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Cactus, Inc. (WHD -0.49%)
Q4Â 2019 Earnings Call
Feb 27, 2020, 10:00 a.m. ET
Contents:
- Prepared Remarks
- Questions and Answers
- Call Participants
Prepared Remarks:
Operator
Good morning and welcome to the Cactus Q4 and Full Year 2019 Earnings Call. My name is May, and I will be facilitating the audio portion of today's interactive broadcast. [Operator Instructions]
At this time, I would like to turn the show over to Mr. John Fitzgerald, Director of Corporate Development and IR. Sir, please go ahead.
John Fitzgerald -- Director of Corporate Development and Investor Relations
Thank you and good morning everyone. We appreciate your participation in today's call. The speakers on today's call will be Scott Bender, our Chief Executive Officer and Steve Tadlock, our Chief Financial Officer. Also joining us today are Joel Bender, Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer; Steven Bender, Vice President of Operations and David Isaac, our General Counsel and Vice President of Administration.
Yesterday afternoon we issued our earnings release which is available on our website. Please note that any comments we make on today's call regarding projections or expectations for future events are forward-looking statements covered by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act. Forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties many of which are beyond our control.
These risks and uncertainties can cause us -- can cause actual results to differ materially from our current expectations. We advise listeners to review our earnings release and the risk factors discussed in our filings with the SEC. Any forward-looking statements we make today are only as of today's date and we undertake no obligation to publicly update or review any forward-looking statements.
In addition, during today's call we will reference certain non-GAAP financial measures. Reconciliations of these non-GAAP measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measures are included in our earnings release.
With that, I'll turn the call over to Scott.
Scott Bender -- President, Chief Executive Officer and Director
Thanks, John. Good morning to everyone. 2019 was a challenging year for the US oilfield industry. Although the US rig count was down 11% year-on-year and E&P spending was down around 7%, Cactus achieved impressive results. Our 2019 revenue was a record $628 million, up 15% over the previous year.
We also reported record EBITDA of $229 million, up 8% year-over-year, record free cash flow of over $148 million, up nearly 60% year-over-year. The fourth quarter, while challenging from a general activity standpoint showcased the sustainability of our margin profile and free cash flow. In summary, fourth quarter revenues were $140 million, adjusted EBITDA was $48 million, adjusted EBITDA margins were approximately 35%. Our cash balance increased by $35 million to $202 million and we paid our first quarterly dividend of $0.09 per share.
I'll now turn the call over to Steve Tadlock, our CFO who will review our fourth quarter financial results. Following his remarks, I'll provide some thoughts on our outlook for the near term before opening the lines for Q&A. So Steve?
Stephen Tadlock -- Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer
Thanks, Scott. Q4 revenues of $140 million declined nearly 13% sequentially. However, revenues were up slightly year-over-year despite a rig count drop of 24% from Q4 '18 to Q4 '19. Product revenues at $83 million were 10% lower sequentially, due in large part to the 11% decline in the US onshore rig count, but were 6% higher than in Q4 2018. Our relative outperformance was achieved due to greater market share. Product gross margins were relatively stable on a sequential basis at approximately 37% of revenues as the follow-through impact of Section 301 tariffs was less than expected. Rental revenues were $28 million, down 21% from the third quarter. The decline was attributable to reduced industry completion activity as the E&P customers curtailed spending in order to stay within full year budgets. Rental gross profit margins decreased 620 basis points sequentially, due primarily to increased depreciation expense on lower revenue.
Field service and other revenues in Q4 were $29 million, down 12% from the third quarter. This represented just under 26% of combined product and rental related revenues during the quarter, slightly ahead of expectations. Gross margin declined 640 basis points sequentially, which was less than the typical seasonal drop due to management of non-productive time during the holiday season.
In Q1 2020, we would expect this field service ratio of revenues to be 24% to 25%. SG&A was down $1 million sequentially at $12.4 million for the quarter. We would expect SG&A to be approximately $14 million in Q1 2020 with stock-based compensation expense running at slightly about $2 million during the quarter.
