NYSE:LNN Lindsay Q1 2026 Earnings Report $109.34 +0.16 (+0.15%) Closing price 05/22/2026 03:59 PM EasternExtended Trading$109.22 -0.13 (-0.11%) As of 05/22/2026 04:10 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 Lindsay EPS ResultsActual EPS$1.54Consensus EPS $1.46Beat/MissBeat by +$0.08One Year Ago EPS$1.57Lindsay Revenue ResultsActual Revenue$155.82 millionExpected Revenue$166.81 millionBeat/MissMissed by -$10.99 millionYoY Revenue Growth-6.30%Lindsay Announcement DetailsQuarterQ1 2026Date1/8/2026TimeBefore Market OpensConference Call DateThursday, January 8, 2026Conference Call Time11:00AM ETUpcoming EarningsLindsay's Q3 2026 earnings is estimated for Thursday, June 25, 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)Quarterly Report (10-Q)Earnings HistoryCompany ProfileSlide DeckFull Screen Slide DeckPowered by Lindsay Q1 2026 Earnings Call TranscriptProvided by QuartrJanuary 8, 2026 ShareLink copied to clipboard.Key Takeaways Positive Sentiment: Company announced a supply agreement for a $80 million MENA irrigation project (about $70 million expected this fiscal year), highlighting its ability to win large international, sustainability-focused projects. Negative Sentiment: Total revenue fell 6% to $155.8 million, driven by a 9% decline in irrigation (North America down ~4%) as trade uncertainty, low commodity prices, and high input costs continue to suppress farmer demand. Neutral Sentiment: Infrastructure revenue grew 17% to $22.4 million on road safety product strength, but the Road Zipper business remains lumpy with no large project expected in FY2026, creating a tough Q2 comparison despite a healthy sales funnel. Positive Sentiment: Balance sheet is strong with $249.6 million available liquidity; the company repurchased $30.3 million of shares in Q1 and authorized a new up-to-$150 million buyback program, underscoring commitment to shareholder returns. AI Generated. May Contain Errors.Conference Call Audio Live Call not available Earnings Conference CallLindsay Q1 202600:00 / 00:00Speed:1x1.25x1.5x2xTranscript SectionsPresentationParticipantsPresentationSkip to Participants Operator00:00:00Good day, and welcome to the Lindsay Corporation Fiscal First Quarter 2026 Earnings Conference Call. All participants will be in listen-only mode. Should you need assistance, please signal a conference specialist by pressing the star key followed by zero. After today's presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask questions. To ask a question, you may press star then one on a touch-tone phone. To withdraw your question, please press star then two. Please note this event is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to Randy Wood, President and CEO. Please go ahead. Randy WoodPresident and CEO at Lindsay Corporation00:00:37Thank you, and good morning, everyone. Welcome to our Fiscal 2026 first quarter earnings call. With me today is Sam Henriksen, our Chief Financial Officer. Once again, I'm very proud of our team's execution in the quarter, despite external headwinds impacting our business. While ongoing trade uncertainty, low commodity prices, and high input costs have negatively impacted customer profitability and sentiment, our team's focus on price and cost management and operational efficiencies gained through our diversified global footprint helped us deliver solid profitability and maintain earnings quality in the quarter. In our domestic U.S. irrigation business, customers continue to delay large capital purchases due to high input costs and low profitability. In our international business, we're encouraged by the strength and opportunities in the project market, including the Middle East and North Africa. Randy WoodPresident and CEO at Lindsay Corporation00:01:30Our ability to help growers globally improve productivity and optimize resources remains a key differentiator for Lindsay and has supported performance amid a challenging macroeconomic environment. Subsequent to the end of our fiscal first quarter, we announced a supply agreement to provide Zimmatic irrigation systems and FieldNet remote management and scheduling technology in the MENA region. This project is valued at approximately $80 million in total revenue, with approximately $70 million of revenue realization this fiscal year. This announcement reflects our ability to compete and win large-scale projects globally, but also demonstrates Lindsay's role as a trusted partner in advancing sustainable agriculture while supporting localized production and enhancing food security. We're very proud of our team's commitment to delivering transformative projects in our international markets and look forward to executing this important project in the region. Randy WoodPresident and CEO at Lindsay Corporation00:02:23Our infrastructure segment delivered solid performance in the first quarter, with total revenues up 17% year-over-year. Increased road construction activity supported segment performance in the quarter, and we continue to see solid interest in our Road Zipper solutions product. Moving forward, we expect further momentum as infrastructure funding and road project activity advance. Turning to our market outlook, as we mentioned last quarter, in North America, we expect softer market conditions to persist in the near term. Market indicators suggest the current trough environment will persist until there's greater clarity around international trade impacts and an improvement in customer profitability. The U.S. administration has announced a $12 billion Farmer Bridge assistance package designed to offset trade-related pressures on U.S. farmers. The program includes one-time payments of approximately $44 per acre for corn and $31 per acre for soybeans. Randy WoodPresident and CEO at Lindsay Corporation00:03:17While this support will be appreciated by growers, we don't expect it to drive significant incremental demand in the short term. Within our international markets, we remain encouraged by the overall outlook for future growth and market fundamentals in Latin America, including Brazil. Elevated interest rates and ongoing constraints on credit access for growers continue to weigh on near-term equipment investment in the region, tempering what otherwise remains an attractive long-term growth opportunity. Within our infrastructure segment, we continue to see opportunities develop across systems, sales, leasing, and road safety products, and our sales funnel remains strong. As previously communicated, we do not see a large Road Zipper project exiting the funnel in fiscal year 2026. This creates a difficult comparison, particularly in Q2, where we shipped a large $20 million project last year. Randy WoodPresident and CEO at Lindsay Corporation00:04:06We do have incremental opportunities for smaller projects and other segment growth to offset half of that total, with the majority coming in the second half of the fiscal year. Road safety funding in the United States remains steady, and we remain very excited by the long-term potential of our Road Zipper leasing model, which continues to gain traction and supports a more stable and balanced margin profile over time. With that, I'd like to now turn the call over to Sam to discuss our fiscal first quarter financial results. Sam. Samuel HinrichsenCFO at Lindsay Corporation00:04:33Thank you, Randy, and good morning, everyone. It is a privilege to join you today for my first earnings call as Chief Financial Officer at Lindsay Corporation. I'm excited to continue partnering with this talented team as we drive our strategy forward, deliver on key initiatives, and create meaningful long-term value for our shareholders. I look forward to building on the strong foundation already in place. Now, let me walk you through our financial results for the quarter. Total revenues for the first quarter of fiscal 2026 were $155.8 