Myers Industries Q2 2025 Earnings Report

Myers Industries EPS Results

• Actual EPS: $0.31
• Consensus EPS: $0.32
• Beat/Miss: Missed by -$0.01
• One Year Ago EPS: N/A

Myers Industries Revenue Results

• Actual Revenue: $209.58 million
• Expected Revenue: $220.60 million
• Beat/Miss: Missed by -$11.02 million
• YoY Revenue Growth: N/A

Myers Industries Announcement Details

• Quarter: Q2 2025
• Date: 7/31/2025
• Time: Before Market Opens
• Conference Call Date: Thursday, July 31, 2025
• Conference Call Time: 8:30AM ET

Myers Industries (NYSE:MYE) engages in distribution of tire service supplies in Ohio. It operates through two segments, The Material Handling and Distribution. The Material Handling segment offers pallets, small parts bins, bulk shipping containers, and OEM parts, as well as storage and organization, and custom plastic products; and injection molded, rotationally molded or blow molded products, consumer fuel containers and tanks for water, fuel, and waste handling. It serves industrial manufacturing, food processing, retail/wholesale products distribution, agriculture, automotive, recreational and marine vehicles, healthcare, appliance, bakery, electronics, textiles, consumer markets, and other markets under Akro-Mils, Jamco, Buckhorn, Ameri-Kart, Scepter, Elkhart Plastics, Trilogy Plastics, and Signature Systems brands directly to end-users, as well as through distributors. The Distribution segment engages in the distribution of tools, equipment, and supplies for tire, wheel, and under-vehicle service on passenger, heavy truck, and off-road vehicles; and manufacture and sale of tire repair materials and custom rubber products, as well as reflective highway marking tapes under the Myers Tire Supply, Myers Tire Supply International, Tuffy Manufacturing, Mohawk Rubber Sales, Patch Rubber Company, Elrick, Fleetline, MTS, Seymoure, Advance Traffic Markings, and MXP brands. This segment serves retail and truck tire dealers, commercial auto and truck fleets, auto dealers, general service and repair centers, tire re-treaders, truck stop operations, and government agencies. Myers Industries, Inc. was founded in 1933 and is headquartered in Akron, Ohio.

Myers Industries Q2 2025 Earnings Call Transcript

Key Takeaways

• Negative Sentiment: For Q2, net sales were down 4.8% year-over-year to $209,600,000, driven by weaker demand in vehicle and automotive aftermarket.
• Positive Sentiment: The Board has launched a strategic review of the Myers Tire Supply business and will idle 2 of 9 rotational molding plants, targeting $3,000,000 in annual savings.
• Positive Sentiment: Management has achieved $18,000,000 of its $20,000,000 cost reduction goal through SG&A cuts, workforce reductions and footprint consolidation, with full-year target in sight.
• Positive Sentiment: Q2 free cash flow rose to $24,700,000, enabling a $13,000,000 debt reduction and $1,500,000 in share repurchases year-to-date.
• Neutral Sentiment: Outlook remains mixed: strong backlogs in industrial (military) and infrastructure markets support second-half growth, while vehicle and automotive aftermarket are expected to stay soft.

Presentation

[Operator]

Good morning. Thank you for joining today's Myers twenty twenty five Second Quarter Earnings Results Call. My name is Makayah, and I'll be the moderator for today's call. All lines will be muted during the presentation portion of the call with an opportunity for your questions and answers at the end. At this time, I'd like to pass the call over to our host, Megan Beringer. Megan, you may begin today's call.

[Meghan Beringer, Senior Director - IR at Myers Industries]

Thank you. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to Meyer's second quarter twenty twenty five earnings review. Joining me today are Aaron Shopper, President and Chief Executive Officer and Dan Hohen, Vice President, Corporate Controller and Interim Chief Financial Officer. After the prepared remarks, we will host a question and answer session. Earlier this morning, we issued a press release outlining our second quarter financial results.

