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ProfileEarnings HistoryForecast Pitney Bowes EPS ResultsActual EPS$0.45Consensus EPS $0.38Beat/MissBeat by +$0.07One Year Ago EPS$0.32Pitney Bowes Revenue ResultsActual Revenue$477.63 millionExpected Revenue$482.47 millionBeat/MissMissed by -$4.84 millionYoY Revenue Growth-7.50%Pitney Bowes Announcement DetailsQuarterQ4 2025Date2/17/2026TimeAfter Market ClosesConference Call DateWednesday, February 18, 2026Conference Call Time8:00AM ETUpcoming EarningsPitney Bowes' Q3 2026 earnings is estimated for Wednesday, November 4, 2026, based on past reporting schedules, with a conference call scheduled on Wednesday, October 28, 2026 at 5:00 PM 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 Pitney Bowes Q4 2025 Earnings Call TranscriptProvided by QuartrFebruary 18, 2026ShareShareShare This ReportLink copied to clipboard.Key Takeaways Positive Sentiment: Pitney Bowes has added senior talent, including Steve Fischer to lead Pitney Bowes Bank, which the company says unlocks growth opportunities in its banking business. Positive Sentiment: The Presort business has stopped its decline, reported new wins (including Pennsylvania), is pursuing aggressive pricing to win share, and management targets ~low-to-mid 20% EBIT margins as volumes ramp. Neutral Sentiment: SendTech still faces a year-over-year top-line decline but management says it has exited the low point of the product cycle (IMI migration headwinds easing) and expects second-half improvement. Positive Sentiment: Cash generation enabled opportunistic capital allocation in Q4 (share and debt buybacks); the firm targets ~3x net debt to adjusted EBITDA as a financial policy. Neutral Sentiment: Q4 included sizable one-time restructuring (largely headcount-related) that management adds back to adjusted free cash flow and says is mostly complete, while presort prepayments materially affected FCF timing. AI Generated. May Contain Errors.Conference Call Audio Live Call not available Earnings Conference CallPitney Bowes Q4 202500:00 / 00:00Speed:1x1.25x1.5x2xTranscript SectionsPresentationParticipantsPresentationSkip to Participants Operator00:00:00Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by. Welcome to the fourth quarter 2025 Pitney Bowes Earnings Conference Call. Joining us today are Chief Executive Officer Kurt Wolf, Chief Financial Officer Paul Evans, and Director Investor Relations Alex Brown. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. After the speaker's presentation, there will be a question-and-answer session. To ask a question during the session, you would need to press star one one on your telephone. You will then hear an automated message advising your hand is raised. To withdraw your question, please press star one one again. Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded. It is my pleasure to turn the call over to Alex Brown, Director, Investor Relations. Please go ahead. Alex BrownDirector of Investor Relations at Pitney Bowes00:00:59Good morning, and thank you for joining us. Included in today's presentation are forward-looking statements about our future business and financial performance. Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to be materially different from our projections. More information about these items can be found in our earnings press release, our Form 10-K, and other reports filed with the SEC that are located on our website at www.pb.com, and by clicking on Investor Relations. Please keep in mind that we do not undertake any obligation to update forward-looking statements as a result of any new information or developments. Also included in today's presentation are non-GAAP measures. Specifically, EBIT, EBITDA, EPS, and free cash flow are all on an adjusted basis. You can find a reconciliation for these items to the appropriate GAAP measure in the tables attached to our press release. Alex BrownDirector of Investor Relations at Pitney Bowes00:02:04We have also provided a slide presentation and a spreadsheet with historical segment information on our website. With that, I'd like to turn the call over to Kurt. Kurt WolfCEO at Pitney Bowes00:02:15Good morning, and thank you for joining us. I trust that everyone has had a chance to read our earnings release and my quarterly letter. As such, I will keep my comments brief. First, I'd like to welcome our recently announced executive hires. It's exciting to see the level of talent we are now able to attract to Pitney Bowes. I'm particularly pleased to have Steve Fischer join the company. Steve is an accomplished bank leader, something that stood out during the recruiting process. I look forward to working closely with him to maximize the value of Pitney Bowes Bank. Moving to the fourth quarter, our results demonstrate the progress we're making in transforming Pitney Bowes. While we did have some tailwinds, our financials were strong, absent those benefits, and reflect the growing strength of our business. In closing, we are rapidly progressing through our transformation. Kurt WolfCEO at Pitney Bowes00:03:06In 2025, we significantly strengthened the foundation of our business, taking meaningful steps in upgrading leadership, simplifying our structure, streamlining processes, and eliminating costs. All of this is putting us on strong footing as we pivot to a focus on profitable growth and beginning our external review with qualified advisors during the second quarter. With that, let's open the call for questions. Operator00:03:34Thank you. As a reminder, to ask a question, please press star one one on your telephone and wait for your name to be announced, and to withdraw your question, please press star one one again. Our first question will come from Aaron Kimson with Citizens. Your line is now open. Aaron KimsonEquity Research Associate at Citizens00:03:55Oh, great. Thank you, guys. Kurt, can you expand on the additional market uncertainty and geopolitical challenges you mentioned in your letter as reasons for the wider guidance range? Kurt WolfCEO at Pitney Bowes00:04:05Yeah, Aaron, thanks for the question. Thanks for joining the call. Yeah, some of the things that we've... You know, I guess I would point to one is, as we've seen in the past, there's been issues with government shutdowns. I think there's no guarantee that doesn't happen again. As we talked about during our Q3 call, that certainly affects some of our performance in the SendTech space. More broadly, obviously, you know, there's questions about a change at the Fed. Other, you know, there's some uncertainty about where the direction of the economy is going. We're a pretty non-cyclical business. However, I would really point to our marketing mail aspect of the presort business, which is more economically sensitive. So, while we don't expect anything major, we are cognizant that there could be potential headwinds related to both of them, but not necessarily expect them. Aaron KimsonEquity Research Associate at Citizens00:04:52Okay, that makes sense. And then I wanted to ask on the presort business as well. You mentioned new business wins and no churn since June of 2025. I think you had a nice win in the state of Pennsylvania that was well-publicized in four Q. Are boomerang customers and, and new wins generally reflected in presort volumes immediately, or is there a ramp time where Debbie and her team get agreements, but