Mistras Group Q2 2026 Earnings Call Transcript

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Key Takeaways

  • Positive Sentiment: Revenue rose 4.2% to $193 million, marking the fourth consecutive quarter of year-over-year growth, while adjusted EBITDA reached a record second-quarter $25.8 million. Operating income increased 53.6% year over year, supported by favorable mix and cost efficiencies.
  • Positive Sentiment: Strategic markets offset oil and gas weakness, with aerospace and defense revenue up 13.2%, infrastructure up 76.5%, and power generation up 26.4%. The company plans investments that could nearly triple in-lab testing capacity by the end of 2027, although new capacity typically takes 9–12 months to come online.
  • Negative Sentiment: Oil and gas revenue declined 8.2% year over year as customers deferred maintenance and project activity, and management expects many first-half deferrals to move further out. Excluding exited programs and turnaround timing, the segment grew about 1% in Q2, with only flat to moderate growth expected in the second half.
  • Positive Sentiment: Free cash flow improved by $23.9 million year over year, aided by stronger collections and working-capital management. Leverage declined to approximately 2.2 times from 2.4 times in the prior quarter, with the company targeting 2.0 times by year-end 2026.
  • Positive Sentiment: Management raised full-year guidance to $740 million–$755 million of revenue and $92 million–$95 million of adjusted EBITDA, citing continued strength in aerospace and defense, infrastructure, and power despite oil and gas headwinds.
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Mistras Group Q2 2026
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Operator

Good day, everyone. My name is Linus, and I will be your conference operator today. At this time, I would like to welcome you to the Mistras Group, Inc. Q2 2026 earnings call. All lines have been placed on mute to prevent any background noise. After the speaker's remarks, there will be a question-and-answer session. If you would like to ask a question during this time, and if you've joined via the webinar, please use the raise hand icon, which can be found at the bottom of your webinar application. At this time, I would like to turn the call over to Thomas Tobolski, Senior Vice President of Finance and Treasurer.

Thomas Tobolski
Thomas Tobolski
SVP of Finance and Treasurer at Mistras Group

Good morning, everyone, and welcome to Mistras Group's Q2 2026 earnings conference call. I am joined today by Natalia Shuman, President and Chief Executive Officer, and Edward Prajzner, Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Before we start, I want to remind everyone that remarks made during this conference call, as well as supplemental information provided on our website, contain certain forward-looking statements and involve risks and uncertainties as described in Mistras' SEC filings. The company's factors that can cause actual results to differ are discussed in the company's most recent annual report on Form 10-K and other reports filed with the SEC. The discussion in this conference call will also include certain non-GAAP financial measures that we believe are useful to investors evaluating the company's performance, but that were not prepared in accordance with US GAAP.

Thomas Tobolski
Thomas Tobolski
SVP of Finance and Treasurer at Mistras Group

Reconciliation of these non-US GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable US GAAP financial measures can be found in the tables contained in yesterday's press release and the company's related current report on Form 8-K. These reports are available at the company's website in the investors section and on the SEC's website. I will now turn the conference call over to Natalia Shuman.

Natalia Shuman
Natalia Shuman
President and CEO at Mistras Group

Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us today. Our Q2 results demonstrate continued progress towards the transformation outlined on the Vision 2030 as Mistras becomes a more diversified, technology-enabled, and less cyclical company. This transformation is increasingly evident in our financial performance and business mix. Growth in aerospace and defense, infrastructure, and power more than offset headwinds in oil and gas as our mix continued to shift towards high margins end market with deeper customer relationships and greater long-term visibility. For the quarter, revenue increased 4.2% to $193 million, marking our fourth consecutive quarter of year-over-year growth. We also delivered record Q2 adjusted EBITDA of $25.8 million, demonstrating the operating leverage in our model while significantly improving free cash flow by $23.9 million quarter-over-quarter and continuing to position the business around higher growth, higher value end markets.

