BUDA Q2 2026 Earnings Report

BUDA EPS Results

• Actual EPS: $0.04
• Consensus EPS: N/A
• Beat/Miss: N/A
• One Year Ago EPS: N/A

BUDA Revenue Results

• Actual Revenue: $4.51 million
• Expected Revenue: N/A
• Beat/Miss: N/A
• YoY Revenue Growth: N/A

BUDA Announcement Details

• Quarter: Q2 2026
• Date: 8/14/2026
• Time: After Market Closes
• Conference Call Date: Thursday, August 13, 2026
• Conference Call Time: 12:00PM ET

BUDA (NYSEAMERICAN:BUDA) Juice Inc. is a juice category for the supermarket fresh produce department with its cold-crafted, UltraFresh(TM) citrus juices. Buda Juice Inc. is based in DALLAS.

BUDA Q2 2026 Earnings Call Transcript

Key Takeaways

• Positive Sentiment: Second-quarter revenue increased 26.4% year over year to $4.5 million, driven by organic beverage growth, expansion into 246 Walmart stores, and the launch of Ultra Fresh dressings.
• Positive Sentiment: Preliminary third-quarter sales for the first six weeks were up more than 40% year over year, with approximately half coming from same-store sales and the remainder primarily from Walmart and restaurant growth.
• Negative Sentiment: Gross margin fell to 36.6% from 46.7%, pressured by third-party dressing co-packing, elevated inbound freight, produce costs, and temporary labor investments. Management expects improvement after dressing production moves in-house in the first quarter of 2027, although freight costs remain uncertain.
• Neutral Sentiment: The company ended the quarter with $18.8 million in cash and no debt, but free cash flow was negative $0.8 million due to a one-time accounts receivable increase from revised customer payment terms and growth-related capital expenditures.
• Positive Sentiment: Management sees significant expansion potential for its Ultra Fresh platform, including dressings in the roughly $2 billion ranch category, and said it is in discussions with additional retailers and existing customers.

Presentation

[Operator]

Hello, and thank you for standing by. My name is Dennis, and I will be your conference operator today. At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to the Buda Juice second quarter 2026 earnings call and webcast. 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, simply press star followed by the number one on your telephone keypad. If you would like to withdraw your question, press star one again. I would now like to turn the call over to Brian Siegel in investor relations. Please go ahead.

[Brian Siegel, Senior Managing Director at Hayden IR]

Thank you, Dennis. During today's call, Horatio Lonsdale-Hands, Buda's Chief Executive Officer, and Clint Bowers, Buda's Chief Financial Officer, will discuss Buda's financial and operational results that were reported this morning. Any forward-looking statements made during this conference call during the prepared remarks or in the question-and-answer session, whether general or specific in nature, are subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results in the future to differ materially from those discussed on today's call.

[Brian Siegel, Senior Managing Director at Hayden IR]

These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, specific risks and uncertainties disclosed in Buda's periodic and annual SEC filings. Buda assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements or to update the factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from those that they forecast.

[Brian Siegel, Senior Managing Director at Hayden IR]

Please note that our earnings release is available on the investor relations page of the Buda Juice website and has also been filed on Form 8-K with the SEC. Finally, on this call, we will refer to non-GAAP measures, free cash flow and adjusted EBITDA. Please see our earnings release for an explanation of our use of non-GAAP measures and reconciliations to GAAP measures. With that, I'd like to turn the conference over to Horatio.

[Horatio Lonsdale-Hands, CEO at Buda Juice]

Thank you, Brian. Good morning to everyone, and I appreciate your taking the time to join us on our second quarter earnings call. This was a strong quarter for Buda, and I'm excited to have the chance to walk through. The second quarter was a real step forward for Buda. It came earlier than we told you to expect, because revenue grew 26.4% year-over-year to $4.5 million. On our last call, we said the step-up in growth would show up in the second half of the year, and it actually started in the second quarter instead.

[Horatio Lonsdale-Hands, CEO at Buda Juice]

Two things drove that. Our core beverage business continued to grow organically with our existing customers. It picked up a partial quarter contribution from our second quarter expansion into 246 Walmart stores across nine states. On top of that, we added the new product line to our Fresh Certified platform, Ultra Fresh dressings. I will come back to both of those in a bit. With that being said, we did absorb real pressure on gross margin this quarter. It was largely transitory, every piece of it identifiable, and most of it has an end date attached.

[Horatio Lonsdale-Hands, CEO at Buda Juice]

Clint will walk you through all of the details rather than have me summarize it. Our third quarter started even stronger. Through the first six weeks, our preliminary unaudited net sales are up more than 40% year-over-year. Roughly half of that is coming from same-store sales, and the balance is primarily from Walmart and restaurants. That figure is preliminary and unaudited, and again, is only for the first six weeks of the third quarter.