the volumes come at the end of a preexisting contract with another vendor, and you have some visibility into the ramp? Kurt WolfCEO at Pitney Bowes00:05:19Usually they come in pretty quickly, but what I would point to is there's definitely a sales cycle that can be pretty long. So, you know, we got more aggressive starting in June of last year, and it's taken time to fill that pipeline. And I think at this point, the pipeline's pretty full start to finish. And one thing I'd point to is, you know, the customer wins that we had in Q4, we've essentially met that level of wins this, you know, half the way into Q1 of this year. So you can see as that pipeline is filled, that we're getting more and more wins on a more rapid basis. And then finally, in terms of flow through to the financials, it does take a little bit of time. Kurt WolfCEO at Pitney Bowes00:05:55You know, we have to add, you know, multiple customers. We have a lot of major losses from the first half of last year that we're trying to eclipse. So it's just going to be a process over the next few months and quarters. Aaron KimsonEquity Research Associate at Citizens00:06:06Understood. Thank you, guys. Operator00:06:11Thank you. Our next question is going to come from Anthony Lebiedzinski with Sidoti. Your line is open. Anthony LebiedzinskiEquity Research Analyst at Sidoti00:06:21Good morning, and thank you for taking the questions. Just a quick follow-up. Kurt, you said that the government shutdown had some impact in the quarter. Any way you guys could quantify what that impact may have been? Paul EvansEVP, CFO, and Treasurer at Pitney Bowes00:06:36Hi, Anthony. It's Paul Evans. Yeah, look, we were impacted on that. That was hardware purchases. It sort of pushed it into the subsequent quarter. So we saw most of it in Q3 last year. I'm not sure we'd go down to that level of granularity to give that, but I mean, we are, you know, susceptible to government shutdowns. Anthony LebiedzinskiEquity Research Analyst at Sidoti00:06:57Understood. Okay. So, Kurt, in your shareholder letter, you mentioned being more aggressive with pricing on Presort. So, just wondering if you could further expand on that as far as how perhaps aggressive you would be with pricing to win back clients, and what type of EBIT margins should we think about as we look at the Presort business going forward? Kurt WolfCEO at Pitney Bowes00:07:22Yeah, I'll let Paul speak to the EBIT margins. But just broadly speaking, what I'd highlight on that, I know there's been questions about what's going on in Presort. You know, to be quite honest, I think we got caught flat-footed early last year. Industry margins went up, and pretty much everybody in the space did what you would expect, which was to go out and be aggressive to try to win new customers with the higher margin levels. We unfortunately were not in the same boat. So, you know, we did face a lot of headwinds in terms of customer losses and having to give concessions to our customers. But we weren't necessarily aggressive going after customers in the space, and that's really what's happening now. Kurt WolfCEO at Pitney Bowes00:07:58So, when we talk about being aggressive on pricing, a lot of it is trying to pull in new business. We've already, you know, made the required concessions to our existing customer base, so it's really about winning new customers. Paul EvansEVP, CFO, and Treasurer at Pitney Bowes00:08:10So, Anthony, to add to that, I think if you sort of target low-to-mid 20% range for EBIT margins. But it's also important to note that we are the low-cost provider, so, you know, we can sustain that. So when we come out and say we're going to get more aggressive on our pricing strategy, and, you know, we can certainly afford to do that. Anthony LebiedzinskiEquity Research Analyst at Sidoti00:08:34Got you. Okay. Then, my last question before I pass it on to others. So as we look at the free cash flow guidance, you guys add back restructuring payments to your definition of free cash flow. So how much restructuring payments are you guys assuming in 2026? Paul EvansEVP, CFO, and Treasurer at Pitney Bowes00:08:53For 20, it is true, yeah, we do add it back. And the reason we add it back is it's not really representative of our business going forward. I'm just trying to think if we've offered that level of detail in the past on that. Maybe, maybe I'll circle back to that, payment. I'm not sure we've offered that level of detail. Anthony LebiedzinskiEquity Research Analyst at Sidoti00:09:14Okay, understood. Well, thanks very much, and best of luck. Paul EvansEVP, CFO, and Treasurer at Pitney Bowes00:09:18Thanks, Anthony. Operator00:09:19Thank you. And our next question is going to come from George Tong with Goldman Sachs. Your line is open. George TongEquity Research Analyst at Goldman Sachs00:09:27Hi, thanks. Good morning. Going back to the Presort business. Paul EvansEVP, CFO, and Treasurer at Pitney Bowes00:09:31Hi. George TongEquity Research Analyst at Goldman Sachs00:09:32In terms of winning back customers and being more competitive on pricing, given the comps ease pretty materially in the second half of this year, would you expect that by then you would return to positive growth in Presort? Paul EvansEVP, CFO, and Treasurer at Pitney Bowes00:09:47I think we'll see. It'll be an easier comp year over year on, on growth, but, you know, we've got to get past Q1, Q2, which are going to be tougher comps for us. But again, as we, we said before, you know, we, we stopped the decline mid last year. We've Kurt sort of empowered Debbie Pfeiffer to be more aggressive on pricing. And as Kurt also mentioned, there is a sales cycle to this, so we're certainly getting some traction, but I think second half of the year will be a better comp for us. George TongEquity Research Analyst at Goldman Sachs00:10:18Okay, makes sense. And then in the SendTech business, how do you envision the revenue performance over the course of the year? If there's any bifurcation of performance in the first half of the year, for example, versus the second half, would you expect the second half to be stronger within the SendTech business? Paul EvansEVP, CFO, and Treasurer at Pitney Bowes00:10:42Well, let's start first for the year. We expect a top-line decline in the business, but to split apart the year, we believe second half of the year will be stronger than the front part of the year. Kurt WolfCEO at Pitney Bowes00:10:54Yeah, and George- George TongEquity Research Analyst at Goldman Sachs00:10:55Makes sense. Kurt WolfCEO at Pitney Bowes00:10:55Look at, you know, you know, sequential year-over-year throughout 2025, you can see there's a trend, you know, essentially getting more positive every quarter, and that ties back to what we've spoken about in the past with the IMI migration. And again, we expect that to continue. So we can't guarantee that each year-over-year comparison is going to get better quarter by quarter, but that should we expect to be somewhat the trend on a go-forward basis, you know, at least through 2026. George TongEquity Research Analyst at Goldman Sachs00:11:21Yes, makes sense. Thanks so much. Paul EvansEVP, CFO, and Treasurer at Pitney Bowes00:11:24Thank you, George. Operator00:11:25Thank you. The next question will come from Jasper Bibb with Truist. Your line is open. Jasper BibbEquity Research Analyst at