ATCO Q1 2026 Earnings Report

ATCO EPS Results

• Actual EPS: C$1.47
• Consensus EPS: N/A
• Beat/Miss: N/A
• One Year Ago EPS: N/A

ATCO Revenue Results

• Actual Revenue: $1.43 billion
• Expected Revenue: N/A
• Beat/Miss: N/A
• YoY Revenue Growth: N/A

ATCO Announcement Details

• Quarter: Q1 2026
• Date: 5/6/2026
• Time: Before Market Opens
• Conference Call Date: Wednesday, May 6, 2026
• Conference Call Time: 12:00PM ET

ATCO (TSE:ACO.X) Ltd is a Canadian holding company that offers gas, electric, and infrastructure solutions. The largest subsidiary of the company is Canadian utilities, which operates natural gas, electricity, and logistical services. Atco's primary segments include Structures and Logistics; Utilities; Energy Infrastructure; Neltume Ports and Corporate and Other. It generates maximum revenue from the Utilities segment. Geographically, it derives most of its revenue from Canada.

ATCO Q1 2026 Earnings Call Transcript

Key Takeaways

• Positive Sentiment: Q1 2026 adjusted earnings were CAD 165 million (CAD 1.47/share), up 3% year‑over‑year and reported as in line with management expectations.
• Positive Sentiment: Canadian Utilities contributed CAD 127 million of adjusted earnings (up CAD 5 million YoY), driven by rate‑base growth at ATCO Energy Systems and higher rates/CPI adjustments at ATCO Gas Australia, with management expecting full‑year utility earnings growth.
• Positive Sentiment: ATCO Structures & Logistics delivered CAD 28 million of adjusted earnings (4% YoY), with a 5% larger rental fleet, a 7% increase in average rental rate to CAD 863/month, CAD 65 million of adjusted EBITDA (+5%), CAD 113 million of Q1 project awards, and ongoing progress on the 1,000‑person Stibnite accommodation village (~one‑third of units manufactured).
• Neutral Sentiment: Management is pursuing a long‑dated Arctic/defense strategy—highlighting CAD 35 billion of federal Arctic/defense spending, 73 Indigenous partnerships, and a CAD 10 million (40%) stake in West Kitikmeot Resources to advance the Grays Bay Road & Port project—but expects returns to materialize over an extended timeframe.
• Neutral Sentiment: Management asserts that ATCO Structures is undervalued by over CAD 2 billion on a sum‑of‑the‑parts basis, a company perspective that could imply upside if market re‑rating occurs.

Presentation

[Operator]

Thank you for standing by. This is the conference operator. Welcome to the first quarter 2026 results conference call and webcast for ATCO Ltd. As a reminder, all participants are in listen-only mode, and the conference is being recorded. After the presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask questions. To join the question queue, you may press star then one on your telephone keypad. Should you need assistance during the conference call, you may reach an operator by pressing star then zero. I would now like to turn the conference over to Mr. Colin Jackson, Senior Vice President, Financial Operations. Please go ahead, Mr. Jackson.

[Colin Jackson, SVP of Financial Operations at ATCO]

Thank you and good morning, everyone. We are pleased you could join us for ATCO's first quarter 2026 conference call. On the conference line with me today, we have Katie Patrick, Chief Financial and Investment Officer, and Adam Beattie, President of ATCO Structures. Before we move into today's remarks, I would like to take a moment to acknowledge the numerous traditional territories and homelands on which our global facilities are located. Today, I am speaking to you from our ATCO Park head office in Calgary, which is located in the Treaty 7 region. This is the ancestral territory of the Blackfoot Confederacy, comprised of the Siksika, the Kainai, the Piikani, and the Tsuut'ina Nation, and the Stoney Nakoda Nations, which include the Chiniki, Bearspaw, and Goodstoney First Nations.