million, a decrease of 6% compared to revenues of $166.3 million in the same quarter last year. The decline in revenue was driven by lower volumes in our irrigation segment, as continued uncertainty around trade, lower commodity prices, and higher input costs continued to weigh on farmer sentiment. Samuel HinrichsenCFO at Lindsay Corporation00:05:24Lower volume in irrigation was partially offset by year-over-year growth in our infrastructure segment. Operating income for the quarter was $19.6 million, a decrease of 6% compared to $20.9 million in the prior year period. Operating margin for the quarter was 12.6%, consistent with the prior year. Despite a lower revenue base, our solid operating margin performance for the quarter reflects continued execution of our operational strategy, coupled with effective cost and pricing management. While near-term irrigation market conditions in North America are expected to remain soft, we anticipate that our business will continue to show resilience. Net earnings results for the quarter were $16.5 million, or $1.54 of net earnings per diluted share, marking a slight decline compared to net earnings of $17.2 million, or $1.57 per diluted share in the first quarter of last year. Samuel HinrichsenCFO at Lindsay Corporation00:06:26The difference in net earnings when compared to the prior year period was largely attributable to lower operating income and a slightly higher effective tax rate. These were partially offset by an increase in other income. Turning to our segment results, irrigation segment revenue for the first quarter were $133.4 million, a decrease of 9% compared to segment revenues of $147.1 million in the prior year. North America irrigation revenues of $74.3 million decreased by 4% compared to $77.7 million in the prior year. In our North American markets, the impact of lower overall unit sales volume was partially offset by higher average selling prices compared to prior year. In international irrigation markets, we delivered revenues of $59.1 million compared to $69.4 million in the first quarter last year. The decrease was primarily attributable to two factors. Samuel HinrichsenCFO at Lindsay Corporation00:07:27First, the timing of project revenues in the MENA region is difficult to predict. First quarter results were impacted by the timing gap between last year's project and the recently awarded new project in the region. Secondly, sales volumes in Brazil were lower than anticipated, as this key market continues to be constrained by elevated interest rates and an unfavorable credit environment, which is weighing on investor activity for growers in the region. These declines were partially offset by approximately $1.5 million of favorable effects of foreign currency translation compared to the prior year. Total irrigation segment operating income for the first quarter was $23 million, a decrease of $1.8 million compared to $24.7 million in the first quarter last year. Segment operating margins of 17.2% of sales grew compared to 16.8% of sales in the first quarter of last year. Samuel HinrichsenCFO at Lindsay Corporation00:08:27Despite lower segment revenues, our irrigation margin profile continues to reflect resilience in a down-cycle market. In our infrastructure segment, revenues for the first quarter increased 17% to $22.4 million compared to $19.2 million in the prior year. The increase was driven by higher sales of road safety products, while Road Zipper System revenues were similar compared to the prior year. Infrastructure segment operating income for the first quarter increased 9% to $4.5 million compared to $4.1 million in the prior year. Infrastructure segment operating margin for the quarter was 20.1% of sales compared to 21.5% of sales last year, as revenue growth was offset by higher operating expenses. Turning to the balance sheet and liquidity, our total available liquidity at the end of the first quarter was $249.6 million, which includes $199.6 million in cash and cash equivalents and $50 million available under our revolving credit facility. Samuel HinrichsenCFO at Lindsay Corporation00:09:36Free cash flow for the quarter was impacted by an increase in working capital to support business growth and elevated capital expenditure levels. We also utilized our strong free cash flow conversion to opportunistically buy back shares in the open market. In the first quarter, we deployed $30.3 million into share repurchases, exhausting our original authorization. During the quarter, we were pleased to announce the authorization of a new share repurchase program of up to $150 million. Our team has strategically maintained a very robust balance sheet, and this authorization provides us with the ongoing flexibility to continue returning capital to our shareholders. We are pleased with our strong financial position and balance sheet, which enable us to deliver shareholder returns while continuing to invest in future growth opportunities and innovation. Samuel HinrichsenCFO at Lindsay Corporation00:10:29This concludes my remarks, and at this time, I will turn the call over to the operator to take your questions. Operator00:10:37We will now begin the question-and-answer session. To ask a question, you may press star then one on your touch-tone phone. If you are using a speakerphone, please pick up your handset before pressing the keys. If at any time your question has been addressed and you would like to withdraw the question, please press star then two. At this time, we will pause momentarily to assemble our roster. Our first question comes from Nathan Jones with Stifel. Please go ahead. Nathan JonesAnalyst at Stifel Nicolaus & Company00:11:13Good morning, everyone. I guess I'll start with North America irrigation. It's still down a little bit, but it seems to be bottoming out here. Does it feel to you like we're getting to the trough of the market here? Are there risks that we could take another leg down here? Or I know Valmont's commented that they kind of think we're at replacement level. Is that kind of your feeling about the market where I mean, obviously, there's a lot of external headwinds that you can't control, but they seem to all be lining up about as bad as they could get at the moment, which is probably a good thing in itself if it can't get any worse. Just any commentary you might have about how you're thinking about the domestic irrigation market here. Randy WoodPresident and CEO at Lindsay Corporation00:12:02Yeah. Good morning, Nathan. This is Randy. I'll take that one. And we would agree that we are bouncing along the trough here. And there's been some announcements on incremental funding that's always good news, not enough to move the needle. And I don't think when we talk to customers that they see a lot of upside until there's more certainty on profitability. So in the near-near term, we don't see it getting progressively better, but I would say also we don't see it get progressively worse. So I do believe bouncing along the bottom of the trough here is how we'd characterize it. Nathan JonesAnalyst at Stifel Nicolaus & Company00:12:34Thanks for that. I guess the pipeline on international projects here. Nice to see the $80 million order. Can you talk about opportunities for other projects? Could we see some more of those come through this year? I think most of the ones you've done over the last few years have been with one customer. Are there opportunities outside of that? Are there things in the funnel that are coming from outside of that? Just any commentary around that, please. Randy WoodPresident and CEO at Lindsay Corporation00:13:06Yeah. I would say in the region, we have had some repeat business, which we view as a good thing. If you execute well, you get the opportunity for that repeat business. But we've also attracted new clients in the region. So it's a combination