UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

Form 8-K

CURRENT REPORT
PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(D) OF THE
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

DATE OF REPORT (DATE OF EARLIEST EVENT REPORTED): May 22, 2007

Dycom Industries, Inc.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)

Florida		0-5423		59-1277135
(State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation)		(Commission File Number)		(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

11770 US Highway One, Suite 101
Palm Beach Gardens, Florida 33408
(Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)

REGISTRANT’S TELEPHONE NUMBER, INCLUDING AREA CODE: (561) 627-7171

Not Applicable
(Former Name and Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

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Item 2.02. Results of Operations and Financial Conditions.

On May 22, 2007, Dycom Industries, Inc. (“Dycom”) issued a press release announcing its financial results for its fiscal 2007 third quarter ended April 28, 2007. Dycom also provided guidance for the next fiscal quarter. The press release is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1 and is incorporated in its entirety by reference herein.

On May 23, 2007 Dycom held a conference call to review the results of its fiscal 2007 third quarter ended April 28, 2007 and to address its outlook. A transcript of that call is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.2 and is incorporated in its entirety by reference herein.

Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits.

(a) Financial statements of businesses acquired.

     None.

(b) Pro forma financial information.

     None.

(c) Exhibits.

Exhibit No.				Description
	99.1			Press release of Dycom Industries, Inc. issued on May 22, 2007.
	99.2			Transcript of Dycom Industries, Inc. conference call to review the results of its fiscal 2007 third quarter ended April 28, 2007 and address its outlook, which took place on May 23, 2007.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

EXHIBIT INDEX

Exhibit No.				Description
	99.1			Press release of Dycom Industries, Inc. issued on May 22, 2007.
	99.2			Transcript of Dycom Industries, Inc. conference call to review the results of its fiscal 2007 third quarter ended April 28, 2007 and address its outlook, which took place on May 23, 2007.

EXHIBIT 99.1

NEWS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE		Contact:		Steven E. Nielsen, President and CEO
				Richard L. Dunn, Senior Vice President
				and CFO
				(561) 627-7171

Palm Beach Gardens, Florida		May 22, 2007

DYCOM ANNOUNCES FISCAL 2007 THIRD QUARTER EARNINGS AND PROVIDES
GUIDANCE FOR THE NEXT FISCAL QUARTER

Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, May 22, 2007—Dycom Industries, Inc. (NYSE: DY) announced its results today for the third quarter ended April 28, 2007. The Company reported income from continuing operations for the quarter ended April 28, 2007 of $12.6 million, or $0.31 per common share diluted, versus a loss from continuing operations for the quarter ended April 29, 2006 of $6.5 million, or $0.16 per common share diluted. Income from continuing operations for the quarter ended April 28, 2007 includes a gain on sale of real estate of $1.5 million net of tax, or $0.04 per common share diluted. The loss from continuing operations for the quarter ended April 29, 2006 includes a goodwill impairment charge of approximately $14.8 million net of tax, or $0.37 per common share diluted. Excluding these items, non-GAAP income from continuing operations was $11.1 million, or $0.27 per common share diluted, for the quarter ended April 28, 2007 and $8.3 million, or $0.21 per common share diluted, for the quarter ended April 29, 2006.

For the nine months ended April 28, 2007 income from continuing operations was $27.7 million, or $0.68 per common share diluted. For the nine months ended April 29, 2006 income from continuing operations was $7.9 million, or $0.19 per common share diluted. Income from continuing operations for the nine months ended April 28, 2007 includes a gain on sale of real estate of $1.5 million net of tax, or $0.04 per common share diluted. Income from continuing operations for the nine months ended April 29, 2006 includes a goodwill impairment charge of approximately $14.8 million net of tax, or $0.35 per common share diluted. Excluding these items, non-GAAP income from continuing operations was $26.2 million, or $0.65 per common share diluted for the nine months ended April 28, 2007 and $22.7 million, or $0.53 per common share diluted, for the nine months ended April 29, 2006.

Total contract revenues from continuing operations for the quarter ended April 28, 2007 were $291.6 million compared to $251.1 million for the quarter ended April 29, 2006, an increase of 16.2%. Total contract revenues from continuing operations for the nine months ended April 28, 2007 were $820.5 million compared to $741.8 million for the nine months ended April 29, 2006, an increase of 10.6%. Included in contract revenues for the three and nine month periods ended April 28, 2007 is $1.4 million

from a business acquired on March 30, 2007. Stock-based compensation expense, on a pre-tax basis, for the three and nine month periods ended April 28, 2007 was $1.4 million and $ 4.8 million, respectively, compared to stock-based compensation expense of $1.4 million and $3.3 million for the three and nine month periods ended April 29, 2006, respectively .