Depreciation and amortization expense during the quarter totaled $10.6 million, up $0.6 million sequentially. We currently expect first quarter 2020 depreciation expense to be approximately $11 million. Fourth quarter adjusted EBITDA was $48 million down from nearly $59 million during the third quarter. Adjusted EBITDA for the quarter represented 35% of revenues.
Our public or Class A ownership was relatively stable in 4Q and was 63% at the end of the quarter. This should result in an effective tax rate of approximately 16% in Q1 2020 assuming no changes in our public ownership percentage. Our actual effective tax rate during the quarter was higher due to an update in the blended state tax rate as we finalized our 2018 tax return and had some slight revisions to prior estimates that rolled through this quarter.
GAAP net income was $31 million in Q4 2019, which included $4.8 million in other income related to the revaluation of the liability associated with the tax receivable agreement as well as approximately $3 million in additional tax charges associated with various non-routine items.
Internally we prefer to look at adjusted net income and earnings per share as it assumes the public entity held all units. With fully diluted shares outstanding of approximately 75 million and an effective tax rate of 24%, our adjusted earnings per share this quarter was $0.37 compared to $0.48 per share in Q3 2019. We estimate that adjusted EPS in 2020 will continue to reflect an effective tax rate of 24%.
During the fourth quarter, we paid out $6.8 million resulting from our first quarterly dividend of $0.09 per share. In January, the Board also declared a dividend of $0.09 per share to be paid in March of this year. Net of the dividend and associated distribution payments, our cash position still increased by over $35 million during the fourth quarter to over $202 million at December 31st, highlighting the strong free cash flow generation of the Company.
For the quarter, operating cash flow was $62 million and our net capex spend was $18 million. Net working capital represented a source of cash during the quarter. Accounts receivable decreased by $12 million sequentially and DSO remained at 57 days. As expected we witnessed an increase in inventory days during the quarter. Net working capital at the end of the fourth quarter, expressed as a percentage of Q4 annualized revenues, was 27%, up slightly from the third quarter.
We would expect working capital as a percentage of revenues to remain in this range for the first quarter of 2020. In light of reduced customer budgets and the low capital requirements of our business, we are setting our 2020 capital expenditure budget range at $30 million to $40 million, down from the $56 million of net capex in 2019. The majority of our capex will still be directed toward growth capital on our rental business, but with a focus on international expansion, innovations, higher pressure completions equipment in response to customer demand and the build-out of an expanded R&D facility.
That covers the financial review and I'll now turn you back to Scott.
Scott Bender -- President, Chief Executive Officer and Director
Thanks, Steve. Our margins held up well despite the challenging fourth quarter, further validating the strength of our business model. During the fourth quarter, our product market share reached a record 30.9%, moving 230 basis points higher versus the third quarter. While our product market share figure for the period still did not reflect any changes in adoption from the majors, we continued to work on gaining share with a wide spectrum of new potential customers, assuming we can be appropriately compensated for the value provided. Down markets tend to provide us with opportunities as customers look to become more efficient.
Based on results to-date, we expect Cactus' rigs followed to be up slightly on a sequential basis in Q1, despite the US land rig count being down 4% on average quarter-to-date. Product revenues are likely to be up mid to high single digits percentage wise. Despite the increase in Section 301 tariffs to 25% that occurred in 2019 and overall market pressure during the latter part of the year, our product margins have continued to hold up well as previously mentioned. Joel and his team have intensely focused on managing our costs. We expect product EBITDA margins during the quarter to be approximately 37%. On the rental side of the business, completion activity witnessed a noticable decline, particularly in the SCOOP/STACK. Overall during the fourth quarter customers looked to stay within their full year budgets.
As noted in our previous call, we made the conscious decision not to chase business at significantly lower prices nor to compromise the value proposition our innovations provide. The benefit of the strategy and our attention to controlling indirect expenses can be seen in our ability to sustain attractive EBITDA margins in 4Q despite reduced activity levels. Much like last year, our customers have quickly returned to work as budgets reset in January. Based on early results during the quarter, we anticipate rental revenue to increase 20%-plus sequentially. Historically the redeployment of assets is temporarily weighed on EBITDA margins, which we expect to be in the high 60% range for the first quarter.