[Meghan Beringer, Senior Director - IR at Myers Industries]

In addition, a presentation to accompany today's prepared remarks has been posted. Both documents are available on the Investor Relations section of our website at myersindustries.com. This call is being webcast live on our website and will be archived along with a transcript of the call shortly after this event. Please turn to Slide three of the presentation for our safe harbor disclosures. I would like to remind you that we may make some forward looking statements during this call.

[Meghan Beringer, Senior Director - IR at Myers Industries]

These comments are made pursuant to the Safe Harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such statements are based on management's current expectations and involve risks, uncertainties and other factors, which may cause results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in these statements. Further, information concerning these risks, uncertainties and other factors are set forth in the company's periodic SEC filings. Also, please be advised that certain non GAAP financial measures such as adjusted gross profit, adjusted operating income, adjusted EBITDA and adjusted earnings per share may be discussed on this call. Please turn to Slide five of our presentation as I will now turn the call over to Aaron.

[Aaron Schapper, President, CEO & Director at Myers Industries]

Thank you, Megan. Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us. I will begin today's call with a review of our second quarter, then I will provide an update on our focused transformation, including the announcements to accelerate our progress that we published this morning in our press release. Following my comments, Dan will provide a detailed review of second quarter financials and our outlook for the year. Second quarter revenue was lower year over year.

[Aaron Schapper, President, CEO & Director at Myers Industries]

We achieved strong growth in certain applications, notably in industrial, where demand for our military products remain healthy. However, we did encounter demand headwinds in most other end markets, primarily in vehicle and automotive aftermarket, resulting in lower sales across both segments. As Dan will detail in a few moments, we believe some of the softness is timing related. Our outlook for the second half of the year is positive, backed by our substantial backlog primarily in industrial markets, especially military, as well as infrastructure projects. We remain encouraged by the longer term trends within our markets.

[Aaron Schapper, President, CEO & Director at Myers Industries]

We demonstrated progress against our goal to reduce SG and A, bringing those expenses down year over year and keeping us on pace to achieve our targeted $20,000,000 cost reduction, primarily SG and A by the end of this year. For the quarter, we earned $0.26 per share, adjusted EPS was $0.31 I'm pleased with the way our team has navigated challenging end market environments and remain confident that we are on track to improve performance. Turning to Slide six, I would like to provide an update on our focused transformation program. We introduced this initiative earlier this year to improve our performance and deliver more consistent and reliable results. Today, we announced three actions that we believe will accelerate our transformation and bring us closer to obtaining our goals.

[Aaron Schapper, President, CEO & Director at Myers Industries]

I would like to discuss each of these. First, our Board of Directors has approved launching a strategic review of our Myers Tire Supply business that serves automotive aftermarket. The history of our company cannot be told without Myers Tire Supply business. MTS is where the company began here in Akron, where we are headquartered. It is a business with strong market position, leading brand with loyal customers, and great people.

[Aaron Schapper, President, CEO & Director at Myers Industries]

However, as we move forward with our focused transformation and create a portfolio of businesses that align with our mission of protecting assets from the ground up and provide us with the opportunity to apply our competitive advantages for high return applications, we have determined that this business may achieve greater success under different ownership where it can benefit from focused investment. One of our focused transformation objectives is to create clear strategies to improve the profitability of our overall portfolio. The strategic review process we are launching will enable us to achieve this as well as simplify and focus our portfolio on core businesses that align with our mission. The second update we are providing today is the consolidation of our rotational molding production capacity. We have reviewed our operating footprint and decided that we will idle two of our nine rotational molding facilities, better utilizing our operating assets.