Net income for the quarter ended April 28, 2007 was $12.4 million, or $0.31 per common share diluted, versus a net loss for the quarter ended April 29, 2006 of $6.5 million, or $0.16 per common share diluted. Net income for the nine months ended April 28, 2007 was $27.6 million, or $0.68 per common share diluted, versus net income for the nine months ended April 29, 2006 of $8.1 million, or $0.19 per common share diluted.

Dycom also announced its outlook for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2007. The Company currently expects revenue from continuing operations for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2007 to range from $295 million to $315 million and diluted earnings per share from continuing operations to range from $0.29 to $0.34, including stock-based compensation expense of approximately $1.5 million on a pre-tax basis. Management believes that discontinued operations will not have a material impact on the quarter.

A Tele-Conference call to review the Company’s results and address its outlook will be hosted at 9:00 a.m. (ET), Wednesday, May 23, 2007; Call 800-230-1085 (United States) or 612-234-9960 (International) and request “Dycom Earnings” conference call. A live webcast of the conference call will be available at http://www.dycomind.com. If you are unable to attend the conference call at the scheduled time, a replay of the live webcast will also be available at http://www.dycomind.com until Friday, June 22, 2007.

Dycom is a leading provider of specialty contracting services throughout the United States. These services include engineering, construction, maintenance and installation services to telecommunications providers, underground locating services to various utilities including telecommunications providers, and other construction and maintenance services to electric utilities and others.

Fiscal 2007 third quarter and nine-month results are preliminary and are unaudited. This press release contains forward-looking statements as contemplated by the 1995 Private Securities Litigation Reform Act. Such statements include, but are not limited to, the Company’s expectations for revenues and earnings per share. These statements are based on management’s current expectations, estimates and projections. Forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results in the future to differ materially from the results projected or implied in any forward-looking statements contained in this press release. Such risks and uncertainties include: business and economic conditions in the telecommunications industry affecting our customers, the adequacy of our insurance and other reserves and allowances for doubtful accounts, whether the carrying value of our assets may be impaired, the impact of any future acquisitions and whether they can be efficiently integrated into our existing operations, the anticipated outcome of other contingent events, including litigation, liquidity needs and the availability of financing, as well as other risks and uncertainties described in the Risk Factors section of the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended July 29, 2006, and other factors discussed from time to time in our other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and Current Reports on Form 8-K. The Company does not undertake to update forward-looking statements.

—Tables Follow—

NYSE: “DY”

DYCOM INDUSTRIES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
April 28, 2007 and July 29, 2006
Unaudited

		April 28,				July 29,
		2007				2006
		($ in 000’s)
ASSETS
Current Assets:
Cash and equivalents		$	15,966			$	27,268
Accounts receivable, net			133,020				143,099
Costs and estimated earnings in excess of billings			95,176				79,546
Deferred tax assets, net			14,275				12,793
Inventories			9,119				7,095
Other current assets			10,393				9,311
Current assets of discontinued operations			616				5,196
Total current assets			278,565				284,308
Property and equipment, net			160,548				125,393
Intangible assets, net			322,076				265,133
Other			12,538				13,928
Non-current assets of discontinued operations			33				1,253
Total		$	773,760			$	690,015
LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY
Current Liabilities:
Accounts payable		$	25,967			$	25,715
Current portion of debt			3,515				5,169
Billings in excess of costs and estimated earnings			645				397
Accrued self-insured claims			26,992				25,886
Income taxes payable			8,426				4,979
Other accrued liabilities			52,107				44,337
Current liabilities of discontinued operations			1,495				5,311
Total current liabilities			119,147				111,794
Long-term debt			179,303				150,009
Accrued self-insured claims			31,822				30,770
Deferred tax liabilities, net non-current			16,756				6,576
Other liabilities			1,318				289
Non-current liabilities of discontinued operations			1,131				1,122
Stockholders’ Equity			424,283				389,455
Total		$	773,760			$	690,015

NYSE: “DY”

