NASDAQ:TRNS Transcat Q3 2025 Earnings Report $73.02 +2.22 (+3.14%) Closing price 05/22/2026 04:00 PM EasternExtended Trading$72.84 -0.17 (-0.24%) As of 05/22/2026 06:53 PM Eastern Extended trading is trading that happens on electronic markets outside of regular trading hours. This is a fair market value extended hours price provided by Massive. Learn more. ProfileEarnings HistoryForecast Transcat EPS ResultsActual EPS$0.45Consensus EPS $0.38Beat/MissBeat by +$0.07One Year Ago EPS$0.56Transcat Revenue ResultsActual RevenueN/AExpected Revenue$70.30 millionBeat/MissN/AYoY Revenue GrowthN/ATranscat Announcement DetailsQuarterQ3 2025Date1/27/2025TimeAfter Market ClosesConference Call DateTuesday, January 28, 2025Conference Call Time11:00AM ETUpcoming EarningsTranscat's Q4 2026 earnings is scheduled for Tuesday, May 26, 2026, with a conference call scheduled at 4:30 PM ET. Check back for transcripts, audio, and key financial metrics as they become available.Q4 2026 Earnings ReportConference Call ResourcesConference Call AudioConference Call TranscriptSlide DeckPress Release (8-K)Quarterly Report (10-Q)Earnings HistoryCompany ProfileSlide DeckFull Screen Slide DeckPowered by Transcat Q3 2025 Earnings Call TranscriptProvided by QuartrJanuary 28, 2025 ShareLink copied to clipboard.Key Takeaways Organic service revenue declined 4% year-over-year due to an unexpected drop in December calibration demand from extended holiday shutdowns, despite a strong rebound in January. Completed the $79 million acquisition of Martin Calibration, adding over $25 million in annual revenue and expanding its Midwest, Arizona, and California footprint with complementary mechanical, dimensional, and advanced calibration capabilities. Distribution segment revenue grew 7% in the quarter, but widespread customer closures in December led to a rental demand decline that negatively impacted overall distribution gross margins. Q3 net income fell $1 million to $2.4 million (EPS $0.25) and adjusted EBITDA declined 13%, although operating cash flow and free cash flow both improved year-over-year. Guidance anticipates organic service revenue growth returning to low-mid single digits for the full year, backed by a strong pipeline of high-probability calibration projects and ongoing solutions business improvements. AI Generated. May Contain Errors.Conference Call Audio Live Call not available Earnings Conference CallTranscat Q3 202500:00 / 00:00Speed:1x1.25x1.5x2xTranscript SectionsPresentationParticipantsPresentationSkip to Participants Operator00:00:00Greetings and welcome to Transcat, Inc.'s Third Quarter Fiscal Year 2025 Financial Results. At this time, all participants are on a listen-only mode. A question-and-answer session will follow the formal presentation. If anyone should require operator assistance during the conference, please press star zero on your telephone keypad. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. I would now like to turn the call over to your host, Tom Barbato. Thank you. You may begin. Thomas BarbatoCFO at Transcat00:00:33Thank you, Operator, and good morning, everyone. We appreciate your time and your interest in Transcat. With me here on the call today is our President and CEO, Lee Rudow, and our Chief Operating Officer, Mike West. We will begin the call with some prepared remarks, and then we'll open it up, the call, for questions. Our earnings release crossed the wire after markets closed yesterday. Both the earnings release and the slides that we'll reference during our prepared remarks can be found on our website, transcat.com, in the Investor Relations section. If you would, please refer to slide two. As you are aware, we may make forward-looking statements during the formal presentation and Q&A portion of this teleconference. Thomas BarbatoCFO at Transcat00:01:19These statements apply to our future events, which are subject to risks and uncertainties, as well as other factors that could cause the actual results to differ materially from where we are today. These factors are outlined in the news release as well as in the documents filed by the company with the SEC. You can find those on our website, where we regularly post information about the company, as well as on the SEC's website at sec.gov. We undertake no obligation to publicly update or correct any of the forward-looking statements contained in this call, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise, except as required by law. Please review our forward-looking statements in conjunction with these precautionary factors. Additionally, during today's call, we will discuss certain non-GAAP measures, which we believe will be useful in evaluating our performance. Thomas BarbatoCFO at Transcat00:02:15You should not consider the presentation of this additional information in isolation or as a substitute for results prepared in accordance with GAAP. We've provided reconciliations of Non-GAAP to comparable GAAP measures in the tables accompanying the earnings release. With that, I'll turn the call over to Lee. Lee RudowPresident and CEO at Transcat00:02:36Thank you, Tom. Good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us. Fiscal 2025 third quarter consolidated revenue was up 2% to $66.8 million. However, organic service revenue declined 4% from prior year third quarter. Last quarter, we talked about the Nexus Solutions channel and that our expectations were that softness in that channel would continue through the current fiscal year. This continues to be our view, and the team is focused on pipeline development and getting new solution deals across the finish line. What we did not anticipate in the third quarter was the December decline in core calibration service demand following in October and November, which was largely in line with expectations. We discovered that the midweek Christmas holiday drove extended manufacturing closures in the back half of the month. Essentially, this affected the incoming calibration service work in two ways. Lee RudowPresident and CEO at Transcat00:03:39In the front end of December, many of our customers ramped up manufacturing to meet demand up to and through the holiday shutdowns. The intensified production makes it difficult to send in equipment for calibration. In the back end of December, extended holiday facility closures and reduced staffing levels contributed to a reduced volume of incoming equipment through the end of the calendar year. So timing contributed to the December service shortfall. And as one would expect, service revenue picked up significantly in January as a result of pent-up demand from December. Stepping away for a moment from the quarterly performance, on December 10th, we acquired Martin Calibration. We're very excited to get this deal done as Martin satisfies all of our strategic acquisition requirements. Lee RudowPresident and CEO at Transcat00:04:34With annual revenues more than $25 million, Martin gives Transcat a strong presence in the Midwest, including Minneapolis, Chicago, and Milwaukee, as well as Tempe, Arizona, and Los Angeles, California. Martin's flagship lab is in Minneapolis, an area rich in medical device and life science. This is a region that relies heavily on quality calibrations and related services and solutions. From a bolt-on perspective, we anticipate the ability to leverage our current operational infrastructure by combining our Arizona and LA labs with the Martin facilities that are in very close proximity. From a capabilities perspective, the two companies are very complementary. Martin brings a higher level of expertise on the mechanical