our flows over the course of the year, revenue and operating income growth, forecasted margin expansion and our share price performance in relation to our peers, we currently estimate our comp to revenue ratio to be 28% to 29% for the year. This range is largely aligned with current estimates and would represent a compensation ratio lower than the 31.4% we realized last year. Our discretionary spending was $30,500,000 year to date. We are reiterating our full year discretionary spending guidance of $64,000,000 to $68,000,000 The range is largely dependent on the magnitude of marketing spend associated with WisdomTree Prime over the remainder of the year as we continue testing messages to further define our target customers while enhancing the app with additional features. Speaker 100:05:24Due to seasonality, the discretionary spend for the remainder of the year will likely be more skewed toward the Q4. We reported a gross margin of 81.2% in the 2nd quarter and we are updating our gross margin guidance to be between 80% 81% for the year, a 1 percentage point improvement considering current AUM levels and higher forecasted other revenue going forward. If AUM scales higher from continued organic flow growth or favorable market conditions, we would anticipate further gross margin expansion. Our 3rd party distribution expense was $5,000,000 year to date. We are maintaining our guidance of $10,000,000 to $11,000,000 for the year. Speaker 100:06:10We are also maintaining our annual adjusted interest expense guidance of $14,000,000 dollars As a reminder, our adjusted interest expense guidance is exclusive of any interest cost we are required to impute under GAAP related to our interest free financing of the shares we repurchased from the World Gold Council last November. Our interest income year to date was $2,800,000 and we are maintaining our interest income guidance for the year to be about $5,000,000 based upon the magnitude of our forecasted interest earning assets. Our adjusted tax rate was 25% in the 2nd quarter and our guidance of 24% to 25% remains unchanged. And our weighted average diluted shares were 165,900,000 year to date and our guidance of $166,000,000 to $168,000,000 for the year remains unchanged as well. As a reminder, this guidance does not take into consideration any variability in shares approaching $11 per share, is higher than the $9.54 conversion price related to convertible notes scheduled to mature in 2028. Speaker 100:07:28While our notes require principal to be paid in cash, our diluted shares would need to be increased for any incremental shares associated with the conversion option once our stock price exceeds $9.54 per share. An illustration is included within our earnings presentation to assist in quantifying the incremental shares associated with the conversion option going forward. That's all I have. I will now turn the call over to Jared. Speaker 200:07:56Thank you, Brian, and good morning, everyone. In the second quarter, WisdomTree had another strong quarter of AUM growth and expanding operating margins, all while continuing to ramp up our efforts in tokenized assets and blockchain enabled finance, which we expect will open up new revenue opportunities for us in the coming years. In the quarter, we generated $340,000,000 of net inflows, but the underlying trends were even more impressive. To start, we experienced meaningful flows into our more strategic product lineup in the U. S. Speaker 200:08:36And into our UCITS business in Europe, where we have achieved 11% annualized organic growth this year. Further, over the past several quarters, net inflows have come into higher fee funds, which has provided a boost to our blended fee rate, which now stands at 37 basis points, expanding from 36 basis points last year. Finally, while we continue to see growth across current customers as measured by average funds held per customer and total AUM per customer, we're also seeing healthy growth in new customers, which gives us confidence in continued growth going forward. Models also continue to be a steady growth driver. As a reminder, our approach is to grow the number of advisors who have access to our models, while also further penetrating this accessible market and growing the number of advisors actively using WisdomTree models. Speaker 200:09:41Last quarter, I mentioned that our accessible market stood at 70,000 advisors and that we expected it to grow to about 80,000 advisors by year end. I'm happy to report that we now have new partnerships in hand which will take our accessible market to over 85,000 advisors and nearly $18,000,000,000,000 of assets by year end. Further, the stability and predictability of our pipeline continues to hold as we continue to add new advisor model users at our expected pace of approximately $250 per quarter, while our model AUM continues to grow at a rate of 10% to 12 percent of U. S. ETF flows. Speaker 200:10:31We're also ramping up our portfolio consultation service where we assist advisors who build their own client portfolios and are looking for help in improving risk adjusted returns. This is another tool in our portfolio solutions offering that helps to generate sticky flows and assets that are stackable on top of our already strong organic growth profile. Here, our models team analyzes each portfolio and recommends enhancements. We have recently improved our review process greatly increasing our capacity and efficiency, reducing turnaround times from a couple of weeks