DYCOM INDUSTRIES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
Unaudited

		Three Months				Three Months				Nine Months				Nine Months
		Ended				Ended				Ended				Ended
		April 28,				April 29,				April 28,				April 29,
		2007				2006				2007				2006
		(In 000’s, except per share amounts)
Contract revenues		$	291,643			$	251,077			$	820,488			$	741,810
Cost of earned revenues			233,657				204,309				662,193				608,581
General and administrative expenses (1)			23,712				20,622				66,786				57,999
Depreciation and amortization			15,327				11,861				41,964				34,678
Goodwill impairment charge			—				14,835				—				14,835
Total			272,696				251,627				770,943				716,093
Interest income			174				327				801				1,540
Interest expense			(3,596	)			(3,641	)			(11,306	)			(8,515	)
Other income, net			5,189				2,894				6,814				4,219
Income (loss) from continuing operations before income taxes			20,714				(970	)			45,854				22,961
Provision for income taxes			8,144				5,518				18,110				15,059
Income (loss) from continuing operations			12,570				(6,488	)			27,744				7,902
Income (loss) from discontinued operations, net of tax (3)			(125	)			(15	)			(154	)			188
Net income (loss)		$	12,445			$	(6,503	)		$	27,590			$	8,090
Earnings (loss) per common share — Basic:
Income (loss) from continuing operations		$	0.31			$	(0.16	)		$	0.69			$	0.19
Income (loss) from discontinued operations			—				—				(0.01	)			—
Net income (loss)		$	0.31			$	(0.16	)		$	0.68			$	0.19
Earnings (loss) per common share — Diluted:
Income (loss) from continuing operations		$	0.31			$	(0.16	)		$	0.68			$	0.19
Income (loss) from discontinued operations			—				—				—				—
Net income (loss)		$	0.31			$	(0.16	)		$	0.68			$	0.19
Shares used in computing earnings per common share (2):
Basic			40,469,787				40,163,176				40,324,503				42,413,595
Diluted			40,770,976				40,163,176				40,622,116				42,628,492

NYSE: “DY”

DYCOM INDUSTRIES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
RECONCILIATION OF GAAP TO NON-GAAP INFORMATION
Unaudited
($ in 000’s except per share amounts)

		Three Months				Three Months				Nine Months				Nine Months
		Ended				Ended				Ended				Ended
		April 28,				April 29,				April 28,				April 29,
		2007				2006				2007				2006
Items:
Gain on sale of real estate, net of tax		$	1,508			$	—			$	1,508			$	—
Goodwill impairment charge, net of tax			—				(14,835	)			—				(14,835	)
		$	1,508			$	(14,835	)		$	1,508			$	(14,835	)
GAAP income (loss) from continuing operations		$	12,570			$	(6,488	)		$	27,744			$	7,902
Adjustment for items above			(1,508	)			14,835				(1,508	)			14,835
Non-GAAP income from continuing operations		$	11,062			$	8,347			$	26,236			$	22,737
Earnings (loss) per common share from continuing operations:
Basic earnings (loss) per share from continuing operations — GAAP		$	0.31			$	(0.16	)		$	0.69			$	0.19
Adjustment for items above			(0.04	)			0.37				(0.04	)			0.35
Basic earnings per share from continuing operations — Non-GAAP		$	0.27			$	0.21			$	0.65			$	0.54
Diluted earnings (loss) per share from continuing operations — GAAP		$	0.31			$	(0.16	)		$	0.68			$	0.19
Adjustment for items above			(0.04	)			0.37				(0.04	)			0.35
Diluted earnings per share from continuing operations — Non-GAAP(1)		$	0.27			$	0.21			$	0.65			$	0.53
Shares used in computing GAAP earnings (loss) per common share from continuing operations and adjustment for items above:
Basic			40,469,787				40,163,176				40,324,503				42,413,595
Diluted			40,770,976				40,163,176				40,622,116				42,628,492
Shares used in computing Non-GAAP earnings per common share from continuing operations:
Basic			40,469,787				40,163,176				40,324,503				42,413,595
Diluted			40,770,976				40,395,055				40,622,116				42,628,492

EXHIBIT 99.2

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Operator:

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by and welcome to the Dycom earnings conference. At this time all lines are in a listen-only mode. Later there will be an opportunity for questions and instructions will be given at that time. And as a reminder this conference is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to CEO, Steven Nielsen. Please go ahead, sir.

Steven Nielsen:

Thank you, Cathy. Good morning, everyone. I’d like to thank you you for attending our third quarter fiscal 2007 Dycom earnings conference call. With me we have in attendance Tim Estes, our Chief Operating Officer, Richard Dunn, our Chief Financial Officer, and Rick Vilsoet, our General Counsel. Now I will turn the call over to Rick Vilsoet. Rick?

Rick Vilsoet:

Thank you, Steve. Statements made in the course of this conference call that state the Company’s or management’s intentions, hopes, beliefs, expectations or predictions for the future are forward-looking statements. It is important to note that the Company’s actual results could differ materially from those projected in such forward-looking statements. Additional information concerning factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements is contained from time to time in the Company’s SEC filings, including, but not limited to the Company’s annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended July 29, 2006, and the Company’s quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended January 27, 2007. The Company does not undertake to update forward-looking information. Steve?