[Colin Jackson, SVP of Financial Operations at ATCO]

I also want to recognize that the City of Calgary is home to the Métis Nation of Alberta, Districts five and six. We honor and respect the diverse history, languages, ceremonies, and culture of the Indigenous peoples who call these areas home. Today's remarks will include forward-looking statements that are subject to important risks and uncertainties. For more information on these risks and uncertainties, please refer to our filings with the Canadian Securities Administrators. During today's presentation, we may refer to certain non-GAAP and other financial measures, including adjusted earnings and adjusted EBITDA. These measures do not have any standardized meaning under IFRS, and as a result, they may not be comparable to similar measures presented by other entities. Now I'll turn the call over to Katie for her opening remarks.

[Katie Patrick, CFO and Investment Officer at ATCO]

Thanks, Colin. Good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us today. Despite the ever-changing geopolitical landscape across the world, we continue to execute and deliver on our strategy across the ATCO portfolio. Some of you may have seen our refreshed brand launch, which rolled out last week: Energy, Housing, Defense. It's hard to think of three more relevant trends in the world today. ATCO has a long history and is extremely well-positioned in each. Our long-term investment-focused and diversified nature of our assets positions our businesses to drive growth for the total portfolio, generating stable earnings and dividends for shareowners. We often talk about our strategy related to housing through ATCO Structures and energy through Canadian Utilities. Today, I thought we would begin by talking a bit more about the defense opportunity ahead of us and how ATCO is positioned.

[Katie Patrick, CFO and Investment Officer at ATCO]

In particular, as you can see outlined on the slide, there is a landscape of growing opportunities in Canada's North. The federal government has shared its commitment to invest in Canada's defense sector with a significant focus on the Arctic. This includes CAD 35 billion of funding towards defense infrastructure upgrades, new northern operational support hubs, modernizing and upgrading Arctic airports, civilian infrastructure, and key economic hub developments. Aligned with our expertise, we see Canada's North as a critical development opportunity. ATCO has a demonstrated history of success in what we feel are the four critical elements to success. First, Arctic experience. Second, defense experience. Third, construction experience. Fourth, and most importantly, Indigenous participation and partnerships. For close to 40 years, ATCO Frontec has operated in the most remote parts of North America's Arctic.

[Katie Patrick, CFO and Investment Officer at ATCO]

We are a trusted defense partner who operates and maintains critical defense infrastructure like the North Warning System, a joint Canadian and U.S. radar network monitoring Arctic airspace, and the Alaska Radar System, where ATCO Frontec provides comprehensive operational support, site services, facility maintenance, and logistics. We also have trusted Indigenous partnerships built over the course of many years operating in the North. To be specific, across ATCO, we currently have 73 partnerships, MOUs, and arrangements with Indigenous groups. This is something we are incredibly proud of, aligns with our history and ongoing commitment of collaborating with Indigenous communities. As a demonstration of the types of investments we are talking about, in March, we announced a CAD 10 million investment in West Kitikmeot Resources or WKR, who will develop the Grays Bay Road and Port project in Nunavut.

[Katie Patrick, CFO and Investment Officer at ATCO]

This critical project is highlighted in the federal government's Nation Building Projects list. While it is very early days, today, this partnership should be thought of as a growth investment. We believe WKR will one day develop into a strong foundational investment for ATCO. The Grays Bay Road and Port project strongly aligns with ATCO's existing expertise and strategy in the North while building on our growth-oriented assets across the housing, energy, and defense sectors. Moving to the quarter's results. ATCO achieved adjusted earnings of CAD 165 million, or CAD 1.47 per share in the first quarter of this year. This is up 3% year-over-year and in line with our expectations for the quarter. Results were driven by growth in the utilities as well as increased sale and leasing activity in Canada at ATCO Structures.

[Katie Patrick, CFO and Investment Officer at ATCO]

The quarterly results reiterate the benefits of our diversified portfolio of investments. Looking at the specific businesses. ATCO's investment in Canadian Utilities Limited delivered adjusted earnings of CAD 127 million for the quarter, up CAD 5 million year-over-year. Higher adjusted earnings were primarily driven by growth in rate base at ATCO Energy Systems, as well as higher rates and favorable CPI adjustments at ATCO Gas Australia. As mentioned on this morning's CU call, there is significant momentum across our utility assets in Alberta, and we expect earnings growth on a full year basis. ATCO Structures and Logistics delivered adjusted earnings of CAD 28 million, up 4% year-over-year. Adjusted earnings at ATCO Structures were driven by the space rentals portion of the business, along with earnings from our Stibnite project, which Adam will speak to in his remarks.

