NASDAQ:LYTS LSI Industries Q4 2025 Earnings Report $21.25 +0.31 (+1.48%) Closing price 10/2/2026 04:00 PM EasternExtended Trading$21.26 +0.02 (+0.07%) As of 10/2/2026 07:30 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 LSI Industries EPS ResultsActual EPS$0.26Consensus EPS $0.17Beat/MissBeat by +$0.09One Year Ago EPSN/ALSI Industries Revenue ResultsActual Revenue$155.07 millionExpected Revenue$138.89 millionBeat/MissBeat by +$16.17 millionYoY Revenue GrowthN/ALSI Industries Announcement DetailsQuarterQ4 2025Date8/21/2025TimeBefore Market OpensConference Call DateThursday, August 21, 2025Conference Call Time11:00AM ETUpcoming EarningsLSI Industries' Q1 2027 earnings is estimated for Thursday, November 5, 2026, based on past reporting schedules, with a conference call scheduled at 11:00 AM ET. Check back for transcripts, audio, and key financial metrics as they become available.Conference Call ResourcesConference Call AudioConference Call TranscriptSlide DeckPress Release (8-K)Annual Report (10-K)Earnings HistoryCompany ProfileSlide DeckFull Screen Slide DeckPowered by LSI Industries Q4 2025 Earnings Call TranscriptProvided by QuartrAugust 21, 2025ShareShareShare This ReportLink copied to clipboard.Key Takeaways Positive Sentiment: LSI reported Q4 sales of $155 million (up 20% YoY) and full-year sales of $574 million (up 22%), with adjusted EBITDA of $55 million (≈10% of sales) and net debt leverage at 0.8x. Positive Sentiment: The company launched over 25 new lighting products in FY25, notably the Velocity Lighting line, while its Display Solutions segment maintains a robust project pipeline into FY26. Positive Sentiment: Acquisitions of EMI and Canada’s Best have outperformed initial expectations, delivering record sales and profits and accelerating cross-selling opportunities across LSI’s platforms. Positive Sentiment: Order momentum remains strong with Q4 orders up 11% and a year-end backlog 13% above prior year, underpinning continued stability in grocery, C-store, and other verticals. Negative Sentiment: Tariff pressures on certain lighting components are expected to rise in early FY26, although management plans to offset most incremental costs through price adjustments and cost reductions. AI Generated. May Contain Errors.Conference Call Audio Live Call not available Earnings Conference CallLSI Industries Q4 202500:00 / 00:00Speed:1x1.25x1.5x2xThere are 6 speakers on the call. Speaker 500:00:00Greetings and welcome to the LSI Industries Inc. fourth quarter and fiscal year 2025 results conference call. 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, Mr. James E. Galeese, Chief Financial Officer. Thank you. You may begin. Speaker 400:00:35Welcome, everyone, and thank you for joining today's call. We issued a press release before the market opened this morning, detailing our fiscal 2025 fourth quarter and full-year results. In addition to this release, we also posted a conference call presentation in the Investor Relations section of our corporate website. Information contained in this presentation will be referenced throughout today's conference call, including our certain non-GAAP measures for improved transparency of our operating results. A complete reconciliation of GAAP and non-GAAP results is contained in our press release and 10-K. Please note that management's commentary and responses to questions on today's conference call may include forward-looking statements about our business outlook. Such statements involve risks and opportunities, and actual results could differ materially. I refer you to our Safe Harbor statement, which appears in this morning's press release, for more details. Speaker 400:01:40Today's call will begin with remarks summarizing our fiscal fourth quarter and full-year results. At the conclusion of these prepared remarks, we will open the line with questions. With that, I'll turn the call over to LSI President and Chief Executive Officer Jim Clark. Speaker 200:02:00Thank you, Jim, and good morning all. I appreciate you taking the time to join us today. This morning, we'll be discussing our fourth quarter and full-year fiscal 2025 results. As many of you likely saw in our earnings release this morning, we closed the year with a strong fourth quarter marked by a sales increase of just over 20%, driven by solid performance in both our lighting and display solution segments. For the full year, we reported total sales just over $573 million, representing a 22% increase over the prior year. Adjusted EBITDA came in at $55 million, or nearly 10% of sales, reflecting consistent execution and a strong operating model. Importantly, free cash flow remained robust throughout the fourth quarter and the full year, resulting in a net debt leverage ratio of 0.8 times. Speaker 200:02:52This strong financial position provides us with flexibility to continue investing in growth, innovation, and operational efficiency. I'm extremely pleased with our performance in both the fourth quarter and the full-year fiscal year. The high level of execution across our teams was evident, and I'm proud of our company's ability to adapt in the face of various challenges and deliver strong results for our customers and our shareholders alike. In 2025, we made substantial progress across multiple areas of our business. One of our key areas of focus was product innovation, particularly in our lighting segment, where we successfully launched over 25 new products. A particular note was the launch of a Velocity Lighting product last year, which has been a resounding success. Speaker 200:03:39This product has effectively built on the momentum from our auto line without cannibalizing it or materially impacting existing sales, a strong indicator of healthy product vitality and of our customer demand. In our display solutions group, they also delivered an exceptional year, and the team remains busy with a robust pipeline of projects that will continue to roll into 2026. In our grocery segment, we saw a meaningful recovery and expanded presence within new areas of the store. Notably, we've engaged in several sizable projects within the bakery section, and we're seeing growing interest in the checkout area, categories where we've historically been limited. It's encouraging to see our customers placing their confidence in LSI Industries Inc. to deliver in these growing spaces, and we anticipate continued momentum in this segment as the order and project environment becomes more stable moving forward. Speaker 200:04:38From an integration standpoint, I'm very pleased with the progress we've made with both EMI and Canada’s Best Store Fixtures, two companies that are proving to be excellent additions to the LSI family. EMI, which has now been part of LSI for just over a year, delivered record sales and profits in 2025, despite experiencing some project delays with one of their larger customers. EMI has quickly become a key driver of cross-selling activity across the organization. The integration process has been smooth and highly complementary to EMI's strong internal culture. I want to take a moment to commend the EMI leadership team for their excellent work in steering the company to these new levels of performance. Similarly, Canada’s Best Store Fixtures, which joined us less than six months ago, has also shown impressive results early. Speaker 200:05:32Both of these businesses are currently performing above our original expectations, and we're thrilled how they've seamlessly integrated into our operations. At the heart of LSI's success is our culture, a culture built on maintaining a high say-to-do ratio. Quite simply, we strive to deliver on commitments we make. This focus extends not only to our customers and our shareholders, but also to our coworkers, suppliers, partners, agents, and many others who contribute to our shared successes. This culture of accountability and adaptability continues to be the key driver of our growth and execution excellence. I want to extend my sincere thanks to the entire LSI team for embracing this mindset and making 2025 a truly outstanding year. Looking ahead to fiscal 2026, we remain focused on advancing our fast-forward strategic plan. Speaker 200:06:27Internally, this will be a year of deep focus on our people, developing talent from within, optimizing internal business processes, and continuing to find ways to improve our day-to-day business. Our operations group has