to a couple of days, allowing us to service a greater number of advisors and drive further net inflows. Speaking of efficiency, it was another strong quarter of margin expansion achieved by expanding our other revenue streams on top of disciplined expense management. Speaker 200:11:37On the revenue side, we've been proactive with our European counterparties and we've been able to capture additional asset and transaction based revenue streams that we previously did not share in. As Brian mentioned, this quarter's approximate $8,000,000 run rate seems sustainable going forward each quarter, which is roughly double the 20 23 run rate and almost 5 times the 2022 and earlier year run rates. We also showcased margin expansion once again in the quarter with our margins up 5.70 basis points from last quarter and up over 800 basis points year over year delivering Q2 operating margins of 35.3 percent. This margin expansion is a combination of disciplined expense management, but also a function of scale. Based on our 50% plus incremental margin, we see a meaningful opportunity for further margin expansion in the years to come. Speaker 200:12:46In conclusion, we're generating strong revenue growth from flows, from market and from opening up new revenue streams. With well managed expenses and scale benefits, we are expanding our operating margins. And all of that translates into an accelerated pace of earnings growth and strong returns for shareholders. And with that, I will now turn it over to Jono. Speaker 300:13:14Thank you, Jarrett, and hello, everyone. Today, I will be brief. WisdomTree continues to thrive with record assets under management. Our efficiency once again on display as margins have expanded by over 800 basis points from last year, achieving over a 35% operating margin for the 2nd quarter. Earnings per share was up 78% year over year and 33% sequentially. Speaker 300:13:47Momentum remains strong. As I reflect on both our prior accomplishments and the opportunities ahead of us with only 300 employees worldwide, I'm not only proud of how much WisdomTree has accomplished, but that we have achieved success so efficiently and ahead of the curve. WisdomTree continually strives to be forward looking in our mission and those efforts are bearing fruit today, while also setting the company up for success in the future. Nearly 5 years ago, we launched our first crypto ETPs in Europe and began strategically thinking about opportunities in both tokenization and blockchain enabled finance. Although the lengthy regulatory process has taken longer than we initially anticipated, my optimism and confidence about the opportunity ahead is greater today than when we first began the journey. Speaker 300:14:57As we've mentioned on prior calls, we are pursuing both business to business and direct to consumer efforts. On the B2B side, we expect to provide a broader update next quarter when our institutional platform is expected to go live. On WisdomTree Prime, our direct to consumer effort, we are now live in 44 states and available to nearly 80% of the U. S. Population with more to come in the near future. Speaker 300:15:33Early marketing campaigns are proving key learnings, allowing us to tighten our client segment focus and allowing us to test newer approaches like reward offers and in app marketing campaigns. With the marketing campaigns really in the early stages and the institutional platform launching in the next few months, it is still too early to share any new digital asset metrics. However, we are committed to begin sharing more metrics with you early next year in line with the timing of our 2025 guidance. As I continue to mention in recent quarters, it's a very exciting time for WisdomTree. We have record assets under management, a meaningful margin expansion opportunity and leverage to secular shifts in ETFs and tokenization. Speaker 300:16:38Thank you. Operator, would you please turn the call over to our Head Speaker 400:16:53Hey, thank you, Jono, and good morning, everybody. Per usual, we will take a couple of questions here from retail shareholders and then take it over to you guys to ask some questions to management. So first one, John, I'm going Speaker 300:17:06to direct this to you, Speaker 400:17:09is what is the company's 5 year plan? Speaker 300:17:14Thank you, Jeremy. WisdomTree is blessed in that we compete in many of the most exciting areas of asset management. And by that I mean, global ETFs, models and solutions, plus tokenization and blockchain enabled finance. When you try looking out 5 years, it's always about getting the prioritization of investments right, that you're able to grow today and be in a position to grow tomorrow or 5 years out. If you look back 5 years, we did get our prioritization of investments right and we executed. Speaker 300:17:57This quarter's results proves that this quarter also proves how well our business model scales. So if you're looking out 5 years from now, it's continued execution against our current strategic initiatives, continued expansion of the global ETF lineup, grow our global AUM of ETFs stellar performance, what we call modern alpha. And it's working and it's driving results in our proprietary funds. It's also having our team, our fantastic sales, marketing and research teams work together to drive growth. Very important to us is that we continue to grow our UCITS lineup and our AUM in Europe just generally. Speaker 300:18:49Usage have grown from nearly 0 AUM 5 years ago to