[Katie Patrick, CFO and Investment Officer at ATCO]

Looking at the full year 2026, we expect to see strong organic earnings growth across the portfolio of investments. With that, I will now pass the call over to Adam to discuss our ATCO Structures and Logistics business.

[Adam Beattie, President of ATCO Structures at ATCO]

Thank you, Katie, and good morning everyone. I'll focus my comments on ATCO Structures and how our 1st quarter performance reflects the operating metrics you see in today's material. ATCO Structures delivered CAD 27 million of adjusted earnings in the 1st quarter, making our 5th consecutive quarter of year-over-year earnings growth. This performance reflects the durability of our diversified model across space rentals, workforce housing, and permanent modular construction, and is a credit to the teams across our operations. Earnings in the quarter were supported by strong space rentals activity, permanent modular construction sales, and contributions from our progress on the Stibnite Gold Project. Importantly, our results continue to be underpinned by disciplined execution and a focus on deploying the right mix of rental fleet and manufacturing capacity to meet our customers' needs.

[Adam Beattie, President of ATCO Structures at ATCO]

During the quarter, we increased our global space rentals fleet by 5% while maintaining our desired utilization target. The average rental rate increased by 7% year-over-year to CAD 863 per month on average, reflecting price discipline across our key geographies. The improvement in fleet performance contributed to the CAD 65 million of adjusted EBITDA generated in the quarter, which grew 5% over the prior year. The modular industry continues to benefit from demand for fast delivery, high certainty on schedule, and quality versus traditional construction, particularly in affordable housing, education, community infrastructure, and resource development. ATCO Structures serves these areas well because of our scale, our ability to offer end-to-end solutions, and our established branch and manufacturing network that keeps us close and responsive to our customers.

[Adam Beattie, President of ATCO Structures at ATCO]

Additionally, this quarter, ATCO Structures invested in the launch of a national advertising campaign throughout Canada, showcasing our expertise across multiple modular residential, commercial, and industrial construction applications. This campaign garnered considerable positive feedback and generated an increase in inbound leads for our Canadian operations. I'll pause on the scale of our platform because it is a meaningful differentiator in the modular industry. Globally, we operate 44 branches and 13 manufacturing locations across five countries. Over the last several years, we have expanded our operations and manufacturing footprint through organic growth, targeted acquisitions, and investment in lean manufacturing process optimization. Leveraging the scale and efficiencies, we have increased our ability to serve customers globally better than ever. The integration of NRB Modular Solutions is another good example of how we can add capacity and capability efficiently and strengthen our reach and serviceability for existing and new customers.

[Adam Beattie, President of ATCO Structures at ATCO]

We are also advancing the expansion of our Grimsby, Ontario manufacturing facility. This factory expansion has been designed to increase our throughput and create operating synergies across our vertically integrated business segments with a more efficient production flow and an expanded product mix, and nearly double the production capacity. Our integrated model, which includes design, manufacturing, delivery, installation, and in many cases, ongoing operations and services, allows us to provide turnkey solutions that customers value, particularly where speed, safety, cost, and delivery certainty and logistics complexity matter. The mix of offerings also supports a more resilient earnings profile across cycles. The Stibnite Gold Project remains a key execution priority for our U.S. business. This is our largest dollar value contract in the U.S. today. It showcases our industry leading ability to deliver complex, large scale workforce housing solutions.