and dimensional side and represents an ideal match with Transcat's advanced capabilities on the temperature, pressure, and electrical side of the business. Lee RudowPresident and CEO at Transcat00:05:30In addition to the cost synergies you would expect over time with bolt-on acquisitions, we expect to drive service growth by leveraging the expanded combined capabilities of both Martin and Transcat. The integration process is off to a great start, and as we work to maximize the early returns on this exciting coveted opportunity. Turning to distribution, revenue grew 7% in the quarter, in the third quarter. In December, however, due to the extended closure of many of our customers, our rental channel experienced a similar decline in demand as our core calibration services channel. The rental revenue decline in December resulted in a distribution segment mix change that negatively impacted distribution service margins. And before I turn things over to Tom, I want to point out that the Transcat team has consistently delivered excellent results over an extended period. Lee RudowPresident and CEO at Transcat00:06:25We have a demonstrated track record of driving growth and productivity. Our team is working to overcome the near-term challenges we've encountered in the last couple of quarters, and this primarily pertains to the year-over-year softness of the solutions channel. From a traditional calibration services channel perspective, we currently have a very strong pipeline of new high-probability opportunities. And as we close out fiscal 2025, we are prepared for a strong fiscal 2026. So with that, I'll turn things over to Tom for a more detailed look at the third quarter financial results. Thomas BarbatoCFO at Transcat00:07:01Thanks, Lee. I'll start on slide four of the earnings deck posted on our website, which provides detail regarding our revenue on a consolidated basis and by segment for the third quarter of fiscal 2025. Third quarter consolidated revenue of $66.8 million was up 2% versus prior year, driven by growth in distribution. Looking at it by segment, service revenue grew slightly. 3.8% organic decline was offset by growth from acquisitions. As Lee mentioned, service revenue was negatively impacted by the unexpected extended December holiday closures at our customer sites, as well as the anticipated year-over-year decline in the Transcat Nexus Solutions channel. Turning to distribution, revenue of $25.2 million grew 7%, driven by strong product sales and rental growth. Turning to slide five, our consolidated gross profit for the second quarter of $19.7 million was down 6% from prior year. Service gross profit declined 8% versus prior year. Thomas BarbatoCFO at Transcat00:08:07Continued leverage from higher levels of technician productivity could not offset the headwinds caused by lower organic revenue levels. Distribution segment gross profit of $7.3 million was down 2% as margins were pressured in the third quarter due to mix. Turning to slide six, Q3 net income of $2.4 million was down $1 million versus prior year. Diluted earnings per share came in at $0.25, down $0.13. We report adjusted diluted earnings per share as well to normalize for the impacts of upfront and ongoing acquisition-related costs. Q3 adjusted diluted earnings per share was $0.45. Flipping to slide seven, where we show our Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA margin. We use Adjusted EBITDA, which is non-GAAP, to gauge the performance of our business because we believe it best measures our operating performance and ability to generate cash. Thomas BarbatoCFO at Transcat00:09:03As we continue to execute on our acquisition strategy, this metric becomes even more important to highlight as it does adjust for one-time deal-related transaction costs, as well as the increased level of non-cash expenses that will hit our income statement from acquisition purchase accounting. The third quarter consolidated Adjusted EBITDA of $7.9 million was down 13% from the same quarter in the prior year, as extended December holiday closures and the expected solutions revenue softness negatively impacted third quarter EBITDA. As always, a reconciliation of Adjusted EBITDA to operating income and net income can be found in the supplemental section of this presentation. Moving to slide eight, operating cash flow and operating free cash flow were both higher year-over-year. Q3 capital expenditures were $1.4 million higher than prior year and continue to center around service segment capabilities, rental pool assets, technology, and future growth projects. Thomas BarbatoCFO at Transcat00:10:05The spend was in line with expectations. Slide nine highlights our strong balance sheet. At quarter end, we had total net debt of $40.8 million with a leverage ratio of 0.97x. We had $39.5 million available from our credit facility as previously announced. We acquired Martin Calibration for $79 million in fiscal Q3, paid in combination of $69 million in cash and $10 million in company stock. Lastly, we expect to file our Form 10-Q on February 5th. With that, I'll turn it back to you, Lee. Lee RudowPresident and CEO at Transcat00:10:41Okay. Thanks, Tom. As we wind down the fourth quarter, we expect fiscal 2025 organic service revenue to be in the low to mid single digits once adjusted for the 53rd week in fiscal 2024. Of course, that is below our expectations, and as I mentioned earlier, it's driven by the softness, primarily driven by the softness in our solutions channel that negatively impacted our organic growth rates in fiscal 2025. We're certainly looking forward to improved solutions performance in the year ahead. Relative to our core calibration business, we have a strong pipeline and momentum. Both are building as we get ready to embark on fiscal 2026. We believe organic service growth in fiscal 2026 will be more in line with our historical performance. We will continue to focus on the full integration of Martin Calibration. Lee RudowPresident and CEO at Transcat00:11:36Working together, we expect to capitalize on the numerous opportunities we have for both service growth and productivity gains. I shared my vision for the company over the years, which includes strong organic service growth, an industry-leading value proposition, inherent service operating leverage, lower costs of goods sold and SG&A over time, driven by process improvement, automation, and other productivity-improving initiatives, strong operating cash flow, and sensible expansion of addressable markets. We still believe in our vision, our goals, and our ability to achieve them. We're excited for the fiscal year ahead. And with that, Rob, you can open the line for questions. Operator00:12:24Thank you. At this time, we'll be conducting a question-and-answer session. If you'd like to ask a question, please press star one on your telephone keypad. A confirmation tone will indicate your line is in the question queue. You may press star two if you'd like to remove your question from the queue. For participants using speaker equipment, it may be necessary to pick up your handset before pressing the star keys. One moment, please, while we pull for questions. Our first question comes from Greg Palm with Craig-Hallum. Please proceed with your question. Greg PalmSenior Research Analyst at Craig-Hallum00:13:03Yeah. Good morning. Thanks for taking the questions here. I wanted to start, I guess, with the near-term outlook. So understand some of the timing around the holidays. And it sounds like things picked up in January, but you still took down the full-year guide. So I'm