Steven Nielsen:

Thanks, Rick. Yesterday, we issued a press release announcing our third quarter 2007 earnings. As you review this release, it is important to note that during our second quarter of 2007 one of our subsidiaries ceased operations and accordingly, we have reported those results as discontinued. In addition, during the third quarter of 2007, we sold a piece of real estate, which resulted in a gain on sale of $1.5 million, net of tax, or $0.04 per common share diluted. And finally our results for the third quarter of 2006 included a goodwill impairment charge of approximately $14.8 million, net of tax, or $0.37 per common share diluted. For clarity, our comments will be limited to results from continuing operations, excluding the gain on sale of real estate in the current quarter and the goodwill impairment charge in the year-ago quarter. A reconciliation of these adjustments to our GAAP earnings has been provided as a table to yesterday’s press release, which is available on our website under the heading corporate and sub-heading corporate news.

Now for the quarter ended April 28, 2007, total contract revenues were $291.6 million versus $251.1 million, an increase of 16%. Net income was $11.1 million versus $8.3 million, an increase of 33%. Fully-diluted earnings per share was $0.27 versus $0.21, an increase of over 28%. Backlog at the end of the third quarter was $1.48 billion versus $1.40 billion at the end of the second quarter, an increase of $80 million from last quarter. Of this backlog, approximately $857.4 million is expected to be completed in the next 12 months. Please note that with regards to a certain multi-year project relating to fiber deployments, we have included in backlog only those amounts relating to work estimated to be performed during the balance of calendar year 2007.

For the third quarter, our earnings were above the midpoint of our earnings per share expectations and up over 28% year over year due to solid operating performance. Additionally, organic revenue growth exceeded 11% after adjusting for hurricane restoration revenues in the year-ago quarter of $8.9 million and acquired revenues in this quarter and the year-ago quarter. Gross margin increased 126 basis points from the prior year. The year-over-year increase in gross margin was due in part to improved performance across a number of our businesses, strong VoIP installation activity, steady and increasing volumes from telephone

companies, and increased construction spending from a number of cable operators. Each one of our top ten customers grew adjusted revenue organically, indicating a breadth to our business which we have not experienced since calendar year 2000. Cash flow from operations was solid in the quarter at $12.8 million, despite a normal seasonal build in working capital. Days sales outstanding was steady at 71 days. Capital expenditures, net of disposals, totaled $12.4 million, as we experienced continued organic growth and our normal replacement cycle. Head count at the end of the quarter was 10,661, reflecting a steady seasonal increase and organic growth.

During the quarter, we experienced the effects of a moderately growing overall economy, increased spending by a telephone company which had completed a merger in the prior quarter, expenditures by another telephone company which were up sequentially and year over year, and generally solid overall results from telephone companies and cable operators. Revenue from AT&T, including legacy BellSouth, was up $8.1 million sequentially and $7.7 million year over year, after adjusting for $8.6 million in hurricane restoration services in the year-ago period. As adjusted, revenues grew 14.6%. AT&T was our largest customer at $60.1 million, or 20.6% of total revenue. For Verizon, we performed work for its fiber to the premise initiative in the states of Massachusetts, New York, Maryland, Virginia, Florida, and Texas. Revenue from Verizon was $52.6 million during the quarter, up from $50.3 million in the year-ago quarter and up sequentially from $46.7 million in the second quarter of 2007. At 18% of revenue, Verizon was our second largest customer. Revenue from Comcast was $34.1 million. Comcast was Dycom’s third largest customers for quarter at 11.7% of revenue. Significantly, after adjusting for acquired revenue and eliminating hurricane restoration work in the prior year, revenue from Comcast grew 50% year over year. This is the third consecutive quarter of year-over-year adjusted organic growth with Comcast. Time Warner was our fourth largest customer with $22.4 million or 7.7% of total revenue, reflecting increased upgrade activity and steady installation volumes. And finally, with Embarq we experienced seasonally increased revenues at $20.1 million. Embarq was our fifth largest customer. All together our top five customers represented 64.9% of revenue, which reflects strong adjusted organic growth within all five top customers. During the quarter, we continued to book new work and renew existing work. For AT&T, three-year extensions for our master contracts in Athens, Georgia, Charleston, South Carolina, and Charlotte, Statesville, Greensboro, and Raleigh, North Carolina. These extensions are of particular note as they occurred after the merger of AT&T and BellSouth. Additionally, for CenturyTel we received new master contracts in Alabama and Tennessee. With Comcast, we were awarded upgrade projects in New Jersey, the Bay area of California and in east Tennessee, while for Time Warner, bandwidth enhancements in North Carolina. And finally, in our locate business, we received a new contract with AT&T in California and contract renewals with Baltimore Gas and Electric, and Atmos.