nearly $7,000,000,000 today. We're very, very bullish on what the next 5 years in USITs will be. And we need to continue to expand our portfolio solutions franchise to a much larger percentage of our overall AUM, leading to even greater stability of inflows as well as just greater stability of AUM. And we execute against our early leadership position to drive a footprint or a sizable footprint in tokenized assets and blockchain enabled finance. It's a priority that we grow that business lines profitably and that it accelerates our overall growth rate. Speaker 300:19:42And as always, we need to do all of that in a very disciplined approach to expenses. But if we continue to do all of that, we'll see much higher AUM, it will translate into much higher margins that are materially higher than where we are today and drive accelerated growth in earnings per share, which should hopefully continue to lead to a meaningful appreciation in our stock like we've seen in the last 4 5 years. I think that answers the question, Jeremy. Speaker 400:20:20Great. Thanks, Jono. We'll cut it there on that one. So operator, please feel free to open up the lines to questions from the analyst community. Operator00:20:29Great. We will now be conducting a question and answer session. Our first question comes from the line of Mike Grondahl with Northland Securities. Please proceed with your question. Speaker 300:21:14Hey, guys. Thanks and congratulations on a nice quarter. On the models and their accessibility increasing to 85,000 advisors on year end, What was the driver of that? Was that a couple of wins? And then secondly, could you just talk about how penetration of those accessible advisors is going? Speaker 300:21:43Garrett, why don't you start? Speaker 100:21:47Sure. Speaker 200:21:49Yes, you pretty much put your finger on it, on growing the accessible market. That's a couple of additional wins on a couple of additional major platforms. And so we've anticipated a number of wins, but a couple of them came sooner than even we had planned. So great news there. Your next part of your question is really also very important and where a big part of our focus is, is every model win is really a 2 part project. Speaker 200:22:271, you've got to win with the organization and get on the platform. And then number 2, once you're on the platform, it's sort of hand to hand combat and you've got to then work on the individual advisors. Speaker 500:22:40So that's where Speaker 200:22:40we are now. That's where the focus is and that's going quite well also where the pace of bringing on new advisors each quarter continues as we expected. But I will say that's an area of increased focus, again, in that 2 part battle. Early, the majority of focus was let's get on more platforms, let's have more advisors have access to our models. We're now shifting the focus really to let's start penetrating even quicker than we are today, but both sides are going quite well. Speaker 300:23:21And I'll just add that our pipeline is as strong as it's ever been. I don't think we've ever been as confident about the pipeline of penetration. So thanks for the question, Mike. Speaker 200:23:33Yes. And I'd just add one other quick thing. When you look at it, 85,000 advisors, that's about 28% of the advisors in the U. S. So there's still room to go there, but that 28% controls 18,000,000,000,000 dollars of advised assets in the country, which is 2 thirds of the advised assets. Speaker 200:24:00So we've done a great job of penetrating the accessible market. And now the focus again really shifts more to penetration. Speaker 300:24:09Great. Hey, thanks guys. Operator00:24:15Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Keith Hossum with Northcoast Research. Please proceed with your question. Speaker 100:24:24Great. Appreciate it. Hey guys, just trying to challenge you guys a little bit on the European fund outflows. It looks like the commodity and currency funds have seen outflows for 15 of the past 17 quarters. It seems like there is something going on there that I don't know if it's broken or a little bit more than a tactical play. Speaker 100:24:42But can you perhaps provide a little bit color about what you guys are doing to perhaps reverse that trend? Speaker 300:24:49I'm going to just start and then Jared, maybe you could jump in. When you really look at our European footprint, it's got an extraordinary overweight to commodities that and we knew that with the acquisition of ETF Securities 5 years ago that our number one purpose would post acquisition other than integrating it and cutting costs and all that was to diversify revenue away from just gold and broad commodities. And we've been doing it. It's just that it's still much larger than the rest of the suite but becoming smaller. So that's all the insights that I have on it. Speaker 300:25:32Jared, is there more that you'd like to add? Garrett, if you are, you're on mute. Speaker 200:25:44Yes. Thanks, John. I was on mute. Yes, just piling on really two things. But first is the sort of tactical nature of the commodity suite that Jono mentioned and the way that people that invest in commodities use them. Speaker 200:26:06And when you see generally pricing going up, clients are selling into it. And when prices are coming down, clients are buying into that. And that's the sort of tactical nature. So that is the nature of a large part of the suite. You also have to look at the UCITS business, which is separate from that And that's been an