[Aaron Schapper, President, CEO & Director at Myers Industries]

These actions will result in annual savings of at least $3,000,000 Production from these facilities will be consolidated into other facilities as needed. Lastly, we are on track to deliver $20,000,000 in cost savings, primarily SG and A, by the 2025. With the manufacturing consolidation, we have line of sight to $18,000,000 well on our way to our $20,000,000 goal. With six months left, we feel confident in achieving this full year target. With those three announcements as a backdrop, let us turn to slide seven and review the four objectives of our focused transformation program and summarize our progress.

[Aaron Schapper, President, CEO & Director at Myers Industries]

We start with establishing a culture of execution and accountability to drive performance. Across the organization, we are emphasizing lean principles to drive clear, efficient processes. We are already seeing positive impacts from this focus as the team creates and rallies behind action plans that get us back on track to prioritize work that adds profit. This leads us to our second objective, to create clear strategies with action plans and specific KPIs to improve the profitability of our entire portfolio. A significant step in meeting this objective is the MTS strategic review.

[Aaron Schapper, President, CEO & Director at Myers Industries]

Completing this will enable us to devote more resources and effort to driving performance in the remaining businesses and target our investments to high growth markets aligned with our competitive advantages. Our third objective is to deliver consistent and reliable results by effectively controlling what we can control. I already discussed our path to achieving the $20,000,000 target with the majority of savings driven by organizational and footprint consolidations, followed by a reduction in outside services. The team is doing a great job of controlling costs, and I'm confident will help us significantly improve our margin profile. Our fourth and final objective is to optimize cash flow and support disciplined capital allocation deployment.

[Aaron Schapper, President, CEO & Director at Myers Industries]

We are proud to report strong free cash flow generation of $25,000,000 in the quarter. This allows us to continue investing in organic growth with CapEx of around 3% of sales and focusing on high growth opportunities that deliver superior returns. We also continue to ensure our balance sheet is strong with repayment of debt. We've established a good foundation with our disciplined and balanced capital allocation approach that we can build on to enhance shareholder value into the future. I am pleased with the progress we are making against our focused transformation objectives and confident in our team's ability to deliver improved financial results from the changes we are making.

[Aaron Schapper, President, CEO & Director at Myers Industries]

Turning to slide eight. We have made significant progress over the first six months of 2025. It is clear that 2025 is a year of focused transformation, one that began with building a strong foundation of corporate culture that drives high performance through execution and accountability. On top of this, we added financial discipline with $20,000,000 in cost savings and $10,000,000 share buyback program. With today's announcements, we have made a large significant step to simplify and focus our portfolio with the MTS strategic review.

[Aaron Schapper, President, CEO & Director at Myers Industries]

We are also rationalizing our operations with the consolidation of rotational molding production. Looking forward, we anticipate sharing more details with you before the 2025 on our updated strategy, including our platforms for growth, competitive advantages to differentiate Myers, strengths aligned to our high performing assets and value creation for our shareholders. This is an exciting time to be associated with Myers, and I'm excited to see what we'll be able to accomplish. With that, I will turn the call over to Dan to discuss our second quarter results and updated market outlook. Dan?

[Daniel Hoehn, Interim CFO & VP and Corporate Controller at Myers Industries]

Thank you, Aaron, and good morning, everyone. Turning to our financial results on Slide 10. Second quarter net sales were $209,600,000 down 4.8% from last year. Revenue was lower in both segments. Strong sales of our military products in our industrial end market were offset by lower sales in vehicle and automotive aftermarket.

[Daniel Hoehn, Interim CFO & VP and Corporate Controller at Myers Industries]

Remain confident in second half growth based on our strong backlogs for both military products in the industrial end market and for infrastructure products, along with continuing positive customer bookings. Adjusted gross margin fell two twenty basis points to 33.9 due to the lower volume, product sales mix and lower pricing primarily in the Distribution segment. Adjusted operating income decreased to $22,800,000 with margin compressing two twenty basis points to 10.9% of sales. We reduced adjusted SG and A expenses 5% keeping them essentially flat as a percentage of sales as we are beginning to see results from our focused transformation initiatives. As these actions continue to be completed, plus the expected benefit from the strategic moves that Aaron mentioned earlier, SG and A will continue to decrease through the balance of the year.