consistently set ambitious goals, and their embrace of continuous improvement continues to push us forward. There are still many opportunities ahead, and I'm eager to see what the team will accomplish in the coming year. On the sales front, our cross-selling initiative continues to gain traction. Our goal is to offer customers a broader, more integrated set of solutions, products, and services that meet their evolving needs. In many cases, the value proposition of sourcing multiple solutions from a single supplier like LSI Industries Inc. is very compelling, helping our customers reduce both cost and project complexity. Speaker 200:07:19By strengthening our cross-selling capabilities, we aim to deepen our customer relationships, increase our share of wallet, and drive sustainable incremental growth. This will remain a core element of our strategy in 2026 and beyond, and we're excited about the long-term opportunities it presents. In closing, I want to reiterate my sincere appreciation for the hard work, resilience, and dedication of the entire LSI Industries Inc. team. Your efforts have made 2025 a very successful year. I'm confident we are well-positioned to build on the momentum that we had in 2025 as we head into 2026 and continue advancing our fast-forward objectives. Thank you again for your commitment and your focus on delivering excellence each and every day. With that, I'll turn the call back over to James E. Galeese for a more detailed review of our financial performance. Speaker 400:08:13Thank you, Jim. We delivered a solid fiscal fourth quarter, capping a successful year for LSI Industries Inc. In summary, fourth quarter sales increased 20% to $155 million, adjusted EBITDA increased to $17 million, or 11% of sales, and adjusted earnings per share were $0.34. Organic growth, excluding the impact of acquisitions, increased 11% for the quarter. Fourth quarter performance improved both year over year and sequentially to Q3. At the end of Q3, we discussed a surge in store release activity following the resolution of the proposed merger in the grocery vertical and the resulting disruption and unfavorable productivity related to the ramp-up. Working closely with our customers, we have managed through the spike, and demand planning has stabilized. Improved throughput and productivity, combined with increased volume across our business, was responsible for the overall quarter-over-quarter 250 basis point improvement to adjusted EBITDA. Speaker 400:09:22The fourth quarter was accentuated by the balanced performance achieved across our two segments, lighting and display solutions. Both generated double-digit organic growth in the quarter, with lighting sales increasing 12% and display solutions increasing 10% on a comparable basis. This is the highest quarter of consistent performance across the two segments in fiscal 2025. Improved order activity continued in the fourth quarter, with total orders increasing 11% versus prior year, with a book-to-bill ratio of one, as orders matched a strong sales quarter. We exit the fiscal year with a backlog 13% above prior year. Looking at each segment individually, we're encouraged with the improved demand levels in the lighting segment, particularly the increase in larger project activity, as this section of the market has been down the last 12-plus months. Speaker 400:10:21Marked improvement was realized in the warehousing vertical, but upturns were realized in other markets, including automotive and outdoor applications. While project quote and order levels continue to fluctuate, overall Q4 orders increased 12% over prior year, and as a result, we exit the fourth quarter with a lighting backlog approximately 20% above last year. Operating income increased 32% in the quarter, driven by volume and consistent gross margin performance, a combination of effective price and cost management. Lighting incurred minimal tariff activity in the fourth quarter, as existing inventories were utilized in manufacturing. The impact will increase in fiscal Q1 as we consume components which were procured during the highest tariff period. The tariff is limited to just several component categories, and we expect to offset most incremental costs with previously implemented price adjustments and other cost reduction efforts. Speaker 400:11:28Shifting to the display solution segment, fourth quarter sales increased 28%, including the impact of acquisitions. Organic growth, excluding the impact of acquisitions, was 10%. Growth was realized across multiple market verticals. Comparable refueling C-Store sales increased 23% in the quarter, concluding a record year for this vertical. Site release activity for several large ongoing programs continues, coupled with smaller customer projects. Our revenue per site continues to increase, driven by the significant growth in sites where we provide both product and installation services. Our service revenue increased 65% in fiscal 2025, as more customers recognize the value of LSI Industries Inc.'s project management capabilities. Grocery sales increased 31% in the quarter, as grocers resume investments to in-store renovations. Production and store scheduling have stabilized, contributing to improved margin performance. We enter fiscal 2026 with a healthy grocery backlog. For the full year, fiscal 2025, LSI Industries Inc. Speaker 400:12:45sales increased to a record $574 million, or 22% year-over-year growth. Full-year adjusted EBITDA increased to $55 million, driven by our team's efforts throughout the year to effectively manage the integral business while operating in a dynamic market environment. Adjusted EPS for the year finished at $1.07. Improved earnings and working capital efficiency generated another year of solid free cash flow, totaling $34.6 million, our third consecutive year of cash flow exceeding $30 million. We utilize cash to support organic growth initiatives, invest in inorganic growth, acquiring Canada’s Best Store Fixtures in March of 2025, and debt reduction. LSI Industries Inc. exits fiscal 2025 with a healthy balance sheet, including a ratio of net debt to adjusted EBITDA of 0.8 times. We expect favorable cash generation to continue in fiscal 2026, positioning the business for further investments in both sales growth initiatives as well as strengthening our operational capabilities. Speaker 400:13:59A regular cash dividend of $0.05 per share was declared payable September 10th for shareholders of record on September 2nd. I will now turn the call back to the moderator for the question and answer session. Speaker 500:14:14Thank 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 poll for questions. Our first question comes from Aaron Spicella with Craig Hallum Capital Group. Please proceed with your question. Speaker 100:14:52Good morning, Jim and Jim. Thanks for taking the questions. First for me on C-Store and refueling, you mentioned your largest program getting 18 months of additional site release activity. Can you just talk about what that opportunity looks like for you, whether number of stations or dollar size, and then just more broadly, as we see more organic expansions and M&A in that space, how do you see overall growth in that vertical for the next year or two? Speaker 400:15:21Yeah, Aaron, thanks for calling. Thanks for the question. Jim Clark here. I can't tell you the dollar size, but I can tell you it's in the thousands of site locations. We're probably halfway to two-thirds of the way through the project at this point. When we start any of these large projects like this, there's a learning curve that goes through both for the customer and for us as we become more efficient in the deployment, become more efficient in the manufacturing, and we become more committed to the direction that we had decided to go in or the customer had decided to go in in terms of branding and the look and the feel. We're in the mature phase of that project right now. I expect that it'll continue well into 2026. Speaker 400:16:08As we've talked on our prior call and on even the call before that, we have others that are in the hopper. The gestation on these types of projects is usually 12 to 18 to sometimes 24 months. In a perfect world, we're kind of rolling into one, rolling off of one and rolling into another. Right now there's no commitment on another large project like this, but a lot in terms of possibility and projects that we're working