Natalia Shuman
Natalia Shuman
President and CEO at Mistras Group

Let me start with our performance by end markets, which clearly demonstrates the benefits of a more diversified platform. Starting with oil and gas, which remains an important end market for Mistras, revenue declined by $8.5 million or 8.2% compared with the prior year period. This was primarily due to the impact of customer programs exited in 2025, of which the majority impact has already been realized. As we discussed last quarter, certain oil and gas customers have deferred some maintenance and project activity amid elevated commodity prices. This has affected inspection cadence, turnarounds, and other work. We anticipate that a majority of the deferrals from the H1 of 2026 will continue to be pushed further out.

Natalia Shuman
Natalia Shuman
President and CEO at Mistras Group

After adjusting for the level of turnarounds in 2026 and work that we exited in 2025, our oil and gas revenue was up 1% in the Q2, and we anticipate this outlook to continue over the H2 within our resilient oil and gas business. We remain selective in the opportunities we pursue, with a clear focus on higher margin, higher return engagements rather than volume. At the same time, the Q2 decline in oil and gas was more than offset by strong growth in our strategic end markets, which were up 28% in the aggregate. Starting with aerospace and defense, this market remains one of our primary growth engines, with Q2 revenue increasing by $3.2 million or 13.2% year-over-year. Our in-lab testing business continues to be particularly strong.

Natalia Shuman
Natalia Shuman
President and CEO at Mistras Group

Demand is temporarily outpacing capacity due to a healthy backlog, strong customer relationships, and the mission-critical nature of the work we perform for some of the sector's most demanding customers. In response, we are investing meaningfully to expand capacity in our in-lab testing operations with a particular focus on automation and throughput. Along that line, we announced that we have expanded our in-lab capabilities in both Houston and Los Angeles. In these locations, we added equipment and services that allow customers to manage more complex aerospace manufacturing workflows in a single facility, from manufacturing support and defect characterization to weld repair, non-destructive testing, and final certification. Over time, we believe these investments in facility expansion, automation, and process improvements could nearly triple our in-lab testing capacity. Importantly, these investments are supported by visible customer demand and will expand our service capabilities while strengthening our role as trusted supply chain partner.

Natalia Shuman
Natalia Shuman
President and CEO at Mistras Group

Turning to infrastructure. Revenue increased by $6.2 million or 76.5% year-over-year, marking another strong quarter for this key growth market. Continued investments in U.S. LNG infrastructure and data center constructions is creating meaningful opportunities for us, particularly as customers require quality assurance, inspection, commissioning support, and asset integrity expertise across increasingly complex projects. A good example is our Woodside's Louisiana LNG mega project, where the scope continues to expand across multiple offerings. The growth we're seeing in infrastructure is another clear example of our Vision 2030 diversification strategy translating into profitable growth opportunities. Our power generation business also delivered strong growth, with revenue increasing by $3.1 million or 26.4% year-over-year.

Natalia Shuman
Natalia Shuman
President and CEO at Mistras Group

This performance was driven primarily by continued maintenance demand from wind energy customers, in addition to onshore wind development, repowering activity, and ongoing investments in renewable energy infrastructure. Power generation is also benefiting from broader investment in power infrastructure, including demand associated with the rapid expansion of data centers. As customers invest across both traditional and renewable generational assets, we are continuing to diversify our customer base and position the business to capture opportunities across multiple technologies and end markets. Together, our improved sales mix and operational efficiencies contributed to a 10-basis point expansion in gross margin in the Q2. Combined with disciplined expense management, this helped drive a record Q2 adjusted EBITDA, demonstrating the operating leverage in our model. Let me now take a few minutes to provide an update on the continued execution of the three key strategic priorities within our strategic plan, Vision 2030.