of recurring business with repeat customers and some new customers that we've pulled in as well. And I think the language around projects is the same as it's been for the past couple of years. We do see a robust funnel. We see a multi-year runway on projects like this one in this part of the world. And not all of them are in the same country or the same part of a country. We see a broad spectrum of opportunities across the MENA region for the same drivers around food security and stability for those countries in that part of the world. Randy WoodPresident and CEO at Lindsay Corporation00:13:45So we do see a good runway here, Nathan. And whether there's another one in 2026 is up in the air. I think the same caveat always applies. These are complex, large, difficult negotiations. Even when you have a deal, you move into credit logistics. So it's never easy. It's never quick. But I would say there are more opportunities in the market. And again, our track record is a good one. So we'll fight and win for the ones that we want to pull across the finish line. And when we are in a position that the project's locked in, credit secured, that's when you'll hear us talk more about it. Until that time, we'll continue to comment on the positive elements of the funnel and the long-term growth potential in that part of the world. Nathan JonesAnalyst at Stifel Nicolaus & Company00:14:24I guess one more from me. You guys have had an elevated CapEx in fiscal 2025 and plan to get in fiscal 2026, as you're doing a lot of upgrades in Lindsay and around some of your plants. Can you talk about how that's gone, where you are in that process, what contribution that's already generating to profitability, and how we should think about the improved throughput, improved efficiency that you'll gain from that this year and as we head into next fiscal year as well? Thanks. Randy WoodPresident and CEO at Lindsay Corporation00:14:57Yeah. I'll start on kind of the narrative on what we're doing and where we are. And then Sam can comment more specifically on how that might impact some of your models, Nathan. But we, in Lindsay, Nebraska, right now have activated our large tube mill investment. This is a world-class tube mill improving safety, efficiency, productivity. Testing has gone extremely well. And I expect in the next 30 days, we'll turn that over to full production once we get certification from our vendors. Randy WoodPresident and CEO at Lindsay Corporation00:15:24That project's gone extremely well and will change the way that we produce tubing and really decrease our reliance on labor, which was a key part of some of these investments. We have a second investment in our galvanizing facility that will completely re-engineer that process for us, make it safer, more efficient, more environmentally friendly. And that investment we'll continue to make throughout this calendar year. Randy WoodPresident and CEO at Lindsay Corporation00:15:46We would expect around the end of calendar 2026, we would see that operation potentially kicking off and going into production. Turn it over to Sam for a little more narrative on the numbers. Samuel HinrichsenCFO at Lindsay Corporation00:15:56Yeah. So if you think about margins, this is an ongoing project. It's not been finalized. So there's no impact from a margin perspective in the first quarter. And as Randy alluded, in the short term, once completed, incremental depreciation will offset productivity gains at the current demand level. We expect to see improvements in margins from operating leverage once demand picks up following the completion of the project. And then following, again, the installation, we also expect to get back to normalized capital spending levels. Nathan JonesAnalyst at Stifel Nicolaus & Company00:16:30Awesome. Thanks for taking my questions. Randy WoodPresident and CEO at Lindsay Corporation00:16:33Thank you, Nathan. Operator00:16:38Our next question comes from Brian Drab with William Blair. Please go ahead. Brian DrabAnalyst at William Blair & Company00:16:44Hi. Thanks for taking my questions. I wanted to ask maybe a similar question to what Nathan was getting at. But can I ask if this new $80 million MENA project is with the same customer in the same country as the June 2024 $100 million project announcement? Randy WoodPresident and CEO at Lindsay Corporation00:17:08We would acknowledge, Brian, that this is a repeat customer in the same part of the world. Brian DrabAnalyst at William Blair & Company00:17:13Okay. Thank you. And then can you comment, Randy, at all on the margin that you're expecting with this new $80 million order? Randy WoodPresident and CEO at Lindsay Corporation00:17:23I would say overall, we would acknowledge project margins generally are going to be diluted to the overall business. It does create a lot of operational efficiencies and absorption through the facility. So if we characterize it, the margin profile in this project will be as good as or better than the prior project. I think that's about as directional as we'd want to get, Brian. Brian DrabAnalyst at William Blair & Company00:17:44Okay. But a little bit below segment average or overall irrigation margin? Randy WoodPresident and CEO at Lindsay Corporation00:17:52Slightly below, correct. And that's consistent with these projects of this size. Brian DrabAnalyst at William Blair & Company00:17:57Yeah. Understood. Just wanted to check on this one specifically. Okay, and then just I'm curious if the Big Beautiful Bill, I think you mentioned in the slides. I'm not sure there was a lot of commentary in the prepared remarks, but I'm just wondering, did you see any demand related to accelerated depreciation? Is that a narrative that you're hearing from the customer base? And do you expect that to drive any demand going forward? Randy WoodPresident and CEO at Lindsay Corporation00:18:26I would say we didn't see a lot of significant impact, and we didn't anticipate it. I think some of the negative macro market drivers just overwhelmed a little bit of potential incremental benefit from the bill and accelerated depreciation. So not a significant contributor. Brian DrabAnalyst at William Blair & Company00:18:41Right. Okay. Okay. Thanks for those answers. Randy WoodPresident and CEO at Lindsay Corporation00:18:44Thank you, Brian. Brian DrabAnalyst at William Blair & Company00:18:46Thanks. Operator00:18:48Our next question comes from Ryan Connors with North Coast Research. Please go ahead. Ryan ConnorsAnalyst at Northcoast Research Partners00:18:55Good morning. Randy WoodPresident and CEO at Lindsay Corporation00:18:56Morning, Ryan. Samuel HinrichsenCFO at Lindsay Corporation00:18:57Morning, Ryan. Ryan ConnorsAnalyst at Northcoast Research Partners00:18:58You talked about the cycle earlier in North America in the first question there from Nathan, but I wanted to kind of come back to that and look at it from a bit of a different angle. So we were down 4% irrigation in North America in the first fiscal quarter here. Is that kind of reflective of how we should maybe be thinking of a reasonable run rate for the balance of the year, or do things get better or worse? Just kind of curious how you think that the Q1 print on North America, what that tells us about the balance of the year specifically. And then also if you could maybe unpack that on a price versus volume basis as well, that might be helpful. Randy WoodPresident and CEO at Lindsay Corporation00:19:39You bet, Ryan. I'll cover the first part and kind of turn over to Sam for the second part. And I think we'd characterize North America as flat to down on a full-year basis. And whether that 4% carries forward or it degrades slightly, improves slightly, as you know, the tricky part for us in Q4 is going to be storm volume. And last year was a relatively light storm volume year. The year before that was