[Adam Beattie, President of ATCO Structures at ATCO]

As a reminder, this scope includes a 1,000 person turnkey workforce accommodation village and associated office facilities in Idaho. Manufacturing is well underway, with approximately one third of units already built. We continue to execute to our budget and quality standards, with work progressing across design, manufacturing and site readiness in coordination with the customer. The next phase involves completing the remaining manufacturing scope and advancing site installation and service tie-ins. As we move through these stages, our focus remains on safe execution, schedule discipline and managing interfaces to support a smooth project handover process. Beyond Stibnite, we continue to see healthy bid activity and customer demand across our key markets, and we converted a number of those opportunities into awards during the quarter.

[Adam Beattie, President of ATCO Structures at ATCO]

With this secured backlog entering the peak construction season in North America, which is seasonally heightened demand, we see clear opportunities to continue our growth profile. In the first quarter, we secured CAD 113 million of new projects across our key geographies, including Canada, the United States and Australia. These awards reflect continued demand across our modular products, manufacturing and service capabilities. They are a selective representation of the type of work we execute day in and day out. In Canada, we continue to see opportunities supported by government commitments such as increased financial commitments to defense, housing, Buy Canada initiatives and customer demand for high quality, quickly delivered homes and community spaces. With our Canadian origins, scale, geographic footprint and experience delivering modular solutions, we believe we are well positioned to compete.

[Adam Beattie, President of ATCO Structures at ATCO]

During the quarter, we secured multiple contracts in Canada totaling CAD 73 million in highlighted awards. Of note, on the slide, you can see a rendering of the second affordable housing contract we've secured with Attainable Homes Calgary. In the U.S., while we continue to progress works on Stibnite, we also secured an additional CAD 23 million in new sales and lease contracts during the quarter. These awards reflect opportunities across industrial infrastructure and energy related end markets. Moving to Australia, our platform continues to benefit from demand in both Queensland and Western Australia, and our expanded manufacturing presence supports our ability to respond. In the first quarter, we secured CAD 17 million of nominated contracts in the region, and we are seeing increased demand for housing, energy, infrastructure and resource opportunities.

[Adam Beattie, President of ATCO Structures at ATCO]

I'm very proud of our team's work to continue to drive growth and secure new opportunities for our business. Our teams continue to secure opportunities aligned with the sectors where modular delivers clear advantages. Subsequent to the quarter end, we were awarded a new CAD 55 million contract to design and construct a 400-person accommodation village in Western Australia. We also received a limited notice to proceed for early stage works, including infrastructure planning, camp design and securing manufacturing line time for a large mining development in Western Canada, valued at approximately CAD 45 million. Together, these conversions underscore ongoing customer demand and the breadth of our capabilities across our geographies. I'll wrap up my remarks by reiterating what differentiates ATCO Structures in a modular industry that continues to expand as customers look for speed, certainty and quality.

[Adam Beattie, President of ATCO Structures at ATCO]

We deliver quality custom modular manufacturing solutions, catering to customers' needs and market demands. As shown on this slide, compared to peers, ATCO Structures is differentiated across the spectrum of products and services, and we pair that with a track record of delivering. We're proud of a demonstrated performance of executing projects both large and small in scale, on time and on budget. We have the modular advantage with the capacity and capabilities needed, built from 80 years of proven industry leading performance. With that, I'll now pass the call back over to Katie.

[Katie Patrick, CFO and Investment Officer at ATCO]

Thank you, Adam. With Adam highlighting the growth within ATCO Structures and its competitive advantages compared to peers, we believe that ATCO Structures continues to be undervalued by upwards of CAD 2 billion on a sum of the parts basis when compared to peers. Overall, ATCO's results were in line with our expectations, and again, the results highlight the strength of our diversified portfolio of investments. That concludes our prepared remarks. I will now turn the call back to Colin.

[Colin Jackson, SVP of Financial Operations at ATCO]

Thank you, Katie. Thank you, Adam. In the interest of time, we ask that you limit yourself to two questions. If you have additional questions, you are welcome to rejoin the queue. I will now turn it back to our conference coordinator, Asha, for questions.

[Operator]

Thank you, Colin. To join the question queue, you may press star then one on your telephone keypad. You will hear a tone acknowledging your request. If you're using a speakerphone, please pick up your handset before pressing any keys. To withdraw your question, please press star then two. The first question comes from Rob Hope with Scotiabank. Please go ahead.