Truist00:11:33Hey, good morning, guys. I was just curious how you're thinking about the underlying mix in SendTech in 2026. I think the letter mentioned you didn't get the growth rate you wanted in the shipping technology piece. Could you maybe frame for us how you think you're thinking about the growth rates in the shipping technology business in 2026 versus, I guess, maybe the core hardware business and everything that's associated with the mailing meters, et cetera? Kurt WolfCEO at Pitney Bowes00:12:01Yeah. Yeah, and, and we can essentially cut it into three pieces. We have, you know, the mailing meter business, we have the, the shipping business, shipping software business, and then we have the bank, which currently is reported as a part of SendTech. So with respect to the mailing meters, you know, again, the IMI migration certainly created some serious headwinds in 2025. We expect that to slowly ease. In addition to that, we've had a bias in the past of always focusing on growing markets, which does not apply to the mailing meter business. So, you know, one of the things that Todd's really identified since joining the company is, we probably aren't doing as much as we could to slow that rate of decline. Kurt WolfCEO at Pitney Bowes00:12:37So I think there's a lot of effort is gonna be put into slowing the rate of decline. So that's what I'd say about the mail meter business. With respect to shipping software, you know, Todd's done some great work there. We have a vast array of product offerings, and we're trying to get more focused on how we do that. And then also we're trying to figure out where do we have the best competitive advantage so we can better hone our go-to-market strategy. I think it's gonna take some time to fully identify exactly what that looks like. But I will say that we're not, you know, we're not cautious or slow in how we go about this. Kurt WolfCEO at Pitney Bowes00:13:12Todd's aggressively already testing some concepts in the market, so we'll have more in future quarters on that. And then with respect to the bank, as you saw with the hiring of Steve, that's really unlocking the opportunity for us to focus on growth in the bank. So too early to say just yet, but, you know, that's an area we're really excited about, but we will obviously show caution given the risks associated with the lending space. So hopefully that gives you some good color. Jasper BibbEquity Research Analyst at Truist00:13:37No, that's, that's very helpful. Is maybe just one on capital returns. A pretty aggressive pace of buybacks in the fourth quarter. It seems like that maybe slowed a little bit in the first, call it, month and a half of 2026. Just wanted to get, you know, an update on how you're thinking about the balance of share repurchase and the dividend and other priorities in 2026. Paul EvansEVP, CFO, and Treasurer at Pitney Bowes00:14:01Yeah. So Jasper, this is Paul. Look, I think the keyword on share buybacks and debt buybacks is opportunistic. I mean, we're very opportunistic in Q4. We're just, you know, it's – we're very disciplined on how we look at this. You know, I think I'll say it on here. I mean, we're committed to a net debt to EBITDA around 3x, but you know, we definitely see that our stock continues to be undervalued, and so we will continue to buy our stock. Again, relative to dividends, that's a quarter-by-quarter decision. This quarter, we decided the best use of our capital was to continue to look at debt buybacks and share buybacks. Jasper BibbEquity Research Analyst at Truist00:14:42Very helpful. Thanks for taking the questions, guys. Paul EvansEVP, CFO, and Treasurer at Pitney Bowes00:14:44Thanks, Jasper. Operator00:14:46Thank you. And our next question will come from Curtis Nagle with Bank of America. Your line is open. Paul EvansEVP, CFO, and Treasurer at Pitney Bowes00:14:54Hi, Curtis. Curtis NagleEquity Research Analyst at Bank of America00:14:55Great. Good morning. Thanks for taking my question. Just wanted to follow up quickly on the free cash flow guide. You know, it came in nicely above where the street was. In terms of the components, yeah, maybe we can return to that restructuring point later, but are you including the net investments in the loan receivables from the cash from investing line? So I think the sort of comparable or you know, the component of that in cash from ops is in there. So just wondering kind of how all that rounds out, and is that in the guide? Paul EvansEVP, CFO, and Treasurer at Pitney Bowes00:15:28A little bit on free cash flow. A big component of free cash flow is presort prepayments. We don't control the timing of that, per se, but, you know, we had a very strong Q4 on that, despite not fully controlling it. So that, that's definitely a larger component for us when we look at that. And as far as the detail on the amount of restructuring in there, I'm just not sure that that's a number that we've given out in the past. Curtis NagleEquity Research Analyst at Bank of America00:15:57Okay. All right. Thanks for taking the question. Paul EvansEVP, CFO, and Treasurer at Pitney Bowes00:16:03Thank you, Curtis. Operator00:16:04Thank you. The next question comes from Dillon Bandi with Northcoast Research. Your line is open. Paul EvansEVP, CFO, and Treasurer at Pitney Bowes00:16:10Hi, Dillon. Dillon BandiEquity Research Associate at Northcoast Research00:16:11Hey, guys. Thanks for taking the question. Looking at that target of 3x net debt, is that a 2026 target, or are you guys kind of looking more into 2027 or longer term for that? Paul EvansEVP, CFO, and Treasurer at Pitney Bowes00:16:23I think on how we define Net Debt, we actually came in end of the year slightly below 3x Net Debt to Adjusted EBITDA. I think it's just a good overall target to be. There might be times we're slightly above it on a quarter or slightly below it, but I think for this business going forward, that's the right place to be. Kurt WolfCEO at Pitney Bowes00:16:42Yeah, and Dillon, just to add to that, you know, I think Paul's highlighted we're going to be opportunistic in our capital allocation. And we've said on previous calls, you know, we're cognizant of how the market views us and what levels of debt they think we can manage. So, we believe we get a high or have a higher ratio than that, but, you know, as long as the market doesn't believe it, we're gonna, you know, we're gonna follow the market's lead on that. So what I would say is, by being opportunistic in the capital markets, we may go above, we may go below, but that's sort of our, you know, the mean or the point we want to keep returning to over time. We may go above for a bit, return back, or go below for a bit, and then return back. Dillon BandiEquity Research Associate at Northcoast Research00:17:22Got you. That's really helpful. And then, Kurt, in your letter, you talked about SendTech exiting its low point of the product cycle. Has there been any fundamental change in that business, whether that's, you know, renewal rates or price competition, or do you guys just overall feel confident about that? Thanks. Kurt WolfCEO at Pitney Bowes00:17:38Yeah. No, I would just say overall, we feel confident. We have, we believe we have the best products in the market. I think the market agree, you know, the market agrees with that in terms of buying habits. We're doing, we're doing increasingly well in the federal