Throughout the quarter, Dycom continued to demonstrate strength. First and foremost, we maintained solid customer relationships throughout our markets. Secondly, the strength of those relationships and the value we can generate for our customers has allowed us to be at the forefront of rapidly-evolving industry opportunities. We are convinced that the commitment by two RBOC’s to employ fiber deeper into their networks is irreversible, a commitment recently evidenced in one instance with increased capital budgets. Furthermore, activity levels nationwide for rural fiber deployments by dozens of different entities, including an increasing number of investor-owned rural local exchange carriers, continues to be robust. In fact, it is clear that a rewiring of the nation’s telecommunications infrastructure in order to dramatically expand the provisioning of bandwidth and the delivery of new service offerings is now firmly under way. Additionally, we are pleased with the growth in our installation services for cable operators as those customers deploy telephone services encouraged with recent wins of several cable bandwidth expansion and upgrade projects, and heartened by a meaningful and continued upturn in bidding activity for cable operators which we believe is indicative of increased future opportunities. And finally, we have maintained our solid financial strength generating strong cash flows from operations, which has allowed us to make significant capital investments to facilitate future growth, both internally, and externally, through acquisitions. As the economy continues to expand, and our industry continues its own growth, we believe Dycom’s fundamental strength will allow us to remain one of the best-positioned firms in our industry, able to exploit profitable growth opportunities.

After weighing all of the factors we have discussed today, as well as our current expectations, we have updated our forecast as follows. For the fourth quarter of fiscal 2007, we anticipate earnings per share of $0.29 to $0.34 on revenues of $295 million to $315 million. This outlook anticipates: Continued growth in the U.S. economy; seasonally normal weather; organic growth, which may exceed 10%; broad solid operating performance; a seasonal decline in other income as we anticipate a sequentially reduced number of assets will be sold; and noncash compensation expense of approximately $1.5 million on a pre-tax basis during the quarter. Now, I will turn the call over to Dick Dunn, our CFO. Dick:

Dick Dunn:

Thanks, Steve. Before I begin my review let me point out that for the purposes of this call we have eliminated the following two items from our GAAP results. First, during the third of fiscal year 2007, we realized an after-tax gain on the sale of real estate of approximately $1.5 million. The impact on fully-diluted EPS for the quarter and nine-month period was $0.04. Second, in Q3 of the prior year, we recorded a noncash pretax goodwill impairment charge of approximately $14.8 million, related to the Company’s Can-Am Communications subsidiary. On an after-tax basis the impact was also approximately $14.8 million as there was no tax benefit associated with the charge. The impact on EPS was $0.37 in Q3 of fiscal 2006 and $0.35 in the nine-month period of the prior fiscal year. Unless otherwise noted my discussion will eliminate the impacts of these items. Additionally, during the second quarter of the current fiscal year we discontinued the operations of one of our subsidiaries, Apex Digital. The after-tax results of the discontinued operations has been excluded from income from continuing operations and have been included as a separate line on the face of the income statement for all periods presented. With regard to the balance sheet, the current and noncurrent assets and liabilities of the discontinued operations has been presented separately. For the purposes of my financial review, all references, unless otherwise indicated, will relate to the results from continuing operations, excluding the impact of discontinued operations. A reconciliation of the adjustments to our GAAP results have been provided as a table to yesterday’s press release, which is available on our website under the heading corporate and sub-heading corporate news.

Now turning to the income statement, contract revenues for the current quarter were $291.6 million, up 16.2% from last year’s Q3 of $251.1 million. Excluding revenues of subsidiaries acquired during or subsequent to Q3 of fiscal year 2006, revenues for the current quarter would have been $269.5 million versus the prior year’s $251.1 million, which included $8.9 million of storm restoration work. Excluding the impact of acquisitions and storm restoration work, revenues grew organically by 11.3%. Contract revenue for the nine-month period ended April 28 increased 10.6%, to $820.5 million, versus fiscal year 2006’s nine-month revenue of $741.8 million. Excluding revenues of subsidiaries acquired during or subsequent to Q3 of fiscal year 2006, revenues for the current quarter would have been $674.2 million versus the prior year of $704.5 million, which included $62.7 million of storm restoration work.

For the quarter, the top five customers accounted for 64.9% of total revenues versus 64% for the prior-year’s third quarter. And for the nine months ended April 28, sales to the top five customers as a percent of total was 62.9% versus 64.2% for the prior year. The top five customers and their respective percentages for Q3 of fiscal year 2007 and 2006 are as follows, beginning with Q3 of fiscal year 2007: AT&T, which includes BellSouth, 20.6%; Verizon, 18%; Comcast, 11.7%; Time Warner, 7.7%; and Embarq, 6.9%. And for Q3 of fiscal 2006: AT&T at 24.3%; Verizon, 20%; Comcast, 8.4%; Embarq, 7%; and Charter Communications, 4.2%.

Income from continuing operations for the third quarter was $11.1 million versus $8.3 million in the third quarter of fiscal year 2006, representing an increase of 32.5%. Income from continuing operations for the nine months ended April 28, 2007 increased 15.4% to $26.2 million versus last year’s $22.7 million.