[Robert Hope, Analyst at Scotiabank]

Hello, everyone. Appreciate all the commentary on the opportunities in Canada's North, and do acknowledge that the government is keenly focused on this area. When you think about your opportunity sets here, you know, it does appear that everything is relatively longer dated or, you know, when you think about how your earnings could grow in this region, are there some more near-term opportunities we should be looking to?

[Katie Patrick, CFO and Investment Officer at ATCO]

Yeah. Thanks, Rob. I do agree. A lot of these investments will be longer term, longer dated. That being said, I think the government has a pretty aggressive stance on, particularly on upgrades of some of the existing defense facilities that they have in the north, and they have committed to fast timelines for the RFP process for that. I think there is some opportunity for near-term earnings. This is a certainly for Canada and for ourselves, a longer-term investment in upgrading the north that will take quite some time to fully roll out.

[Robert Hope, Analyst at Scotiabank]

All right. Appreciate that. I guess in the spirit of the new corporate branding and the focus on defense, you know, you highlighted a number of the opportunities also in the north. When you think about the broader opportunity in the defense sector, anything incremental that you're looking at in terms of business lines or geographies?

[Katie Patrick, CFO and Investment Officer at ATCO]

No. I mean, I would just highlight, you know, ATCO Frontec, as I said in my remarks, has had long history of operating in the defense sector. You know, and it's done a variety of different things on a facilities operations and maintenance for a long time. We have a very diverse resume, so to speak, of the different types of operations that ATCO Frontec can handle. I think, you know, stay tuned, I think there's a lot of different ways that ATCO Frontec can help in the defense sector. Also, I should add, sorry, that there's clear opportunity, and maybe I'll let Adam talk to that on the structure side from a defense perspective as well.

[Adam Beattie, President of ATCO Structures at ATCO]

Yeah. Hi, Rob. Yeah, there's certainly also a lot of defense opportunities below the Arctic in terms of defense housing and just bases across Canada upgrades. That will also drive, I think there's 7,500 houses required across 25 bases within Canada. That's another opportunity for us.

[Robert Hope, Analyst at Scotiabank]

All right. Thank you for the color. Appreciate it.

[Operator]

The next question comes from Ben Pham with BMO. Please go ahead.

[Ben Pham, Analyst at BMO Capital Markets]

I wanna follow-up on that last question on the ATCO northern strategy. You categorized it as a growth investment. Can you remind us that bucket, what that means versus your yield and balance categories?

[Colin Jackson, SVP of Financial Operations at ATCO]

Ben, sorry, you were breaking up just a little bit for some reason. I wonder if you could just repeat the question, and I don't know if this will help, but maybe you can just lean into your microphone a little bit.

[Ben Pham, Analyst at BMO Capital Markets]

Okay. I'll try it one more time and maybe 'cause I'm unplugged the cord there. My question is.

[Colin Jackson, SVP of Financial Operations at ATCO]

That's all right. I think that's all right.

[Ben Pham, Analyst at BMO Capital Markets]

It's better now? Okay.

[Colin Jackson, SVP of Financial Operations at ATCO]

Yeah.

[Ben Pham, Analyst at BMO Capital Markets]

My question is on the northern strategy. You categorized it as a growth investment. Can you remind us what a growth investment is defined for ATCO and how it compares to your yield and balance categories?

[Katie Patrick, CFO and Investment Officer at ATCO]

Yeah. I think this is one of the first quarters where we actually don't have the pyramid that kind of highlights the way that we think about our portfolio from a financial perspective. Just a reminder, at the base, we have the foundational investments, which include our utilities that provide stable cash flows. In the middle of the pyramid, we have what we would call value investments that would have a balance of faster growth than potentially the utilities with some yield, that is dividends coming from that. In the top, this is where you're going to, I think, Ben, we talk about our growth investments.