area of focus for us that, as Jono has already mentioned, it grew from 0 several years ago to nearly $7,000,000,000 today. Speaker 200:26:40And then finally, if you look at a big part of what we talked about in the prepared comments was on the other revenue side. So the overall revenue capture is actually very healthy. And actually overall, you put that all together, it's the opposite of broken. Europe is a high contributor to our overall results and is going fantastically well. Speaker 100:27:09Great. And that other income is a great surprise for the quarter. I know investors appreciate that. And I can switch gears and you have a little follow-up question and actually going back to the modeling. You guys are making great progress in the U. Speaker 100:27:21S. With the advisors. How about with Europe? Is Europe an opportunity down the road? Or is that also where you guys are working at right now as well? Speaker 100:27:30Garrett? Speaker 200:27:33Yes. It's up and again, 2 quick things here. It is an opportunity that we're looking at. The nature of the market is a little different, a little more fragmented, a little different in terms of servicing advisors. But nonetheless, it is an opportunity. Speaker 200:27:52And in the quarter, we actually announced a deal in Europe where we're now providing our models on a platform partner. And that's a first over there. And it's just an example of, yes, there is more opportunity internationally, and that is part of the next frontier for us on models. Speaker 100:28:14Great. Thank you. Appreciate it. Operator00:28:19Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of George Sutton with Craig Hallum. Please proceed with your question. Speaker 600:28:29Hey, good morning guys. Logan on for George, who is actually down at the Bitcoin conference in Nashville right now. And kind of piggybacking off that first question that was asked relative to the models, one of the things that we've kind of been taking away from that conference is that the Bitcoin ETFs could be making their way into some of those kind of the mega shops could be making their way into their models in the next 6 months. I'm just wondering if you guys are feeling that same demand or kind of how you see that playing out? Speaker 300:29:01Jeremy, would you want to touch on that? Speaker 500:29:04Sure. Yes, this is Jeremy Schwartz, our Global CIO. We have been actually running we were first perhaps to launch a suite of plus crypto models. And so we had we've been running some models that have things like a 5% allocation to Bitcoin. And we did it from a sixty-forty perspective where at that point when we first launched it, we thought bonds were less attractive and we did the sixty-forty funding it from bonds and then we did an eighty-twenty model where we funded it from stocks with more risk. Speaker 500:29:36So we've been managing these. We'll think about it from our full model suite. We've had it in we have another model that we had launched recently called our geopolitical risk aware model where we have allocations to Bitcoin in some of those. So I'd say we're already sort of in a leadership way already including these in some of our model portfolios already. Speaker 600:30:04Got it. Appreciate it. And just one other, I know you've talked about kind of the Prime offering and kind of slowly ramping the marketing spend there. Is there a point at which you guys really start to pick that up? Is there something that would trigger that? Speaker 300:30:19Will, do you want to start? Yes. Speaker 100:30:24It's Will Peck, Head of Digital Assets. Yes, I mean, I think as we continue to get full state coverage, if you look at the map, there's a big state missing in Texas. So to continue to get full state coverage and continue to expand kind of the full product feature offering that we have in WisdomTree Pride, we'll continue to increase that marketing spend. And I think it's just continued to do it in a managed role that way. Like we mentioned in the prepared remarks, we're actually seeing great results so far, declining cost of customer acquisition, accelerating open account growth. Speaker 100:30:54So continuing to lean into that and growth from there. Operator00:31:07Our next question comes from the line of Michael Cyprys with Morgan Stanley. Please proceed with your question. Speaker 700:31:15Hey, morning. This is Annalee on for Mike. Just curious your view on strategic or inorganic growth opportunities, whether it be through an acquisition or a partnership or JV? What are you looking at and how much time you guys spending here? Thanks. Speaker 100:31:31I'll start. Speaker 300:31:33We're always trying to be opportunistic. We look at a lot of things. We're very, very selective. But I will say that whether it's through M and A like what we did to build out our we made 2 acquisitions to build out Europe as a base. We've made investments to help us facilitate the launch of the digital asset platforms. Speaker 300:32:00So I think that there are always opportunities, but I would say it's primary. I think for us primary is our organic growth and we have a very high hurdle for M and A. Our acquisitions have actually been highly accretive, not so easy to accomplish through acquisitions. But if we can find a way to really strategically position ourselves better, you know that we do take a long we look out to where we think sort of the puck is going and we want to always strengthen that position. So I think that answers the question. Speaker 300:32:37Is