Fully-diluted earnings for the quarter was were $0.27 per share, a 28.6% increase from last year’s $0.21 per share results. Fully-diluted EPS for the nine-month period ended April 28, 2007 increased 22.6% to $0.65 per share versus last year’s $0.53 per share.

Operating margins for the third quarter were 6.5% versus last year’s 5.69%. This increase of 81 basis points was due to 126 basis points decrease in cost of earned revenues, and an eight basis points decrease in general and administrative costs, partially offset by a 53 basis points increase in depreciation and amortization for the quarter. Operating margins for the nine-month period increased 57 basis points, coming in at 6.04% versus last year’s 5.47%. This increase was due to a 133 basis points decrease in cost of earned revenues, partially offset by a 32 basis points increase in general and administrative costs and a 44 basis points increase in depreciation and amortization. General and administrative costs for the nine-month period of the current fiscal year included $1.5 million of incremental expenses associated with stock-based compensation. Absent these expenses, G&A increased by 17 basis points.

Depreciation and amortization expense for the third quarter increased by approximately $3.5 million from the prior year. This increase was due to the tangible and intangible assets acquired as part of the Cable Express acquisition and increased depreciation for our remaining operations associated with higher levels of operation.

The effective tax rate for the quarter and nine-month period were 39.3% versus 39.5% and 39.8% respectively for the prior-year period. Net interest expense for the quarter and and nine months was $3.4 million and $10.5 million, respectively, versus net interest expense of $3.3 million and $7 million for the three and nine-month periods of the prior year. This change in the nine-month period was primarily due to the borrowings associated with our Dutch auction tender during Q1 of fiscal 2006, partially offset by positive cash flow associated with our operations.

For the quarter our cash flow from operating activities was $12.8 million. The primary components of this cash flow were net income of $12.4 million, depreciation and amortization of $15.5 million, partially offset by increases in working

capital of approximately $11.9 million. Investing and financing activities for the quarter used $11.3 million. These cash flows consisted of capital expenditures of $22.4 million, and acquisition payments of $5.5 million, offset by proceeds on the sale of equipment and other assets of $10 million, net borrowings of approximately $4 million, and proceeds on the exercise of stock options of $2.4 million. Outstanding debt, net of cash, at the end of the quarter was $166.9 million versus $163.4 million in the prior quarter. During the quarter, net receivables increased from $120.1 million to $133 million, resulting in a DSO of 41.5 days versus a DSO of 42.3 days at the end of the second quarter, a decrease of 0.8 days. Net unbilled revenue balances increased in the quarter from $80.3 million to $94.5 million, resulting in a DSO of 29.5 days, an increase of 1.2 days from Q1’s figure of 28.3 days. On a cumulative basis, the combined DSO for our trade receivables and unbilled revenues increased from 70.6 days to 71 days an increase of 0.4 days. At April 28, 2007 the accrual for our self insured casualty program was $58.8 million. Of the $58.8 million, $20.7 million represents incurred but not reported claims. During the current quarter, revenue from multi-year master service agreements represented 73.8% of contract revenue versus 67.3% for Q3 of the prior year. Revenues from long-term contracts and multi-year master service agreements represented 86.5% of contract revenue versus 83.2% for Q3 for the prior fiscal year. Steve?

Steven Nielsen:

Thanks, Dick. Now, Cathy, we will open the call for questions.

Operator:

Thank you. Our first question is from the line of Alex Rygiel with FBR. Please go ahead.

Alex Rygiel:

Thank you. Nice quarter, gentlemen.

Steven Nielsen:

Thanks, Alex.

Alex Rygiel:

Steve, would it be fair to say that you haven’t felt this confident about your business in six, seven, eight years?

Steven Nielsen:

Well, we have certainly had solid performance at other times in the six or seven years. I think what is encouraging currently is that we’re just seeing a breadth to the business that has been absent in a fairly extended period of time. So that we have lots of customers that are large, that their businesses are doing well, and that’s encouraging them to reinvest back in their networks, which is good for us.

Alex Rygiel:

If I do a back of the envelope on your guidance, it would suggest that your gross margin assumption imbedded in the fourth quarter may suggest that gross margins could exceed 20%. Is that correct?

Steven Nielsen:

Yes, I think that is correct, Alex.

Alex Rygiel:

And that’s the first time in about two years, right?

Steven Nielsen:

I think that’s also correct.

Alex Rygiel:

And have acquisitions driven the return of that margin or has it been more your core business and the improving breadth that has driven the improvement in margins?

Steven Nielsen:

I think it’s been both. We’re pleased with how our installation businesses that we’ve acquired are performing. They continue to see good activity. This was the first quarter where Prince’s contribution to organic revenue actually came through because we owned them in the entirety of this quarter and the year-ago quarter, and that business is doing well. So I think that’s true. I think, also, it’s encouraging to see opportunities for our cable construction businesses. We like to think that they’re the best in the business, and given the opportunity, they will perform well.