Natalia Shuman
Natalia Shuman
President and CEO at Mistras Group

As a reminder, these priorities are: first, expanding wallet share by delivering more comprehensive, integrated, and innovative solutions for our customers. Second, diversifying into attractive growth markets. And third, building greater operational leverage through continued efficiency and productivity improvements. With respect to our first strategic priority, expanding wallet share, our proprietary technology solutions, including the ART Crawler, monitoring technologies, and PCMS data offerings, continue to play an increasingly important role in our customer inspection programs. These solutions improve inspection quality, support better decision making, and provide actionable insights into customers managing complex asset integrity needs. As customers continue to invest in asset integrity and digital transformation, particularly in power and energy, these capabilities are becoming more deeply embedded in customer workflows and helping strengthen long-term partnerships.

Natalia Shuman
Natalia Shuman
President and CEO at Mistras Group

To further accelerate our progress, I am pleased to report that we have hired an executive director of AI leading our AI adoption and forming an AI center of excellence for Mistras Group's data solutions organization focused on applying AI to asset protection, mechanical integrity, inspection intelligence, engineering productivity, automation, and customer-facing data solutions. On our second strategic priority, diversifying into attractive growth markets, we continue to make meaningful progress during the quarter. We secured notable contract wins across wind energy, commercial diving, and marine infrastructure service lines, underscoring the breadth of our capabilities and the value we can deliver beyond traditional NDT offerings. We also hosted a technology day in Houston during the Q2, giving customers a first-hand look at our capabilities and service offerings. The event was well attended, and the feedback was positive across a range of industries.

Natalia Shuman
Natalia Shuman
President and CEO at Mistras Group

These events helped deepen engagement with existing customers and introduced prospective customers to the broader Mistras platform. During the Q2, we also expanded our relationship with U.S. Department of Defense, securing additional project awards that reflect the strengths of our technical expertise and our ability to support mission-critical infrastructure and asset integrity requirements. Together, these wins reinforce our strategic focus on broadening our end market exposure while driving sustainable growth across our platform. For our third strategic priority, building great operational leverage, we continue to advance automation digital initiatives across the organization. These efforts are focused on improving workflow efficiency, working capital management, collections activity, information processing and productivity in support functions. While these AI and automation initiatives are still in the very early phases, they are helping us create a more scalable operating platform by reducing administrative burden and allowing teams to focus on high-value work.

Natalia Shuman
Natalia Shuman
President and CEO at Mistras Group

As we continue to build innovative solutions and drive operating leverage, labor availability remains an important consideration. The market for qualified technicians remains tight, and we continue to compete for specialized talent. We have responded by sharpening our recruiting approach and enhancing technicians' benefit plans in targeted areas where demand is the strongest, with the goal of filling labor gaps while maintaining the quality and technical expertise our customers expect. Overall, our strategic plan continues to gain traction and is increasingly evident in our results. We are strengthening technology and service integration, expanding into higher growth markets, and improving operational efficiency, all of which are positioning Mistras for more sustainable long-term value creation. Before Ed walks us through the financials, I want to briefly highlight a few additional achievements from the quarter that reinforce the progress.

Natalia Shuman
Natalia Shuman
President and CEO at Mistras Group

First, Mistras was recently recognized by MarketsandMarkets as a star in both NDT inspection services and NDT inspection equipment, reflecting the strengths of our asset protection platform and technical capabilities. Second, Mistras was added to several Russell growth and defensive benchmarks as a part of the latest reconstitution of the Russell family of indices, which we believe can broaden visibility and support trading liquidity over time. Finally, we recently launched AEScout, a rapid deployment acoustic emission monitoring solution that complements conventional NDT inspections and strengthens risk-based inspection and integrity management programs. AEScout gives operators a practical way to collect evidence quickly between traditional inspection intervals, helping them prioritize inspection resources, reduce unnecessary disruption, and make more confident decisions. It also supports our emerging integrity management as a service model as we aim to deliver more comprehensive, innovative solutions for our customers.