there anything, Jared, you might want to add? Speaker 100:32:40Hey, Jono, it's Brian. I think the other things that I would just point out, we've been very episodic in the recent past. If you recall, just a year ago, we bought out our gold royalty obligation. It was a highly accretive transaction for us. We bought back preferred shares from the World Gold Council that we had previously issued on favorable terms. Speaker 100:33:01And we've been buying back stock over the course of the past few years as well and paying down some debt. So it's not just as it relates to just on the acquisition front, but if you think through the capital management priorities as well, we just don't want you to lose sight of that. Speaker 200:33:16Great point. Speaker 700:33:16Got it. Thanks. Speaker 300:33:17Brian, thanks for adding that. Speaker 700:33:20Perfect. And then maybe just a follow-up. Could you guys give us an update on new product creation and maybe talk about your key areas of focus and where you see the most opportunity? Thanks. Speaker 300:33:32Jeremy, would you take that? But obviously, you can only talk about you can't give your secrets away, but please take it, Jeremy. Speaker 500:33:41Yes, I'd say, we've been very focused on core exposures and continue to diversify the product set. I think high level, we are as diversified as a business as we've been, when you look at it holistically with U. S. And Europe. We started off very value focused in the U. Speaker 500:33:58S. And we're all waiting for the major value rotation in the market. But we've been increasingly focused on the quality franchise within WisdomTree, quality dividend growth, but now also quality growth. So we launched quality QGRW in the U. S. Speaker 500:34:15At the end of 2022, right after the big bear market in tech. That fund is now up to almost $500,000,000 We further launched that in Europe to get the global synergies, but we launched mid and small cap versions of that in the U. S. So sort of rounding out the product suite. We've been focused on thematics as part of that franchise growth products as well. Speaker 500:34:36And in Europe, we continue to have very strong flows and continue to launch a lot of interesting products. We launched a megatrend product that is a collection of themes, all trying to get diversified exposure. And so I think we're doing a lot in things like core family to give room for alternatives. We did that in the U. S. Speaker 500:34:58Some of our best performing products this year have been in that efficient core with gold overlays in the U. S, but they also launched EfficientCore for the U. S. Markets over in Europe. I think we're going to do more with that concept. Speaker 500:35:12But yes, we're continuing to execute and try to diversify the overall product mix that we have. Speaker 300:35:19Since we started the firm almost 20 years ago, we actually have quite a broad suite of funds. We're always looking to strategically fill out and strengthen our product set. But really much of our focus is to just grow our funds to $10,000,000,000 more $10,000,000,000 funds. I think we have a lot of potential in the existing suite and we can do a lot more with it. Operator00:35:53Thank you. Speaker 300:35:54Thank you. Next question. Operator00:35:57Our next question comes from Chris Kotowinski with Oppenheimer. Please proceed with your question. Speaker 800:36:06Yes, good morning. Most of mine have been asked, but I was just curious on the other revenues, if you could flesh that out a little bit more, like is that pure incremental revenue and I'm just wondering you're generally guiding to 50% incremental margins. Are these like 50% margin dollars or is it like 100% pure incremental? And then as an analyst, I was trying to model every line item P times Q and I'm over time, does that grow and does it grow with European AUM or what does it grow with if it grows? Speaker 300:36:44Great question, Brian. Yes, Speaker 100:36:47I'll take that question. So, as it relates to just run rate, I think there's a couple of different elements going through other revenue. And there certainly is a mix of asset based elements and there's transaction based elements. So, on the asset based side, if AUM were to grow, we may see a little bit of an uplift in other revenue. I don't want to necessarily assume that at this time. Speaker 100:37:12I think the $8,000,000 run rate that we said in the prepared remarks is a fair place to be when thinking about how to model this going forward for the time being. It is largely there really isn't much of an expense offset. I mean, the only thing I could say is, when it comes to compensation, our comp plans are very performance based. So, if there's a little bit more revenue, that might mean there's a little bit of incremental comp associated with that as well. But it clearly is it's much healthier than a 50% incremental margin when thinking about the impact of the other revenue. Speaker 800:37:50Okay, great. Thank you. That's it for me. Speaker 100:37:54Great. Operator00:37:56Thank you. There are no further questions at this time. I'd like to turn the floor back over to Jonathan Steinberg for closing comments. Speaker 300:38:06Thank you, everybody. We appreciate your time and your support. We'll speak to you next quarter. Enjoy your beautiful Friday in the summer. Bye, everybody. Operator00:38:18This concludes today's teleconference. You may disconnect your lines at this time. Thank you for your participation.Read morePowered by