on. We feel very encouraged. Speaker 100:16:43All right, great. Thanks for that. In grocery, good to hear that release and schedule activity stabilizing there. You noted a healthy backlog and strong production outlook. Has that market fully recovered after the merger fallout, or is there still more recovery to go? Same thing, how do you kind of see growth there, looking out for the next year plus? Speaker 400:17:05Yeah, I'd still say there's some turmoil relative to the market being completely recovered, but we're very happy with the place it is right now. The word I would use is kind of stable order process and much more stable kind of inquiry and project management. I think that us, along with the customers, as we go back to Q2, which would have been August, it would have been September, October, November timeframe last year, it was a big surge, right? There was a lot of deferred programs, there was a lot of deferred maintenance, and there was a big surge from a number of our customers. I think all of that has kind of stabilized now. Our workforce is stabilized to handle the current order rate and demand rate. I wouldn't say that the market had fully recovered yet. Speaker 400:17:59I think there's some potential upside there that still hasn't been fully released, but I would say the operative word would be stable at this point, and we're very happy with that. Speaker 100:18:10All right, good to hear. Maybe last for me on EMI, can you just talk about some of the cross-selling initiatives? It still sounds like it's early there. On margins, you noted the margin expansion. Are EBITDA margins there kind of high single digits, around 8%? Can you speak to confidence in getting to that 10% plus level over the next year and talk about some of the drivers to get there? Speaker 400:18:36Yeah, so EMI has been with us just over a year. We've made better than 200 basis points improvement from our starting plate, starting location. I think that we have a great plan for this fiscal year, 2026, which will get us another 200 or 200+ basis points. I think that the overall journey to get them performing like LSI Industries Inc. is very well established and in motion and feel very good about it. EMI has done a phenomenal job of integrating with us, the Senior Leadership Team there, Alan and David, fit very well. They see things the same way we see them, and we see things through their eyes, and it's just been a great fit along with the rest of the team there. Speaker 400:19:26I do think that they've come in with a level of momentum and excitement and their own team there to really help in the cross-selling initiative. We just had our board meeting yesterday and had a review on our cross-selling progress. I have to say, I'm very happy about it. There's a lot of work to do. It requires a lot of education internally, and then that education requires external communication to our customers and create the awareness of the additional solutions and products and opportunities that we can work with in terms of our customer base. All of it's in motion. None of this happens overnight, but I'm very excited and I'm happy with the progress we're making. Speaker 100:20:16Great. Thanks for taking the questions. I'll turn it over. Speaker 500:20:21Our next question comes from Alex Riggle with Texas Capital Securities. Please proceed with your question. Operator00:20:29Thanks. Good morning, Jim and Jim, and thanks for taking my questions. First off here, EBITDA margins were nicely back above 10% in the quarter. What's your comfort level with margins sort of staying at this level or going higher? Speaker 400:20:43Yeah, I mean, as we've talked before, we've made some decisions from everything from working capital to acquisitions to manufacturing processes to what we spend in capital and all those types of things that have our eye on the ball for our fast-forward 2028 plan. I think that what we've been able to demonstrate consistently, quarter over quarter, is our ability to be in the EBITDA margin ranges of 11% plus, and we have a plan to get there. With that said, we also make decisions that temporarily impact that EBITDA margin. EMI is a good example. We knew that they were an underperformer from a margin standpoint, but we also felt that working with them and them working with us, we had an opportunity to move that up. I think there's variation. Speaker 400:21:37You're going to see variations in the margin, and some of those are activities that we're executing in the background. I also think that the 11% becomes more normal, 11% plus becomes more normal than nine, and we continue that track up to 12.5% in 2028. Operator00:22:00That's great. How should we think about the total addressable market for bakery and checkout in the grocery channel relative to some of the other departments? Speaker 400:22:10The thing I would say is beyond our current ability to serve. The market is massive. We have always been a small player in that segment, but we've gotten larger project awards and larger project activity. In exchange for that, we've become more efficient. We've developed the processes and have the equipment to respond to our customers' needs. We have the design expertise in-house that gives us the opportunity to meet the current design goals of our customers and reflects the current market trends. We feel very good about it. It's pick and shovel work, but there's a lot of it out there. I think that we've certainly made a mark over the last couple of years in our ability to deliver and offer complementary products to our customers, whether they're newer projects or whether we become the mainstream supplier for them. Speaker 400:23:11I expect that there's a lot more room there for us. Operator00:23:16That's great. Thank you. Speaker 500:23:20Our next question comes from Amit Dayal with HC Wainwright. Please proceed with your question. Operator00:23:27Thank you. Good morning, everyone. Appreciate you taking my questions and congrats on another solid quarter. Jim, have any cross-selling benefits started to kick in yet, or do you expect these to come down the line, maybe in the next few quarters? Speaker 400:23:49Oh, absolutely. We've had success in our cross-selling initiatives. We are in the double-digit millions relative to those efforts, and we still feel as though we're on the early side of that. As I mentioned a minute ago, Amit, it's creating awareness internally, making sure we educate all our folks, creating the message that we can bring externally. We bring that message. It creates awareness to our customers. Our customers start to engage us in one, two, three, four, five segments of solutions within their businesses. This is a journey. I expect that it takes years for some customers to fully recognize and engage us in all of the products and solutions that we offer, from refrigerated solutions to dimensional graphics to standalone displays to installation to checkout counters. It is becoming a basket of solutions. Speaker 400:24:56I think our job right now is really about creating that awareness with our customer base. I'm proud of the work the sales and marketing team is doing, but it takes a while, right? It takes time for the customer to become aware. It takes some type of disruption from their current supplier. We need to continue to execute and demonstrate our ability to do it. We're on that path. I'm very happy with the progress we're making, and I think that we have years of opportunity in front of us, even with our current solution set, never mind what we add to it as we move forward. Operator00:25:34Thank you. At a more sort of higher level, the story seems to be getting more closely associated with the retail side of things. What are the risks? You've had some good growth this year, partly helped by acquisitions, but going forward, if the consumer slows down and some of these spending-related initiatives slow down, how should investors think about your exposure and whether you may still have other retail opportunities or opportunities closer to the consumer that haven't been explored yet? Just trying to get a sense of how the company's position is relative to some of the macro themes in which it is playing. Speaker 400:26:19Yeah, you know, we've talked about this since we put together our first version of our fast-forward plan, picking key verticals that we think have long-term growth potential. We don't see any disruption in the verticals