[Daniel Hoehn, Interim CFO & VP and Corporate Controller at Myers Industries]

When 2024 is normalized for incentive compensation and to include a full year of Signature results, we have taken actions to achieve $15,000,000 of run rate savings as of June. The production consolidation we announced today will bring us to $18,000,000 and we have a pipeline of opportunities to achieve the full $20,000,000 of run rate savings by the end of the year. To date, savings have primarily come from reduced workforce, most of which was implemented at the end of the second quarter, reductions in spend on outside services and reduced operating footprint. In connection with idling two of our nine rotational molding operating facilities, we expect costs of up to 14,000,000 including approximately $1,000,000 of cash costs, approximately $4,000,000 of non cash write downs and additional expected costs related to long term facility leases. Adjusted EBITDA margin was 15.7% and diluted adjusted earnings per share were $0.31 Turning to slide 11, Material Handling net sales were down 4.4% as strong sales of military products in our industrial end market were offset by lower volume in vehicle and other end markets.

[Daniel Hoehn, Interim CFO & VP and Corporate Controller at Myers Industries]

Within vehicle, we saw lower demand from heavy truck and auto manufacturers, while RV and marine remained flat. Within food and beverage, the cyclically low seed box demand continued, but we expect that demand to improve in the second half. In addition, project timing and tariff driven order delays impacted the infrastructure end market during the quarter. Material Handling adjusted EBITDA margin was 23.9%, slightly lower than last year, primarily due to lower volumes and to a lesser extent pricing. Distribution net sales decreased 6% on lower pricing and also lower volume from our patch rubber business.

[Daniel Hoehn, Interim CFO & VP and Corporate Controller at Myers Industries]

Adjusted EBITDA margin was 4.8%. We are beginning to see market stabilization and the positive impact of actions we took in 2024 to reduce expense and improve margins, including distribution center consolidation. As a reminder, our Distribution segment includes Myers Tire Supply which had trailing twelve month sales of $189,000,000 as of June and Posh Rubber which had trailing twelve month sales of $26,000,000 including intercompany sales. Turning to slide 12, operating cash flow was $28,300,000 This is an improvement of $18,200,000 sequentially and $14,000,000 from the prior year on improved cash generation from working capital. CapEx was $3,600,000 which was slightly lower than the prior year.

[Daniel Hoehn, Interim CFO & VP and Corporate Controller at Myers Industries]

This resulted in free cash flow of $24,700,000 in the quarter, up $22,700,000 sequentially and up $14,800,000 from the prior year. At June 30, we had $239,700,000 of availability under our revolving credit facility and cash on hand of 41,300,000.0 providing us with additional flexibility to support our capital allocation priorities. Please turn to Slide 13. We reduced debt by $13,000,000 in the second quarter bringing total debt to $379,000,000 Our net leverage ratio was 2.8x. We remain committed to achieving our target ratio of 1.5x to 2.5x.

[Daniel Hoehn, Interim CFO & VP and Corporate Controller at Myers Industries]

We repurchased $500,000 in shares during the quarter bringing total year to date repurchases to $1,500,000 This leaves $8,500,000 available under our current authorization. We plan to continue making opportunistic share repurchases to complement our ongoing dividends as part of our capital allocation strategy to return cash to shareholders. Turning to Slide 14, we are reconfirming our market outlook for 2025 that was provided during our first quarter earnings call. We still see both risks and opportunities for the businesses and we'll continue to monitor end market conditions for impacts from tariffs or other factors that may influence demand trends. Let me review our expectations by market.