relatively high. So if we kind of split the difference, I think the run rate that we saw through Q1 could be pretty consistent with what we see the rest of the year. So we're planning for flat to down in our spending, our inventory, our supply chain, and we'll react up or down if we have to. But I think that's probably a good starting point. That's Sam's number. Ryan ConnorsAnalyst at Northcoast Research Partners00:20:23Okay. And then, yeah, on the price versus volume. Randy WoodPresident and CEO at Lindsay Corporation00:20:30Yeah. So again, if you think about pricing, we called out that average selling prices in North America were up during the first quarter. We have a history of price stewardship, and we expect to be able to continue maintaining solid margins. Pricing is one key contributor. In addition, of course, there's cost management. There's productivity gains across the organization that are contributing to maintaining this margin profile despite the current top-line situation. Ryan ConnorsAnalyst at Northcoast Research Partners00:20:59Yep. Okay. And then kind of a maybe while I have you there, Sam, it's a bit of a below-the-line item. Pretty nice contribution from the interest other income line, as you mentioned. Is there any color you can give us around what drove that and how we should think about modeling that line over the balance of the year? Is that something that should continue, or are we going to kind of revert back to normal there? Randy WoodPresident and CEO at Lindsay Corporation00:21:24I can't go into very specific details, but I would say interest income, of course, is driven by the regional mix of funds at the interest rates in various regions. That's where we have seen an increase year-over-year in Q1. I'm not going to speculate on the interest rate environment, but that's what's the key driver for this improvement in Q1. Ryan ConnorsAnalyst at Northcoast Research Partners00:21:46Got it. Okay. And then lastly, we haven't really talked much about infrastructure here in the Q&A. And I wonder, Randy, if you can kind of unpack for us this lull in Road Zipper. I mean, obviously, it's a lumpy business, and there are lulls from time to time. But is there anything we should read into that in terms of is the low-hanging fruit plucked to any degree in terms of the TAM there? Or just any color you can give us on how you're thinking about the fact that we're into a pretty light year it looks like on Road Zipper. Randy WoodPresident and CEO at Lindsay Corporation00:22:16Yeah. And I don't think we're anywhere near plucking all of the easy-to-pick fruit or addressing the cap on the TAM. This is a lumpy project-oriented business. And I think just like the irrigation business, the good news for us is we're at the table. We're engaged with our sales funnel. We're talking to specific customers about specific bridges, about specific project sites where Road Zipper is going to allow them to solve a problem better than any other option in the market. It just takes time. So this is a very different type of business. And I think as you model it out, you look at the historical lumpiness, some of the big projects that we've dumped into prior fiscal periods. We love them. When they hit, it just creates a really difficult comp the next year because we can't calendarize one every second quarter, every fiscal year. Randy WoodPresident and CEO at Lindsay Corporation00:23:02So this is us being transparent, I believe, in what we think we see in the market. And as we start to get better clarity on fiscal 2027, fiscal 2028, that's where we see more of these Road Zipper projects landing right now. And if that changes, where we see some accelerating because incremental funding is available, we'll certainly be transparent and clear with you. But I think the narrative we've shared indicates what we see this year, but it's not an indication that the market is any better, any worse, any softer than it has been. It has been lumpy project business. It's continued to be lumpy project business. Again, the good news is with our Shift-left strategy, we've got better visibility both short and long term. Randy WoodPresident and CEO at Lindsay Corporation00:23:41And I think that's where we're willing to be more transparent and open with you guys so you can kind of work that into your models as well. But we see long-term growth opportunities for Road Zipper well into the future. Ryan ConnorsAnalyst at Northcoast Research Partners00:23:52I appreciate it. Thanks for your time. Randy WoodPresident and CEO at Lindsay Corporation00:23:55You bet. Thank you, Ryan. Operator00:23:59Our next question comes from Brett Kearney with American Rebirth Opportunity. Please go ahead. Brett KearneyAnalyst at American Rebirth Opportunity00:24:07Hi. Good morning, Randy and Sam. Thanks for taking my question. Just, I know the most recent project win you have in Middle East, North Africa includes your FieldNet capabilities. Obviously, I think those are incorporating all the pivot sales you make in North America at this point. But just curious what you're seeing as you look to the international irrigation project funnel today, what kind of adoption appetite there is, opportunity for you all with some of your technology offerings in some of these regions. Randy WoodPresident and CEO at Lindsay Corporation00:24:44I characterize it this way that when you're making these significant investments, these are huge agro operations where there has been basically nothing, and in the Middle East, it's essentially desert that they're converting to be these highly productive, highly efficient farms, and with the size of investments they're making, they want every piece of technology that's available to them, and this isn't a normal technology adoption curve where you start with small equipment and you migrate towards large equipment. They're starting with the biggest tractors, the biggest planters, the biggest combines, and they want every technological advantage that they can find to be as efficient as they can be in their production, in their consumption of water and energy, so I think this has really been a shift in the last five to 10 years where the technology has proven itself, where it brings real value to our customers. Randy WoodPresident and CEO at Lindsay Corporation00:25:34And again, at these investment levels, I think the customers are intelligent, they're smart, and they want every advantage that they can bring to the table. And certainly, FieldNet and FieldNet Advisor and the advantage that it creates for our growers is an important part of that mix. Brett KearneyAnalyst at American Rebirth Opportunity00:25:49Excellent. Thanks so much, Randy. Randy WoodPresident and CEO at Lindsay Corporation00:25:51You bet, Brett. Operator00:25:57This concludes our question-and-answer session. I would like to turn the conference back over to Randy Wood for any closing remarks. Randy WoodPresident and CEO at Lindsay Corporation00:26:05Thank you all again for joining us today. We appreciate your ongoing support, and we look forward to updating you on our second quarter earnings call. Thanks for joining us. Operator00:26:16Thank you for attending today's presentation. The conference is now concluded. You may now disconnect.Read moreParticipantsExecutivesSamuel HinrichsenCFORandy WoodPresident and CEOAnalystsRyan ConnorsAnalyst at Northcoast Research PartnersNathan JonesAnalyst at Stifel Nicolaus & CompanyBrett KearneyAnalyst at American Rebirth OpportunityBrian DrabAnalyst at William Blair & CompanyPowered by Earnings DocumentsSlide DeckEarnings Release(8-K)Quarterly Report(10-Q) Lindsay Earnings HeadlinesWinsome Resources discloses director Boylson’s equity incentive reshuffleMay 12, 2026 | tipranks.comLindsay Corporation (NYSE:LNN) Passed Our Checks, And It's About To Pay A US$0.37 DividendMay 11, 2026 | finance.yahoo.comJune 12: $100 Turns Into $100,000?The SpaceX IPO is scheduled for June 12, and former tech executive Jeff Brown - who identified Bitcoin, Tesla, and Nvidia before major runs - says the window to get in early is closing fast. Brown is showing investors how to claim a stake in Elon Musk's company before it hits the public markets. 