we're in. Our original thesis still shows many years, maybe even up to a decade of growth. We feel they'll outperform many of the markets that we're tangently in or that we've historically been in. We also feel like we have pretty good diversification, even though, as you mentioned, there's a lot of retail exposure. It's fairly diversified, right? The customer and the customer activity that's in the QSR, quick serve, food side of things is the same customer that goes into the grocery market. It's the same customer that goes into the refueling and the same customer that goes into automotive. Speaker 400:27:18The buying catalysts and the engagement in them are all kind of different. We don't see, we don't really feel a threat that one type of activity, one type of market reaction, would have a broad effect over all of them. Where one goes down, we feel in many cases where one goes down, it drives another one up. We have fairly good balance. Even though we're in that retail sector, if you will, I think diversification and balance are key elements that have been ingrained in our plan and continue to remain as we kind of viewed them a few years ago. Operator00:28:02Understood. That's fair. Yeah, that's all I have, guys. I'll take one of the questions offline. Thank you. Speaker 400:28:07Thank you, Amit. Speaker 500:28:09Our next question is from Leanne Hayden with Canaccord Genuity. Please proceed with your question. Speaker 300:28:16Morning, Jim and Jim. Thanks so much for taking my question. I'll just start off with a brief follow-up on the previous response. I believe on last quarter's earnings call, you mentioned a decent opportunity in the automotive vertical. Just wondering if you could provide any update on that and whether or not you've noticed any thematic changes in automotive representative discussions. Speaker 400:28:38I've talked about this over a few years. Automotive continues to be a market that we do very well in and has done very well for us. Our customer base is very diversified. The customers that are buying from us usually see they're looking kind of ahead and they're looking at their products. Some of those influences are right from the auto manufacturers themselves, where they understand that the right light over their product and consistency and uniformity are very important to them. I've mentioned it, they put hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars, into color combinations and interiors and things like that. When you see a new dynamic red color that a manufacturer has spent a lot of money, it feels like it's an engaging proposition to their customers. They want to make sure that's displayed right and that there's uniformity. Speaker 400:29:38It looks the same in one showroom as it does in the other, and it looks the same inside as it does outside. When I was younger, when I was in college, I worked at a car dealership, and I'll tell you, you could look at that exceptional red in the showroom and you walked outside at night and it was a washed-out pink. We deliver that consistency and uniformity. Much to our whole vertical market profile, we understand what's driving the customer's request. We're not providing a light that can fit auto applications. We're designing a light that's specified for auto applications. We feel very good about the automotive market. Many people have written the death of it from COVID right through e-commerce, and you're going to buy your cars pretty much off of your iPhone. Speaker 400:30:28We're finding that many of our customers really embrace the customer experience aspect of it. They're bringing the customers in and we're helping them make sure that their showrooms are demonstrating their product in a way that's creating uniformity, that's extenuating and highlighting the aspects that they're building into it. That starts in the parking lot. It moves into the showroom. It moves into the customer service area with great signage and digital graphics. It moves into the service area. If you look at service bays now, in some cases, they're as clean as kitchens. They are well-lit. The people in the service areas, it's a key area of revenue for these dealerships. Our full continuum in that and our ability to provide and service that market, we feel very good about it. I'll tell you another one that has picked up some steam a little bit lately is parking. Speaker 400:31:29We've always been in and out of parking. Obviously, coming out of COVID, parking has taken a backseat, but there is technology in parking. There are consumer experiences in parking. Lighting makes a difference. Display, signage, and all of those types of elements make a difference. We're very encouraged about momentum we're getting in some parking activities. All of everything auto-related for us right now is doing well. Speaker 300:31:59Got it. That's very helpful. Thank you so much. On a completely different note, I know you mentioned pending tariff impacts specifically in the first quarter of fiscal 2026. I'm curious about how you expect this to take shape throughout the coming quarters and how we can think about this tariff-driven margin impact on fiscal full year 2026. Speaker 400:32:19I wish I had a crystal ball to tell you how it was going to happen. I think that I mentioned before that probably the most challenging thing to deal with is the on-off, high-low scenarios. With all of that said, our display solution group as a whole will be minimally impacted by any tariffs. That's where you really see the made in America, built in America, sourced in America aspects really come to bear for us. I think it provides us what could provide us a great opportunity. Now, with that said, we're not total sales cost. On the lighting side, same type of formula, maybe a little bit more exposure in terms of electronic components, casted materials that are made overseas, and that type of thing. Still, far below what we see our competitors exposed to. Speaker 400:33:49I think on par, if you look at the company, we've been around that 50-50 mark lighting and display solutions. Minimal impact in display, almost negligible. Minimal impact in lighting, maybe a little bit more than display, but a lot less than many of our key competitors. I think net-net for us, it's an opportunity. Speaker 300:34:15Gotcha. That's very helpful. I'll just sneak in one more quick one if you both don't mind. This is a little bit more of a broad question about the competitive environment. Over the last decade or so, you've really carved out this categorical niche in lighting and display segments. I'm just curious how you view your market share relative to competitors and your positioning and what you expect going forward from a competitive environment perspective. Speaker 400:34:39I think it shifts depending on the market you're in. You know, we're very strong in the C-Store market, particularly from an image branding perspective. Our lighting sales are very strong in that market. We're creating great awareness of our other solutions, which are internal graphics and dimensional signage, refrigerated open-air refrigerated products, as well as closed-cased products, beverage centers, all of those types of things. I think we're on that awareness journey in that segment. You flip over to some of the others, like grocery. Grocery is a continuing expanding market for us. We just talked about some very large project activity in bakery and some other areas in the store, developing awareness in checkout counters. I would sum it up in saying that we have a lot of opportunity. I think that in some of these markets, we almost always have a seat at the opportunity. Speaker 400:35:44We don't always win every one. We win pieces of some and lose pieces of others. I think we have 10+ years of growth opportunity in these segments, and I believe overall these segments remain very healthy. I believe we're still a single-digit share player in many pieces of them. Speaker 300:36:09Got it. That's very helpful. Thank you both. I'll take the rest offline. Speaker 500:36:14We have reached the end of the question and answer session. I'd now like to turn the call back over to Jim Clark for closing comments. Speaker 400:36:22I think that our opening comments, Jim's review of the financial and financial performance and some of the market performance, these questions have really kind of ferreted out everything. We're very encouraged with the quarter we had. We feel we have momentum coming into our Q1 here. We're solidly entering 2026. I think our fast-forward plan is well established, a pathway for us to get there, both internally and externally. We remain very excited about the future here. I just want to say thank you. I said it in my notes, but I always take the opportunity this time of year to say thank you to our customers, thank you to our partners, our suppliers, our agents, and most importantly, to our people, the whole team at LSI Industries Inc. Great job. We're looking forward to a very solid 2026. Speaker 400:37:19Thank you to our shareholders who have continued confidence in us. With that, I'll turn the call back over to the moderator. Speaker 500:37:27Thank you. 