[Horatio Lonsdale-Hands, CEO at Buda Juice]

Let me set up the context, because the context is what makes this more than just a good quarter. There is structurally a shift happening in the grocery juice category. For decades, it has been built around pasteurized UV shelf-stable juice sitting in a crowded cooler or in the center store aisle. Consumers are increasingly walking past it. What they respond to is truly fresh, clean label juice at a fair price, kept cold in the produce section next to the fruit it came from. Fresh is not a premium version of an old category. It behaves like a different category altogether.

[Horatio Lonsdale-Hands, CEO at Buda Juice]

A daily staple bought by adults and children alike. We call it Ultra Fresh. We created it and several large retailers are now resetting their juice sections around it. As customers experience Ultra Fresh, they come back to try new flavors and make it a larger portion of their beverage spend as they recognize its versatility as a beverage too. It is a value beverage with Buda Fresh products ranging from $1.47-$5.99.

[Horatio Lonsdale-Hands, CEO at Buda Juice]

The entire family can enjoy them. We believe there is a structural change in how this category gets merchandised. A beverage category worth roughly $57 billion a year and growing. Here is how quickly it is moving. In one recent installation at a new store for a large national retailer, our Buda Fresh section occupies about a third of the juice cooler. Based on early observations, we believe it may be outselling the entire pasteurized juice set beside it. I want to be careful with that. It is one store and one early read, and we are treating it as exactly that.

[Horatio Lonsdale-Hands, CEO at Buda Juice]

It is consistent with what we have seen in our established markets. When people are offered generally fresh juice at a fair price, they do not generally go back to pasteurized. Juice is the core of our Ultra Fresh value, but Ultra Fresh was never just about one bottle of juice. It is a capability, and our Fresh35° cold chain running end to end now home in the produce section and hard-earned trust with some of the largest retailers in the country. Building that took years, and it is generally difficult to replicate. It is the reason retailers came to us when they decide to move their juice section to fresh.

[Horatio Lonsdale-Hands, CEO at Buda Juice]

Once you own it, you carry a great deal more than juice in that section, such as our dressing products. What matters strategically is this, it is still part of the Fresh35° cold chain, sits in the same produce section, and serves the same customers and has the same buyers. It was contributing within weeks. We are already in conversations to bring our Ultra Fresh dressings to additional customers. Meanwhile, the core juice keeps expanding right alongside it. Buda Fresh is now in 246 Walmart stores across nine states.

[Horatio Lonsdale-Hands, CEO at Buda Juice]

In those single-serve and multi-serve formats, merchandised in produce with an entry price of $1.47. That is mass market positioning at the largest grocery retailer in the world, and we hope it is a starting point rather than the end point. We would like to be in more stores with more items, and we are working on how to get that. With our momentum accelerating, we believe Ultra Fresh has the opportunity to make Buda a truly national brand and place our products in grocery stores across America. The opportunity is enormous, and we are just getting started. With that, I hand it over to Clint.

[Clint Bowers, CFO at Buda Juice]

Thanks, Horatio. Good morning, everyone. Second quarter revenue was $4.5 million, up 26.4% from $3.6 million. This increase came from organic growth in the core beverage business and a partial quarter of new sales from the Walmart expansion and new dressings business. As Horatio said, gross margin did have downward pressure this quarter, coming in at 36.6% versus 46.7% a year ago, a decline of 1,010 basis points. For context on what drove this pressure, I would like to detail it out. Roughly 320 basis points of the 1,010 basis points came from paying a third party to co-pack the Ultra Fresh dressing while we built the capability in our Buda, Dallas plant.

[Clint Bowers, CFO at Buda Juice]

We considered this as part of the start-up cost of entering the category before we can make the product ourselves. About 270 basis points came from inbound freight cost on the juice business, which ran well above their usual level due to elevated fuel prices. Roughly 100 basis points of additional labor costs for training and audit readiness work tied to our facility upgrades and customer expansions. 30 basis points or so in product and customer mix. Lastly, 290 basis points came from higher produce costs versus last year, mainly limes that were still elevated coming into the second quarter following the first quarter supply disruption we discussed last time.

[Clint Bowers, CFO at Buda Juice]

As we stated last quarter, those costs were starting to come down and did in fact return to normalized levels towards the end of the second quarter. To clarify, when we remove the additional costs of our higher inbound transportation, co-packing costs, and additional labor investments made, we indeed arrive back to our historical gross margin levels above 40%, consistent with our expectations during last earnings call.