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Headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, the company has built a reputation for designing and producing center pivot and lateral‐move irrigation systems under the Zimmatic brand. These systems feature advanced controls, precision sprinklers and automated monitoring technology that help growers optimize water use, improve crop yields and enhance sustainability in a variety of row-crop, specialty crop and forage operations. Beyond its core irrigation business, Lindsay operates an infrastructure segment that delivers engineered products and services for water and roadway management. The company offers a range of solutions including roadway safety barriers, guardrail and cable systems, roadway signage and lighting products, as well as hydraulic gates, valves and controls for water control structures. These offerings serve municipal, state and federal agencies tasked with maintaining and upgrading transportation networks and water distribution assets. Founded in 1955, Lindsay has expanded its reach to serve agricultural and infrastructure markets across North America, South America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia. Its products are distributed through a network of independent dealers and direct sales teams, supported by in-house research and development efforts aimed at water conservation, asset monitoring and resilience. The company’s focus on innovation and durable, high-performance solutions has established it as a longstanding partner to growers and infrastructure operators worldwide.View Lindsay ProfileRead more More Earnings Resources from MarketBeat Earnings Tools Today's Earnings Tomorrow's Earnings Next Week's Earnings Upcoming Earnings Calls Earnings Newsletter Earnings Call Transcripts Earnings Beats & Misses Corporate Guidance Earnings Screener Latest Articles Was Decker’s Double Beat a Bullish Signal—Or Mere HOKA’s-Pocus?Workday Validates AI Flywheel: Stock Price Recovery BeginsOverextended, e.l.f. 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PresentationSkip to Participants Operator00:00:00Good day, and welcome to the Lindsay Corporation Fiscal First Quarter 2026 Earnings Conference Call. All participants will be in listen-only mode. Should you need assistance, please signal a conference specialist by pressing the star key followed by zero. After today's presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask questions. To ask a question, you may press star then one on a touch-tone phone. To withdraw your question, please press star then two. Please note this event is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to Randy Wood, President and CEO. Please go ahead. Randy WoodPresident and CEO at Lindsay Corporation00:00:37Thank you, and good morning, everyone. Welcome to our Fiscal 2026 first quarter earnings call. With me today is Sam Henriksen, our Chief Financial Officer. Once again, I'm very proud of our team's execution in the quarter, despite external headwinds impacting our business. While ongoing trade uncertainty, low commodity prices, and high input costs have negatively impacted customer profitability and sentiment, our team's focus on price and cost management and operational efficiencies gained through our diversified global footprint helped us deliver solid profitability and maintain earnings quality in the quarter. In our domestic U.S. irrigation business, customers continue to delay large capital purchases due to high input costs and low profitability. In our international business, we're encouraged by the strength and opportunities in the project market, including the Middle East and North Africa. Randy WoodPresident and CEO at Lindsay Corporation00:01:30Our ability to help growers globally improve productivity and optimize resources remains a key differentiator for Lindsay and has supported performance amid a challenging macroeconomic environment. Subsequent to the end of our fiscal first quarter, we announced a supply agreement to provide Zimmatic irrigation systems and FieldNet remote management and scheduling technology in the MENA region. This project is valued at approximately $80 million in total revenue, with approximately $70 million of revenue realization this fiscal year. This announcement reflects our ability to compete and win large-scale projects globally, but also demonstrates Lindsay's role as a trusted partner in advancing sustainable agriculture while supporting localized production and enhancing food security. We're very proud of our team's commitment to delivering transformative projects in our international markets and look forward to executing this important project in the region. Randy WoodPresident and CEO at Lindsay Corporation00:02:23Our infrastructure segment delivered solid performance in the first quarter, with total revenues up 17% year-over-year. Increased road construction activity supported segment performance in the quarter, and we continue to see solid interest in our Road Zipper solutions product. Moving forward, we expect further momentum as infrastructure funding and road project activity advance. Turning to our market outlook, as we mentioned last quarter, in North America, we expect softer market conditions to persist in the near term. Market indicators suggest the current trough environment will persist until there's greater clarity around international trade impacts and an improvement in customer profitability. The U.S. administration has announced a $12 billion Farmer Bridge assistance package designed to offset trade-related pressures on U.S. farmers. The program includes one-time payments of approximately $44 per acre for corn and $31 per acre for soybeans. Randy WoodPresident and CEO at Lindsay Corporation00:03:17While this support will be appreciated by growers, we don't expect it to drive significant incremental demand in the short term. Within our international markets, we remain encouraged by the overall outlook for future growth and market fundamentals in Latin America, including Brazil. Elevated interest rates and ongoing constraints on credit access for growers continue to weigh on near-term equipment investment in the region, tempering what otherwise remains an attractive long-term growth opportunity. Within our infrastructure segment, we continue to see opportunities develop across systems, sales, leasing, and road safety products, and our sales funnel remains strong. As previously communicated, we do not see a large Road Zipper project exiting the funnel in fiscal year 2026. This creates a difficult comparison, particularly in Q2, where we shipped a large $20 million project last year. Randy WoodPresident and CEO at Lindsay Corporation00:04:06We do have incremental opportunities for smaller projects and other segment growth to offset half of that total, with the majority coming in the second half of the fiscal year. Road safety funding in the United States remains steady, and we remain very excited by the long-term potential of our Road Zipper leasing model, which continues to gain traction and supports a more stable and balanced margin profile over time. With that, I'd like to now turn the call over to Sam to discuss our fiscal first quarter financial results. Sam. Samuel HinrichsenCFO at Lindsay Corporation00:04:33Thank you, Randy, and good morning, everyone. It is a privilege to join you today for my first earnings call as Chief Financial Officer at Lindsay Corporation. I'm excited to continue partnering with this talented team as