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The company designs and manufactures indoor and outdoor lighting systems, digital signage, display products and related technologies for commercial and industrial customers. Its product portfolio includes LED lighting fixtures and controls, digital displays, petroleum and convenience-store signage, canopy systems, retail graphics, and sports lighting solutions. LSI Industries serves customers in markets such as convenience stores and fuel stations, retail, grocery, commercial facilities, sports venues, and other outdoor environments. The company’s solutions are used to support facility illumination, branding, wayfinding, advertising and customer engagement. 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There are 6 speakers on the call. Speaker 500:00:00Greetings and welcome to the LSI Industries Inc. fourth quarter and fiscal year 2025 results conference call. 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, Mr. James E. Galeese, Chief Financial Officer. Thank you. You may begin. Speaker 400:00:35Welcome, everyone, and thank you for joining today's call. We issued a press release before the market opened this morning, detailing our fiscal 2025 fourth quarter and full-year results. In addition to this release, we also posted a conference call presentation in the Investor Relations section of our corporate website. Information contained in this presentation will be referenced throughout today's conference call, including our certain non-GAAP measures for improved transparency of our operating results. A complete reconciliation of GAAP and non-GAAP results is contained in our press release and 10-K. Please note that management's commentary and responses to questions on today's conference call may include forward-looking statements about our business outlook. Such statements involve risks and opportunities, and actual results could differ materially. I refer you to our Safe Harbor statement, which appears in this morning's press release, for more details. Speaker 400:01:40Today's call will begin with remarks summarizing our fiscal fourth quarter and full-year results. At the conclusion of these prepared remarks, we will open the line with questions. With that, I'll turn the call over to LSI President and Chief Executive Officer Jim Clark. Speaker 200:02:00Thank you, Jim, and good morning all. I appreciate you taking the time to join us today. This morning, we'll be discussing our fourth quarter and full-year fiscal 2025 results. As many of you likely saw in our earnings release this morning, we closed the year with a strong fourth quarter marked by a sales increase of just over 20%, driven by solid performance in both our lighting and display solution segments. For the full year, we reported total sales just over $573 million, representing a 22% increase over the prior year. Adjusted EBITDA came in at $55 million, or nearly 10% of sales, reflecting consistent execution and a strong operating model. Importantly, free cash flow remained robust throughout the fourth quarter and the full year, resulting in a net debt leverage ratio of 0.8 times. Speaker 200:02:52This strong financial position provides us with flexibility to continue investing in growth, innovation, and operational efficiency. I'm extremely pleased with our performance in both the fourth quarter and the full-year fiscal year. The high level of execution across our teams was evident, and I'm proud of our company's ability to adapt in the face of various challenges and deliver strong results for our customers and our shareholders alike. In 2025, we made substantial progress across multiple areas of our business. One of our key areas of focus was product innovation, particularly in our lighting segment, where we successfully launched over 25 new products. A particular note was the launch of a Velocity Lighting product last year, which has been a resounding success. Speaker 200:03:39This product has effectively built on the momentum from our auto line without cannibalizing it or materially impacting existing sales, a strong indicator of healthy product vitality and of our customer demand. In our display solutions group, they also delivered an exceptional year, and the team remains busy with a robust pipeline of projects that will continue to roll into 2026. In our grocery segment, we saw a meaningful recovery and expanded presence within new areas of the store. Notably, we've engaged in several sizable projects within the bakery section, and we're seeing growing interest in the checkout area, categories where we've historically been limited. It's encouraging to see our customers placing their confidence in LSI Industries Inc. to deliver in these growing spaces, and we anticipate continued momentum in this segment as the order and project environment becomes more stable moving forward. Speaker 200:04:38From an integration standpoint, I'm very pleased with the progress we've made with both EMI and Canada’s Best Store Fixtures, two companies that are proving to be excellent additions to the LSI family. EMI, which has now been part of LSI for just over a year, delivered record sales and profits in 2025, despite experiencing some project delays with one of their larger customers. EMI has quickly become a key driver of cross-selling activity across the organization. The integration process has been smooth and highly complementary to EMI's strong internal culture. I want to take a moment to commend the EMI leadership team for their excellent work in steering the company to these new levels of performance. Similarly, Canada’s Best Store Fixtures, which joined us less than six months ago, has also shown impressive results early. Speaker 200:05:32Both of these businesses are currently performing above our original expectations, and we're thrilled how they've seamlessly integrated into our operations. At the heart of LSI's success is our culture, a culture built on maintaining a high say-to-do ratio. Quite simply, we strive to deliver on commitments we make. This focus extends not only to our customers and our shareholders, but also to our coworkers, suppliers, partners, agents, and many others who contribute to our shared successes. This culture of accountability and adaptability continues to be the key driver of our growth and execution excellence. I want to extend my sincere thanks to the entire LSI team for embracing this mindset and making 2025 a truly outstanding year. Looking ahead to fiscal 2026, we remain focused on advancing our fast-forward strategic plan. Speaker 200:06:27Internally, this will be a year of deep focus on our people, developing talent from within, optimizing internal business processes, and continuing to find ways to improve our day-to-day business. Our operations group has consistently set ambitious goals, and their embrace of continuous improvement continues to push us forward. There are still many opportunities ahead, and I'm eager to see what the team will accomplish in the coming year. On the sales front, our cross-selling initiative continues to gain traction. Our goal is to offer customers a broader, more integrated set of solutions, products, and services that meet their evolving needs. In many cases, the value proposition of sourcing multiple solutions from a single supplier like LSI Industries Inc. is very compelling, helping our customers reduce both cost and project complexity. Speaker 200:07:19By strengthening our cross-selling capabilities, we aim to deepen our customer relationships, increase our share of wallet, and drive sustainable incremental growth. This will remain a core element of our strategy in 2026 and beyond, and we're