Natalia Shuman
Natalia Shuman
President and CEO at Mistras Group

In summary, we continue to execute against our long-term transformation under Vision 2030. We are expanding in aerospace and defense, infrastructure and power, managing oil and gas with discipline, and investing in the highest return areas of the business to support profitable growth. Now, I would like to turn the call over to Ed to walk through a more comprehensive overview of our Q2 results.

Edward Prajzner
Edward Prajzner
Senior EVP and CFO at Mistras Group

Thank you, Natalia, and good morning, everyone. Let me walk you through our financial performance for the Q2 As Natalia mentioned, we delivered revenue growth of 4.2%, supported by strong execution across strategic end markets. Importantly, that growth translated into improved profitability, with gross profit margin expanding by 10 basis points year-over-year and income from operations expanding by 53.6%. These improvements were driven mainly by our continued focus on a favorable mix shift towards higher value business and continued operational and overhead cost efficiencies achieved across the business. SG&A decreased year-over-year by $1.1 million or 2.7% compared to the prior year period. Excluding the impact of foreign currency translation in 2025, SG&A expenses increased $1.7 million or 4.6%. The year-over-year comparison was affected by a change in presentation adopted in 2026, under which foreign currency gains and losses are reported within other income expense net.

Edward Prajzner
Edward Prajzner
Senior EVP and CFO at Mistras Group

Previously, these amounts were included within SG&A. The prior year amounts were not reclassified as the impact was not material. Operating income was $12.9 million for the Q2, compared to $8.4 million in the prior year period, an increase of 53.6%. This represented a nearly 60% conversion of incremental revenue year-over-year into operating income in the Q2. On the bottom line, we generated GAAP net income of $7.6 million, resulting in GAAP earnings per diluted share of $0.23. On a non-GAAP basis, net income and earnings per diluted share were $9.1 million and $0.28 per share, respectively. These significantly improved results, GAAP and non-GAAP net income and EPS, all more than doubling, reflect our strong performance, particularly given the investments we are continuing to make to support future growth.

Edward Prajzner
Edward Prajzner
Senior EVP and CFO at Mistras Group

Adjusted EBITDA was $25.8 million, an increase of 7% over the prior year quarter and represents our highest ever Q2 adjusted EBITDA to date. Adjusted EBITDA margin was 13.3%, up 30-basis points year-over-year, reflecting stable operating performance, continued cost discipline, and the benefits of our ongoing mix shift. Turning to cash flow, both cash flow from operations and free cash flow significantly improved during the Q2. This progress reflects focused management attention on upfront billing, cycle time, customer escalations, and proactive collection efforts. We generated a free cash flow increase of $23.9 million compared to the prior year quarter as a result of higher net income generated and significantly improved working capital dynamics.

Edward Prajzner
Edward Prajzner
Senior EVP and CFO at Mistras Group

This progress achieved during the Q2 aligns with our previously mentioned focus on driving sustainable cash generation, and we remain intently focused on further improving conversion as we continue to view cash generation as a critical area of focus for the business. We will continue to dedicate significant time and execution attention to strengthening cash flow performance. That includes accelerating the use of automation, including AI, improving internal processes, and working closely with customers to ensure cash collections better reflect the value and benefits that we deliver. These efforts have shown progress over the past few quarters, and we expect to return to historically favorable cash flow levels in the H2 of the year. Our capital allocation priorities remain unchanged. Invest in high growth opportunities, strengthen the balance sheet through disciplined debt reduction, and maintain flexibility to pursue attractive strategic opportunities.

Edward Prajzner
Edward Prajzner
Senior EVP and CFO at Mistras Group

We also recently extended our credit facility by one additional year to allow us more optionality as we incorporate Vision 2030. Our interest expense in the quarter was $4.1 million, which was down $0.1 million or 2.4% compared to $4.2 million in the prior year quarter, reflecting decreases in our borrowing cost. Our effective income tax rate for the Q2 was 23.1%, and we anticipate an effective tax rate of approximately 25% for the full year 2026. Our bank-defined leverage ratio was approximately 2.2 times as of June 30, 2026, which is down versus 2.4 times at March 31, 2026, and is well within the maximum allowable leverage of 3.75 times. This is the lowest level it has been since 2018.