As noted by our 2020 capex guidance we're pairing back growth capital directed toward the rental business in light of the general market environment. That said, most of the capex reduction will come from reduced spending on legacy rental offerings. Our recent innovations continued to be well received in the field and represented approximately 10% of rental revenue during the fourth quarter.
On our last call we noted we were hopeful customer adoption of our innovations would increase with the reset of budgets and the willingness to spend additional dollars on efficiency and safety and this has materialized to start the first quarter and innovation revenue has represented over 15% of rental revenue thus far.
Moving on to field services. The segment continues to be driven by both product and rental activity. We anticipate revenue from field service to be approximately 24% to 25% of our combined product and rental revenue during the quarter. Increased non-billable hours tied to holidays weighed on margins during the fourth quarter but we better managed utilization compared to prior years. Margin should recover to historic levels during the first quarter of this year.
Once again our cash [Phonetic] generation was strong during the quarter as we had a $35 million of cash to the balance sheet, net of $7 million in dividend payments and associated distributions. I'd like to close by highlighting a few items before opening the line to questions. Regarding our Chinese supply chain like others, we continue to closely monitor the potential impact associated with the coronavirus. The majority of our associates are back at work and we resumed shipments of equipment to both the US and to Australia. Most of our suppliers have returned to work as well and trucking and shipping have resumed in the region, albeit at a lower -- at lower than previous levels.
Fortunately, a majority of our key suppliers are located within close proximity to our plant, which is hundreds of miles away from the center of the disruption in Wuhan. Based on current information, we expect production to return to manageable levels by the end of March. Should further delays occur, we do have the advantage of operating the largest dedicated US manufacturing facility in the industry, which we expanded in 2018 and 2019.
While a prolonged shutdown would likely impact the industry supply chain, it would also likely lead to higher cost for E&Ps worldwide. The more favorable recent developments in China may be shifting the focus to global oil demand rather than supply chain interruptions. Based on our current inventory levels and existing capacity in the US, we don't expect the disruption to materially impact first quarter financial results and have been encouraged by the recent improvements we've witnessed on the ground in China.
Switching the 2020 US oilfield activity, it's no secret that customers' spending levels are anticipated to be down year-over-year. However, drilling activity should outperform reduced spending levels due to cost deflation for operators in other segments of oilfield services. Thus while the macro backdrop and uncertainties surrounding oil global demand provide ample reason for caution, we remain optimistic regarding our ability to outperform the market this year as we have in previous downturns.
Internationally, we believe our strategy to expand in the targeted markets will bear fruit in 2021 as we continue to apply resources in identifying and developing viable business opportunities outside of the US. Regarding capital allocation, we remain committed to creating long-term stockholder value through a balanced strategy of investing cash flow at high rates of return and returning cash to shareholders as appropriate. We've seen more opportunities emerge on the M&A front in recent months and remain one of the few oilfield service firms with a capital structure to react opportunistically. However, we're careful to evaluate M&A through the same lens we view other forms of capital deployment, with a focus on margins and ROCE. Our management team is closely aligned with our shareholders and we'll continue to make decisions regarding the business in this light.
Finally, I want to thank our dedicated associates for their continued commitment and focus that drove another record year for Cactus. This is a unique team. I am immensely proud of their achievements in our Company and confident in their ability to succeed.
With that, I'll turn it back over to the operator and we may begin our Q&A session. Operator?
Questions and Answers:
Operator
Thank you, sir. [Operator Instructions] Your first question is from the line of George O'Leary. Your line is now open.
George O'Leary -- Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co. -- Analyst
Good morning, Scott. Good morning, guys.
Scott Bender -- President, Chief Executive Officer and Director
Goo morning, George.
Stephen Tadlock -- Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer
Good morning.