we drive our strategy forward, deliver on key initiatives, and create meaningful long-term value for our shareholders. I look forward to building on the strong foundation already in place. Now, let me walk you through our financial results for the quarter. Total revenues for the first quarter of fiscal 2026 were $155.8 million, a decrease of 6% compared to revenues of $166.3 million in the same quarter last year. The decline in revenue was driven by lower volumes in our irrigation segment, as continued uncertainty around trade, lower commodity prices, and higher input costs continued to weigh on farmer sentiment. Samuel HinrichsenCFO at Lindsay Corporation00:05:24Lower volume in irrigation was partially offset by year-over-year growth in our infrastructure segment. Operating income for the quarter was $19.6 million, a decrease of 6% compared to $20.9 million in the prior year period. Operating margin for the quarter was 12.6%, consistent with the prior year. Despite a lower revenue base, our solid operating margin performance for the quarter reflects continued execution of our operational strategy, coupled with effective cost and pricing management. While near-term irrigation market conditions in North America are expected to remain soft, we anticipate that our business will continue to show resilience. Net earnings results for the quarter were $16.5 million, or $1.54 of net earnings per diluted share, marking a slight decline compared to net earnings of $17.2 million, or $1.57 per diluted share in the first quarter of last year. Samuel HinrichsenCFO at Lindsay Corporation00:06:26The difference in net earnings when compared to the prior year period was largely attributable to lower operating income and a slightly higher effective tax rate. These were partially offset by an increase in other income. Turning to our segment results, irrigation segment revenue for the first quarter were $133.4 million, a decrease of 9% compared to segment revenues of $147.1 million in the prior year. North America irrigation revenues of $74.3 million decreased by 4% compared to $77.7 million in the prior year. In our North American markets, the impact of lower overall unit sales volume was partially offset by higher average selling prices compared to prior year. In international irrigation markets, we delivered revenues of $59.1 million compared to $69.4 million in the first quarter last year. The decrease was primarily attributable to two factors. Samuel HinrichsenCFO at Lindsay Corporation00:07:27First, the timing of project revenues in the MENA region is difficult to predict. First quarter results were impacted by the timing gap between last year's project and the recently awarded new project in the region. Secondly, sales volumes in Brazil were lower than anticipated, as this key market continues to be constrained by elevated interest rates and an unfavorable credit environment, which is weighing on investor activity for growers in the region. These declines were partially offset by approximately $1.5 million of favorable effects of foreign currency translation compared to the prior year. Total irrigation segment operating income for the first quarter was $23 million, a decrease of $1.8 million compared to $24.7 million in the first quarter last year. Segment operating margins of 17.2% of sales grew compared to 16.8% of sales in the first quarter of last year. Samuel HinrichsenCFO at Lindsay Corporation00:08:27Despite lower segment revenues, our irrigation margin profile continues to reflect resilience in a down-cycle market. In our infrastructure segment, revenues for the first quarter increased 17% to $22.4 million compared to $19.2 million in the prior year. The increase was driven by higher sales of road safety products, while Road Zipper System revenues were similar compared to the prior year. Infrastructure segment operating income for the first quarter increased 9% to $4.5 million compared to $4.1 million in the prior year. Infrastructure segment operating margin for the quarter was 20.1% of sales compared to 21.5% of sales last year, as revenue growth was offset by higher operating expenses. Turning to the balance sheet and liquidity, our total available liquidity at the end of the first quarter was $249.6 million, which includes $199.6 million in cash and cash equivalents and $50 million available under our revolving credit facility. Samuel HinrichsenCFO at Lindsay Corporation00:09:36Free cash flow for the quarter was impacted by an increase in working capital to support business growth and elevated capital expenditure levels. We also utilized our strong free cash flow conversion to opportunistically buy back shares in the open market. In the first quarter, we deployed $30.3 million into share repurchases, exhausting our original authorization. During the quarter, we were pleased to announce the authorization of a new share repurchase program of up to $150 million. Our team has strategically maintained a very robust balance sheet, and this authorization provides us with the ongoing flexibility to continue returning capital to our shareholders. We are pleased with our strong financial position and balance sheet, which enable us to deliver shareholder returns while continuing to invest in future growth opportunities and innovation. Samuel HinrichsenCFO at Lindsay Corporation00:10:29This concludes my remarks, and at this time, I will turn the call over to the operator to take your questions. Operator00:10:37We will now begin the question-and-answer session. To ask a question, you may press star then one on your touch-tone phone. If you are using a speakerphone, please pick up your handset before pressing the keys. If at any time your question has been addressed and you would like to withdraw the question, please press star then two. At this time, we will pause momentarily to assemble our roster. Our first question comes from Nathan Jones with Stifel. Please go ahead. Nathan JonesAnalyst at Stifel Nicolaus & Company00:11:13Good morning, everyone. I guess I'll start with North America irrigation. It's still down a little bit, but it seems to be bottoming out here. Does it feel to you like we're getting to the trough of the market here? Are there risks that we could take another leg down here? Or I know Valmont's commented that they kind of think we're at replacement level. Is that kind of your feeling about the market where I mean, obviously, there's a lot of external headwinds that you can't control, but they seem to all be lining up about as bad as they could get at the moment, which is probably a good thing in itself if it can't get any worse. Just any commentary you might have about how you're thinking about the domestic irrigation market here. Randy WoodPresident and CEO at Lindsay Corporation00:12:02Yeah. Good morning, Nathan. This is Randy. I'll take that one. And we would agree that we are bouncing along the trough here. And there's been some announcements on incremental funding that's always good news, not enough to move the needle. And I don't think when we talk to customers that they see a lot of upside until there's more certainty on profitability. So in the near-near term, we don't see it getting progressively better, but I would say also we don't see it get progressively worse. So I do believe bouncing along the bottom of the trough here is how we'd characterize it. Nathan JonesAnalyst at Stifel Nicolaus & Company00:12:34Thanks for that. I guess the pipeline on international projects here. Nice to see the $80 million order. Can you talk about opportunities for other projects? Could we see some more of those come through this year? I think most of the ones you've done over the last few years have been with one customer. Are there opportunities outside of that? Are there things in the funnel that are coming from outside of that? Just any commentary