space and the government space. And again, it's just, it really is. You know, there was a low point tied to the IMI Migration, we're recovering from it. We are recovering from it, and there's fundamentally nothing that's really changed as far as we can see in terms of, you know, you know, the rate of decline that we've just historically seen, you know, should change going forward. Dillon BandiEquity Research Associate at Northcoast Research00:18:12Great. Thank you, guys, very much. Kurt WolfCEO at Pitney Bowes00:18:15Thank you, Dillon. Operator00:18:16Thank you. As a reminder, to ask a question, please press star one one on your telephone. Our next question comes from Justin Dopierala with DOMO Capital Management. Your line is open. Kurt WolfCEO at Pitney Bowes00:18:31Justin. Justin DopieralaPortfolio Manager at DOMO Capital Management00:18:32Good morning. Kurt WolfCEO at Pitney Bowes00:18:34Good morning. Justin DopieralaPortfolio Manager at DOMO Capital Management00:18:35Doing well. So do the new hires you've announced signal that you're no longer looking to sell the business as part of the strategic review? Kurt WolfCEO at Pitney Bowes00:18:45No, no, not at all. Again, what I'd highlight is with these additions, and I hope everybody recognizes the level of talent we've brought in here, it's gonna be important no matter what the future of the business is. You know, these are great executives, bring a lot to the table. No matter where this company goes, they're gonna be a great asset going forward. So that is no, in no way a comment on the future path of the company. Justin DopieralaPortfolio Manager at DOMO Capital Management00:19:11Got it. I know you touched a little bit on restructuring. You know, in Q4, it was a lot larger than I was expecting. I would assume, you know, in 2026, that these costs drop closer to, to zero. I don't know if you can say, what, what was the largest restructuring cost in Q4? Kurt WolfCEO at Pitney Bowes00:19:30Oh, just, headcount reductions. Justin DopieralaPortfolio Manager at DOMO Capital Management00:19:34Okay. So that was essentially one-time cost. Kurt WolfCEO at Pitney Bowes00:19:39In 2026, but most of it will, you know, it's already captured in the 2025 number. Justin DopieralaPortfolio Manager at DOMO Capital Management00:19:45Perfect. You know, it also appears that your dominance in the presort space has contributed to a much lower price for presort customers. I was just wondering, how does the USPS view this with respect to Workshare discounts, and wouldn't the Post Office also benefit considerably if they simply privatized the entire presort function to companies like Pitney Bowes in the future? Kurt WolfCEO at Pitney Bowes00:20:08Yeah. Yeah, I don't think we're going to comment on postal relations. All I'd say is we have an amazingly constructive relationship with the Post Office. With respect to Workshare discounts, you know, the whole rationale for those being introduced is and it's common throughout the government, whether you look at Medicare with, you know, whether it's Medicare Part C, there's always an interest in figuring out private-public partnerships, and that's exactly what these Workshare discounts are. And then in terms of, you know, I think you're asking about pricing, yeah, I completely agree. Kurt WolfCEO at Pitney Bowes00:20:44In the end of the day, one of the big benefits of the Workshare discounts is not only does it save money for the Post Office, but a lot of those discounts end up getting passed on to customers, so it creates a lower cost for the end user postal services, which, you know, helps keep, you know, volume going through the postal system due to lower costs. So I think it's a win-win for the Post Office, but, you know, I can't speak on their behalf. Justin DopieralaPortfolio Manager at DOMO Capital Management00:21:07Absolutely. Got it. And I think you briefly touched on this, but looking ahead over the, maybe the next few years, what do you think are the top growth opportunities that you're seeing? Paul EvansEVP, CFO, and Treasurer at Pitney Bowes00:21:19I think, I'd say in presort, obviously, given that we're the low-cost provider in the market, you know, we, our pricing strategy, we should see growth there, but that'll take a little time. We're seeing more inbounds on acquisition opportunities, so we will definitely look at that. You know, the renewed focus back on mail and investment, where we have to slow the decline, that in a sense is a form of growth. And then shipping, I mean, the team that Kurt and Todd assembled there, you know, we like our chances on how to evolve. And then finally, with Steve, you know, coming on to run the bank, I think there will be definitely opportunities there for us. Justin DopieralaPortfolio Manager at DOMO Capital Management00:22:06Okay. And just I guess lastly, you know, analyst coverage from yesterday seems to amplify that there's still a huge opportunity to educate people on the fundamentals of the Pitney Bowes business. Are you planning to have an investor day in 2026? Kurt WolfCEO at Pitney Bowes00:22:21Yeah. Yes, we are. So... And, and I, I certainly agree with you on the education level, but as Paul said, we're incredibly opportunistic in our allocation of capital. I think when we sit here and look at it, I think we're trading on a levered basis at 4 times free cash flow. So, and I think our, you know, we did have a decline in revenue that was larger than typical last year, which I think maybe creates some concern from shareholders. But again, a lot of that is tied to customer losses and presort that was entirely preventable and shouldn't recur going forward. And then in SendTech, it was tied to the IMI migration. Kurt WolfCEO at Pitney Bowes00:22:55But, to, you know, quote Warren Buffett, when the price, you know, if you, if you buy hamburgers and the price of hamburgers goes down, you should be happy. So, you know, we're not worried about short-term price movements. We just are opportunistic about how we handle them. You know, our belief is in the long-term, long-term outcome of the company. Justin DopieralaPortfolio Manager at DOMO Capital Management00:23:12Excellent. Thank you. Kurt WolfCEO at Pitney Bowes00:23:14Yep. Thank you, Justin. Operator00:23:16Thank you. At this time, I'm showing no further questions in the queue. I would now like to turn the call back to Kurt for closing remarks. Kurt WolfCEO at Pitney Bowes00:23:28Yeah, thank you, everybody, for joining us. Appreciate your continued investment in our company. You know, hopefully, everybody has seen the results of Q4, you know, show some of the progress we're making. I know everybody's eager to understand and see when we get to growth, but what we hope people appreciate, and I think the right best investors will appreciate, we're doing everything we can to build a strong foundation. And as that foundation is built, it's gonna be much more successful in our pursuit of growth going forward. So thank you for your continued investment, your continued faith in us, and we will do our best to continue to deliver strong results for you. So thank you all. Operator00:24:08Thank you for participating. You may now disconnect.Read moreParticipantsExecutivesAlex BrownDirector of Investor RelationsKurt WolfCEOAnalystsAaron KimsonEquity Research Associate at CitizensAnthony LebiedzinskiEquity Research Analyst at SidotiCurtis NagleEquity Research Analyst at Bank of AmericaDillon BandiEquity Research Associate at Northcoast ResearchGeorge TongEquity Research Analyst at Goldman SachsJasper BibbEquity Research Analyst at TruistJustin DopieralaPortfolio Manager at DOMO Capital ManagementPaul EvansEVP, CFO, and Treasurer at Pitney BowesPowered by Earnings DocumentsSlide DeckPress Release(8-K)Annual report(10-K) Pitney Bowes Earnings HeadlinesPitney Bowes Announces Results of Long-Dated Debt TenderSeptember 21 at 10:30 AM | tipranks.comPitney Bowes Inc. 