George O'Leary -- Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co. -- Analyst
Super impressive market share on the product side of the business and you guys seem to guide for increased market share in the first quarter. I wonder if there is more to go there as the year progresses or if you guys are kind of reaching a point at which you may be topped out on market share in the product side. It's just very impressive numbers. So curious kind of what the trajectory looks like in you all's mind.
Scott Bender -- President, Chief Executive Officer and Director
George, historically downturns have been beneficial to Cactus. And I think the team feels -- while we're not happy about the downturn, we are happy about the opportunities that we see opening up.
George O'Leary -- Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co. -- Analyst
Okay. And then the rentals guidance for Q1 is super encouraging as well. I think you said up 20% quarter-on-quarter, correct me if I'm wrong. So clearly taken some market share there. Is that more legacy products grabbing incremental share or the newer products that you guys commercialized last year, is that more the driver?
Scott Bender -- President, Chief Executive Officer and Director
Yes, George it's really both. And it's a reflection of our customer base getting back to work. And that customer base, particularly the high end of the customer base, they tend to utilize a higher percentage of our innovations.
George O'Leary -- Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co. -- Analyst
Okay. That makes a lot of sense. And then you mentioned the international expansion. I wonder if you guys could just provide us an update there. I think you were deploying some capex into Australia in particular. Have you kind of broadened the scope of what you guys are looking at there? And the Middle East was a target for you guys as well. So just curious for an update on international.
Scott Bender -- President, Chief Executive Officer and Director
Yeah, George, as I said in the last call I'm not really going to talk about the countries that we're focusing upon. But, yeah, we're -- our focus is well beyond Australia right now.
George O'Leary -- Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co. -- Analyst
Thanks very much guys.
Scott Bender -- President, Chief Executive Officer and Director
Thanks, George.
Operator
Your next question is from the line of Sean Meakim. Your line is now open.
Scott Bender -- President, Chief Executive Officer and Director
Good morning, Sean.
Sean Meakim -- JP Morgan -- Analyst
Thank you. Good morning. So, Scott, in a situation in which the coronavirus leaves you with less Chinese capacity for an extended period, could you maybe just elaborate on some of the alternatives that you could pursue in, around Bossier City to sustain product volumes and try to mitigate the margin impact or other third party flex capacity options? This is clearly the number one question on the minds of investors. So helping to frame out a more negative outcome, I think would be very much appreciated.
Scott Bender -- President, Chief Executive Officer and Director
Okay. Well I am going to really let Joel get into more details about the supply chain, but just keep in mind that we've been doing this a long time and Joel is long recognized that the Chinese New Year always caused disruptions in our supply chain. So we heavied up on our inventory during the fourth quarter and so we have ample stocks in the US. But I'll let Joel address Bossier City's capabilities and the alternative sourcing available outside of China.
Joel Bender -- Senior Vice President, Chief Operating Officer, Secretary and Director
Okay. So we've a significant amount of capacity in the Bossier City facility right now, mainly in the machining area. I think we're probably at about 60% or so. The increase in the inventory that we brought in from China has really provided us with additional capacity in terms of the machining part of the business. The assembly part of the business continues to be strong and we certainly have plenty of assets there and certainly a lot of potential for adding additional people to a second shift and adding a third shift.
In addition, we've been expanding our supply chain outside of the US and outside of China. So we have some developments going on in these other places at this point, which I don't want to speak about particularly in specifics. But we have been -- ever since the tariffs came into play, we have been looking at alternate sources and we do have products coming from their sources right now. In addition, we have additional supply base in the US to again help us if we need to gap it. But like Scott said, I'm pretty comfortable with our inventory levels right now in the US.
And I'd like to just follow up on China. We've had some really encouraging news from there. Our guys or a majority of our guys are back to work. A majority of our critical suppliers are back to work and we've seen delivery since, I guess, about the middle of February come into the facility. Since then we've made shipments to Australia and shipments into the US. Trucking has been an issue, as Scott mentioned, but we've been fortunate that our freight forwarder was able to secure drivers and trucks, so moving the goods to the port has not been a problem and loading the vessels and getting vessel departures has not been a problem. So I'm really kind of encouraged at what I've seen so far from China and I feel like we can manage the disruptions in the US if we need to.