[Daniel Hoehn, Interim CFO & VP and Corporate Controller at Myers Industries]

Industrial should continue with moderate growth, driven by demand for military products as militaries around the world replenish their inventories as evidenced by a strong backlog. We now expect sales of our military products to exceed $40,000,000 for the full year of 2025. We expect sales growth to be partially offset by lower sales of bulk container and organizational products. In infrastructure, ongoing strong project spending supported by material conversion from wood matting should continue to support strong growth. This is reinforced by our strong backlog for these infrastructure products, along with an expanding customer base with new customers contributing over 20% of revenue so far this year, a pace ahead of what we saw in 2024.

[Daniel Hoehn, Interim CFO & VP and Corporate Controller at Myers Industries]

We expect the vehicle end market to be down as a result of economic uncertainty driven by developing tariff impacts. This end market includes RV, marine, heavy truck and automotive manufacturing customers. In consumer, we anticipate stable sales of fuel containers and an expected return to a more normalized storm season. As a reminder, hurricane driven sales are largely dependent on the location and preparation time for approaching storms. Our food and beverage end market, which includes agriculture is projected to be stable for the full year.

[Daniel Hoehn, Interim CFO & VP and Corporate Controller at Myers Industries]

While there have been headwinds with some of our food processing customers, we are currently expecting second half improvement with our agricultural customers led by feed boxes. Automotive aftermarket distribution is expected to be slightly down. We are working to stabilize this business as we improve our cost structure, pricing, sales territory alignment and digital sales strategy. We will continue to look for opportunities to expand our market presence and deliver solutions to our customers. At the same time, we expect financial results to improve as we make progress on our focused transformation.

[Daniel Hoehn, Interim CFO & VP and Corporate Controller at Myers Industries]

I would now like to turn the call back to Aaron for some closing comments before we take your questions. Aaron?

[Aaron Schapper, President, CEO & Director at Myers Industries]

Thank you, Dan. We've made significant progress over the first six months of our focused transformation journey. The pace of our progress accelerated with today's announcements regarding the strategic review of MTS, rotational molding production capacity consolidation and confirmation of achieving our cost reduction goals. While these actions will not complete our transformation, they bring us much closer to our goals. With strong support and leadership from our board of directors, we are clarifying our mission and laying a solid foundation upon which we are building our long term strategy.

[Aaron Schapper, President, CEO & Director at Myers Industries]

I'm very pleased with our progress and more confident on our journey to a success. With that, I'd like to turn the call over to the operator for questions.

[Operator]

Thank you. We will now begin today's Q and A session. The first question is from the line of Christian Gala with KeyCorp. You may begin.

[Christian Zyla, Senior Associate Equity Research at KeyBanc Capital Markets]

Good morning, everyone. Very exciting news in your PR today. Aaron, you launched the market transformation a couple of quarters ago, and it's clear you really meant it. Just first question, was there a final straw that broke the camel's back that got you to this point? Or was it a culmination of what you're seeing in your business and the market?

[Christian Zyla, Senior Associate Equity Research at KeyBanc Capital Markets]

Just any overall thoughts of the process of how you got here.

[Aaron Schapper, President, CEO & Director at Myers Industries]

Yeah. So, you know, this you know, the MTS piece has has been a, it's been an internal topic of discussion for some time. You know? So coming in here you know, I grew up in manufacturing. Manufacturing, my background, but I really knew kind of the the agriculture and more of the infrastructure businesses.

[Aaron Schapper, President, CEO & Director at Myers Industries]

And so with my move to Myers, I really felt the need to take some time to learn the auto industry, and, that primarily meant gathering data, gathering inputs and opinions from, people that knew the business, knew it better than I did, and to make sure that I I spent time meeting with customers, meeting with stakeholders, and meeting with our board and just gathering all the data needed for the decision to, you know, do the strategic review for MTS. And so, you know you know, the first six months was really just to take the proper time to do the evaluation, Christian.

[Christian Zyla, Senior Associate Equity Research at KeyBanc Capital Markets]

Got it. Understood. Again, exciting news. Regardless of what happens, it's good to see actual changes being talked about and coming to fruition. I guess next question is just on the backlog.