excited about the long-term opportunities it presents. In closing, I want to reiterate my sincere appreciation for the hard work, resilience, and dedication of the entire LSI Industries Inc. team. Your efforts have made 2025 a very successful year. I'm confident we are well-positioned to build on the momentum that we had in 2025 as we head into 2026 and continue advancing our fast-forward objectives. Thank you again for your commitment and your focus on delivering excellence each and every day. With that, I'll turn the call back over to James E. Galeese for a more detailed review of our financial performance. Speaker 400:08:13Thank you, Jim. We delivered a solid fiscal fourth quarter, capping a successful year for LSI Industries Inc. In summary, fourth quarter sales increased 20% to $155 million, adjusted EBITDA increased to $17 million, or 11% of sales, and adjusted earnings per share were $0.34. Organic growth, excluding the impact of acquisitions, increased 11% for the quarter. Fourth quarter performance improved both year over year and sequentially to Q3. At the end of Q3, we discussed a surge in store release activity following the resolution of the proposed merger in the grocery vertical and the resulting disruption and unfavorable productivity related to the ramp-up. Working closely with our customers, we have managed through the spike, and demand planning has stabilized. Improved throughput and productivity, combined with increased volume across our business, was responsible for the overall quarter-over-quarter 250 basis point improvement to adjusted EBITDA. Speaker 400:09:22The fourth quarter was accentuated by the balanced performance achieved across our two segments, lighting and display solutions. Both generated double-digit organic growth in the quarter, with lighting sales increasing 12% and display solutions increasing 10% on a comparable basis. This is the highest quarter of consistent performance across the two segments in fiscal 2025. Improved order activity continued in the fourth quarter, with total orders increasing 11% versus prior year, with a book-to-bill ratio of one, as orders matched a strong sales quarter. We exit the fiscal year with a backlog 13% above prior year. Looking at each segment individually, we're encouraged with the improved demand levels in the lighting segment, particularly the increase in larger project activity, as this section of the market has been down the last 12-plus months. Speaker 400:10:21Marked improvement was realized in the warehousing vertical, but upturns were realized in other markets, including automotive and outdoor applications. While project quote and order levels continue to fluctuate, overall Q4 orders increased 12% over prior year, and as a result, we exit the fourth quarter with a lighting backlog approximately 20% above last year. Operating income increased 32% in the quarter, driven by volume and consistent gross margin performance, a combination of effective price and cost management. Lighting incurred minimal tariff activity in the fourth quarter, as existing inventories were utilized in manufacturing. The impact will increase in fiscal Q1 as we consume components which were procured during the highest tariff period. The tariff is limited to just several component categories, and we expect to offset most incremental costs with previously implemented price adjustments and other cost reduction efforts. Speaker 400:11:28Shifting to the display solution segment, fourth quarter sales increased 28%, including the impact of acquisitions. Organic growth, excluding the impact of acquisitions, was 10%. Growth was realized across multiple market verticals. Comparable refueling C-Store sales increased 23% in the quarter, concluding a record year for this vertical. Site release activity for several large ongoing programs continues, coupled with smaller customer projects. Our revenue per site continues to increase, driven by the significant growth in sites where we provide both product and installation services. Our service revenue increased 65% in fiscal 2025, as more customers recognize the value of LSI Industries Inc.'s project management capabilities. Grocery sales increased 31% in the quarter, as grocers resume investments to in-store renovations. Production and store scheduling have stabilized, contributing to improved margin performance. We enter fiscal 2026 with a healthy grocery backlog. For the full year, fiscal 2025, LSI Industries Inc. Speaker 400:12:45sales increased to a record $574 million, or 22% year-over-year growth. Full-year adjusted EBITDA increased to $55 million, driven by our team's efforts throughout the year to effectively manage the integral business while operating in a dynamic market environment. Adjusted EPS for the year finished at $1.07. Improved earnings and working capital efficiency generated another year of solid free cash flow, totaling $34.6 million, our third consecutive year of cash flow exceeding $30 million. We utilize cash to support organic growth initiatives, invest in inorganic growth, acquiring Canada’s Best Store Fixtures in March of 2025, and debt reduction. LSI Industries Inc. exits fiscal 2025 with a healthy balance sheet, including a ratio of net debt to adjusted EBITDA of 0.8 times. We expect favorable cash generation to continue in fiscal 2026, positioning the business for further investments in both sales growth initiatives as well as strengthening our operational capabilities. Speaker 400:13:59A regular cash dividend of $0.05 per share was declared payable September 10th for shareholders of record on September 2nd. I will now turn the call back to the moderator for the question and answer session. Speaker 500:14:14Thank 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 poll for questions. Our first question comes from Aaron Spicella with Craig Hallum Capital Group. Please proceed with your question. Speaker 100:14:52Good morning, Jim and Jim. Thanks for taking the questions. First for me on C-Store and refueling, you mentioned your largest program getting 18 months of additional site release activity. Can you just talk about what that opportunity looks like for you, whether number of stations or dollar size, and then just more broadly, as we see more organic expansions and M&A in that space, how do you see overall growth in that vertical for the next year or two? Speaker 400:15:21Yeah, Aaron, thanks for calling. Thanks for the question. Jim Clark here. I can't tell you the dollar size, but I can tell you it's in the thousands of site locations. We're probably halfway to two-thirds of the way through the project at this point. When we start any of these large projects like this, there's a learning curve that goes through both for the customer and for us as we become more efficient in the deployment, become more efficient in the manufacturing, and we become more committed to the direction that we had decided to go in or the customer had decided to go in in terms of branding and the look and the feel. We're in the mature phase of that project right now. I expect that it'll continue well into 2026. Speaker 400:16:08As we've talked on our prior call and on even the call before that, we have others that are in the hopper. The gestation on these types of projects is usually 12 to 18 to sometimes 24 months. In a perfect world, we're kind of rolling into one, rolling off of one and rolling into another. Right now there's no commitment on another large project like this, but a lot in terms of possibility and projects that we're working on. We feel very encouraged. Speaker 100:16:43All right, great. Thanks for that. In grocery, good to hear that release and schedule activity stabilizing there. You noted a healthy backlog and strong production outlook. Has that market fully recovered after the merger fallout, or is there still more recovery to go? Same thing, how do you kind of see growth there, looking out for the next year plus? Speaker 400:17:05Yeah, I'd still say there's some turmoil relative to the market being completely recovered, but we're very happy with the place it is right now. The word I would use is kind of stable order process and much more stable kind of inquiry and project management. I think that us, along with the customers, as we go back to Q2, which would have been August, it would have been September, October, November timeframe last year, it was a big surge, right? There was a lot of