Sean Meakim -- JP Morgan -- Analyst
Thank you for that. That feedback is really helpful. And then if we -- so, if we take all that together, we say in a more dire situation in terms of the impact of the virus for an extended period, how should investors think about margin and mix? Are these other -- these alternative sources sufficient from a margin perspective that you can mitigate a lot of the impact or should we be expecting such a scenario that there'll be more pressure on margins as that mix of sourcing changes?
Scott Bender -- President, Chief Executive Officer and Director
Sean, look there's -- we do business in China for a reason. And there are a very few areas in the world that can compete with China. So to the extent China represents long term a smaller percentage, we will naturally struggle to maintain margins. I think the concern has to be more worldwide and as much as China is the source of so much of the consumable products in this business. And that's not just for us, that's for everyone. And it's not just for the US, it's throughout the world. So I'd be thinking more about the supply disruption, frankly, than the margin impact. My feeling based upon the years I've been in this business is, material gets dire and scarce that margins will take care of themselves, if you understand what I'm saying. It will be more an issue of the world's ability to produce enough consumable products.
John Fitzgerald -- Director of Corporate Development and Investor Relations
Right, that point is very well taken. Thanks, Scott.
Scott Bender -- President, Chief Executive Officer and Director
Thanks, John.
Operator
Your next question is from the line of Scott Gruber. Your line is now open.
Scott Gruber -- Citigroup -- Analyst
Yes, good morning.
Scott Bender -- President, Chief Executive Officer and Director
Good morning, Scott.
Scott Gruber -- Citigroup -- Analyst
Just to stay on that same line of questioning, I heard 60% mentioned during the the China commentary. Was that the rough percentage of wellhead volume produced in China in 4Q?
Scott Bender -- President, Chief Executive Officer and Director
That 60% was capacity at Bossier right now in terms of where we are. So I was just trying to indicate that we have additional room at Bossier for gap or near-term requirements, things of that nature.
Scott Gruber -- Citigroup -- Analyst
And roughly how much of your 4Q wellhead volume was produced in China?
Scott Bender -- President, Chief Executive Officer and Director
About half of it.
Scott Gruber -- Citigroup -- Analyst
And it sounds like, you know, given that the tariff situation that you are already looking to diversify your supply chain. Just from a high level, as you look out, call it, three years, four years, how big of an exposure do you want to retain in China. Obviously the lowest cost, but just from a diversification perspective, how would you want to balance things out three years, four years, five years down the road.
Scott Bender -- President, Chief Executive Officer and Director
Yeah, Sean -- I'm sorry. Scott, I don't really think we're prepared to answer that question except to say that four years or five years from now, China will be hopefully less important to this business than it is today.
Operator
We have our next question from Tommy Moll. Your line is now open.
Tommy Moll -- Stephens -- Analyst
Good morning and thanks for taking my questions.
Scott Bender -- President, Chief Executive Officer and Director
Hey Tommy.
Tommy Moll -- Stephens -- Analyst
I wanted to shift the conversation to your capital -- your capex budget for the upcoming year. Could you break down for us the different pieces of growth capital. Steve, I know you mentioned that there were several initiatives, but I didn't catch all of them. So any additional detail you could offer there would be helpful. Thanks.
Stephen Tadlock -- Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer
Sure, so I think if you look at the budget for 2020, we're expecting to spend about $5 million to $10 million on general maintenance items roughly $5 million on infrastructure, whether that's branch improvements or the R&D facility expansion that we talked about and then the remainder, which would be $20 million to $25 million would really address the rental and that goes for Australia and International rental, some of the higher pressure equipment that we talked about and the innovations and that's significantly down from last year when we were about $45 million on rental.
Tommy Moll -- Stephens -- Analyst
And then following that up on the international side, specifically as we anticipate some revenue tailwinds may be in the 2021 time frame, like you mentioned earlier, should we be thinking about any kind of incremental roof line requirements may not be baked into your budget for this year or just any kind of incremental SG&A or anything on the capital spending or the cost side that we should anticipate in front of maybe when the revenue starts to hit?