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Email Address About Pitney BowesPitney Bowes (NYSE:PBI) (NYSE:PBI) is a global technology, shipping and mailing company that provides solutions for businesses managing physical and digital communications, parcels and mail. Its offerings include mailing and shipping equipment, software, supplies, services and financing options designed to help organizations process, track and deliver items. The company operates through businesses focused on shipping and mailing technology and presort services. Its products and services include postage meters and other mailroom equipment, cloud-based shipping and mailing software, parcel management tools, address and data services, and outsourced mail processing. Pitney Bowes also supports e-commerce and logistics operations through solutions intended to improve fulfillment, delivery visibility and customer communications. Founded in 1920 by Arthur Pitney and Walter Bowes, the company helped establish the modern postage-meter industry. Pitney Bowes serves commercial, governmental and small-business customers in the United States and internationally, with operations and clients across multiple global markets. 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PresentationSkip to Participants Operator00:00:00Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by. Welcome to the fourth quarter 2025 Pitney Bowes Earnings Conference Call. Joining us today are Chief Executive Officer Kurt Wolf, Chief Financial Officer Paul Evans, and Director Investor Relations Alex Brown. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. After the speaker's presentation, there will be a question-and-answer session. To ask a question during the session, you would need to press star one one on your telephone. You will then hear an automated message advising your hand is raised. To withdraw your question, please press star one one again. Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded. It is my pleasure to turn the call over to Alex Brown, Director, Investor Relations. Please go ahead. Alex BrownDirector of Investor Relations at Pitney Bowes00:00:59Good morning, and thank you for joining us. Included in today's presentation are forward-looking statements about our future business and financial performance. Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to be materially different from our projections. More information about these items can be found in our earnings press release, our Form 10-K, and other reports filed with the SEC that are located on our website at www.pb.com, and by clicking on Investor Relations. Please keep in mind that we do not undertake any obligation to update forward-looking statements as a result of any new information or developments. Also included in today's presentation are non-GAAP measures. Specifically, EBIT, EBITDA, EPS, and free cash flow are all on an adjusted basis. You can find a reconciliation for these items to the appropriate GAAP measure in the tables attached to our press release. Alex BrownDirector of Investor Relations at Pitney Bowes00:02:04We have also provided a slide presentation and a spreadsheet with historical segment information on our website. With that, I'd like to turn the call over to Kurt. Kurt WolfCEO at Pitney Bowes00:02:15Good morning, and thank you for joining us. I trust that everyone has had a chance to read our earnings release and my quarterly letter. As such, I will keep my comments brief. First, I'd like to welcome our recently announced executive hires. It's exciting to see the level of talent we are now able to attract to Pitney Bowes. I'm particularly pleased to have Steve Fischer join the company. Steve is an accomplished bank leader, something that stood out during the recruiting process. I look forward to working closely with him to maximize the value of Pitney Bowes Bank. Moving to the fourth quarter, our results demonstrate the progress we're making in transforming Pitney Bowes. While we did have some tailwinds, our financials were strong, absent those benefits, and reflect the growing strength of our business. In closing, we are rapidly progressing through our transformation. Kurt WolfCEO at Pitney Bowes00:03:06In 2025, we significantly strengthened the foundation of our business, taking meaningful steps in upgrading leadership, simplifying our structure, streamlining processes, and eliminating costs. All of this is putting us on strong footing as we pivot to a focus on profitable growth and beginning our external review with qualified advisors during the second quarter. With that, let's open the call for questions. Operator00:03:34Thank you. As a reminder, to ask a question, please press star one one on your telephone and wait for your name to be announced, and to withdraw your question, please press star one one again. Our first question will come from Aaron Kimson with Citizens. Your line is now open. Aaron KimsonEquity Research Associate at Citizens00:03:55Oh, great. Thank you, guys. Kurt, can you expand on the additional market uncertainty and geopolitical challenges you mentioned in your letter as reasons for the wider guidance range? Kurt WolfCEO at Pitney Bowes00:04:05Yeah, Aaron, thanks for the question. Thanks for joining the call. Yeah, some of the things that we've... You know, I guess I would point to one is, as we've seen in the past, there's been issues with government shutdowns. I think there's no guarantee that doesn't happen again. As we talked about during our Q3 call, that certainly affects some of our performance in the SendTech space. More broadly, obviously, you know, there's questions about a change at the Fed. Other, you know, there's some uncertainty about where the direction of the economy is going. We're a pretty non-cyclical business. However, I would really point to our marketing mail aspect of the presort business, which is more economically sensitive. So, while we don't expect anything major, we are cognizant that there could be potential headwinds related to both of them, but not necessarily expect them. Aaron KimsonEquity Research Associate at Citizens00:04:52Okay, that makes sense. And then I wanted to ask on the presort business as well. You mentioned new business wins and no churn since June of 2025. I think you had a nice win in the state of Pennsylvania that was well-publicized in four Q. Are boomerang customers and, and new wins generally reflected in presort volumes immediately, or is there a ramp time where Debbie and her team get agreements, but the volumes come at the end of a preexisting contract with another vendor, and you have some visibility into the ramp? Kurt WolfCEO at Pitney Bowes00:05:19Usually they come in pretty quickly, but what I would point to is there's definitely a sales cycle that can be pretty long. So, you know, we got more aggressive starting