[Katie Patrick, CFO and Investment Officer at ATCO]

When we talk about our growth investments, those are investments that do require some capital and commitment before they start to deliver cash flow generation back to us. As it relates to the North, I think the North is definitely a growth area, just generically the term growth. But potentially Grays Bay, I would put in that growth investment category where obviously there will be some required investment and cash flows going into that to yield long-term, stable, foundational cash flows in the longer term from that particular investment.

[Ben Pham, Analyst at BMO Capital Markets]

Okay. It sounds like I'm just unpacking a bit. It sounds like you have a timing difference on investment versus contribution. Is there differences on returns or size of opportunity in that category?

[Katie Patrick, CFO and Investment Officer at ATCO]

No, not necessarily.

[Ben Pham, Analyst at BMO Capital Markets]

Okay.

[Katie Patrick, CFO and Investment Officer at ATCO]

In that top category, we could have things that could have very quick return profiles, but they need capital investment in the short term, or they could be much longer term, with potentially more infrastructure like returns. We don't necessarily differentiate there.

[Ben Pham, Analyst at BMO Capital Markets]

Okay. As you think about building this northern strategy out more, which you already have a presence there, is there anything you need to do on a manufacturing side, setting up new sites for manufacturing or redeploying human capital in terms of just positioning that from a long-term perspective?

[Katie Patrick, CFO and Investment Officer at ATCO]

I can just generally talk to ATCO and I'll let Adam talk to ATCO Structures. As you would know, you know, the North is pretty remote. There's not a lot of industrial activity right now. At least in the near term, overall from an ATCO perspective, I think a lot of what we would be doing would be leveraging our strong base in the south of Canada to try and provide the services and products that we need to help build the infrastructure in the north. Maybe I'll turn over to Adam, specific to structures.

[Adam Beattie, President of ATCO Structures at ATCO]

Hi, Ben. As you're aware, we've got five manufacturing facilities across Canada. Our geographical placement on where our manufacturing capacity currently sits is well-positioned to service the North, both from road access and also access to ports as you ship in product and demand. I think with our expanded capacity over the last few years, we're very well-positioned to provide competitive logistical and manufacturing capacity to access the North. As you're well aware, probably is there's limited labor force that currently resides within the Arctic. There's gonna be, as these projects progress over time, there's gonna be a huge demand for workforce accommodation and probably site offices within that region as these projects start to formulate over time as well. We think both our fleet position, our manufacturing locations to access those regions are very well-placed.

[Ben Pham, Analyst at BMO Capital Markets]

Okay. That's great color. Thank you.

[Operator]

The next question comes from Maurice Choy with RBC Capital Markets. Please go ahead.

[Maurice Choy, Analyst at RBC Capital Markets]

Thank you, and good morning, everyone. If I could start with your investment in WKR. You mentioned this could be a foundational investment for ATCO. Should we view this in the same way as what Neltume Ports means to ATCO? If this is different, can you paint us a big picture view about what this platform could be for you, say, in 10 years?

[Katie Patrick, CFO and Investment Officer at ATCO]

Yeah, for sure. You know, I think, you know, we wanted to be very clear. Thanks, Maurice, for the question. This is a CAD 10 million investment for a 40% stake in the company. This is not a big investment obviously at this time. Right now, the projected spend is CAD 1.5 billion to develop out what's being talked about there in terms of the airport, the road and the port. That could be more obviously. I think, this obviously will be a large capital project, and we probably will have other partners involved. If you think about that, and this is out to 2035, right? This is a long-term investment.

[Katie Patrick, CFO and Investment Officer at ATCO]

Once that is operational, up and running, it very well would look similar to some of the Neltume Ports investment that we have. Obviously, the intention is to have it be a joint defense and commercial operation. I think there's a lot of opportunities. There's a lot of critical minerals in the north there that need access to ports. There's been a demand developing to try and get that port built so that those miners can get their minerals out. I think there's a lot of good things around it.

[Katie Patrick, CFO and Investment Officer at ATCO]

As I said, it's been referred to the Major Projects Office, and I think the federal government is very committed to trying to get that moving, and we are, we're working closely with them to try and advance it. Long story short, yes, it could be a large infrastructure project that in the long term, has strong foundational benefits for ATCO.