just curious if it was timing, just things slipping from December to January, you wouldn't expect that guide to come down, but it did. So is there sort of more of a deferral? Or I guess, what's kind of the incremental weakness here relative to what we were talking about three months ago? Lee RudowPresident and CEO at Transcat00:13:43So this is Lee. I'll start, and maybe Tom can add some color as well. Yeah. So we had the slowness in December. We spoke to many of our customers during and after the slowdown. So we kind of confirmed that that took place and impacted the numbers. The business has generally gotten very busy in January, so we made some of that back. Just looking at the full year, looking at the solutions impact, continued impact, we're confident that we'll be in the mid-single-digit range for organic growth, generally speaking. And there has been some relative delays in some orders and things with high probability that we expected to close in Q3. Some will close at the back end of Q4, maybe even early into fiscal year in April. But we're just being conservative in the guidance. Greg PalmSenior Research Analyst at Craig-Hallum00:14:50Yep. Okay. And can you maybe just give us a little bit more color on the visibility in the pipeline and really tie this back into kind of expectations for next year? Last quarter, I think you were kind of confidently talking about returning to high single-digit organic growth. I think the commentary is a little bit more vague, understandably so. But just any comments on visibility, pipeline, timing around some of the closures, that'd be pretty helpful. Lee RudowPresident and CEO at Transcat00:15:25Yeah. Right now, our core calibration pipeline is very strong. So it's about as strong as I probably have ever seen it, which is good. There's a couple of big opportunities, for example, where we've gotten verbal confirmation, "Yes, we're going to go with Transcat. We're going to proceed according to these terms and this timing." And some of those have been delayed, which has affected some of kind of our softer guidance, trying to get our arms around exactly when some of these jobs are going to start. And there's a variety of reasons why you have delays like this. We can get into some of them if you'd like. But generally speaking, the pipeline is very strong. I think that's the most important point. And for us, it's a matter and they have to come to fruition, of course. And that doesn't always happen. Lee RudowPresident and CEO at Transcat00:16:10But we feel pretty good about where we stand going into the year, into the timing. And I think when we talk about, we're a little vague for Q4. But when we talk about next year, particularly in the back half, Greg, as some of these things come to fruition, we're feeling pretty good about the level of activity that we're seeing. So not a lot has changed. And I think when we look at the solutions business improving throughout next year, and we combine that with the pipeline activities, the macros appear to be pretty strong. There's no reason to believe that we shouldn't get back to more historic levels in terms of sales. Greg PalmSenior Research Analyst at Craig-Hallum00:16:51Got it. Okay. And that was going to be kind of my next question or sort of final on this level of thinking, just making sure that nothing structural has changed, whether it's law, large numbers, or something else. But historically, you've demonstrated and you've talked about this high single-digit, low double-digit organic growth profile for the service business and understand a couple of hiccups recently. But as you look ahead over the next handful of years, there's nothing that gives you hesitancy in your ability to sort of match those targets? Lee RudowPresident and CEO at Transcat00:17:30Absolutely not. I mean, we have to keep things in perspective. We've had a lot of growth over a very, very long time, quarter after quarter after quarter. Nothing has changed. Still, we have recurring revenue streams. Still, the business is driven by regulation. There hasn't been any competition that we've noticed that's been able to take market share or doing anything differently. We're still in a really good position. And when you just take a little bit of a broader perspective on the sales engine, which from our perspective continues to get better, there's always tweaks that you can make. There's always technology that you can implement to make the sales process and other processes better. We're working on all those things. And to have a couple of quarters that you're in the mid-single-digit growth as opposed to high or even low double digits, that's to be expected. Lee RudowPresident and CEO at Transcat00:18:16You can't win every game the same way. But we have a really good team, a really good plan. The fundamentals are the same. And we expect that over the long term and even the midterm, we expect strong performance from this company. I can't point to anything today that would stop me from believing that. So we expect a good year. And the pipeline going into the year supports it. So we'll see. You never know 100%. But I like the fundamentals. Nothing's changed. And we just got to get over a couple of quarters of softness. And for the most part, that we have identified the areas that need to be addressed. So we feel pretty good about the upcoming year. Yep. Greg PalmSenior Research Analyst at Craig-Hallum00:18:57All right. Thanks, Lee. Lee RudowPresident and CEO at Transcat00:18:58Yep. No problem, Greg. Thanks. Thomas BarbatoCFO at Transcat00:19:00Thanks, Greg. Operator00:19:03Our next question is from Ted Jackson with Northland Securities. Please proceed with your question. Edward JacksonManaging Director and Senior Research Analyst at Northland Securities00:19:10Thanks very much. Good morning. I got a list of questions. Let's start with kind of the next set of Transcat services and maybe get an update with regards to kind of the actions that you've taken so far and kind of the actions that are left to kind of put that business back where you want it to be. Lee RudowPresident and CEO at Transcat00:19:30Yeah. So from a solutions perspective, it's something we're talking a lot about. There's two ways to look at the solutions business. One is as a standalone business that offers five or six service tracks in the ecosystem for calibration. And that business has to be profitable, and that business has to grow. Those are our expectations. There's also, Ted, the benefit that you get from the solutions business in terms of organic growth for our calibration services business because they also sit at the table with us, literally and figuratively, when we're trying to win new business. They're a differentiator. Their suite of services make our calibration business, in some cases, more affordable and helps our customers accomplish and complete their goals. So we like the business. We just needed to have better pipeline development. It needed a different way to sell. It needed our marketing team involved. Lee RudowPresident and CEO at Transcat00:20:27We're doing all these things. Unfortunately, the nature of that business is you're just not going to turn it around in a quarter or two. It takes a few quarters, so we think we're doing all the right things. The pipeline is better today. That's a fact than it was when we kind of discovered that we needed to work on it, and I think we'll get it to be an improved business, stable, and growth in time. I'm not overly concerned with it. It's still a relatively small business, but we expect that it will be, I'm going to say, back on