Alex Rygiel:

And if we adjust for Verizon, and adjust for the acquisitions, can you give us a sense as to what organic backlog growth looks like year over -year?

Steven Nielsen:

Well, as you know, we have somewhat of a different perspective on backlog, just because for us it’s meaningful but not all that meaningful. I think one way to look at that is to look at the next 12 months backlog, which was up sequentially. But at the same time, understand that none of the Verizon back — none of the Verizon revenue with respect to FTTP was backfilled and backlogged, so on a sequential basis, it certainly was up, given that number.

Alex Rygiel:

One last question. I don’t want you to give us long-term 12-month guidance, but six years ago, gross margins were 25%, 26%. Your guidance in the fourth quarter is suggesting 20%. Given the mix of business today as it compared to five or six years ago, is there anything fundamentally different today that would suggest that you can’t achieve gross margins of that historical level with this mix of business?

Steven Nielsen:

I think the way we always think about maybe not only gross margin but pre-tax margin and returns on capital is that in every long cycle in this business we try to find a way to make the next peak better than the last one. The issue is for us, we have diversified into the installation business, in particular, which is much less capital intensive than our mix of business was six or seven years ago. So I think if we think out long term enough and think about adjusted margins and returns on capital, we think that our diversification was good for the business and will be financially rewarding.

Alex Rygiel:

Great. Thank you very much.

Operator:

We will go next to Simon Leopold with Morgan Keegan. Go ahead, please.

Simon Leopold:

Thanks. Let me start out with a couple of the sort of traditional housekeeping items and then I’ll go to something philosophical. On the housekeeping, see if you can round out the top ten list with the six through ten? And also give us the color on the segment breakdown and highlight the in-home installation business numbers if you could?

Dick Dunn:

Okay, Simon, let me give you the revenues first. At number six would have been Charter or was Charter at 4.1%, Windstream at 2.9%, Qwest at 2.8%, Questar Gas at 1.9%, and TDS at 1.8%. Related to the revenues by grouping: Telecom was 49.3%; cable TV 27%; utility locating, 18%; and the remainder about 5% for other.

Simon Leopold:

Okay. Great. Now, moving on towards the trending, your guidance for the fourth quarter is good and I think we’re all trying to figure out, okay, where do we go from here. It seems as if with the post-AT&T spending, it’s improved, but our impression is there’s still a lot more room as AT&T maybe starts more construction work within the BellSouth states. And also some suggestions that Verizon’s mix of what they’re doing, aerial versus buried, is likely to shift in your favor. If you could

give us a little bit more sense of how you view those trends quantitatively and also timing? Thank you.

Steven Nielsen:

With respect to AT&T and we don’t have any particular insight to share with you other than what, for example, we’ve read here locally. As you may know, Florida just passed and the governor signed Monday a state-wide video franchising bill that was strongly supported by both AT&T and Verizon. I can only tell you that in the local paper here, the AT&T spokesman said a couple weeks ago, once the governor signs, it you will see a lot from us. So, I don’t know what a lot means, but it certainly indicates that the former BellSouth territories must be part of AT&T’s video plans, because they certainly were encouraging the statewide franchise. In terms of the mix of the work on aerial and buried with Verizon, I think what we’ve always said, Simon, is it’s really not for us to indicate the mix shifts that Verizon chooses to do or not do in their network. That’s not been a good thing for us to do. But we are also encouraged in Verizon’s case that they continue to secure video franchises. If you check the tape and Verizon; and I don’t know how many announcements of new video franchises they had out just in the last week or ten days, generally those video franchises contain some type of build-out requirement, which is generally encouraging of more buried construction as a function of doing that work.

Simon Leopold:

And looking at your business with the cable TV guys, what was the installation business this quarter and how do you see that opportunity trending through the year?

Steven Nielsen:

I think we generally saw trends that were good for both construction and installation, so that when we talk about the growth rates in those customers, it was pretty much across the board. I think the prospects for installation are encouraging, as both Comcast and Time Warner and Charter continue to forecast increasing revenue-generating unit growth and that requires the deployment of in-home equipment, which is a big driver to that business.

Simon Leopold:

Can you give us more specifics on how much revenue was installation versus construction in this quarter?

Steven Nielsen:

They’re mixed, Simon, we haven’t in the past, and probably don’t intend to do it in the future, other than to say a significant majority of the cable continues to be installation, but on the margin, the growth rates and the construction and upgrade side have been somewhat greater, although they’re both pretty good. When Comcast grows 50% year over year, just about everything you do for them has got to be going well.

Simon Leopold:

Great. Thank you very much.