around that, please. Randy WoodPresident and CEO at Lindsay Corporation00:13:06Yeah. I would say in the region, we have had some repeat business, which we view as a good thing. If you execute well, you get the opportunity for that repeat business. But we've also attracted new clients in the region. So it's a combination of recurring business with repeat customers and some new customers that we've pulled in as well. And I think the language around projects is the same as it's been for the past couple of years. We do see a robust funnel. We see a multi-year runway on projects like this one in this part of the world. And not all of them are in the same country or the same part of a country. We see a broad spectrum of opportunities across the MENA region for the same drivers around food security and stability for those countries in that part of the world. Randy WoodPresident and CEO at Lindsay Corporation00:13:45So we do see a good runway here, Nathan. And whether there's another one in 2026 is up in the air. I think the same caveat always applies. These are complex, large, difficult negotiations. Even when you have a deal, you move into credit logistics. So it's never easy. It's never quick. But I would say there are more opportunities in the market. And again, our track record is a good one. So we'll fight and win for the ones that we want to pull across the finish line. And when we are in a position that the project's locked in, credit secured, that's when you'll hear us talk more about it. Until that time, we'll continue to comment on the positive elements of the funnel and the long-term growth potential in that part of the world. Nathan JonesAnalyst at Stifel Nicolaus & Company00:14:24I guess one more from me. You guys have had an elevated CapEx in fiscal 2025 and plan to get in fiscal 2026, as you're doing a lot of upgrades in Lindsay and around some of your plants. Can you talk about how that's gone, where you are in that process, what contribution that's already generating to profitability, and how we should think about the improved throughput, improved efficiency that you'll gain from that this year and as we head into next fiscal year as well? Thanks. Randy WoodPresident and CEO at Lindsay Corporation00:14:57Yeah. I'll start on kind of the narrative on what we're doing and where we are. And then Sam can comment more specifically on how that might impact some of your models, Nathan. But we, in Lindsay, Nebraska, right now have activated our large tube mill investment. This is a world-class tube mill improving safety, efficiency, productivity. Testing has gone extremely well. And I expect in the next 30 days, we'll turn that over to full production once we get certification from our vendors. Randy WoodPresident and CEO at Lindsay Corporation00:15:24That project's gone extremely well and will change the way that we produce tubing and really decrease our reliance on labor, which was a key part of some of these investments. We have a second investment in our galvanizing facility that will completely re-engineer that process for us, make it safer, more efficient, more environmentally friendly. And that investment we'll continue to make throughout this calendar year. Randy WoodPresident and CEO at Lindsay Corporation00:15:46We would expect around the end of calendar 2026, we would see that operation potentially kicking off and going into production. Turn it over to Sam for a little more narrative on the numbers. Samuel HinrichsenCFO at Lindsay Corporation00:15:56Yeah. So if you think about margins, this is an ongoing project. It's not been finalized. So there's no impact from a margin perspective in the first quarter. And as Randy alluded, in the short term, once completed, incremental depreciation will offset productivity gains at the current demand level. We expect to see improvements in margins from operating leverage once demand picks up following the completion of the project. And then following, again, the installation, we also expect to get back to normalized capital spending levels. Nathan JonesAnalyst at Stifel Nicolaus & Company00:16:30Awesome. Thanks for taking my questions. Randy WoodPresident and CEO at Lindsay Corporation00:16:33Thank you, Nathan. Operator00:16:38Our next question comes from Brian Drab with William Blair. Please go ahead. Brian DrabAnalyst at William Blair & Company00:16:44Hi. Thanks for taking my questions. I wanted to ask maybe a similar question to what Nathan was getting at. But can I ask if this new $80 million MENA project is with the same customer in the same country as the June 2024 $100 million project announcement? Randy WoodPresident and CEO at Lindsay Corporation00:17:08We would acknowledge, Brian, that this is a repeat customer in the same part of the world. Brian DrabAnalyst at William Blair & Company00:17:13Okay. Thank you. And then can you comment, Randy, at all on the margin that you're expecting with this new $80 million order? Randy WoodPresident and CEO at Lindsay Corporation00:17:23I would say overall, we would acknowledge project margins generally are going to be diluted to the overall business. It does create a lot of operational efficiencies and absorption through the facility. So if we characterize it, the margin profile in this project will be as good as or better than the prior project. I think that's about as directional as we'd want to get, Brian. Brian DrabAnalyst at William Blair & Company00:17:44Okay. But a little bit below segment average or overall irrigation margin? Randy WoodPresident and CEO at Lindsay Corporation00:17:52Slightly below, correct. And that's consistent with these projects of this size. Brian DrabAnalyst at William Blair & Company00:17:57Yeah. Understood. Just wanted to check on this one specifically. Okay, and then just I'm curious if the Big Beautiful Bill, I think you mentioned in the slides. I'm not sure there was a lot of commentary in the prepared remarks, but I'm just wondering, did you see any demand related to accelerated depreciation? Is that a narrative that you're hearing from the customer base? And do you expect that to drive any demand going forward? Randy WoodPresident and CEO at Lindsay Corporation00:18:26I would say we didn't see a lot of significant impact, and we didn't anticipate it. I think some of the negative macro market drivers just overwhelmed a little bit of potential incremental benefit from the bill and accelerated depreciation. So not a significant contributor. Brian DrabAnalyst at William Blair & Company00:18:41Right. Okay. Okay. Thanks for those answers. Randy WoodPresident and CEO at Lindsay Corporation00:18:44Thank you, Brian. Brian DrabAnalyst at William Blair & Company00:18:46Thanks. Operator00:18:48Our next question comes from Ryan Connors with North Coast Research. Please go ahead. Ryan ConnorsAnalyst at Northcoast Research Partners00:18:55Good morning. Randy WoodPresident and CEO at Lindsay Corporation00:18:56Morning, Ryan. Samuel HinrichsenCFO at Lindsay Corporation00:18:57Morning, Ryan. Ryan ConnorsAnalyst at Northcoast Research Partners00:18:58You talked about the cycle earlier in North America in the first question there from Nathan, but I wanted to kind of come back to that and look at it from a bit of a different angle. So we were down 4% irrigation in North America in the first fiscal quarter here. Is that kind of reflective of how we should maybe be thinking of a reasonable run rate for the balance of the year, or do things get better or worse? Just kind of curious how you think that the Q1 print on North America, what that tells us about the balance of the year specifically. And then also if you could maybe unpack that on a price versus volume basis as well, that might be helpful. Randy WoodPresident and CEO at Lindsay Corporation00:19:39You bet, Ryan. I'll cover the first part and kind of turn over to Sam for the second part. And