track next fiscal year, and earlier, the better. Edward JacksonManaging Director and Senior Research Analyst at Northland Securities00:21:03Okay. Thanks. Then just kind of shifting over more to some model questions. Like service gross margins, the lowest was since third quarter of 2023. And I know volume was a big impact there. But we're expecting to see a rebound in the fourth quarter and carry forward into 2026. Can you give us some kind of view on what you would expect your service margins to be next quarter and how we would think about that for next fiscal year? Thomas BarbatoCFO at Transcat00:21:30Yeah. I think, Ted, as we've talked and kind of gone through models, I would expect Q4 to be kind of more in line to be kind of flat year-over-year and then continue to grow as we look into fiscal 2026 and beyond. Edward JacksonManaging Director and Senior Research Analyst at Northland Securities00:21:54And then shifting over to distribution, you did see. I mean, I know you said it was a loss, but it was a little bit of recovery from last quarter. How do we think about that 2025 and fourth quarter 2025, 2026? And then can you provide some kind of. I mean, did we get the recovery out of Becnel that we expected with regards to some of the rental stuff? Maybe an update on that front too. Thomas BarbatoCFO at Transcat00:22:17Yeah. Yeah. So let me take that in pieces, right? So from a margin standpoint, certainly, we've talked in the past about being consistently above 30% on the distribution side and growing from there as the mix towards rentals continues, right? I think we certainly would have been there if we didn't see the slowdown in rentals that Lee referenced in the back half of December. And then as we look ahead, certainly, that 30% threshold is one that we feel that we should be able to achieve. And then, as I said, as we see a bigger mix towards rentals, we should see some growth from there. Becnel was certainly better sequentially in Q3 versus Q2, and we expect it to be better in Q4 sequentially than Q3. Edward JacksonManaging Director and Senior Research Analyst at Northland Securities00:23:13Okay, and then I lost my train of thought. I wanted to hit something else on your earlier answer on the margin. I'll come back. Maybe it'll come into my head. How about just on pro forma earnings? How should we think about you've just done a pretty large-sized acquisition. How should we think about the amortization of intangible assets within your pro forma earnings and also acquisition deal costs for fourth quarter in FY26? Thomas BarbatoCFO at Transcat00:23:44Why don't I follow up with you on that, Ted? I don't have the numbers in front of me right now, but I know when we talked about the model after the acquisition, I think we had done that update. But I could follow up with you via email. Edward JacksonManaging Director and Senior Research Analyst at Northland Securities00:24:02Yeah. I'm just double-checking. Then shifting over to working capital. Your receivables are up, inventories are down, payables are up, the turns all filed, all that kind of stuff. Can you give us kind of a view on kind of what's going on with some of those working capital levers and how you see them playing out for the next few quarters? Thomas BarbatoCFO at Transcat00:24:21I think we should see them move kind of consistent with the growth in revenue. We've been focused on inventory levels all year, and I think you've seen the improvements we've made since the beginning of the year from an inventory standpoint. I mean, accounts receivable, part of the growth, right, is just bringing on a business. As we bring on these bigger businesses, right, we're bringing on the accounts receivable that goes along with that. You saw that addition coming from the Martin acquisition in December. I think over time, we've seen those working capital numbers kind of flex accordingly based on the inorganic and organic growth that we've experienced. Edward JacksonManaging Director and Senior Research Analyst at Northland Securities00:25:08Okay. That's it for me. Thank you very much. Lee RudowPresident and CEO at Transcat00:25:12Thanks, Ted. Operator00:25:14As a reminder, if you'd like to ask a question, please press star one on your telephone keypad. One moment, please, while we pull up for questions. Our next question comes from Martin Yang with Oppenheimer. Please proceed with your question. Martin YangExecutive Director of Equity Research and Senior Analyst at Oppenheimer00:25:33Hi. Thank you for taking my question. First question on distribution. Would you attribute the weakness in distribution this quarter to the same reason you described for services? And how uniform are those two segments performing based on those seasonal patterns? Lee RudowPresident and CEO at Transcat00:25:56What we referred to, Martin, in the earnings call script was the rental business as part of the rental channel as part of the distribution. That was impacted the same way that the calibration services, so that is to say that we saw a decrease in demand throughout the month, particularly in the back half. That's what we're referring to, and of course, as you have that, as rentals was lowered in the quarter, that changes the mix, the overall mix to weighted heavier towards core distribution, which has lower margins, so it has both an impact on margin, which is significant, but also in volume, so that's the effect that you saw in distribution, and yes, so it was similar to service in the month of December, rentals, that is. Martin YangExecutive Director of Equity Research and Senior Analyst at Oppenheimer00:26:50Got it. And then when we look at overall distribution on a year-over-year basis, can you tell us about the respective growth rate for rental versus non-rental? Thomas BarbatoCFO at Transcat00:27:09So I think, Martin, what we've kind of said historically, and it still kind of plays out here, is that we expect kind of our core distribution to decline slowly over time. And then we expect the rental business to grow at a similar rate to service, right? And what we've seen historically with service, like high single digits. That's kind of the goal, and that's the trajectory we've been on over the past couple of years. Martin YangExecutive Director of Equity Research and Senior Analyst at Oppenheimer00:27:45Got it. My next question is regarding your comment on what happened in December. Is there any other seasonal patterns every quarter or other certain time of year that could give you surprises like the past December? Lee RudowPresident and CEO at Transcat00:28:04Not really. There are certain patterns in the business. Typically, volume for services is higher in our fourth quarter, which is January through March. And typically, distribution, core distribution, not rentals, is a little bit stronger in our third quarter. I mean, there are some patterns that seem to repeat, Martin, year-over-year. I think what happened this year, again, when you have a holiday on a Wednesday, and you never know exactly how people react. It's just for whatever reason, which I don't think we saw as much in the past. So maybe it's an anomaly. Maybe it's a pattern. Don't know yet. But having a holiday land on a Wednesday, people shut down that week. And then things extend to 10 days and so on and so forth. So I don't know if we've been doing this a long time, and typically, there aren't patterns like that. Lee RudowPresident and CEO at Transcat00:28:52I'm not sure if this is a pattern or a one-off, but either way, it caught us a little bit off guard in terms of modeling and forecasting, so I guess that's the best way to answer. Martin YangExecutive Director of Equity Research and Senior Analyst at Oppenheimer00:29:04Got it. Thank you, Lee. That's it for me. Lee RudowPresident and CEO at Transcat00:29:07Okay. Thanks, Martin. Operator00:29:11We have reached the end of the question and answer session. I'd now like to turn the call back over to management for closing comments. Lee RudowPresident and CEO at Transcat00:29:19Okay. This is Lee, and thank you all for joining us on the call today. We appreciate your continued interest in Transcat. We will be attending the Oppenheimer 10th Annual Emerging Growth Conference, which is February 26th. So for those of you who are attending that conference, feel free to call on us, check in on us, and maybe sign up for a meeting time. Otherwise, you're free to contact us anytime after that conference, and we'll be speaking to everybody again after our Q4 results, so thank you. Thanks again for joining us. Take care. Operator00:29:50This concludes today's conference. 