[Maurice Choy, Analyst at RBC Capital Markets]

Understood. If I could just have a quick follow-up to that. I appreciate that you mentioned the critical minerals element in that region. WKR, if I'm not mistaken, also is involved with a portfolio of mineral properties. Is your relationship and investment in WKR limited to just this road and port project? Does it involve those mineral properties? Or is it just, I guess, isolated to this and other infrastructure?

[Katie Patrick, CFO and Investment Officer at ATCO]

Yeah, no. You know, we are investing in the WKR entity. Yes, they do have some smaller investments in some of the mineral activities in the region. The primary benefit that we add is helping them to advance on that project, but that's not necessarily gonna be the end of the relationship in that entity, and we'll see where things develop. That's obviously where we have the stronger interest is in the infrastructure development.

[Maurice Choy, Analyst at RBC Capital Markets]

I shouldn't take this as being that ATCO is moving into that side of the business, specifically on minerals, mining, so on and so forth? Or is it that?

[Katie Patrick, CFO and Investment Officer at ATCO]

No, I mean, I wouldn't necessarily, this is not a diversification expansion into as a mining company for ATCO. I think it's, you know, it's part of their portfolio, but that's not, as I said, was not the primary driver of our interest in that investment.

[Maurice Choy, Analyst at RBC Capital Markets]

That's good to know. If I could just finish off with a big picture question about your themes, defense, housing, and energy. When you look out the next five years and think about your incremental earnings growth for ATCO, is there a way to split it in terms of percentage, what each of these three categories would be?

[Katie Patrick, CFO and Investment Officer at ATCO]

I don't think we've necessarily quantified that. As you know, I think as you can see, ATCO Structures has, especially when you look at the denominator base, has a more rapid growth profile than our energy portfolio. You'll see ATCO Structures continue to grow as a percentage of the overall portfolio. It should be relatively obvious from our financial statements that at the moment, the defense sector is a smaller portion of our overall portfolio. It certainly has, on a percentage basis, the greatest ability to increase quickly. Right now, I think we're about, you know, roughly 2/3 energy, 1/3 roughly housing. I think you won't see defense, you know, start to get near to those levels, but it certainly does have an opportunity to grow relatively quickly in the next few years.

[Maurice Choy, Analyst at RBC Capital Markets]

Understand. Thank you very much.

[Operator]

The next question comes from John Mould with TD Cowen. Please go ahead.

[John Mould, Analyst at TD Cowen]

Hi. morning. maybe just coming back to the Grays Bay Road and Port project. The CAD 10 million equity stake in WKR, and I appreciate that's gradual over time. Is this kind of equity stake something we could see more of in northern infrastructure investment opportunities from ATCO's perspective? Should we view this as more of a unique case where this kind of structure, you know, was important in advancing the initiative more broadly?

[Katie Patrick, CFO and Investment Officer at ATCO]

Yeah. No, I would say, thanks John for the question. I think absolutely, we would be interested in doing something similar to help expand the North and to help get things going related to everyone's ambitions to really have nation-building projects for the Arctic. You know, there's nothing immediate currently on the radar right now that would mimic that, but we would absolutely be open to similar type structures for opportunities that are complementary to our existing portfolio of businesses.

[John Mould, Analyst at TD Cowen]

Okay. Thanks for that. Maybe just in the broader Structures and Logistics pipeline, you know, you did flag CAD 100 million of committed contracts in April. I know there's no specific backlog, but just sort of directionally, how's the balance of the year shaping up in terms of additional firm contracts and, you know, what is the potential dollar figure broadly compared to where things stood at Q1 last year? Just in terms of trying to think about the trajectory for the balance of the year.

