Asus Business Utility

[Ezekiel Tulagan]

Im using an Asus wireless router model RT-AC68U and can connect fine to the internet using it wirelessly. I configured the router to be an Access Point, but having done so, I can no longer locate the GUI to adjust the router as I have no idea what its IP Address is anymore. The router is plugged into a cable modem and router which is a model SMCD3G is a business class gateway labeled Comcast Business IP Gateway. This gateway is assigning ip addresses in the range 10.1.10.XX and I went to the web interface at 10.1.10.1 and listed the connected devices and see my laptop which is connected to the Asus access point along with a few other devices, but none of the devices listed are the Asus router (I tried all the six ip addresses listed).

If you needed a single tool to do this nmap/zenmap is a good option. You'll probably want to scan your entire ip address range, and this may take a while but once thats done. All the entries look similar - 192.168.1.1 is my main router, and 192.168.1.19 is the secondary router set as an AP. The MAC address should help work out which device specifically is the asus - It should start with AC: as with mine.

Assuming you can ping, I'd probably suggest doing a quick IP address scan, followed by either checking up all these IP addresses or doing an ARP scan. An arp scan alone is kind of useless when you have not actually made any connections to a device.

You can get a pretty similar result with an ip address scanner - angry address scanner is what seems to be recommended and the arp -a command. The ip address scan will ensure the ip address is known to the system as being in use, and the arp command will list the ip address and mac addresses

I'm installing not one but four of these, two primary and two repeaters. Another way to find the addresses if you're running Windows is to use the "Device Discovery" utility ASUS provides at their support site. It more or less magically finds the device and provides a link to it.

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Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by, and welcome to the American States Water Company Conference Call Discussing the Company's First Quarter 2021 Results. The call is being recorded. If you would like to listen to the replay of this call, we'll begin this afternoon at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time and run through Tuesday, May 11, 2021, on the company's website, www.aswater.com. The slides that the company will be referring to will also be available on the website. [Operator Instructions] Please note today's conference will also be limited to one hour.

As a reminder, certain matters discussed during this conference call may be forward-looking statements intended to qualify for the safe harbor from liability established by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Please review a description of the company's risks and uncertainties in our most recent Form 10-K and Form 10-Q on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission. In addition, this conference call will include a discussion of certain measures that are not prepared in accordance with the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles or GAAP in the United States and constitute non-GAAP financial measures under SEC rules. These non-GAAP financial measures are derived from consolidated financial information but are not presented in our financial statements that are prepared in accordance with GAAP. For more details, please refer to the press release.

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Thank you, Jamie. Welcome, everyone, and thank you for joining us today. I'll begin with some brief comments on the quarter, Eva will then discuss some financial details and then I'll wrap it up with some updates on regulatory filings, ASUS and dividends, and then we'll take your questions.

In this year's first quarter, we achieved consolidated earnings of $0.52 per share versus $0.38 per share during the first quarter of 2020. That's a 37% increase or a 21% increase on an adjusted basis. You can see from this slide that each of our three operating segments contributed to the year-over-year earnings-per-share growth.

The results of our regulated utilities were driven by CPUC-approved rate increases, while our contracted services segment performed a higher level of construction work during the quarter compared to last year. Steve will discuss this slide in more detail.

We continue to execute on our business strategies in the quarter, provide high-quality water, wastewater and electric services to over 1 million people and make timely investment in our systems, all while keeping our unwavering commitment to reliability and safety. Our capital investments allow us to replace and upgrade critical infrastructure as well as ensure we can meet our customers' needs for generations to come.

We also remain committed to conservation, environmental stewardship, employee safety and well-being, diversity and inclusion and sound governance practices. While these issues have always been at the core of our company, we created an environmental, social responsibility and governance section, also known as ESG, on our website, to more clearly make our disclosures available in these areas. The website includes our corporate social responsibility report, TCFD and SASB disclosures and other relevant documents. We will continue to focus on our ESG commitments, which benefit our customers, suppliers, employees, broader communities and ultimately, our shareholders.

In addition to producing strong first quarter results in all of our business segments, we filed the cost of capital application for the Water segment yesterday and saw new water and electric rates go into effect starting in January, which generate additional gross margin. And on a longer-term scale, we continue to invest in infrastructure at our regulated utilities and contracted services business to provide quality services to our customers, perform more work on the military bases we serve, compete for new military based contracts and deliver consistent dividend growth to our shareholders. I'll touch on these in greater detail later on in the call.

Thank you, Bob. Hello, everyone. Let me start with our first quarter financial results on Slide 8. I'm pleased to report that the company had a great quarter with consolidated earnings of $0.52 per share as compared to $0.38 per share last year. Excluding the $0.05 per share loss on an investment item from the first quarter of last year, earnings for the first quarter of 2021 increased by $0.09 per share or 20.9% as compared to last year.

For our water utility subsidiaries, Golden State Water Company, earnings were $0.33 per share as compared to $0.29 per share, as adjusted to exclude the $0.05 per share loss on investments incurred in the first quarter of last year. The increase in earnings were due to a higher water gross margin generated from new rates authorized by the California Public Utilities Commission, partially offset by an increase in depreciation expense and property taxes.

Our Electric segment's earnings for the first quarter of 2021 were $0.07 per share as compared to $0.06 per share for the first quarter of 2020 due to an increase in electric rate and a decrease in interest expense.

Earnings from our Contracted Services segment increased $0.04 per share for the quarter. This was due largely to an increase in construction activity as a result of timing differences of when work was performed as compared to the first quarter of last year, as well as lower expenses for legal and other outside services. The timing differences were expected to reverse over the remainder of 2021. We still expect the Contracted Services segment to contribute $0.45 to $0.49 per share for this year.

Our consolidated revenues for the first quarter increased by $8 million as compared to the same period in 2020. Water revenues increased $3.6 million during the quarter, due to third year step increases for 2021 as a result of passing earnings tax. The increase in Electric revenues was largely due to CPUC-approved rate increases effective January 1 this year, as well as an increase in usage as compared to the first quarter of 2020.

Contracted Services revenues for the quarter increased $3.8 million, largely due to an increase in construction activity, resulting from timing differences of when construction activity was performed as compared to the first quarter of last year. In addition, there were increases in management fees due to the successful resolution of various economic price adjustments.

Turning to Slide 10. Our water and electric supply costs were $22.6 million for the quarter, an increase of $1.3 million from the same period last year. Any changes in supply costs for both the Water and Electric segments as compared to the adopted supply costs are tracked in balanced income.

Looking at total operating expenses other than supply costs. Consolidated expenses increased $1.7 million as compared to the first quarter of 2020. This was primarily due to an increase in construction costs at ASUS resulting from increased construction activity, partially offset by lower unplanned maintenance costs and the Water segment and an increasing administrative and general expense because of lower legal outside service costs.

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