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PresentationSkip to Participants Operator00:00:00Greetings and welcome to Transcat, Inc.'s Third Quarter Fiscal Year 2025 Financial Results. At this time, all participants are on a listen-only mode. A question-and-answer session will follow the formal presentation. If anyone should require operator assistance during the conference, please press star zero on your telephone keypad. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. I would now like to turn the call over to your host, Tom Barbato. Thank you. You may begin. Thomas BarbatoCFO at Transcat00:00:33Thank you, Operator, and good morning, everyone. We appreciate your time and your interest in Transcat. With me here on the call today is our President and CEO, Lee Rudow, and our Chief Operating Officer, Mike West. We will begin the call with some prepared remarks, and then we'll open it up, the call, for questions. Our earnings release crossed the wire after markets closed yesterday. Both the earnings release and the slides that we'll reference during our prepared remarks can be found on our website, transcat.com, in the Investor Relations section. If you would, please refer to slide two. As you are aware, we may make forward-looking statements during the formal presentation and Q&A portion of this teleconference. Thomas BarbatoCFO at Transcat00:01:19These statements apply to our future events, which are subject to risks and uncertainties, as well as other factors that could cause the actual results to differ materially from where we are today. These factors are outlined in the news release as well as in the documents filed by the company with the SEC. You can find those on our website, where we regularly post information about the company, as well as on the SEC's website at sec.gov. We undertake no obligation to publicly update or correct any of the forward-looking statements contained in this call, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise, except as required by law. Please review our forward-looking statements in conjunction with these precautionary factors. Additionally, during today's call, we will discuss certain non-GAAP measures, which we believe will be useful in evaluating our performance. Thomas BarbatoCFO at Transcat00:02:15You should not consider the presentation of this additional information in isolation or as a substitute for results prepared in accordance with GAAP. We've provided reconciliations of Non-GAAP to comparable GAAP measures in the tables accompanying the earnings release. With that, I'll turn the call over to Lee. Lee RudowPresident and CEO at Transcat00:02:36Thank you, Tom. Good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us. Fiscal 2025 third quarter consolidated revenue was up 2% to $66.8 million. However, organic service revenue declined 4% from prior year third quarter. Last quarter, we talked about the Nexus Solutions channel and that our expectations were that softness in that channel would continue through the current fiscal year. This continues to be our view, and the team is focused on pipeline development and getting new solution deals across the finish line. What we did not anticipate in the third quarter was the December decline in core calibration service demand following in October and November, which was largely in line with expectations. We discovered that the midweek Christmas holiday drove extended manufacturing closures in the back half of the month. Essentially, this affected the incoming calibration service work in two ways. Lee RudowPresident and CEO at Transcat00:03:39In the front end of December, many of our customers ramped up manufacturing to meet demand up to and through the holiday shutdowns. The intensified production makes it difficult to send in equipment for calibration. In the back end of December, extended holiday facility closures and reduced staffing levels contributed to a reduced volume of incoming equipment through the end of the calendar year. So timing contributed to the December service shortfall. And as one would expect, service revenue picked up significantly in January as a result of pent-up demand from December. Stepping away for a moment from the quarterly performance, on December 10th, we acquired Martin Calibration. We're very excited to get this deal done as Martin satisfies all of our strategic acquisition requirements. Lee RudowPresident and CEO at Transcat00:04:34With annual revenues more than $25 million, Martin gives Transcat a strong presence in the Midwest, including Minneapolis, Chicago, and Milwaukee, as well as Tempe, Arizona, and Los Angeles, California. Martin's flagship lab is in Minneapolis, an area rich in medical device and life science. This is a region that relies heavily on quality calibrations and related services and solutions. From a bolt-on perspective, we anticipate the ability to leverage our current operational infrastructure by combining our Arizona and LA labs with the Martin facilities that are in very close proximity. From a capabilities perspective, the two companies are very complementary. Martin brings a higher level of expertise on the mechanical and dimensional side and represents an ideal match with Transcat's advanced capabilities on the temperature, pressure, and electrical side of the business. Lee RudowPresident and CEO at Transcat00:05:30In addition to the cost synergies you would expect over time with bolt-on acquisitions, we expect to drive service growth by leveraging the expanded combined capabilities of both Martin and Transcat. The integration process is off to a great start, and as we work to maximize the early returns on this exciting coveted opportunity. Turning to distribution, revenue grew 7% in the quarter, in the third quarter. In December, however, due to the extended closure of many of our customers, our rental channel experienced a similar decline in demand as our core calibration services channel. The rental revenue decline in December resulted in a distribution segment mix change that negatively impacted distribution service margins. And before I turn things over to Tom, I want to point out that the Transcat team has consistently delivered excellent results over an extended period. Lee RudowPresident and CEO at Transcat00:06:25We have a demonstrated track record of driving growth and productivity. Our team is working to overcome the near-term challenges we've encountered in the last couple of quarters, and this primarily pertains to the year-over-year softness of the solutions channel. From a traditional calibration services channel perspective, we currently have a very strong pipeline of new high-probability opportunities. And as we close out fiscal 2025, we are prepared for a strong fiscal 2026. So with that, I'll turn things over to Tom for a more detailed look at the third quarter financial results. Thomas BarbatoCFO at Transcat00:07:01Thanks, Lee. I'll start on slide four of the earnings deck posted on our website, which provides detail regarding our revenue on a consolidated basis and by segment for the third quarter of fiscal 2025. Third quarter consolidated revenue of $66.8 million was up 2% versus prior year, driven by growth in distribution. Looking at it by segment, service revenue grew slightly. 