Edward Prajzner
Edward Prajzner
Senior EVP and CFO at Mistras Group

Our capital allocation strategy remains focused on the use of residual free cash flow to pay down debt to our targeted 2x leverage ratio by the end of 2026, as well as continue to make capital investments into higher growth, higher value areas as governed by our strategic plan. We appreciate your continued support. At this time, I will turn the call back over to Natalia for her closing remarks.

Natalia Shuman
Natalia Shuman
President and CEO at Mistras Group

Thank you, Ed. Before we move to Q&A, let me close with a few final thoughts and provide our outlook for the remainder of the year. We delivered another strong quarter, highlighted by our fourth consecutive quarter of year-over-year revenue growth. We also delivered record Q2 adjusted EBITDA, demonstrating the operating leverage in our model. The steps we have taken to sharpen our go-to-market approach, streamline operations, and broaden our integrated solutions are producing tangible results. Therefore, we are increasing our full year guidance ranges up to $740-$755 million in revenue and up to $92-$95 million in adjusted EBITDA. This range reflects continued strengths in our strategic growth markets, particularly offset by a low level of activity in our oil and gas end market, attributable to ongoing macro environment factors, including higher crude oil prices.

Natalia Shuman
Natalia Shuman
President and CEO at Mistras Group

We continue to see favorable demand trends, particularly in our aerospace and defense and infrastructure end markets, which we expect to support growth throughout the remainder of the year. We remain focused on strengthening operational execution, driving greater efficiency, and further improving cash flow and working capital performance. Our strategic plan continues to gain momentum. We are expanding wallet share, deepening customer relationships, and advancing technology and data-enabled solutions that make Mistras more differentiated and better positioned for sustainable, profitable growth. We also expect to generate meaningful free cash flow while continuing to invest in the capacity, people, and capabilities needed to support long-term growth. This will allow us to reduce debt, strengthen the balance sheet, and maintain strategic flexibility.

Natalia Shuman
Natalia Shuman
President and CEO at Mistras Group

I will close by thanking all of our Mistras employees, from the front lines to the back office, for their tireless efforts in executing on their day-to-day tasks while embracing transformative change and the evolving strategy of our company. These efforts are creating value for our customers and, in turn, our shareholders. I look forward to updating you on our performance as we progress toward our strategic goals. With that, let me turn the call back to Linus for questions.

Operator

Thank you. We will now begin Q&A. For today's session, we will be utilizing the raise hand feature. If you would like to ask a question, simply click on the raise hand button at the bottom of your screen. Once you have been called on, please unmute yourself and begin to ask your question. Thank you. We will now pause a moment to assemble the queue. Your first question comes from the line of John Franzreb with Sidoti & Company. Please unmute your line and ask your question.

John Franzreb
John Franzreb
Analyst at Sidoti & Company

Good morning, everyone, and thanks for taking the questions. Natalia, I would like to begin where you just left off. It sounds to me that in raising your revenue guidance for the year, it is more a function of better demand in A&D and infrastructure, and that you anticipate oil and gas to remain, I do not know, in a little bit of a flat to down profile in the H2. Is that a right assessment?

Natalia Shuman
Natalia Shuman
President and CEO at Mistras Group

That is right. John, hi. Yes, thanks for the question. It is indeed correct. We see strengths in our strategic growth markets that we outlined there, aerospace and defense, infrastructure, power, and oil and gas as our core market. But there, what we see is more of a stabilization. Currently, if we take out the turnaround and the exited programs, so we saw about 1% growth in Q2. So we anticipate sort of flat to moderate growth in Q3 and Q4. So that is how we look at it.