Scott Bender -- President, Chief Executive Officer and Director
Yes, so we've already begun to incur additional SG&A and our budget contemplates additional SG&A to take care of our international business, but I think -- I probably mentioned before Tommy, it doesn't require an extraordinarily high level of SG&A particularly at this stage. 2021 may be slightly different and hopefully it will be roof line wise I wouldn't anticipate a great deal of capex that will be devoted to roof line expansion.
Operator
Your next question is from the line of Martin Malloy. Your line is now open.
Scott Bender -- President, Chief Executive Officer and Director
Hey, Marty.
Martin Malloy -- Johnson Rice & Company -- Analyst
Good morning. Nice quarter.
Scott Bender -- President, Chief Executive Officer and Director
Thank you, Marty.
Martin Malloy -- Johnson Rice & Company -- Analyst
On the international initiatives, could you maybe, not speaking about specific countries but talking about -- talk to us about the process and timing maybe in terms of getting products certified and when we might see revenue?
Scott Bender -- President, Chief Executive Officer and Director
Yes, so I think I mentioned in the last call, the process is of course getting on approved vendor list, that's the first step in being able to compete on a tender. Most of the tenders come out at the end of the year. So there'll be the end of 2020 for deliveries in 2021. Now we might see some drop in adhoc orders come in before that, but in terms of any large or larger revenue impact, you ought to think about 2021. In terms of how we look at the international market, think about the strengths of this business, we're not very good just simply because we don't focus on the commodity side of the business. So there are a lot of NOCs throughout the world who still buy commodity conventional type wellheads, that would not be a market in which we would invest any time or money and I don't want to, again, I'm not going to talk about countries, but you can imagine the NOCs that take that approach in their buying.
Martin Malloy -- Johnson Rice & Company -- Analyst
Okay and then on the rental side, you had multiple new product introductions last year. Can you maybe talk about if we should look for any new product introductions this year. I'm sorry if I missed that in the prepared remarks?
Scott Bender -- President, Chief Executive Officer and Director
Yeah, we've got quite a few that we're working on right now. I think it's probably little premature for me that to try to estimate when we'll commercialize those, but we're moving them out into field tests. So yes, we have, we have several new products both in the wellhead side in the frac and the completion side.
Operator
Next question is from the line of Blake Gendron. Your line is now open.
Blake Gendron -- Wolfe Research -- Analyst
Hey, good morning. Thanks for taking my question. I hate to keep harping on it, but I'm going to ask Sean's question in a different way or the opposite way. It's easy to obviously think about the constraints in China given the market tape now, but we understand the government could potentially put more liquidity into that market and if the trucking issue abates, would there actually be a blue-sky opportunity in which you could actually shift further to Chinese manufacturing just given some of the cost and currency tailwinds maybe later on in the year? Thanks.
Scott Bender -- President, Chief Executive Officer and Director
So let's see if I understand your question, you're asking if China loosens up -- we all read the paper I'm sure this morning and the government is fighting the battle between health issues and trying to spur their economy. So if China loosens up more, will I see more emphasis on China? That would be the lazy man's approach is to say that this problem is past and we don't face this risk. So I think in terms of how you think about our company, our view still is to become less dependent upon China in future years. That may not be the case by the end of this year, but certainly in future years.
Blake Gendron -- Wolfe Research -- Analyst
Okay that makes sense. And then secondly just on customer issues in the U.S. as oil continues to pull back here from one of your capital equipment peers, it seems like they had some modest issues in the fourth quarter with bankruptcy and bad debt expense. Just wondering if you can give us an idea of your customer exposure with respect to larger versus smaller and independent customers and then maybe how you approach commercially aligning yourself with respect to credit worthiness and solvency, that sort of thing.