3.8% organic decline was offset by growth from acquisitions. As Lee mentioned, service revenue was negatively impacted by the unexpected extended December holiday closures at our customer sites, as well as the anticipated year-over-year decline in the Transcat Nexus Solutions channel. Turning to distribution, revenue of $25.2 million grew 7%, driven by strong product sales and rental growth. Turning to slide five, our consolidated gross profit for the second quarter of $19.7 million was down 6% from prior year. Service gross profit declined 8% versus prior year. Thomas BarbatoCFO at Transcat00:08:07Continued leverage from higher levels of technician productivity could not offset the headwinds caused by lower organic revenue levels. Distribution segment gross profit of $7.3 million was down 2% as margins were pressured in the third quarter due to mix. Turning to slide six, Q3 net income of $2.4 million was down $1 million versus prior year. Diluted earnings per share came in at $0.25, down $0.13. We report adjusted diluted earnings per share as well to normalize for the impacts of upfront and ongoing acquisition-related costs. Q3 adjusted diluted earnings per share was $0.45. Flipping to slide seven, where we show our Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA margin. We use Adjusted EBITDA, which is non-GAAP, to gauge the performance of our business because we believe it best measures our operating performance and ability to generate cash. Thomas BarbatoCFO at Transcat00:09:03As we continue to execute on our acquisition strategy, this metric becomes even more important to highlight as it does adjust for one-time deal-related transaction costs, as well as the increased level of non-cash expenses that will hit our income statement from acquisition purchase accounting. The third quarter consolidated Adjusted EBITDA of $7.9 million was down 13% from the same quarter in the prior year, as extended December holiday closures and the expected solutions revenue softness negatively impacted third quarter EBITDA. As always, a reconciliation of Adjusted EBITDA to operating income and net income can be found in the supplemental section of this presentation. Moving to slide eight, operating cash flow and operating free cash flow were both higher year-over-year. Q3 capital expenditures were $1.4 million higher than prior year and continue to center around service segment capabilities, rental pool assets, technology, and future growth projects. Thomas BarbatoCFO at Transcat00:10:05The spend was in line with expectations. Slide nine highlights our strong balance sheet. At quarter end, we had total net debt of $40.8 million with a leverage ratio of 0.97x. We had $39.5 million available from our credit facility as previously announced. We acquired Martin Calibration for $79 million in fiscal Q3, paid in combination of $69 million in cash and $10 million in company stock. Lastly, we expect to file our Form 10-Q on February 5th. With that, I'll turn it back to you, Lee. Lee RudowPresident and CEO at Transcat00:10:41Okay. Thanks, Tom. As we wind down the fourth quarter, we expect fiscal 2025 organic service revenue to be in the low to mid single digits once adjusted for the 53rd week in fiscal 2024. Of course, that is below our expectations, and as I mentioned earlier, it's driven by the softness, primarily driven by the softness in our solutions channel that negatively impacted our organic growth rates in fiscal 2025. We're certainly looking forward to improved solutions performance in the year ahead. Relative to our core calibration business, we have a strong pipeline and momentum. Both are building as we get ready to embark on fiscal 2026. We believe organic service growth in fiscal 2026 will be more in line with our historical performance. We will continue to focus on the full integration of Martin Calibration. Lee RudowPresident and CEO at Transcat00:11:36Working together, we expect to capitalize on the numerous opportunities we have for both service growth and productivity gains. I shared my vision for the company over the years, which includes strong organic service growth, an industry-leading value proposition, inherent service operating leverage, lower costs of goods sold and SG&A over time, driven by process improvement, automation, and other productivity-improving initiatives, strong operating cash flow, and sensible expansion of addressable markets. We still believe in our vision, our goals, and our ability to achieve them. We're excited for the fiscal year ahead. And with that, Rob, you can open the line for questions. Operator00:12:24Thank you. At this time, we'll be conducting a question-and-answer session. If you'd like to ask a question, please press star one on your telephone keypad. A confirmation tone will indicate your line is in the question queue. You may press star two if you'd like to remove your question from the queue. For participants using speaker equipment, it may be necessary to pick up your handset before pressing the star keys. One moment, please, while we pull for questions. Our first question comes from Greg Palm with Craig-Hallum. Please proceed with your question. Greg PalmSenior Research Analyst at Craig-Hallum00:13:03Yeah. Good morning. Thanks for taking the questions here. I wanted to start, I guess, with the near-term outlook. So understand some of the timing around the holidays. And it sounds like things picked up in January, but you still took down the full-year guide. So I'm just curious if it was timing, just things slipping from December to January, you wouldn't expect that guide to come down, but it did. So is there sort of more of a deferral? Or I guess, what's kind of the incremental weakness here relative to what we were talking about three months ago? Lee RudowPresident and CEO at Transcat00:13:43So this is Lee. I'll start, and maybe Tom can add some color as well. Yeah. So we had the slowness in December. We spoke to many of our customers during and after the slowdown. So we kind of confirmed that that took place and impacted the numbers. The business has generally gotten very busy in January, so we made some of that back. Just looking at the full year, looking at the solutions impact, continued impact, we're confident that we'll be in the mid-single-digit range for organic growth, generally speaking. And there has been some relative delays in some orders and things with high probability that we expected to close in Q3. Some will close at the back end of Q4, maybe even early into fiscal year in April. But we're just being conservative in the guidance. Greg PalmSenior Research Analyst at Craig-Hallum00:14:50Yep. Okay. And can you maybe just give us a little bit more color on the visibility in the pipeline and really tie this back into kind of expectations for next year? Last quarter, I think you were kind of confidently talking about returning to high single-digit