I think we'd characterize North America as flat to down on a full-year basis. And whether that 4% carries forward or it degrades slightly, improves slightly, as you know, the tricky part for us in Q4 is going to be storm volume. And last year was a relatively light storm volume year. The year before that was relatively high. So if we kind of split the difference, I think the run rate that we saw through Q1 could be pretty consistent with what we see the rest of the year. So we're planning for flat to down in our spending, our inventory, our supply chain, and we'll react up or down if we have to. But I think that's probably a good starting point. That's Sam's number. Ryan ConnorsAnalyst at Northcoast Research Partners00:20:23Okay. And then, yeah, on the price versus volume. Randy WoodPresident and CEO at Lindsay Corporation00:20:30Yeah. So again, if you think about pricing, we called out that average selling prices in North America were up during the first quarter. We have a history of price stewardship, and we expect to be able to continue maintaining solid margins. Pricing is one key contributor. In addition, of course, there's cost management. There's productivity gains across the organization that are contributing to maintaining this margin profile despite the current top-line situation. Ryan ConnorsAnalyst at Northcoast Research Partners00:20:59Yep. Okay. And then kind of a maybe while I have you there, Sam, it's a bit of a below-the-line item. Pretty nice contribution from the interest other income line, as you mentioned. Is there any color you can give us around what drove that and how we should think about modeling that line over the balance of the year? Is that something that should continue, or are we going to kind of revert back to normal there? Randy WoodPresident and CEO at Lindsay Corporation00:21:24I can't go into very specific details, but I would say interest income, of course, is driven by the regional mix of funds at the interest rates in various regions. That's where we have seen an increase year-over-year in Q1. I'm not going to speculate on the interest rate environment, but that's what's the key driver for this improvement in Q1. Ryan ConnorsAnalyst at Northcoast Research Partners00:21:46Got it. Okay. And then lastly, we haven't really talked much about infrastructure here in the Q&A. And I wonder, Randy, if you can kind of unpack for us this lull in Road Zipper. I mean, obviously, it's a lumpy business, and there are lulls from time to time. But is there anything we should read into that in terms of is the low-hanging fruit plucked to any degree in terms of the TAM there? Or just any color you can give us on how you're thinking about the fact that we're into a pretty light year it looks like on Road Zipper. Randy WoodPresident and CEO at Lindsay Corporation00:22:16Yeah. And I don't think we're anywhere near plucking all of the easy-to-pick fruit or addressing the cap on the TAM. This is a lumpy project-oriented business. And I think just like the irrigation business, the good news for us is we're at the table. We're engaged with our sales funnel. We're talking to specific customers about specific bridges, about specific project sites where Road Zipper is going to allow them to solve a problem better than any other option in the market. It just takes time. So this is a very different type of business. And I think as you model it out, you look at the historical lumpiness, some of the big projects that we've dumped into prior fiscal periods. We love them. When they hit, it just creates a really difficult comp the next year because we can't calendarize one every second quarter, every fiscal year. Randy WoodPresident and CEO at Lindsay Corporation00:23:02So this is us being transparent, I believe, in what we think we see in the market. And as we start to get better clarity on fiscal 2027, fiscal 2028, that's where we see more of these Road Zipper projects landing right now. And if that changes, where we see some accelerating because incremental funding is available, we'll certainly be transparent and clear with you. But I think the narrative we've shared indicates what we see this year, but it's not an indication that the market is any better, any worse, any softer than it has been. It has been lumpy project business. It's continued to be lumpy project business. Again, the good news is with our Shift-left strategy, we've got better visibility both short and long term. Randy WoodPresident and CEO at Lindsay Corporation00:23:41And I think that's where we're willing to be more transparent and open with you guys so you can kind of work that into your models as well. But we see long-term growth opportunities for Road Zipper well into the future. Ryan ConnorsAnalyst at Northcoast Research Partners00:23:52I appreciate it. Thanks for your time. Randy WoodPresident and CEO at Lindsay Corporation00:23:55You bet. Thank you, Ryan. Operator00:23:59Our next question comes from Brett Kearney with American Rebirth Opportunity. Please go ahead. Brett KearneyAnalyst at American Rebirth Opportunity00:24:07Hi. Good morning, Randy and Sam. Thanks for taking my question. Just, I know the most recent project win you have in Middle East, North Africa includes your FieldNet capabilities. Obviously, I think those are incorporating all the pivot sales you make in North America at this point. But just curious what you're seeing as you look to the international irrigation project funnel today, what kind of adoption appetite there is, opportunity for you all with some of your technology offerings in some of these regions. Randy WoodPresident and CEO at Lindsay Corporation00:24:44I characterize it this way that when you're making these significant investments, these are huge agro operations where there has been basically nothing, and in the Middle East, it's essentially desert that they're converting to be these highly productive, highly efficient farms, and with the size of investments they're making, they want every piece of technology that's available to them, and this isn't a normal technology adoption curve where you start with small equipment and you migrate towards large equipment. They're starting with the biggest tractors, the biggest planters, the biggest combines, and they want every technological advantage that they can find to be as efficient as they can be in their production, in their consumption of water and energy, so I think this has really been a shift in the last five to 10 years where the technology has proven itself, where it brings real value to our customers. Randy WoodPresident and CEO at Lindsay Corporation00:25:34And again, at these investment levels, I think the customers are intelligent, they're smart, and they want every advantage that they can bring to the table. And certainly, FieldNet and FieldNet Advisor and the advantage that it creates for our growers is an important part of that mix. Brett KearneyAnalyst at American Rebirth Opportunity00:25:49Excellent. Thanks so much, Randy. Randy WoodPresident and CEO at Lindsay Corporation00:25:51You bet, Brett. Operator00:25:57This concludes our question-and-answer session. I would like to turn the conference back over to Randy Wood for any closing remarks. Randy WoodPresident and CEO at Lindsay Corporation00:26:05Thank you all again for joining us today. We appreciate your ongoing support, and we look forward to updating you on our second quarter earnings call. Thanks for joining us. Operator00:26:16Thank you for attending today's presentation. The conference is now concluded. You may now disconnect.Read moreParticipantsExecutivesSamuel HinrichsenCFORandy WoodPresident and CEOAnalystsRyan ConnorsAnalyst at Northcoast Research PartnersNathan JonesAnalyst at Stifel Nicolaus & CompanyBrett KearneyAnalyst at American Rebirth OpportunityBrian DrabAnalyst at William Blair & CompanyPowered by