deferred programs, there was a lot of deferred maintenance, and there was a big surge from a number of our customers. I think all of that has kind of stabilized now. Our workforce is stabilized to handle the current order rate and demand rate. I wouldn't say that the market had fully recovered yet. Speaker 400:17:59I think there's some potential upside there that still hasn't been fully released, but I would say the operative word would be stable at this point, and we're very happy with that. Speaker 100:18:10All right, good to hear. Maybe last for me on EMI, can you just talk about some of the cross-selling initiatives? It still sounds like it's early there. On margins, you noted the margin expansion. Are EBITDA margins there kind of high single digits, around 8%? Can you speak to confidence in getting to that 10% plus level over the next year and talk about some of the drivers to get there? Speaker 400:18:36Yeah, so EMI has been with us just over a year. We've made better than 200 basis points improvement from our starting plate, starting location. I think that we have a great plan for this fiscal year, 2026, which will get us another 200 or 200+ basis points. I think that the overall journey to get them performing like LSI Industries Inc. is very well established and in motion and feel very good about it. EMI has done a phenomenal job of integrating with us, the Senior Leadership Team there, Alan and David, fit very well. They see things the same way we see them, and we see things through their eyes, and it's just been a great fit along with the rest of the team there. Speaker 400:19:26I do think that they've come in with a level of momentum and excitement and their own team there to really help in the cross-selling initiative. We just had our board meeting yesterday and had a review on our cross-selling progress. I have to say, I'm very happy about it. There's a lot of work to do. It requires a lot of education internally, and then that education requires external communication to our customers and create the awareness of the additional solutions and products and opportunities that we can work with in terms of our customer base. All of it's in motion. None of this happens overnight, but I'm very excited and I'm happy with the progress we're making. Speaker 100:20:16Great. Thanks for taking the questions. I'll turn it over. Speaker 500:20:21Our next question comes from Alex Riggle with Texas Capital Securities. Please proceed with your question. Operator00:20:29Thanks. Good morning, Jim and Jim, and thanks for taking my questions. First off here, EBITDA margins were nicely back above 10% in the quarter. What's your comfort level with margins sort of staying at this level or going higher? Speaker 400:20:43Yeah, I mean, as we've talked before, we've made some decisions from everything from working capital to acquisitions to manufacturing processes to what we spend in capital and all those types of things that have our eye on the ball for our fast-forward 2028 plan. I think that what we've been able to demonstrate consistently, quarter over quarter, is our ability to be in the EBITDA margin ranges of 11% plus, and we have a plan to get there. With that said, we also make decisions that temporarily impact that EBITDA margin. EMI is a good example. We knew that they were an underperformer from a margin standpoint, but we also felt that working with them and them working with us, we had an opportunity to move that up. I think there's variation. Speaker 400:21:37You're going to see variations in the margin, and some of those are activities that we're executing in the background. I also think that the 11% becomes more normal, 11% plus becomes more normal than nine, and we continue that track up to 12.5% in 2028. Operator00:22:00That's great. How should we think about the total addressable market for bakery and checkout in the grocery channel relative to some of the other departments? Speaker 400:22:10The thing I would say is beyond our current ability to serve. The market is massive. We have always been a small player in that segment, but we've gotten larger project awards and larger project activity. In exchange for that, we've become more efficient. We've developed the processes and have the equipment to respond to our customers' needs. We have the design expertise in-house that gives us the opportunity to meet the current design goals of our customers and reflects the current market trends. We feel very good about it. It's pick and shovel work, but there's a lot of it out there. I think that we've certainly made a mark over the last couple of years in our ability to deliver and offer complementary products to our customers, whether they're newer projects or whether we become the mainstream supplier for them. Speaker 400:23:11I expect that there's a lot more room there for us. Operator00:23:16That's great. Thank you. Speaker 500:23:20Our next question comes from Amit Dayal with HC Wainwright. Please proceed with your question. Operator00:23:27Thank you. Good morning, everyone. Appreciate you taking my questions and congrats on another solid quarter. Jim, have any cross-selling benefits started to kick in yet, or do you expect these to come down the line, maybe in the next few quarters? Speaker 400:23:49Oh, absolutely. We've had success in our cross-selling initiatives. We are in the double-digit millions relative to those efforts, and we still feel as though we're on the early side of that. As I mentioned a minute ago, Amit, it's creating awareness internally, making sure we educate all our folks, creating the message that we can bring externally. We bring that message. It creates awareness to our customers. Our customers start to engage us in one, two, three, four, five segments of solutions within their businesses. This is a journey. I expect that it takes years for some customers to fully recognize and engage us in all of the products and solutions that we offer, from refrigerated solutions to dimensional graphics to standalone displays to installation to checkout counters. It is becoming a basket of solutions. Speaker 400:24:56I think our job right now is really about creating that awareness with our customer base. I'm proud of the work the sales and marketing team is doing, but it takes a while, right? It takes time for the customer to become aware. It takes some type of disruption from their current supplier. We need to continue to execute and demonstrate our ability to do it. We're on that path. I'm very happy with the progress we're making, and I think that we have years of opportunity in front of us, even with our current solution set, never mind what we add to it as we move forward. Operator00:25:34Thank you. At a more sort of higher level, the story seems to be getting more closely associated with the retail side of things. What are the risks? You've had some good growth this year, partly helped by acquisitions, but going forward, if the consumer slows down and some of these spending-related initiatives slow down, how should investors think about your exposure and whether you may still have other retail opportunities or opportunities closer to the consumer that haven't been explored yet? Just trying to get a sense of how the company's position is relative to some of the macro themes in which it is playing. Speaker 400:26:19Yeah, you know, we've talked about this since we put together our first version of our fast-forward plan, picking key verticals that we think have long-term growth potential. We don't see any disruption in the verticals we're in. Our original thesis still shows many years, maybe even up to a decade of growth. We feel they'll outperform many of the markets that we're tangently in or that we've historically been in. We also feel like we have pretty good diversification, even though, as you mentioned, there's a lot of retail exposure. It's fairly diversified, right? The customer and the customer activity that's in the QSR, quick serve, food side of things is the same customer that goes into the grocery market. It's the same customer that goes into the refueling and the same customer that goes into automotive. Speaker 400:27:18The buying catalysts and the engagement in them are all kind of different. We don't see, we don't really feel a threat that one type of activity, one type of market reaction, would have a broad effect over all of them. Where one goes down, we feel in many cases