[Christian Zyla, Senior Associate Equity Research at KeyBanc Capital Markets]

This is probably one of the first times we've heard you guys talking about a backlog, and it's very encouraging to see the soft guidance for 3Q sales. How big is the backlog relative to sales? And how much visibility does that give you? Is that backlog primarily signature related? Or have you seen order patterns changing?

[Christian Zyla, Senior Associate Equity Research at KeyBanc Capital Markets]

Or is there something different that's being changed with customer order patterns?

[Daniel Hoehn, Interim CFO & VP and Corporate Controller at Myers Industries]

So when we think about our infrastructure sales, so for the composite matting, right, those tend to be large projects. So you get a little bit of visibility into how those are going to unfold. So for that business and as we grow in military, we'll see more backlog in those specific areas. I think for the other businesses, it depends, and we see a lot more kind of book and bill as we go. So we're really encouraged by the large backlog that we're seeing in those two areas, and it does give us a lot of confidence as we go into the back half.

[Christian Zyla, Senior Associate Equity Research at KeyBanc Capital Markets]

Got it. And if I could just sneak in one more question. Free cash flow of $25,000,000 in the quarter was exceptionally strong. What drove that? Is there some seasonality in there that we should be thinking of?

[Christian Zyla, Senior Associate Equity Research at KeyBanc Capital Markets]

And then just bigger picture, can you give us a sense of what you could or should do annually for free cash flow, assuming both scenarios of keeping or not keeping distribution within Myers? Just how do we think about your annual potential? Thank you so much.

[Daniel Hoehn, Interim CFO & VP and Corporate Controller at Myers Industries]

Yes. So obviously, I think the cash flow is indicative of what we can and should be doing, right? Remember, we talked about timing in the last quarter. We clearly made that up and then some a little bit. Historically, we've had a little bit more cash flow in the back half.

[Daniel Hoehn, Interim CFO & VP and Corporate Controller at Myers Industries]

So as you think about that, I expect similar trends this year. Now there can be timing from quarter to quarter. As I mentioned, with some of these large backlog orders, they tend to ship in large chunks as well. So any one quarter might not be indicative. But on a general trend, I think we're showing what the business can do.

[Daniel Hoehn, Interim CFO & VP and Corporate Controller at Myers Industries]

I think the if you look at the EBITDA mix between our two segments, you can get an idea of what that does with our cash flow with and without MCS.

[Christian Zyla, Senior Associate Equity Research at KeyBanc Capital Markets]

Got it. Thanks a lot. And excited to see the new Myers.

[Aaron Schapper, President, CEO & Director at Myers Industries]

You too.

[Daniel Hoehn, Interim CFO & VP and Corporate Controller at Myers Industries]

Thanks, Christian.

[Operator]

Thank you. The next question is from the line of Anna Sejali with Gabelli and Company Incorporated. You may begin.

[A. Carolina Jolly, Senior Research Analyst at Gabelli Funds]

Great. Thanks for taking my question. It's Carolina. Just, I guess,

[Meghan Beringer, Senior Director - IR at Myers Industries]

the first

[A. Carolina Jolly, Senior Research Analyst at Gabelli Funds]

one, what gives you confidence, I think, in the rebound in seed boxes in the second half of the year?

[Aaron Schapper, President, CEO & Director at Myers Industries]

Yeah. So, you know, really, it comes from our customers, you know, looking at what our customers' demand is in the back half of the year. And, you know, we'll look they will put in orders and give us an indication of kind of the the seed box need that they're gonna need. And, we've already been working on orders for replacement, parts as well. So when we look at the replacement parts, it it it gives us a kind of a a general idea that that the the back half of

[Daniel Hoehn, Interim CFO & VP and Corporate Controller at Myers Industries]

the year.