Scott Bender -- President, Chief Executive Officer and Director
Well, I'll let Steve maybe address the specifics of your question, but just at a high level, we are extremely aggressive when it comes to receivable collection. We're extremely aggressive in terms of of scrutinizing our customers both at the time we add them to our list and we monitor their credit limits very closely and as a result we've had minimal impact from some of the bankruptcies that have occurred in the industry.
Stephen Tadlock -- Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer
I think we published --
Scott Bender -- President, Chief Executive Officer and Director
Go ahead Steve.
Stephen Tadlock -- Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer
Yeah, I mean generally in our investor decks we publish base our overall activity based on large E&Ps, mid E&Ps, privates, majors, etc and on the large E&P side, we're above [Phonetic] 50% SMIDs, about 15%. These are Q3 numbers I'm giving you but should'nt have change much. Major is about 10% which is frac work mostly and then on the private side, a little under 20%, but like Scott said, we're very vigilant particularly in this environment and we're kind of all over if we're not getting paid and monitoring credit limits, we will demand cash upfront or just not ship and that's just kind of the way it is and that's kind of how they expect to deal with us if they expect us to jump through hoops to deliver on time, we expect to get paid for it.
Operator
Your next question is from the line of Kurt Hallead. Your line is now open.
Kurt Hallead -- RBC Capital Markets -- Analyst
Good morning.
Scott Bender -- President, Chief Executive Officer and Director
Good morning to you.
Kurt Hallead -- RBC Capital Markets -- Analyst
Scott, I was kind of curious, as you look at your baseline view for 2020, you mentioned that the new technologies are going to represent -- well, have represented so far in the first quarter about 15% of total revenue for the rental business. As you look out for the rest of the year, what do you think the new technology revenue contribution to be for 2020 in total?
Scott Bender -- President, Chief Executive Officer and Director
You know I thought it was going to be frankly better in the fourth quarter than it was, but we faced this significant reluctance from our customers despite I think the value proposition to spend another dollar on a frac location. So barring that, I think we'll continue to march that percentage up above 20% as the year progresses.
Kurt Hallead -- RBC Capital Markets -- Analyst
Okay, great. That's great color. And then just one quick follow-up, the discussion here about the incremental SG&A related to the international expansion and that not really being meaningful, but you did indicate that SG&A in the first quarter be about $14 million. That's higher than the run rate was throughout the course of 2019. So is it fair to say that incremental SG&A pretty much will hold through the rest of the year and that incremental SG&A is all related to the international expansion, is that fair?
Scott Bender -- President, Chief Executive Officer and Director
No, it's not fair. So there is a component of it that is related to international. The other is stock-based compensation. I can let Steve explain to you -- we went public in February of 2018 and because of the way we invest, I think we'll -- is it fair to say we'll peak?
Stephen Tadlock -- Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer
Yeah, we should be peaking this year in terms of SVC and then coming down next year as some of the IPO grants come off. So that's driving and we adjust that out in our adjusted EBITDA and then just in terms of SG&A in fourth quarter, we were just extra vigilant and also reduced activity. We can pull some levers when we have reduced activity. So naturally, as we're kind of growing again, we would expect a little more SG&A.
Operator
Your next question is from the line of Praveen Narra. Your line is now open.
Praveen Narra -- Raymond James -- Analyst
Hey, good morning guys. I guess I wanted to clarify some of the China commentary because I guess I think of it as almost everybody being equally as competitively disadvantaged in this space. So I guess could you give us a sense as to how much you think of industry wellhead product supply comes out of China and then I know you are not going to be able to pass along 100% of anything, but how do you think it affects the margin per unit?
Scott Bender -- President, Chief Executive Officer and Director
So that's a very good question and I'm going to wing this because I'm trying to think through my mind about all of our competitors. You know, Joel, would you say, 90% of it is -- 80% comes --
Joel Bender -- Senior Vice President, Chief Operating Officer, Secretary and Director
I mean I think it's definitely 80%, it may be north of that. The way certain people bring products out, sometimes they bring finished products out. I know we have a competitor that tends to bring forgings out into other countries to produce from there. So I would say it's at least 80% and probably greater than that.