John Franzreb
John Franzreb
Analyst at Sidoti & Company

Got it. Thanks for that clarification. And I guess this is another thing that you said in your prepared remarks, and I do not know if I interpreted it correctly, but you talked about the increasing capacity during your breakdown of A&D being up threefold. Is that threefold just for A&D related projects, or is that threefold for all lab related work?

Natalia Shuman
Natalia Shuman
President and CEO at Mistras Group

Most is for in-lab work. What we are doing is we are expanding our capacity in in-lab and the markets that we serve in our laboratory operations is aerospace and defense and industrials.

Natalia Shuman
Natalia Shuman
President and CEO at Mistras Group

Both markets will benefit from that expanded capacity. We project, again, according to our strategic plan, Vision 2030, we project to triple our capacity by the end of 2027.

John Franzreb
John Franzreb
Analyst at Sidoti & Company

Got it. That is significant. I guess one last question. Can you give me your thoughts about the 60% drop-down, I think is what you mentioned, Ed, conversion. Is that a sustainable kind of number in this kind of environment? It seems relatively impressive.

Edward Prajzner
Edward Prajzner
Senior EVP and CFO at Mistras Group

Thanks, John. Good question. That was for the Q2. For the full year, it is actually slightly higher than that. Yes, in the in-lab business, in the data business, there is a fixed cost element. So when volume rises,

Edward Prajzner
Edward Prajzner
Senior EVP and CFO at Mistras Group

yes, there is a very attractive contribution margin drop-down there, and you will see that in many past quarters when volume spikes up, you get a significant drop-down there. So that is a good percentage to use in future periods. That is sustainable. Absolutely.

John Franzreb
John Franzreb
Analyst at Sidoti & Company

That is great. You know what, I am going to throw in one oddity question. The other income number, or the revenue number, was $8 million and change, and that is the highest number it has been in years. I am just curious if there is any abnormal job or anything. Maybe you can just explain a little bit what is going on there.

Edward Prajzner
Edward Prajzner
Senior EVP and CFO at Mistras Group

Other income you are referring to, John?

John Franzreb
John Franzreb
Analyst at Sidoti & Company

Other revenue.

Edward Prajzner
Edward Prajzner
Senior EVP and CFO at Mistras Group

Oh, other revenue? Oh, sorry. That is the otherwise not classified industries. It is a lot of smaller call-out work. It is not fitting in the other predetermined end markets. But it is another example of our good diversification, where we are picking up lots of work in different places beyond our core markets. But that is what that is, a mix of industries and a lot of that is project work and call-out work in lots of different diverse places.

Natalia Shuman
Natalia Shuman
President and CEO at Mistras Group

One of the example

John Franzreb
John Franzreb
Analyst at Sidoti & Company

Yeah, I just noticed

Natalia Shuman
Natalia Shuman
President and CEO at Mistras Group

John, is like cruise operators, right? We would classify kind of in other revenue stream. Because it doesn't really fall into the infrastructure or power or. But we still provide these types of services, and our customers rely on us.

John Franzreb
John Franzreb
Analyst at Sidoti & Company

No, just because it was double the Q1 and I had to look back a lot of years and still haven't found it at this kind of a threshold. It's just something I noticed. But thanks for taking the oddball question, if you will.

Natalia Shuman
Natalia Shuman
President and CEO at Mistras Group

Of course.

John Franzreb
John Franzreb
Analyst at Sidoti & Company

No problem. Thank you.

Natalia Shuman
Natalia Shuman
President and CEO at Mistras Group

Thank you, John.

Operator

Thank you. Your next question comes from the line of Alex Rygiel with Texas Capital Securities. Please unmute and ask your question. Alex?

Alex Rygiel
Analyst at Texas Capital Securities

Thank you, and good morning. A very nice quarter. Can you discuss some of the backlog trends by segment?