[Aaron Schapper, President, CEO & Director at Myers Industries]

The normal seasonality for those seed boxes is, the back half of the year anyway. And so it's good we kinda, you know, get feedback from our customers, understand what they're seeing out there, and and and that's what gives us confidence in back half of the year. We'll be better on the feedback side.

[A. Carolina Jolly, Senior Research Analyst at Gabelli Funds]

Perfect. Thanks. And then, also, I know, the Signature acquisition was back in the 2024, But I'd still just be interested in any commentary on how how the the company is being integrated and the progress there.

[Aaron Schapper, President, CEO & Director at Myers Industries]

Yeah. You know, once the signature, culture is is a great add to, Myers in general. We're we're happy to have them on board. I think that they bring a unique set of operational, talents that we're actually able to really utilize across, more of our material handling footprint. So what you're gonna see is, you know, the the the talented operations folks are, you know, working with with our rest of the Myers industry operations group to share best practices and do what they do best, and then Myers teaches them what we do best.

[Aaron Schapper, President, CEO & Director at Myers Industries]

So I think between the two, it's it really is a good synergy of operations and looking at the operations side of the business. Additionally, having, you know, Signature adds a real, growth opportunity for us in the infrastructure side of the business. Obviously, you know, my background on the infrastructure side, you know, is complimentary. So we're really excited to, take signature and and, grow that business and look at other growth opportunities in the year. And, we're also excited to, you know, be talking about that.

[Aaron Schapper, President, CEO & Director at Myers Industries]

I mean, we we talked about doing a strategic review later in, November. So we're excited to come back and, talk to you and the market about what we're doing in the infrastructure business and how we intend to grow and, intend to grow our, portfolio on that side of the business.

[A. Carolina Jolly, Senior Research Analyst at Gabelli Funds]

Great. Thank you.

[Operator]

The next question is from the line of William Dezellem with Titan Capital Management. You may begin.

[Bill Dezellem, Founder, President & Chief Investment Officer at Tieton Capital Management]

Thank you. That's Bill Dezellem. And let me switch to Signature's tariff impact. Did we hear correctly in the opening remarks that there was some weakness tied to tariffs? And if so, would you help us understand the mechanics of how that impact happened?

[Daniel Hoehn, Interim CFO & VP and Corporate Controller at Myers Industries]

Yes. Sure, Bill. I think when we think about the tariffs, it's a similar story to what we talked about in the past in that our input costs are largely unaffected. We have a small amount within the distribution business. But we do have a small but growing part of export sales.

[Daniel Hoehn, Interim CFO & VP and Corporate Controller at Myers Industries]

And what we've seen is some customers kind of delaying purchases as they just wait for some certainty or weigh those additional tariff costs. So there's still a lot of interest in our product for the applications that our customers are using, and they're just it kind of affect the timing of those sales or has affected the timing of those sales.

[Aaron Schapper, President, CEO & Director at Myers Industries]

Yeah. And Bill, as we expect some of these kind of tariff resolutions as we're kind of rolling through the summer, I mean, we're hoping that those are disconnections in the market on short term basis. But Signature does have an export business, and it was affected by kind of that uncertainty in the quarter. So

[Bill Dezellem, Founder, President & Chief Investment Officer at Tieton Capital Management]

And has that has that cleared up, or is there still enough uncertainty? May maybe I should ask, where are those sales going? And I guess the clarity will be whether the we have a final deal or not with those countries.

[Aaron Schapper, President, CEO & Director at Myers Industries]

Yeah. Specifically, they're really that one was, both Europe and and Canada at the time. And so we do have some resolution, which is good, both with the the latest Europe, resolution. So we do have some resolution, so we hope to not have those kind of disconnects in the next quarter.

[Bill Dezellem, Founder, President & Chief Investment Officer at Tieton Capital Management]

And then, just taking this one step further. If, is there a level of tariff that's currently being talked about, with Canada, in particular that would essentially eliminate those sales, and so, that's a that's a a risk that you have to deal with? Or or is that not a factor here?