Scott Bender -- President, Chief Executive Officer and Director
And then the more important question is about the margin impact and in this environment, you're not going to see any significant upward pricing until supply becomes tight? So right now right now, there appears to be ample inventory both with us and -- yeah, probably say showing signs maybe to a lesser degree with some of our larger competitors.
Praveen Narra -- Raymond James -- Analyst
Right, that makes sense. And then when we think about the product side, you mentioned some of the new innovations that you're working on, can you talk about the potential. I know it's getting ahead of everything but the potential addressable market of those compared to your current addressable market and then also how cross selling has trended over the past few quarters, number of innovations on the well side.
Scott Bender -- President, Chief Executive Officer and Director
So, the new products that we'll be introducing in the wellhead side will really be upgrades to our existing product line, but you know this is consistent with the company's philosophy of building a moat around our wellhead business. It's the way we protect the retain customers, it's a way we protect margins, it's by always having the better mousetrap or continuing to at least try to have a better mousetrap. So, think about it, it's not going to open up any new revenue streams. It's rather going to protect it and perhaps allow us to continue to ensure that we have good margins. What was your other question? Oh cross-selling opportunities. Between frac I assume and wellhead, they really -- I guess it's fair to say that we've seen more opportunities that in down markets, customers tend to high grade their suppliers and not only high grade, but reduce the number of suppliers on location. So I think, and you've seen it before in our business downturn seems to be very constructive in that regard.
Operator
Your next question is from the line of Matt Diskin [Phonetic]. Your line is now open.
Matt -- Analyst
Hey guys, just circling back on the M&A doors opening up. Can you guys talk to maybe which segment you may be targeting or maybe where you may look to grow the portfolio through an acquisition.
Scott Bender -- President, Chief Executive Officer and Director
Gosh, Matt, I really don't want to talk about this. I think to be frank, we're not actively out there looking, but the deals you know the kind of deals that are coming our way because they're well advertised. So they range anywhere from downhole to artificial lift consumable products and we probably, it's fair to say prefer to stay away from downhole because we don't understand very well. It seems that everybody always says the next greatest mousetrap until they don't. And I think there's been some very disappointing M&A transactions in that particular area. I like artificial lift. I've never made a secret of that. I don't really love the margins in artificial lift, but I do like the sector. So I'd probably say of those two, I would prefer something in the artificial lift area. I mean we like the product business, but we want to be able to make the product and engineer the product. So the short answer is, we haven't really seen anything that makes sense to us so far, but there is a lot more that's coming into this office since we went public. I wish I could be more helpful, but it just those are the facts.
Matt -- Analyst
No, that's actually extremely helpful and I'll just actually follow-up on that with lift, I mean do you see some type of cross-selling opportunities with your businesses, just kind of get some color on why you like it so much?
Scott Bender -- President, Chief Executive Officer and Director
Yeah, I mean the same customers who buy our products, buy downhole products and they buy artificial lift products. It may be different departments, but it's the same relationship, it's end user business.
Matt -- Analyst
Okay, that's helpful and I'll go ahead and turn it back.
Stephen Tadlock -- Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer
Thank you everyone for joining today's call. We appreciate your participation and look forward to speaking with you the next quarter.
Scott Bender -- President, Chief Executive Officer and Director
Thanks everybody. [Operator Closing Remarks]
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Call participants:
John Fitzgerald -- Director of Corporate Development and Investor Relations
Scott Bender -- President, Chief Executive Officer and Director
Stephen Tadlock -- Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer
Joel Bender -- Senior Vice President, Chief Operating Officer, Secretary and Director
George O'Leary -- Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co. -- Analyst
Sean Meakim -- JP Morgan -- Analyst
Scott Gruber -- Citigroup -- Analyst
Tommy Moll -- Stephens -- Analyst
Martin Malloy -- Johnson Rice & Company -- Analyst
Blake Gendron -- Wolfe Research -- Analyst
Kurt Hallead -- RBC Capital Markets -- Analyst
Praveen Narra -- Raymond James -- Analyst
Matt -- Analyst