Operator:

Your next question is from John Rogers with D.A. Davidson. Please go ahead.

John Rogers:

Hi, good morning.

Steven Nielsen:

Good morning, John.

John Rogers:

A couple of things. First of all, I think I got this number down wrong, what did you say total backlog was?

Steven Nielsen:

$1.48 billion, so one billion four hundred and eighty million, so up about $80 million sequentially

John Rogers:

And then secondly, just going back to Alex’s question on gross margins for a second, in terms of the way your customer are, especially the difference between the traditional telephone and the cable companies, are you able to push through either price increases at this point or a way of pushing up higher margins in terms of the new work that you’re signing up now?

Steven Nielsen:

I think John, the way we’ve always thought about that is, as you begin to grow organically and everybody else does, to some degree in the industry, that creates some scarcity. And so customers understand that when you have scarcity that our pricing needs to go up to reflect the need to attract more resources to get their work done. Now, the trick for us is to make sure that those expanding prices flow through as margin expansion as we grow the business, because we want to get bigger and better, not just bigger. So I think that’s a dynamic that we have been through many, many times. I think the other opportunity is that we’re not equally good everywhere for everybody, and as growth returns we become more careful in our choices. And we have always said that we would much rather grow a little bit slower than the overall market on the top line, but have expanding margins on the bottom line.

John Rogers:

Got it. So, Steve, from that is it, the margin improvements that you’re seeing now and it sounds like expect to see at least in the short term and hopefully beyond that, is it pricing or is it just better utilization of equipment?

Steven Nielsen:

We’re seeing both. We’re getting better pricing because we need to attract more resources. We think we’re a valued supplier to our customers. They understand that certain things like fuel and other things have gone up and that needs to be appropriately reflected. And for us, it’s not been about being the cheapest vendor, it’s been we always try to be the most valued, and when you’re the most valued, that gives you some ability to grow price. On the other hand, there are certainly unit increases where, particularly in our installation business, where there’re pretty significant warehousing and dispatching cost, the more business you pull through that administrative overhead, the better your returns are going to be.

John Rogers:

Okay. And in Dick’s comments on the top customers, you did not mention DIRECTV and I was just wondering, that market for install satellite type business, what are you seeing there?

Steven Nielsen:

Well, if you remember, John, we had been in that business for a long period of time and then last quarter, we had decided that it just didn’t make sense for us and so that is our reference to our discontinued operations that was the primary customer of the subsidiary that we discontinued. So it’s a business that we’ve been in and just wasn’t one that we chose to continue with given other opportunities.

John Rogers:

Right. Oh, and last question, in terms of your capital structure going into this upturn, anything that we should be thinking about in terms of bonding requirements or cash requirements?

Steven Nielsen:

We are blessed to be in an industry that has minimal bonding requirements, because we’ve got relationships literally that they go back decades. One of our subsidiaries just last month had their 40th anniversary, and so it’s just a different — in the same geography with essentially the same customer for the entire period of time. So we don’t have any real needs. Our needs are going to be to fund the working capital and the tools and equipment that we need to continue to grow the business. But that is about it, nothing new otherwise.

John Rogers:

Great. Thank you.

Operator:

Thank you. And next we have Kevin Sarsany with Next Generation Research. Please go ahead.

Kevin Sarsany:

I was wondering on the hiring front, are you finding hiring relatively good to support your activity? And also, a follow up on that, is on the wage front.

Steven Nielsen:

Okay. Kevin, in terms of hiring, what we’ve always said and we’ve been through the cycle before and what we’ve always said is that we like a little tightness in the labor supply, since that’s what we sell, it being scarce is a good thing. So, yes, there is a little bit of tightness, but that is good for our business. In terms of our ability to secure the help we need, when we had businesses that have been in industries and specific geographic locations for decades, we create our own work force and it comes looking for a job every day. So I think in this particular case that we’re comfortable with our ability to manage through it. While labor is somewhat tight, it is not as tight as it was in 1999 and 2000 and we did just fine through that cycle. In terms of wages, we’re not seeing wage or other compensation pressures that exceed our ability to have those recovered through the revenue of the business.

Kevin Sarsany:

And on the AT&T front, as they roll this out, and start adding customers, is there opportunity for you on the node to the house, the copper portion?

Steven Nielsen:

Yes, I mean we certainly work in that network every day. There are some opportunities there and we will evaluate them as they develop.

Kevin Sarsany:

Okay. Thank you.

Operator:

Thank you.

Steven Nielsen:

Okay. Cathy, there being no questions, we appreciate everybody’s time and attention and we will speak to you again at the last week of August for our fourth quarter earnings call. Thank you.

Operator:

Thank you. And ladies and gentlemen, that does conclude our conference for today. Thank you for your participation and for using AT&T executive teleconference. You may now disconnect.