[Clint Bowers, CFO at Buda Juice]

With all that, as evidenced, the unit economics of the core business did not change this quarter. Now, to expand a bit more, these four items behave differently from each other. So let me talk through each one. First, the high co-packing costs for the dressing business will end when we move it to the Dallas plant. We are actively spending capital dollars on our Dallas facility for this brand-new line, and we expect to start production in the first quarter of 2027. We expect dressing margin and consolidated gross margin to improve as soon as it happens.

[Clint Bowers, CFO at Buda Juice]

Second, the high produce cost experienced in the first quarter and towards the end of the second quarter are behind us. Since towards the end of the second quarter, we have seen normal and stable produce costs. Third, I cannot put a date on the increased inbound freight component, but if it persists, we can elect to pass on that additional cost. This is something we are keeping close tabs on. Lastly, the additional training labor was specific to these major upgrades and initiatives currently in process. We look at this as an investment into the business and our growth.

[Clint Bowers, CFO at Buda Juice]

What I can tell you is that these factors impacting the second quarter do not reflect a change in what it costs us to make and sell our core juice business. Moving to below gross profit, operating expenses were $1.2 million against $500,000 last year, or 26.8% of revenue versus 14.7%. The increase is a full period of public company costs of $185,000, $213,000 of stock-based compensation expense, as well as the commercial capability we are adding for Walmart and the dressing business.

[Clint Bowers, CFO at Buda Juice]

As we said last quarter, we still expect public company costs to run around $1 million a year. As a note, this was the first quarter we recorded stock-based compensation, and it will continue moving forward. Operating income was $0.4 million versus $1.1 million last year when we were private and carried none of these additional costs. Interest income was $149,000, driven by a higher cash balance than last year. Income tax expense was $129,000.

[Clint Bowers, CFO at Buda Juice]

Another reminder that we converted from an LLC to a C corporation on January 1, so we are a federal taxpayer now, and last year's comparison does not carry an equivalent expense. Net income for the quarter was $500,000, or $0.04 per diluted share on 12.9 million weighted average diluted shares. Adjusted EBITDA was $0.7 million, or 16.1% of revenue against $1.2 million and 33.8% a year ago. We ended the quarter with $18.8 million in cash and no debt. Cash used in operating activities for the second quarter was approximately $365,000 versus a cash flow of $741,000 in the same period last year.

[Clint Bowers, CFO at Buda Juice]

The main factor driving this decrease was our strategic decision to move a large customer off an early pay 1% discount to standard net 30 terms. This is a one-time change and no impact to collectibility. Secondarily, lower net income year-over-year resulted from the gross margin items I walked through in detail earlier, plus public company and stock-based compensation costs, as well as income tax expense that were not there on a comparable basis last year.

[Clint Bowers, CFO at Buda Juice]

On the investing side, we spent approximately $470,000 on property and equipment during the quarter and $700,000 in the first half of the year related to expanding capacity and automation for our existing juice business and the ongoing build-out of the new dressing line. All of that is growth capital and it all came from our own balance sheet. Free cash flow was $-0.8 million versus $0.7 million last year.

[Clint Bowers, CFO at Buda Juice]

This quarter's negative free cash flow was driven by the one-time increase in AR related to the change in payment terms with our customer that I mentioned earlier and the higher CapEx related to the investment in standing up the dressing production line. These two items were one time in nature and negatively impacted free cash flow by $1.9 million during the quarter. Lastly, our general observations as we get to the halfway point of the third quarter are very positive and continue to show strong growth and momentum, both organically and expansionary.

[Clint Bowers, CFO at Buda Juice]

As Horatio mentioned earlier, preliminary and unaudited third quarter-to-date sales are running more than 40% ahead of last year. This includes organic sales, Walmart, and Fresh dressings, with organic sales currently making up half of that. Additionally, we saw the juice business gross margin back to historical levels, save the increase in inbound freight, which I'm not able to forecast, though we continue to have the ability to pass through.

[Clint Bowers, CFO at Buda Juice]

While our consolidated gross margin may stay below our historical range while we continue to utilize a third party to co-pack the dressing business, we do expect it to materially improve when produced in our Dallas plant in quarter one of next year. Although we are currently giving up some gross margin this year, it is having a meaningful positive impact on our overall net income right now. In summary, we are profitable, we carry no debt, and we are funding these profitable expansions out of our own cash, which is the position we wanted to be in as we headed into the third quarter. Back to you, Horatio.

[Horatio Lonsdale-Hands, CEO at Buda Juice]

Thank you, Clint. The juice category is being rebuilt in front of us, and is being rebuilt exactly the way things are hardest to do. Truly Ultra Fresh products, all cold, delivered safely and reliably with no in-store labor. That is what we built this company to do, and our Fresh35° cold chain is built, running, and already engineered to be carrying more than just juice. Our job is now to stay disciplined and keep executing operationally while staying profitable, and to make sure that whenever a retail decides to go fresh, Buda is the obvious choice. We are very excited about where we're heading. With that, operator, we're ready for questions.