in June of last year, and it's taken time to fill that pipeline. And I think at this point, the pipeline's pretty full start to finish. And one thing I'd point to is, you know, the customer wins that we had in Q4, we've essentially met that level of wins this, you know, half the way into Q1 of this year. So you can see as that pipeline is filled, that we're getting more and more wins on a more rapid basis. And then finally, in terms of flow through to the financials, it does take a little bit of time. Kurt WolfCEO at Pitney Bowes00:05:55You know, we have to add, you know, multiple customers. We have a lot of major losses from the first half of last year that we're trying to eclipse. So it's just going to be a process over the next few months and quarters. Aaron KimsonEquity Research Associate at Citizens00:06:06Understood. Thank you, guys. Operator00:06:11Thank you. Our next question is going to come from Anthony Lebiedzinski with Sidoti. Your line is open. Anthony LebiedzinskiEquity Research Analyst at Sidoti00:06:21Good morning, and thank you for taking the questions. Just a quick follow-up. Kurt, you said that the government shutdown had some impact in the quarter. Any way you guys could quantify what that impact may have been? Paul EvansEVP, CFO, and Treasurer at Pitney Bowes00:06:36Hi, Anthony. It's Paul Evans. Yeah, look, we were impacted on that. That was hardware purchases. It sort of pushed it into the subsequent quarter. So we saw most of it in Q3 last year. I'm not sure we'd go down to that level of granularity to give that, but I mean, we are, you know, susceptible to government shutdowns. Anthony LebiedzinskiEquity Research Analyst at Sidoti00:06:57Understood. Okay. So, Kurt, in your shareholder letter, you mentioned being more aggressive with pricing on Presort. So, just wondering if you could further expand on that as far as how perhaps aggressive you would be with pricing to win back clients, and what type of EBIT margins should we think about as we look at the Presort business going forward? Kurt WolfCEO at Pitney Bowes00:07:22Yeah, I'll let Paul speak to the EBIT margins. But just broadly speaking, what I'd highlight on that, I know there's been questions about what's going on in Presort. You know, to be quite honest, I think we got caught flat-footed early last year. Industry margins went up, and pretty much everybody in the space did what you would expect, which was to go out and be aggressive to try to win new customers with the higher margin levels. We unfortunately were not in the same boat. So, you know, we did face a lot of headwinds in terms of customer losses and having to give concessions to our customers. But we weren't necessarily aggressive going after customers in the space, and that's really what's happening now. Kurt WolfCEO at Pitney Bowes00:07:58So, when we talk about being aggressive on pricing, a lot of it is trying to pull in new business. We've already, you know, made the required concessions to our existing customer base, so it's really about winning new customers. Paul EvansEVP, CFO, and Treasurer at Pitney Bowes00:08:10So, Anthony, to add to that, I think if you sort of target low-to-mid 20% range for EBIT margins. But it's also important to note that we are the low-cost provider, so, you know, we can sustain that. So when we come out and say we're going to get more aggressive on our pricing strategy, and, you know, we can certainly afford to do that. Anthony LebiedzinskiEquity Research Analyst at Sidoti00:08:34Got you. Okay. Then, my last question before I pass it on to others. So as we look at the free cash flow guidance, you guys add back restructuring payments to your definition of free cash flow. So how much restructuring payments are you guys assuming in 2026? Paul EvansEVP, CFO, and Treasurer at Pitney Bowes00:08:53For 20, it is true, yeah, we do add it back. And the reason we add it back is it's not really representative of our business going forward. I'm just trying to think if we've offered that level of detail in the past on that. Maybe, maybe I'll circle back to that, payment. I'm not sure we've offered that level of detail. Anthony LebiedzinskiEquity Research Analyst at Sidoti00:09:14Okay, understood. Well, thanks very much, and best of luck. Paul EvansEVP, CFO, and Treasurer at Pitney Bowes00:09:18Thanks, Anthony. Operator00:09:19Thank you. And our next question is going to come from George Tong with Goldman Sachs. Your line is open. George TongEquity Research Analyst at Goldman Sachs00:09:27Hi, thanks. Good morning. Going back to the Presort business. Paul EvansEVP, CFO, and Treasurer at Pitney Bowes00:09:31Hi. George TongEquity Research Analyst at Goldman Sachs00:09:32In terms of winning back customers and being more competitive on pricing, given the comps ease pretty materially in the second half of this year, would you expect that by then you would return to positive growth in Presort? Paul EvansEVP, CFO, and Treasurer at Pitney Bowes00:09:47I think we'll see. It'll be an easier comp year over year on, on growth, but, you know, we've got to get past Q1, Q2, which are going to be tougher comps for us. But again, as we, we said before, you know, we, we stopped the decline mid last year. We've Kurt sort of empowered Debbie Pfeiffer to be more aggressive on pricing. And as Kurt also mentioned, there is a sales cycle to this, so we're certainly getting some traction, but I think second half of the year will be a better comp for us. George TongEquity Research Analyst at Goldman Sachs00:10:18Okay, makes sense. And then in the SendTech business, how do you envision the revenue performance over the course of the year? If there's any bifurcation of performance in the first half of the year, for example, versus the second half, would you expect the second half to be stronger within the SendTech business? Paul EvansEVP, CFO, and Treasurer at Pitney Bowes00:10:42Well, let's start first for the year. We expect a top-line decline in the business, but to split apart the year, we believe second half of the year will be stronger than the front part of the year. Kurt WolfCEO at Pitney Bowes00:10:54Yeah, and George- George TongEquity Research Analyst at Goldman Sachs00:10:55Makes sense. Kurt WolfCEO at Pitney Bowes00:10:55Look at, you know, you know, sequential year-over-year throughout 2025, you can see there's a trend, you know, essentially getting more positive every quarter, and that ties back to what we've spoken about in the past with the IMI migration. And again, we expect that to continue. So we can't guarantee that each year-over-year comparison is going to get better quarter by quarter, but that should we expect to be somewhat the trend on a go-forward basis, you know, at least through 2026. George TongEquity Research Analyst at Goldman Sachs00:11:21Yes, makes sense. Thanks so much. Paul EvansEVP, CFO, and Treasurer at Pitney Bowes00:11:24Thank you, George. Operator00:11:25Thank you. The next question will come from Jasper Bibb with Truist. Your line is open. Jasper BibbEquity Research Analyst at Truist00:11:33Hey, good morning, guys. I was just curious how you're thinking about the underlying mix in SendTech in 2026. I think the letter mentioned you didn't get the growth rate you wanted in the shipping technology piece. Could you maybe frame for us how you think you're thinking about the growth rates in the shipping technology