where one goes down, it drives another one up. We have fairly good balance. Even though we're in that retail sector, if you will, I think diversification and balance are key elements that have been ingrained in our plan and continue to remain as we kind of viewed them a few years ago. Operator00:28:02Understood. That's fair. Yeah, that's all I have, guys. I'll take one of the questions offline. Thank you. Speaker 400:28:07Thank you, Amit. Speaker 500:28:09Our next question is from Leanne Hayden with Canaccord Genuity. Please proceed with your question. Speaker 300:28:16Morning, Jim and Jim. Thanks so much for taking my question. I'll just start off with a brief follow-up on the previous response. I believe on last quarter's earnings call, you mentioned a decent opportunity in the automotive vertical. Just wondering if you could provide any update on that and whether or not you've noticed any thematic changes in automotive representative discussions. Speaker 400:28:38I've talked about this over a few years. Automotive continues to be a market that we do very well in and has done very well for us. Our customer base is very diversified. The customers that are buying from us usually see they're looking kind of ahead and they're looking at their products. Some of those influences are right from the auto manufacturers themselves, where they understand that the right light over their product and consistency and uniformity are very important to them. I've mentioned it, they put hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars, into color combinations and interiors and things like that. When you see a new dynamic red color that a manufacturer has spent a lot of money, it feels like it's an engaging proposition to their customers. They want to make sure that's displayed right and that there's uniformity. Speaker 400:29:38It looks the same in one showroom as it does in the other, and it looks the same inside as it does outside. When I was younger, when I was in college, I worked at a car dealership, and I'll tell you, you could look at that exceptional red in the showroom and you walked outside at night and it was a washed-out pink. We deliver that consistency and uniformity. Much to our whole vertical market profile, we understand what's driving the customer's request. We're not providing a light that can fit auto applications. We're designing a light that's specified for auto applications. We feel very good about the automotive market. Many people have written the death of it from COVID right through e-commerce, and you're going to buy your cars pretty much off of your iPhone. Speaker 400:30:28We're finding that many of our customers really embrace the customer experience aspect of it. They're bringing the customers in and we're helping them make sure that their showrooms are demonstrating their product in a way that's creating uniformity, that's extenuating and highlighting the aspects that they're building into it. That starts in the parking lot. It moves into the showroom. It moves into the customer service area with great signage and digital graphics. It moves into the service area. If you look at service bays now, in some cases, they're as clean as kitchens. They are well-lit. The people in the service areas, it's a key area of revenue for these dealerships. Our full continuum in that and our ability to provide and service that market, we feel very good about it. I'll tell you another one that has picked up some steam a little bit lately is parking. Speaker 400:31:29We've always been in and out of parking. Obviously, coming out of COVID, parking has taken a backseat, but there is technology in parking. There are consumer experiences in parking. Lighting makes a difference. Display, signage, and all of those types of elements make a difference. We're very encouraged about momentum we're getting in some parking activities. All of everything auto-related for us right now is doing well. Speaker 300:31:59Got it. That's very helpful. Thank you so much. On a completely different note, I know you mentioned pending tariff impacts specifically in the first quarter of fiscal 2026. I'm curious about how you expect this to take shape throughout the coming quarters and how we can think about this tariff-driven margin impact on fiscal full year 2026. Speaker 400:32:19I wish I had a crystal ball to tell you how it was going to happen. I think that I mentioned before that probably the most challenging thing to deal with is the on-off, high-low scenarios. With all of that said, our display solution group as a whole will be minimally impacted by any tariffs. That's where you really see the made in America, built in America, sourced in America aspects really come to bear for us. I think it provides us what could provide us a great opportunity. Now, with that said, we're not total sales cost. On the lighting side, same type of formula, maybe a little bit more exposure in terms of electronic components, casted materials that are made overseas, and that type of thing. Still, far below what we see our competitors exposed to. Speaker 400:33:49I think on par, if you look at the company, we've been around that 50-50 mark lighting and display solutions. Minimal impact in display, almost negligible. Minimal impact in lighting, maybe a little bit more than display, but a lot less than many of our key competitors. I think net-net for us, it's an opportunity. Speaker 300:34:15Gotcha. That's very helpful. I'll just sneak in one more quick one if you both don't mind. This is a little bit more of a broad question about the competitive environment. Over the last decade or so, you've really carved out this categorical niche in lighting and display segments. I'm just curious how you view your market share relative to competitors and your positioning and what you expect going forward from a competitive environment perspective. Speaker 400:34:39I think it shifts depending on the market you're in. You know, we're very strong in the C-Store market, particularly from an image branding perspective. Our lighting sales are very strong in that market. We're creating great awareness of our other solutions, which are internal graphics and dimensional signage, refrigerated open-air refrigerated products, as well as closed-cased products, beverage centers, all of those types of things. I think we're on that awareness journey in that segment. You flip over to some of the others, like grocery. Grocery is a continuing expanding market for us. We just talked about some very large project activity in bakery and some other areas in the store, developing awareness in checkout counters. I would sum it up in saying that we have a lot of opportunity. I think that in some of these markets, we almost always have a seat at the opportunity. Speaker 400:35:44We don't always win every one. We win pieces of some and lose pieces of others. I think we have 10+ years of growth opportunity in these segments, and I believe overall these segments remain very healthy. I believe we're still a single-digit share player in many pieces of them. Speaker 300:36:09Got it. That's very helpful. Thank you both. I'll take the rest offline. Speaker 500:36:14We have reached the end of the question and answer session. I'd now like to turn the call back over to Jim Clark for closing comments. Speaker 400:36:22I think that our opening comments, Jim's review of the financial and financial performance and some of the market performance, these questions have really kind of ferreted out everything. We're very encouraged with the quarter we had. We feel we have momentum coming into our Q1 here. We're solidly entering 2026. I think our fast-forward plan is well established, a pathway for us to get there, both internally and externally. We remain very excited about the future here. I just want to say thank you. I said it in my notes, but I always take the opportunity this time of year to say thank you to our customers, thank you to our partners, our suppliers, our agents, and most importantly, to our people, the whole team at LSI Industries Inc. Great job. We're looking forward to a very solid 2026. Speaker 400:37:19Thank you to our shareholders who have continued confidence in us. With that, I'll turn the call back over to the moderator. Speaker 500:37:27Thank you. This concludes today's conference. You may disconnect your lines at this time, and we thank you for your participation.Read morePowered by