Natalia Shuman
Natalia Shuman
President and CEO at Mistras Group

Sure. Hi, Alex. When we look at backlog, our visibility is not defined by a single backlog metric. On the field side, our visibility is often better reflected by the recurring activity and longstanding kind of contracts and customer relationships and embedded integrated programs that we have. In-lab, we have reserve capacity where we have strategic agreements with our customers, and there we see kind of minimum volume that we negotiate with our customers. We do have the visibility into the volume for foreseeable quarters. Then we do see, obviously, confirmed backlog of the turnarounds, for example, or other projects in infrastructure and power. But again, it's not a single metric of backlog that defines our visibility, if you like.

Alex Rygiel
Analyst at Texas Capital Securities

It's helpful. Last quarter, you mentioned that you were starting to build a M&A pipeline. How has that progressed?

Natalia Shuman
Natalia Shuman
President and CEO at Mistras Group

Our strategic plan does not depend on any transformative M&A. It really depends on executing on Vision 2030 and strengthening our cash flow, reducing leverage. Having said that, we are obviously looking at opportunistic kind of opportunities where we can enhance our capabilities. We continue to look and build the pipeline. But I cannot give you anything concrete at this time.

Alex Rygiel
Analyst at Texas Capital Securities

That is great. Thank you very much.

Natalia Shuman
Natalia Shuman
President and CEO at Mistras Group

Thank you, Alex.

Operator

Thank you. Your next question comes from the line of Gaushi Sri with Singular Research. Please unmute your line and ask your question.

Gaushi Sri
Gaushi Sri
Analyst at Singular Research

Morning, folks. Can you all hear me?

Natalia Shuman
Natalia Shuman
President and CEO at Mistras Group

Yes. Hi.

Gaushi Sri
Gaushi Sri
Analyst at Singular Research

Hello.

Natalia Shuman
Natalia Shuman
President and CEO at Mistras Group

Hi, Gaushi.

Gaushi Sri
Gaushi Sri
Analyst at Singular Research

Hi. Good morning. My first question is a little bit on a color on that in-lab revenue. It was slightly sequentially down. I know last quarter you said the third hub goes to three shifts around the summertime and possibly a fourth by the year end. Are those milestones still on schedule, and when does that actually start impacting the revenue line?

Natalia Shuman
Natalia Shuman
President and CEO at Mistras Group

Indeed. In-lab revenue largely depends on the unlocking our capacity. So whenever we make an investment, there is a lead time until these investments will come online, meaning that we can generate the revenue. Usually, the lead time is about 9-12 months. So as we continue to invest in the lab network, we would see that the growth could be slightly different quarter on quarter. So it can not be exactly the same due to some capacity constraints. But overall, we're feeling really optimistic about this growth market because customers are reaching out to us. There is a supply chain constraints, very visible constraints, and customers are proactively reserving their capacity. So they're looking for improved turnaround times. They're looking at the flexibility, and we see that this as well again gives us enough visibility into the revenue growth in in-lab specifically.

Natalia Shuman
Natalia Shuman
President and CEO at Mistras Group

But it depends on the investments that we're making and how soon and how fast they come online.

Operator

Thank you. At this time, I see no callers in the queue, so I will hand back for closing remarks.

Natalia Shuman
Natalia Shuman
President and CEO at Mistras Group

All right. Thank you, Linus, and thank you everyone for joining our call today and for your continued interest in Mistras. Our story remains straightforward. We are diversifying into faster-growing end markets, improving our business mix, expanding margins, strengthening cash flow, and investing in capabilities that support long-term earnings power. We remain confident in our ability to execute against our 2026 objectives and create sustainable value for our shareholders. That's pretty much it. Have a good day.

Operator

Thank you. This ends today's conference call. You may disconnect at this time.

Executives
    • Thomas Tobolski
      Thomas Tobolski
      SVP of Finance and Treasurer
    • Natalia Shuman
      Natalia Shuman
      President and CEO
    • Edward Prajzner
      Edward Prajzner
      Senior EVP and CFO
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