business in 2026 versus, I guess, maybe the core hardware business and everything that's associated with the mailing meters, et cetera? Kurt WolfCEO at Pitney Bowes00:12:01Yeah. Yeah, and, and we can essentially cut it into three pieces. We have, you know, the mailing meter business, we have the, the shipping business, shipping software business, and then we have the bank, which currently is reported as a part of SendTech. So with respect to the mailing meters, you know, again, the IMI migration certainly created some serious headwinds in 2025. We expect that to slowly ease. In addition to that, we've had a bias in the past of always focusing on growing markets, which does not apply to the mailing meter business. So, you know, one of the things that Todd's really identified since joining the company is, we probably aren't doing as much as we could to slow that rate of decline. Kurt WolfCEO at Pitney Bowes00:12:37So I think there's a lot of effort is gonna be put into slowing the rate of decline. So that's what I'd say about the mail meter business. With respect to shipping software, you know, Todd's done some great work there. We have a vast array of product offerings, and we're trying to get more focused on how we do that. And then also we're trying to figure out where do we have the best competitive advantage so we can better hone our go-to-market strategy. I think it's gonna take some time to fully identify exactly what that looks like. But I will say that we're not, you know, we're not cautious or slow in how we go about this. Kurt WolfCEO at Pitney Bowes00:13:12Todd's aggressively already testing some concepts in the market, so we'll have more in future quarters on that. And then with respect to the bank, as you saw with the hiring of Steve, that's really unlocking the opportunity for us to focus on growth in the bank. So too early to say just yet, but, you know, that's an area we're really excited about, but we will obviously show caution given the risks associated with the lending space. So hopefully that gives you some good color. Jasper BibbEquity Research Analyst at Truist00:13:37No, that's, that's very helpful. Is maybe just one on capital returns. A pretty aggressive pace of buybacks in the fourth quarter. It seems like that maybe slowed a little bit in the first, call it, month and a half of 2026. Just wanted to get, you know, an update on how you're thinking about the balance of share repurchase and the dividend and other priorities in 2026. Paul EvansEVP, CFO, and Treasurer at Pitney Bowes00:14:01Yeah. So Jasper, this is Paul. Look, I think the keyword on share buybacks and debt buybacks is opportunistic. I mean, we're very opportunistic in Q4. We're just, you know, it's – we're very disciplined on how we look at this. You know, I think I'll say it on here. I mean, we're committed to a net debt to EBITDA around 3x, but you know, we definitely see that our stock continues to be undervalued, and so we will continue to buy our stock. Again, relative to dividends, that's a quarter-by-quarter decision. This quarter, we decided the best use of our capital was to continue to look at debt buybacks and share buybacks. Jasper BibbEquity Research Analyst at Truist00:14:42Very helpful. Thanks for taking the questions, guys. Paul EvansEVP, CFO, and Treasurer at Pitney Bowes00:14:44Thanks, Jasper. Operator00:14:46Thank you. And our next question will come from Curtis Nagle with Bank of America. Your line is open. Paul EvansEVP, CFO, and Treasurer at Pitney Bowes00:14:54Hi, Curtis. Curtis NagleEquity Research Analyst at Bank of America00:14:55Great. Good morning. Thanks for taking my question. Just wanted to follow up quickly on the free cash flow guide. You know, it came in nicely above where the street was. In terms of the components, yeah, maybe we can return to that restructuring point later, but are you including the net investments in the loan receivables from the cash from investing line? So I think the sort of comparable or you know, the component of that in cash from ops is in there. So just wondering kind of how all that rounds out, and is that in the guide? Paul EvansEVP, CFO, and Treasurer at Pitney Bowes00:15:28A little bit on free cash flow. A big component of free cash flow is presort prepayments. We don't control the timing of that, per se, but, you know, we had a very strong Q4 on that, despite not fully controlling it. So that, that's definitely a larger component for us when we look at that. And as far as the detail on the amount of restructuring in there, I'm just not sure that that's a number that we've given out in the past. Curtis NagleEquity Research Analyst at Bank of America00:15:57Okay. All right. Thanks for taking the question. Paul EvansEVP, CFO, and Treasurer at Pitney Bowes00:16:03Thank you, Curtis. Operator00:16:04Thank you. The next question comes from Dillon Bandi with Northcoast Research. Your line is open. Paul EvansEVP, CFO, and Treasurer at Pitney Bowes00:16:10Hi, Dillon. Dillon BandiEquity Research Associate at Northcoast Research00:16:11Hey, guys. Thanks for taking the question. Looking at that target of 3x net debt, is that a 2026 target, or are you guys kind of looking more into 2027 or longer term for that? Paul EvansEVP, CFO, and Treasurer at Pitney Bowes00:16:23I think on how we define Net Debt, we actually came in end of the year slightly below 3x Net Debt to Adjusted EBITDA. I think it's just a good overall target to be. There might be times we're slightly above it on a quarter or slightly below it, but I think for this business going forward, that's the right place to be. Kurt WolfCEO at Pitney Bowes00:16:42Yeah, and Dillon, just to add to that, you know, I think Paul's highlighted we're going to be opportunistic in our capital allocation. And we've said on previous calls, you know, we're cognizant of how the market views us and what levels of debt they think we can manage. So, we believe we get a high or have a higher ratio than that, but, you know, as long as the market doesn't believe it, we're gonna, you know, we're gonna follow the market's lead on that. So what I would say is, by being opportunistic in the capital markets, we may go above, we may go below, but that's sort of our, you know, the mean or the point we want to keep returning to over time. We may go above for a bit, return back, or go below for a bit, and then return back. Dillon BandiEquity Research Associate at Northcoast Research00:17:22Got you. That's really helpful. And then, Kurt, in your letter, you talked about SendTech exiting its low point of the product cycle. Has there been any fundamental change in that business, whether that's, you know, renewal rates or price competition, or do you guys just overall feel confident about that? Thanks. Kurt WolfCEO at Pitney Bowes00:17:38Yeah. No, I would just say overall, we feel confident. We have, we believe we have the best products in the market. I think the market agree, you know, the market agrees with that in terms of buying habits. We're doing, we're doing increasingly well in the federal space and the government space. And again, it's just, it really is. You know, there was a low point tied to the IMI Migration, we're recovering from it. We are recovering from it, and there's fundamentally nothing that's really changed as far as we can see in terms of, you know, you know, the rate of decline that we've just