[Operator]

At this time, I would like to remind everyone, in order to ask a question, simply press star then the number one on your telephone keypad. Your first question's from the line of Ryan Meyers with Lake Street Capital Markets. Please go ahead.

[Ryan Meyers, Analyst at Lake Street Capital Markets]

Hey, guys. Thanks for taking my questions. Congrats on another strong quarter here. Just starting off, I wonder if you could talk a little bit about if you're seeing any increased interest from other retailers and if we should maybe expect any additional customer wins in the second half of the year here.

[Horatio Lonsdale-Hands, CEO at Buda Juice]

I didn't hear that.

[Brian Siegel, Senior Managing Director at Hayden IR]

Ryan, you're coming in a Hi, Ryan. You're coming in a little bit low.

[Ryan Meyers, Analyst at Lake Street Capital Markets]

Yeah. Just if you guys are expecting any additional customer wins here in the second half of the year and if you guys have seen inbound interest from potential new customers.

[Horatio Lonsdale-Hands, CEO at Buda Juice]

We are seeing a lot of interest. There is a lot of excitement around this category and what we are doing. I cannot directly answer that question. I am going to say there is a lot of interest. There is a lot of energy around it. Everyone is following what is going on in the Ultra Fresh category now. We are seeing, as I mentioned earlier, a lot of people are just walking straight past the normal juice set there to the Ultra Fresh category in some of the retailers we already have product. We are looking at growing with existing customers also. Generally very positive. Great energy around it.

[Ryan Meyers, Analyst at Lake Street Capital Markets]

Got it. No, that is great to hear. On the dressing business, obviously looks like a pretty exciting opportunity there. Can you just sort of walk us through the potential size of that category? It is a large category in comparison with juices itself, but does that just expand the addressable market for you guys? Any sort of way you can size that up for us would be helpful.

[Horatio Lonsdale-Hands, CEO at Buda Juice]

Yes. Just to put it in context, the ranch business, which is one part of the dressing business, is about a $2 billion a year business right now. So it is very big. We have our existing customers who are really interested in the dressing business for us to do the dressings, and that is why we got into it. This is something we are very excited about because we have the cold chain. We have the Fresh35°. It is the same, basically, plant, the same facility, the same customers, the same buyers, and the same retail customers coming in. So, we have both white label and Buda Fresh opportunities, and we expect to see much more of this happening in the latter part of this year.

[Ryan Meyers, Analyst at Lake Street Capital Markets]

Okay. Got it. Lastly for me, the 20% or so same-store sales growth that you guys are seeing here in the third quarter, I think this is the first time you guys have talked to that, but how sustainable do you think that growth rate is as we move forward?

[Horatio Lonsdale-Hands, CEO at Buda Juice]

That's a great question. Well, we're seeing, as you know, we grew up 4% in Q4 to like 17% and change last quarter. It was up 26%+. Now it's trending even higher. The energy around the Ultra Fresh is just amazing. When people try the product, they buy it and they go back for more. Now that we have a single serve, which sells for $1.47, that is a really value product. We have the big family-size bottles, they sell for $5.98, $5.99. What that does is not only do we have a Fresh Certified product that is absolutely delicious with clean ingredients, but we also have the value side of it.

[Horatio Lonsdale-Hands, CEO at Buda Juice]

Even though it is a premium juice, it's not priced as a premium juice. It's priced mainstream to the mass market with very limited demographic barriers. I think that is what's so exceptional about it, is not only do we have great taste and we're clean and we're Ultra Fresh and we're totally different to the market, but we're bringing consumers what they want, but they don't have to pay through the nose. It's a value that they can truly see. That's part of the opportunity and what's so exciting about it. We're seeing it grow everywhere we're putting our products now is growing really nicely.

[Ryan Meyers, Analyst at Lake Street Capital Markets]

Got it. That's great to hear. Thanks for taking my questions.

[Horatio Lonsdale-Hands, CEO at Buda Juice]

Thanks, Ryan.

[Operator]

Brian, do you have any questions online?

[Brian Siegel, Senior Managing Director at Hayden IR]

No, there are no questions.

[Operator]

There are no further questions on the phone. There are no further questions on the phone line. Thank you all so much for joining the Buda Juice second quarter 2026 earnings conference call and webcast. You may now disconnect.

Participants

Analysts

• Brian Siegel, Senior Managing Director at Hayden IR
• Horatio Lonsdale-Hands, CEO at Buda Juice
• Clint Bowers, CFO at Buda Juice
• Ryan Meyers, Analyst at Lake Street Capital Markets