[Aaron Schapper, President, CEO & Director at Myers Industries]

No. I I don't believe that'll be a a a big factor going forward. You know, I I think that, you know, when you were going through the different pieces and parts of the of the tariffs, I think more than anything else, people just want resolution one way or the other, and then I think the the market stabilized. We're we're comfortable with our position in the market. We're comfortable with our pricing in the market.

[Aaron Schapper, President, CEO & Director at Myers Industries]

I think it's just you know, there's always, you know, caution and a little bit of uncertainty when you don't know what that that next, tariff rate's gonna be or by the time you get because these are look. Remember, these are backlog orders, and then, you know, when you get to the final, you know, projects that are usually planned well in advance. And so when you finally get to the final shipping, dates, you, you know, you wanna know that the policy is gonna be the same as what you, budgeted for. So when you look at it with that infrastructure lens and that kind of, backward lens, it makes a little more sense. It's you'd like to have that uncertainty that uncertainty of tariff rate out there.

[Aaron Schapper, President, CEO & Director at Myers Industries]

And so as we kind of get the resolution, I think that that noise will go away.

[Bill Dezellem, Founder, President & Chief Investment Officer at Tieton Capital Management]

That's very helpful. Thank you, Aaron. And and then relative to the to the two, idled rotational molding lines, do you anticipate that if volume increases that those lines will be needed? Do you anticipate moving those lines to other locations? Fill us fill out the big picture on those on that situation for us, please.

[Aaron Schapper, President, CEO & Director at Myers Industries]

Yes. So there are two rotational moting plants, not just production lines that are gonna be idled. So, look, the rotational molding kind of operational footprint was was built, you know, during a really strong automotive, very strong RV backdrop in lens, whether it's, pretty brisk, market conditions at the time. And so just looking at the operational footprint and especially looking at, when we look at OEs and other operational metrics, you know, we as we could do a lot more with the footprint that we currently have. So, you know, and and looking at efficiencies and looking at the side of those, two plants were needed that they're not needed at this time.

[Aaron Schapper, President, CEO & Director at Myers Industries]

Now, obviously, we have options, and we always like to keep our options open on the on the backside for those plants in the future. But right now, that that capacity is not needed. And so, you know, our our our customers have also been looking closely at capacity. We're just aligning with our customers' needs and making sure that we provide the most efficient operational structure for them.

[Bill Dezellem, Founder, President & Chief Investment Officer at Tieton Capital Management]

And and those two plants are, are they owned or leased? Trying to understand how you're thinking about the physical facilities with time.

[Aaron Schapper, President, CEO & Director at Myers Industries]

Yes. They're two leased facilities.

[Bill Dezellem, Founder, President & Chief Investment Officer at Tieton Capital Management]

Great. Thank you.

[Aaron Schapper, President, CEO & Director at Myers Industries]

Thanks, Bill.

[Operator]

Thank you. There are currently no questions registered. There are currently no questions registered at this time. I would like to pass the call back over to Megan for any further remarks.

[Meghan Beringer, Senior Director - IR at Myers Industries]

Thank you for joining us today. If you'd like to continue the conversation, my contact information can be found on the final slide of this presentation. We look forward to staying in touch. With that, we'll conclude the call. Have a great day.

[Operator]

Thank you all. This now concludes today's call. We appreciate your participation, and you may now disconnect your line.

Participants

Executives

• Meghan Beringer, Senior Director - IR
• Aaron Schapper, President, CEO & Director
• Daniel Hoehn, Interim CFO & VP and Corporate Controller

Analysts

• Christian Zyla, Senior Associate Equity Research at KeyBanc Capital Markets
• A. Carolina Jolly, Senior Research Analyst at Gabelli Funds
• Bill Dezellem, Founder, President & Chief Investment Officer at Tieton Capital Management