organic growth. I think the commentary is a little bit more vague, understandably so. But just any comments on visibility, pipeline, timing around some of the closures, that'd be pretty helpful. Lee RudowPresident and CEO at Transcat00:15:25Yeah. Right now, our core calibration pipeline is very strong. So it's about as strong as I probably have ever seen it, which is good. There's a couple of big opportunities, for example, where we've gotten verbal confirmation, "Yes, we're going to go with Transcat. We're going to proceed according to these terms and this timing." And some of those have been delayed, which has affected some of kind of our softer guidance, trying to get our arms around exactly when some of these jobs are going to start. And there's a variety of reasons why you have delays like this. We can get into some of them if you'd like. But generally speaking, the pipeline is very strong. I think that's the most important point. And for us, it's a matter and they have to come to fruition, of course. And that doesn't always happen. Lee RudowPresident and CEO at Transcat00:16:10But we feel pretty good about where we stand going into the year, into the timing. And I think when we talk about, we're a little vague for Q4. But when we talk about next year, particularly in the back half, Greg, as some of these things come to fruition, we're feeling pretty good about the level of activity that we're seeing. So not a lot has changed. And I think when we look at the solutions business improving throughout next year, and we combine that with the pipeline activities, the macros appear to be pretty strong. There's no reason to believe that we shouldn't get back to more historic levels in terms of sales. Greg PalmSenior Research Analyst at Craig-Hallum00:16:51Got it. Okay. And that was going to be kind of my next question or sort of final on this level of thinking, just making sure that nothing structural has changed, whether it's law, large numbers, or something else. But historically, you've demonstrated and you've talked about this high single-digit, low double-digit organic growth profile for the service business and understand a couple of hiccups recently. But as you look ahead over the next handful of years, there's nothing that gives you hesitancy in your ability to sort of match those targets? Lee RudowPresident and CEO at Transcat00:17:30Absolutely not. I mean, we have to keep things in perspective. We've had a lot of growth over a very, very long time, quarter after quarter after quarter. Nothing has changed. Still, we have recurring revenue streams. Still, the business is driven by regulation. There hasn't been any competition that we've noticed that's been able to take market share or doing anything differently. We're still in a really good position. And when you just take a little bit of a broader perspective on the sales engine, which from our perspective continues to get better, there's always tweaks that you can make. There's always technology that you can implement to make the sales process and other processes better. We're working on all those things. And to have a couple of quarters that you're in the mid-single-digit growth as opposed to high or even low double digits, that's to be expected. Lee RudowPresident and CEO at Transcat00:18:16You can't win every game the same way. But we have a really good team, a really good plan. The fundamentals are the same. And we expect that over the long term and even the midterm, we expect strong performance from this company. I can't point to anything today that would stop me from believing that. So we expect a good year. And the pipeline going into the year supports it. So we'll see. You never know 100%. But I like the fundamentals. Nothing's changed. And we just got to get over a couple of quarters of softness. And for the most part, that we have identified the areas that need to be addressed. So we feel pretty good about the upcoming year. Yep. Greg PalmSenior Research Analyst at Craig-Hallum00:18:57All right. Thanks, Lee. Lee RudowPresident and CEO at Transcat00:18:58Yep. No problem, Greg. Thanks. Thomas BarbatoCFO at Transcat00:19:00Thanks, Greg. Operator00:19:03Our next question is from Ted Jackson with Northland Securities. Please proceed with your question. Edward JacksonManaging Director and Senior Research Analyst at Northland Securities00:19:10Thanks very much. Good morning. I got a list of questions. Let's start with kind of the next set of Transcat services and maybe get an update with regards to kind of the actions that you've taken so far and kind of the actions that are left to kind of put that business back where you want it to be. Lee RudowPresident and CEO at Transcat00:19:30Yeah. So from a solutions perspective, it's something we're talking a lot about. There's two ways to look at the solutions business. One is as a standalone business that offers five or six service tracks in the ecosystem for calibration. And that business has to be profitable, and that business has to grow. Those are our expectations. There's also, Ted, the benefit that you get from the solutions business in terms of organic growth for our calibration services business because they also sit at the table with us, literally and figuratively, when we're trying to win new business. They're a differentiator. Their suite of services make our calibration business, in some cases, more affordable and helps our customers accomplish and complete their goals. So we like the business. We just needed to have better pipeline development. It needed a different way to sell. It needed our marketing team involved. Lee RudowPresident and CEO at Transcat00:20:27We're doing all these things. Unfortunately, the nature of that business is you're just not going to turn it around in a quarter or two. It takes a few quarters, so we think we're doing all the right things. The pipeline is better today. That's a fact than it was when we kind of discovered that we needed to work on it, and I think we'll get it to be an improved business, stable, and growth in time. I'm not overly concerned with it. It's still a relatively small business, but we expect that it will be, I'm going to say, back on track next fiscal year, and earlier, the better. Edward JacksonManaging Director and Senior Research Analyst at Northland Securities00:21:03Okay. Thanks. Then just kind of shifting over more to some model questions. Like service gross margins, the lowest was since third quarter of 2023. And I know volume was a big impact there. But we're expecting to see a rebound in the fourth quarter and carry forward into 2026. Can you give us some kind of view on what you would expect your service margins to be next quarter and how we would think about that for next fiscal year? Thomas BarbatoCFO at Transcat00:21:30Yeah. I think, Ted, as we've talked and kind of gone through models, I would expect Q4 to be kind of more in line to be kind of flat year-over-year and then continue to grow as we look into fiscal 2026 and beyond. Edward JacksonManaging Director and Senior Research Analyst at Northland Securities00:21:54And then shifting over to distribution, you did see. I mean, I know you said it was a loss, but it was a little bit of recovery from last quarter. How do we think about that 2025 and fourth quarter 2025, 2026? And then can you provide some kind of. I mean, did we get the recovery out of Becnel that we expected with regards to some of the rental stuff? Maybe an update on that front too. Thomas BarbatoCFO at Transcat00:22:17Yeah. Yeah. So let me take that in pieces, right? So from a margin