historically seen, you know, should change going forward. Dillon BandiEquity Research Associate at Northcoast Research00:18:12Great. Thank you, guys, very much. Kurt WolfCEO at Pitney Bowes00:18:15Thank you, Dillon. Operator00:18:16Thank you. As a reminder, to ask a question, please press star one one on your telephone. Our next question comes from Justin Dopierala with DOMO Capital Management. Your line is open. Kurt WolfCEO at Pitney Bowes00:18:31Justin. Justin DopieralaPortfolio Manager at DOMO Capital Management00:18:32Good morning. Kurt WolfCEO at Pitney Bowes00:18:34Good morning. Justin DopieralaPortfolio Manager at DOMO Capital Management00:18:35Doing well. So do the new hires you've announced signal that you're no longer looking to sell the business as part of the strategic review? Kurt WolfCEO at Pitney Bowes00:18:45No, no, not at all. Again, what I'd highlight is with these additions, and I hope everybody recognizes the level of talent we've brought in here, it's gonna be important no matter what the future of the business is. You know, these are great executives, bring a lot to the table. No matter where this company goes, they're gonna be a great asset going forward. So that is no, in no way a comment on the future path of the company. Justin DopieralaPortfolio Manager at DOMO Capital Management00:19:11Got it. I know you touched a little bit on restructuring. You know, in Q4, it was a lot larger than I was expecting. I would assume, you know, in 2026, that these costs drop closer to, to zero. I don't know if you can say, what, what was the largest restructuring cost in Q4? Kurt WolfCEO at Pitney Bowes00:19:30Oh, just, headcount reductions. Justin DopieralaPortfolio Manager at DOMO Capital Management00:19:34Okay. So that was essentially one-time cost. Kurt WolfCEO at Pitney Bowes00:19:39In 2026, but most of it will, you know, it's already captured in the 2025 number. Justin DopieralaPortfolio Manager at DOMO Capital Management00:19:45Perfect. You know, it also appears that your dominance in the presort space has contributed to a much lower price for presort customers. I was just wondering, how does the USPS view this with respect to Workshare discounts, and wouldn't the Post Office also benefit considerably if they simply privatized the entire presort function to companies like Pitney Bowes in the future? Kurt WolfCEO at Pitney Bowes00:20:08Yeah. Yeah, I don't think we're going to comment on postal relations. All I'd say is we have an amazingly constructive relationship with the Post Office. With respect to Workshare discounts, you know, the whole rationale for those being introduced is and it's common throughout the government, whether you look at Medicare with, you know, whether it's Medicare Part C, there's always an interest in figuring out private-public partnerships, and that's exactly what these Workshare discounts are. And then in terms of, you know, I think you're asking about pricing, yeah, I completely agree. Kurt WolfCEO at Pitney Bowes00:20:44In the end of the day, one of the big benefits of the Workshare discounts is not only does it save money for the Post Office, but a lot of those discounts end up getting passed on to customers, so it creates a lower cost for the end user postal services, which, you know, helps keep, you know, volume going through the postal system due to lower costs. So I think it's a win-win for the Post Office, but, you know, I can't speak on their behalf. Justin DopieralaPortfolio Manager at DOMO Capital Management00:21:07Absolutely. Got it. And I think you briefly touched on this, but looking ahead over the, maybe the next few years, what do you think are the top growth opportunities that you're seeing? Paul EvansEVP, CFO, and Treasurer at Pitney Bowes00:21:19I think, I'd say in presort, obviously, given that we're the low-cost provider in the market, you know, we, our pricing strategy, we should see growth there, but that'll take a little time. We're seeing more inbounds on acquisition opportunities, so we will definitely look at that. You know, the renewed focus back on mail and investment, where we have to slow the decline, that in a sense is a form of growth. And then shipping, I mean, the team that Kurt and Todd assembled there, you know, we like our chances on how to evolve. And then finally, with Steve, you know, coming on to run the bank, I think there will be definitely opportunities there for us. Justin DopieralaPortfolio Manager at DOMO Capital Management00:22:06Okay. And just I guess lastly, you know, analyst coverage from yesterday seems to amplify that there's still a huge opportunity to educate people on the fundamentals of the Pitney Bowes business. Are you planning to have an investor day in 2026? Kurt WolfCEO at Pitney Bowes00:22:21Yeah. Yes, we are. So... And, and I, I certainly agree with you on the education level, but as Paul said, we're incredibly opportunistic in our allocation of capital. I think when we sit here and look at it, I think we're trading on a levered basis at 4 times free cash flow. So, and I think our, you know, we did have a decline in revenue that was larger than typical last year, which I think maybe creates some concern from shareholders. But again, a lot of that is tied to customer losses and presort that was entirely preventable and shouldn't recur going forward. And then in SendTech, it was tied to the IMI migration. Kurt WolfCEO at Pitney Bowes00:22:55But, to, you know, quote Warren Buffett, when the price, you know, if you, if you buy hamburgers and the price of hamburgers goes down, you should be happy. So, you know, we're not worried about short-term price movements. We just are opportunistic about how we handle them. You know, our belief is in the long-term, long-term outcome of the company. Justin DopieralaPortfolio Manager at DOMO Capital Management00:23:12Excellent. Thank you. Kurt WolfCEO at Pitney Bowes00:23:14Yep. Thank you, Justin. Operator00:23:16Thank you. At this time, I'm showing no further questions in the queue. I would now like to turn the call back to Kurt for closing remarks. Kurt WolfCEO at Pitney Bowes00:23:28Yeah, thank you, everybody, for joining us. Appreciate your continued investment in our company. You know, hopefully, everybody has seen the results of Q4, you know, show some of the progress we're making. I know everybody's eager to understand and see when we get to growth, but what we hope people appreciate, and I think the right best investors will appreciate, we're doing everything we can to build a strong foundation. And as that foundation is built, it's gonna be much more successful in our pursuit of growth going forward. So thank you for your continued investment, your continued faith in us, and we will do our best to continue to deliver strong results for you. So thank you all. Operator00:24:08Thank you for participating. You may now disconnect.Read moreParticipantsExecutivesAlex BrownDirector of Investor RelationsKurt WolfCEOAnalystsAaron KimsonEquity Research Associate at CitizensAnthony LebiedzinskiEquity Research Analyst at SidotiCurtis NagleEquity Research Analyst at Bank of AmericaDillon BandiEquity Research Associate at Northcoast ResearchGeorge TongEquity Research Analyst at Goldman SachsJasper BibbEquity Research Analyst at TruistJustin DopieralaPortfolio Manager at DOMO Capital ManagementPaul EvansEVP, CFO, and Treasurer at Pitney BowesPowered by