[Adam Beattie, President of ATCO Structures at ATCO]

Morning, John. Certainly. Look, I think, the good thing is our conversion rates and these few projects that we've highlighted here, are isolated really outside of our normal course of business. We're seeing the activity pick up in terms of pipeline opportunities. I think the CAD 213 million that we've nominated here or we've highlighted here on, compounded with the Stibnite Gold Project, the CAD 179 million contract, certainly bodes well for a good backlog of opportunities to compound on what's already been awarded, both into the back half of this year and then also pushing into 2027. I think there's, I would say, a similar trend that we're seeing coming in the next quarters in terms of project pipeline.

[Adam Beattie, President of ATCO Structures at ATCO]

We're seeing increased pipeline activity, and I'd say reasonably significant increase in pipeline activity, on this time last year.

[John Mould, Analyst at TD Cowen]

Okay, great. I'll leave it there. Thank you very much.

[Operator]

The next question comes from Mark Jarvi with CIBC Capital Markets. Please go ahead.

[Mark Jarvi, Analyst at CIBC Capital Markets]

Thanks. Wanted to follow-up on the last question in that Slide 13. It's encouraging to see the breadth of the opportunities. Adam, curious if you think that continues here, if there's certain sort of end markets, whether it's geographic or industry markets you feel like are even accelerating more than others at this point.

[Adam Beattie, President of ATCO Structures at ATCO]

Sorry, can you just repeat that last bit there, Mark?

[Mark Jarvi, Analyst at CIBC Capital Markets]

Yeah, just curious if there's certain geographies and/or end markets you're seeing even faster acceleration in terms of pipeline activity and conversion rates?

[Adam Beattie, President of ATCO Structures at ATCO]

Yeah, certainly. Look, I think the resource sector is very robust in all of our geographies at the moment. Critical minerals, iron ore in Australia, some expansion down there. Gold is very strong. We're seeing, as we've highlighted in the U.S., a lot of data center infrastructure investments and nuclear investments there. We've got some large elements like the Olympic Games expenditure in Southeast Queensland in Australia that's driving some infrastructure spend and a lot of government initiatives around housing funding, and certainly some compounding demand in that sector, both in Canada and Australia. I think those are key sectors that we're seeing. The interesting thing is that we haven't commented on defense there, but that's a building pipeline.

[Adam Beattie, President of ATCO Structures at ATCO]

The interesting thing about defense, as you look at this build-out of infrastructure, it really bodes well for both workforce housing and also housing itself and also our space rentals business. I think you've seen a tick-up in terms of our space rental utilization, and I think we can see that that's gonna be strong, a continuing strength in our space rental utilization as well.

[Mark Jarvi, Analyst at CIBC Capital Markets]

Just given those trends, Adam, utilization, and also sort of diverse broad end markets, how would you frame sort of where margins can trend from here? Does it feel like the mix of business coming in is very similar to what you would have executed over the last 12 months and therefore margins should have largely hold steady for here?

[Adam Beattie, President of ATCO Structures at ATCO]

Yeah, I think our margins will stay pretty consistent. While the price of goods may go up, there'll be some slight increases in costs. You've seen some of that pass through with some fuel price increases. I think that's very manageable, but the margin percentage will probably stay very consistent.

[Mark Jarvi, Analyst at CIBC Capital Markets]

Okay, thanks.

[Operator]

This concludes the question-and-answer session. I would like to turn the conference back over to Mr. Colin Jackson for any closing remarks. Please go ahead.

[Colin Jackson, SVP of Financial Operations at ATCO]

Thank you, Asha. Thank all of you for participating today. We appreciate your interest in ATCO, and we look forward to speaking with you again soon.

[Operator]

This brings to a close today's conference call. You may disconnect your lines. Thank you for participating, and have a pleasant day.

Participants

Executives

• Adam Beattie, President of ATCO Structures
• Colin Jackson, SVP of Financial Operations
• Katie Patrick, CFO and Investment Officer

Analysts

• Ben Pham, Analyst at BMO Capital Markets
• John Mould, Analyst at TD Cowen
• Mark Jarvi, Analyst at CIBC Capital Markets
• Maurice Choy, Analyst at RBC Capital Markets
• Robert Hope, Analyst at Scotiabank