standpoint, certainly, we've talked in the past about being consistently above 30% on the distribution side and growing from there as the mix towards rentals continues, right? I think we certainly would have been there if we didn't see the slowdown in rentals that Lee referenced in the back half of December. And then as we look ahead, certainly, that 30% threshold is one that we feel that we should be able to achieve. And then, as I said, as we see a bigger mix towards rentals, we should see some growth from there. Becnel was certainly better sequentially in Q3 versus Q2, and we expect it to be better in Q4 sequentially than Q3. Edward JacksonManaging Director and Senior Research Analyst at Northland Securities00:23:13Okay, and then I lost my train of thought. I wanted to hit something else on your earlier answer on the margin. I'll come back. Maybe it'll come into my head. How about just on pro forma earnings? How should we think about you've just done a pretty large-sized acquisition. How should we think about the amortization of intangible assets within your pro forma earnings and also acquisition deal costs for fourth quarter in FY26? Thomas BarbatoCFO at Transcat00:23:44Why don't I follow up with you on that, Ted? I don't have the numbers in front of me right now, but I know when we talked about the model after the acquisition, I think we had done that update. But I could follow up with you via email. Edward JacksonManaging Director and Senior Research Analyst at Northland Securities00:24:02Yeah. I'm just double-checking. Then shifting over to working capital. Your receivables are up, inventories are down, payables are up, the turns all filed, all that kind of stuff. Can you give us kind of a view on kind of what's going on with some of those working capital levers and how you see them playing out for the next few quarters? Thomas BarbatoCFO at Transcat00:24:21I think we should see them move kind of consistent with the growth in revenue. We've been focused on inventory levels all year, and I think you've seen the improvements we've made since the beginning of the year from an inventory standpoint. I mean, accounts receivable, part of the growth, right, is just bringing on a business. As we bring on these bigger businesses, right, we're bringing on the accounts receivable that goes along with that. You saw that addition coming from the Martin acquisition in December. I think over time, we've seen those working capital numbers kind of flex accordingly based on the inorganic and organic growth that we've experienced. Edward JacksonManaging Director and Senior Research Analyst at Northland Securities00:25:08Okay. That's it for me. Thank you very much. Lee RudowPresident and CEO at Transcat00:25:12Thanks, Ted. Operator00:25:14As a reminder, if you'd like to ask a question, please press star one on your telephone keypad. One moment, please, while we pull up for questions. Our next question comes from Martin Yang with Oppenheimer. Please proceed with your question. Martin YangExecutive Director of Equity Research and Senior Analyst at Oppenheimer00:25:33Hi. Thank you for taking my question. First question on distribution. Would you attribute the weakness in distribution this quarter to the same reason you described for services? And how uniform are those two segments performing based on those seasonal patterns? Lee RudowPresident and CEO at Transcat00:25:56What we referred to, Martin, in the earnings call script was the rental business as part of the rental channel as part of the distribution. That was impacted the same way that the calibration services, so that is to say that we saw a decrease in demand throughout the month, particularly in the back half. That's what we're referring to, and of course, as you have that, as rentals was lowered in the quarter, that changes the mix, the overall mix to weighted heavier towards core distribution, which has lower margins, so it has both an impact on margin, which is significant, but also in volume, so that's the effect that you saw in distribution, and yes, so it was similar to service in the month of December, rentals, that is. Martin YangExecutive Director of Equity Research and Senior Analyst at Oppenheimer00:26:50Got it. And then when we look at overall distribution on a year-over-year basis, can you tell us about the respective growth rate for rental versus non-rental? Thomas BarbatoCFO at Transcat00:27:09So I think, Martin, what we've kind of said historically, and it still kind of plays out here, is that we expect kind of our core distribution to decline slowly over time. And then we expect the rental business to grow at a similar rate to service, right? And what we've seen historically with service, like high single digits. That's kind of the goal, and that's the trajectory we've been on over the past couple of years. Martin YangExecutive Director of Equity Research and Senior Analyst at Oppenheimer00:27:45Got it. My next question is regarding your comment on what happened in December. Is there any other seasonal patterns every quarter or other certain time of year that could give you surprises like the past December? Lee RudowPresident and CEO at Transcat00:28:04Not really. There are certain patterns in the business. Typically, volume for services is higher in our fourth quarter, which is January through March. And typically, distribution, core distribution, not rentals, is a little bit stronger in our third quarter. I mean, there are some patterns that seem to repeat, Martin, year-over-year. I think what happened this year, again, when you have a holiday on a Wednesday, and you never know exactly how people react. It's just for whatever reason, which I don't think we saw as much in the past. So maybe it's an anomaly. Maybe it's a pattern. Don't know yet. But having a holiday land on a Wednesday, people shut down that week. And then things extend to 10 days and so on and so forth. So I don't know if we've been doing this a long time, and typically, there aren't patterns like that. Lee RudowPresident and CEO at Transcat00:28:52I'm not sure if this is a pattern or a one-off, but either way, it caught us a little bit off guard in terms of modeling and forecasting, so I guess that's the best way to answer. Martin YangExecutive Director of Equity Research and Senior Analyst at Oppenheimer00:29:04Got it. Thank you, Lee. That's it for me. Lee RudowPresident and CEO at Transcat00:29:07Okay. Thanks, Martin. Operator00:29:11We have reached the end of the question and answer session. I'd now like to turn the call back over to management for closing comments. Lee RudowPresident and CEO at Transcat00:29:19Okay. This is Lee, and thank you all for joining us on the call today. We appreciate your continued interest in Transcat. We will be attending the Oppenheimer 10th Annual Emerging Growth Conference, which is February 26th. So for those of you who are attending that conference, feel free to call on us, check in on us, and maybe sign up for a meeting time. Otherwise, you're free to contact us anytime after that conference, and we'll be speaking to everybody again after our Q4 results, so thank you. Thanks again for joining us. Take care. Operator00:29:50This concludes today's conference. You may disconnect your lines at this time, and we thank you for your participation.Read moreParticipantsExecutivesThomas BarbatoCFOLee RudowPresident and CEOAnalystsMartin YangExecutive Director of Equity Research and Senior Analyst at OppenheimerEdward JacksonManaging Director and Senior Research Analyst at Northland SecuritiesGreg PalmSenior Research Analyst at Craig-HallumPowered by